The New Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction
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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...
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- Name of the Author
- Билл Пронзини
Бруно Травен
Бруно Фишер
Говард Браун
Дан Гордон
Дей Кин
Джеймс Кейн Маллахэн
Джил Брюер
Джим Томпсон
Джо Горес
Джон Данн Макдональд
Джон Лутц
Дональд Уэстлейк
Дэвид Гудис
Дэшил Хэммет
Лоуренс Блок
Макс Коллинз Аллан
Максим Якубовски
Микки Спиллейн
Пол Кейн
Роберт Беллем
Роберт Блох Альберт
Роберт Тернер
Роджер Торри
Росс МакДональд
Уильям Голт Кэмпбелл
Уильям Макгиверн Питер
Уильям Нолан Фрэнсис
Уильям Родж Д.
Франк Рид Р.
Фредерик Браун
Чарлз Уилфорд
Чарльз Вильямс
Шайлер Эдсолл Г. - Language
- English
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