Harpy Town

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Lust Running Wild In — Harpy Town

From the back:

TOWN TRAMP…
…the quiet, parched little town rocked from the blow of murder… foul and cruel and needless. Maudie had been such a nice girl, always willing to oblige any man, enjoying the shame and degradation that was the exclusive right of the town tramp. While all the other wantons went about their daily disgraces. Jack Bristol, the rough and ready lover. Rose, his wife, who only had charms for Rex Grayson. But they all fell under suspicion and became helpless victims to the depraved —
… SHAME CHASE!

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King Dragon

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King Dragon Paperback Cover (Ace Books, 1980)
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This cover scene was painted by Rowena Morrill based upon Esteban Maroto’s Pellucidar drawing of the sacrifice of a girl to a mahar for a proposed Ace Books illustrated edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ At the Earth’s Core. When that Ace Books project ultimately fell through, the publishers commissioned Offutt to write a novel around the Maroto illustrations. The end result was the novel King Dragon.

This particular image gained notoriety when The New York Daily News reported that Saddam Hussein had the work hanging in a secluded townhouse during his fall in Baghdad — but that particular painting turned out to be a mere copy.

And with that, we mark 13,000 posts here at Pulp Covers. Thank you for visiting!

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