There's an interesting entry on Geis in Lee Server's
Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers. Apparently as time went
on Geis's production became more esoteric/marginal/lurid
(take your pick), until by the Seventies he was writing
incest porn and bestiality porn among much other work. Now
that's sleaze for you!
Best, Mark
On 12/21/07,
juri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi <
juri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi> wrote:
>
> Richard Geis was a prolific writer of sleaze
paperbacks in the fifties
> and
> sixties (and also in the seventies, perhaps), but
he's been better known
> as a
> science fiction fan who published a fanzine called
Psychotic for quite a
> long
> time.
>
> I've read two sleaze books by him and the other one
is actually quite
> good.
> It's called BEDROOM CITY, published by France Books
in 1962. It's about a
> writer called Ray Krell who's doomed to write only
paperback originals. He
>
> hates his suburbian neighbours and his beautiful
wife and has an affair.
> This
> reminded me of Charles Bukowski and there's a sense
of appealing
> hopefulness in
> the story.
>
> The worse one is GIRLSVILLE (France Books 1963),
which is a private eye
> novel,
> about a guy called Vic Kunzer. The novel reads like
a bad Richard Prather,
> but
> doesn't get enough speed at any time. I've written
an entry for Kunzer to
> be
> used in Thrilling Detective.
>
> Sorry, didn't have to do more. Merry Xmas to
all!
>
> Juri
>
>
-- Mark R. Harris 2122 W. Russet Court #8 Appleton WI 54914 (920) 470-9855 brokerharris@gmail.com
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