This is a definitive record of the players and productions of Mascot Pictures, a film company that specialised in chapter plays and B movies and became influential in winning an audience for the kind of films it innovated, such as the musical Western.
This is a definitive record of the players and productions of Mascot Pictures, a film company that specialised in chapter plays and B movies and becam...
The Black Rider and Other Stories collects three short novels and one short story by Max Brand originally published in magazines and never reprinted before; they appear here for the first time in book form. At first publication the stories often suffered from editors' cuts to make them fit available page space. Editor Jon Tuska has returned to the original manuscripts to restore Brand's full texts. The stories are set in that land Brand called the -mountain desert, - a timeless and magical place for him. In addition to mapping a geographic region, these stories show the extent to which...
The Black Rider and Other Stories collects three short novels and one short story by Max Brand originally published in magazines and never repr...
The Northwestern story emerged full-blown from the pen of Jack London, and his "The League of the Old Men" is a fitting introduction to these rigorous action tales, in which the inhospitable climate strips away civilized veneer and individuals must live or die by their cunning, instinct, and sometimes ruthlessness. The bond between man and dog and the character flaws revealed under the stresses of extreme isolation are just two of the classic themes explored in these works. The collection comes to a fitting climax of a century's worth of development with a new story by Tim Champlin,...
The Northwestern story emerged full-blown from the pen of Jack London, and his "The League of the Old Men" is a fitting introduction to these rigorous...
