Risque Stories No.4
- RISQUE STORIES No.4 - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on a 11 x 14 size coquille board.
This booklet was edited and produced by Robert Price in the early 1980s under his "Cryptic Publications" imprint. Reverand Price liked to "spoof" the pulp magazines published during the 1940s and 50s with story titles on their covers like the one you see on this cover, "Love-Slaves of the Sandanista Torture Squad".
I never read any of those stories, but Price told me they were never as salacious as the titles implied, that they were far less "risque" than stories you are liable to read in books today, or the stories you watch on TV or see in the movies nowadays.
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No one would consider these kinds of stories to be great literature, but most people don't know what great literature is, so here is William Faulkner to tell us;
"Great literature - the kind you cannot afford to miss - speaks
to problems of the spirit, the "human heart in conflict with
itself," and nothing less. It lifts our eyes to the virtues we
possess and the nobility we would acquire, and helps us to prevail."
How odd, it seems to me that those are the kinds of stories I read in
the many science fiction magazines I bought.
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