Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
From the early days of dime novels to the contemporary mass-market paperbacks
... 173 pages, 1985 Vegas Vengeance, 172 pages, 1985 Detroit Combat, 173 pages, 1985 Terror in D.C., 175 pages, 1986 Atlanta Extreme, 170 pages, 1986 Denver Strike, 173 pages, 1986 Operation Norfolk, 174 pages, 1987 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction
Pearson, T. R. Glad News of the Natural World. New York:Simon & Schuster, 2006. ———. The Last of How It Was. New York: Henry Holt, 1996. ———. Offfor the Sweet Hereafter. New York: Henry Holt, 1995. ———. A Short History of a Small Place.
A reference and overview of the genre of crime fiction, primarily covering the 1950s onwards, although major earlier writers, such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, also have entries.
Pearson, Dime Novels, 33. 9. Cox, The Dime Novel Companion, 96. 10. Cawelti, Adventure, Mystery, and Romance, 211. 11. “Manifest Destiny” was the concept that white Americans had the obligation to displace existing Native American ...
Featuring the work of well-known authors such as W. Somerset Maugham and Truman Capote to the low-brow and no-brow scribes who worked under several names, Queer Pulp is the entertaining and informative introduction to these lost, salacious ...
Kung Fu 148, 149 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues 149 Lansdale, Joe R. 6–8, 32, 44, 52, 69, 75–76, 86, 107, 130, 140–141, 149, 157, 163, 178, 198, 216, 234, 237, 240, 267–268, 286 Lansdale and Truman's Dead Folks 149 “Lantern in the Sky” ...
This first-ever volume focusing on sports pulp fiction devoted to America's two most popular pastimes of the 1935-1957 era--baseball and football--provides extensive detail on authors, along with examination of key...
From 19th-century beginnings to the cutting edge of "Cyberpunk", science fiction has powerfully gripped the modern imagination. Gunn explores the fascinating landscape of how science fiction became what it is...