Rudy Nappi

A Touch of Depravity

She Demanded More Than Love, More Than Passion

Half Temptress, half tyrant — Crystal combined savagery, sophistication and strange thirsts.

From the back:

Sex was nice — and very necessary, of course — but it really wasn’t the big kick, not in itself, anyway. It was the conquest that mattered to Crystal, the joyous thrill of forcing a man or woman into abject submission. Yes, that was where the pleasure lay.
Even her own husband.
It would be fun being with Tim again. Tormenting him, goading him, flouting her affairs with women in his face until he seethed with rage — yes, it would be fun to see him loving her one moment and hating her the next. It would be fun to bring her husband to his knees once again.
Where he belonged.
Where the whole damned world belonged…

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Cabin Hostess (Original Title: Unfaithful)

The shocking story about what goes on behind the motel door

From the back:

WOMAN IN BONDAGE!
This is the revealing story about one woman who was owned body and soul by a ruthless operator. He used her innocence and beauty like commodities—to further his own ends.
She could have freed herself by talking about what went on in the dead of night on the grounds of the Florida motel—but what good would it do her? She was DAMAGED GOODS!
She knew it would take a man made of steel to make a real woman of her again. But what decent man would ever want her—with her past?

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Women’s Doctor

He Was One Man in a World of Lonely Women!

Once again, the look on the guy’s face is the best part of this cover.

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The Outcasts

Driven Over The Brink Of Decency… The Became — The Outcasts
An explosive novel that probes the soul of good and evil… exposes the magnetic pull that depravity can have over a young and beautiful girl

From the back:

4 PEOPLE… AT THE END OF THEIR ROPE
LEIGH WHITMAN …She had it made. With her beauty and fortune she could compel any man or woman to indulge her strange and compulsive desires.
DIRK… He was powerful and sadistic, but under the spell of Leigh’s insatiable whims, he groveled on his knees.
BRIAN DUNBAR… He was an artist who hungered for both fame and experience… and under Leigh’s influence, he was driven to the edge of madness.
JENNY… She was fighting for existence. She flirted with the stigma of lesbos and with the limits of male depravity.
FOUR PEOPLE GATHERED FOR A WEEKEND OF EMOTIONAL HELL… ALL OF THEM SWEPT INTO THEIR OWN CAULDRON OF WARPED TEMPTATIONS!

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Sin Preferred

He knew that she wasn’t right for him — but when he held her closely in his arms, wrong became right…

Later republished as Shanty Boat Girl

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Walk the Evil Street (1960)

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Lulie

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Dagger Of Flesh (1952)

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His Pleasure Was Women, His Business, Violence… His Partner — Death!

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Shock Illustrated #3

This is the last issue of Shock Illustrated, and the final non-Mad EC publication. It never even made it to the newsstands. Rather, a few copies (Overstreet says 100) were bound by hand and distributed at the EC office.

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Love Starved Hellcat

The lustful story of a woman searching for forbidden thrills!

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Girl Of The Midway

A story of the strange people, bitter rivalries, love and hate that flame behind a carnival’s bright lights

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Suburban Affair

A suspicious gossip, a love-starved wife and a lust-crazed artist all add up to a passionate story of infidelity and adultery!

I am willing to bet this this Rudy Nappi cover was swiped from an earlier publication of a different book, but I can’t find it.

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Backwater Woman

She Used Her Sex To Survive

From the back:

A Lusty Novel By The Author Of Riverboat Girl

The peaceable, easy-livin’ houseboat folk up along the Slough had never seen a creature the likes of that backwater woman named Feline. Soon as she sashayed her saucy prettiness into Spike Rudd’s cabin, she stirred up a torrent of greed, lust and violent jealousies. And all Miss Feline did was to wiggle a bit and display a good deal of her virginal charms. Not meaning any harm, mind you! For Feline was just an eager little gal wanting to reach straight up for a “man on top of the pile,” a man of property. How Feline got her man, and how she got the clan in a riotous uproar, with man against man and woman against woman and all of them against kitten-cunning Feline, makes for a roaringly ribald tale of lusty, earthy American primitives that you won’t soon forget.

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The Nude Decoys Of Lubang

A Strange Scheme To Smoke Out World War II’s Die-Hard Japs

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Salambo: High Priestess of Ancient Carthage

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