Pulp Fictions by Peter Haining, Stephen King, Jim Thompson, Elmore Leonard, Raymond Chandler

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Born in the disillusioned decades after World War I, and honed by such masters of the genre as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Mickey Spillane, the hardboiled detective story, populated by wise-cracking private eyes, intrepid cops, and a colorful collection of multi-dimensional criminals, has been enriched by writers of every generation. This anthology assembles 20 stories by the above-mentioned authors, plus others including James M. Cain, Jim Thompson, Stephen King, Ross Macdonald, Cornell Woolrich, Ed McBain, Elmore Leonard, and Quentin Tarantino.

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Enter a world of seedy nightclubs, dangerous, dimly-lit streets, and cool, wise-cracking detectives…

It's the hard-boiled world of pulp fiction, a genre that was born in the disillusioned decades following World War I, and has been enriched by writers of every generation since.

A unique blend of rapid-fire action and cynical humor are the hallmarks of the storytelling style developed by such writers as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Those two pastmasters are joined here by eighteen other gifted and innovative practitioners of the art, among them Cornell Woolrich, James M. Cain, Mickey Spillane, Elmore Leonard, Ross Macdonald, and Jim Thompson. To demonstrate the fascination that pulp fiction has exerted on superb writers more often associated with other genres and artforms, stories by Stephen King and Quentin Tarantino are also included.

The world outside may often seem gray. But the hard-drinking, two-fisted, apparently indestructible private eye still lives in the pages of Pulp Fictions. What lover of fast-paced, fast-talking stories with durable, if somewhat dubious, heroes could resist this unrivaled collection?

Peter Haining has spent many years collecting pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. An aficionado of crime, suspense, and horror fiction, he has compiled dozens of anthologies, including A Sherlock Holmes Companion, London After Midnight, and Vampire Hunters' Casebook.

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