Best of the Year: The Book Graveyard Digs WEASELS!

The Book Graveyard's Grounds Keeper Nick Anderson rates Weasels Ripped My Flesh! as one of the best reads of 2025! 

"This one is special. What you have here is a buffet...a sampling of all the types of stories [in the mags]... Some adventure, some horror, lots of action, war stories... Go check it out. If you're interested in the genre, it's a great place to start."

Nick's comments on all his picks are worth hearing, but the Weasels talk starts around 1:10. Please note: the goofy AI voice that is the video's default is NOT our noble Grounds Keeper. To hear the real Nick, be sure to click the video's SETTINGS wheel and change the AUDIO TRACK setting from ENGLISH (US) to SPANISH (US) (ORIGINAL). (It's not actually in Spanish.) Nick explains the situation in the video's comments section, but that's how to hear the video as intended.

 

Weasels Ripped My Flesh! is available in full-color softcover and deluxe hardcover editions. Buy from The Men's Adventure Library's co-editor Bob Deis HERE (free domestic shipping). Or buy from Amazon HERE.

WEASELS Makes Vaughan's Top 10 of 2025

BookTuber Michael K. Vaughan has turned loose a list of his Top 10 Favorite Books of 2025. Did any New Texture titles make the cut?

Well, the adorable weasel accompanying him in his video's cover photo is most definitely a clue...

"This is my first time reading this stuff, and it's amazing. I highly recommend this one."

A newcomer to MAM fiction, Vaughan read WEASELS as part of GarbAugust, and spoke at greater length on the book in his post at the time. Click HERE to watch that one.

Many thanks to Michael for his kind words and vocal support, and Happy Holidays to all our readers!

Weasels Ripped My Flesh! is available in full-color softcover and deluxe hardcover editions. Buy from The Men's Adventure Library's co-editor Bob Deis HERE (free domestic shipping). Or buy from Amazon HERE.

Michael K. Vaughan Picks WEASELS and NYMPHOS for GarbAugust!

"One must read Weasels Ripped My Flesh! for GarbAugust. One simply must." 

Thanks to our friends at Paperback Warrior, popular book vlogger Michael K. Vaughan is now the very happy owner of two of two deluxe hardcover editions from The Men's Adventure Library: Walter Kaylin's He-Men, Bag Men, & Nymphos, and Weasels Ripped My Flesh!

As you'll see in his July Book Mail video post below (titled "Weasels Ate My Postman"!), Vaughan couldn't be happier to receive the books, and immediately adds them to his GarbAugust reading list.

(What is GarbAugust? I refer you to the event's founder, CriminOlly.)

Michael, we can't wait to hear what you think of the books once you've tackled them...presuming you make it out in one piece.

Big thanks to Michael and to Paperback Warrior! 

Weasels Ripped My Flesh! is available in full-color softcover and deluxe hardcover editions. Buy from The Men's Adventure Library's co-editor Bob Deis HERE (free domestic shipping). Or buy from Amazon HERE.

He-Men, Bag Men, & Nymphos by Walter Kaylin is available in full-color softcover and deluxe expanded hardcover editions. Buy from The Men's Adventure Library's co-editor Bob Deis HERE (free domestic shipping). Or buy from Amazon HERE.

WEASELS recommended by THE WASHINGTON POST!

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The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda has singled out our new edition of Weasels Ripped My Flesh! as one of his holiday gift recommendations for 2024. 

We also appreciated this "rule" posted at the head of his list:

"When possible, avoid buying titles from the bestseller lists. This shows a lack of imagination. If you’ve ever gone to a 'pick-your-own' farm, you know that the sweetest strawberries aren’t those on top of the plant in full sun, but those nestled in the shade of the leaves. You just have to search a little to find them."

We couldn't agree more. Thank you, Mr. Dirda.

Read Dirda's column in full HERE on the Post's site.

Edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle with Josh Alan Friedman, the new edition of Weasels Ripped My Flesh! is part of the Men's Adventure Library series, and is available now in softcover and hardcover editions. Get it from Amazon HERE.

James Reasoner Praises WEASELS!

“My highest recommendation.”

A primary goal of our Men’s Adventure Library series is to spotlight great and under-sung writers from the MAM era and reintroduce them to contemporary readers of hard-boiled adventure fiction.

So reviews from those who make a career of writing fiction can be particularly meaningful to us, and writer/critic/New York Times bestselling author James Reasoner’s praise for our new edition of Weasels Ripped My Flesh! is very much appreciated.

"It’s one of the most beautifully produced books I’ve ever seen, with more cover reproductions and interior illustrations, better printing, full color, and updated and expanded articles and story introductions. 

"I’ll be honest with you, I was just going to skim through this new edition and read the updated material, but time and again, I found myself stopping to reread and enjoy all over again some of the stories."  

Read Reasoner’s full review on his Rough Edges blog, HERE.

Edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle with Josh Alan Friedman, the new edition of Weasels Ripped My Flesh! is part of the Men's Adventure Library series, and is available now in softcover and hardcover editions. Get it from Amazon HERE.

Gary Lovisi's Video Review of WEASELS!

"Just stunning."

 

Writer and pulp scholar Gary Lovisi has single-handedly taken on our brand-new, full color hardcover edition of Weasels Ripped My Flesh!

Is there anything left of him?

