It’s sleaze time here at First Draft. Nightstand Books wasn’t in business all that long but they ground out a shitload of potboilers. The titles frequently included the words sin and lust, and the tag lines were spicy and suggestive. Interestingly enough, the noted sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison was briefly one of Nightstand’s editors and even wrote this book under the pseudonym of Paul Merchant:
More tawdry book covers after the break.
I have no idea if any well known writers were behind the rest of this rubbish but ya never know:
Finally, a book with the sleaziest title of all:
I have a series of posts (but not scholarly like this) on Bedside Reading. You picked some doozies.
regards,
Tengrain