Always happy to share this historical hottie.

BLACK HORROR MONTH ~ Day 3: T.K. CARTER Today I had to tribute another great actor from one of my favorite movies, @thehorrormaster.bsky.social THE THING (1982), who sadly passed away last month. T.K.'s rollerskating chef Nauls to the tune of SUPERSTITION was 👨🏾‍🍳👌🏾 #BlackHorrorMonth #BlackHistoryMonth

Anyone up for a neo-Victorian porn marathon? Dug these out while prepping for a class on Victorian sexuality today as examples of how we retrospectively view the time period and how it can be hard to untangle their kinks from ours.

At some point years ago I had to tell myself that I could collect books or toy monsters but not both. Obviously I chose books. But occasionally I backslide.

[Robert McGinniss was BOTD a century ago, to paint movie posters and a million paperback covers. Also, barn cats. He lived to be 99, and kept working.]

Two phenomenal moments of queer angst from two of my favorite movies of all time, Boogie Nights & Velvet Goldmine. They introduced 90s teen me to the glam, the sex, the music, the filth, the smut of the 1970s & shaped all my future interests. Both currently on the Criterion Channel’s 90s do the 70s

Books about “weird” women are practically a genre unto themselves these days but even though I gobble them up, I’m often left empty because the “shocking” or “weird” behavior is… not so much to me. But Linda, the woman in love with airplanes in this book—I would die for her. Loved this beyond words.

I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up! Come and join us! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn

become ungovernable

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

I’ve been a Hard Case Crime fan since day one but never got around to reading these when they were originally published 2006-8. Two writers at the top of their game clearly having a blast together is a joy to read. Utterly filthy, dark, disturbing and fookin’ hilarious.

Fritz Leiber with his wife Jonquil (Johnny) Stephens Leiber, the inspiration for his greatest works, Conjure Wife and (after her death) Our Lady of Darkness. A poet and weird fiction fan in her own right. Bonus cat doodles by Fritz from the Lilly Library’s Leiber archive. 🖤

Do I watch By Dawn’s Early Light, an otherwise boring episode, just to see Columbo in his slutty little undershirt? Yes, I do.

2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, & Successes Over The Year. Dive into this groundbreaking collaborative piece from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @bookriot.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social, and @flfreedomread.bsky.social bookriot.com/book-censors...

I posted two (TWO!) new blog-galleries. The first is for Sergio "Ser" Leone, an artist who created a high percentage of the covers for one of my fave cheese-sleaze publishers... Kozy Books! www.paultobin.net/blog-2-1/ser...

No way I can express my love and appreciation of David Gerrold’s work. The man invented Tribbles. He invented the Sleestaks. He wrote one of the best (sadly unfinished) sf epic series of all time (Chtorr). He was a queer voice in sf whose queerest stories were often butchered, censored, or unfilmed.

I love book history and book historians so much. We get to ask the weirdest questions.

A good mail day for Nympho Librarian. I am dying to finally see a proper restoration of Behind the Green Door, and I have long been trying to track down a copy of this zine that includes an article by legendary pulp collector B. Astrid Daley about the elusive pulp cover artist Doug Weaver.

RIP John Carey. This book changed my life, and I wouldn’t say that if it wasn’t true. 🙏

I was asked yesterday if I thought that English might benefit from a governing academy, like French, and noted that a language that, to date, supports dreamed and dreamt, dove and dived, and pleaded and pled, is not a language you can govern. (And I wouldn't want to.)

Massive (but typical) failure of the publishing industry to recognize the demand for queer books and for PHYSICAL PRINT COPIES of books. #BookHistoryLive

Funny you should mention that arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/w...

Nothing better than finding an amazing book in your own collection. When I did my deep dive on Richard Geis (aka Peggy Swenson) a few months ago, I forgot I owned this. College lesbian corruption is one of my favorite subgenres of queer pulp.

Holiday spirit has evaporated. Trying to stay positive. 1 like = 1 attempt to summarize a classic Mythos story in a single skeet

She’s finally here, part one of my glorious descent into hell. open.substack.com/pub/nympholi...

She’s finally here, part one of my glorious descent into hell. open.substack.com/pub/nympholi...

“The keeping of records remains itself a kind of warfare. The keepers, whether they wish to or not, cannot be neutral.” Currently reading Graham’s longer book about librarian spies, Book and Dagger, and can’t recommend it enough!! www.publicbooks.org/the-spy-who-...

kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders

I don’t have a lot of P.E.C. lesbian titles, but the ones I have live up to the promise of “The finest in adult reading.” I’ve been working hard on my Substack and you’ll see one of these soon!

Titles from P.E.C.’s French Line, the publisher’s gay imprint. One of the reasons I can’t find much about P.E.C. is that, unlike their competitors Greenleaf and Milton Luros’ Parliament empire, they weren’t involved in any legal battles that I can find.

Im trying to find more information about P.E.C. (Publisher’s Export Co.). It was a 60s/70s San Diego smut publisher founded by Donald Patrick but I’m really stuck trying to find out anything about him or the company. I know lots of you have P.E.C.s in your collections but does anyone know more?

Boys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses and conduct sacrificial blood rites. #DailyPaperback

This whole novella is stunning but this passage stopped my heart for a second with its raging truth. #BookStdies #Disability

I am speechless—bodiless—with wonder over @danchaon.bsky.social’s One of Us. The highest compliment I can pay it is a place on the shelf with the greatest books about carnivals of all time. It’s a very close 3rd—just a hair—behind Geek Love and Nightmare Alley & I will read it again many times.

Thurston wishes you a happy spooky season 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 🍁

Requiring Book Sellers to Rate Content of Books Unconstitutional, Per Federal Judge 📚 bookriot.com/texas-reader...

Typophiles, Doug Wilson has digitized more industrial and other movies of old about typecasting and typesetting! realdougwilson.com/writing/new-...

Incredible title, incredible cover. Might have to read this one. #DailyPaperback #Gothtober

COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

If you aren't happy single, you won't be happy taken. Happiness comes from Star Trek, not relationships.

Perfect television, 10/10, no notes.

nympholibrarian.substack.com/p/the-devil-... The long-awaited conclusion of The Devil is Gay is finally posted, with detours into Star Whores and How to Write a Porno for Fun and Profit What’s next on the Nympho Librarian’s desk? What could possibly follow The Devil is Gay but Satan Was a Lesbian!

In 1983 Philip Morris bought three Candlelight Romances from Dell to promote Belair cigarettes. These “Compliments of Belair” editions were promotional items for customers.

This will not stand, man! #StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #StarTrekTNG

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A day late for the old beast’s birthday but not too late to be a #Gothtober #DailyPaperback

I love book gimmicks so much I once curated an exhibition called “Death By Gimmick!” so of course I had to order this mayonnaise-sponsored stinky tome. I will follow up with an assessment when I get it.