The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction
Maxim Jakubowski & Robert Leslie Bellem & Fredric Brown & Dashiell Hammett & Day Keene & John Lutz & Ross Macdonald & William P. McGivern & Mickey Spillane & Jim Thompson & В. Traven & Donald E. Westlake & Charles Willeford & Charles Williams & Lawrence Block & Paul Cain & James M. Cain & Max Allan Collins & John D. MacDonald & Joe Gores & David Goodis & William Campbell Gault & Robert Turner & Robert Bloch & Gil Brewer & Bill Pronzini & William Francis Nolan & Frank R. Read & Roger Torrey & William Rough & Howard Browne & Bruno Fischer & Dan Gordon & Schuyler G. Edsall
Language: English
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Published: Jun 15, 2014
Description:
Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action, surprises, sound and fury. In short, all the exhiliration of a roller-coaster ride. The 1920s in America saw the proliferation of hundreds of dubiously named but thrillingly entertaining pulp magazines in America: Black Mask, Amazing, Astounding, Spicy Stories, Ace-High, Detective Magazine, Dare-Devil Aces. It was in these luridly-coloured publications, printed on the cheapest pulp paper, that the first gems began to appear. The one golden rule for writers of pulp fiction was to adhere to the art of storytelling. Each story had to have a beginning, an end, economically-etched characters, but plenty going on, both in terms of action and emotions. Pulp magazines were the TV of their day, plucking readers from drab lives and planting them firmly in thrilling make-believe, successors...