#Macfadden

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Pulp - Ghost Stories (Apr1929)

#Pulp #Ghost Stories #Horror #Ghosts #Pulp Art #Pulp Illustration #Vintage #Magazines #MacFadden #1929 #1920s #20s #Macfadden Publications

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Vintage Pulp - Ghost Stories (Aug1927) (Macfadden)

#Pulp #Horror #Ghosts #Pulp Art #Pulp Illustration #Vintage #Art #Magazines #Macfadden #Macfadden Publications #1927 #1920s #20s #Ghost Stories

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Ray Stanley - The Hippy Cult Murders - Macfadden-Bartell - 1970

#witches #hippies #occult #vintage #the hippy cult murders #macfadden bartell #ray stanley #1970

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

MacFadden Books 60-142 – Michael Leigh – The Velvet Underground

Michael Leigh – The Velvet Underground

MacFadden Books 60-142

Published 1963, 1st printing

Cover Artist: Paul Bacon Studio

“Come to the party – and bring your wife!”

#the velvet underground #macfadden books #pulp fiction #michael leigh #1963 #first printing #paul bacon studio #book cover art

[the25centpaperback]

The Black Dudley Murder by Margery Allingham, cover by Unknown Artist (1962)

#1960s #unknown artist #margery allingham #paperback #vintage #book #mystery #Macfadden Books

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

Steam swirls in tangled wisps of desire and uncertainty in this 1962 pulp edition of Luxury Nurse by noted American romance novelist Peggy Gaddis (1895-1966), published in New York by the Macfadden-Bartell Corporation. Originally published by Arcadia House as Magic in May in 1956, Luxury Nurse revolves abound a tangle of love interests. Nurse Sally Sinclair is dating Dr. Garry Linton, but does she love him? Sally is called out to care for the petulant 19-year-old Lisa Cannon at her affluent family's Azalea Cottage on Sea Island, Georgia. Lisa, “the season’s most successful and most popular debutante,” is recuperating from a serious mental breakdown, but her "high-strung disposition and self-pity made her as unpleasant to be with as she was lovely to behold," leading to strained relations between patient and nurse.

Local cad Thorne Cooper wants to marry Lisa, mostly for her money, and Lisa enjoys stringing him along. Soon, however, both Sally and Lisa begin to fall another local, the kindly Allen Blaisdell, who has built a miniature village on the island with the assistance of a community of disabled vets (seriously). This toy village imparts a kind of Lilliputian fantasy element to life on this exclusive island resort.

There's more to the story, but why bother. In the end, Lisa recuperates along with an inexplicable change in personality, winning the heart of Allen Blaisdell (with good riddance to Thorne). Nurse Sally returns to Dr. Garry, falling "into his arms as naturally, as beautifully as a homecoming bird comes into its nest at sunset” -- Gag!!

The last few paragraphs concerning the mutual affection of Lisa and Allen end with uncomfortable metaphors of cattle branding: Allen "put up a tough fight," and Lisa "had to run him down and hog-tie him," but she finally "got my brand on him at last. . . . he didn't have a chance once I'd marked him as mine." In response, Allen kisses her "golden head" and orders her to "Stop behaving like a bold little hussy." Oh, just . . . really?! Please!

Peggy Gaddis Dern was a dedicated and highly successful writer of romance fiction, especially nurse romances. She loved writing, and Wikipedia quotes her as saying "It's a sort of drug, for which I hope no one ever finds a cure." The cover art is by the prolific American illustrator Robert Maguire (1921-2005), who illustrated many of our nurse romance covers, including Nora was a Nurse, also by Peggy Gaddis, which we posted about earlier in this series.

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#Steamy Saturday #romance fiction #romance novels #nurse romance fiction #nurse romance novels #nurses #pulp fiction #Peggy Gaddis #Luxury Nurse #Macfadden Books #Macfadden-Bartell Corporation #cover art #Robert Maguire

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Gustav Von Seyffertitz-Olga Baclanova "Are you there?" 1930, de Hamilton MacFadden.

