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Post by dem bones on Feb 11, 2008 16:23:20 GMT
Tom Mason (ed.) - Spicy Mystery Stories (Malibu, 1990) Ten classic stories of Horror and Mystery from the "Spicy" pulps of the '30s. Uncensored and untamed! Complete with their original illustrations!Robert Leslie Bellem - The Dark Tower ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Sept. 1937) James A. Lawson - Werewolf's Bride ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan. 1937) Rex Norman - The Stone Of Ageless Evil ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan. 1937) Hamlin Daly - Medusa's Kiss ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan. 1937) Robert Leslie Bellem - I Am A Monster ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan. 1937) Arthur Wallace - Dungeon Of The Blind ( Spicy Mystery Stories, July 1935) Jerome Severs Perry - Portrait Of Terror ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan. 1937) Charles A. Baker, jnr. - The Door On The Stairs ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan. 1937) Lew Merrill - Synthetic Husband ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Sept. 1937) Robert Leslie Bellem - Princess Of Dreams ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Aug. 1938) Companion volume to the incredible Spicy Horror Stories and there's also a Spicy Western I keep meaning to scan up. I'm not up to doing reviews right now, but here's a little taster: I have never known the love of a woman, Paul. and only once have I tasted the yielding bliss of feminine arms and lips ... that was tonight. But on that other night a week ago, I could only crouch in the shadows and watch with secret envy as you folded Morna Marston in your arms.
She is a lovely creature, Paul. You will be happy with her. I can close my one eye and envision her sweetness. I can see the golden cascades of her soft hair; the kisses brimming upon her soft mouth. I can see the rising hills of her young breasts, straining outward through the thinness of her frock. I can picture the nubile lyre that is her hips, and the satin-smooth columns of her thighs, the symmetrical tapering of her legs.
You are a lucky fellow, my dear brother. From the incomparable Robert Leslie Bellem's I Am A Monster ("A travesty of a human being, he craved love above all else")
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Post by dem bones on Aug 4, 2017 18:43:32 GMT
Hamlin Daly - Medusa's Kiss: ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan. 1936). One man succumbed to her beauty and died - was it from fear? Another who loved her was found "as though torn to pieces by a million barnacles!"Of course, taking her measurements for tailor-made lingerie would be even better, but then a fellow has to start at the bottom and work his way up." "Her dark eyes were somewhat sombre, but her face was as sweet as the white roundness's that would make her a million if she ever tried posing for brassiere ads."That's Mr. Frost, shoe salesman, doing what Spicy guy's tend to do an awful lot of and little good ever comes of it. No need for me to bother with a spoiler warning as, in the fine tradition of the Spicy's, the illustrator has already let the cat out of the bag. Commendably Medusa's Kiss is straight suburban Gorgon fiction, none of that "it was the mayor in drag with a mechanical serpent contraption on his head" malarkey so beloved of the shudder pulps. The divine Irene Lambert is a sympathetic monster in that her head is oblivious to what her hair ("an incredible cascade of blackness" which she combs incessantly and washes in chicken blood) is getting up yo until a particularly grisly episode on the road to Jacksonville incites her to cremate her designer footwear. Frost and Diana (i.e., his fantasy glamour model) grimly conclude that Irene was an atavism, a throwback to ages past. "There are such things. More than the public ever suspects."
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Post by dem bones on Mar 11, 2023 11:51:49 GMT
James A. Lawson - The Werewolf's Bride: ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan. 1937). Mad Moon island, they said, was inhabited by a mad white man and a white woman who was too beautiful to be human. But the island, too, they said, was infested with werewolves. And they were right. Bim Cross, trapper, and freelance secretary Judith Gay fall foul of this lycanthrope family en route from Montreal. Lura Wole and her Black Magician brother agree the comely pair will make agreeable mates, after which they can be feasted upon by the clan. Can Breed Voisne, an aged woodsman Bim regards as an idiot, stage an unlikely rescue? "I wasted no time. I kicked her in the stomach." Probably not the Spicies' finest moment. This next, however .... Robert Leslie Bellem - I am a Monster: ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan. 1937). Never in history had a man been such a travesty of a human being, loving life, craving love before all else, but so hideous that women recoiled in horror.Read here. You really should.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 12, 2023 14:25:48 GMT
Robert Leslie Bellem - Princess Of Dreams: ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Aug. 1938). Was it reincarnation? Was it a product of a split personality? What was it that his wife's friend meant when she had whispered: "Tonight you will remember!"? When Judith, his wife of less than a year, introduces a former roommate, Sylvia Lencross, Trent Denton recognises her as Sylvie LeCroix, a spurned lover from a centuries-previous life in Breton. The glamorous Ms. Lencross is thrilled; once again she and her beloved "D'Antoine" will make sacrifice to the Sea-Gods — starting with the body of her rival! "An ocean denizened by strange creatures, half-human, half-sea-monster; beautiful women with the heads and tentacles of octopi; huge, shapeless fish-eating things with the features of men; and rotting, mutilated cadavers whose flesh was ripped and mangled and nibbled by obscene ichthyous mouths.
And one of those horrid corpses seemed to be the body of Judith — Trent Danton's wife! "Charles A. Baker, jnr. - The Door On The Stairs: ( Spicy Mystery Stories, Jan. 1937). Centuries before, a woman had been murdered in that house. Now the new owners wanted to dispel the rumors that the house is haunted. But once he has passed down the stairs, even though he finds romance, he learns that there are some doors which should never be opened.Love in a Plategenet dungeon. On unlocking the long-sealed door of Trelawny Hall, the protagonist is transported back three centuries to the bedroom of the Lady Alice. The notoriously cruel Third Baron walks in on the couple, holds a sword to the stranger's throat and leads them down to the torture chamber. Tied to a rack, the Lady Alice will be torn limb from limb unless she let loose a weight to crush flat her "lover."
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Post by dem bones on Mar 13, 2023 21:46:47 GMT
Jay McArdle Arthur Wallace - Dungeon Of The Blind: ( Spicy Mystery Stories, July 1935). They had smelled blood — warm human blood! and these men who were lured by an exotic girl burned with the lust and savagery of beasts! Driving toward East Fieldstone, Lane is flagged down by a large-breasted gal in gingham dress stood in the road. This is not wise of him. Turns out she is the daughter of Dr Rankin, who runs a maximum security Private Sanatorium for Nervous Disorders. Rankin has hypnotized his daughter into believing herself a vampire and cannibal — just as he has to the girl's mother and the rest of his patients! Lane makes his second fatal mistake of the night in questioning Rankin's sanity. "Mad?" His bushy eyebrows arched satanically. "No, hardly. You think I keep these raging maniacs here because I like them? You think I blinded them with my own hands because I enjoyed it? No. There is something more? Some day I will give the world the secret of existence! Some day all humanity will worship my memory! "You have heard of Darwin? Yes? You have heard of The Origin Of Species? The Darwinian theory of man's ascent from the ape?" His eyes glowed with a terrifying, unearthly fire.
The next words he screamed out. "I am proving it in this very room! I am returning humans to bestial form! I am making snarling, speechless animals out of men and women! Look!" If Culture had extended to a Spicy Gothic Grand Guignol Stories, this would have been lead story.
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