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Rebecca Baumann
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Incredible title, incredible cover. Might have to read this one. #DailyPaperback #Gothtober
Bethany’s Sin by Robert McCammon. Title in raised red foil in a swoopy art nouveau font. A white woman clutches the head of a black horse with red eyes.
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Rebecca Baumann
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A day late for the old beast’s birthday but not too late to be a #Gothtober #DailyPaperback
Moonchild by Aleister Crowley. Illustration of a white woman with long dark hair raising her hands in a blessing.
October 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM Everybody can reply
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Take your fingers out of your mouth, it’s time for SEXBOUND (1961), newest Pop Sensation paperback

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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
October 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Baumann
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Let’s get back to the #DailyPaperback and celebrate #Gothtober, starting with this paperback cut into the shape of a tombstone.
A Small Book of Grave Humor edited by Fritz Spiegl. Mass market paperback is cut into the shape of a tombstone.
October 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Baumann
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Challenging myself to stop buying duplicate books just because they have Elaine Duillo covers (just kidding I will never stop doing this). #DailyPaperback
Three copies of Warrior’s Woman by Johanna Lindsey. Cover is a painting of a white woman with dark hair in flowy lavender dress. She is being embraced by a muscular white man with long blonde hair, no shirt, and black leather pants. The background is pretty purples smattered with stars. The spines of the three books. The left spine has tons of creases and the other two have slightly fewer
September 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM Everybody can reply
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Put on your orgy boots and grab your fanciest red feather, it’s time for UNDRESS REHEARSAL, the newest Pop Sensation paperback

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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
September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Baumann
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Midwood’s Gay Library Editions are always interesting. I have no idea what this is about but I’m sure we all want to know why Chad and Bud are in that net. #DailyPaperback
More by Jay Greene. “Chad longed for Bud—to touch him and stroke him!” Photo of two naked white me. One is standing behind the other, with arms wrapped around him. They are both entangled in a blue net.
August 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM Everybody can reply
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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…]

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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
August 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Baumann
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Dell deemed the cover of the first printing of this mystery novel to be a bit too unzipped. Subsequent printings were altered to button her up. #DailyPaperback
Fools Die on Friday by A.A. Fair. On the left is a white man in a suit jacket and bow tie. On the right is a redheaded white woman whose green blouse is fully unbuttoned and who is zipping up (or off?) a skirt over waist-high white underwear. Same exact cover except the woman’s blouse is buttoned and her skirt zipped.
August 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM Everybody can reply
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Where does one even get chainmail underwear?! Find out (maybe) when you enter … THE TWILIGHT LUST (1965), newest Pop Sensation paperback

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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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Rebecca Baumann
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I finally got a copy of the only one of Ann Bannon’s novels that I haven’t read because it’s never been reprinted. Lesbian Laura enters a lavender marriage with her gay bff Jack but the novel is mostly about their accidentally incestuous married friends. #DailyPaperback
August 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Baumann
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Two new items for my satanic gothic collection, though it looks like Diabolus might be more of a spy thriller than a gothic. It’s got a great Jeffrey Catherine Jones cover though. #DailyPaperback
The Daughters of Astaroth by Sandra Shulman. “They were young and beautiful and belonged to the devil, body and soul.” Cover shows a red devil figure imposed over a blue-tinted photo of naked supine women. Diabolus by David St. John. A hooded figure with a blade stand sentinel while a naked woman runs from 3 men in loin cloths.
August 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Baumann
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The first Avon printing of Europa was deemed too risqué so later printings were given a “still-sexy-but-with-fewer-whips”makeover. #DailyPaperback
Europa by Robert Briffault. Cover depicts a nude woman with dark hair crying out as she is lashed with a whip wielded by a large bald man whose skin appears green in the light. Several men and women in evening dress gasp as they look on. A different cover for Europa, depicts blonde woman shown from the cleavage up. She is wearing a diamond necklace and tiara and possibly nothing else.
August 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM Everybody can reply
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Bare your midriff and unzip your jeans, it’s time to mount a full-scale SEDUCTION CAMPAIGN (1962), newest Pop Sensation paperback

#vintagepaperbacks #nymphomania #pulp #DailyPaperback

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Redhead with floral shirt tied above her belly button and her jeans slightly unzipped ogles someone out of frame while playing with a lantern (?)
August 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Baumann
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The runaway bestseller that launched the queer pulp era. A Fawcett Gold Medal paperback original, 1950. #DailyPaperback
Women’s Barracks by Teresa Torres. Several women in WWII era military uniforms in various states of undress in a locker room. A seated fully clothed woman looks lustfully at a young blonde in her pink bra.
August 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM Everybody can reply
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BABY DOLL MURDERS, James O. Causey (Gold Medal, 1957)

cover: Barye Phillips

Pop Sensation paperback no. 2

#DailyPaperback #marijuana #vintagepaperbacks

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Redhead woman on be in lingerie smoking while dopey not-even-colored-in guy looks on, trying to be suave 25c 698 GOLD MEDAL BOOK THE BABY DOLL MURDERS She could look like a wistful child and she loved to play games — such as murder, men and marijuana JAMES O. CAUSEY
August 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Baumann
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Yesterday we found a dead bat in the house so I had to scramble to find a vet that could get my cats in for rabies boosters on no notice. Never again going to let that lapse; just because they don’t go outside, doesn’t mean outside can’t come in. #DailyPaperback in honor of my good babies.
Cat’s Eye by William W. Johnstone. A blond woman holds a large baby with a cat’s face and tail. Some deeply uncanny valley shit happening here. Cat’s Cradle by William W. Johnstone. A human infant with a cat’s face lies in a cradle.
August 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM Everybody can reply
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Enter hell’s anteroom and share a smoke with … MERCEDES (1966), newest Pop Sensation paperback #DailyPaperback #vintagepaperbacks #bookcovers #pulp

