Best of
Pulp

1972

Rod Serling's Night Gallery 2


Rod Serling - 1972
    Tinged with a taste of terror!"Collector's Items:" A lot of people want to get Augie Kolodney, the fattest, toughest racketeer in America; but no one wants to get and keep him the way Dr. Glendon, connoisseur of precious "one-of-a-kinds," does..."The Messiah on Mott Street:" As his grandfather lies dying, a little boy searches the ghetto for a miracle maker and finds a black mailman who is the true Messiah - or the Angel of Death..."The Different Ones:" Poor Victor, born helpless and deformed, tormented by children and adults alike... until he finds peace on a horror-filled planet."Lindemann's Catch:" The hardest fishing captain out of Boston ran his ship and his men with an iron hand; right up until the day he netted a monster..."Suggestion:" Harvey Hemple always wanted to be the life of the party - until he became the death of it...Tune in to more great tales of terror on Rod Serling's Night Gallery!

Shudders


Ross R. OlneyH.G. Wells - 1972
    BurrageUsed Car by H. R. WakefieldThe Inexperienced Ghost by H.G. WellsThe Whistling Room by William Hope HodgsonThe Last Drive by Carl JacobiThe Monkey's Paw by W.W. JacobsSecond Night Out by Frank Belknap LongThe Hills Beyond Furcy by Robert G. AndersonFloral Tribute by Robert Bloch

The Story of the Phantom


Lee Falk - 1972
    The origin of the current Phantom, growing up, going to school, then finally becoming the Phantom on the death of his father.

Twilight Candelabra


William J. Craddock - 1972
    A horror story and tight pornographic allegory concerned with a dark and absurdly disrespectful grope through circular Eternity in search of a paradoxical parapatterner of simplistic truth guarded by legions of "dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."

Midsummer Masque


Jill Tattersall - 1972
    Now destitute and alone, she came to the old mansion--Gryphons ... to fill the post of companion to the elderly Mrs Clune, mistress of the estate. -- It seemed the only road open to Rowena. The position meant a new home and a new family. Maybe even a little happiness. -- But Gryphons quickly showed itself as something other than gracious and charming. there was something sinister trapped in the house. A mysterious tension and foreboding that made Rowena feel like an intruder.Then, one day, Mrs Clune was found dead...murdered. Rowena no longer was an intruder. She was part of Gryphon's secret. And for her there seemed no escape.

Frank T's Plan


John Whitlatch - 1972
    had a painful score to settle. And his chance came when a jury freed the accused man, Martin Ballard. Lusting for vengence, Frank T set out on a daring hunt to bring his prey back alive. But there was another group of deslerate men who wanted Ballard dead. To get his man, he faced death and terror with only guts to get him through.

A Tide of Terror: An Anthology of Rare Horror Stories


Hugh Lamb - 1972
    The red lodge.--Morrow, W.C. His unconquerable enemy.--Brennan, J.P. On the elevator.--Benson, A.C. The closed window.--Benson, E.F. The step.--Benson, R.H. Father Brent's tale.--Birkin, C. Some new pleasures prove.--Lawrence, M. The dogs of Pemba.--Blackwood, A. Full circle.--Munby, A.N.L. The Tregannet Book of Hours.--Rohmer, S. The master of Hollow Grange.--Heriot, C.D. The trapdoor.--Mitford, B. The sign of the spider.--Bierce, A. Some haunted houses.--Beachcroft, T.O. The eyes.--Burke, T. Johnson looked back.--Scott, E. The twelve Apostles.--Walpole, Sir H. Mrs Lunt.

Dodgem Greaser


Frank Norman - 1972
    The dramatic release and independence of this life change are described in 'Dodgem Greaser' (1971) with kaleidoscopic brilliance and vigour; the urgency of his wild, half nervous grabs at life is matched the vivid and often vicious world in which he found himself.This was a world where you humped enormous beams to build the dodgem track in record time to get a bonus, where you sweated out the beer of the night before as you leaped between the dodgems short changing the customers, where townspeople spat at you and shut you out of their pubs, where the inevitable girls wating till the ground was closed were tumbled in the woods at night and left the next week; where among the prizefighters and bearded ladies and midgets, you found your own height and fought for it.'Dodgem Greaser' is a remarkable novel, full of insight and feeling; it establishes Frank Norman as one of the most natural writers of our time.

Echoes From An Iron Harp


Robert E. Howard - 1972
    

Lord Satan


Janet Louise Roberts - 1972
    Does she participate in satanic rituals and black masses or are they only horrifying dreams? Is her husband a witch with great powers at his command? And why does the ghost of Lord Satan's mother mournfully roam the halls of the castle?Desperately Adrienne sought the fearful truth, through shadows that concealed nightmarish terrors, in a world that cloaked dark unseen forces she was powerless to control....

Robopaths: People as Machines


Lewis Yablonsky - 1972
    Dehumanized by regimentation, bureaucratization, and indiscriminate violence, they are growing more numerous in today's society.

