Justin Marriott [ed.] - Paperback Fanatic #49

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Out now (had no idea an issue was imminent until it squirmed through letterbox).

Justin Marriott [ed.] - Paperback Fanatic #49 (Nov. 2024)

Justin Marriott - Fanatical Musings. Editorial
Fanatical Mails - Tom Tesarek, Nigel Taylor, Ian Sherred
Justin Marriott - Paperback News: Invasion of the Book Tubers, Books & Fanzines
Tom Tesarek - Artists Assemble: Steve Fastner and Rich Larson
Tom Tesarek - Strangers in a Strange Lands: Authors working in Unexpected Genres
Jules Burt - The Auctioneer: select paperback prices on eBay
Jeff Popple - Horwitz Paperbacks
Justin Marriott - Haunted Love: The Gothic romances of 'Mona Farnsworth'
Justin Marriott - Phantom Books: a Sleazy Publisher
Justin Marriott - Naval Gazing: Sea Adventure novels Richard Woodman & C. Northcote Parkinson
Roy Nugen - Book salesman in pulps.
John Peel - Book of the Movie
Justin Marriott - Scoundrels and Buccaneers: Bow Street Runner fiction.
Tom Tesarek - Vault of Horror: Horror Stories, May 1936
Steve Myall - Hot Lead: Oliver Strange's Sudden
Steve Carroll - The Horror! The Horror! When Men's Adventure Mags went Weird!
Steve Carroll - The Manly Man's Manly Book Cave: paperback tie-ins to 70s Kung-fu movies
Nigel Bate - Conan pastiches Part III
Jules Burt - J.G. Ballard in vintage Penguin and Panther paperbacks
James Doig - The Panther editions of The Haunter of the Dark
Justin Marriott - The Old Trade of Killing: John Harris thrillers
Justin Marriott - Altered Images: Extreme plastic surgery makeovers in crime fiction
Justin Marriott - A visual Guide to Pyramid SF
Jeff Popple - One Bullet can Change the Course of WWII: '70s Assassination thrillers
Justin Marriott - Action adventure SF
Jim O'Brien - Falklands War Fiction of the 1980s and '90s
Robert Lory: A Visual Tribute
Shelby Rhodes interviews Barry Hammond, author of "Canada's rarest Horror Novel"
John Peel - Pocket Vintage Paperback Reviews

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[helrunar]

That looks quite cool. Nice to see James' essay on the Panther editions of Haunters of the Dark. I have an occasional craving for the Panther eds of Sax Rohmer's Sumuru novels, but haven't searched any of the online vendors for those. Shipping costs between the UK and the United States of Mordor have become so high.

Also nice to see a memoir of Robert Lory's Dracula novels; I well recall the time when those were a regular sight in various shops I'd haunt as a teen.

cheers, Hel.

[jamesdoig]

It does look like a good issue - waiting for my copy to arrive. Evidently #50 will be a bumper issue with 50 articles (limited to a couple of pages each), so another one to look forward to.