Title: Twilight Men
Author: Andrew Tellier
Cover artist: Stella Lincoln
Yours for: $16
Best things about this cover:
- "... and ladies and gentlemen, your host ... Gene Rayburn!"
- This cover answers the question: "Is there a game show called 'Gay Mystery Date' in heaven?"
- Kind of odd to have "The Story of a Homosexual" feature a cover with a man emerging from what looks like an ermine-fringed vagina. Or the exploding face of Abe Lincoln.
- Wait, this tagline feels familiar: "The Story of a Homosexual." Hang on ... yes. Here we go. Interesting. So this is Lion Books 24. Double that number, and you get Lion Books 48, which has *this* tagline:
Just add "SPY"!
And the back cover:
Best things about this back cover:
- "More Than One Man In Every Five" — now *that* sounds like a party!
- "... have tasted of the forbidden fruits of homosexuality"; "forbidden fruits" = gay euphemism for "balls."
- Kinsey! No "frank," but a near-frank in "unadorned." That's pretty close.
- "We ask that you examine your conscience ... oh, man, it's fucking scary and dark in there. Stop. We take it back. Get out! Shut the door!"
Page 123~
Slips of rejection filled up the pigeon-holes of his desk and overflowed into the drawers.
Whoa. I'm not up on mid-century homosexual slang, but that sounds like some hot gay action.
~RP
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