tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post4661602573703401072..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: Forgotten Books: Danger Is My Business by Lee ServerEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-29298867521475027152009-10-01T14:00:41.354-07:002009-10-01T14:00:41.354-07:00Excellent book, and to Todd: I've read some no...Excellent book, and to Todd: I've read some noteworthy stories in shudder pulps. Can't forget a boxing story by Wayne Rogers: the boxing maestro kidnaps women and tells the fighter he gets to rape the woman, but only if he wins. (Or then it was that he kidnapped the poor man's wife and said she'll be raped if the guy doesn't win. Okay, sounds really noteworthy, doesn't it?)Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-29774564173104604712009-09-29T17:51:04.878-07:002009-09-29T17:51:04.878-07:00Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to keep an ...Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to keep an eye out for this one.Kenneth Mark Hooverhttp://kennethmarkhoover.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-91846613824076925952009-09-29T08:07:03.535-07:002009-09-29T08:07:03.535-07:00That's the unfortunate effect of writing in a ...That's the unfortunate effect of writing in a hurry, with distractions...misspelling occasion, referring to STRANGE TALES as STRANGE STORIES in the second instance just above, and meaning to write from Phil's website, rather than possibly suggest that the covers were painted by Phil. Sorry.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-12890570760999037322009-09-28T20:26:26.309-07:002009-09-28T20:26:26.309-07:00Well, STRANGE STORIES does have at least two bonda...Well, STRANGE STORIES does have at least two bondagey covers, and STRANGE STORIES has one that might as well be considered such ("Webbed Hands" reach toward an apparently unconscious woman).<br /><br />See the hotlink on my initials for covers from Phil Stephensen-Payne.TMhttp://www.philsp.com/data/image171.html#STRANGESTORIESnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-13060549829423318562009-09-28T20:14:12.821-07:002009-09-28T20:14:12.821-07:00Easing back in, I hope...it should be noted that t...Easing back in, I hope...it should be noted that these Horror pulps, despite the actual horror/fantasy pulp WEIRD TALES not shying away from bondage covers on occaision(STRANGE TALES and STRANGE STORIES and UNKNOWN mostly went for other sorts of sensation, when they were sensational) were mostly what have come to be called "shudder" or "weird menace" pulps: DIME MYSTERY in its early years, HORROR STORIES, TERROR TALES, UNCANNY TALES (one or two of the several magazines with that title)...magazines that specialized in "Scooby-Doo" stories, wherein the fantastic element was shown to be the chicanery of some mad evildoer...whose evil was quite real, and usually sexually sadistic. These magazines tended to flourish during the Depression, and DIME MYSTERY changed course and the others folded...though certainly what came to be known as the "Men's Sweat" magazines (TRUE, SAGA, and their lesser [!] imitators) owed something to them, as did such relatively straightforward descendants as WEB TERROR STORIES (the last, ugliest phase of a marginal sf/fantasy digest turned worse crime-fiction digest, then onto shudder/torture) in the early '60s, or Ed Wood's market HORROR SEX TALES and its stablemates and similarly shortlived competitors at the turn of the '70s.<br /><br />All doing their bit to keep horror's reputation as sterling as it has been over the years. Can I get a WHISPERS?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-31396051022144862672009-09-28T18:23:11.716-07:002009-09-28T18:23:11.716-07:00Yikes! How did I not know about this? It's now...Yikes! How did I not know about this? It's now on order.Evan Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620731784654779358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-79133475133267747312009-09-28T16:19:24.995-07:002009-09-28T16:19:24.995-07:00As you might guess, the book is in my library alre...As you might guess, the book is in my library already. <br /><br />Good to hear you're feeling better!mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-81233115614352885312009-09-28T15:41:45.527-07:002009-09-28T15:41:45.527-07:00Glad to see you back in the saddle.Glad to see you back in the saddle.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com