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Post by dem bones on Dec 23, 2009 13:54:32 GMT
Picked up this beauty for £1 recently and i'm sure you'll agree, it warrants at least an eight on the bad-taste-o-metre. Harrison James - Abduction (Tandem, 1975: originally Grove Press, USA, 1974) Blurb Most events can only be told after ... This event was told before!
Abduction is fiction before fact. Patty Hearst was abducted, seduced, brainwashed, and induced to commit criminal acts. But these events were strikingly paralleled in the plot of this novel, published two years before the Hearst kidnap! Now Abduction, with its interracial ideological story of sexual terror, has been filmed, and again prompts the question : was it coincidence, imitation, or intention?your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to post up your own contenders. i've thought of one offensive on every level great we've not featured on here as yet, so, depending on the response ...
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Post by andydecker on Dec 24, 2009 15:37:10 GMT
You know, Dem, you can´t beat this. Not without sinking into downright stroke books or naziploitation which is of course a whole other game and not mass market. You are the master! "interracial ideological story of sexual terror" Wow, just wow. Compared to this at least the cover and backtext of every Moffat slaver novel is kid´s stuff. What on earth were they thinking?
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Post by dem bones on Dec 24, 2009 16:49:30 GMT
Have faith, andy. there's another one - mainstream, at that - which absolutely floored me, but i need to dig it out. we'll save it until after the holiday. This was very much a lucky find: the guy had his books stacked in rows, spine upward, i saw the Tandem logo and thought it might be worth a look. it was a lucky day when i think of it because afterward i hit Milan's stall and there was The Nuclear Nazis! happy memory of both of us stood there gaping at it in sheer admiration ...
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Post by dem bones on Jan 1, 2010 13:09:51 GMT
To end the decade as some of us mean to start the next .... God knows, we've featured some unforgivable covers on here these past four years - like to think I played my part - but this must surely rank in the top ten. The Corgi editions of James Hadley Chase's novels (covers tastefully decorated with former page 3 models in their lingerie) have their detractors, but surely none of them were as head-on offensive as this Harlequin Romance (!) effort from 1951. James Hadley Chase - The Dead Stay Dumb (Harlequin Romance, 1951) Thankfully, other publishers realised that this was strictly no-no stuff even in the 'fifties. Not sure of the publisher - the logo looks familiar - but I'm grateful to Mr. Wayne Allen Sallee who sent me this scan of a US edition .... James Hadley Chase - Kiss My Fist (Eton, 1952??)
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Post by doug on Mar 14, 2012 14:28:24 GMT
Hey all, I just stumbled across this in ebay.de! If it's not in bad taste then at least it's twisted! Take care. Doug
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 14, 2012 17:27:56 GMT
Hey all, I just stumbled across this in ebay.de! If it's not in bad taste then at least it's twisted! Take care. Doug I notice its German - mind you the cover kind of gives that away - Andy. We need your wisdom on this.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 14, 2012 18:17:42 GMT
I never knew this existed. But this is one of the batch this publisher did in the early seventies, alongside some Bloch and the unfortunatly few Birkins, which all had photocovers. Some of them had nude models on the cover, I particular like the Matheson Hell House which I posted here somewhere, but this is a class of its own. Just wow. Someone has already put in a bid (Okay, who do I kid, I bid lol) This is "Demon Lovers and Strange Seductions" from 1972 by Fawcett with a Jeff Jones cover. According to to ISFDB this is writer Maragaret Carter and the content is: Introduction (Demon Lovers and Strange Seductions) • (1972) • essay by Margaret L. Carter • 15 • Ultor de Lacy • (1861) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (aka Ultor de Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen) [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu ] • 40 • The Great God Pan • (1894) • novella by Arthur Machen • 59 • The Wind People • (1959) • shortstory by Marion Zimmer Bradley • 75 • Can Such Beauty Be? • (1953) • shortstory by Jerome Bixby • 91 • The Glamour of the Snow • (1911) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood • 110 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens • 152 • The Thinking Cap • (1953) • novelette by Robert Bloch • 179 • Too Far • (1955) • shortstory by Fredric Brown • 180 • The Naked People • (1954) • shortstory by Winston K. Marks [as by Winston Marks ] • 195 • A Touch of Strange • (1958) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon Some days you have to love the Net with its neverending well of trivia
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Post by doug on Mar 14, 2012 21:23:16 GMT
