The Volcanoes of San Domingo by Adam Hall (Fontana, 1971) I am not usually a fan of photographic covers, but this 1971 one for Adam Hall’s The Volcanoes of San...
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The Unorthodox Corpse by Carter Brown (Horwitz, 1965) Horwitz were arguably the prime Australian publishers of paperbacks and pulp fiction in the 1950s and 60s....
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Beat Not The Bones by Charlotte Jay (Avon, 1955) Supernatural Stories No. 39 (Badger, 1961) At first glance there would seem to be little connection between an Edgar...
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Butcher of Auschwitz by John Slater (Horwitz, 1965) In the early 1960s Australian paperbacks featured a steady stream of books about the horrific treatment of...
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The Macabre Ones by Bron Fane (Badger, SN90) The cover illustrator Henry Fox became almost as synonymous with Badger Books (1960-67) as the legendary Lionel Fanthorpe...
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Canberra Book Fair Haul I thought I would share some of the books I recently found at the Lifeline Bookfair in Canberra. I ended up buying much more than the ones...
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