"Dope Menace boasts hundreds of full color images from the wicked subgenre of drug-exploitation narratives... The covers that made these authors books so easy to pick up are collected here for the first time? in all their seductive and transgressive glory."--Tucson Weekly While we now enjoy this exploitative genre for its campy kitsch? gloriously bad writing? and outlandish misinformation? drug paperback books were once a transgressive medium with a perversely seductive quality. Dope Menace collects together hundreds of fabulously lurid and collectible covers in color? from xenophobic turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking and William S. Burroughs' Junkie to the spaced-out psychedelic '60s. We mustn't forget the gonzo paranoia brought on by Hunter S. Thompson in the '70s? when anything was everything. Author Stephen J. Gertz is a well-regarded authority on antiquarian books and contributor to Feral House's Sin-A-Rama? an award-winning visual history of sleaze paperbacks from the sixties. Annie Nocenti? longtime editor of High Times magazine? offers an informative foreword.Paperback | 219 pages166 x 252 x 14mm | 659.99g39783Feral House?U.S.Los Angeles? United StatesEnglish