pencil: Melinda Gebbie

story: Alan Moore

original editor (UK): Top Shelf Productions

publication date: 1991

Gorgeous erotic tale written by the great Alan Moore and originally painted by Melinda Debbie.
The memoirs of Dorothy, Wendy and Alice conclude.
After the death of the Grand Duke nothing can stop the war.
In the Austrian hotel, guests and staff start to flee, but not all.
The owner, his less moralistic employees and the three protagonists stay and go wild.
In the orgy that follows the owner's "White Book" it is an inspiration.
Monsieur Rougeur confesses to Alice that he wrote the book when he lived in Paris and worked as a forger.
Many of the perversions narrated are inspired by real events that he himself experienced.
In the end only Alice, Wendy and Dorothy stay at the hotel, to finish their stories and exchange erotic effusions.
The conclusion of their respective stories reveals a more perverse and tragic aspect than expected.
Dorothy admits that the man she was living with was actually her father, not her uncle.
During the trip to New York they became lovers.
Her father involved her in shocking, almost magical perversions.
When they return to Kansas Dorothy loses interest in him and also feels guilty for ruining her stepmother's life, so she decides to leave for Austria.
Wendy's adventures end when Peter's sister Annabel is raped in the park.
Wendy feels guilty because she was having sex with her brothers while it happened.
Peter accuses the Voyeur with the hooked hand of the attack and would like to take revenge.
Wendy will defeat the pervert, facing him directly and humiliating him.
Wendy confronts him with his fear of getting old and his inability to deal with a real woman, not just little girls.
Alice tells how the perversions of Mrs. Regent (Redman later married) led her to drug addiction and madness.
When she finally decided to stand up to her mistress, she ended up being locked up in a mental asylum by her own family.
Having confessed all their weaknesses, the three women finally feel free and leave the hotel, just before the soldiers arrive.
All aspects of the respective fairy tales have been transformed into Moore's version, revealing their hidden perverted nature, perhaps not entirely unrelated to the original works.