"This is a beautiful, beautiful edition. Just stunning. These are great stories. Over 400 pages, loaded with photos, interviews, and articles... (Includes) Walter Wager, Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, Mario Puzo...everybody who's anybody who wrote for these magazines, whether under their own names or under pseudonyms. Wild, wild stuff, and it's just great fun."

Gary's videos are always fun and informative, and his praise carries a lot of weight with us. See for yourself:

Edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle with Josh Alan Friedman, the new edition of Weasels Ripped My Flesh! is part of the Men's Adventure Library series, and is available now in softcover and hardcover editions. Get it from Amazon HERE.

WEASELS and NYMPHOS at the Vintage Paperback Collectors Show

The Mystery and Imagination table at the 35th Vintage Paperback Collectors Show, Glendale, CA

photo copyright © 2014 Wyatt Doyle

Josh Alan Friedman's Big Black Ass on MR. MEDIA

"You Can Kiss Josh Alan Friedman's Big Black Ass"

Josh Alan interviewed by Bob Andelman, Mr. Media. Al Goldstein, Weasels Ripped My Flesh!, Olde Times Square, Black Cracker, plus two new songs: "(You Can Kiss) My Big Black Ass" (@ 0:44) and "This Radio Don't Play Nothin' But the Blues" (@ 1:11:30).

Click to watch / download.

Buy Black Cracker by Josh Alan Friedman here.

The Killer Creatures of WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH!

Now appearing in the current issue of HorrorHound magazine (#42): "When Weasels Ripped Our Flesh," a new essay by Wyatt Doyle and MensPulpMags.com honcho Robert Deis. Drawing from three decades of pulp fiction and their own Weasels Ripped My Flesh! anthology, Doyle and Deis reveal how vintage tales from men's adventure magazines inspired numerous "killer creature" and "nature strikes back" films in the decades that followed.

Wanna read it? Order your copy direct from HorrorHound here.

Order your copy of the Weasels Ripped My Flesh! anthology here.

Fabulous Friedmans

Bruce Jay Friedman (Weasels Ripped My Flesh!) and Josh Alan Friedman (Black Cracker, Weasels Ripped My Flesh!), "on Isaac Singer's favorite bench, around Broadway and 82nd."

Photo copyright © 2013 Josh Alan Friedman

Wanna win a WEASELS?

How'd you like to win a copy of Weasels Ripped My Flesh! signed by Bob Deis, Josh Alan Friedman and Wyatt Doyle?

The wonderful Dangerous Minds blog is hosting a "Win a Weasels!" competition, and the clock is ticking! All you have to do to win is come up with the most outrageously entertaining "Weasels Ripped My Flesh"-style men's adventure mag headline in the bunch. Easy, right?

But be warned: the competition is fierce! Even today, Weasels contributor Harlan Ellison has joined the fray with his submission, "Ants Assailed My Anus!"

So hot-foot it over to Dangerous Minds for details and to enter the competition!

...If you've got the guts.

Frightened of competition? There, there. You can safely order your copy of Weasels here, and no one need ever know your shame.

WEASELS Ripped My Fest! Wyatt Doyle Appearing at San Diego Comic Fest

This weekend, New Texture brings Weasels Ripped My Flesh! to San Diego Comic Fest! Weasels editor Wyatt Doyle will appear in San Diego in support of the upcoming release with copies of the advance edition for sale. This absurdly limited advance run will only be available for purchase at Comic Fest.

In addition, we'll be previewing a pair of upcoming releases from New Texture books: Chris D.'s eagerly-awaited Gun and Sword: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980 and Wyatt Doyle's new collection of photographs and stories, I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat!

Our friend George Clayton Johnson (Twilight Zone, Logan's Run) is the event's Storyteller-in-Residence, and the Fest will present a re-creation of his legendary Laguna Beach beatnik coffeehouse from the 1960s, the Café Frankenstein. And lucky us, that's where our Weasels reading will be happening ... Daddy-O.

Wyatt's Comic Fest schedule, with descriptions from the Fest program:

Self-Publishing Today
The comics self-publishing boom began way back with Elfquest and Cerebus and hit its stride in the 1990s led by Bone and Strangers In Paradise. What is the status of self-publishing today? Is it all happening online now?
Panelists: Wyatt Doyle, Jackie Estrada, Batton Lash, Blaine Readler, Phil Yeh
Friday, 6:30 p.m., Crescent Room

Weasels Ripped My Reading!
The stories of Weasels Ripped My Flesh!, read (and performed!) by an all-star volunteer ensemble.
Saturday, 2:15 p.m., Café Frankenstein

Ray Bradbury and Comic-Con
Ray was a guest at the very first Comic-Con and attended regularly through 2010, even when he was restricted to a wheelchair. He was approachable, accessible and very popular with the fans. Our panelists will discuss Ray and his impact on Comic-Con.
Panelists: Greg Bear, Wyatt Doyle, Mark Evanier, Lisa Kessler, William Lund
Saturday, 5:15 p.m., Garden Salon 2 Room

Talking Weasels!
Wyatt hosts a wide-ranging look at men's adventure magazines and discusses the creation of the new anthology he co-edited with Robert Deis and Josh Alan Friedman.
Sunday, 10 a.m., Crescent Room

For complete Comic Fest details, check out their website, SDComicFest.org