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WARRIORS OF NOOMAS & RAIDERS OF NOOMAS

Now released as 

TORLO HANNIS OF NOOMAS 

the first part of

From WARRIORS of NOOMAS [Pocketbook Edition] back cover:

    In his first thrilling adventure, Torlo Hannis wakes up on the planet of Noomas without memory of any past life, yet aware that he comes from a vast inter-galactic civilization.
    On this new world of primitive city states, subtly-dominated by the mysterious Muties, where nations willingly go to battle for the possession of a beautiful princess, Torlo Hannis--the Lost One--struggles against hopeless odds to not only regain his lost memory but save the beautiful princes with whom he fell in love upon first sight.

From RAIDERS of Noomas [Pocketbook Edition] back cover:
 

    Torlo Hannis pits himself against the Diano warriors, battles his way out of slavery at the hands of theRaiders of Noomas and again meets with the mysterious Muties in his desperate attempt to return his Princess to her people.   
    "In this book you'll find Torlo Hannis' continued adventures with the Proctoress of his adopted nation even more chilling than before...for in the end, when full memory returns, the reader will react as if thrust through the heart with a naked blade!" -- Morris Chapnick.

  The two books were really one novel cut into two parts, and someday I would like to see them published as "Torlo Hannis: Warrior of Noomas" or something like that. They are very much Edgar Rice Burroughs type of fiction. I had planned on doing several sequals, but, sadly, it never happened.

* Cover art and illustrations for both Noomas books were done by Louis DeWitt (my uncle). At the time Dad was dying of cancer and was not up to doing any more covers. Even then Dad and I actually did some repainting on the "Warriors" cover while Bill Hughes did a little revamping on "Raiders."

    As Mr. Nuetzel said in the Epilog of the first Noomas book, "The silence is deafening for it leaves many questions unanswered."

The cover was painted by Albert Nuetzell [my father] and is the last an best cover he did. Forrest J Ackerman, my agent, did a very nice Introduction to this collection.  It has a book which has some of my sci-fi stories. Generally I consider this my best book, and it pretty much presents a good example of my writing at the time.

This is a collection of 13 sci-fi stories and satire, one a novella "The Ersatz.*"

* Originally published as "Lovers: 2075" by Charles English, it was also reprint in the Dutch sci-fi magazine APPLLO, under my own name.

     Cover by Albert Nuetzell. An ERB/Conan type romantic adventure. It was going to be reissued as "Thoris: From 30,000 BC," but the publisher went under before it was released, though a copy of the cover by Bill Hughes was printed for publicity reasons. I have a copy of the cover.

From SWORDMEN back cover:
     Cast into the ocean by the wind gods, Thoris and Illa, Princess of Haldolen, start out on an adventure that takes them to the Island of the Man-eaters and finally into the clutches of the Swordmen of Vistar where they fight alongside Xalla, the Wizard and his daughter, in an effort to gain freedom and a means to return to their homeland.
    "Charles Nuetzel tells the kind of story that he personally likes to read, and it will come as no surprise to the reader of this novel that one of his greatest favorites is Edgar Rice Burroughs. The adventures of Thoris the Mighty captivates the reader to the last exciting page." -- Fisher Tredtworth, Spaceway magazine.
    For readers who thrill to the adventures of John Carter, Conan the Barbarian, Thoris of Haldolen and his beautiful princess are destined to become popular heroes of fantasy-adventure.

This is the cover of the unreleased reprint of Swordmen of Vistar.  The cover was designed and painted by Bill Hughes for Powell Publications, who planned on making a series out of the Thoris of Haldolen character. It would have been fun to continue the adventures of Thoris and Illa; but no further manuscripts turned up. Of course it could have been that the hard times which hit the nation as a whole in the early 1970's was responsible for the demise of Powell Publications. Though I like to believe that the disappearance of Illa and Thoris had something to do with the evil Wizards of Haldolen and the Internet's WWW--thus the reason for Haldolen Universe.

SWORDMEN OF VISTAR now released on the net. Check this out! .

