Best of
Pulp

1957

Death Trap


John D. MacDonald - 1957
    When they found a suspect, everyone relaxed except Hugh MacReedy. Maybe he should have stayed out of it, but MacReedy owed a big debt to the patsy they were sending to the electric chair in a week. And he would have stayed out of it, if he'd known what his chances were of coming out alive . . .

Call Me Joe


Poul Anderson - 1957
    The plot involves an attempt to explore the surface of the planet Jupiter using remote-controlled artificial life-forms. It focuses on the feelings of a disabled man who operates an artificial body. The story was published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine by its editor John W. Campbell.The Science Fiction Writers of America selected Call Me Joe for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two.

Fowlers End


Gerald Kersh - 1957
    Thanks to his horrifying physiognomy, which conceals the softest of hearts, he wins a job as manager of a movie house. It is a flea pit, a vile retreat for predatory children, a place where thugs relax between felonies. Its owner, Sam Yudenow, is a sort of philosopher. At first Laverock is dazzled by Sam, by his splendidly garbled speech, his flawless depravity, his complete emancipation from decent instincts. But not for long. Soon he is leading a group seeking to overthrow the vicious tyrant. Fowlers End is a black comic masterpiece filled with exuberant language and outrageous characters.

Ghost Town Treasure


Clyde Robert Bulla - 1957
    Ty doesn't want to move. He doesn't want to leave behind his beloved gray pony, or his big wooden desk. Just before his family packs up for good, though, his friends Nora and Paul come to visit. Their grandfather used to prospect for gold in the town, and they've brought his ancient diary with its tantalizing clues to hidden treasure. If Ty and his friends can find the treasure in time, it may help to save the town.

Zip-Zip and His Flying Saucer


John M. Schealer - 1957
    Randy Riddle, his brothers, Tom and Sparky, and sister, Bonnie befriend Opedoxtromeldee, a strange Martian boy they call "Zip-Zip."

Stories for the Dead of Night


Don CongdonEdgar Allan Poe - 1957
    CoppardPalace of Sleep by Anna KavanThe Woman At Seven Brothers by Wilbur Daniel SteeleA Journey by Edith WhartonThe Proof by John MooreThe Turn of the Tide by C.S. Forester

A Treasury of Great Mysteries, Volume 1


Howard Haycraft - 1957
    A collection of novels, novelettes, and short storiesMurder in the Calais Coach (Murder on the Orient Express)-Agatha Christie"The Case of the Crimson Kiss"-Erle Stanley Gardner"The Treasure Hunt"-Edgar Wallace"Maigret's Christmas"-Georges Simenon"Puzzle for Poppy"-Patrick Quentin"The Secret"-Mary Roberts Rinehart"The Incautious Burglar"-John Dickson Carr"The Lamp of God"-Ellery Queen"The Case of the White Elephant"-Margery Allingham"Rear Window" ("It Had to Be Murder")-William IrishJourney into Fear-Eric Ambler

The Promoter


Orrie Hitt - 1957
    He had to match evil for evil, prove himself as depraved as the very flesh merchants he sought to destroy." Walter Popp, cover art

Murder on Delivery


Spencer Dean - 1957
    Her $100,000 coat had not been delivered.. When Don Cadee checked, the two men who were supposed to deliver the coat had vanished. All the evidence pointed to murder.

Let the Sky Fall


Roger Dee - 1957
    LOVE AMONG THE TEEN-AGERSA revealing novel of small-town teen-agers and their frantic world--where hot rods are turned into love dens and drive-in movies serve as amorous trysting places...Of cynical Homer Wray, who thought his affection for Sharon Rock, his lovely niece, was the one good thing in his otherwise useless existence.Until one night a vicious crime was committed--a crime that shook the entire town and revealed Sharon's forbidden love--and the intimate secrets of her set which she was sworn to guard.

The Hour After Westerly


Robert M. Coates - 1957