The queasy charm of Four Square paperbacks ...

I spent the afternoon in The Crooked Book - 

I explored a reef of lurid pulps - 

Spaceships circled an emerald moon - 

A Princess of Mars was a prize for living chessmen - 

Priests worshipped strange gods in golden temples - 

Tentacles encircled a spacewoman's waist - 

A robot haunted an empty city - 

A gumshoe sipped a mickey finn - 

I was seduced once more by the queasy charm of Four Square paperbacks - 

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Saturday 16 September 2017

The Crooked Book

Bournemouth