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Watts...AfterBy: Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1967

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Publisher: Pad Library, Agoura, CA[Follow-up to Watts...The Difference, more exploits with black nationalists and low-budget filmmakers] excerpt/summary

Dates: 1967

Watts...The DifferenceBy: Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1967

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Publisher: Pad Library, Agoura, CACover art is signed but tough to read; looks like "Chad Collen"[a Watts riot exploitation piece, it’s rumored that Wood’s home was firebombed after the books release. Other stories include death threats from the Black Panthers. Alternate version is said to exist as Burn Baby Burn (1969) by Ray Jones] excerpt/summary

Dates: 1967

Bye Bye BroadieBy: Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1968

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Scope and Contents Publisher: Pendulum Publishers, Los AngelesPhoto Illustrated (b&w)[another pictorial, this time with stills from a Image 4 motion picture production. Wood biographer Rudolph Grey summarized Broadie, "A peeping tom rapist spies on a group of young women making love in a boarding school. He approaches them and joins in on thethe action. The man-hating schoolmistress, Mrs. Grundy, discovers the orgy and beats the man to death with her cane. The headmistress then coerces the girls to assist...
Dates: 1968

Carnival PieceBy: Edward D. Wood, Jr.Pseudonym: Kathleen Everett, 1968

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Scope and Contents Publisher: Private Edition Books, Canoga Park[Kathleen Everett was in fact Wood’s wife’s maiden name. Akin to Side-Show Siren the novel follows a "murder-at-the-carnival" plot. Grey writes: "Imbroglios concerning carnivals, a murdered dancing girl and her stunning young blonde replacement who attracts the attentions of the local sheriff, the owner of the carnival and Mama Tate, a fat lesbian. Characters include Wheezy the Skeleton, who prefers wine to food; the Geek, another wino who bites...
Dates: 1968

For Love Or MoneyBy: Edward D. Wood, Jr.Pseudonym: Arthur Windsor, 1968

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Scope and Contents Publisher: B. B. Sales Co., New York, NYPhoto Illustrated by Bill New (b&w)[For Love Or Money originally began as the novel The Sexecutives (1968) by Donald L. Westermier (pseudonym of Edward D. Wood, Jr.). Wood turned the novel into a script named For Love Or Money that was in turn realized by sexploitation director Don A. Davis. As was popular, the film was turned into a Foto-Reader which featured text opposite film stills. The For Love Or Money Foto-Reader is an abridged version of...
Dates: 1968

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

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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...
Dates: 1968

Purple ThighsBy: Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1968

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Publisher: Private Edition Books, Canoga Park[Hippie sexploitation, cover says "Originally titled Lost Souls Delivered", Wood’s personal acronym for LSD. Main characters Adam and Eve.] excerpt

Dates: 1968

Raped in the GrassBy: Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1968

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Scope and Contents Publisher: Pendulum Publishers, Los AngelesPhoto Illustrated (b&w)[This Wood novelization of a "film" by D-M Productions, Los Angeles, was likely written from scratch and no film was ever produced. Raped in the Grass is a pre-Hearst/SLA Helsinki syndrome psycho-sexual fantasy. The book concerns two American girls who get captured by guerillas in a Central American country. A large amount of sexual and violent torture is unleashed by the guerillas on the girls who desperately want to...
Dates: 1968

Sex MuseumBy: Edward D. Wood, Jr.Pseudonym: Jason Nichols, 1968

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Scope and Contents Publisher: Viceroy Books, Canoga Park[Sex Museum is a retelling of various sexual rites and occurrences throughout history. [Page 81: "The father of our country, the U.S.A., may very well have tried to be just that, the FATHER of our country! He certainly made one hell of an attempt at propagating the race of early Americans to a point where many a colonial mother locked their alluring daughter behind doors when they saw the young militia colonel approaching. George Washington, the first...
Dates: 1968

Sex Shrouds and CasketsBy: Edward D. Wood, Jr., 1968

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Scope and Contents Publisher: Viceroy Books, Canoga Park[Writings on the intermingling of sex and religion. Page 113: "Harry TURNED the girls ON as he had done all of his adult life. But he TURNED THEM ON with a completely new, foolproof line. ‘The force of evil is within all of us! It is for me to turn that evil out of your souls.’ Then he would open the BOOK at random and read a short paragraph, then put in his own interpretation. None could deny his words because as so many of his predecessors, he was...
Dates: 1968