The Pearl

Serialized for 18 legendary issues in in the Late Victorian era, the Pearl is a notorious collection of jokes, limericks and naughty ballads, with several complete novels interspersed among its content. A fascinating read for anyone interesting in underground literature of the period.

Literature & Fiction

ANONYMOUS

Erotica

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Whitfield's first novel, and the one critics like best (Hammett loved it, but, then, Whitfield and Hammett were drinking buddies.) The story begins with Mal Ourney's release from a two-year prison sentence. While in prison Ourney apparently develops sympathy for the small-time crooks he meets, and hatches a plan to get the big guys when he gets out. Rumors of this spread outside the prison walls and he is a target for a frame-up within hours of his release.

Green Ice

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Whitfield, Raoul

Mystery

The Virgin Kills

Millionaire gambler Eric Vennel's yacht, "Virgin," sets sail for the Regatta at Poughkeepsie with an oddball assortment of uneasy companions-hardheaded sportswriter Al Conners; beautiful actress Carla Sand; her rival gossip columnist Rita Veld, oversized brute Mick O'Rourke and a large sampling of East and West-Coast society. Rumors of Vennel's extensive wagering on the Regatta, and a midnight attack, raise the tension to the point of murder.

The only novel to feature Ben Jardinn, a two-fisted, hard-drinking PI with an office just a couple of blocks from Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Hardly a cat-and-goldfish story, Death in a Bowl is about a murder that takes place in the Hollywood Bowl during a concert, with a lot of action and some surprising twists at the end.

Death In A Bowl

The Romance of Lust

Keene's first novel. Author Robert Stanton is on top of the world, with a best-seller to his credit, a series of hits in Hollywood, and beautiful actress who wants to make husband #5 or 6. But a night of drinking leaves a girl dead, fingers pointing, and rumors about another wife far away.

Framed In Guilt

Keene, Day

The Werewolf of Paris

In a work that strives to do for werewolves what Stoker's Dracula did for vampires, Endore's werewolf, an outcast named Bertrand Caillet, travels round seeking to calm the beast within. An episodic tale, the story wanders through 19th Century France and into hotspots like the Franco-Prussian war. Stunning in its sexual frankness and eerie, fog-enshrouded visions, this novel was decidedly influential for the generations of horror and science fiction authors who came after.

The Werewolf Of Paris

Endore, Guy

Genre Fiction

In the forbidding old house, guarded by vicious dogs, lived exotic, mysterious Lola. Murder was done there, it was said, and other deeds, wanton and eerie. With a special introduction by author David Bischoff, who points out that this books smokes with the kind of passion you don't get much in this explicit era.

House Of Flesh

Fischer, Bruno

<p>Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion, his second major trilogy, took more than 10 years for the author to complete. Beginning in 1949 with Sexus, a work so controversial all of Paris was abuzz with L'Affaire Miller, (and publisher Maurice Girodias saw himself threatened with jail), following in 1952 with Plexus, and finally concluding with 1959's Nexus, the three works are a dazzling array of scenes, sexual encounters and ideas, covering Miller's final days in NY, his relationship with June Miller and her lover, his take on the arts, his favorite writers, his thoughts, his insights, his days and his nights, finally ending with a glorious farewell to the life he'd known and an anticipation of the life he would lead.</p>

The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, Nexus (the New Traveller's Companion)

MILLER, HENRY

Contemporary

A groundbreaking, multi-part narrative about a plot to rob a racetrack on its busiest day of the year, using one criminal mastermind, and several ordinary people.  The heist comes up smooth, but things go awry when one of the regular guys involved tells the wrong person.  Stanley Kubrick liked the story so much, he optioned the rights, hiring Jim Thompson as screenwriter to produce noir classic "The Killing."

Clean Break

White, Lionel

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