The New Mammoth Book Of Pulp Fiction

Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 147211180X
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Mammoth Book Of Pulp Fiction written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to the Victorian penny dreadfuls of writers such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens. These stories exemplify the best of crime and mystery pulp fiction – its zest, speed, rhythm, verve and commitment to straightforward storytelling – spanning seven decades of popular writing.

Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781841192888
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Constable. This book was released on 2001 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We now live in enlightened times that reassure us that, far from being a lower form of literature, pulp fiction is the term for what the best storytelling provides - pyrotechnic thrills, shocks galore and excitement by the bucketload! From cops, both straight and crooked, to ruthless bigshots, shady operators, femmes fatales and damsels in distress. Including gangsters, drifters, common crooks, shady attomeys to molls with a heart of gold, enjoy a rollercoaster ride through popular literature's best pulp writers. The MBO of Pulp Action includes the talents of Charles Willeford, Ed McBain, Bill Pronzini, Ed Gorman, Lawrence Block, John D. Macdonald, William Campbell Gault, Bruno Fischer, Mark Timlin, Joe R. Lansdale and many of the classic Black Mask magazine...

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780332807
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Vampires written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern masters of the macabre bring the dead to life in this specially re-vamped edition of the classic compilation every horror fan will want to sink their teeth into. From an award-winning editor who knows the genre backwards, here is the very best in vampire fiction: from tales of tempting sirens to contemporary serial killers; from the dark origins of fairy tales to a modern reinterpretation of the King of the Undead himself, Count Dracula. This revised edition features over a dozen new stories, including Tina Rath's A Trick of the Dark and Kim Newman's Andy Warhol's Dracula, as well as classic novellas such as Hugh B. Cave's Stragella and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Investigating Jericho. There are contributions by Nancy Kilpatrick, Christopher Fowler, Paul Mcauley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Tina Rath, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison and Kim Newman.

Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786709205
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 2001 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed solid with seven decades of pulp action and peopled by shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big shots, crooked cops, and gruff private eyes, this new collection of hard-boiled tales includes classics by such masters of the craft as Dashiell Hammett, Robert Leslie Bellem, Cornell Woolrich, and Erle Stanley Gardner, as well as some of the best modern crime fiction to be published by postwar giants like John D. MacDonald, Ross McDonald, Ed McBain, Charles Willeford, David Goodis, and James Ellroy.

Author : Paul Gravett
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics written by Paul Gravett and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781849015660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Dracula written by Stephen Jones and published by Constable. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in the UK as The mammoth book of Dracula: vampire tales for the new millennium by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson, 1997. With a new introduction.

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780333641
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories written by Peter Haining and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, including the erotic. This new edition includes a selection of favourite haunted house tales chosen by famous screen stars Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Plus a top ranking list of contributors that includes Stephen King, Bram Stoker, Ruth Rendell, and James Herbert - all brought together by an anthologist who himself lives in a haunted house. Stories include: Something unspeakable lurks in a Connecticut apartment closet, in Stephen King's 'The Boogeyman'; An Irish castle holds something truly horrifying in wait, in 'The Whistling Room' by William Hope Hodgson; The lecherous old ghost of a Georgian country house eyes up his latest tenant, in Norah Lofts' 'Mr Edward'; An ancient mansion on a shelf of rock previously occupied by a doomed castle, in 'In Letters of Fire' by Gaston Le Roux; The hunter is hunted in James Herbert's tale of nineteenth-century country mansion, 'The Ghost Hunter'; Psychic phenomena and poltergeists, avenging spirits and phantom lovers - curl up and read on, but never imagine you are safe from a visit...

Author : Sean Wallace
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472119460
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk written by Sean Wallace and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieselpunk: an emerging retro-futuristic sub-genre, similar to steampunk, based on the era between the First World War and the start of the Atomic Age, merging elements of noir, pulp, and the past with today’s technology . . . and sometimes a dash of the occult. Award-winning editor Wallace presents a cutting-edge collection of twenty-five vibrant stories that explore the possibilities of history while sweeping readers into high-powered hydrocarbon-fuelled adventures. Join us in an era when engines were huge, fuel was cheap and plentiful, and steel and chrome blended with the grit and grease of modern machines. Praise for The Mammoth Book of Steampunk: 'World Fantasy Award-winning editor Wallace has compiled an outstanding anthology . . . sure to satisfy even the most jaded steampunk fans and engage newcomers and skeptics. Each story exemplifies steampunk’s knack for critiquing both the past and the present, in a superb anthology that demands rereading.' Publishers Weekly

Author : Lal Hardy
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780339208
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Tattoos written by Lal Hardy and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now estimated that as much as 10% of the population in the UK and USA carries a tattoo. The huge recent growth in tattoo culture has in turn led to an influx of new talented artists, advancements in pigments and refinement of the equipment used. This giant volume includes the very best of the new work made possible by modern improvements in tattoo art. Here are 500 striking photographic images of tattoos, covering all styles from bold 'tribal' pieces, Chinese characters and hieroglyphs to delicate air-brushed designs, and from all-over 'body suits' to individual motifs - works as distinctive as the bodies they adorn. Featuring the work of the Discovery Channel's L.A. Ink stars Corey Miller, Kim Saigh and Hannah Aitchinson, and London Ink's Nicole Lowe, Louis Molloy and Phil Kyle amongst many others.

Author : Peter Normanton
Publisher : Running Press
ISBN 13 : 9780786720729
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics written by Peter Normanton and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the finest names in comic book horror, this volume features nearly 50 comics that caused a furor in the US and sparked legislation to crack down on explicit horror—from the 1940s to the 21st century. Includes names like Steve Niles, Pete Von Sholly, Michael Kaluta, Mike Ploog, Rudy Palais, Rand Holmes, Vincent Locke, Frank Brunner, and many more. Reproduced in black and white for this brand-new collection.