Belmont 90-286 Paperback Original (June, 1963). First Printing. Cover by Robert Maguire
Charles Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. The first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of three of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues and The Woman Chaser. According to crime novelist Lawrence Block, "Willeford wrote quirky books about quirky characters and seems to have done so with a magnificent disregard for what anyone else thought."
The Belmont Book publishers commissioned "The Machine in Ward Eleven" as a paperback original. The manuscript -- even before it went to press -- had begun to scare the wits out of readers. In this collection of six related works of pulp fiction, Willeford tries his hand at psychological horror, weird fables and twist-ending stories popularized by The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock.
"The most eloquently brainy and exacting pulp fiction ever fabricated!" -- Village Voice
Belmont 90-286 Paperback Original (June, 1963). First Printing. Cover by Robert Maguire
Charles Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. The first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of three of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues and The Woman Chaser. According to crime novelist Lawrence Block, "Willeford wrote quirky books about quirky characters and seems to have done so with a magnificent disregard for what anyone else thought."
The Belmont Book publishers commissioned "The Machine in Ward Eleven" as a paperback original. The manuscript -- even before it went to press -- had begun to scare the wits out of readers. In this collection of six related works of pulp fiction, Willeford tries his hand at psychological horror, weird fables and twist-ending stories popularized by The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock.
"The most eloquently brainy and exacting pulp fiction ever fabricated!" -- Village Voice