Don Holliday’s sleaze novel The Lust Pigs came from Greenleaf Classics for its Midnight Reader line 1962 with uncredited cover art. Holliday, as you know by now, was a pseudonym. The real author behind this was David Case, who wrote ten books total for Greenleaf, including Lust Circuit and Luster’s Lane. Clearly he had a thing about lust. As do we all.
The book is about a youth gang called the Wild Pigs, and their leader, a kid with the ridiculous name Nebraska Brace. Other members are named Fred the Head, Chino, Cherry Red, etc, and interestingly, they’re pan sexual. It seems so, anyway. Though it never comes up again in the narrative, check out this bit:
“Let’s get Fred while he sleeps. He’s better than a woman anyway. Look at that head, it’s enormous. And he snores, too. We can sneak up and tag him before he knows what happened.”
Brace was cut short in his planning by the loud snap of Fred’s teeth as they closed. Fred still seemed to sleep, but his teeth clicked shut ominously. And that ended the great plan to rape Fred the Head, for if there was one thing that the Wild Pigs feared it was castration.
The rest of the book deals with the gang’s attentions toward neighborhood girls, occasionally with similar undertones of sexual assault. Nebraska eventually gets involved with a girl named Dixie, while Cherry Red hooks up with a girl named Judy. The fact that Dixie is the ex of the leader of another gang of toughs soon catalyzes conflict when that quintet rapes Judy twice over. At that point the stakes turn deadly.
The final lesson of the book? Stay out of gangs. The Lust Pigs was a very quick read, but a very bad one too. It’s the first Greenleaf book we’ve experienced, and if we were sane it would be the last, but it probably won’t. This sleaze thing is increasingly interesting to us, though not the rapey aspects. There are probably better examples from Greenleaf out there. We recommend steering far clear of this one.
