Bondage Sleepsacks or Sleeping Bags

When I was re-reading the mystery reviewer's gem today, something popped out at me.

woman being put into a sleeping bag (just as we've seen in the House of Spider books that we now know stems from Nicky's "bondage sleepsack" fetish

The following screen cap was stolen from from Rusty Nail

See that? Bondage Sleepsack? While I have never heard of such things, I knew him being binded in a "sleep sack" sounded familar to me. Then I found a pic that fits this to a tee (along with many other as you will soon see) it will be the first one seen below. Our Nicky is kinky!

First, let's look at what that is from Wikipedia

Sleepsacks are a popular type of bondage (BDSM) gear.

Sleepsacks are primarily used to confine a person comfortably for an extended
period of time. [1] Similar to a conventional sleeping bag, a person
climbs into a sleepsack and is usually zipped into it up to their neck.
Generally sleepsacks are very tight on the body, adding to the bondage aspect of
the experience.

and of course

Sleepsacks in BDSM culture
Sleepsacks are an effective way to secure somebody comfortably, but also tightly, for long periods of time. Generally someone will need to be assisted into and out of a sleepsack by another person. There are neck-entry type sleepsacks which are open at the top and do not have a full zipper. [2]
These types of sleepsacks are good for those who want to have a similar experience on their own.
The immobility that sleepsacks cause to the occupant is a major reason they are popular. Sleepsacks also provide a great way to secure someone for many types of bondage and BDSM play, which may or may not include sexual activity.

Is Nicky into BDSM? Let's look


The whole thing about Nicky carrying his books around and claiming people recognize him from Rusty Nail reminds me of something.

The night after the first Gothicfest, he claimed a worker at the motel he stayed at recognized him, and came upstairs to take a picture of him.

It was all sorts of suspicious. For starters, he had a copy of the picture, but no link to the person who took it so you could look at her webpage and see where she posted it.

Secondly, Nicky in the past has taken pictures of himself sleeping, which we can actually believe because he always gets cameras with timers on them. Do the timers go off hours after he sets them? No I don't think that is possible, so he probably only pretends to sleep for the picture. I've posted a picture of him after another covention where he was sleeping in a hostel. Again, who would agree to take the picture of him, why, and why again did someone send him a copy of it but he didn't post a link to somewhere else where the photographer featured the photo?

And finally, the picture makes sense now, because in it he is laying on a motel bed yet is wrapped up in a sleeping bag. We now know like the reviewer said he has a fetish about "bondage sleepsacks".

Anyhow, here are most of the stories where Nicky has mentioned his fetish.

From Cemetary Dream

While I walked into the chamber, it felt very cramped -- like that of a coffin, especially on the upper bunk. I tossed the backpack onto one of the seats then untied the sleeping bag and unrolled it on to the top bunk . I then proceeded to climb up there with a paperback book, Stephen King’s Nightshift. I had set the book on the sleeping bag, and then I locked the door to my room -- closed the curtain for some privacy then I unzipped the sleeping bag halfway. As the attendant passed my room, I handed him my ticket then locked the door and closed all of the curtains in the place. At this time I was still coughing and was a bit chilled from the flu, prior to going off to sleep I took a dose of Nyquil. I proceeded to climb into the bunk and zipped myself into the sleeping bag then pulling the drawstring closed the time was around 7:30 P.M.

I had got out of the sleeping bag and began to back it away then laced my hiking boots back up, and started to clean myself up -- I couldn’t forget the details of that nightmare because was a horror beyond one can describe, it was almost something that could of been written in Jeffory Dahmer’s journal if the cannibal had kept a journal.

...here I brought that book with me for you to look at because of the interest that you share with Nik about the supernatural and the occult. I had felt the floor drop thirty degrees about two in the morning -- I felt the cold as I was sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag.

I still was in the sleeping bag. I really frightened the shit or of me,” I had said trying to make sense Laura’s nightmares, “Have you tried group hypnosis?”

From Carnival of Carpathia

That as I would remain in the sleeping bag; shielding myself from the snows that would fall at midnight -- the dream that would be in my sleep would continue.

I had awakened again for a short period of time, still in my sleeping bag -- just long enough to get comfortable. Fell back to sleep quickly but the snow was falling at a rate where if I continue to sleep, I would be covered fully in snow. It was about 12:30 PM when I had finally woke up -- was shaking the excess snow off of my backpack and sleeping bag then proceeded to break camp because I had to descend from the bluff.

From Loss of Blood

It is here I felt something like the sleeping bag I would use -- but similar in the material, that the EMTs would use to wrap me in while I was riding in the back of the ambulance that reminded me of the scene in Halloween II where Lorie Strode was taken to the hospital.

The horror in my mind that I'd find them on the floor, cold and lifeless because he'd taken their life -- before I would even return from work, but as I'd seen this I'd awaken from the sleep, I was lying in the ambulance -- alone with the EMT in the back of the ambulance, wrapped up inside the sleeping bag and five blankets.

From The Hitchhiker's Wanderings (about another ghost that walks along highways and disappears)

The bed was in the back of the RV with a sleeping bag laid out.

