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Title:
Pulp fiction of the 1920s and 1930s / editor, Gary Hoppenstand, Michigan State University.
Author:
Hoppenstand, Gary, editor.
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Publishing, [2013]

©2013
Call Number:
PS228.F35 P85 2013
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ISBN:
9781429838276

9781429838436
Series:
Critical Insights

Critical insights.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
On pulp fiction and Weird Tales / Gary Hoppenstand -- History, horror, and heroic fantasy : Robert E. Howard and the creation of the sword-and-sorcery subgenre / Jeffrey Shanks -- Cthulhu's empire : H.P. Lovecraft's influence on his contemporaries and successors / S.T. Joshi -- The last musketeer : Clark Ashton Smith and the weird marriage of poetry and pulp / Andrew J. Wilson -- Nostalgia in H.P. Lovecraft / Daniel Muller -- Visionary star-treader : the speculative writings of Clark Ashton Smith / Richard Bleiler -- Robert Block : O. Henry of twentieth-century pulp magazines / Garyn G. Roberts -- Love is the most dangerous thing : gender and genocide in the weird fiction of C.L. Moore / Andrew J. Wilson -- Henry Kuttner : often-overlooked pillar of the weird tale and the pulpwood magazine / Garyn G. Roberts -- August Derleth : odd man in / Wythe Marschall -- The fantastic pulp fiction of Frank Belknap Long / Richard Bleiler -- Seabury Quinn's Jules de Grandin : the supernatural sleuth in Weird Tales / Gary Hoppenstand -- The Conan series / David Hinckley -- "The Dunwich horror" / James V. Muhleman -- Hyperborea / Brian Stableford -- Zothique / Brian Stableford -- Jirel of Joiry / Anne K. Kaler -- The Jules de Grandin series / Robert Weinberg.
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