Soft Flesh And Orgies Of Death: Fiction, Features & Art From Classic Men’s Adventure Magazines (Pulp Mayhem) (VOLUME 1)

Product Description

Men’s adventure magazines were a form of pulp publishing which flourished in 1950s and 1960s America, pandering to the cruelty and lust of young men with luridly illustrated stories of war, sleaze and savagery. They arose partly in response to the inauguration of the Comics Code in 1954, as a way of circumventing censorship by presenting material in a new, “adults-only” format. The prime years of the men’s adventure magazine unleashed a visual and verbal deluge of exposed and tormented flesh, bloody mayhem and sexual delinquency, representing a unique cultural phenomenon in US publishing and art. SOFT FLESH AND ORGIES OF DEATH is a new anthology which collects some prime examples of text and artwork from a range of men’s adventure magazines published between 1955 and 1963. The Feature section includes a selection of semi-factual confessions and case histories on sensationalistic subjects ranging from psychotropic drugs, carnival freaks and nude gladiators to prostitution, devil worship and cannibal death cults; the Fiction section includes numerous examples of garishly illustrated short pulp fiction, with categories including war, white slavery, Nazi horror, jungle curses, pirates, Red menace, mobsters, torture, sadism, and erotic carnage. Cover art is also included, in full color and in detail. The book includes more than 30 features and stories, more than 100 illustrations, and 32 pages of full colour, with work by such classic pulp artists as Norm Eastman, Norman Saunders and John Duillo. Features and stories include: HANDMAIDENS OF HORROR FOR THE DEVILS BLOOD ORGIES; THE UNHOLY NAKED GERMAN WITCH CULTS; JUKEBOX GOONS EXPLODED MY GUTS!; DEATH ORGY OF THE LEOPARD WOMEN; SOFT FLESH FOR SATANS BUBBLING CAULDRON; HITLERS DEATH GAME; NYMPHO TIGER QUEEN OF LAOS; CHAINED NUDES FOR THE DEVILS SEAT IN HELL: LUST REVENGE OF THE DEPRAVED NAZI CAT MASTER; SHACKLED NUDES FOR THE BUTCHERS FLAYING KNIFE; SOFT BRIDE FOR THE SLITHERING MONSTER FROM HELL; and NUDE LUST SLAVES OF HITLERS RUSSIAN MONSTER. Pulp Mayhem is a new illustrated book series of vintage pulp fiction, art and pop culture.

About the Author

Editor Pep Pentangeli is an avid life-long collector of comics and pulp magazines, and publisher of the fanzine Man’s Guts And Glory.

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MY OLD FRIEND, who had long ceased to be my friend and was now my bitterest enemy, peered at me viciously from under his eyebrows and said with an ironic smile: “Your move.” He knew damn well that I would have to sacrifice a pawn, and that this move would make me, in effect, a murderer.

But there was no way out. My opponent grinned at me, licking his lips and relishing my terror. The game had to be played. I wiped sweat from my feverish forehead, and pushed the pawn into the path of his bishop.

An SS guard watched my gambit, and shouted orders to the floor below the balcony where we sat. The SS troop recreation hall of the Obersachsen Concentration Camp had been marked off into the squares of a giant chess board, and on this big board all our moves were repeated. Only, instead of chessmen, there were living, naked women in my squares.

“I take your pawn, Gerhard said harshly and triumphantly. “Don’t feel too badly about it. She’s not good-looking anyway.”

His bishop strike was repeated on the floor below, and the young girl ― who was my pawn ― cowered in her square and screamed. “Take her away,” the guard shouted. The other human “pieces” on my side of the giant chess board looked on with terror as two stormtroopers picked up the kicking girl and carried her to the other end of the gym where she was received with loud yells of pleasure. That’s where a dozen of the camp’s most depraved killer guards were waiting. One of these men tossed her down on a wrestling mat, and threw himself on her. The others formed a circle around them, screaming obscene instructions. …..