Posts Categorized: Charles Gorham

The Best Pulp Noir Fiction Super Pack #5: 25 Hard-Boiled Novels By /////////////////

The Best Pulp Noir Fiction Super Pack #5: 25 Hard-Boiled Novels 25 hard-boiled, pulp noir novels written by 20 masters of the genre, back-in-print for the first time in 60 years, in one thrilling, action-packed collection.
Any Man’s Playmate by James Rubel
Bed of Fear by Doug Duperrault
Bogus Lover by Hy Silver
Death’s Lovely mask by John Flagg
Girl From Town by Jack Sheridan
Killers at Sea by Jon Messmann aka Alan Joseph
King Cobra by Ward Greene
Mamie Brandon by Jack Sheridan
McCaffery by Charles Gorham
Money Money Money by David Wagoner
Return to Vikki by John Tomerlin
Rock by David Wagoner
Station Wagon Wives by J.T. Pritchard
Take it Out in Trade by Walter Whitney
Television Tramp by Evans McKnight
Tell Me About Women by Harry Reasoner
The Counterfeit Courier by James C. Sheers
The Fraudulent Broad by James L. Rubel
The Frightened Fingers by Spencer Dean
The Future Mr. Dolan by Charles Gorham
The Man in the Middle by David Wagoner
To Hell Together by H. Vernor Dixon
Tropic of Cleo by Rick Holmes
Untamed by Warner Hall
Who Dies There? by James Duff

Wine of Life By

Wine of Life The monumental and unparalleled fictionalized biography of Honoré de Balzac – a volcanic talent, a savage libertine and one of the greatest literary figures of all time. This is Balzac’s incredible life story, from cradle-to-grave, from obscurity to fame, set against the dramatic, vividly-portrayed backdrop of 19th century France, shared from the point of view of the people closest to him.

“This book is big in every way and readers of romance, history and biography will all find this a heady literary drink, truly a wine of life.” Pensacola News-Journal

Carlotta McBride By

Carlotta McBride Charles Gorham's acclaimed, controversial and banned novel, lost for over sixty years, is finally back in print.

Who is Carlotta McBride? In the swank nightclubs of New York, Hollywood and Paris, she is the beautiful and brilliant star of stage and screen... but in the dark, lurid dive bars and dark alleys of those same cities, she is promiscuous and self-destructive, slowly killing herself with alcohol, drugs, and risky sex. She is a woman seared and haunted by trauma in her past that she can't escape, whether it's in the fantasy world of acting, or at the bottom of a whisky bottle, or in the arms of a brutal man. The only person who can save her is herself...but to do it, she will have to confront a shocking truth.

Trial by Darkness By

Trial by Darkness “This is a brilliant book written by a brilliant man who has no fear expressing his ideas.” Birmingham News

This is the driving, compassionate story of a young man's coming of age, a well-born rebel who defies his family’s two hundred years of aristocratic tradition…and flees the horrors that churn beneath its tranquil surface.

McCaffery By

McCaffery Finally back in print! This ground-breaking, controversial novel, banned in Australia and other countries for it's "homosexual references," was the dream acting/directing project of actor Sal Mineo, who was tragically murdered only hours after learning the movie would finally be made. 

Vincent McCaffery is bright, good-looking, and gifted teenage hustler who seduces both men and women for money. He moves from a NY tenement into a plush Greenwich Village brothel, hoping to make it rich, but he falls in love with a prostitute and then plunges into a world of decadence and violence when an older man becomes obsessed with him.

The Future Mr. Dolan By

The Future Mr. Dolan "Charles Gorham has written a masterpiece. It is a remarkable tour-de-force in character study that will stick in one's mind for a long time. But it is not for the squeamish." Chicago Tribune

Mattie Dolan is a clever and ambitious, 19-year-old sociopath, back from WWII and striving in the backstreets, tenements and dark alleys of New York to rise above the squalor that shaped him... and conquer the city.