wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Once a Pulp Man: The Secret Life of Judson P. Philips as Hugh Pentecost
ISBN: 9781523863693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Judson P. Philips rubbed elbows with movie stars and directors. He owned a newspaper and scratched out columns in others. He penned hundreds of stories in pulp magazines, digests and slick magazines, under a trio of pen names. His words flooded radio, television and film. He faced down Newsweek editors, owned an equity summer stock theater and boosted many ingenues to fame. He filled pulp magazines like Argosy with stories about tough detectives, smooth-talking criminals, and down-and-out athletes who make Rocky-like comebacks. As "Hugh Pentecost," he graduated into the...
Judson P. Philips rubbed elbows with movie stars and directors. He owned a newspaper and scratched out columns in others. He penned hundreds of storie...
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77,18 zł |
A Date With the Executioner
ISBN: 9781511505659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the pages of A Date With the Executioner, you will become intimately acquainted with the sister of a charismatic man who killed without remorse and faced the ultimate punishment. A Date With the Executioner is a non-fiction/true crime story, with only the names changed to protect the innocent. But more than just a crime thriller, this story, told through the sister's eyes, relates how from a young age her normal family life was disrupted by her brother's erratic behavior which hinted early on at a destructive personality. She relates how her tormented mother was constantly turned aside by...
In the pages of A Date With the Executioner, you will become intimately acquainted with the sister of a charismatic man who killed without remorse and...
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68,07 zł |
Pulp Adventures #29
ISBN: 9781721631469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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58,97 zł |
On Any Dark and Spooky Night: A poetry collection
ISBN: 9781977581457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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27,32 zł |
A Name to Match My Soul
ISBN: 9781503227163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James BraveWolf addresses the erosion of humanity and its so-called "connectivity" in this book of insightful essays. Human beings are allowing technology to replace their everyday experiences and feelings with programmed entertainment, creating a false illusion of life. And, the author asserts, that is no accident. These people are referred to as "taste-makers" by some, but BraveWolf refers to them as "the Leviathan." "Technology can take away reality and replace it with an artificial copy," BraveWolf writes. "The self-absorbed superficiality that has replaced the world is total now. But the...
James BraveWolf addresses the erosion of humanity and its so-called "connectivity" in this book of insightful essays. Human beings are allowing techno...
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68,25 zł |
Pulp Noir: A Cluttered Romance
ISBN: 9781514291344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Can two avowed hoarders of comic books, paperbacks, hardcovers, movie memorabilia, etc., etc., make room in their lives for each other? A grizzled hobbyist of old paper magazines decides to gather collectors and vendors for a weekend of swapping tall tales and lurid artwork. Four decades later, another collector picks up the torch and stumbles. The power of love convinces him to trod on...but in which direction? Can two obsessive book lovers merge their inventory into one collection?
Can two avowed hoarders of comic books, paperbacks, hardcovers, movie memorabilia, etc., etc., make room in their lives for each other? A grizzled hob...
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77,18 zł |
Where Memory Hides: A Writer's Life
ISBN: 9781537128870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Lupoff writes with intelligence, humor, wisdom, and a zest for life. He had a lot of fun writing this book, and it shows; because of it, we have a lot of fun reading it." Joe Gores, author of Hammett Where Memory Hides is a guided tour through the life and career of mystery and science fiction's most versatile practitioner. Richard A. Lupoff has been a professional author for six decades, and a life-time fan of everything from pulp magazines to comic books, science fiction and mystery, and more. As the extensive bibliography (included in this book) demonstrates,... "Lupoff writes with intelligence, humor, wisdom, and a zest for life. He had a lot of fun writing this book, and it shows; because of it, we have a... |
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104,50 zł |
I'll Grind Their Bones
ISBN: 9781548007294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As tempers flare between European countries in 1936, American news reporter John Keats received two directives from his editor: first, interview Count Vasil Garganoff, mysterious manufacturing mogul of Hertha Gun Works in Transylvania; then fly to Teutony's capital for the scoop on a meeting between Teutony's Premier Baron Von Speer and Esperench Foreign Minister Victor Gatreau. But, suddenly the world teeters on the brink of war when the two diplomats are found dead in the hotel conference room.
As tempers flare between European countries in 1936, American news reporter John Keats received two directives from his editor: first, interview Count...
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77,18 zł |
Pulp Jazz: The Charles Boeckman Story
ISBN: 9781514763711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Charles Boeckman's biography often reads like the stuff of pulp fiction. He left home in the early 1940s and became a jazz musician, traveling the country, kicking around from New York City to New Orleans. In between gigs, he purchased a used typewriter and pounded out hardboiled stories. Eventually, the legendary Popular Publications editor Mike Tilden purchased one of his stories for Detective Tales. After that accomplishment, Boeckman's stories appeared in Dime Detective, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Manhunt, and many others. He established a body of work that outlived its pulp...
Charles Boeckman's biography often reads like the stuff of pulp fiction. He left home in the early 1940s and became a jazz musician, traveling the cou...
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68,07 zł |
Pulp Adventures #33
ISBN: 9781702544795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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45,31 zł |
Pulp Adventures #24
ISBN: 9781544033358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Sheridan Rides Again," a Civil War/Reconstruction Days story by Sam Merwin, Jr. Confederate soldiers seek asylum in Mexico, and General Phil Sheridan suspects a new attempt at conquering the Union; Also, "Polaris" by H.P. Lovecraft, and Lovecraft-inspired stories by Frank Schindler, John E. Petty; "The Crimson Wizard and the Jewels of Lemuria" by Richard A. Lupoff, featuring a pulp-inspired hero battling a Lovecraftian menace; "Borrowed Time," a hardboiled thriller by Jack Bludis; and "Daemon Mask" by Stuart Hopen and Russ Martin, a complete 46-page graphic novel featuring a weird vigilante...
"Sheridan Rides Again," a Civil War/Reconstruction Days story by Sam Merwin, Jr. Confederate soldiers seek asylum in Mexico, and General Phil Sheridan...
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58,97 zł |
Pulp Adventures #17
ISBN: 9781511695947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bold Venture Press proudly presents PULP ADVENTURES #17, featuring an all-star line-up -- from the backwaters of post-Civil War Texas, the Prohibition-era of New York City, to an interior world several centuries in the future In "The Kidnapped Midas" by Johnston McCulley, a stingy skinflint is satisfied with his "life well lived," until The Thunderbolt holds him hostage, and demands he pay his own ransom "I'll Make the Arrest" by Charles Boeckman depicts an embittered police lieutenant who assures everyone that he'll arrest a murder suspect -- until the case turns personal. "Caverns of Ith"...
Bold Venture Press proudly presents PULP ADVENTURES #17, featuring an all-star line-up -- from the backwaters of post-Civil War Texas, the Prohibition...
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58,97 zł |
Pulp Adventures #31: The Death Clock
ISBN: 9781090862143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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58,97 zł |