Surprisingly modern with just a dash of retro appeal these largely-forgotten novels are both great, fun reads and a bracing reminder that times change but people don't. This two-in-one edition features two unexpurgated erotic thrillers--"Man Eater" and "Night of the Sadist--from the golden age of gay adults-only pulp fiction, edited and introduced by Maitland McDonagh. "Night of the Sadist" and "Man Eater" use the conventions of adults-only fiction to explore the complicated and sometimes contradictory lives of gay men in the early '70s, as the gay civil rights movement began to claim a space in mainstream discourse. Vintage erotic novels, many by novelists unable to find other outlets for fiction that incorporated the sexual lives of gay men, peaked between 1968 and 1982, and as censorship laws were struck down across the US, the best of these writers continued to turn out well-plotted genre novels--spy thrillers, science-fiction tales, mysteries, swashbuckling adventures, gothic romances and pre-"Brokeback Mountain" westerns--within whose conventions they were able to explore the full range of their characters' lives.