Now shipping: BRIDE OF SLEAZE ALLEY by Peter Enfantino in FULL COLOR!

 

Cimarron Street Books is pleased to bring you the next volume of Peter Enfantino's Annotated Guide to Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks!

SLOPPY SECONDS . . .

. . . were never this tasty! Sleaze Alley has always been the place to come (!) for your entertainment needs, never moreso than now. With the price of vintage adult fiction skyrocketing on the secondhand market, one needs a guiding hand before dumping a C-note on a book that’s not worth opening. What’s your kink? Busty blonde militants with machine guns? We got that inside. Jazz Man in Nudetown? He’s on the bill. Nymphos? Lesbians? Psychopaths? Cross-dressers? We got boatloads of ‘em. Peter Enfantino takes you down into the sin basement for another heaping helping of naughtiness from publishers such as Gaslight, Nightstand, Monarch, Midwood, Sundown Reader, and lots more. Over 100 reviews — over half original to this volume — of forbidden work by such giants as Donald E. Westlake, Evan Hunter, Lawrence Block, Harry Whittington and Robert Silverberg. Full color covers and a nifty rating system help you determine just what’s worth your time and money when you venture down the . . .

. . . SLEAZE ALLEY!

The author refuses to be photographed without disguise. Adult fiction is not a genre to take lightly. There are risks. Peter Enfantino is sure the feds are following him (a guy who looked uncannily like J. Edgar came to the door the other night, supposedly selling aluminum siding); his family has received death threats (well, maybe not death, but the HOA called about the tree stump in the yard); and his house (literally) has bugs. When Enfantino is not drooling over his latest Greenleaf acquisition, he co-edits bare•bones and oversees the Sleaze Alley imprint. He is the author of The Manhunt Companion (Stark House Press), The Wild World of Two-Fisted Detective, Mystery and Terror Digests, The Wild World of Off Beat Detective, Crime and Sleaze Digests, and the forthcoming The Wild World of Guilty and Trapped. He lives in a sleaze alley in Gilbert, Arizona with a saucy broad named Paula.

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Bride of Sleaze Alley: The Annotated Guide to Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks Volume Two by Peter Enfantino

Publication Date: October 7, 2026

Suggested Retail Price: $30

Full Color Trade Paperback - 144 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8178196281

Dimensions: 6 x 0.34 x 9 inches

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Now shipping: bare•bones #27

 

INSIDE OUR LATEST ISSUE YOU WILL FIND:

• William Schoell rounds up Robert Taylor’s Detectives
• The Most Dangerous Bond in the crosshairs of Bryan Kuriawa
• Larry Blamire on how he saved Tina Louise —and more!
• Celebrating Peter Watkins’ Privilege by Douglas E. Winter
• Stephen R. Bissette explores the secret origins of The Green Slime!
• Another six-pack of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine by Peter Enfantino
• S. Craig Zahler on great graphic novels, Tolkien, and the best of Star Trek
• A spotlight on Robert Silverberg in Peter Enfantino’s Sleaze Alley
• David J. Schow takes us to Bronson Cave in his latest R&D

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bare•bones #27 - Summer 2026

Publication Date: August 9, 2026

Suggested Retail Price: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 110 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8184294346

Dimensions: 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches

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Now Shipping: Expanding Suspense: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and the Stories That Shaped It by Jack Seabrook

Cimarron Street Books is thrilled to bring you Expanding Suspense — your comprehensive guide to all three seasons of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963-1965); exploring each episode from the perspective of the story that inspired it. Hitchcock expert Jack Seabrook digs into the original source material and details how it compares to the filmed result. This is an indispensable companion to the classic television series. All 93 hour-long episodes are covered, featuring stories by the likes of Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, John D. MacDonald, Richard Matheson, Henry Slesar, Cornell Woolrich, and more!

