Friday, February 23, 2024

Now shipping: bare•bones #17

 


Inside the seventeenth issue of bare•bones, you will find:
  • Larry Blamire on the classic television heyday of the working class criminal
  • The Fugitive reimagined in print — reviewed by Tim Lucas
  • William Schoell follows Craig Stevens in Man of the World
  • Exhuming Federico Curiel’s Nostradamus cycle with Derek Hill
  • Randall D. Larson on his early life as a fanzine publisher
  • Four paperback originals by Marvin H. Albert explored by J. Charles Burwell
  • Peter Enfantino downs another Six-Pack of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
  • Destination: Santa Barbara in Duane Swierczynski’s Field Guide to L.A. Pulp
  • S. Craig Zahler reviews two pair of titles from Marvin H. Albert and Ben Haas
  • Fresh filth is unearthed in Sleaze Alley by Peter Enfantino
  • David J. Schow on the origin of the Splatterpunk Awards
  • And you’ll find Bats in Your Belfry in John Scoleri’s Monster Gallery
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bare•bones #17 - Winter 2024
Publication Date: February 22, 2024
Suggested Retail Price: $9.95
Trade Paperback - 108 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8871277881
Dimensions: 6 x 0.27 x 9 inches

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Friday, January 5, 2024

Now shipping: Selected Poems by John Farris


Cimarron Street Books is pleased to bring you the selected poems of award-winning author John Farris.

The photo of John Farris (at age 21) on the cover of Selected Poems was taken in May of 1958, three weeks before his graduation from Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College) and four weeks after the sale of his novel Harrison High, which became a multi-million copy best-seller, establishing a successful dual career for Mr. Farris as a novelist and writer-producer-director of films.

In its scope, ambition, and achievement, this volume of 158 selected poems illuminates an astonishing third career of the prolific author, of which nothing was known until now.

Of his poetry, Mr. Farris writes, “I realize that many poets would rather be accused of tax evasion or spousal abuse than to be considered other than ‘very serious artists.’ High seriousness will always have its place in poetry. But it isn’t beneath us to be entertaining while examining, subversively perhaps, certainly with a satirical eye, the social and political mores of the age in which we live.

Selected Poems by John Farris
Publication Date: January 4, 2024
Suggested Retail Price: $16.95
Trade Paperback - 334 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8871029732
Dimensions: 6 x 0.84 x 9 inches

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Saturday, December 9, 2023

Now shipping: The Wild World of Two-Fisted Detective, Mystery and Terror Digests by Peter Enfantino


Manhunt Magazine defined crime fiction in the 1950s. A monthly blast of violence and sex that sold millions of copies, Manhunt paved the way for a new age of literary mystery and crime that’s celebrated to this day. A veritable icon of quality.

Yeah, so what? That particular venue has been lauded and revered and mined for material for decades. It’s time to move on and see the forest for the trees. And, as you’ll soon find out, there were other outlets to lay your hat on if you were a murder and mayhem buff. Enter the low-rent crime digests, stuffed full of bursting brassieres and bloody shivs, with only one goal in mind: fill those pages!

With garish covers featuring scantily clad heroines and sadistic prison guards and titles such as Terror Detective, Two-Fisted Detective, Web Terror, and Shock Mystery Tales, you just knew you were in the right place. And some of the names on the contents page were familiar: Donald E. Westlake, Robert Silverberg, Lawrence Block, Harlan Ellison. Some were not: Flip Lyons, Art Crockett, Grover Brinkman, Dan Sontup. Both species of writers were equally responsible for what makes the sleazy crime digests so beloved.

Within these digests, you’ll encounter such unique individuals as: a drug pusher named Fang; a mafia hitman and his leprous girlfriend; the mad magician whose act may be a little too realistic; the psychiatrist whose previous position at a Nazi prison camp may be detrimental to his practice; and hundreds more.

In The Wild World of Two-Fisted Detective, Mystery and Terror Digests, Peter Enfantino has compiled a complete story-by-story guide to four of the most eccentric, perverted, and violent crime digests ever published

So put that tattered copy of the May 1952 Manhunt to the side and enter a world where there were no limits.

Peter Enfantino is the author of The Manhunt Companion (Stark House Press), an exhaustive story-by-story discussion of the greatest crime magazine of all time. He was an editor of The Scream Factory (1988 - 1997) and bare•bones (1997 - 2001, 2020 - present). He is an obsessive collector of crime, horror, and western digests, and has written for all the major channels on the topics, including Paperback Parade, Mystery Scene, and The Digest Enthusiast. He lives in a sleaze alley known as Gilbert, Arizona.

Praise for The Manhunt Companion:

The story annotations are concise and well-written, and reflect a consistent critical standard . . . Enfantino is a tough, sometimes idiosyncratic critic.
— Jon L. Breen, Mystery Scene

The Manhunt Companion is not only a must for readers and collectors of the magazine, but for anyone interested in cutting-edge noir fiction of the 50s and early 60s.
— Bill Pronzini


The Wild World of Two-Fisted Detective, Mystery and Terror Digests by Peter Enfantino
Publication Date: December 9, 2023
Suggested Retail Price: $14.95
Trade Paperback - 138 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8867838393
Dimensions: 6 x 0.35 x 9 inches

