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Pulp Masters (2001).
Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin
H. Greenberg.
Published by Carroll
& Graf.
First Edition.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0786708735
ISBN-13: 978-0786708734
Description:
A pulp-packed volume of
hard-boiled crime fiction from the writers who made the mold and mastered the
form.
John MacDonald, James M.
Cain, Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, Mickey Spillane, and Harrington
Whittington – these six masters of pulp fiction at its suspenseful best
distinguish this new anthology compiled by the award-winning editors of its two
popular predecessors, American Pulp and Pure Pulp. Like its two popular
predecessors, Pulp Masters culls its tales – in this case, five classic “novelettes”
and one complete novel – from the golden age of magazine fiction in the first
half of the twentieth century.
All
six writers included in Pulp Masters in time emerged as giants in the
field of crime fiction, and the stories in this volume demonstrate why. Their
voices fresh, their talents raw and original, with titles like
"Ordo," “College-Cut Kill,” "Stag Party Girl," "The
Embezzler," and "Everybody's Watching Me," Westlake, Block,
Cain, and Spillane heralded and shaped the crime story as we know it today. So
did "the King of the Paperback Original" – Harrington Whittington – represented
here by the novel based on his pulp short story "So Dead, My Love."
