Monarch Books

This article is about the American Publisher. For the Monarch imprint of Lion Hudson, see Lion Hudson.

Monarch Books was an American publishing firm in the late 1950s/early 1960s which specialised in pulp novels. Some of these, like Jack the Ripper (1960), were movie tie-ins.

Published novels (a sampler)

• 101 - Dark Hunger by Don James (1958) ^[1]
• 102 - Winter Range by Alan Leman (1958) (Ⓒ 1932) ^{[2] [3]}
• 105 - Shadow of the Mafia by Louis Malley (1958)
• 107 - Wild to Possess by Gil Brewer (1959)
• 115 - Madigan's women by John Conway (1959) ^{[4] [5]}
• 123 - Beyond our Pleasure by James Kendricks (1959) ^{[6] [7]}
• 125 - Nikki by Stuart Friedman (1960)
• 131 - The Darkness of Love by Harry Olive (1960) ^{[8] [9]}
• 133 - The Flesh Peddlers by Frank Boyd (1960)
• 134 - Fury in the Heart by W. T. Ballard (1959)
• 136 - Not For A Curse by Karl Kramer (1959)
• 137 - Jailbait Street by Hal Ellson (1960)
• 140 - The Glory Jumpers by Delano Stagg (1960)
• 143 - Jack the Ripper by Stuart James (1960) – tie-in with the 1959 film of the same name
• 146 - A Girl Named Tamiko by Ronald Kirkbride (1960)
• 147 - Like Ice She Was by William Ard (1960)
• 149 - The Flesh and the Flame by Robert Carse (1960)
• 152 - The Sins of Billy Serene by William Ard (1960)
• 153 - Frisco Flat by Stuart James (1960)
• 173 - The Satyr by James McKimmey, Jr (1960)
• 184 - The Lovers of Pompeii by Theodore Pratt (1960)
• 187 - Appointment in Hell by Gil Brewer
• 196 - Lament for Julie by Robert Colby (1961) ^{[10] [11]}
• 199 - Brother and sister by Edwin West pseud. Donald Westlake (1961) ^[12]
• 201 - The Fly Girls by Stuart Friedman (1960)
• 202 - Debbie by Paul Daniels (1960)
• 206 - By Passion Obsessed by V.J. Coberly (1961)
• 207 - The Strange Ways of Love by Clayton Matthews (1961)
• 212 - Beyond All Desire by Tom Phillips (1961)
• 221 - My father's wife by Jay Carr, pseud. James P Duff (1961) ^[13]
• 241 - Rasputin: the Mad Monk by Stuart Friedman (1959) – tie-in with the film of the same name
• 252 - The Space Egg by Russ Winterbotham (1962) ^{[14] [15]}
• 253 - The Promiscuous Doll by Clayton Matthews (1962) ^{[16] [17]}
• 258 - Hollywood Starlet by Don James (1962) ^{[18] [19]}
• 262 - Tropic of Cleo by Rick Holmes (1962)
• 267 - More about Marmaduke by Brad Anderson, Phil Leeming (1962) ^[20]
• 269 - Give Me This Woman by William Ard (1962)
• 275 - Save her for Loving by William Johnston (1962) ^{[21] [22]}
• 293 - Women of evil by Wenzell Brown (1963) ^[23]
• 299 - Ruby by Paul Daniels (1963)
• 300 - King of the Harem Heaven by Anthony Sterling (1960)
• 304 - The Wicked, Wicked Women by James Kendricks ^[24]
• 331 - Nude Running by Clayton Matthews (1963)
• 333 - The Texas Rangers by John Conway
• 339 - G. I. Girls by John Jakes (1963)
• 343 - Dark Hunger by Don James (1963) ^[25]
• 361 - By Her Own hand by Frank Bonham (1963)
• 362 - Rest in Agony by Ivar Jorgensen (1963) ^[26]
• 364 - Wild to Possess, 2nd Printing by Gil Brewer
• 377 - Nikki Revisited by Stuart Friedman (1963)
• 385 - My Neighbor's Wife by Sam Webster (1963)
• 387 - Company Girl by Nicholas Gorham (1963)
• 389 - Occasion of Sin by Robert William Taylor (1963)
• 394 - Pattern for Destruction by Paul Daniels
• 395 - The Violent Lady by Michael E. Knerr (1963)
• 397 - 21 Sunset Drive by Henry Ellsworth (1964)
• 403 - Sherry by Wenzell Brown (1964)
• 405 - The Jet Set by Mack Reynolds (1964)
• 412 - November Reef by Robert Maugham (1964)
• 413 - End of a Diplomat by Ronald Simpson (1964)
• 416 - In Savage Surrender by Whitman Chambers (1964)
• 420 - Louisa by Eric Allen (1964)
• 422 - Jealous by Paul Daniels
• 431 - Planet Big Zero by Franklin Hadley (1960)
• 444 - Play it Hard by Gil Brewer (1969) ^{[27] [28]}
• 445 - The Way we Love by Stuart Friedman (1964)
• 454 - New Doctor at Tower General by John J. Miller (1964) ^[29]
• 465 - Hard Man from Texas by John Conway/Jack Thurston (1964) ^[30]
• 468 Eve's Apple by Ronald Simpson (1961) ^[31]
• 483 - The Girl from Big Pine by Talmage Powell (1964) ^[32]
• 486 - The Damned and the Innocent by Glenn Canary (1964)
• 488 - Lament for Judy by Robert Colby (1964) ^[33]
• 498 - She'll Get Hers by John Plunkett (1965)
• 524 - Unwed Mothers by Henry S. Galus (1962)
• 560 - The Man from Gunsight by William Chamberlain (1965) ^{[34] [35]}
• MM601 - The Stranglers of Bombay by Stuart James (1960) – tie-in with the 1959 film of the same name
• MM602 - The Brides of Dracula by Dean Owen (1960) – tie-in with the 1960 film of the same name
• MM603 - Gorgo by Carson Bingham (1960) – tie-in with the film of the same name
• MM604 - Konga by Dean Owen (1960) – tie-in with the film of the same name
• MM605 - Reptilicus by Dean Owen (1961) – tie-in with the 1961 film of the same name
• MM606 - The Street is My Beat by Carson Bingham (1961) – tie-in with the film of the same name
• MM607 - Mad Dog Coll by Steve Thurman (1961) – tie-in with the 1961 film of the same name
• MS1 - Fidel Castro Assassinated by Lee Duncan (1961) ^{[36] [37]}

