The Ghost Table

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This seminal pulp marks the very first appearance of the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft, via the oft-imitated but never surpassed story The Call of Cthulhu. It also contains The Dream Snake by Conan creator Robert E. Howard.

Of course, neither of those stories were quite good enough to get featured on the cover, which went to “an exciting tale of occult phenomena – a rampant beast, lusting to kill, this table with the tiger-claws.” The entire issue can be downloaded here

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The 69 Pleasures (The Lady from L.U.S.T. #3)

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They needed an undercover agent in Hong Kong — and nobody is better under the covers than Eve Drum, the world’s sexiest spy.

From the back:

L.U.S.T. FOR POWER
Things really start to move when The Lady From L.U.S.T. once again goes into action against the forces of evil. In The 69 Pleasures, third book in the country’s most popular new spy-spoof series, Agent Oh Oh Sex, gorgeous super spy Eve Drum, goes after the monstrous Oriental crime cartel called D.R.A.G.O.N. Posing as an exotic dancer (and we’d like to see old James Bond try that), she grinds and bumps her way right into the middle of a dastardly Red Chinese plot to assassinate the President of the United States. Oh Oh Sex’s orders are simple: kill the killers, even if you have to love them to death. Set against a colorful Hong Kong background, this swift-paced novel has just about everything: girls who do their best thinking in bed, headlong excitement, wild sex, hiss-able villains, mad humor. By the time the world’s sexiest spy gets through with the Far Eastern heavies, she has them wishing they were back baking poisoned fortune cookies for the Russians. If you liked Lady from L.U.S.T. #1 and #2, you will flip over The 69 Pleasures.

Painting via Heritage Auctions, cover from my own collection. This entire book can be read here

5 Beds To Mecca (The Lady from L.U.S.T. #4)

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Eve Drum is given the toughest, dirtiest assignment of her career — to stop a new holy war in the Middle East. And, as usual, Operative Oh Oh Sex takes it lying down.

This entire book can be downloaded here. From the back cover:

Eve Drum, super spy and super girl, gets the wildest, toughest and sexiest assignment of her fabulous career. Eve’s job: to stop a stop-at-nothing organization of Middle Eastern fanatics (A.L.L.A.H.) from touching off a holy war that will engulf the entire world. Working with her favorite Israeli agent, and figuring that the quickest way into an Arab madman’s headquarters is through the infamous white slave market of Beirut, Eve arranges to have her milk-white body put on the auction block – and what a prize she is! After that the action goes wild as bullets fly, knives flash, hypodermics hiss, and bedsprings creak. Always ready for a new kick or a new kill, Eve wiggles her way through the zaniest spy romp ever written – and loves every minute of it. Sex is Eve’s best weapon, and never before has she used it with such deadly effect. Even the erotic maniac, Sheikh Iskander ibn Rashid, can’t keep up with her as she shows him far-out delights and bedchamber gymnastics they never dreamed of in the Kama Sutra. In the end, sex conquers all, just as Eve knew it would.

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