CROSS COUNTRY
An X-rated thriller whose 1975 copyright date (a time when mainstream fiction was much wilder than it is now) is fully evident
PETER SCHLEMIEL: THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SHADOW
An admirably succinct fantasy classic that recalls Franz Kafka and the magic realists
BETTY BLUE
A sprightly account of a tragic love affair that was made into an enormously popular 1986 film. The book’s better.
APE RAPE/WANTON WITCH
A Jim Harmon two-book compendium, one a routine potboiler and the other a gross, irresponsible, morally indefensible piece of unalloyed filth that (needless to add) I greatly enjoyed
TRUCKER FAGS IN DENIAL
A one-shot comic book, scripted by the late JIm Goad, that’s sure to offend absolutely everyone
MANIAC SIREN
From the always-irrepressible Ramble House, here’s a compendium of two early 1960s sleaze novels by the late pulp meister Jim Harmon
DR. BLOODMONEY
One of the late Philip K. Dick’s greatest novels, involving nuclear war, mutants and a disc jockey in space
ASHES, ASHES
An extended Hieronymus Boschian cavalcade of destruction in a futuristic milieu, written back in 1943
ANCIENT OF DAYS
An “Anthropological SF Masterpiece”? Not quite, but a damn good novel nonetheless
JOYRIDE
The word for this splatterific book is fun—dumb fun, yes, but fun, nonetheless