Author Description

In the 1930s, before launching what would become the Marvel Comics empire, Martin Goodman published low-rent pulp magazines of every genre, issued by a dizzying array of shell companies created to insulate him from creditors. Bearing Goodman's "Red Circle" trademark, the horror pulps Mystery Tales, Uncanny Tales, Marvel Tales, and Real Mystery were transgressive in the extreme, shattering the boundaries of good taste with their large quotient of sex and violence and igniting a firestorm of outrage that within a few short years drove all horror pulps off the newsstands. This Murania Press anthology, like its predecessor Satan Lives for My Love!, gathers together a sickening slew of stories infamous for their in-your-face depictions of sex, sadism, and frightening fetishes—stories so unabashedly and unapologetically perverse that they would have given Marquis de Sade himself the heebie-jeebies! The eleven 1939-40 tales are accompanied by an introductory essay on the Marvel horror pulps and a complete bibliography that includes all authors and story titles.