Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221) and index.
Contents:
On pulp fiction and Weird Tales / Gary Hoppenstand -- History, horror, and heroic fantasy : Robert E. Howard and the creation of the sword-and-sorcery subgenre / Jeffrey Shanks -- Cthulhu's empire : H.P. Lovecraft's influence on his contemporaries and successors / S.T. Joshi -- The last musketeer : Clark Ashton Smith and the weird marriage of poetry and pulp / Andrew J. Wilson -- Nostalgia in H.P. Lovecraft / Daniel Muller -- Visionary star-treader : the speculative writings of Clark Ashton Smith / Richard Bleiler -- Robert Block : O. Henry of twentieth-century pulp magazines / Garyn G. Roberts -- Love is the most dangerous thing : gender and genocide in the weird fiction of C.L. Moore / Andrew J. Wilson -- Henry Kuttner : often-overlooked pillar of the weird tale and the pulpwood magazine / Garyn G. Roberts -- August Derleth : odd man in / Wythe Marschall -- The fantastic pulp fiction of Frank Belknap Long / Richard Bleiler -- Seabury Quinn's Jules de Grandin : the supernatural sleuth in Weird Tales / Gary Hoppenstand -- The Conan series / David Hinckley -- "The Dunwich horror" / James V. Muhleman -- Hyperborea / Brian Stableford -- Zothique / Brian Stableford -- Jirel of Joiry / Anne K. Kaler -- The Jules de Grandin series / Robert Weinberg.
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