     This is a reprint of two books I did years before: "Lost City of the Damned" [for which my father did his first pocket book cover] and "Jungle Girl" [cover by Dad]. Bill Hughes did this cover and came up with the title "Jungle Jungle" on the logic it was graphically interesting and that the rhythm of the double use of the same word was commercial--for some reason which I have forgotten by now. And interesting item concerning this cover is that after it was published the artist noticed, and pointed out to me, that the man's hand, holding the gun, had five fingers...and a thumb. Imagine that!

From JUNGLE JUNGLE back cover: Two Thrilling Adventure Novels!     JUNGLE SAFARI takes the readers into the depths of the Amazon jungle in a search for the lost treasure of a forgotten civilization.
    JUNGLE GODDESS tells the story of Bob Lake phony "True Adventure" write and the savage blonde nymph who saves him and his companions from death in the jungles of Africa.
    "In JUNGLE JUNGLE, the author of Swordsmen of Vistar, Warriors of Noomas and Raiders of Noomas, once again offers further evidenced that one of his favorite authors is Edgar Rice Burroughs. These two books illustrate his ability to hold the reader from page to page until exciting climax!" -- Forrest J Ackerman

    These two stories were based on earlier editions of the novels, for which my father did the cover art. "Lost City of the Damned" was not one of Dad's favorite covers, in fact he actually disliked it. Yet it was liked enough by the fans to have been reproduced as a Post Card by PC Jeffrey Luther of PC Design (PO Box 782 Palo Alto, CA 94301). The cover for "Jungle Nymph" was one of my personal favorites. This was the story of a female "tarzan" type character. It was a fun book to write because it was very ERBish, though more current in its romantic involvements. I let my jungle nymph do what came naturally--and more realistically, perhaps, than the more famous Tarzan of the Apes. Times change; and in the last half of the 20th century men and women were more open about their sexual habits. In "Jungle Nymph" (and JUNGLE SAFARI) I attempted to draw a "realistic" version of a person who has been isolated in a jungle at a very young age. In this case the nymph was more open and free in her relations with my main hero, Bob Lake.   

Now released on the net. Check this out! . .

     This was assigned to me by the publisher. I had 6 weeks to research and write it. My father was supposed to do the cover, but he wasn't feeling too well, so I ended up putting this together, after their format style. I not only wrote the coverlines, picked the type face, but got the pictures and did the paste-up. Dad did some airbrushing on the photos; the rest was up to me. I was in a position at that time to offer to write the cover lines and flyleaf copy--and did so. Reprinted as: "Hollywood Mysteries."

From WHODUNIT back cover:
     Hollywood big money has fed the public on baby-food publicity for the last fifty years in order to save itself from the backlash of public opinion. Ever since the beginning the town has been a center for misfits, fortune seekers, homosexuals, who quickly caught public attention and fancy.
     People like Fatty Arbuckle rocked the nation when he was charged with the murder and rape of Virginia Rappe.
     Errol Flynn became infamous for the number of girls sharing his bed.
     Liz Taylor carried on the Hollywood tradition of flouting social customs and has shocked a world with her love affairs.
     In the Twenties, Hollywood was a cess-pool of vice, a self-contained community which did what it wanted, ignoring public opinion.
     The Thirties, the Hays Office attempted to soft-pedal the scandals which kept coming out of the town, but could not hide the unexpected suicide of Paul Bern, Jean Harlow's husband.
     In the Forties, Hollywood could not keep secret the affairs of Lana Turner, or the rape trials against Errol Flynn.
     In the Fifties, the scandal involving Lana Turner with Johnny Stampanato's death, could not be silenced.
     And now, in the Sixties, here is a book which studies the evidence of what Hollywood truly is through the scandals of the past and present, revealing a perverse and self-centered closed society where movie kings and queens flaunt morality, social custom and laws in the belief they can do anything--and get away with it!

     The author, Charles Nuetzel, knows Hollywood, has lived in the town most of his life, and written half a dozen books--under pen-names--revealing the truth as he has seen it! Now he dares to come out with a shocking book which exposes the town for what it really is!
 