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Monday, November 27, 2023

Now shipping: bare•bones #16


Inside the sixteenth issue of bare•bones, you will find:
  • Victoria Timpanaro provides her perspective on the evolution of fandom
  • Exploring Outrage in The Dakotas with Larry Blamire
  • J. Charles Burwell digs into George P. Pelecanos’ DC Quartet
  • The Cinema of Alistair MacLean examined by Derek Hill
  • William Schoell studies Professor Quatermass in Films and on Television
  • Mike Shayne’s Mystery Magazine Part Two by Peter Enfantino
  • Duane Swierczynski’s Field Guide to L.A. Pulp tracks down Paul Cain
  • Just another day hanging out in Sleaze Alley with Peter Enfantino
  • David J. Schow gets the Word on the Street in his latest R&D column
  • A weird, wiggly peek inside John Scoleri’s Monster Gallery

bare•bones #16 - Fall 2023
Publication Date: November 27, 2023
Suggested Retail Price: $9.95
Trade Paperback - 108 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8864587034
Dimensions: 6 x 0.27 x 9 inches

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Sunday, September 10, 2023

Now shipping: bare•bones #15

 


Inside the fifteenth issue of bare•bones, you will find:
  • William Schoell spies on John Drake: Danger Man, Secret Agent, and The Prisoner!
  • A nostalgic primer on Movie Monster Bubble Gum Cards by Gary Gerani
  • Craig Miller reminisces about marketing John Carpenter’s The Thing
  • Mike Shayne’s Mystery Magazine — the early years analyzed by Peter Enfantino
  • Stefan Dziemianowicz unearths the contents of Monster Parade & Monsters and Things
  • Duane Swierczynski’s Field Guide to L.A. Pulp rounds up the Cowboy Detective, Charlie Siringo
  • Marvel’s Haunt of Horror: The end of an era exorcised by Peter Enfantino
  • Tim Lucas on the unproduced scripts for The Wolf Man vs. Dracula & Dracula’s Daughter
  • Peter Enfantino' Sleaze Alley reviews
  • In his latest R&D, David J. Schow explores the authors of The Outer Limits
  • John Scoleri spotlights some puzzling vintage monster merchandise in his Monster Gallery

bare•bones #15 - Summer 2023
Publication Date: September 8, 2023
Suggested Retail Price: $9.95
Trade Paperback - 110 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8856413341
Dimensions: 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches

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Monday, August 21, 2023

Now Shipping: DJSTURBIA by David J. Schow

DJSturbia is home to monsters.

All kinds of monsters, from skyscraper-sized Godzilla (twice!) to the microscopic space germ known as the Andromeda Strain.

Monsters human and inhuman, from fictional psycho killers to the real-life terrorists of 9/11.

Lovecraftian horrors. Extraterrestrial insects. Giant serpents. Gargoyles and ghosts. Gunfighters and assassins. The battlefield monstrosities known as Warbirds, the alien invaders called Black Widowers, and ― oh, yes ― a little critter named Bob.

Classic monsters lurk here, too: That Creature from That Lagoon. That Thing from Another World. Monsters living, monsters dead . . . and in-between.

David J. Schow’s newest collection features his usual lucky thirteen short stories ― shoot ‘em ups, horror noir, and surprises aplenty ― plus, for the first time, a poison-candy sampler of thirteen additional essays covering everything from The Crow to live snake-handling.

A World Fantasy Award winner for short fiction, DJS has come to escort you into the dark suburbs of his imagination ― DJSturbia.

DAVID J. SCHOW — DJS — has authored novels, collections, TV shows, movies, comics, and nonfiction including editorials, columns, intros, outros, flap copy and audio commentaries. DJSturbia is his twelfth title in Cimarron Street’s massive reprint program of his body of work. Collect ‘em all! 



Full contents include:

FICTION
Now Hold Still
The Last Song You Hear
Graveside
Denker’s Book
Blue Amber
A Home in the Dark
A Gunfight
The Finger
Two Scoops
Three Missing Footnotes from the Bad Time
The Ghosting
The Chili Hunters 
Warbirds

NON-FICTION
“After 9/11” 
“Bloodstock” 
“Death to Decaf!” 
“Thirty-Eight Days Later” 
“Why You’ll Never See Crow Chronicle”
“The Traps of Nostalgia” 
“The Mulholland Muse” 
“We Have Always Fought Giant Monsters” 
“Two More Scoops . . . of Cinema” 
  (1) “It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got that Thing”
  (2) “Back to Andromeda” 
“The Dream of a Masked Man”
“Catacombs” (introduction) 
“Faux-God of the Mouse Haus”
Afterwordia





DJSturbia by David J. Schow
Publication Date: August 8, 2023
Suggested Retail Price: $16.95
Trade Paperback - 372 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8421434702
Dimensions: 6 x 0.93 x 9 inches

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Monday, June 19, 2023

Now Shipping: THE OUTER LIMITS AT 60 by David J. Schow

There is nothing wrong with your television set . . . Join Outer Limits expert David J. Schow on a 60th Anniversary exploration of things old, things new, and things to come for the all-time classic TV series. Still going strong in the streaming age and with no fewer than four Blu-Ray incarnations, The Outer Limits has withstood the ravages of time and taste to remain essential viewing for fans of the unknown, the mystical, the different, and — dare we say it? — the outré!

David J. Schow is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of numerous novels, collections, TV shows, movies, comics and nonfiction — including The Outer Limits Companion and The Outer Limits at 50.

"An invaluable sourcebook on one of the best — and weirdest — shows in TV history."

Publishers Weekly on The Outer Limits Companion

Order your copy today — Available in both hardcover and paperback!

The Outer Limits at 60 
Publication Date: June 19, 2023
Suggested Retail Price: $30
Hardcover - 130 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8395746504 
Dimensions: 6 x 0.49 x 9 inches

The Outer Limits at 60 
Publication Date: June 19, 2023
Suggested Retail Price: $20
Trade Paperback - 130 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8388243157 
Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches

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