Herr Rau reviewed Pulp Classics by John Gregory Betancourt
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2 stars
It's what it is, so you might as well give it four stars instead of two. Eight stories from the weird menace pulp subgenre, albeit in a mild version - there are some really nasty stories in other magazines.
Eight stories, each with a man-woman couple, newly married or starting on their relationship. All the women have "soft feminine breasts [which] were like tired kittens sleepily stirring for a caress."
In nearly all of the stories, the protagonists encounter a strange building, often while vacationing - a sanitarium, spooky old house, old family mansion, magician's abode. (Ultimately the roots for the Rocky Horror SHow plot?) In one of the stories the location is a modern apartment in a modern city, in another an exotic island, in a third the new family house.
All but two stories end happily, with the male rescuing the female from danger (usually of a sexual …
It's what it is, so you might as well give it four stars instead of two. Eight stories from the weird menace pulp subgenre, albeit in a mild version - there are some really nasty stories in other magazines.
Eight stories, each with a man-woman couple, newly married or starting on their relationship. All the women have "soft feminine breasts [which] were like tired kittens sleepily stirring for a caress."
In nearly all of the stories, the protagonists encounter a strange building, often while vacationing - a sanitarium, spooky old house, old family mansion, magician's abode. (Ultimately the roots for the Rocky Horror SHow plot?) In one of the stories the location is a modern apartment in a modern city, in another an exotic island, in a third the new family house.
All but two stories end happily, with the male rescuing the female from danger (usually of a sexual nature). "The Time Dissolver" by Hugh Speer is the one that might stay in memory. A couple gets attacked by... hm, their future selves? Time travel drugs, mind transference, body & partner swapping?