I never thought about the Samuels’ book Girl in the House of Hate as being a part of a series of lurid tales, but El Postino did on his blog Paranoia Strikes Deep. Wow, look at what he found!
When you see them all in a row like that you really see the gratuitous and sensationalized nature of the product! They are all by the same artist and are truly 50s bookcover kitsch—well worth collecting in their own right.
Oooh, and look at the last one The Girl on the Gallows. It is by Q. Patrick. Where do I know that name from? Oh yeah, from my own Borden bibliography: Q. Patrick, (pseudonym). “The Case for Lizzie.” The Pocket Book of True Crime Stories. Ed. Anthony Boucher. NY: Pocket Books, 1943. According to the late Terence Duniho, “Patrick Q.” was a pseudonym for Richard Wilson Webb and Hugh Callingham Wheeler. They also wrote under the names Patrick Quentin and Jonathan Stagge.
She looks like Vivian Leigh from Gone with the Wind to me.