The Devil's Rider


Alex R. Stuart - 1972
    

Ironwood


Jennie Melville - 1972
    A window on a new world had opened to me. All the time I had been going about my life, cooking, choosing clothes, getting my hair washed, this wall of suspicion had been building up all around me. Without my knowing it, people had been considering me, weighing me up and finally concluding I could be a poisoner...Anna Barclay knew she was innocent. Others were not so certain. And someone in particular wanted to destroy her.But it wasn't until the night of the fire in her cottage that Anna realized someone wanted her out of the way.And so she ran to Ironwood, the home of her childhood.But even there there was no shelter. The one she most trusted was the person she had to fear.

Witch, Witch, Burning Bright


John W. Bloch - 1972
    Synopsis: Judith Eaton becomes convinced that her daughter, Damaris, is the avenging agent of an ancestor who was burned at the stake as a witch.Episode 8 Aired: March 11, 1972.

Blackwell's Ghost


Angela Gray - 1972
    As the lead in a Broadway play, her opening night was a complete success. But it was the dead author, Algernon Blackwell, who stole the show at the curtain call - when his ghost appeared and took a bow. And later, when Elaine took a few days' rest at Amber Hall, the desolate old mansion where Blackwell had written the play, the ghostly presence visited her in the night - screaming and attacking in murderous rage.Were the manifestations genuine - or a fraud? Was Blackwell actually alive and contriving a sinister plot? Alex Cooper, the attractive and brilliant young reporter, was certain that the ghost was unreal and was determined to prove it. But Elaine wasn't at all sure.All she really knew was that someone - or something - was trying to kill her...

The House of Broken Dolls


Dorothy Daniels - 1972
    Go away! You will die here if you do not!"The strange warning had come over the loud-speakers the moment I arrived at the Gibbons' chalet. Although they were visibly upset, neither my husband-to-be nor his relatives would tell me what the warning meant.The first chance I had, therefore, I went hunting for the tower room. In it was a breath-taking doll house, a miniature of the chalet. Beautifully made dolls represented each member of the household, and at first sight it was enchanting. But when my future mother-in-law found me studying it, she was furious. "It is ugly and portends evil and death," she said. "That's all you have to know. Stay away from it."

Who's That Lady in the President's Bed?


B.K. Ripley - 1972
    

The Curse of Quintana Roo


Matt Gardner - 1972
    American scientists, beautiful daughter and the "author" run afoul of a faux Mayan monster-god.A scientist, his gorgeous daughter and his handsome assistant find a priceless treasure, a curse and the unbelievable horror of the Living Dead. (front cover copy)Caught in the fiery grasp of the hell-creature Rahu...They stood transfixed, by the Well of the Sacrifice, helpless prisoners of The Curse of Quintana Roo, The Professor, his daughter Pam and his assistant, Matt, had come here to unravel the mystery of the Sacred Codex.Now, from under the earth, came the horrendous moans, and then they came, minions of the hell-creature Rahu - giant things, ten feet tall, bearing death in their clawlike hands... (back cover copy)

Jonny Quest's Adventure with the Secret Tunnel


Horace J. Elias - 1972
    

Hockey Star Nurse


Diana Douglas - 1972
    While staying at the old woman's home, the nurse finds herself falling in love with the old woman's two sons. Although very different from one another, both the sons have much to offer her. A quick but romantic novel for light reading.

A Castle in Canada


Caroline Farr - 1972
    From the moment lovely Darleen Tracy enters the Montaigne family chateau a sense of foreboding brushes like warning wings against her heart.She has come to the Chateau des Larmes expecting a romantic reunion with her fiance, Raoul Montaigne, and to meet his family for the first time. Instead she is greeted with cold resentment. The Montaingnes' hatred is heavy and concealed -- three of them will inherit a fortune is she and Raoul do not marry. To add to her distress, Raoul had vanished, a chilling mystery surrounding his disapperance.Dark undercurrents of menace pervade the old chateau and threaten to engulf Darleen. With mounting dread she realizes that her life is in danger. Then the secret shrouding Raoul's inheritance is revealed when a terrifying chase in the muskeg swamps climaxes in violence and shuddering horror...

The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers


Peter Haining - 1972
    K. Chesterton)The Call of Wings (Agatha Christie)The Cherries (Lawrence Durrell)A Man From Glasgow (Somerset Maugham)Earth to Earth (Robert Graves)The Grey Ones (J. B. Priestley)The Man Who Didn't Ask Why (C. S. Forester)All But Empty (Graham Greene)Animals or Human Beings (Angus Wilson)Something Strange (Kingsley Amis)The Post-Mortem Murder (Sinclair Lewis)The Dance (F. Scott Fitzgerald)A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner)The Bronze Door (Raymond Chandler)A Man Who Had No Eyes (MacKinlay Kantor)The Affair at 7 Rue de M-- (John Steinback)The Snail Watcher (Patricia Highsmith)Inferiority Complex (Evan Hunter)The Terrible Answer (Paul Gallico)Miriam (Truman Capote)Exterminator (William Burroughs)During the Jurassic (John Updike)