    And now it is released in an exciting new, expanded, undated edition for 21st century readers!
Check this out!

This is a "Dan Benton" Mystery. It is the only "Dan Benton" Mystery. I did several mystery novels, as well as the sci-fi and fantasy [which I enjoyed most]. The cover for this book was done by Louis DeWitt. On the front cover was written: Called off vacation, Dan rushed to the aid of a friend to become tangled in a mass of killings without apparent motive.

     From SOFTLY back cover:
     TROUBLE WAS HIS BUSINESS.
     When Dan Benton learned that a long time friend was in trouble, he cut his weekend vacation short in Las Vegas and flew back to L.A.
     From that point on he became involved in one of the most intriguing cases in his career as a trouble-shooter and private investigator.
     First murder exploded the case wide open and then continued to twist into a startling series of mysteries that, in the end, could only mean death!
     A MYSTERY THAT KEEPS THE READER GUESSING UNTIL THE FINAL SERIES OF TWISTS LEAVE HIM ELECTRIFIED TO THE CHAIR IN SHOCK! 

     Another Mystery book, but this time condensed versions of two novels done earlier under pen-names.
From CONSIDER back cover:     What does the average person do when faced with immediate death?
     The author has revealed a depth of understanding of the human soul and stripped it bare in two startling portraits of average people in a life and death struggle for survival!
     The people in these two books are face with just such a nightmare! Unarmed, they must find a way out of the hellish trap that has squeezed around them. Without weapons, experienced or hope--other than their will to live and guts to try anything in a desperate attempt to escape death--they face their night of terror...knowing it will not end until death strikes!

Novel adaptation of the movie for "Queen of Blood." [The original script was by Curtis Harrington, Jr. who also directed the film.] Forry Ackerman (who had a small part in the picture) gave me this assignment; it had to be done in a couple of weeks. It was written with teenagers in mind; the publisher, sad to say, didn't consider this much of a factor when they published it to appear to be a more adult "erotic" novel.

From QUEEN back cover:
     VAMPIRE LOVER OF ALL MEN...Queen Velana's shimmering body communicated to the astronauts who had saved her all that she chose not to tell them...they learned the secret of her planet in her arms...too late! It was fully illustrated with photos from the film.

From the flyleaf:

This is the hard back edition of a book I called "Adapt or Die" - a far better title. Though I don't mind editorial cutting, but some 20,000 words or so cut from the original manuscript, not for literary reasons, but rather editorial/publisher concerns about keeping it short enough to fit book page length. This totally changed the book, leaving only the action. A shame. I would have willingly done the cutting myself; but was not given that option. *

From the book flyleaf:
     He was an old man even by the standards of the 21st century--over a hundred and twenty. So he was going into deep-freeze to achieve both youth and immortality, providing the great adventure succeeded. With an imagination enhanced by scientific insight, the author probes the riddles of life and the future.

* The Author's last word: A newly revised, updated version ADAPT OR DIE with all the missing parts in place, plus totally new material, is now released on the net. Check this out! . .

     This was a collection of sci-fi stories written by some of the top writers in the field, including: Isaac Asimov, Fritz Lieber, A. E. van Vogt, Fredric Brown, Marion Zimmer Bradley. A Ray Bradbury story, supposed to be included, was not, as a result of a printer/publisher mistake, though it is listed on the cover.

The Introduction was written by: Forrest J Ackerman.
 

The cover art was done by Albert Nuetzell.

    From IF THIS GOES ON back cover:

     There is YOUR LIFE IN 1977, a close, realistic look into the near future, by Willy Ley.

     IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR YOU, IF YOU HAVE EVER ASKED, "WHERE IS THE WORLD GOING?" THIS BOOK HOLDS SOME OF THE ANSWERS, SOME OF THE POSSIBLE RESULTS OF MODERN DAY TRENDS WHICH COULD LEAD US TO UTOPIA OR HELL.

Some other notable books were:

Now all released under my own name...

