Best of
Pulp

1965

The Ghost of Dibble Hollow


May Nickerson Wallace - 1965
    "I've been waiting a long time for you to come to Dibble Hollow, Cousin," he tells Pug. "Now you must help me find that lost money."From that moment on the ghostly Miles leads Pug from one spooky adventure to another.All the while he follows the clues to the weirdest treasure hunt with the ghost of Dibble Hollow.

Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure


Richard A. Lupoff - 1965
    Survey of the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, including books that may have influenced Burroughs and the writers influenced by Burroughs.

The Mistress of Falcon Hill


Dorothy Daniels - 1965
    A Search for Her Past.When pretty Amy Dalton arrived at Falcon Hill to reunite with her family, the eerie magnificence of the old plantation hung over her like a sinister shroud.How had her sister mysteriously disappeared? Why did her mother refuse to recognize her? What were the ghostly sounds that terrorized her nights?Even the thrill of a new romance seemed threatened with disaster as Amy's every move was shadowed by those determined to bury forever the horrifying secret of Falcon Hill.

Snowfall and Other Chilling Events


Elizabeth Walter - 1965
    Contents7 • Snowfall • (1965) • novelette by Elizabeth Walter43 • The New House • (1965) • novelette by Elizabeth Walter71 • The Tibetan Box • (1965) • short story by Elizabeth Walter89 • The Island of Regrets • (1965) • novelette by Elizabeth Walter125 • The Drum • (1965) • novelette by Elizabeth Walter

Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak


Clifford D. Simak - 1965
    Includes:Founding Father (1957)Immigrant (1954)New Folks' Home (1963)Crying Jag (1960)All the Traps of Earth (1960)Lulu (1957)Neighbor (1954)

The Addams Family


Jack Sharkey - 1965
    Sometimes they have a guest, sometimes another delicacy...And while they eat, Lurch lumbers ponderously about from room to room dusting the furniture--it usually takes nearly thirty buckets.

Sadism in the Movies


George de Coulteray - 1965
    

Verse by the Side of the Road: The Story of the Burma-Shave Signs and Jingles


Frank Rowsome Jr. - 1965
    All 600 of the roadside rhymes are indexed.

The Adventure of the Orient Express


August Derleth - 1965
    Dr Parker is returning to London from a medical conference in Prague when he receives an urgent telegram from Pons. He is to make the acquaintance of Baron Egon Von Ruber aboard the Orient Express and do whatever the German says. It’s 1938 and soon Dr Parker finds himself surrounded by sinister foreign agents, dead bodies, and familiar figures from detective fiction — all searching for microfilm detailing Germany’s secret plan to invade Poland.

Shindai: The Art of Japanese Bed-Fighting


Ellen Schumaker - 1965
    "Japanese bedroom secrets at last revealed! The ancient exotic art that women have to master to gain a togetherness with their menfolk that must be the envy of the West. Curious illicit hours that have been the zealously guarded secrets of the Shindai Mistresses of Japan".

The Year of Janie's Diary


Donna Balcombe - 1965
    

Our Man From Sadisto


Clyde Allison - 1965
    Follow him as he embarks on the most dangerous mission of his career — to ravish his way through hundreds of pretty girls at the lair of a madman. Thus might the world be saved by — Our Man From SADISTOCovert art by Robert Bonfils.

Beat Nymph


Peggy Swenson - 1965
    "Lana was a swinging chick, reckless and uninhibited -- but she was unprepared for the overwhelming torrent of depravity which engulfed her in the beatnik colony."Fred Fixler cover art

The Magic Man and Other Science-Fantasy Stories


Charles Beaumont - 1965
    Don Congdon, Dell, 1957 31 · The Last Caper · ss F&SF Mar ’54 42 · The New People [as by Michael Phillips] · ss Rogue Aug ’58 63 · The Vanishing American · ss F&SF Aug ’55 74 · The Monster Show · ss Playboy May ’56 81 · The Magic Man · ss Night Ride and Other Journeys, Bantam, 1960 101 · A Classic Affair · ss Playboy Dec ’55 115 · The Hunger · ss Playboy Apr ’55 130 · Black Country · ss Playboy Sep ’54 152 · The Love-Master [as by S. M. Tenneshaw] · ss Rogue Feb ’57 162 · The Dark Music · ss Playboy Dec ’56 177 · Fair Lady · ss The Hunger and Other Stories, Putnam, 1957 183 · Perchance to Dream · ss Playboy Oct ’58 192 · The Crooked Man · ss Playboy Aug ’55 201 · Open House · ss The Hunger and Other Stories, Putnam, 1957 213 · Last Rites · ss If Oct ’55 228 · The Murderers · ss Esquire Feb ’55 241 · A Death in the Country [“The Deadly Will to Win”] · ss Playboy Nov ’57 257 · Afterword · Richard Matheson · aw

