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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · 7d

I screamed at the screen many times because there is NO way anyone who loved vintage paperbacks, let alone a rare book dealer, would handle them the way Ethan Hawke does in this movie. Just bending covers & cracking spines left and right, like they’re 2-dollar beaters, ugh! Also … wtf is this??

Hawke torturing TEXAS BY THE TAIL but the pages are cut wrong???

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · 7d

I gasped

(THE LOWDOWN, 2025, ep. 1)

Spines of vintage paperbacks, mostly Jim Thompson

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · 12d

Solve the Case of the Mysterious Stench with … MR. PARKER PYNE, DETECTIVE (1951), newest Pop Sensation paperback #vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Man escorting lady out of a fire (?)

25€
DELL BOOK
550
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Across Europe to the Orient, danger follows
MR. PARKER PYNE
DETECTIVE
COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED:

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · 19d

Leave a well-dressed corpse ✅—it’s MURDER AT HAZELMOOR (1957), newest Pop Ssnsation paperback

#pulp #vintagepaperbacks

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Dead body on carpet, from the shins down

DELL
937
Agatha
25€
Christie Murder at Hazelmoor

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · 27d

I keep reading Edgelord Dies and thinking, “cool” … but no, it’s LORD EDGWARE DIES (1962), newest Pop Sensation paperback #pulp #vintagepaperbacks

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Cover of LORD EDGWARE DIES

Lady in wide brimmed black hat and black veil

Britain's Queen of Crime
Agatha Christie
Lord Edgware Dies
Fontana Books | 2/6

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mlex @mlex.bsky.social · Oct 6

the artist, Clement Micarelli, after painting masterpieces like the cover for Sexbound, retired from commercial art in 1971 and later painted many ultra-conservative Christian artworks featuring Jesus and the usual tableaux. alas!
more info about Sexbound: pulpinternational.com/pulp/entry/c...

MOTEL 69 - Pulp International

Any sport in a storm.

pulpinternational.com

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Oct 4

Take your fingers out of your mouth, it’s time for SEXBOUND (1961), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#DailyPaperback #pulp #vintagepaperbacks

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Cover of SEXBOUND (1961) —coy blonde sucks fingers on bed

846CF
SEyboUN
By DEAN McCOY
IF YOU DARE - SHARE THE EXCITEMENT OF THESE COUPLES TRAPPED IN A COZY MOTEL-ISOLATED BY STORM, BY SEDUCTION, AND BY
THEIR OWN UTTER LACK OF MORALITY ...!
A NOVEL STRANGE, SAVAGE AND WHOLLY FRANK - GRAPPLING WITH THE PROBLEMS OF INFIDELITY CREATED BY AMERICA'S ROADSIDE INNS

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David Hyman @davidhyman.bsky.social · Sep 27

The Turret Room by Charlotte Armstrong (Charlotte Armstrong Lewi) (Fawcett Crest T1317, 1965). Cover Art by Harry Bennett. #TheTurretRoom #CharlotteArmstrong #1960s #book #books #paperback #coverart #cover #artwork #HarryBennett #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers #FawcettCrest

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Sep 26

Overwhelmed by arithmetic?! Start easy with … TEN PLUS ONE (1964), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Cover of TEN PLUS ONE by Ed McBain

B&W Photo of man on urban sidewalk in gray suit recoiling like he’s been shot and man in black suit trying to help him

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Sep 26

Dear Diary, let me tell you about … CASSIDY’S GIRL (1954), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Cover of CASSIDY’S GIRL (1955)

Dark haired woman lying on bed in foreground, dude w back turned and hands in pocket in background

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Sep 21

Sixth time’s the charm! It’s SIX TIMES DEATH (1948), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#pulp #vintagepaperbacks

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Silhouettes of firemen putting out house fire while giant head of lady apparently made of fire floats above them

POPULAR LIBRARY
STORIES OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
137
SIX TIMES
DEATH
WILLIAM IRISH
"WELL WORTHY OF THE ATTENTION OF ALL LOVERS OF GOOD SHORT STORIES!
NEW YORK TIMES

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Sep 16

Put on *all* your lingerie and run away from … the STRANGLER’S SERENADE (1952), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperback #pulp

