CriminOlly has titled his latest round of book reviews, "One of these is the worst book I've read for ages..." So let's get this out of the way first: our Men's Adventure Library release of Walter Kaylin's He-Men, Bag Men, & Nymphos collection, which is reviewed in his current video, is NOT that book! Au contraire. Per Olly:
"As always, they (The Men's Adventure Library) did a fantastic job with it. This is a beautifully presented book."
Whew! And he doesn't stop there. In fact, he hits on something in Kaylin's work that I have long felt makes our Men's Adventure Library books so special:
"Walter Kaylin is almost certainly an author you haven't heard of...he was an incredibly prolific writer of short stories for men's adventure magazines...he wrote hundreds of stories, and in this one you get a really nice selection of different styles. You get war stories, you get gangster stories, there's a Western, a couple of fake "true" stories... All really entertaining short stories of a kind that you just don't see anymore... They feel quite different from modern short stories which tend to be either a bit literary or twist-in-the-tale horror."
Olly couldn't be more on target. What Walter Kaylin had, they're not making anymore. We are proud to play a part in preserving his work, and making it available to new readers.
We've cued Olly's video to his talk on Nymphos, but we encourage you to watch the whole video. His reviews are always worth watching:
Get Nymphos as a deluxe color hardcover from Amazon HERE.
