Gay pulp fiction exhibition, Emory University.

On view until October 7, 2022, at Emory University's Rose Library is the exhibition "Forbidden Loves and Secret Lusts: Selections from the Golden Age of Queer Pulp Fiction, which draws from the library's hundreds of such novels that were published from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Also, the library has added to its collection of Victorian yellowbacks.

More yellowbacks for Emory.

Cover of Mary Elizabeth
Braddon's The Fatal Three
(ca. 1890). Emory Libraries

Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library has announced the acquisition of 4,000 yellowbacks from Cleveland's Chester Topp; these will supplement its existing yellowback collection of nearly 1,300 titles. This is welcome news for those who love Victorian sensation works because Emory will digitize them for its online catalog (which includes images); one significant piece from Topp's collection is the first paperback edition of Dracula. Sadly, however, the collection will take about three years to catalog.

The sensational world of Victorian yellowbacks.

The Lazy Scholar peruses some lurid Victorian yellowbacks for our edification (see also some text on and images from these editions designed for the railway reader from a British Library exhibition on Victorian books).

About the image: Cover of Alice Wilde, the Raftsman's Daughter, by Metta Fuller Victor (aka mystery author Seeley Regester). Emory Digital Library.