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Hell ChicksBy: Edward D. Wood, Jr.Pseudonym: N. V. Jason, 1968

 Item — Box: 1

Scope and Contents

Publisher: Private Edition Books, Canoga ParkCover art signed "H"[Rudolph Grey wrote: "Ghosted under ‘N. V. Jason’, Hell Chicks, is one of Wood’s most crazed, anarchistic novels. The complete disregard for normal rules of grammar suggest that it was written in one sitting. Unleashed in distorted, alcoholic twists of consciousness, the novel takes girl gangs from his screenplays for The Violent Years and Fugitive Girls to the ne plus ultra of sex and violence. The Hell Chicks are twelve rough tough broads in black leather jackets. Their credo: ‘Rules are LAWS and LAWS were meant to be broken.’ Hopped up on grass and beer they roar across the countryside on their hogs, raping any man they can get their hands on. Pussy, Pisser, Prancer, Sissy, Syph, Boobie, Cherry and Flame meet their inevitable end in a climactic bloody showdown with the law." Page 82: "The boys of the Chain Gang hit from the north and the girls of the Hell Chicks screamed in from the south. Twenty-four cycles with split mufflers roared their tunes of terror, into the hearts and soul of every passerby. They gunned the exhaust...revved the motor...spit the back-fire flame and noise into anybody who dared brace them. They all screamed like banshees and the words of vulgar sexual atonement intermingled with the screaching of tires as they turned as if on a dime and giving nine cents change." As reported by David Hayes, Hell Chicks marks Wood’s turn to hardcore pornography.]

Dates

  • 1968

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)

Physical Description

Pages: 188

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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