I never knew this existed. But this is one of the batch this publisher did in the early seventies, alongside some Bloch and the unfortunatly few Birkins, which all had photocovers. Some of them had nude models on the cover, I particular like the Matheson Hell House which I posted here somewhere, but this is a class of its own. Just wow. Someone has already put in a bid (Okay, who do I kid, I bid lol) This is "Demon Lovers and Strange Seductions" from 1972 by Fawcett with a Jeff Jones cover. According to to ISFDB this is writer Maragaret Carter and the content is: Introduction (Demon Lovers and Strange Seductions) • (1972) • essay by Margaret L. Carter • 15 • Ultor de Lacy • (1861) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (aka Ultor de Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen) [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu ] • 40 • The Great God Pan • (1894) • novella by Arthur Machen • 59 • The Wind People • (1959) • shortstory by Marion Zimmer Bradley • 75 • Can Such Beauty Be? • (1953) • shortstory by Jerome Bixby • 91 • The Glamour of the Snow • (1911) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood • 110 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens • 152 • The Thinking Cap • (1953) • novelette by Robert Bloch • 179 • Too Far • (1955) • shortstory by Fredric Brown • 180 • The Naked People • (1954) • shortstory by Winston K. Marks [as by Winston Marks ] • 195 • A Touch of Strange • (1958) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon Some days you have to love the Net with its neverending well of trivia Andy, what don't you know? Even though I live here, I know next to nothing about the German paperback market. Several years ago I got my hands on a huge set of Heyne SF paperbacks from the middle 1960s in unread condition. I put them in Ebay.de for open bidding and I didn't sell a single one! I ended up giving them to the Red Cross bookstore here in Nürnberg. Another time though I found a complet set of 11 "Mondbasis Alpha (Space 1999)" novelizations and two guys fought over them and they ended up going for €70!
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Mar 15, 2012 11:18:05 GMT
Introduction (Demon Lovers and Strange Seductions) • (1972) • essay by Margaret L. Carter • 15 • Ultor de Lacy • (1861) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (aka Ultor de Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen) [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu ] • 40 • The Great God Pan • (1894) • novella by Arthur Machen • 59 • The Wind People • (1959) • shortstory by Marion Zimmer Bradley • 75 • Can Such Beauty Be? • (1953) • shortstory by Jerome Bixby • 91 • The Glamour of the Snow • (1911) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood • 110 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens • 152 • The Thinking Cap • (1953) • novelette by Robert Bloch • 179 • Too Far • (1955) • shortstory by Fredric Brown • 180 • The Naked People • (1954) • shortstory by Winston K. Marks [as by Winston Marks ] • 195 • A Touch of Strange • (1958) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon Bad taste on the cover, good taste on the selection. I haven't read the Bradley and Marks stories, but the rest of them are solid to excellent.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 15, 2012 12:08:41 GMT
Andy, what don't you know? Even though I live here, I know next to nothing about the German paperback market. Several years ago I got my hands on a huge set of Heyne SF paperbacks from the middle 1960s in unread condition. I put them in Ebay.de for open bidding and I didn't sell a single one! Ah, I just know where to look. Put the right websites into my favorites. And reading the stuff for 40 years also helps. Selling books on Ebay in Germany has become a no-go.Ebay has become a plattform for commercial sellers who charges mostly ridiculouos prices for those old books, and the private sellers tend to become invisible between their posts. And nobody is selling much. Ten years ago this was a good market, but nowadays as good as nobody buys books from the 60s or the 70s. Even in used bookstores you literally find boxes of this stuff. It is a shame because those paperbacks had beautiful coverart and offered the best of its time. Sure, sometimes the translations were not so good or fiddled with - mostly crime and horror - or they were cut for length, still they stand for a part of history which is nearly forgotten. Ask a young reader if he knows Aldiss or E.E.Smith, to mention two extremes, and you feel as you were talking about a forgotten mythical book in an Eco novel. It is really depressing. Ask anyone about Dick, and they sure saw the movie. No wonder everybody thought Matrix as a "deep" movie. Another time though I found a complet set of 11 "Mondbasis Alpha (Space 1999)" novelizations and two guys fought over them and they ended up going for €70! Yeah, these are hard to find and have inexplicably a hardcore-fanbase. I really can´t understand this.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 15, 2012 19:02:33 GMT
Professor Guildea might have found his victorian sensibilities discomfited to find that cover on his book
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