Low-budget auteur Ed Wood is best known for his work on such films as
Plan 9 from Outer Space,
Bride of the Monster, and
Glen Or Glenda,
but the director also spent a good portion of his career penning porno
novels for seedy publishers. And next week, a collection of Wood's rare
X-rated fiction will be on display in New York.
The info below comes from The Gallery Show
"The antiquarian mystique surrounding Edward Davis Wood Jr.'s career
as an author of pornographic pulp fiction is legend. He wrote under a
variety of pseudonyms, books were published and re-published under
different titles, and occasionally under different author names.
Multiple authors would share the same pseudonym, and the companies that
published the titles weren't the kind of operations that kept any kind
of records, nor paid royalties, nor really existed in the manner that
most are to expect of book publishers.
The paperbacks are truly rare, even in an age of mass-searchable used
book engines, and google ferocity. Ed Wood's sleaze fiction is also as
strange, idiosyncratic and out of step with his times and mores as his
infamous movies"
Wood would write porn inter-spliced with lengthy philosophical,
sociological and psychological discourse, he'd write first person
narratives of life as a transvestite in the buttoned up America of the
1950's. He'd riff on psychosexual themes, and unleash his id, his ego
and his superego in turn, sometimes in the same chapter. He'd write
about sex and the human condition without veneer or filters, offering up
the damaged and anguished voice of a desperately soul-searching drunk
with a sense of self-worth that would stand in dichotomy to his
self-pity.
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