Pulp Masters (2001).
Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg.
First Edition.
Paperback.
ISBN-13: 978-0786708734
John MacDonald, James M. Cain, Donald
Westlake, Lawrence Block, Mickey Spillane, and Harrington Whittington – these
six masters of pulp fiction at its suspenseful best distinguish this new
anthology compiled by the award-winning editors of its two popular
predecessors, American Pulp and Pure Pulp. Like its two popular predecessors,
Pulp Masters culls its tales – in this case, five classic “novelettes” and one
complete novel – from the golden age of magazine fiction in the first half of
the twentieth century.
All six writers included in Pulp Masters in
time emerged as giants in the field of crime fiction, and the stories in this
volume demonstrate why. Their voices fresh, their talents raw and original,
with titles like "Ordo," “College-Cut Kill,” "Stag Party
Girl," "The Embezzler," and "Everybody's Watching Me,"
Westlake, Block, Cain, and Spillane heralded and shaped the crime story as we
know it today. So did "the King of the Paperback Original" – Harrington
Whittington – represented here by the novel based on his pulp short story
"So Dead, My Love."