Jack Seabrook is the author of Martians And Misplaced Clues: The Life & Work Of Fredric Brown, Stealing Through Time: On the Writings of Jack Finney, Sources of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the Stories That Shaped It and is a leading contributor to the bare•bones e-zine blog, where his Alfred Hitchcock Project was launched. He lives in Hopewell, New Jersey, with his wife Lorraine.

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Expanding Suspense: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and the Stories That Shaped It by Jack Seabrook

Publication Date: July 5, 2026

Suggested Retail Price: $24.95

Trade Paperback - 242 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8184295022

Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.55 x 11 inches

Publication Date: July 5, 2026

Suggested Retail Price: $39.95

Hardcover - 242 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8259034860

Dimensions: 8.49 x 0.74 x 11.24 inches

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Now shipping: bare•bones #26

INSIDE OUR LATEST ISSUE YOU WILL FIND:

• We go on a Dangerous Assignment with William Schoell
• J. Charles Burwell explores four early Dell First Editions
• Star of Filipino-American films, Ken Metcalfe, remembered by Steve Mason
• John LeMay excavates Mackenna’s Gold on page and screen
• The Boston Blackie Casebook presented by Tim Lucas
• Stephen Laws on his close encounter with “The Beast of Bodmin Moor”
• The nightmare world of Doctor Death uncovered by Robert Deveau
• Stephen R. Bissette takes on the POV of the audience as killer
• Poe’s “The Black Cat” and the Italian Horror Film by Douglas E. Winter
• Peter Enfantino opens another six-pack of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
• More lust than you can shake a . . . stick at . . . down Peter Enfantino’s Sleaze Alley
• David J. Schow bids farewell to the mass-market paperback in his latest R&D

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bare•bones #26 - Spring 2026

Publication Date: May 6, 2026

Suggested Retail Price: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 110 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8259294318

Dimensions: 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches

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Now Shipping: Sources of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the Stories That Shaped It by Jack Seabrook

Cimarron Street Books is thrilled to bring you Sources of Suspense — your comprehensive guide to all seven seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962); exploring each episode from the perspective of the story that inspired it. Hitchcock expert Jack Seabrook digs into the original source material and details how it compares to the filmed result. This is an indispensable companion to the classic television series. All 268 half-hour episodes are covered, featuring stories by the likes of Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, John Collier, Roald Dahl, Evan Hunter, Henry Slesar, Cornell Woolrich and more!

Jack Seabrook is the author of Martians And Misplaced Clues: The Life & Work Of Fredric Brown and Stealing Through Time: On the Writings of Jack Finney, and is a leading contributor to the bare•bones e-zine blog, where his Alfred Hitchcock Project was launched. He lives in Hopewell, New Jersey, with his wife Lorraine, where he is hard at work on the Alfred Hitchcock Hour companion volume to Sources of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the Stories That Shaped It.

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Sources of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the Stories That Shaped It by Jack Seabrook

Publication Date: April 19, 2026

Suggested Retail Price: $39.95

Trade Paperback - 498 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8648479128

Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.13 x 11 inches

Publication Date: May 5, 2026

Suggested Retail Price: $64.95

Hardcover - 498 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8259034860

Dimensions: 8.49 x 1.32 x 11.24 inches

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Now shipping: bare•bones #25

INSIDE OUR LATEST ISSUE YOU WILL FIND:

• William Schoell turns to the Front Page Detective
• Japanese Bullet Trains are Under Siege in 1975 by Bryan C. Kuriawa
• Derek Hill analyzes the westerns of André de Toth
• Finding inspiration in the Music of the Night by Stephen Laws
• Douglas E. Winter examines three novels that inspired movie genres
• Giants, Okongos, and Killer Apes in Jungle Jim films by Stephen R. Bissette
• Richard Krauss continues his exploration of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
• ‘Eraserhood’ to Mulholland Drive in Duane Swierczynski’s Field Guide to L.A. Pulp
• Peter Enfantino invites you to an Orgy-filled Sleaze Alley
• 007 Dies Again in David J. Schow’s R&D Column