She was sitting up in the bed with her arms loose from the sleeping bag. Both were a little bugged out by what they've seen, the vanishing semi-truck picking up the hitch hiker.

Peering out the window then she goes back to laying down on the bed, after pulling her arms back into the sleeping bag.

From Collectives in A Forsaken Landscape

It would be among the dream that I would with care and a calm hand pull out the journal that is in the backpack and still in sleeping bag wrote as much of the detail as possible from the awaking.

From The Statue

I have a sleeping bag in the truck. I keep one in the truck at all times in case of emergencies.

Agreed to the deal that she made, and in the matter of a half hour she went to the car to get the black-colored sleeping bag that she seems to keep in the back of the truck, it was almost like she would camp in the truck at times when she knows she has a long drive ahead of her.

So she had kept a winter rated sleeping bag in the back of the car.

It was about 8:30 in the evening when she came into the basement unrolling her sleeping bag on the floor, she took the day off from the office and brought out a small tape recorder. The type of bag she was using resembled that of a mummy, though she was not ready to go to sleep yet she still looked around and proceeded to recite observations and changes made in the audio journal.

I had my sleeping bag in the SUV, and brought into the house. This would be one of those observations that would take an overnight visit before deciding that what Albert Drexler saw earlier today was the resultt of him being overworked and the result of a nervous breakdown. I saw that statue that he described and it was in direct view from where I placed my sleeping bag.

Dr. Lentz spoke into the recorder, she kept the recorder near her sleeping bag.

Aparently she had a taken in a lot and was writing in her journal, sitting there in her sleeping bag against a wall staring at that statue that Albert Drexler was describing to her in his session. It was a matter of hours before she dosed off once again, while she pulled her sleeping bag over her shoulders she could feel those eyes –– looking at her.

She was still in her sleeping bag so it was easy to lift her, noticed that she gained a few extra pounds but they didn’t understand why until they were in the emergency room. After they unzipped her from the sleeping bag, they made the horrific discovery of her left hand turning to stone. They did not take off her hand, but they knew if they took the hand off it would end up killing her; they never saw anything like that in the history of having patients in the hospital.

From Ghostly Being

I had my backpack with me, one that I used when I would go camping with and unrolled a mummy style sleeping bag then placed her in it to keep her warm. She was easy to carry once I had her in the sleeping bag, I closed the hood around it and waited for the next stop to get off -- with her draped over my shoulder.

I could feel her breathing through the sleeping bag, and I found a dark dingy building that no one had been in for many years, it appeared similar to the Marynoll chapel -- no pews and a table which was in middle of the chapel, as an altar and five mattresses where placed on the floor of the Marynoll chapel.

From Among Shadows

laying in the matter between the description as I rested my eyes and covered myself with a shroud-like bag which was dark enough to shelter from the light

From Dark Wilderness

Then add the factor of that I would do a lot of camping in there which I would spend two weeks out of a year living out of a backpack and sleeping bag.

From House of Spiders

Grab the sleeping bag and put her in it.
We are going to carry her out, and almost there.
“we are almost out of here, it would be easier for me to carry the nurse out if we can package her up and belt her to a door to use as a stretcher.

From Haunting the Chapel

Tony had a 1987 Dodge Van that was the size of an ambulance that he had parked near the ER -- it had a mummy style sleeping bag in the back that I had rolled out to stick Trina in because we had to get her out of there so we can take her to a Voodoo Preistess somewhere in Elmhurst. I had placed the blankets on the couch and then we proceeded to move trina back onto the couch.

***WARNING The following is the rest from Haunting The Chapel. After reading the above examples, you can see now that not only does Nicky enjoy being in a sleeping bag, he has fantasies of sealing women in them so that they cannot move. Remember what we gathered from wikipedia:

Sleepsacks also provide a great way to secure someone for many types of bondage and BDSM play, which may or may not include sexual activity.

Generally sleepsacks are very tight on the body, adding to the bondage aspect of
the experience.

Knowing this, the remainder of this story is very disturbing because now you realize you are reading into his sexual fantasy world where he seals women in them so that they cannot move. What you are about to read is in fact a sexual fantasy.***WARNING

