
Herbert Kastle
1924 – 1987
35 works on record
Biography
Herbert D. Kastle (1924-1987) was a Brooklyn-born American writer of various types of books including paperback originals from the late 50s into the 80s. He also wrote stories for the science fiction magazines. He may be best remembered today for two classic Gold Medals – HOT PROWL and THE REASSEMBLED MAN. Later in his career he found success writing steamy “mainstream” hardcover novels in the style of Harold Robbins and Sidney Sheldon for publishers like Arbor House and Delacorte. I can’t blame Kastle for writing this stuff, the pay was good and the books were popular and you have to do what you gotta do to pay the rent and the kids’ tuition. They’re not bad books, in fact I hope you will enjoy them. They’re just not for me, not as collectible as the genre stuff he did earlier. It also never ceases to amaze me how raunchy all those later books are – the depravity and pervy sex and violence in these bestselling “mainstream” hardcovers always outstrips anything you can find in a sleazy sixties paperback. This is an overview of Kastle in both US and UK paperbacks, with special emphasis on the British reprints by Granada and Grafton. They put out PB editions of almost all of his books, most of them highlighted by flashy color wraparound photo covers by Beverley Le Barrow and Andrew Cockrill.
Works

The Reassembled Man

Millionaires
Movie Maker
Movie Maker
Koptic Court
Koptic Court
Reassembled Man
Reassembled Man

Cross-country
Koptic Court
Koptic Court
Koptic Court
Koptic Court
The Gang
The Gang
Bar 6 Roundup of Best Western Stories
Bar 6 Roundup of Best Western Stories
Ellie
Ellie

The movie maker

Miami golden boy

Millionaires
Little love
Little love

Hit Squad

Dirty Movies

Bachelor Summer

The movie maker
Keys to seven rooms
Keys to seven rooms

The three lives of Edward Berner

The Gang
The world they wanted
The world they wanted

Camera

Sunset people
Countdown to Murder
Countdown to Murder

David's war

Little love
The three lives of Edward Berner
The three lives of Edward Berner
Hot prowl
Hot prowl
Cross-country
Cross-country

Ladies of the Valley
Millionaires
Millionaires

Death Squad
One Thing on My Mind
One Thing on My Mind