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Post by dem bones on Oct 5, 2017 9:40:33 GMT
Justin Marriott [ed.] - The Sleazy Reader #5 (October, 2017) Bad Girls Go To Hell The J.D. Lit of Wenzell Brown Talking 'Bout My Degeneration A review of Leslie Garrett's The Beasts The Flagellants of Falconhurst The Shocking Phenomena of the Plantation-Exploitation Novel The Tormented World Of Phil Hirsh Bizarro Anthologies of Pyramid Books Enter The World Of The Notorious Outlaw - The Biker Review of Easyriders Magazine's Best Fiction Living In The Shadows Harry Whittington's Life in PaperbacksEditor's 'Sleazy Musings' reveal that #4 was intended as the last because, for all their obvious friendly face of perve appeal, too many of the titles he'd sampled were "pretty much unreadable" which, considering some of the material tackled by Fanatic, Men Of Violence, and Pulp Horror is really saying something. Sleazy Reader #5, a solo effort, is Justin's attempt to "move away from the American definition of a sleaze paperbacks to cast the net a bit wider." The big news is that this one is print on demand and will be available via Amaz*n in the not too distant - details/ more thoughts on the issue (am reading a proof) to follow ASAP. Also: "Correspondence welcome - the paperbackfanatic AT.com Unless you are some total weirdo stalker type" Men Of ViolenceCurrently available via Amaz*n Uk, a compilation of Men Of Violence #5 & #6 and stand alone paperbacks (?) of Men Of Violence #7 and Men Of Violence #8. American readers can find them HERE
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Post by dem bones on Oct 10, 2017 3:38:23 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Oct 12, 2017 16:57:16 GMT
I ordered a copy via Amazon. I am truly curious how this will turn out.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 13, 2017 12:43:55 GMT
And it has been delivered. That was fast. Ordered on the 10th. In the new format.
What can I say? Sleazy Reader 5 looks as good as Pulp Horror, but at 52 pages is slimmer. Just skimmed the article on Onstott's Mandingo, which again is a truly bizarre tale. Well done!
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Post by dem bones on Oct 13, 2017 16:51:19 GMT
What can I say? Sleazy Reader 5 looks as good as Pulp Horror, but at 52 pages is slimmer. Just skimmed the article on Onstott's Mandingo, which again is a truly bizarre tale. Well done! How have the colour covers reproduced, Andy? Any discernible drop in quality? The Fanatic is by now so prolific he can produce a sparkly new publication faster than I can recycle my clichés into a riveting excuse for a "review." Am currently reading a proof version, so much else beside the covers may have changed, although table of contents certainly looks the same. As those who attended the April Pulp & Paperback Fair will attest, this Sleaze stuff is HUGELY COLLECTABLE these days and priced accordingly, so if you've not been bitten by the bug, might be for the best that you try stay that way. Chances are that not everyone who buys and enjoys the mighty Paperbacks From Hell will feel any greater inclination to tackle say, Robin Evans' Croak, or Elizabeth Jaffe's Mazes & Monsters, than they did before, reading about them being kick enough in itself. That's how it is with self and the 'Sleazies. Like Slavers and drug lit, they are a potential addiction never got their hook into me, those few I've sampled failing to arouse anything but the occasional tired smile. Evidently Justin feels pretty jaded himself as this time he's "cast the net wider" to drag in JD fiction, plantation novels, biker fiction, with the result that Sleazy 5 looks and reads like a classy mini-issue of Paperback Fanatic. Much to enjoy, as ever. Personal highlights include the feature on girl gangs in Juvenile Delinquent fiction: Wenzell Brown, who sounds "a bit of a character", reveals why a teenage lesbian armed with a potato is a fearsome adversary for sure. Intrigued by the three page feature on Leslie Garrett's The Beasts (Pyramid 1967): Farley Grimm, an office clerk in 'sixties San Francisco falls foul of a charismatic cult leader and his spectacularly depraved flower "children." My first thoughts were "this is a novel I so want to read" and that was still the case until the penultimate paragraph .... great cover, though. Have some familiarity with Easyriders magazine as a biker friend was a fan, though can't say the fiction has stayed with me other than Kevin A Lyons' very decent Billy Wolfe's Riding Spirit from the Sept. 1979 issue and that because it was selected by K.E.W. for 1980's Years Best Horror Stories VIII. Am now about to brave the terrifying looking article on Plantation novels .... I sure hope we've not seen the last of the Phallic Symbol column.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 13, 2017 21:01:43 GMT
What can I say? Sleazy Reader 5 looks as good as Pulp Horror, but at 52 pages is slimmer. Just skimmed the article on Onstott's Mandingo, which again is a truly bizarre tale. Well done! How have the colour covers reproduced, Andy? Any discernible drop in quality? Like Slavers and drug lit, they are a potential addiction never got their hook into me, those few I've sampled failing to arouse anything but the occasional tired smile. I sure hope we've not seen the last of the Phallic Symbol column.
As far as I can see the quality hasn't changed. Personally I like the format better. It is easier to store.
A few years ago I bought a few slaver books. Those by Bulmer and a few other. All NEL. Still havn't read them. But great covers. I tried to sample some of the old sleazy novels. I found it a chore to read. Euphemism overdose. It is so hard to imagine that readers used to like this tame stuff so much.
Still it is a fascinating topic. These days I re-read Steve Holland's wonderful book about Hank Janson, and even if these didn't qualify as soft porn, I was again appalled how the lives of these people were destroyed because of some entertainment they produced. As poor and basically juvenile these books may be, I like to think of them as a bit of intellectual freedom. As such they deserve to not be forgotten.
For this publications like the Reader are important.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 11, 2017 10:14:25 GMT
No details as yet but an advanced warning that Men Of Violence #9 is coming soon! Could this be the 'women of violence' issue Justin has been considering?
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Post by dem bones on Nov 25, 2017 11:53:51 GMT
As alluded to by Crom, Men Of Violence 9 is now available. Copy now ordered so will post the details ASAP. After this, looks like there'll be a temporary lull in the attack which will allow slackers like me to catch up (Still have to write up MOV #8 and the storming Paperback Fanatic #38). From Mr. Fanatic's news update.
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