In the late sixties, a wave of gay pulp fiction began to blossom as censorship loosened and publishers became bolder with overt homosexual themes. Richard Amory (a pseudonym for Richard Love) was one of the most successful and recognisable writers of this burgeoning genre. His breakthrough Song of the Loon (1966) is now seen as a landmark of gay literature, spawning two sequels and a film. Frost, one of Amory’s later works, was marketed as a “gay thriller”.

“Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother. An ancient story. But in the peculiar California culture that spawned both the Sexual Freedom League and the ultra right wing Minute Men, the ancient tale takes a new twist: Frost isn't interested in marrying his mother, and his father is out to kill him! At the crossroads, beautiful Billy lies dead by his motorbike; at home the father plots more than just a simple murder; and in the Northern California hills Frost finds true love in the arms of another man.”

A 1970s Olympia Press paperback edition with super sexy ‘O cover’, from the phase when the publisher moved on from its plain green covers to something far more of-the-moment. Please note: the book reflects the language and social norms of its era, some of which may feel outdated or offensive now.