Sunday, January 24, 2021

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Spicy Mystery Stories, January 1936


This cover by H.L. Parkhurst is pretty lurid and bizarre even by Spicy pulp standards . . . but it sure catches the eye, doesn't it? Inside are stories by the usual top-notch suspects: two by Robert Leslie Bellem (as himself and as by Jerome Severs Perry), two by Edwin Truett Long (as Cary Moran and Mort Lansing), two by E. Hoffmann Price (as himself and as by Hamlin Daly), Hugh B. Cave (as Justin Case), Colby Quinn, and Charles A. Baker Jr., who may or may not have been real. It's pretty easy to see why most of the Spicy pulps were sold under the counter back in 1936, no matter how tame they may seem today.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

"Justin Case"??

James Reasoner said...

Yep. Cave used it on the 50 or 60 stories he wrote for various Spicy pulps.