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Paperback cover featuring woman on a large ottoman turning back to look at you while lighting a cigarette. She has an amazing updo and tight pink dress. Some loser is looking on. The room is a hell kind of red 4-CT MIDWOOD 33-714 MERCEDES She found there was more than one way to reach the top. CARL DEMARCO 60
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Rebecca Baumann
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I love the cover designs of the RAM-10 line from Hamilton House and I wish I had bought more back when I used to see them for reasonable prices. #DailyPaperback
Special Duty by Julian Mare. Photo of a white man in a suit with jacket slung over shoulder. Gun in holster is visible at his hip. Saddle Buddy by Tex Shulanski. Photo of white man, shirtless, in jeans, red bandana, and black cowboy hat. Hunk! By Dick Baldwin. Photo of shirtless white man in jeans with jacket slung over shoulder, gazing out at reader. Buck by Chad Stuart. White man with mustache wearing a plaid shirt and chaps.
August 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM Everybody can reply
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Don’t you hate it when you realize too late that you forgot to pack a watch *or* a shirt?!

Have a drink and a cigarette and forget your troubles with THE COMPANY SHE KEEPS (1955), newest Pop Sensation paperback #vintagepaperbacks #DailyPaperback

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Sad shirtless and watchless lady in train reflects on her life choices over whiskey (spilled?) and a cigarette (smoldering in the ashtray) DELL 800 K 824 The intimate affairs of Margaret Sargent- 25€ Her lives, loves, and disenchantments The Company She Keeps MARY McCARTHY
August 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Baumann
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As far as I know (and please correct me if I’m wrong!) the only pulp paperback to have been printed with fuzzy textured elements on the cover. #DailyPaperback
Two Much by Donald Westlake. Title is in pink fuzzy textured lettering. Two blonde white women are wearing bikinis made of the same pink fuzzy textured lettering and a white man in a suit lounges on the ground beneath them. Close up of the textured bikinis Close up of the fuzzy letters
August 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM Everybody can reply
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Inspired by @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social, in addition to posting new Pop Sensation paperbacks, I’m going to post a #DailyPaperback, highlighting books from the archives, starting with this beautiful Ace Double (D-27, 1953), the first pb I ever wrote about

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Gun in foreground pointing at man and woman huddled behind steering wheel ACE BOOKS TWO COMPLETE NOVELS 35G She Was Hard to Meet and Deadly to Know! DOUBLE TAKE An ACE Original by MEL COLTON Woman on ground next to tipped-over table and spilled cocktail clutches throat as she attempts to call someone on phone ACE DOUBLE NOVEL TWO COMPLETE NOVELS 35c D-27 "Plentiful Action, Good Characters, and Sinuous Plot... - Saturday Review of Literature the Fingered Man (QUOTH THE RAVENI BRUNO FISCHER Specially Edited Edition
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Rebecca Baumann
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One of my goals is to eventually make a checklist of carnival smut—there is a lot! Here are two fairly obscure ones. I have so many but they are scattered all over the place—one of these days i need to organize my damn pulps. #DailyPaperback
Sex circus by John Maggie. Black and white illustration of two buff circus performers. One is wearing only shots, boots, and a headband and might be a roustie. Or perhaps someone who performs feats of strength. The other is wearing only tiny briefs and is probably a trapeze artist. Skin Show by Paul Keller. The hot little babes on the carnival Midway knew all about men and beasts. Blonde white woman in pink dress sits on a bed with a tiger striped background behind her
August 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Baumann
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Remember that time Fran Lebowitz wrote a porno? No? Well, she did in 1971 under a pseudonym and this is it. I saw a copy at the NY fair for $1250 a few years ago and cried. Got it this week for $35. Patience & knowing where to look are everything in book collecting. #DailyPaperback
House of Leather by Jim Conway. Cover shows a photo of two white men. One has is naked back to us and is moaning in submissive pleasure. The other looks like one of Thulsa Doom’s henchmen and is wearing a leather vest and brandishing a cat o’ nine tales above the other man’s head.
August 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM Everybody can reply
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Rebecca Baumann
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Today’s #DailyPaperback is one that has been on my Abe Want list for about 5 years, since I first started to collect Satanic Gothics. Jensen has a lot of fans and apparently this is pretty good—I can’t wait to read it and find out what’s up with that suit and cane!
Child of Satan House by Ruby Jean Jensen. “Her dying mother told her she was someone else’s child.” Title is a beautiful Art Nouveau font. Cover illustration shows a young blond girl in what I can only describe as a pimp suit, leaning on a cane, with eyes gleaming with Satanic light. Behind her is a large house.
August 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM Everybody can reply
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