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Category Archives: Horwitz Publications
Pulp Friday: Sin in Hong Kong
“Lassington Dhal was condemned to die of pleasure. What was the secret that had earned him free grog, free women and a drunkard’s death?” Today’s Pulp Friday is a wonderful specimen of Asian themed Australian pulp fiction, Sin in Hong … Continue reading
Pulp Friday: Flat 4 Kings Cross
“A raw and revealing novel of abandoned passions in Sydney’s twilight zone.” Today’s Pulp Friday book is Flat 4 Kings Cross, by Geoffrey Tolhurst, published by Horwitz Publications in 1963. As I’ve previously written on this site, the early to mid-sixties … Continue reading
Pulp Friday: mercenary pulp
This week’s Pulp Friday is a selection of covers from the seething, sweaty, bloody, intrigue laden world of mercenary pulp. I picked them celebrate the fact that I have a story in issue 2 of Blood and Tacos, which launches … Continue reading
Posted in Australian pulp fiction, Belmont Tower Books, Crime fiction and film from Africa, Horwitz Publications, Pulp, Pulp fiction in the 70s and 80s, Pulp fiction set in Asia, Pulp Friday, Pulp paperback cover art, Vintage pulp paperback covers
Tagged Black Samurai, Blood and Tacos, death Merchant, Johnny Shaw, Mercenary pulp, Penetrator, Soldier of Fortune, The Executioner, The Liquidator
Pulp Friday: biker pulp
“Lusting females with sadism and sex on their mind.” Bikers were one of the major themes of pulp fiction in the late sixties and seventies. Society’s fascination with bikers obviously dates back much further than this, but by the late … Continue reading
Posted in Australian crime fiction, Australian pulp fiction, Fawcett Gold Medal Books, Horwitz Publications, New English Library, Pulp, Pulp fiction in the 70s and 80s, Pulp Friday, Pulp paperback cover art, Scripts Publications, Vintage pulp paperback covers
Tagged Alex R Stuart, Angels on My Mind, Bikie Birds, Bikie Rumble, Birds of Destruction, Blood Circus, Easy Rider (1969), Fawcett Gold Medal Books, Hells Angels, Hip Pocket Sleaze, Horwitz Publications, Hunter S Thompson, Jon Harrison, Mad Max (1979), Mick Norman, New English Library, Scripts Publications, Stone (1974), Stuart Hall, The Devil's Rider, Thomas K.Fitzpatrick, Vengeance is a Woman, Wheelie, Wheels of Death
Australia’s other lost literary heritage
There’s been a bit of discussion in literary circles recently about whether enough is being done to maintain the public’s interest in the classics of Australian literature. To my surprise it’s a debate I’ve only been able to drum up … Continue reading
Posted in Australian crime fiction, Australian pulp fiction, Carter Brown, Horwitz Publications, Peter Corris, Scripts Publications, Toni Johnson Woods, Vintage pulp paperback covers
Tagged Alan G Yates, Australian literature, Carter Brown, Gordon Clive Bleeck, Hip Pocket Sleave, John Harrison, Michael Heyward, Moneky Grip, Scripts Publications, Stag, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Text, The Wheeler Centre, Toni Johnson-Woods
