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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<p>First published in 1930, Gladiator is the tale of Hugo Danner, a man endowed from birth with extraodinary strength and speed. But Danner is no altruist. He spends his life trying to cope with his abilities, becoming a sports hero in college, later a sideshow act, a war hero, never truly finding peace with himself. The character of Danner inspired both Superman's creators, and Lester Dent's Doc Savage. But Wylie, an editor with the New Yorker, sought to develop more than a pulp hero. His Gladiator provides surprising insights into the difficulties suffered by the truly gifted when born in our midst.</p>

Gladiator

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

WYLIE, Philip

Thrillers & Suspense

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

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

Author van Heller is a legend among writers of erotic fiction, so good that his name and craft were often imitated, but never duplicated. Considered by many to be his finest work, Roman Orgy is a retelling of Spartacus. In this case, our hero is a servant, willful but submissive, until one day when Clodia, his master's wife, lures him into the baths, teases him, makes love to him... and then cries rape after the pair are found out. Forced to become a gladiator, Spartacus survives the coliseum, rallies his fellow men, and they rebel, successfully at first, wreaking their erotic vengeance on the townsfolk.

Roman Orgy (The New Traveller's Companion)

Van Heller, Marcus

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

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