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Pulp Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s

Gary Hoppenstand

First published 2013
Series Critical Insights
Publisher Salem Press
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Virgil Finlay
Pages xxvii+230
Price $95.00
ISBN 9781429838276

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  • Publication is divided into three sections, each with their own title page: "Critical Readings" starts on page 1, "Archived Material" starts on page 179, and "Resources" starts on page 213. "Archived Material" has its own Introduction.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 History, Horror, and Heroic Fantasy: Robert E. Howard and the Creation of the Sword-and-Sorcery Subgenre Jeffrey Shanks Essay
19 Cthulhu's Empire: H. P. Lovecraft's Influence on His Contemporaries and Successors S. T. Joshi Essay
36 The Last Musketeer: Clark Ashton Smith and the Weird Marriage of Poetry and Pulp Andrew J. Wilson Essay
52 Nostalgia in H.P. Lovecraft Daniel Müller Essay
66 Visionary Star-Treader: The Speculative Writings of Clark Ashton Smith Richard Bleiler Essay
84 Robert Bloch: O. Henry of Twentieth-Century Pulp Magazines Garyn G. Roberts Essay
94 Love is the Most Dangerous Thing: Gender and Genocide in the Weird Fiction of C. L. Moore Andrew J. Wilson Essay
109 Henry Kuttner: Often-Overlooked Pillar of the Weird Tale and the Pulpwood Magazine Garyn G. Roberts Essay
128 August Derleth: Odd Man In Wythe Marschall Essay
148 The Fantastic Pulp Fiction of Frank Belknap Long Richard Bleiler Essay
166 Seabury Quinn's Jules de Grandin: The Supernatural Sleuth in Weird Tales Gary Hoppenstand Essay
181 Introduction (Pulp Fiction of the '20s and '30s) uncredited Essay
182 The Conan Series David Hinckley Essay
187 "The Dunwich Horror" James V. Muhleman Essay
192 Hyperborea Brian Stableford Essay
196 Zothique Brian Stableford Essay
200 Jirel of Joiry Anne K. Kaler Essay
204 The Jules de Grandin Series Robert Weinberg Essay
215 Additional Works on Pulp Fiction (Pulp Fiction of the '20s and '30s) uncredited Essay
219 Bibliography (Pulp Fiction of the '20s and '30s) uncredited Essay
vii About this Volume (Pulp Fiction of the '20s and '30s) Gary Hoppenstand Essay
xiii On Pulp Fiction and Weird Tales Gary Hoppenstand Essay