#Olga Baclanova #Gustav Von Seyffertitz #Hamilton MacFadden

[jolenes-book-journey]

Top 5 Reasons to Self Publish Your Books

Top 5 Reasons to Self Publish Your Books

Top 5 Reasons to Self-Publish Your Books As a multi-book published non-fiction author, I’ve had the opportunity to experience self-publishing for myself as well as my clients over the last 10 years. While there are pros and cons to traditional as well as indie publishing, I’ve found that self-publishing offers a number of advantages that can help you get your book into the hands of readers faster…

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#Are You a Hybrid Author #Author Jolene MacFadden #Indie Publishing For New Authors #Indie Publishing for Traditional Authors #Jolenes Books and More Online Store #Make More Later as a Author #More Creative Control as Indie Author #Top 5 Reasons to Self Publish Your Books

[weirdlookindog]

Ghost Stories - September 1928 (Macfadden)

#ghost stories magazine #pulp art #horror art #paranormal #ghost #supernatural #pulp magazine

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GIVE ME A MOVIE CAMERA

· 12 June 2021 ·

Jim Nabors rehearsing ‘’Panis Angelicus,’’ Latin for the ‘bread of the angels’ in the Roman Catholic Mission Church of St Jude in Sylacauga, Alabama. Courtesy of TV Radio Mirror. © Macfadden-Bartell Corporation, September 1966. From personal collection.

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A devout Roman Catholic until the day he died, Jim Nabors had always been God-fearing but, ‘Jim had drifted away from his faith at some point in his adolescence,’ so reported TV Radio Mirror, September 1966. He stopped attending church services and wandered about aimlessly through his teen years without any religious affiliation. Guilt-stricken for having turned his back on his parents’ sacrifices, he wanted so desperately to find God, but could not find Him within the walls of Protestant Christianity, of which he obtained no immediate spiritual satisfaction. His parents, who believed in the importance of weekly church attendance but did not believe in imposing a particular faith upon their children so long as they maintained a sense of God in their lives, readily blessed him to carve his own path, to let him find God through his independent and trying spiritual journey, apart from Methodism. ‘Yet, a grim depression gripped him… His heart was empty, too, with an emptiness that needed more than human love and fulfilment.’

His eldest sister, Freddie, was the first in her family to convert to Roman Catholicism when she married into an Italian-American family. His sister’s conversion only mildly influenced his decision—his sister, who was a member of Sylacauga’s then-only Catholic church, encouraged him to sing in the choir for a Christmas pageant during one cathartic holiday. ‘I’m not Catholic,’ he hesitated, but the local Catholic priest eased his worries by welcoming him with open arms. That priest was the son of a Syrian Jewish father and a Lebanese Christian mother, also a former Methodist, Father Mac Paul Abraham. Nabors cited, ‘He changed my life.’

Upon his return to Sylacauga one winter evening, Nabors quietly approached Father Abraham with a special request to convert him. The Father strongly advised he take instruction in Roman Catholic studies. Through sheer dogged determination to welcome God back into his life, he completed weeks of instruction during breaks from filming The Andy Griffith Show, attending Bible study, and taking up night courses in scripture and Latin, too. Some would say he studied to such a degree of obsession that it’s a wonder he didn’t quit acting to become a priest. In the mid-’60s, during a show hiatus from Gomer Pyle, Nabors wanted to be closer to God, and closer still. He found Him again in a Catholic Church in California. ‘For from another direction life suddenly took on meaning,’ he relayed. ‘I’d taken to slipping into the back of St Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in Hollywood, just to listen to the Mass.’ Ultimately, it was the prolific Los Angeles Reverend, Paulist Father Ellwood ‘Bud’ Keiser who converted him. Now spiritually uplifted and purified, he felt one step closer to God, and more loved and accepted than he ever felt before. ‘I repented and if my heart was truly contrite, He showered me with mercy and love and forgiveness. God set me free.’

𓆩♡𓆪 · ・ 𓆩♡𓆪 · ・ 𓆩♡𓆪 · ・𓆩♡𓆪 · ・ 𓆩♡𓆪 · ・ 𓆩♡𓆪 · ・  𓆩♡𓆪 · ・ 𓆩♡𓆪  𓆩♡𓆪 · ・

#my edit #photo from personal collection #old hollywood #1960s #p: jim nabors #Happy Holidays

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Vintage Pulp - Ghost Stories (Sept1928) (MacFadden)

#Pulp #Ghost Stories #Pulp Illustration #Pulp Art #Ghosts #Horror #Macfadden Publications #Macfadden #Vintage #Magazines #1928 #1920s #20s

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Vin Packer (pseudonym of Marijane Meaker) - The Evil Friendship - Macfadden - 1970

#witches #evil friends #occult #vintage #the evil friendship #macfadden books #vin packer #marijane meaker #1970 #love #strange and deadly love

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

MacFadden Books 60-142 – Michael Leigh – The Velvet Underground

Michael Leigh – The Velvet Underground

MacFadden Books 60-142

Published 1963, 1st printing

Cover Artist: Paul Bacon Studio

“Come to the party – and bring your wife!”

