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Final GarbAugust Notes:
Anything Goes Week
Read it for Bingo Card Prompt: Weirdly Specific Sub-genre
Decades: 1910s, 1940s
Assessment: Several tales have offensive, out of date aspects, which is a pity because otherwise this is a GarbAugust pick with great variety. I am calling the poetry culled from pulp magazines, included here, a weirdly specific sub-genre, Pulp Poetry! Seems niche enough to me.

Today I read ‘The Torture Pool’, by MacKinlay Kantoe. New author for me - fun story. Swamps and quicksand always get me nervous…

I read an entertaining Crime story called ‘The Deadly Orchid’ by T. T. Flynn. After recently reading The Black Lizard - which I loved - any female villain like the Orchid will have a hard time measuring up to the Black Lizard! But of course the Black Lizard had a whole novel to work her schemes.

I read two Western tales - as penned by Max Brand, and then Luke Short - followed by ‘One Hour’ by Dashiell Hammett.

Doing just a little bit of GarbAugust a day early, by reading the first tale in this book, which was very entertaining: ' The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw' by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Caveman, thawed out, alive after 50,000 years. SF concept, done with humour and some social commentary on 'modern' 1930s life. This was followed by a comic-panel style pimple-cream ad from 1936. Reading this for 'Weirdly Specific Sub-Genre'.

GarbAugust Pick. I'm reading this to cover the following prompts: Anything Goes, 1920s (and various years), and Weirdly Specific Sub-Genre. If 'pulps' is, for you, not a proper 'Weirdly Specific Sub-Genre', then be aware that the contents of this book include Boys' Adventure Pulp, and Pulp Poems (which I have encountered before, as by Fredric Brown, and James M. Cain). Pulpy Poems should do it, or one weird tale...