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Publisher: Cougar Publications, Los Angeles[Not mentioned elsewhere in Wood literature, this book contains many Woodian hallmarks, i.e. gratuitous ellipses and Hollywood sleaze, however the writing is slightly more sober than usual. The story concerns casting couch shenanigans, with character names such as Jake Palerack, Wolfgang von Klienshimdt, Fritz Dykeman, and Beverly Fuller.]

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Publisher: Pad Library/Nite Time, Agoura, CA[the follow-up to Black Lace Drag, concerns contract killer Glen/Glenda on death row who demands to be allowed to die in drag. Told in a Gothic epistolary style via clippings, confessions, etc. Considered one of Wood’s finest works.] excerpt

Scope and Contents Publisher: Pad Library, Agoura, CA[Rudolph Grey writes: "In the small town of Almanac, Texas, Sheriff Buck Rhodes tangles with drug smugglers and teenage gangs, including the wild girl gang, The Chicks. A series of sexual liaisons and violence culminate in their tragic end." David Hayes qualified, "Owing chiefly to the year it was printed, Devil Girls stands as the testament to Wood’s writing in the Golden Age. Low on smut, but high on intrigue and scandal, the novel moves along at a brisk...

Scope and Contents Publisher: Triumph News Co., Inc., Van Nuys[Page 38: "But come as it may, for the first time in his life he felt like a human being. Before, with only the panties and the half slip he hadn’t been quite sure. He knew he liked the feeling of the clothes then, but once he had dressed completely as a girl, he knew it was the life he must lead. None of their hair would ever grow to any length, but wigs took care of that small problem. And being young they taught him just how far his bust line...

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Publisher: Pad Library/Imperial, Agoura, CA[excerpt]

Scope and Contents Publisher: Pad Library, Agoura, CA[Grey writes: "Espionage, Wood style, involving hard communists, sabotage at a movie set, and hard-loving, hard smoking and hard drinking Col. Harvey Tate." Hayes: "This is another classic case of Wood’s real-world experience (minus the freaky sex) shoved smack dab into a smut novel." The plot surrounds terrorists murdering employees at a government operated low-budget film company, much like Autonetics Aviation, a company Wood had briefly made films for in...

Scope and Contents Publisher: Griffon Enterprises/Nite Time Books, Beverly Hills[case histories of boozy sexual encounters, dedication reads: "To those anonymous booze-fighters whose stories are presented in these pages – and to the scores of others, likewise not to be named, who have helped in the preparation of this book. – Johnny J." Book topics include "Early Drinking and Introduction to Sex", "Alcohol as a Sexual Lubricant", "Breakdown of Sexual Inhibitions", "Rape, Incest and Homosexuality Through...

Scope and Contents Publisher: Europa Books Limited/Pad Library, Los Angeles[this book is indicative of a bibliographical problem found elsewhere in both the Ed Wood Collection and in the greater adult paperback business. Due to the illegal nature of many publications, tax evasion, reusing old book components for new publications, and ties to more savage legal infractions, companies were constantly starting, collapsing and renaming themselves in a fly-by-night fashion. Therefore we find ourselves with...

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Publisher: Triumph News Co., Inc., Van Nuys[A collection of case histories as reported to Emil Moreau, "M. D." Beyond the basic concept, allegedly Wood and the book had nothing to do with the Apostolof film of 1966.]

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Publisher: Europa Books Limited/Pad Library, Los Angeles[another 1967 reprint of Wood’s Black Lace Drag this time under alternate title and pen name. David C. Hayes claims a 1965 edition of The Twilight Land exists as well, though he may be mistaken.]