#macfadden books #michael leigh #the velvet underground #1963 #1960s #60s #1st printing #paul bacon studio #book cover art #mask #leather whip #leather boots #keys #a reblog

[gameraboy2]

Night of the Big Heat by John Lymington Macfadden 60-384, 1969 Cover by Jack Faragasso

#jack faragasso #night of the big heat #1969 #1960s #vintage #paperback cover #art #illustration #scifi #scifi art #science fiction #science fiction art #painting

[uwmspeccoll]

Steamy Saturday

When former UWM Art professor Leslie Bellavance first approached us 18 years ago with a proposal to donate her collection of nurse romance novels from the 1950s to the early 1970s, we were skeptical. It was true that we already held a significant collection of books documenting the development of American nursing as a profession, but how would steamy romance pulp fiction fit into that? It was this book, Nora Was a Nurse by American romance novelist Peggy Gaddis, published in 1962 by Macfadden Books, that caught our attention, especially the blurb on the front cover: "She thought of herself only as a dedicated nurse until she learned she was also a woman."!

The novel was first published by Arcadia House in 1953, a few years after the end of WWII, with an increase in women entering the workforce and the professions. The idea of women being desexualized by engaging in professional activities, only to be awakened to their true sexual selves by a dawning romance, was a goldmine for understanding common perceptions and stereotypes of women as professionals, especially nurses, in this post-war period. We accepted the entire collection.

In the novel, described as "thrilling reading, growing to an unexpected and satisfying climax" (Yikes!), nurse Nora Courtney falls for the new doctor, Owen Baird, in her adoptive grandfather's small-town practice in Shellville, Georgia. She is outflanked, however, by the charming and dreamy, but ice-hearted and conniving local belle Lily Halstead. Much steam ensues.

But, in accordance with romance novel formulae, Nora wins the heart of her Dr. Baird in the end. When she agrees to marry him, the good doctor experiences "the exaltation of a man who sees the gates to his most cherished private paradise swinging open before his eyes." (Double yikes!).

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#Steamy Saturday #pulp fiction #romance novels #romance fiction #nurse romance fiction #nurses #Peggy Gaddis #Nora Was a Nurse #Macfadden Books #gender stereotypes #nurse romance novels

[aquaetsanguine]

Summer went away Still, the yearning stays

Elsie MacFadden is a woman who’s obsessed with love. She eats it, sleeps it, hell, she’s even made a living off of celebrating it— but no matter how hard she tries, Elsie simply can’t find it. You see, Elsie has a peculiar problem: any time she loses her temper, she makes the world see red. Despite every attempt to control it, her unique “gifts” mean that she’s forever doomed to bring out some of the worst, most volatile qualities in others. From screaming matches, to barroom brawls, Elsie has a nasty habit of turning perfectly nice people into raging brutes… a real curse, for a girl who just wants to fall in love.

01. BASICS

NAME: Elspeth Blake MacFadden ALIAS: Elsie, Elle BIRTHDATE: October 24th, 1993 AGE: 30 BIRTHPLACE: Ottertail, Minnesota, USA GENDER: Cis Female SEXUALITY: Heteroflexible OCCUPATION: Wedding planner

02. LOOKS

HEIGHT: 5'1 HAIR COLOR: Blonde EYE COLOR: Blue FACE CLAIM: Nicola Coughlan

03. DEMIGOD DETAILS

PARENTAGE: Aries ABILITIES: Odikinesis, slightly enhanced speed and strength, advanced weapons training WORSHIPS: Aphrodite, Eros, Hera MAGICAL ITEM(S): None yet

'Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned

Chapter 1 - Never Grow Up

By most accounts, Elsie’s childhood was picture perfect. As the eldest of three girls in a quintessential nuclear family, her parents—a former pageant queen and a local grade school teacher—gave her the kind of idealized middle-class life that most Americans only dream of. It was a simple existence; summers spent lounging on the lake, winters playing in the endless snow, princess dress up games, and fairytales at bedtime. Really, Elsie’s girlhood was like a dream— well, it was for the first few years, anyway. See, for Elsie, puberty started young— in fact, she was only ten years old when her “monthly visitor” decided to make an appearance one day on the schoolyard. But the acne, and the boobs, and the stained jeans weren’t the worst of it… because for Elsie, there were flying pigs. Literal pigs. Flying. Very mean, very scary, very hungry pigs. And somehow, no one seemed to care. That meant poor Elsie, who’d never thrown a punch in her whole life, had to beat the snot out of the little porkers herself. As if all of that weren’t enough, when it was all said and done, it was Elsie who was in trouble. Fighting on the schoolyard, they’d said— she was a brute, a bully, a bad girl who hit second graders. Needless to say, Elsie was flabbergasted by the entire experience… A feeling that would only go on to be exasperated when a big, scary man rolled up on a harley to pick her up from the principal’s office. Under normal circumstances, Elsie never would’ve broken a rule and talked to a stranger, let alone let him give her a ride. But this stranger brought her a change of clothes and scared her principal so badly that he pissed himself, and quite frankly, Elsie didn’t have a lot of options at the time.

