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Starfire

Title: Starfire (Perma M 4185)
Author: Robert Buckner
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1960

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Science Fiction and Fantasy

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The Tiger in the Garden

Title: Tiger in the Garden (Signet 845)
Author: Speed Lamkin
Artist: Mitchell Hooks
Year: 1951

“Desire under the magnolias.”

Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA

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The Day of the Locust

Title: The Day of the Locust (Bantam 1093)
Author: Nathanael West
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1953

“An unforgettable picture of people inhabiting the bizarre and erotic underside of Hollywood.”

Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Hot-Blooded Classics

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The Devil Drives

Title: The Devil Drives (Gold Medal 269)
Author: Robert Ames
Artist: Barye Phillips
Year: 1952

“She carried more poison than a black widow spider.”

Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Mystery and Thrillers

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Strange Hungers

Title: Strange Hungers (First Niter FN 101)
Author: Richard Polk; Jean Woodley; Carlson Wade; Mona Meyers; Ted Gray
Artist: Eric Stanton
Year: 1963

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA, Kink and Fetish

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Joy House

Title: Joy House (Lion 210)
Author: Day Keene
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1954

“She Prowled the Hobo Jungles to Satisfy Her Wild Desires.”

Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Mystery and Thrillers

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For Stags Only

Title: For Stags Only: A Rollicking Collection of Ribald Cartoons (Lion LL24)
Author: Sandy Nelkin and Pat Untermeyer (editors)
Artist: Various
Year: 1955

Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA

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Flesh a Go Go

Title: Flesh a Go Go (Leisure LB 1198)
Author: Don Bellmore
Artist: Robert Bonfils (?)
Year: 1967

“In San Francisco the by-word was flesh-a-go-go…the gyrating dancers just warming up for things to come.”

Categories: 1960s Sleaze and GGA

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Homo Farm

Title: Homo Farm (Brandon House 2059)
Author: Victor Jay (pseudonym of Victor J. Banis)
Artist: Unknown

“There was something sinister about him. . . . His romantic interest in Ingrid was not like Kenny. . . he’d never shown a real interest in women before. Mar had to find out for sure . . . he had to know if this was the same man he’d loved all these years.”

Categories: Gay Male

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Sin Pit

Title: Sin Pit (Lion 198)
Author: Paul S. Meskil
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1954

“A Depraved Woman…An Honest Cop…A Twisted Hunger. She was dirt…and hungry and cheap and demanding. But it didn’t matter. She was all those things and much more, too. She was fire and ice and fury.”

Categories: 1950s Sleaze and GGA, Mystery and Thrillers

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