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bare•bones #25 - Winter 2026

Publication Date: February 11, 2026

Suggested Retail Price: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 118 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8241591968

Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches

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INSIDE OUR LATEST ISSUE YOU WILL FIND:

• William Schoell unwraps The Invisible Man UK TV Series
• Making a Killing from a Clean Break by Matthew R. Bradley
• J. Charles Burwell pans for gold in five Westerns of Dudley Dean
• A Monarch Monster Movie Tie-In roundup by Robert Deveau
• Douglas E. Winter sets his Gunsight Eyes on the Sabata Novelizations
• The finale of Stephen R. Bissette’s 4-part epic overview of Cryptids in Westerns
• Richard Krauss digs into Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
• Fritz Leiber is exhumed in Duane Swierczynski’s Field Guide to L.A. Pulp
• John Scoleri checks out What’s on the Tube leading up to Hallowe’en, 1981
• Get caught slinking down Sleaze Alley with Peter Enfantino
• David J. Schow looks back on 70 years in his R&D column
• Ooze-It or lose it in John Scoleri’s Monster Gallery

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bare•bones #24 - Fall 2025

Publication Date: November 13, 2025

Suggested Retail Price: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 124 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8267729468

Dimensions: 6 x 0.31 x 9 inches

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Now Shipping: bare•bones #23

 

INSIDE OUR LATEST ISSUE YOU WILL FIND:

• Matthew R. Bradley tours This Island Earth on page and screen
• Toshio Masuda’s Cinematic Apocalypses examined by Bryan C. Kuriawa
• Douglas E. Winter sets his sights on the Man With No Name novels
• Part 3 of Stephen R. Bissette’s 4-part epic overview of Cryptids in Westerns
• Peter Enfantino serves up more Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine coverage
• Lord only knows what you’ll find slithering down Sleaze Alley with Peter Enfantino
• David J. Schow on the amazing Elaine Shepard in his R&D column

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bare•bones #23 - Summer 2025

Publication Date: August 3, 2025

Suggested Retail Price: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 110 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8291443477

Dimensions: 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches

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Now Shipping: ZOOPRAXIS by R.C. Matheson

Cimarron Street Books is pleased to bring you ZOOPRAXIS, the latest collection from#1 bestselling author R.C. Matheson. ZOOPRAXIS gathers stories of dread, menace and the surreal — with a distilled style that is fierce and hypnotic. From prisoners executed with a hi-tech twist, to the ravages of empathy, an uncooperative parrot, a shapeshifter’s carnal diary, a man who can’t stop talking, a murderer devoured by ice, to a romantic embalming machine, a bizarre Infomercial, and a mind-bending Swami.

ZOOPRAXIS includes 35 stories (13 new to this edition, 5 appearing for the first time), along with Introductions from John Shirley and Chet Williamson, and Afterwords from illustrator Harry O. Morris and R.C. Matheson.

STORIES IN THE COLLECTION:

• How to Edit
• 133
• Transfiguration
• Infomercial!!!
• Shrapnel
• Golden Time
• Dead to Me
• Listen
• Making Cabinets
• Dream
• Candy Mountain
• New Tricks
• Venturi
• Swami
• Demise
• Sea of Atlas
• Kriss Kross Applesauce
• The Embalming Machine
• Slain Lions
• Bulimia
• Pronoia
• Slaves of Nowhere
• Man’s Best Friend
• Fan Letter
• Last Words
• Ground Zero
• Interrogation
• Felicia
• Evil Twins, Temporary Blindness, Bikers, and Amnesia
• Bedtime Story
• Gone
• Murderers
• Heal
• Cry
• The Talking Man

R.C. Matheson is an acclaimed screenwriter/producer for film and television and the author of over 125 short stories featured in the award-winning collections SCARS and Other Distinguishing Marks (introduced by Stephen King), and #1 bestseller DYSTOPIA. His novels and novellas include CREATED BY, THE RITUAL OF ILLUSION and BOMBYX.