Chapter 2 - Seven

Three weeks and a few very illuminating (and slightly frightening) conversations later, Elsie left the midwest behind and arrived in Camp Halblood for her first summer. A sweet, idealistic child, she walked in with bright eyes and silly little fantasies of magic and myth filling her head. When she got there, she wasn’t disappointed — it was the kind of place she’d only heard about in story books. Pegasi flitting through the air, sword fights, super-powers: it had it all. 

However, there was one thing Elsie had failed to consider upon her arrival: the trouble with family. Whereas back home, she’d always gotten along with her sisters, her new “family” proved to be a different story. They didn’t bully her like they did the other kids— in fact, some of them were even downright nice to her. However, it was clear to just about every camper, herself included, that Elsie seemed to have missed the plot on the whole Ares thing. 

See, no matter how hard she tried, Elsie just never seemed to fit in with her brothers and sisters. Sure, she was capable enough with a sword and shield, but she had no passion for war. Fighting, arguing, training, competing against one another — such things brought her little joy. All Elsie really wanted to do was spend her summers braiding her friends hair and reading her silly little books by the lake. Needless to say, this made her the odd man out with the rest of her cabin.

Thankfully, Elsie found a home in other places: namely, Cabin 10. A giggly and feminine young girl, with a sweet disposition and a remarkable imagination that was fueled by all manner of romantic stories and outlandish novels, she easily found a home for herself amongst the beautiful and charming sons and daughters of Aphrodite. 

Chapter 3 - Forever and Always

The older Elsie grew, the greater and more varied her interests became: music, literature, fashion, beauty, pegasus riding, cooking, swimming, dancing, and all manner of arts and crafts. However, there was nothing that interested Elsie more than love. This most horrid of obsession filled Elsie’s every waking thought — the desire for it, the pursuit of it, the endless possibilities of how it might unfold or where she might finally discover it. Fueled by her wild imagination and the influences of her friends, it was all she ever thought about.

The summer of her sixteenth year, she finally thought she’d discovered it in the form of a handsome young demigod with striking eyes. Unsurprisingly, Elsie became utterly infatuated by him, and before midsummer’s eve, Elsie had won her very first boyfriend. 

Only, love is not often an easy thing for a teenage girl, let alone a child of war… One fateful night, Elsie discovered her little boyfriend snuggled up with another girl by the campfire. In that moment, everything went up in smoke. Elsie saw red and the next thing she knew, every camper gathered around that fire was at eachother’s throats. It was a brawl so outrageous, four people ended up in the camp infirmary overnight.

It was then that Elsie discovered a terrible and horrifying gift: the power to strike fear, hate, rage, and the horrific emotions of war onto others. A gift so tragic, it felt like a curse.

Chapter 4 - New Romantics

Elsie’s life took a dramatic turn when she came to Haydes eight years ago. Fresh out of college and more hopelessly romantic than ever, she dove headfirst into the world of wedding planning, turning her passion for love into a thriving business. Today, she stands as the town's premier wedding planner, orchestrating dreams into reality for the lovers of Hyades. While professionally successful, Elsie grapples with her own loneliness and personal failures. Her dating life has been a series of constant attempts to find love, yet her relationships seldom surpass the six-month mark. It seems that no matter how nice a guy seems, they never can withstand that inevitable first argument.

Now in her thirties, Elsie finds herself in a state of panic. The self-inflicted pressure to achieve her perfect life—a love-filled existence with a white picket fence—weighs heavily on her very soul. The fear of never attaining this idyllic vision leaves her feeling like the world is closing in, and uncertainty looms over her future. The once enchanting dreams of a fairy tale existence now face the harsh reality of adulthood, and Elsie is left wondering if her idealized vision will ever manifest.

#silk & rosewater: elsie-isms #hyades.intro