Dark Cypress


Edwina Noone - 1965
    But her charge, Todd Hawk, was a strange and frightened child, obsessed with guilt for his brother Oliver's death.Todd's handsome, tormented father, Arthur Hawk, had banished all trace of Oliver from his home -- but someone in the household was dedicated to keeping the boy's memory alive.Swept up by emotions she could not control, Stella fought desperate to solve the mystery behind Oliver's death -- only to find herself an unwanted intruder, prey to the evil that haunted Hawk House...

Somewhere a Voice


Eric Frank Russell - 1965
    SOMEWHERE A VOICE is a book worthy of the brilliant talents of the author of THE SPACE WILLIES and SENTINELS FROM SPACE.Contents:Somewhere A VoiceU-TurnSeat of OblivionTielineDisplaced PersonDear DevilI Am Nothing

Worlds of Weird


Leo Margulies - 1965
    Howard, Edmond Hamilton, Clark Ashton Smith, David H. Keller, and Frank Belknap Long.With an introduction by Sam Moskowitz.Selected by Leo Margulies.Contents:9 · The Forgotten Creator of Weird Tales · Sam Moskowitz · in 15 · Roads · Seabury Quinn · nv Weird Tales Jan ’38 49 · The Valley of the Worm [James Allison (past lives of)] · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales Feb ’34 81 · The Sapphire Goddess · Nictzin Dyalhis · nv Weird Tales Feb ’34 103 · He That Hath Wings · Edmond Hamilton · nv Weird Tales Jul ’38 127 · Mother of Toads · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales Jul ’38 135 · The Thing in the Cellar · David H. Keller, M.D. · ss Weird Tales Mar ’32 153 · Giants in the Sky · Frank Belknap Long · ss Weird Tales Aug ’39

The Great Race


Marvin H. Albert - 1965
    The movie-tie in novelization by Albert from the screenplay written by Blake Edwards.It's a wild, riotous turn-of-the-century steeplechase with lovers on wheels, villains at the heels, and cigar smoking suffragettes on the rampage.

The Hardboiled Dicks


Ron Goulart - 1965
    Still very much with us in nearly every style of contemporary writing, the tough detective school is a mixture of cynicism, violence, native American pragmatism and heroic poetry. The early pulp magazine had untrimmed edges and a lurid, four-color cover. It was a training ground for writers who went on to dominate the fields of Western, suspense and action writing and particularly the mystery-detective field.In many senses, the characters who emerged from the pulp mystery pages represented the last stronghold of individuality in a country that was plunged into the depression. Here, then, is an anthology of representative stories taken from the great, driving forces in pulp detective fiction: Black Mask, Dime Detective, and Detective Fiction Weekly. They represent the work being done in the 20's and 30's and are offered here as more than a nostalgic look at the past. They are offered as prototypes of one of the most popular fiction types ever developed.

If This Goes On


Charles NuetzelMarion Zimmer Bradley - 1965
    E. van Vogt•The Racer by Ib Melchior•"All the Troubles of the World" by Isaac Asimov (variant of All the Troubles of the World)•Friends and Enemies by Fritz Leiber•No Land of Nod by Sherwood Springer•A Very Cultured Taste by Charles Nuetzel [as by George Frederic]•The Mute Question by Forrest J. Ackerman•The Homo Sap by Charles Nuetzel•Aquella by Donald A. Wollheim (variant of The Planet Called Aquella)•The Climbing Wave by Marion Zimmer Bradley•Your Life In "1977" essay by Willy Ley [as by Willie Ley]•Preposterous by Fredric Brown

The Girl from Outer Space


Carter Brown - 1965
    Kathy was girl of many talents, none of which included chaperoning. Naturally, she flubbed the job she was hired for. Naturally, The Girl from Outer Space got away. And naturally, Rick Holman has a helluva new challenge on his hands!