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ZOOPRAXIS by R.C. Matheson

Publication Date: July 4, 2025

Suggested Retail Price: $30

Hardcover - 296 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8430552626

Dimensions: 6.24 x 0.93 x 9.24 inches 

ZOOPRAXIS by R.C. Matheson

Publication Date: July 4, 2025

Suggested Retail Price: $20

Trade Paperback - 296 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8648479128

Dimensions: 6 x 0.74 x 9 inches

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“There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a spectacular view and you also get to look at it from the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. In the field of fantasy those writers . . . are even rarer. Theodore Sturgeon, early Ray Bradbury and R.C. Matheson. He is remarkable . . . a brilliant chip off the old block.” — Stephen King

“If the reputation of writers were based on quality rather than quantity, Richard Christian Matheson would be the pre-eminent contemporary writer in the field of dark fiction.” — Chet Williamson

“Richard Christian Matheson is one of a handful of resourceful, fear-minded authors helping to create a new sensibility in horror fiction that is as frightening and merciless as the modern world itself.” — ROLLING STONE

“A great horror writer.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Similes and metaphors so engaging and deeply descriptive it puts me to shame. I have been writing for over forty years and in my own opinion have never written anything as complex or darkly interesting. I stand in awe of Richard’s impressive talent; his unbelievable ability to slam a verb up against a noun, putting words and thoughts together in ways never intended. But somehow, every time he ends up with nuanced perfection and excels magnificently. I’m jealous.” — Stephen J. Cannell: bestselling novelist, writer, producer and creator of THE ROCKFORD FILES, BARETTA, THE A-TEAM, and WISEGUY

“R.C. is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader’s head or heart; often both. Devastating.” — Clive Barker

“While I am talking, he is rounding the bases with another home run. His imagination simply cannot stop.” — Ray Bradbury

“Imagine a Rosetta microchip. Compact, succinct, precise. Universes in there. R.C.’s stories are like a drop of biowar culture. Like a speck of neutron star that weighs a million tons. Start reading. You’re already behind.” — David J. Schow

Now Shipping: bare•bones #22

INSIDE OUR LATEST ISSUE YOU WILL FIND:

• Spending time in Lock Up with William Schoell
• Larry Blamire sizes up the children of The Lost Patrol
• Marvin H. Albert’s Tony Rome cycle from novel to film by J. Charles Burwell
• Robert Deveau explores Roger Corman — Feminist Filmmaker
• Part 2 of a 4-part epic overview of Cryptids in Westerns by Stephen R. Bissette
• Peter Enfantino serves up more Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine coverage
• Rare tie-ins examined by Peter Enfantino and Robert Deveau in Sleaze Alley
• David J. Schow on the march of time and artist Woody Welch in his R&D column

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bare•bones #22 - Spring 2025

Publication Date: May 13, 2025

Suggested Retail Price: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 108 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8281159371

Dimensions: 6 x 0.27 x 9 inches

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Now Shipping: bare•bones #21

INSIDE OUR LATEST ISSUE YOU WILL FIND:

• The Mr. Moto Novels on Page and Screen by Matthew R. Bradley
• William Schoell leads us through The Lawless Years
• Exploring the Eurospy Universe of the Kommissar X by Holger Haase
• Bryan C. Kuriawa on the War Films of Shue Matsubayashi
• Part one of a 4-part epic overview of Cryptids in Westerns by Stephen R. Bissette 
• Peter Enfantino unpacks the Monarch Suspense Special Series
• A look at Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine 1973-1974 by Robert Deveau
• Peter Enfantino bares all with his latest reads in Sleaze Alley
• Meet the Queen of Storm King Comics in David J. Schow’s R&D column
• John Scoleri’s Monster Gallery showcases the original Monster Gallery

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bare•bones #21 - Winter 2025

Publication Date: March 4, 2025

Suggested Retail Price: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 110 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8304529662

Dimensions: 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches

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Now Shipping: SLEAZE ALLEY Volume 1 by Peter Enfantino in FULL COLOR!

