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Gay Pulp and Erotic Fiction - 1950s to 1970s
What is gay pulp fiction? Everyone has their own definition, but for us it is any novel written for gay men, often with an erotic edge. Pulp fiction usually came from specialist publishing houses in the USA and although it usually refers to paperbacks, many titles appeared in hardback first. It can also include books originally released as mainstream novels, but later republished specifically for the gay market. Browse this list and see if you agree
- or check our full list of US novels to see what we've missed.
As for erotic fiction? Let's just say it's pulp fiction with little character, minimal plot and maximum sex. The cover usually tells you if you're heading in the right direction.
Butterfly Man
Lew Levenson
Castle Books, New York, n. d. (1960s, first publ 1934) (hardback)
"Secrets of the Third Sex! The untold story of the half world where men and women are no longer men OR women ... such is BUTTERFLY MAN"
£15.00
The Divided Path
Nial Kent
Pyramid Books, New York, 1959 (first published 1949)
"he felt himself quiveringly alive with an emotion that threatened to overwhelm him. Here was a situation he must face - one from which he had no desire to escape, yet he felt he must do so. A feeling of terror obsessed him. He must not see Paul again."
£16.00
"Handsome Terry Wallace lived in the twilight of sex between the daylight of normal love and the night of
forbidden desire!"
£12.50
The Gay Flesh
Joe Leon Houston
Argyle Books, Los Angeles, 1965, 1st edition (hardback)
"Virile handsome Carl Wolfe could have any woman he wanted - but he wanted only Chuck, a blond Adonis who left Carl after a brief interlude of friendship and desire."
£7.50
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Strange Marriage
James Colton (Joseph Hansen)
Argyle Books, Washington DC, 1965, 1st edition (hardback)
"This taut, frankly sensual novel begins with Randy's frantic search for a male lover to replace his beloved Corky . . . Randy's search for appeasement takes him down strange and dangerous pathways."
£17.50
Stud
Phil Andros (Samuel Steward)
Guild Press, Washington DC, 1966, 1st edition (hardback)
"Phil Andros . . . lives by renting his body to all male comers. . . . 'I'm a male whore, a guy who sells his body to queers for money.'"
£150.00
The Occasional Man
James Barr (James Fugaté)
Swan, Toronto, 1966, first published 1966 in USA
"No longer young and beautiful, David, at 40, was still handsome. Flat broke and depressed over the break-up of his affair with the man he had adored for fifteen years, David wandered lost and lonely in the back streets of the twilight world of sex."
£15.00
All-Stud
Clay Caldwell
Badboy / Masquerade, New York, 1993, first published 1969
"An incredible, erotic trip into the gay future via the imagination of an erotic pioneer. Under the watchful eye of Number Ten - an omniscient figure who rules over an all-male land - promiscuity is the rule and unbridled fleshly indulgence is facilitated by the state ."
£15.00
Todd
James Colton (Joseph Hansen)
Traveller's Companion / Olympia Press, New York, 1971 1st edition
"Todd was white and Felix was black and Felix's militant brother was determined that none of his family was ever going to be exploited by the whites, especially sexually."
£22.50
Frost
Richard Amory
Olympia Press, London, 1972, first published USA 1971
"At the crossroads, beautiful Billy lies dead by his motorbike; at home the father plots more than just a simple murder; and in the Northern California hills Frost finds true love in the arms of another man."
£25.00
Willow Song
Richard Amory
Freeway Press, New York, 1974 1st edition
"Richard Amory, author of Frost, returns to the headwaters of his inspiration, the meadows and forests which landscape his famous Song of the Loon, in this, his most poetic gay fantasy: Willow Song. A story of love. Now a gay masque."
£50.00
Locker Room Lads
Chuck Howard
Surrey House, San Diego, 1974 1st edition
"Mike ... is ... a not-quite middle-aged man cast adrift in the tides of loneliness through the death of his mate, his only solace a boy almost grown to manhood. But in this case, in spite of previous fulfilling homosexual encounters, Mike becomes the not-so-willing but apt pupil of his son and his son's lover."
£40.00
Post-1980 erotica:
Edmund Miller's Night Times (2000)
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"Terry Wallace rove slowly alone in his high-powered convertible, staring out over the passing scene. The night was beautiful, late April when it seemed that all the clean, untempered breeze of the world was here with its gentle winds; and the earth lay warm and fecund, burgeoning with buildings, the moonlight falling upon them like a soft blue net.
Out of the moonlit sky another familiar building took a square, solid stand. Another tree, another quiet sweep of shining water, another mast. Its tall pole and cross beams extended like welcoming arms, and at its base rocked the boat, lazily and serenely. Lights in its cabin shone, set there to hold out a warm welcome, through portholes ajar, and through them a radio could be heard playing the music of New Orleans."
Opening paragraphs, Somewhere Between The Two, Jay Little
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