Critical Insights

Pulp Fiction of the '20s and '30s

Editor:		Gary Hoppenstand.
Publisher:		Salem Press.
Date of publication:		May 2013.
ISBN:		978-1-4298-3827-6.
Number of pages:		368 pages.
Size:		6 x 9 inches.
Print list price:		$85.

Front cover

The front cover by Virgil Finlay was originally published as front cover of Swords & Sorcery, 1963.

Contents:

• About This Volume, by Gary Hoppenstand.
• On Pulp Fiction and Weird Tales, by Gary Hoppenstand.
• Critical Readings.
  • History, Horror, and Heroic Fantasy: Robert E. Howard and the Creation of the Sword-and-Sorcery Subgenre, by Jeffrey Shanks.
  • Cthulhu's Empire: H. P. Lovecraft's Influence on His Contemporaries and Successors, by S. T. Joshi.
  • The Last Musketeer: Clark Ashton Smith and the Weird Marriage of Poetry and Pulp, by Andrew J. Wilson.
  • Nostalgia in H. P. Lovecraft, by Daniel Müller.
  • Visionary Star-Treader: The Speculative Writings of Clark Ashton Smith, by Richard Bleiler.
  • Robert Bloch: O. Henry of Twentieth-Century Pulp Magazines, by Garyn G. Roberts.
  • Love Is the Most Dangerous Thing: Gender and Genocide in the Weird Fiction of by C. L. Moore and Andrew J. Wilson.
  • Henry Kuttner: Often-Overlooked Pillar of the Weird Tale and the Pulpwood Magazine, by Garyn G. Roberts.
  • August Derleth: Odd Man In, by Wythe Marschall.
  • The Fantastic Pulp Fiction of Frank Belknap Long, by Richard Bleiler.
  • Seabury Quinn's Jules de Grandin: The Supernatural Sleuth in Weird Tales, by Gary Hoppenstand.
• Archived Material.
  • Introduction.
  • The Conan Series, by David Hinckley. Hyperborea, by Brian Stableford.
  • Zothique, by Brian Stableford.
  • Jirel of Joiry, by Anne K. Kaler.
  • The Jules de Grandin Series, by Robert Weinberg.
• Resources.
  • Additional Works on Pulp Fiction.
  • Bibliography.
  • About the Editor.
  • Contributors.
• Index.

Critical Insights is also available as an eBook.