Sunday, August 24, 2014

PaperBack



David V. Reed, The Thing that Made Love (The Metal Monster Murders), Uni Books, 1951

Besides being retitled, this book was "specially adapted for your reading pleasure."  I don't know what that means.

10 comments:

George said...

This is another book I've never seen before. I don't know what "adapted to your reading pleasure" means either.

Unknown said...

I wonder if it means they added some sex scenes.

Anonymous said...

David V. Reed wrote tons of Batman comics in the 1970s.

Unknown said...

Maybe they could be specially adapted for our reading pleasure.

Jerry House said...

Uni Books tended to spice things up. Perhaps someone could do a line by line comparison with the original story published sometime in 1943 in MAMMOTH DETECTIVE. More likely, perhaps not.

Unknown said...

I nominate you, Jerry.

Ed Gorman said...

Reed was one of Ray Palmer's old writers. When I was twelve or so I bought a huge cardboard box of RAP pulps from the Forties and Reed (as my faulty memory remembers it anyway) was in half of them. He was a decent writer as I recall but not of course on the same level as Richard S. Shaver. :)

Unknown said...

Let's face it: Nobody was on the same level as Shaver.

Burl Barer said...

Based on the cover illustration, he wrenched her back.

Unknown said...

I hope that was the worst of it.