You Dirty Rat Books

It all began with nickel pulp magazines. Publishers pumped out titles like Detective Stories, Romance Stories, South Sea Stories, Railroad Stories, Amazing Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, anyway, you get the picture. These magazines, with bright, lurid cover art, filled newsstands for the first half of the 20th Century and were read by countless millions.

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During that time, Hollywood produced movies with chapter serials. Studios like Republic Pictures churned out scores of Saturday matinee thrillers like The Crimson Ghost and Flash Gordon, before television came along. That infernal box sank the Saturday serials and pulp magazines to the bottom of the sea of indifference.

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​Then cheap paperback books came along and filled up drugstore book racks with imprints like Pocket Books and Dell. For a mere 25¢ readers were introduced to a new generation of detectives, spies, and romantic interludes. Now it's the Internet Age, with books being read on hand held e-readers like Kindle and iPad. No more paper pages to turn! Does that bother you? Maybe not. It does us!

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We remember the old ways, even in the virtual age of the Internet. That's how You Dirty Rat Books came about...to fill the void lost to the ravages of time. Sure, hardly anyone reads books anymore, but don't let that stop you from being different. Buck the trend. Take the road less traveled. Unplug your earbuds, plop down in an overstuffed armchair, and read a real book, a You Dirty Rat Book! It's the next best thing to a time machine. You'll thank us later by leaving a review (we hope). And thank you!