Pulp

[close] This group is dedicated to the paperback novels written by Gardner F Fox. Read chapter One of his novels. Please share your thought and reviews of his stories.

[close] This is the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers book club, where we take a look at short fiction in the public domain.

[close] For those of us who like to read using the iBooks platforms, on Mac, or iOS - That's iPads mostly, although you can use an iPhone if you don't mind small pages. For iBooks Authors, you too are welcome to join in. Indeed, it's often difficult to find books that are exclusively on the iBooks site, so we'd love to hear about iBooks made for iBooks. The Templates are Landscape and Portrait, and ePub3, and the first two are a much unexplored market. Lets hear from iBooks Readers, and Authors then. Talk about iBooks. iBooks only. Why you love iBooks. Goodreads on iBooks. Author specials ONLY available on iBooks. How you authored your iBooks, why you love Reading your iBooks.

[close] Started somewhat as a reaction to the British cozy mystery of the Agatha Christie style (think Murder She Wrote), there came a demand for something more real, action where the stakes were higher, the participants (good and bad) sleazier, the police on the take, the ladies fatal for any would-be patsy. Thus was born, largely in the 1920s, and often in the pulps (foremost among them Black Mask), the American answer to Sherlock Holmes, the genre that in turn became the basis for the film noir revolution of the 1940s. Our original big three writers in this genre are Dashiel Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain. This modest beginning spawned an international phenomenon with writers in other countries picking up the tropes, some adhering to original themes, others blending in other genres such as science fiction dystopia or urban fantasy, to craft a new literature known simply as noir. These writers and settings come from communities as diverse and complex as can be found throughout the modern world. Half our focus is on original hardboiled crime fiction, its formation in the middle third of twentieth century United States. The other half is on modern noir throughout the world as it has developed since. Join in on the fun as the outsider champion of justice tries to bring its criminal elements to account, won't you?