On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 Neil wrote:
> > I'd like to find more works like these, Brown,
weird film noir, etc. , where
> > the writers were just out of their gourds and
would probably fit in more
> > today than they did in their own times. Any
suggestions?
If you want some older stuff, try the so called shudder
pulps. Francis James and Wayne Rogers are my favourites. I
just finished a story by James in which the wifes of a nice
suburban area suddenly start killing themselves. The
protagonist finds out that the wives are killed during the
ritual in which they are being whipped. In one Rogers's story
the boxing manager makes better fighters out of his bunch by
promising them women to rape after the victorious game.
This is surely weird, even appalling stuff, but there's also
some kind of weird Z-grade Kafka feeling in all this. You
should be able to find some of this stuff in Pulp Fiction
Central
(www.vintagelibrary.com/pulp). The stories appeared first in
magazines such as Terror Stories and Horror Tales and there
are reprints. In Pulp Fiction Central you find them under
Weird Menace link. - Someone mentioned Bruno Fischer. He
started his career writing shudder stories under the
pseudonym Russell Gray and, I believe, focused on a subgenre
called "Defective Detective", in which the P.I's suffered
some kind of a abnormality, for example they were blind, had
no legs or were deaf.
Juri
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