Best of
Pulp

1998

The Godfather


Chris Rice - 1998
    His business is built on fear and murder. Vito's son Michael wants a quiet life away from the family business. But that's not easy, and slowly Michael becomes the most dangerous gangster of them all

Last of the Duanes


Zane Grey - 1998
    Yet when Zane Grey submitted the full-length manuscript to his book publisher, it was rejected because it contained too much gunplay. And so a masterpiece of Western fiction remained unpublished in book form for more than 80 years. Finally, this powerful tale is available in its entirety.

The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: Rear Window and Other Stories / I Married a Dead Man / Waltz into Darkness


Cornell Woolrich - 1998
    It contains two full length novels (I Married a Dead Man and Waltz into Darkness) and five short stories, including "Rear Window" -- works in which one of the genre's consumate "poets of terror" explores all the classic noir themes of loneliness, despair, futility, and occasionally redemption.CONTENTSRear WindowPost MortemThree O'ClockChange of MurderMomentumI MARRIED A DEAD MANWALTZ INTO DARKNESS

Return of The Wolf Man


Jeff Rovin - 1998
    And once again the little town of LaMirada is haunted by brutal murder, strange tales, and the mournful howls of an unknown creature. Some say he is crying out for the human blood on which he must feed. But others say he is crying for release from his tormented form--release that only the lovely new occupant of the castle can give him...

The Complete Reprint of Exotique: The First 36 Issues, 1951-1957 (Special Series)


Kim Christy - 1998
    Turning his back on the horrors of the twentieth century, he devoted the rest of his life to images of sexual Fantasy, which in their own way have shaped the male collective consciousness just as powerfully as the nuclear missile. His conversion coincided in with the growing liberation of US cities as they rebelled against Eisenhower to embrace a night-life of decadence, sensuality, and physical abandon. "Exotique" presented the pin-up as a Femme Fatale, publishing shot after shot of the dominatrix adorned with tight corset, razor heels, complex underwear and an expression on her Face that demanded obedience. Enthusiastically casting from a roster of willing models (including the legendary Betty Page) as well as call-girls and dancers, Burtman experimented with bondage scenarios and group poses, and as a bonus hired in the maestros of the illustrative arts like Eric Stanton to bring his pneumatic ideal to life even more extravagantly. This colossal collection contains all this and more.

Tarzan of the Apes, Three Complete Novels: Tarzan of the Apes / The Son of Tarzan / Tarzan at the Earth's Core


Edgar Rice Burroughs - 1998
    Jason Gridley wants to rescue Emperor David from Kosaks.

Vamps and Vixens: The Seductive Art of Dave Stevens


Dave Stevens - 1998
    Colection of illustrations by Dave Stevens.

Metal Sushi


David Conway - 1998
    David Conway's collection of stories will take you to a dimension of absolute nightmare, from a scientist's obsessions with genetic experiments resulting in a New Race to reality being warped in a crescendo of designer carnage and biological transformation.

Eric Stanton: The Dominant Wives and Other Stories


Eric Stanton - 1998
    This illustrated edition is one of the first publications on the grand master of pulp.

Seven Faces


Max Brand - 1998
    And the feeling was cordially reciprocated by O’Rourke. Both were annoyed—but not really concerned—about orders to guard the frantic millionaire John Cobb on a late-night journey on the New York–Chicago train. After locking Cobb in his compartment, they would look forward to the pleasure of antagonizing each other in the club car. That is, until Cobb turned up missing. Whoever was responsible—and there were several possibilities among the passengers, including an incomparably strong and handsome man, a breathtakingly beautiful woman, and an improbably villainous stranger—had perhaps discounted each detective individually, and perhaps justly so. But what the malefactor could not know was the insight of their superior, Inspector Corrigan: “Separate they’re not much, but, when they’re together, they hate each other so much that they grind one another sharp as razors.” Seven Faces originally appeared as six installments in Detective Fiction Weekly during October and November 1936. This edition—the first to collect the installments in book form, uncut and as the author intended—introduces today’s readers to a most memorable detective duo.

Irrational Fears


William Browning Spencer - 1998
    Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies.

The Paladin Mandates


Mike Chinn - 1998
    Illustrated by Bob Covington.

Scarlet Riders


Don Hutchinson - 1998
    The sterling image of the scarlet-coated Mountie was almost as familiar a symbol as the ubiquitous cowboy in American fiction. And nowhere was he more popular than in the dynamic pulp fiction magazines. During the '20s, '30s, and '40s, tales featuring rugged Mounties maintaining the law of the untamed North were so popular that a number of authors built careers specializing in their exploits. This is a generous collection of such stories, as flamboyant and red-blooded as the publications in which they first appeared.