Ep 2 – Pocket Books, Vampire Hunter D Novels, and Guest M dot Strange
In our second episode of the Paperback Show, host Ricky Lee Grove presents a brief history of the first major paperback publisher – Pocket Books. Next, he looks at the amazing phenomenon of the Vampire Hunter D novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano since 1983 and published in English initially
Ep 1: Introduction to the Show, Ace Doubles, and Lisa Morton Interview
In our first episode, Paperback Show host/producer Ricky Lee Grove introduces the Paperback Show Podcast. He shares the story of his first paperback purchase at the age of 12 years old. At a local used paperback shop, he picked up an Ace Double paperback which contained Philip E. High’s Reality Forbidden and A. Bertram Chandler’s Contraband
Paperback Show Ep 1 Covers Gallery
In the first episode of the Paperback Podcast, I referred to several books. Here are the covers of those books. The Philip K. Dick covers are some of my favorites Episode 1 – Covers
New Arrivals for the Paperback Show Library
I love shopping for books. Recently, went to the Iliad Bookshop in North Hollywood, CA., and spent a couple of hours going through the paperback collection. I discovered some great paperbacks at reasonable prices: Gothic Romance, Black Fiction, Mystery, Naval Fiction, and Literary Fiction. I found a great old Penguin Classics paperback edition of Thomas
The Uncanny Spell of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy
“That’s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation I can’t stop reading and re-reading the remarkable trilogy of novels by Jeff Vandemeer collectively titled The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance). The one-volume hardback edition came out last
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