diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index f2537ec0..e28fd976 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -3000,6 +3000,19 @@ Description
     Recursively download files from subfolders.
 
 
+extractor.hentaifoundry.descriptions
+------------------------------------
+Type
+    ``string``
+Default
+    ``"text"``
+Description
+    Controls the format of ``description`` metadata fields.
+
+    * ``"text"``: Plain text with HTML tags removed
+    * ``"html"``: Raw HTML content
+
+
 extractor.hentaifoundry.include
 -------------------------------
 Type
diff --git a/docs/gallery-dl.conf b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
index ce0bad65..715ec7ea 100644
--- a/docs/gallery-dl.conf
+++ b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@
         },
         "hentaifoundry":
         {
+            "descriptions": "text",
             "include": ["pictures"]
         },
         "hitomi":
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/hentaifoundry.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/hentaifoundry.py
index e5299400..91bcd389 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/hentaifoundry.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/hentaifoundry.py
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ class HentaifoundryExtractor(Extractor):
         self.start_post = 0
         self.start_page = 1
 
+    def _init(self):
+        if self.config("descriptions") == "html":
+            self._process_description = self._process_description_html
+
     def items(self):
         self._init_site_filters()
         data = self.metadata()
@@ -77,9 +81,9 @@ class HentaifoundryExtractor(Extractor):
             "artist"     : text.unescape(extr('/profile">', '<')),
             "_body"      : extr(
                 '<div class="boxbody"', '<div class="boxfooter"'),
-            "description": text.unescape(text.remove_html(extr(
-                '>Description</div>', '</section>')
-                .replace("\r\n", "\n"), "", "")),
+            "description": self._process_description(extr(
+                "<div class='picDescript'>", '</section>')
+                .replace("\r\n", "\n")),
             "ratings"    : [text.unescape(r) for r in text.extract_iter(extr(
                 "class='ratings_box'", "</div>"), "title='", "'")],
             "date"       : text.parse_datetime(extr("datetime='", "'")),
@@ -106,6 +110,14 @@ class HentaifoundryExtractor(Extractor):
 
         return text.nameext_from_url(data["src"], data)
 
+    def _process_description(self, description):
+        return text.unescape(text.remove_html(description, "", ""))
+
+    def _process_description_html(self, description):
+        pos1 = description.rfind('</div')  # picDescript
+        pos2 = description.rfind('</div', None, pos1)  # boxBody
+        return str.strip(description[0:pos2])
+
     def _parse_story(self, html):
         """Collect url and metadata for a story"""
         extr = text.extract_from(html)
diff --git a/test/results/hentaifoundry.py b/test/results/hentaifoundry.py
index 7c8912bd..780bbdf1 100644
--- a/test/results/hentaifoundry.py
+++ b/test/results/hentaifoundry.py
@@ -144,6 +144,24 @@ __tests__ = (
     "width"      : 613,
 },
 
+{
+    "#url"     : "https://www.hentai-foundry.com/pictures/user/Soloid/186714/Osaloop",
+    "#comment" : "HTML 'description'",
+    "#class"   : hentaifoundry.HentaifoundryImageExtractor,
+    "#options" : {"descriptions": "html"},
+    "#results" : "https://pictures.hentai-foundry.com/s/Soloid/186714/Soloid-186714-Osaloop.swf",
+
+    "description": """\
+It took me ages.<br />
+I hope you&#039;ll like it.<br />
+Sorry for the bad quality, I made it on after effect because Flash works like shit when you have 44 layers to animate, and the final ae SWF file is 55mo big.\
+""",
+    "extension"  : "swf",
+    "index"      : 186714,
+    "tags"       : ["soloid"],
+    "title"      : "Osaloop",
+},
+
 {
     "#url"     : "http://www.hentai-foundry.com/pictures/user/Tenpura/407501/",
     "#category": ("", "hentaifoundry", "image"),