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Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men?
Take a journey back to the desperate days of America post the Great Depression, when the country turned to the pulp novels for relief, for hope and for heroes. Meet Walter Gibson, the mind behind The Shadow, and Lester Dent,…
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Pulp magazines were the forerunners of comic books, and two of the greatest pulp characters, Doc Savage and the Shadow, inspired Superman and Batman, essentially kickstarting the superhero industry. I grew up and cut my future fiction writer’s teeth on paperback Doc Savage and Shadow pulp reprints—the primary authors behind these respective pulp heroes.
Lester Dent and Walter B. Gibson clash and eventually join forces to combat a Depression-era menace that could only spring from classic pulps in Malmont’s brilliant meta novel. L. Ron Hubbard and H.P. Lovecraft also make the scene creepily in this intoxicating brew…
From Craig's list on The most suspenseful thrillers where fact & fiction meet.
The only novel on my list, this is simply fun.
It’s a box of delights set in the early days of the pulps, in which two of the greatest pulp writers of their era – Lester Dent and Walter Gibson, authors of Doc Savage and The Shadow – team up with L. Ron Hubbard to solve the murder of H.P. Lovecraft. While Malmont’s follow-up – The Astounding, The Amazing and the Unknown – deals more directly with the Golden Age (it features both Asimov and Heinlein), my heart belongs to this marvellous pulp adventure, if only for Hubbard’s glorious…
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