The Book Graveyard

In today's episode I am reviewing the 1975 Black Samurai series entry The Warlock by Marc Olden. It's Blaxploitation meets Kung-Fu meets EVIL. Go check out  @BlaxploitationFanatic  for the real deal Holyfield. Don't forget to stop by Spy Guys and Gals for all of your paperback action reference needs: https://spyguysandgals.com/

Joyride is a paperback original slasher horror novel originally published by Pinnacle Books in 1983 and as of the recording of this review it has been republished and is available for purchase through Fathom Press: https://fathompress.com/joyride
It has an introduction by Will Errickson and a brand new hand painted cover by Stephen Andrade.
Big thanks to  @FathomPress  for making this obscure and hard to find horror paperback available again!
The music at the beginning is by Defend Means Attack who released one 7" in the early 00s

Thanks so much to Gary Lovisi for stopping by and chatting with us about vintage genre fiction and the history of the pulp community fandom. Gary is someone in the game that I look up to and inspires me in doing the Book Graveyard so it was incredibly meaningful for me to get to have this conversation.
Here are his links: Youtube Channel:  @garylovisi357 
Gryphon Books: http://www.gryphonbooks.com/
Gryphon Books on Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/str/gryphon209

In this episode I am talking classic hardboiled crime author Jim Thompson's 1953 novel Savage Night and also Donald E Westlake's 1964 crime book The Score aka Parker: Killtown.

In this episode I am joined by Chadwick from  @ChadwicksChannelofStuff  to discuss Michael Avalone's 1967 campy paperback original about a UFO hunting spy whose cover is an Avon book salesman, The Man from Avon.
Intro: 0:00
Review: 6:33
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The E.E.B.S. is a live book club on youtube I do with my friends Jake/Pulp Mortem and Tim/Secret Fire Books where we invite guest to come on and chat about the book we select each month. The book we are discussing in this episode is the 1989 horror paperback The Spirit Stalker by Nina Romberg and our guests are Alex from the youtube channel The Bookubus and Will Errickson from the Too Much Horror Fiction Blog and co-author of Paperbacks from Hell.  

Go check out https://spybrary.com/ for the serious business.
Books mentioned:
Overkill by Norman Daniels
Shanghai Incident by Steve Dodge
The Ax of Atlantis by Lee Grimes
Cairo Cabal by Alan Caillou
The Sorcerers by David St John

In today's episode we are talking all things PulpFest! I invited co-organizer Jack Cullers over to discuss the history and future of the convention and all things pulp.
Get your registration on their website: https://pulpfest.com/ And subscribe to their Youtube channel  @pulpfest 
Another great resource for pulp conventions is  @ThePulpNet  channel and website: https://thepulp.net/
If you want amazing deep dives into the world of Robert E. Howard or pulp fiction in general go check out and subscribe to Jeff Shanks channel  @AnAgeUndreamedOf 
The Men's Adventure Library and other MA books and info is available at: https://www.menspulpmags.com/

Actor and genre fiction fanatic Paul Giamatti stopped by to talk genres, collecting and the need to read!
Here are some links for you to check out more: (non-affiliated. just cause I love them)
Fathom Press- republishes rare and sought after horror and thriller books: https://fathompress.com/
Men's Adventure Library and Quarterly- publishes collections of forgotten fiction (sometimes from big names writing under a pseudonym like Robert Silverberg and Lawrence Block) from the men's adventure magazines of the 50s-70s, art books and has a magazine called the Men's Adventure Quarterly: https://www.menspulpmags.com/ and https://newtextureblog.blogspot.com/
Stark House- republishes classics of the golden era of genre fiction paperbacks along with new writers similar in style and non-fiction about the genres: https://starkhousepress.com/
Robert E Howard Foundation- THE place for fans of Robert E Howard. They republish mammoth collections of REH's writings; stories, letters, poems, articles. Books about REH by Howard scholars. They put on Howard Days festival in Cross Plains Texas and are currently raising money to save the Robert E Howard house: https://rehfoundation.org/ They also have a youtube channel with lots of great discussions:  @RobertE.HowardFoundation 
PulpFest- A yearly event held in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to celebrate all things pulp. They have panels, auctions, movies and a huge dealer room with pulp magazines, paperbacks, comics, movies, art and anything you can think of related. It is July 30th- Aug 2nd this year. Still time to sign up! https://pulpfest.com/
Valancourt Books- independent small press based in Richmond, Virginia, specializing in new editions of neglected classics, with an emphasis on horror/supernatural and LGBT literature: https://www.valancourtbooks.com/
Zines about vintage genre fiction:
Paperback Fanatic: https://a.co/d/02hsniDe
Paperback Parade (published by  @garylovisi357  ) https://www.ebay.com/str/gryphon209? 
Books about vintage genre fiction (there are so many more but here are a few that I love):
Sticking it to the Man: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1012
Girl Gangs, Biker Boys and Real Cool Cats: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=892
Justin Gifford- biographies on Eldridge Cleaver and Iceberg Slim. Pimping Fiction: the untold story of black pulp publishing. And soon the Samuel R Delaney book: https://www.justingifford.com/books
Bookery's Guide to Pulps: https://muraniapress.com/book/bookerys-guide-to-pulps-related-magazines/
Paperbacks from Hell: https://www.quirkbooks.com/9781594749810/paperbacks-from-hell/

A vintage noir novel that should have been a David Lynch movie.
A Killer's Kiss by Hal Ellson from 1959