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The second volume (of 3) in the collected stories of pulpdom's most notorious Chicago gangster. In these four short novels from 1931-32, Big Nose plays the ponies, in two interconnected tales, he fights corruption in the Bloody Tenth Ward by running for assemblyman, and brings the same manic intensity to politics that he did to Tommy-gun warfare, in the fourth story, he struggles against a mysterious underworld nemesis, the Spider. Unique in p...

Volume 4 brings the collected Wade Hammond to a close. It includes the remaining nine stories of the 39, most from 1934-vintage Ten Detective Aces. The book also includes Chadwick's only writers' magazine article on pulp writing. The introduction includes a detailed portrait of Chadwick's career using newly uncovered information.

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Arthur O. Friel's tales of the unexplored Amazon jungle made him one of the pulp magazine Adventure's most popular authors. This collection includes his first ten stories from 1919-20. The engrossing, suspenseful, and often violent, stories follow two rubber industry workers as they venture into the wildest, most inhospitable jungles on Earth. This is pulp adventure at its best. Also included is an in-depth examination of Arthur O. Friel, an e...

Nineteen stories from the notorious gang pulps of the early '30s. Here will be found lurid tales of sadistic killers, craven squealers, coldblooded gun molls, corrupt cops, ruthless gang bosses, and brutal mob wars of extermination. Complete with original illustrations. When these magazines came on the market, they came under immediate fire from the censors. An in-depth introduction, based on original research, "Glorifying the American Goon, "...

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Hardboiled stories from all six issues of the ultra-rare pulp magazine, Prison Stories (1930-31), complete and uncensored. During Prohibition, America's overcrowded prisons dominated the headlines with stories of condemned racketeers, escape attempts, grisly executions, massive riots, and fiery conflagrations. Celebrated publisher Harold Hersey turned the controversies into grist for a monthly magazine of brutal fiction. Sociopathic cons, snit...

Fulton Oursler was one of the great editors of his time, ruling over the Macfadden publishing empire for two decades. He created the first true-crime magazine, True Detective Mysteries, and off-beat titles like Brain Power, Ghost Stories and True Strange Stories. He achieved national fame in the '30s as the editor of Liberty. But stage magic was his first love, and, in his heart, he remained a conjurer in a black cape and top hat. In this coll...

Macfadden's GHOST STORIES magazine (1926-31) offered spooky tales in every flavor, many of them told in the confessional style of Macfadden's "true"-style magazines. This second of two volumes includes 15 stories, complete with original illustrations. Extensive nonfiction material includes detailed biographies of every author whose stories appear in this volume, and every GHOST STORIES cover artist. Also included is a gallery of all 64 GHOST S...

Macfadden's GHOST STORIES magazine (1926-31) offered spooky tales in every flavor, many of them told in the confessional style of Macfadden's "true"-style magazines. This first of two volumes includes 19 stories, complete with original illustrations. Extensive nonfiction material includes the history of GHOST STORIES, as well as detailed biographies of every GHOST STORIES editor, and every author whose stories appear in this volume.

Officially, Elmer Brown Mason was a government entomologist in charge of the Gulf States. Privately, he journeyed to the dangerous corners of the world in search of adventure. In 1915-16, he turned his experiences into vivid, and fantastic, fiction set in the places he knew. In each of these ten stories, taken from The Popular Magazine and All-Story Weekly, Mason's scientist-adventurers visit strange places and encounter strange people and und...