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Tag Archives: 1920s

The Stuff of Dreams – Edward Lucas White

2016-10-19

A collection of weird fiction and dark, supernatural fantasies inspired by dreams and nightmares, written by the now-overlooked Edward Lucas White.

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Arson Plus and Other Stories – Dashiell Hammett

2016-09-10

Three of Hammett’s early Continental Op stories from October, 1923 issues of the Black Mask pulp: “Arson Plus,” “Crooked Souls,” and “Slippery Fingers.”

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The Feminine Future – ed. Mike Ashley

2015-04-03

A collection of fourteen early science fiction stories, all written by female authors, originally published between 1873 and 1930.

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The Sea Demons – H. M. Egbert

2013-06-18

Early pulp SF tale features invisible man-eating monsters from the bottom of the sea, World War I submarine warfare, and a mad scientist named MacBeard.

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The Torch – Jack Bechdolt

2012-11-11

In a post-catastrophe New York, Captain Fortune becomes unlikely hero of the peoples’ revolution, overthrowing the robber-baron Towermen and bringing democracy and freedom back to America.

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Adventures in Art – Frank R. Paul (1) The Gernsback Years

2012-02-08

Frank R. Paul, first major science fiction illustrator, who populated the early Hugo Gernsback magazines of the 1920s and 1930s with his imaginative designs. While he was pretty abysmal at drawing people, Paul was great at making technical-mechanical devices, was bright and garish enough to attract readers to the new genre, and perfectly portrays the Gernsback era of “scientifiction” in art.

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The Ship of Ishtar – A. Merritt

2010-06-07

Disillusioned Great War vet is sucked into a world of fantasy and intrigue, finding himself on the deck of a golden Babylonian vessel upon which an evil priest and good priestess have raged war eternally.

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