- One of the things that Barrus has done, no doubt for the money, is Mineshaft, a novel issued in pulp by MagCorp as, supposedly, a sadomasochistic stroke book. The joke is on MagCorp and those who snub books which, judged by their covers, are written for the mass (cheap pornography) market. Mineshaft is the finest satire in gay literature.1986 February 15, Lars Eighner, “A Homosexual Norman Mailer?”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 5:
- The stained mattress on the floor was littered with stroke-books and the walls were papered with photographs of women who appeared to be wearing nothing but a thin coating of Wesson Oil.1993, Stephen King, Nightmares & Dreamscapes: