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Post by dem bones on Jul 29, 2008 9:17:04 GMT
Rev. David Wilkerson with John & Elizabeth Sherrill - The Cross And The Switchblade (Lakeland, 1979: originally Bernard Geis, 1962: Spire, 1964) An inspiring motion picture with Pat Boone as David WilkersonBlurb: "I'm a mainliner, Preacher. There's no hope for me - not even from God!"
Her world was the street gang, the sex party, the fix. Her destiny, a life of crime and an early grave. But Maria was rescued, along with thousands like her, by one dedicated crusader who carried the cross into the switchblade world.
This miraculous true story has now been made into an inspiring motion picture, filmed on the original sites of Harlem and Brooklyn. A world away from franklin's football fugs, this seems to belong to genus survivor fiction (i.e., From Witchcraft To Christ, Brian Greenaway's Hell's Angel, etc.): bad sinner sees light after personal intervention of God.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 28, 2008 7:20:20 GMT
Paperback Fanatic fanatic Jon left a few lines on Vault Wordpress to inform us of his gallery of Vintage Pulp Scans. So I follow the link and ..... "Some of my paperback collection -- I love the Juvenile Delinquent books, trashy good girl art, hot rod and hard-boiled crime the best. I have way to many..."Feast your eyes on the delights of The Young Punks, Rumble, Female Psycho Ward ("5 sexually violent women - then 4 - then 3 - which one was a violent, sadistic killer as well?") - and 90 of similar bent at Biff Bang Pow!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 28, 2008 7:49:08 GMT
As a very young kid (ten) I used to go round all the book shops searching for Tarzan novels. This involved standing next to bunches of girly mags and flicking through piles of novels that resembled these exactly. Wonderful stuff.
To give you an idea of how naive it is possible to be I clearly remember going into a book shop in Leith Walk, Edinburgh's port, notorious for prostitution. There was a book shop called 'The Blue Circle Bookshop' which had a very small selection of books and a rather large selection of glossy magazines. I recall thinking that 'Blue Circle' was a like a gang name and wondering how you joined...
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 28, 2008 9:28:14 GMT
I remember reading the Cross and the Switch Blade - a kind of James Cagney Angels with Dirty Faces. Now doesn't it seem highly likely rather than impossible, that a mainlining heroine addict will become a Christian...
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Post by dem bones on Aug 28, 2008 17:43:08 GMT
Now doesn't it seem highly likely rather than impossible, that a mainlining heroine addict will become a Christian... I'll say! Likewise, the following classic is in no ways as far fetched as a bucket of shit from China ..... Dorothy Irvine - From Witchcraft To Christ: My True-Life Story (Concordia, 1973) "As 'Daring Diana' she followed a life of prostitution, strip-tease, drink, drugs - and eventually witchcraft, where she became Queen of Black Witches. When freed from her sordid life and the power of demons, she became known as a trophy of grace." Sweet Jesus! I always figured Satanists were depraved, but I never for one second imagined .... I noticed many posters displayed in prominent places, unusual posters. "Come and hear Eric Hutchings at the Colston Hall," read one. "Thousands hear, hear you too," proclaimed another. Yet the posters didn't say who Eric Hutchings was or why he was coming to Bristol. There was only a picture of his face. At first glance I surmised he was an all-in wrestler. I was puzzled and determined to find out just who he was. I marched into the Information bureau, followed by my giggling friends. "Who is Eric Hutchings?" I asked the woman behind the counter. "I haven't the faintest idea," she replied. "Someone must know," I insisted, explaining about the many posters I'd seen. "I do believe he is an evangelist or a preacher of some sort," spoke up another woman. I nearly fainted. Oh no! Not again. I couldn't get away from them. "As if we haven't got enough preachers in Bristol without him poking his nose in." I was angry and raised my voice in protest. By this time I had a small audience who were amused, if a little puzzled, by my outburst. "Come on, girls. Let's get out of here." They duly followed me, in fits of laughter. "As my giggling friends watched, I proceeded to pull down every Eric Hutchings poster I could find. I was conducting my own crusade as champion poster-puller. "Has everyone gone crazy in this city of churches?" I was saying. "Has everyone got religious mania?" Much to my astonishment just a few days later even more posters had been put up. It seemed that six replaced each one I had removed. My anger flared again, but I changed my tactics. Instead of pulling down the posters, I drew a big bushy beard on the face of Eric Hutchings, or a huge handlebar mustache, much to the delight of my friends. (from the culmination of the terrifying Chapter 13: No Way Out. Relax, she gets "Out" in Chapter 14, so no harm done.) I'll say one thing for Satanism. It's a piece of piss to become the King or Queen of it, or at least, it is if books like this (and there are legion) are anything to go by. It's also amazing that those who peddle their survival stories are never merely the coven dogsbody, but always the monarch of all the country's Satanists or High Priest/ Priestess at the very least, though I suspect this is often news to their dastardly subjects. Obviously, their dark doings are miles too evil to tell you about so they don't bother - there's just the occasional reminder of how evil they were: "I know that witchcraft is real. Was I not at the top as queen of black witches?" as Dozzer puts it - but becoming #1 doesn''t seem to require any time or effort, so you can forget old fogey Dennis Wheatley and his "lifetime of serious study" nonsense. The fact that my copy is an eighteenth printing from September, 1988, suggests they shifted a few copies of this. As Mick Mercer once said: I shake my head even as I type ... **********Baron VordenbergCripes, Dem that looks a real hoot - must try to lay me paws on a copy. I recall that the late Doreen Valiente,a very talented poetess and excellent writer on Witchcraft, complained that some people inexplicably confused her with Dorothy Irvine from time to time **********The DukeExtract from Lure of the Sinister : the unnatural history of Satanism, by Gareth J. Medway, p.161, (New York University