Cimarron Street Books is pleased to bring you the first volume of Peter Enfantino's Sleaze Alley: The Annotated Guide to Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks!

STEP RIGHT UP . . .

. . . and take a look at the offerings we keep hidden under the counter. Sleaze Alley is where you come to find the best of the illicit, the gold nuggets amongst the most depraved fiction of the 1960s. Looking for Lesbians? Devil Worshippers? Serial Killers? Bad dudes just out for a good time? You’ve come to the right place. Peter Enfantino opens up his trench coat to share with you which titles from Greenleaf, Nightstand, Ember, and others are worth your time — and for those that aren’t, he offers a glimpse into how entertaining their purple prose can be. In this first volume, you’ll find reviews of nearly 100 titles from the golden age of the sleaze paperback — with every cover reproduced in full color! You’ll be treated to early work by Lawrence Block, Evan Hunter, Donald Westlake, and Robert Silverberg; sordid fiction that at least one of these men denied authorship of right to the grave. But you need a guide, one who’ll help you avoid stepping in something sticky. What are you waiting for? Step through the beaded curtain and discover what glory awaits you down . . .

. . . SLEAZE ALLEY!

The author refuses to be photographed without disguise. Adult fiction is not a genre to take lightly. There are risks. Peter Enfantino is sure the feds are following him (a guy who looked uncannily like J. Edgar came to the door the other night, supposedly selling aluminum siding); his family has received death threats (well, maybe not death, but the HOA called about the tree stump in the yard); and his house (literally) has bugs. When Enfantino is not drooling over his latest Greenleaf acquisition, he co-edits bare•bones and oversees the Sleaze Alley imprint. He is the author of The Manhunt Companion (Stark House Press), The Wild World of Two-Fisted Detective, Mystery and Terror Digests, The Wild World of Off Beat Detective, Crime and Sleaze Digests, and the forthcoming The Wild World of Guilty and Trapped. He lives in a sleaze alley in Gilbert, Arizona with a saucy broad named Paula.

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Sleaze Alley: The Annotated Guide to Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks Volume One by Peter Enfantino

Publication Date: January 9, 2025

Suggested Retail Price: $30

Full Color Trade Paperback - 148 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8304797788

Dimensions: 6 x 0.35 x 9 inches

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Now shipping: INCUBUS — Inside Leslie Stevens' Lost Horror Classic by David J. Schow

KEEP TELLING YOURSELF: IT’S ONLY A MOVIE 

In Black and White. In Esperanto.

IT’S ONLY A MOVIE . . .

Featuring William Shatner, and shot by Academy Award winner Conrad Hall.

IT’S ONLY A MOVIE . . .

It’s only one of the weirdest movies ever made — by the man who created TV’s The Outer Limits.

IT’S ONLY . . . INCUBUS.

The God of Darkness compels you!

Cimarron Street Books proudly brings you the latest non-fiction exploration from David J. Schow, author of The Outer Limits Companion, delivering everything you never knew you needed to know about Incubus (1966), including dozens of photos and two complete scripts!'

Take a peek inside — if you dare!

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INCUBUS: Inside Leslie Stevens' Lost Horror Classic by David J. Schow

Publication Date: January 1, 2025

Suggested Retail Price: $25

Trade Paperback - 264 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8321607169

Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

INCUBUS: Inside Leslie Stevens' Lost Horror Classic by David J. Schow

Publication Date: January 7, 2025

Suggested Retail Price: $35

Hardcover - 264 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8304368865

Dimensions: 6 x 0.79 x 9 inches

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Now shipping: Wrecks & Violets by Mehitobel WIlson

Cimarron Street Books is pleased to bring you Wrecks & Violets — Mehitobel Wilson’s newest and biggest collection of flammable short fiction. She’s been doing this since 1998 and it’s time you caught up with her singular voice, pinpoint prose, caustic ways and devilish imagination. Be prepared to be caught unaware. As Bel says, “It’s unnerving when one’s reptile brain has something to say, especially when it whispers secret truths.”

