Belmont Books
| Status | merged with Tower Publications (1971) |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1960 |
| Founders | John L. Goldwater, Louis Silberkleit, Maurice Coyne |
| Successor | Belmont Tower |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | 66 Leonard Street, New York City |
| Key people | Ivan Howard, Harry Shorten |
| Publication types | Paperbacks |
| Fiction genres | science fiction, horror, fantasy, sword and sorcery |
Belmont Books, also known as Belmont Productions, was an American publisher of genre fiction paperback originals founded in 1960. It specialized in science fiction, horror and fantasy, with titles appearing from 1961 through 1971. The company published books by such notable authors as Philip K. Dick, Philip José Farmer, Lin Carter, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, and Gardner Fox. Belmont was owned by the same company that owned Archie Comics. According to the son of one of the founders, the name of the company came from Belmont Park, as the owners were fans of horse racing.
Belmont's initial offerings were four titles — a Western, a mystery, a science fiction book, and a detective book. Once they got going, Belmont published about 12 titles per month, with print runs of between 30,000–70,000 copies. Rather than bookstores, their books were sold in railroad stations, airports, bus terminals, drug stores, and the lobbies of office buildings and hotels.
From 1962–1965, Belmont published a number of science fiction anthologies, all edited by Ivan Howard, that featured content from the pulp magazines Science Fiction, Future Fiction, Science Fiction Quarterly, and Dynamic Science Fiction, all of which had been published by Belmont co-owner Louis Silberkleit.
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