Ed Wood's Sleaze Paperbacks (Deluxe 7" Edition)—Daley, Kugelberg, Luanda

He was the cinematic schlock auteur par excellence. The worst film director to ever shoot a picture so it's said, but to a discerning few of us, Ed Wood Jr. straddled bathos and pathos with a strange and dazzling grace. Today, Wood is largely understood through the lens of the Tim Burton biopic, which detailed the filmmaker’s public efforts to make no-budget masterpieces like Plan 9 from Outer Space, and his private life as a cross-dresser with a particular fetish for angora sweaters. Yet, that Hollywood tale covers only one aspect of Wood’s life. After a flurry of science-fiction and horror films, a cash-strapped Wood bottomed out entirely, turning from the camera to the typewriter. On this back end of his career, Wood penned a vertigo-inducing number of pornographic paperback novels and ridiculous faux-medical sex studies, using a cornucopia of pen names. His employers were sketchy publishing houses—sometimes mob-connected, often dodging (and sometimes fighting) various obscenity cha