Illustrated by Erik Wilson, with an Introduction by Brian Keene.

Praise for Mehitobel Wilson:

Caustic, classic, classy, nasty, elegant, relevant post-punk horror for people who give a shit.

— China Miéville, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award.

Think of Bel Wilson as a Ralph Ellison or a J.D. Salinger of horror. With mere words she chisels art out of darkness, and manipulates prose the way Munch, Bosch, and Goya manipulated brush strokes. Her exceptional skills couldn’t be better exemplified than in Last Night at the Blue Alice, likely the most intriguing and original horror-fantasy book I’ve ever seen, and Dangerous Red is purely and simply one of the five best horror collections I’ve ever read in my fuckin' life.

— Edward Lee, author of The Bighead, Header and The Dunwich Romance

Bel writes dark but she writes from the heart. You won’t find any cliches here. you’ll find clean lines, tight work, and somebody who gives a damn about you. Meanwhile, you will be scared.

— Jack Ketchum, author of Off Season and The Girl Next Door

Mehitobel Wilson (no relation) doesn’t write nearly enough, so something new from her is a cause for celebration. “Last Night at the Blue Alice” reveals a writer in full control of her considerable talents. The unique premise lifts it far above other tales of hauntings as each character comes alive on the page and pulls you in. Do not miss this.

— F. Paul Wilson

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Wrecks & Violets by Mehitobel Wilson

Publication Date: December 17, 2024

Suggested Retail Price: $17.95

Trade Paperback - 386 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8871029732

Dimensions: 6 x 0.97 x 9 inches

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Now shipping: bare•bones #20

 

INSIDE THIS SUPER-SIZED 20th ISSUE SPECTACULAR YOU WILL FIND:

• William Schoell turns on the lights and sirens for Code 3
• A look at the Doomed Professional in film by Larry Blamire
• J. Charles Burwell on Steve Frazee’s vision of the west
• Joseph Wambaugh on screen by Derek Hill
• Jack Seabrook untangles the lost TV show, The Web
• The Weird Tales of Not at Night by Stefan Dziemianowicz
• Tim Lucas explores the crime quickies of Montgomery Tully
• More Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine coverage by Richard Krauss
• Duane Swierczynski spotlights Robert Edmond Alter in his Field Guide to L.A. Pulp
• Night of the Living Dead and more, as seen on Bay Area TV by John Scoleri
• Peter Enfantino is back in Sleaze Alley
• The Search for New Grails in David J. Schow’s R&D column

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bare•bones #20 - Fall 2024

Publication Date: November 19, 2024

Suggested Retail Price: $14.95

Trade Paperback - 154 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8343571752

Dimensions: 6 x 0.39 x 9 inches

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Now shipping: bare•bones #19

Inside the nineteenth issue of bare•bones, you will find:

• Going up river with Yancy Derringer, rebel with a cause, by William Schoell
• Bryan Kuriawa investigates the alien invaders of W. Lee Wilder
• A round-up of the weird western episodes of Rawhide by Larry Blamire
• Matthew R. Bradley checks into Casino Royale — on page and screen
• Pre-Code Horror in Adventures Into Weird Worlds explored by Peter Enfantino
• Richard Krauss on a fistful of Mike Shayne’s Mystery Magazine
• Three classic noir reads in Duane Swierczynski’s Field Guide to American Pulp
• Robert Deveau on the Belmont Shadows of Dennis Lynds
• How much filth lines Sleaze Alley? Only Peter Enfantino knows for sure
• David J. Schow on the trail of Jack the Ripper in his latest R&D column
• Find out which Monster is considered an Old Maid in John Scoleri’s Monster Gallery