Published Nonfiction

• 435 - For every young heart: America's most popular singing idol talks to teenagers about growing up by Connie Francis ^{[38] [39]}
• 479 - Encyclopedia of the World's Great Events: 1964 (1965) ^{[40] [41]}
• 494 - Undertow by Helen Parkhurst (1965) ^{[42] [43]}
• K66 - Robert F. Kennedy, Assistant President by Gary Gordon, pseud. (1962) ^[44]
• MA328 - Admiral "Bull" Halsey by Jack Pearl (1962) ^{[45] [46]}
• MA333 - The Texas Rangers by John Conway (1963) ^{[47] [48]}
• MB512 - Folk and Modern Medicine by Don James (1961) ^[49]
• MB524 - Unwed Mothers by Henry S. Galus (1962) ^[50]
• MB528 - Medical problems of women by Martin James (1962) ^{[51] [52]}
• MB530 - Virgin Wives by L T Woodward (1962) ^{[53] [54]}
• MB535 -The Sexually Promiscuous Female by Benjamin Morse, pseud. (1963) ^[55]
• MB537 - The Sexually Promiscuous Male by Benjamin Morse, pseud. (1963) ^[56]
• ML20 - Monarch Italian Phonetic Dictionary by Joseph Castelli (1961) ^[57]
• MM543 - The Lesbian by Benjamin Morse (1961) ^[58]
• MS2 - The Berlin Crisis by Deane & David Heller (1961) ^[59]
• MS4 - The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire by Gary Gordon (pseud of I.G. Edmonds) (1962) ^[60]
• MS5 - Planned Parenthood by Henry De Forrest (1962) ^[61]
• MS6 - The Naked Rise of Communism by Frank L Kluckhorn ^{[62] [63]}
• MS7 - Forget about Calories by Leland H O'Brian (1962) ^{[64] [65]}
• MS8 - The Cold War by Deane and David Heller (1962) ^[66]
• MS9 - A Gallery of the Saints by Randall Garrett (1963) ^[67]
• MS10 - The History of Surgery by L.T. Woodward, pseud. (1963) ^[68]
• MS11 - The Red Carpet by Ezra Taft Benson (1963) ^{[69] [70]}
• MS12 - The Kennedy Recession by Merryle Stanley Rukeyser (1963) ^[71]
• MS13 - How to Stay Young and Beautiful by Jan Michael (1963) ^[72]
• MS53 - America: Listen! by Frank L. Kluckhohn (1961) ^[73]
• MS53A - America: Listen! by Frank L. Kluckhorn (1962) (New revised & enlarged) ^[74]
• MS53B - America: Listen! by Frank L Kluckhorn (1963) (New enlarged edition) ^[75]
• SB522 - The Attacks on our Free Choice by Merryle Stanley Rukeyser (1963) ^{[76] [77] [78]}
• SP1 - First American in Space by Robert Silverberg (1961) ^[79]

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