Monday, October 26, 2015

A gallery of swamp lust pulp paperback book covers

A gallery of swamp lust pulp paperback book covers 

15 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

by the way, thanks much for your review of "The Machineries of Mars." I appreciate it.

Anonymous said...

The discovery and confiscation of Swamp Brat from a classmate in Mr Siciliano's math class at Byron Jr High was my initial acquaintance with this genre. I don't think it was being passed around for the gator scenes.
Art Scott

Don Coffin said...

I think I would have bought a book titled "Soft Whip of Passion," by one George H. Smith, even if it's not set in a swamp.

And 2 books titled "Swamp Girl"!

Unknown said...

35 years ago or so, I wrote a long article about backwoods and swamp novels for THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE. I used to have tear sheets of it, but they appear to be long lost.

Dan_Luft said...

The only one I read, Alter's Swamp Sister was a surprisingly good book. It was reprinted by Black Lizard in the 80s.

Unknown said...

I've read that one, too.

Jeff Meyerson said...

Whenever I think of this genre the first thing that comes to mind isn't a book but a movie, the classic GATOR BAIT with the late, lamented Claudia Jennings.

Yee-Ha!


Jeff

Don Coffin said...

Through the magic of the internet (specifically, Google Scholar), I give you "Sons of Tobacco Road: Backwoods Novels."

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1982.1603_47.x/abstract

Unknown said...

That's it, all right. Too bad they want money for the pdf.

Don Coffin said...

I'm going to look on JSTOR; if the journal is a part of that, I can get a pdf free...and send you a copy.

Unknown said...

I hope it works.

Don Coffin said...

JPopCulture is not one of the journals that one can access through JSTOR. Oh, well...I was looking forward to seeing the actual article.

Don Coffin said...

Hey, we could take up a collection. Send your pledge to me at doncoffin@aol.com. Once we have enough pledges, I'll buy a copy of Bill's article and send it to him (and to everyone who donates). Our goal is $38.

Dan_Luft said...

Make it $50 and we all can have a copy.

Don Coffin said...

Hey, if I get one copy--it's a pdf--I can send it to as many people as I like...Wiley (the publishers) might not like it, but how can they stop me?