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Cover of STRANGLER’S SERENADE—Lady in a shit ton of lingerie running up stairs from a guy in a gray suit, hat and red tie

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Sep 12

When the hotels are full up in Graft Town, head on over to … CORRUPTION CITY (1959), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Cover of CORRUPTION CITY—man in fedora menacing woman against a brick wall backdrop

- 25°
RST
ITION
Corruption
The hoods owned the town
—and they'd stop at nothing to keep it
By HORACE McCOY

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Sep 10

Put on your orgy boots and grab your fanciest red feather, it’s time for UNDRESS REHEARSAL, the newest Pop Sensation paperback

#DailyPaperback #vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Bored blonde in shiny black leather boots and nothing else sits in a cheap chair looking bored and holding what appears to be a red feather

SCL/S95265 95¢ MAC
Undress Rehearsal
The amateur play turned on every sexy woman in town. What an orgy!
John Carver

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Sep 10

Put on your orgy boots and grab your fanciest red feather, it’s time for UNDRESS REHEARSAL, the newest Pop Sensation paperback

#DailyPaperback #vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Sep 5

She’d have to be impervious to pain to sit on that horrific scratchy bedspread for any length of time… it’s IMPERVIOUS TO PAIN (1972), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Orange-pantied lady vaguely menaces nightgowned lady with a cat o nine tails

V-1070- T
$1.95
IMPERVIOUS TO PAIN by David Malcolm

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Sep 4

Amazing catch

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Sep 4

When you have spent WAY too much of your life knee-deep in midcentury sleaze… 👋

Trash Fiction Championship @trashmenace.bsky.social · Sep 2

Think this is the same model as Commie Sex Trap

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Sep 2

The exciting new story of a woman who couldn’t keep her trap shut! (That’s my theory, anyway.) It’s … WOMAN TRAP (1962), newest Pop Sensation paperback #vintagepaperbacks #pulp

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Smiling Blonde on quilt on bed. Front cover of…

Woman Trap.
She was the kind of creature that convulsed into a sea of rippling heated waves, thrashing and
squirming as if she hadn't had a man in years, when the truth was that the more she made love, the wilder she became.

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Aug 30

Got flagged with a “sensitive content warning” for this one, despite the fact that it’s no more “sensitive” than many other contents I’ve contented, sigh. I hate this prudish algorithmic world.

Anyway, TORMENTED BRIDE (1965)!

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Curvy lady struts through bar, past the approving gaze of many female onlookers

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Aug 30

Got flagged with a “sensitive content warning” for this one, despite the fact that it’s no more “sensitive” than many other contents I’ve contented, sigh. I hate this prudish algorithmic world.

Anyway, TORMENTED BRIDE (1965)!

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Aug 24

Calling all comers (!!). Your presence is requested by … ANGELINA (1964), newest Pop Sensation paperback

[Was this written by *the* Irving “Swifty” Lazar? Probably not. But I can dream…]

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp #DailyPaperback #vintagesleaze

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ANGIELINA
by Irving Lazar

(Creepy Photo of man embracing woman, his face hidden behind hers; she looks dead into the camera)

She was eager and ready for all comers-male or female who would fall into her web of unspeakable lust and unnatural desire.
FB 95c

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Aug 21

Where does one even get chainmail underwear?! Find out (maybe) when you enter … THE TWILIGHT LUST (1965), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #lesbian #pulp #dailypaperback

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Woman in terrible 60s blonde wig and chainmail underwear crosses her arms defiantly behind a ratty houseplant

RL 105 95c
ABULTS ONLY
SHE WAS USED BY MEN BUT SHE YEARNED FOR THE ARMS OF WOMEN
The
TWILIGHT LUST
By VAL ARDEN
THIS IS AN
ORIGINAL, ROYAL LINE BOOK'

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Pop Sensation @popsensation.bsky.social · Aug 19

Boy … oh boy! It’s CALL BOY (1963), the newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #pulp #paperbackcovers #vintagesleaze #sexworkers #bisexuals #queer

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Cover of CALL BOY—two shirtless dude in black shorts enthusiastically approach a naked redhead in a bed covered with very convenient hair and cash

IT WAS MEN FOR RENT IN THIS LUST RACKET!
CALL BOY
By TONY CALVIN
60¢
EB 907
AN EMBER BOOK

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