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Post by jamesdoig on May 14, 2009 2:43:42 GMT
Wolfblood This is a really rare pulp. Vol Molesworth's Wolfblood, Transport Publishing, Sydney, 1948. A werewolf thriller.
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Post by dem bones on May 14, 2009 10:48:53 GMT
After yesterday's mature schoolgirl shrieker this looks relatively conventional in the cover artwork department, quite Strange Tales-ish.
The Horowiz, Dark, indeed all Aus pulp is criminally overlooked in the biblio's i've access to which, admittedly, don't amount to many, but you'd expect some token mention at the very least. I hope Mr. Paperback Fanatic has been clocking all this stuff you've kindly shared with us ....
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Post by jamesdoig on May 23, 2009 10:10:00 GMT
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Post by dem bones on May 27, 2009 10:17:17 GMT
Now that is glam! Damn, i wonder how much grovelling and bribery it will take to get the bride to paint it on the back of my jacket ..... Thanks for posting, James!
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Post by allthingshorror on May 31, 2009 6:43:07 GMT
Script (1970) The exploitation novel is something to behold. This one is no different. Jodi Grey is an American in Manilla, and things have gone horribly wrong. She was a high paid hooker at a party for white men only - but then she drinks too much and when she wakes up, everyone has been shot - one near has his head severed. The Japanese have arrived! Sergeant Saito is the one that all the girls despise. He 'was a huge man for a Japanese' and he has a cruel streak to him - and he beats and spits on the girls with gay abandon. What follows is a compendium of torture, sex, womens relationships under duress, and the lonely gentleman caller that is death - until Jodi and her friends get their lives back and pay a revenge call on the despot Saito. I wonder if this is what a novelisation of 'I Spit on Your Grave' would be like. It's the only Jim Kemp book I have - but I think I've found something to read other than anthologies! Here is a list of all of his stuff - taken from the dawtrina.com site - as you can see by all the titles, there's going to be some searching! Now, a question for our Australian book collector - are these books still ready available in secondhand book shops, charity shops etc? Published by HorowitzPartisan Patrol (1966) Torture Camp (1966) Changi Terror (1966) Nazi Castle (1966) Jungle Hatred (1967) Slave Women (1967) Nazi Holocaust (1967) Resistance Woman (1967) Death Camp (1967) Sea Duel (1967) Coastwatch Command (1968) Death's Paradise (1968) Chains of Bamboo (1968) The Warrior Gods (1968) Slave Women of the Congo (1968) Chained Women (1969) Women of the Earth (1969) The Devil's Mistress (1969) Oasis in Hell (1969) Death's Wake (1969) Village in Chains (1969) The Flagellation Club (1969) Tyrant of the Alps (1969) Butchers of Vilna (1970) Revolt of the Jews (1970) The Naked Fugitive (1970) Wives Alone (1970) Sold for Pleasure (1970) House of Hell (1970) Women of Landau (1970) Terror in Paradise (1971) Women of Stalingrad (1971) Gestapo Atrocity (1971) In Chains to Hell (1971) Women of Sin (1971) Slaves in Hell (1971) Sands of Sin (1971) Pleasure Camp (1972) Sin Town (1972) Castle of Slaves (1972) Officer's Woman (1972) Another Peyton Place (1972) Lady with a Whip (1972) Mistress of Pain (1972) Women on the Loose (1972) Savage Women (1972) The Execution (1972) Untamed Women (1972) Jungle Atrocity (1973) The Butcher's Mistress (1973) Restless Women (1973) Master of Pain (1973) Jungle Slaves (1973) Nazi Love Slaves (1973) Valley of Horror (1973) Wives at Play (1973) Raped (1973) Slaves of Pleasure (1973) Slave Trader (1973) Love Master (1974) House of Pleasure (1974) Slave Orgy (1974) Slave to Love (1974) Officer's Love Slaves (1975) Hell's Island (1975) Wanton Women (1975) Boss Lover (1975) Sex Crazy (1975) Gang Bang (1975) Wild Rose (1976) The Bridge at Arnhem (1976)
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Post by jamesdoig on May 31, 2009 10:02:02 GMT
Horwitz Carter Brown and J.E. MacDonnell (naval adventures) are easy to find, except for the early books. Other series are more difficult, like the James Workman collections and the Charles Higham anthologies. Graeme Flanagan has literally hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Horwitz paperbacks stashed away in boxes in his shed. John Slater and Roy Slattery did a lot of the exploitation series for Horwitz, but there was also an adult line of around 150 titles. I picked these up for almost nothing at charity sales, but the covers have been sadly disfigured...
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Post by bushwick on May 31, 2009 11:32:53 GMT
That's a very sleazy and disquieting cover...
cheers for the heads up Johnny - more prurient and irresponsible books for me to find.
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Post by andydecker on May 31, 2009 16:10:50 GMT
Those titles alone are off-putting. To think that there was a audience out there for books like "Woman of Stalingrad". Ugh! And I guess this is only the tip of the iceberg Thanks for the info. Never knew that Australia had such a lively pulp industry.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 2, 2009 9:10:33 GMT
Inside a notorious prison camp where Japanese men have their heads drawn by the cup and crayon method... Love these covers
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 23, 2009 0:23:54 GMT
Not sure if I've posted this one before, a novelisation of an Aussie horror flick, written by John Pinkney who now writes "unexplained mystery" books. Thirst, John Pinkney, Circus Books, 1979. From the blurb: 'Thirst' is a suspense thriller about a career lady named Kate Davis who is brainwashed by a blood lusting vampire cult. Kate is kidnapped and spirited away to the cult's remote farm headquarters where she is subjected to intense psychological conditioning in an attempt to convince her that she is a direct descendant of their founding high priestess. After numerous attempts she eventually submits to their evil wishes. When released back into society Kate attacks the people who are closest to her - her secretary Martha, and her boyfriend Derek. You won't be able to put the book down, and you will be dying to see the movie.
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 23, 2009 21:04:30 GMT
Here's a few useful Aus reference books, for the record.
Graeme Flanagan, Australian Vintage Paperback Guide, 1994. Still available from Gary Lovisi, I think.
Toni Johnspn-Woods, Pulp, A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers, 2004. Still available from the national Library of Australia.
John Loder, Australian Crime Fiction, A Bibliography 1857-1993, 1994.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 24, 2009 9:28:32 GMT
These (and the John Pinkney novelisation which i'd missed until now: looks like it pre-empted the Tracy Wigginton and the 'Lesbian vampire murders'!) so look the part. Vintage Paperback guide is what i should've been buying in '94, instead of wasting my money on a bunch of crummy vampire bibliographies (honourable exceptions: Brian J. Frost's The Monster With A Thousand Faces and Greg Cox's The Transylvanian Liberary), none of which, i hasten to add, list Thirst! The title Pulp, A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers is its own selling point, but the cute illustration doesn't do it any harm. Actually, in terms of eye-grabbing artwork, only the unadventurous Australian Crime Bibliography lets the side down, but i'm sure it more than makes up for it with the content.
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 25, 2009 2:17:31 GMT
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 25, 2009 11:03:22 GMT
Yep, superb film.
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Post by causeway on Nov 14, 2011 21:27:35 GMT
I must have had this one in my possession for 20 years or more; never read, but the cover is rather interesting:
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