Category Archives: Pulp paperback cover art

Pulp Friday: Trashing

“Gentle Ann in the clutches of a stone-freak revolutionary mad mob.” A lot of the books we consider radical or counter cultural pulp fiction where written by people who, in reality, had nothing to with the actual scene but just … Continue reading

Pulp Friday: more adventures behind the bamboo screen

One of the most successful pulp fiction related posts to date on this site was a selection of Asian themed pulp fiction paperback covers I put up in 2011, Behind the bamboo screen: Asian pulp covers of the sixties and … Continue reading

Pulp Friday: The Deadly Prey

“A sadistic maniac was developing a deadly virus by using children as guinea pigs.” Vigilantes were one of the key themes of the muscular over the top world of seventies pulp fiction. And one of the biggest, meanest and weirdest of … Continue reading

Pulp Friday: The Smashers

“A novel of The Organisation – girls, horses, dope, murder.” Regular readers will be familiar by now with my admiration for the late Donald Westlake. Westlake was the hard boiled writer’s hard-boiled crime writer, having penned numerous books over his career, … Continue reading

Pulp Friday: Sinquake

“Mike Brand’s most sinister adversary – Cyn Boudin, high priestess with a lust for power.”  Today’s Pulp Friday offering is a wonderful piece of forgotten Australian pulp, Sinquake by Gene Janes. Sinquake was produced by little known local pulp publisher … Continue reading