MERRITT, A(braham); _The Metal Monster._ Copyright Munsey Magazines, (this ran serially in Argosy ca. 1920) Revised version, Frank A. Munsey 1941, pbr Avon, 1946. Offbeat variant episode in an adventure-fantasy; Norhala, pagan slave of the “metal people” steals the explorer’s sister, Ruth, to “play with her”; after her death Ruth weeps, saying “she loved me dearly, dearly,” but significantly can remember nothing of their time together. Wildly fantastic, good of type.
METALIOUS, GRACE. _Return to Peyton Place._ Messner 1959, pbr Dell 1959. Another sexy “expose” of a small town. In one episode, the unpleasant wife of a local boy recalls her schooldays, when she taunted and enslaved a lesbian schoolmate.
MEYER, GLADYS ELEANOR, _The Magic Circle._ Knopf, 1944. fco Subtle novel of close friendship between two women; never explicit, and on the borderline for variant interest.
+ MILLAY, KATHLEEN. _Against the Wall._ Macaulay, 1929. College novel by the sister of the well-known poet (see poetry supplement).
MILLER, WALTER M. “The Lineman” ss in Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1957, (m). Excellent attitudes on homosexuality in general, in short story of isolated men.
MILLER, HENRY. _Plexus._ Paris, Olympia Press 1953, 2 vols. Chapter 16 of the 2nd Volume is supposed to be devoted to a variant affair. Most of Henry Miller’s books cannot be legally imported into the USA—this is one—and your editors haven’t been to Paris yet. When you go, tell us.
MISHIMA, YUKIO. _Confessions of a Mask._ New Directions 1958, (m).
+ MITCHELL, S. WEIR. _Constance Trescott._ N. Y., Century 1900. The plus is to draw attention to an old, overlooked title. Major (for its date) treatment of variant enslavement between two half sisters.
+ MITCHISON, NAOMI. _The Delicate Fire._ Harcourt, N. Y. 1932. A major writer, and scholar, presents a collection of lovely short stories of ancient Greece; the title story deals with Sappho and her group of girl lovers.
_The Corn King and the Spring Queen._ Harcourt, 1931, (m).
“Black Sparta” and “Krypteia” in _Greek Stories_, Harcourt, 1928, (m).
MORAVIA, ALBERTO. _The Conformist._ Farrar, Straus & Young 1951, pbr Signet 1954. Penetrating study of a fascist whose compulsive drive for power destroys everyone he loves. An interlude between his wife and a friend provides a brief diversion before the macabre ending.