G-8 and his Battle Aces: Patrol of the Murder Masters by Robert J. Hogan
February 1937
Back issue from AbeBooks
Track of the Moon Beast
During a meteor storm a fragment hits Paul Carlson, embedding deep within his skull. From that moment on is mutates into a giant reptilian beast at night and goes on the hunt. Professor Salina soon discovers that just such a thing has happened before in human history, but that doesn’t help Paul. Can he and the people he attacks be saved?
Pick-Up by Charles Willeford
First published as an unheralded paperback original, Pick-Up is an authentic underground classic, an explosive bulletin from the urban underbelly of mid-1950s America. It was Charles Willeford’s second novel, after a rough and wandering earlier life that had taken him from Depression-era hobo camps and soup kitchens to wartime battlefields. The unblinking story of two lost and self-destructive drifters—a failed painter working as a counterman in a cheap diner and a woman in flight from domestic violence—trying to find a place for themselves in the back streets of San Francisco, Pick-Up is hardboiled writing at its nihilistic best: Willeford’s preferred title for the book was Until I Am Dead. Its bleak vision of life beyond the edge is haunted by rape, racism, alcoholism, suicide, and inescapable poverty, yet shot through with a tenderness and compassion sustained against all odds in a society offering few breaks to its outcasts and misfits. Pick-Up’s many twists and violent turns culminate in an ending that continues to surprise, confirming it as what critic Woody Haut has called “a razor-sharp narrative that rips open the genre.”
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