Pulp Fictions (1996) Anthology by Peter Haining
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Overview: "…Like so much of the lore and legend surrounding hardboiled fiction, there are still many stories to be unearthed not only about the authors, but also about the pulp magazines in which they appeared—so called because they were printed on cheap, untrimmed wood-pulp paper, octavo size, and stapled inside a slick paper cover printed in garish colours. Few copies survive of these magazines, which rapidly yellowed and fell into fragments, while many of the writers are now no more than names on the pages, having disappeared completely, either by choice or design, when the industry folded in the 1950s… It is these men and the spirit of their forgotten colleagues that have been the inspiration for today’s upsurge of interest in, and new contributions to, the hardboiled genre…"
From the Introduction
Genre: Fiction > Mystery /Thriller
CONTENTS
Introduction 7
ONE: HARDBOILED DICKS: Cases of the Private Eyes
Torch Number by James Ellroy
The Egyptian Lure by Carroll John Daly
Arson Plus by Dashiell Hammett
The Man Who Liked Dogs by Raymond Chandler
Dead Man’s Head by Robert Leslie Bellem
The Singing Pigeon by Ross Macdonald
TWO: COPS AND G-MEN: Stories of the Law Officers
The Hunting of Hemingway by MacKinlay Kantor
Dead on Her Feet by Cornell Woolrich
Nice Work by Peter Cheyney
The Lady Says Die! by Mickey Spillane
Accident Report by Ed McBain
Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard
THREE: THE HOODS: Tales of the Criminal Fraternity
Travelling Light by W. R. Burnett
Pastorale by James M. Cain
The Deadly Circle by Samuel Fuller
Get a Load of This by James Hadley Chase
It’s a Wise Cadaver by David Goodis
The Frightening Frammis by Jim Thompson
The Fifth Quarter by Stephen King
The Watch by Quentin Tarantino
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