Randolph "Dilda" Carter

If you want a really bizarre book cover to carry around so people think you're nuts, well here it is.  This is the hardcover binding cover, not a dustjacket.  Sure to start a conversation (not) when caught reading it on the subway.  Be assured, nobody will want to make eye contact.

Hey, what about what's inside?  Well, you're in for a treat because this tasty morsel has all of Ray Russell's Gothic stories.  Forget these if you want something politically correct.  Ain't happenin'.

Ray Russell was an editor for Playboy and had a lot to do with those "articles & fiction" you always told your Mom you had these hidden under your mattress for.  And if you ever managed to talk your way out of a mouth washing with that lame excuse, you have Ray to thank.  In addition Ray wrote a handful of stories in what I would call the racy Gothic vein.  The collection is anchored on the Sagittarius triptych of stories which are justly legendary.  Each of these is a longish tale, unrelated, that will leave you with a little something you didn't see coming at the end.     The rest of the stories in the book pretty much take the epistolary or club tale format to do a similar late wrenching of the brain.  

Highly recommended if you have not read all these stories before.