Press, 2001) (referring to a book by a Doreen Irvine): At one point, Irvine remarked that though White witches claimed never to harm people, she had known White witches who used a "fith-fath," or a doll in the shape of a person, whose lips were pinned or legs tied. One might think this referred to the period when she herself was a Black witch—before 1964—but the term fith-fath gives her away. It is a Gaelic term referring to invisibility. Only in the late 1960s did Alex Sanders mistakenly take it to mean a doll used in magic. In fact, her remarks on the fith-fath were cribbed, almost word for word, from June Johns's King of the Witches (1969). This biography of Sanders described how he had been made king of the (White) witches at a massive gathering. (Johns exaggerated the numbers, Sanders in fact having fewer than forty disciples at the time.) One can thus fairly suspect that Irvine's story of being crowned and enthroned as queen of the Black witches owed a lot to Johns's book and little or nothing to real events.Oh, really? **********Dr. TerrorI found this one today. Put it near the bottom of the to read pile, should I, Dem? **********demonik I'm not sure, really! It seems to be one of my several strange kinks that I love survivalist and Evangelical Alliance "non-fiction" - it's a weird trash genre in itself. My absolute favourite (which, sadly I don't own a copy of) is Roger Ellis's Young People And The Occult on the evils of pop music, and the Rev. Kevin Logan's Satanism And The Occult includes passages that defy belief. Irvine's auto-hagiography is so-so, and might even hold some crossover appeal for those who enjoy stuff like Hugh Barron's Hells Angel saga Bonnie!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Aug 28, 2008 19:19:20 GMT
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Post by benedictjjones on Aug 28, 2008 20:36:06 GMT
^FROM that pic on the blurb i don't think she attracted many coven members with her looks ;O)
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Post by Jaqhama on Sept 11, 2008 3:55:26 GMT
I've still got my copy of Agro...and well read it is too.
Rumours have always abounded in the biker world that the basis of the story was loosely factual. (Guy in an Aussie biker club told me that, many years ago.) I don't know if that's true or not.
But I can see I've missed out on all those other pulp/trash novels. Some of the covers have had me laughing out loud. Great stuff.
I've written some biker based action/adventure/horror/ thriller novellas for a USA based magazine. I'll have to find the right section here to post up a link so you guys can read them for free. (Not as trashy as the pulp listed in this section. But plenty of violence and suspense.)
Cheers: Jaq.
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Post by benedictjjones on Sept 11, 2008 9:36:03 GMT
^oooh sounds good mate.
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Post by Jaqhama on Sept 11, 2008 10:45:12 GMT
I've posted links to the Bikernet thrillers in the thread section of AGRO here. I hope you folks enjoy the tales. I wrote them (ahem) quite some time ago. before I learned things like not using excalamtion marks unless it's spoken dialogue..but what the hell...they're still great pulp action stories for all the grammatical mistakes I made back then. (My lady has since done an editing course, so that's lucky huh?) One day I'll re-write the three Bikernet thrillers completly. Then they'll be excellent I reckon. Cheers: Jaq.
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Post by lukemorningstar on Feb 23, 2010 22:27:15 GMT
I knew it, I've strayed into the 'AGRO!' section and now I can't get out. I'm merely here to state that the guy on the front of The Delinquents (with the lovely Kylie) is none other than Charlie Schlatter, latterly Dr Jesse Travis in the inimitable 'skive TV' series 'Diagnosis Murder'
Apologies if anyone already pointed out that useless little nugget of info........................
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Post by dem bones on Jan 21, 2011 7:52:02 GMT
William Johnston - Happy Days: The Invaders (Tempo, 1975) Blurb: FONZIE AND THE MOTORCYCLE GANG —IT'S HAPPY DAYS When Bull and his Dozers — a dozen black‑jacketed motorcyclists — come to town, Fonzie's not really glad to see them again. Last time they met, Bull tried to break the Fonz's leg. It wasn't Bull's fault he got confused and broke his own leg ... Then Potsie gets brave. Then Potsie gets kookie, man: "Tell them they better never come back here. And tell them I said so. And tell them — "
With that kind of attitude, it was inevitable that something would happen. And it was inevitable that someone would have to bail them out .... "You know how much chance you've got to win?" Fonzie asked. "About as much chance as an ant has of walking off with that statue in the park." "A big ant or a little ant?", Richie asked hopefully. up until today i have absolutely loathed all things Happy Days with a passion, but after just the two pages of this i can tell its going to be great. William Johnston wrote the novelisation of the Amicus horror classic Asylum, a The Flying Nun tie-in, ( The Littlest Rebels, title later psychically swiped by MES for the Fall!), and many other TV adaptations, so already the reassurance that we're talking a hack of the first order. Seriously, i would not be surprised if we are looking at the most uncollectible outlaw biker novel since Chris Stratton's Then Came Bronson #3: Rock! and i am not a man prone to exaggeration.
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Post by helrunar on Jan 2, 2023 15:52:10 GMT
Doreen Irvine's sadly bland account of her former career as "Queen of the Black Witches" (I guffaw just typing those words) brought me here thanks to a search I just ran. Grand stuff in this thread. My heartfelt thanks to all who contributed.
cheers, Hel.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 3, 2023 20:23:13 GMT
Doreen Irvine's sadly bland account of her former career as "Queen of the Black Witches" (I guffaw just typing those words) brought me here thanks to a search I just ran. Grand stuff in this thread. My heartfelt thanks to all who contributed. cheers, Hel. Another thread sadly decimated by the unspeakable ph*t*bucket. Think we pretty much gave up on it after that. Am I right in suspecting Dorothy Irvine's From Witchcraft to Christ provided the template for all subsequent Satanic Survivor autobiogs, or was the bandwagon already rolling by the time she was "rescued"?
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