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bare•bones #19 - Summer 2024

Publication Date: August 18, 2024

Suggested Retail Price: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 112 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8333860125

Dimensions: 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches

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Now shipping: bare•bones #18

Inside the eighteenth issue of bare•bones, you will find:

• William Schoell tunes into Science Fiction Theatre
• An overlooked classic, No Grave for Us, reviewed by Bryan Kuriawa
• Larry Blamire hits the front lines to experience Combat first hand
• Curt Siodmak and His Dr. Patrick Cory Trilogy celebrated by Matthew R. Bradley
• Peter Enfantino highlights the best of Pre-Code Horror in Adventures Into Terror
• The Big Caper and Alfred Hitchcock Presents examined by Jack Seabrook
• Peter Enfantino delivers another Six-Pack of Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
• It’s time for destination: Quentin Tarantino in Duane Swierczynski’s Field Guide to L.A. Pulp
• S. Craig Zahler reviews some LitRPG . . . and more
• Can you stand to see what Peter Enfantino has uncovered in Sleaze Alley?
• Our very own David J. Schow portrayed Freddy Krueger — read all about it!
• In space, no one can hear styrene, in John Scoleri’s Monster Gallery

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bare•bones #18 - Spring 2024

Publication Date: May 27, 2024

Suggested Retail Price: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 108 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8323398935

Dimensions: 6 x 0.27 x 9 inches

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Now shipping: The Wild World of Off Beat Detective, Crime and Sleaze Digests by Peter Enfantino

Once upon a time, magazine racks overflowed with crime fiction. For thirty-five cents you could lose yourself in another world for a couple of hours while riding the train back home from your office, or sitting on the beach, or enjoying a bit of quiet time while the brats napped. The ‘50s and ‘60s were decades ripe for violent escapism in the digests, and Manhunt, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine each sold thousands of copies every month. 

But what if you were the kind of reader who wanted something a little naughtier; a little more taboo; a little more dangerous? You’d have to kneel down and look at the bottom row, way in the back behind the Farmer’s Almanac and Fate, to find such jewels as Justice, Keyhole Mystery, Keyhole Detective, Sure Fire Detective, and Off Beat Detective.

Crammed cover-to-cover with feuding JDs, greedy wives, adulterous husbands, and serial killers, the ‘sleaze’ crime digests were an acquired taste, and a bitter pill for the traditional mystery fan to swallow. Combining elements of Black Mask and Dime Mystery, the sleaze digests spit in the face of the old fuddy-duddies and dared readers to try something different.

Within these digests, you’ll make acquaintance with: a morally bankrupt high school teacher who impregnates one of his teenage students; the beautiful Renfreda, who’s being chased through the swamp by an evil marijuana harvester; the gorgeous Peggy Ann, who may be the notorious Ice Pick Murderer; the brave small-town reporter who investigates a local cult and risks her life (and her clothes) for a good story; the printer who unknowingly becomes a publisher of smut; and a young couple who discover their neighbors are Satan worshippers.

The Wild World of Off Beat Detective, Crime and Sleaze Digests is the second volume of a continuing series, in which Peter Enfantino breaks down each and every story that appeared in the pages of these five legendary titles. Now rare and fetching exorbitant prices on the secondary market, these magazines contained some of the most chilling and daring crime stories published at that time. So which issues are worth your hard-earned dollars? Open this book and find out!

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

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The Wild World of Off Beat Detective, Crime and Sleaze Digests by Peter Enfantino

Publication Date: May 16, 2023

Suggested Retail Price: $14.95

Trade Paperback - 178 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8324517861

Dimensions: 6 x 0.45 x 9 inches

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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: $11.95

Trade Paperback - 108 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8871277881

Dimensions: 6 x 0.27 x 9 inches

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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.”

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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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