MURDER TIMES 4 by Charles Nuetzel

GOLDLUST by Albert Augustus, Jr

THE SLAVES OF LOMORRO by Albert Augustus, Jr

OPERATION NIGHTMARE by George Fredrics

A book which I did early on in my writing career, I think it was my third or fourth book. I originally started with a short story titled "Frozen Smiles & Glad Hands" which I'd written the year before. I changed only the last part of the story so it would work in the book. This was about show business and the gangster world of prostitution.

This book was written in "two parts," which means I started it at one time, lost interest and then continued it much later. I had worked on it after having finished four books in a very short period of time. I was burned out for the time being, so it rotted in my files. But a few days after getting married I got a call from David Zenter, one of the major publishers in Los Angeles, (who had bought my first book, "Hot Cargo"). He needed a book in a hurry. I remembered this manuscript and said, "Sure." I finished "Sex is My Business" and had it in his hands by the agreed upon deadline.

This byline was one of my first pennames, and the name I used for my first book (Hot Cargo). The book was written, at top speed, with three other books; one after another, without stop for anything other than sleep and food. When writing a book I'd first simply set up a plot-idea, a point from which the story would begin. In "Passionate Trio" a man gets beaten up for making it with a young lady. This starts him out on a path that leads to a gangster infested world.  I originally called it "Syndicate Woman" but ... editors seem to like to change things.
 

This book told about a rather charmingly, nasty young woman who had the ability to capture the attention, if not the heart, of most men she came across. She was "one part angle and 3 parts evil," according to the cover lines. And that was probably fairly much the truth. It was done for Pike Books. Bob Pike, the editor/publisher phoned and asked for a book. Bob, being, also, somewhat of a photographer, did the cover photo, as he did for quite a few of the Pike books.

As the title suggests, this was about the Hollywood movie industry and the habit many execs had of using the couch to cast films, something that is...er...well never done today! Of course not! Actually it probably never was done with any real success--except for some special exceptions. Success, that is, for the starlet who was willing to throw her bod into the arms of any power boss she believed would give her a part, or a lift up in her career. There were, of course, in ShowBiz, as with all industries, people who took advantage of their power positions to use those eager young people climbing their way up the ladder of success. There is nothing new about that. The book was later published in Dutch, and in the Copyright page there was a notice saying that the book was a translation of "The Casting Crouchers"--which I thought was a rather funny mistake--if not to the point.
Now out in print edition, almost doubted in length.

This became the first of some 20 books done under the Carson Davis byline. It was a rather interesting series of books to write because it was possible to fill them with "messages" in a very direct manner. This book set up the style of this series. A six volume hard cover set of the "Best of Carson Davis" was published in Holland, both in Dutch and French, as a give away for joining the publisher's Book Club. I actually got so interested in putting that set together that I wrote quite a bit of special material, making it more than just a reprint "Best of" type project.

Published as part of THE CARSON DAVIS FILES

She was a female "tarzan" type woman who was more "loose" than Tarzan of the Apes. She did what came naturally--in a manner that seemed more realistic to me. No "fates worse that death" were experienced in this book. I was basically interested in exploring the idea of what would happen if a young girl managed to survive in the jungle alone? Would she be asexual or consider sex as nothing more than a normal part of life? I enjoyed writing it, though there were some difficulties involved in putting the book together. For some reason it was one of those half finished manuscripts which lay around in my files for some time before getting finished. Then one day I needed a book, fast--and this turned out to be an obvious solution. By then it was fresh and I was inspired, probably by deadline. So I finished it and presented it for publication on time to meet the deadline. 

The first and only of a series of "James Bond" type stories, which never went beyond this opening book. I found it difficult to write, simply because it bored me to death. I think I was going through one of those periods writers many times experience: the dreaded "dry spell"--and had to use every trick I knew to finish the book. Yet it was reprinted elsewhere, and was, actually, not all that dull. Writers can never tell which books are good and which are bad. What bores them at the time of writing turns out better than expected; those they love are really a bloody bore.

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