Okay -- now Tony, I am going to need your help moving her on to the blankets and then tape them around her. I have been in Boy Scouts and they had taught me how to wrap someone if they were sick with hypothermia. Lift her legs for a minute while I get the first half of the blanket around her. I will then take the rest of the first third and wrap it tightly around her -- it would be big enough to cover her. Now help me roll her to her right side, then take the rest of first third of the blanket and wrap it aroud her. That should cover her arms and her chest. Then once you do that, roll her toward me -- now I will take the second third of the blanket and wrap it around her the other way. What you must do now is roll her toward me so I can do this. Now that is done and please hand over the duct tape so I can finish this task -- I am taping the blanket around her so we will have an easier time moving her around and transfering her. Now lift her up at the waist so I can wrap this duct tape around her. I want to do around the waste first so that will give us something to work with. I will then wrap the tape around her ankles and at her knees. I will now hand you the tape and what you will do is wrap the tap around her stomach and shoulders. I explained, Now what we do now is take the wheeled stretcher and bring it in here then what we do then is to lift her on to the stretcher making sure she is lying on her back. Now is what we will do with the other blankets; use them to cover her up and if anyone will ask, we are taking her to surgery -- I have a friend that was working in the hospital that can show us where we can sneak Trina out and then wheel her to your van. What we are going to do then is to place her into the sleeping bag and ditch the scrubs. If any police officers ask, we will say that she is very tried -- it appeared that she and my other friend were planning a way to sneak her out. That needle she stuck in her was a tranquilizer that would allow her to sleep for a few hours, and if she asks why is she tied up -- we will say that we needed a way to transfer her without getting caught. I will zip her into the sleeping bag and close the drawstring hood to hide her black hair. When the hood is closed around her, I will tie a knot into the drawstring to keep it closed; when we cross the Iowa-Illinois border, we will stop in a small town to untie her.

From Passenger

She pulled herself off the makeshift bed for a few minutes with the cordless phone to fix the blanket so she could wrap herself with it rather tightly.

They had her covered in a black velour sleeping bag.

House of Spiders 3 opened with a "wife" being wrapped tightly enough so that she couldn't move on the stretcher, then a shitload of covers dumped on her.

From his old blogs

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I don't remember how long I was kept there but I remember having to be wrapped with a lot of blankets because the place where they had me was colder than a morgue.

Literary looked like a mummy with my face showing

I was so tired that night I made it to the cousin in Algonquin -- the moment I pulled myself into the sleeping bag I packed and laying on the rug, it was a matter of seconds that I was asleep. I did not even change into the sweats I packed since I normally sleep in sweats like how people sleep either nude or in their clothes -- I had a bad habit of sleeping in my clothes especially when travelling. I did this a lot when I was in college -- especially when I was sleeping in the infirmery. The nurse could not get over how I slept -- remembering how they would do for treating victims for shock, I would curl up in a blanket and basically be close to dead to the world.

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That as I would crawl into my sleeping bag, I think about the things that I have been taught and of the things that were said by the clairvoyant.

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I remember when I was younger and the times when doing homework in college and was so ill and tired that I was not able to sleep especially to how chilled I was at times where I even as many layers they had on me -- I was still drained and chilled to the bone. Sometimes I would long for a good sleep like the one I got when I was in Canada -- the one when I was camping on the rock face, when I would go without a tent in middle of the winter is when I would get most sleep because I would keep myself huddled in the multiple layers that would make a shrowd from the elements.

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the first place is where I crashed and could not remember how long I was really asleep for, but the moment I zipped myself in the sleeping bag I got for the trip to Canada with all the over the counters in my system

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I basically packed two sleeping bags -- a thin liner type and a type sleeping bags (I knew how the blankets were on the train from the last time I was on a sleeper -- best advice, pack your own bedding when metropolitian lounge -- the picture with the peice, Among Shadows was the result of leaving my camera on taking a train and get a sleeper on the long trips. The reason is that your meals are taken care of. The sleeping pills were for when I was on the train and for when I was sleeping in the the Attendants desk, where I was curled up in the shroud and trying to hide my face from the light.)

...crawled under the shrouds and slept.

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Something that I would often think about when I would start packing up the hikers backpack and when I would lash up the sleeping bags -- what horrors would I come across.

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Humanitarian Aide to a Goth Journalist, Jutice Illinois Woman needs coats.....

blankets, and a mummy type sleeping bag -- she's 5'1 one and her email address is (hidden). Her name is (hidden), perhaps some of you heard of her because she hosted Gothicfest 2005 and wrote for Outburn and New Grave Magazine, well recently she appeared on the cover of my magazine -- The Ethereal Gazette. So with that being said I am doing this rally call to help her out the best of your ability in what ever you can donate for her (money, blankets, sleeping bags, jackets, and books.

Update: She's got a coat, but she could always use a back up. Still trying to track down the mummy style sleeping bag for her; anything to help her keep comformtable at night in her apartment. I got a few friends hooking her up with a few comforters. So anything you can send to her let me know or email her, and she's also set up to take donations via paypal too.

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Where he would have her at a recliner and with a laptop -- I had a similar picture in mind when I would sit on a couch that my cousin gave me as a downpayment for the money he owes me, I basically curled up in some sleeping bags and had the type writer on my lap

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It was the incident when they were binding me into a back stretcher and started covering me with blankets because I was going into shock, and in the disorientation my phobia began to hit me quite hard when I was being placed in the blue and orange sleeping bag type device. I could feel them strapping down my legs and my stomach,

...but when I was in the blankets and the sleeping bag type device, I was shaking and pale.

Now that is a lot of sleeping bags. It would be one thing were it just Nicky being wrapped up in them, but as you can see he has a lot of interest in wrapping, excuse me strapping and taping women into them so that they cannot move and can be carried away.

Did you notice that when his roommate needed items due to water damage, his female roommate, he was very concerned about getting her mummy type sleeping bags?