Pulp Fiction - The Villains

By Otto Penzler

Book Overview

Harlan Ellison introduces a collection of 16 taut and muscular tales starring some of fiction's hardest-boiled criminals, crooks, deperados and rogues. Anti-heroes to a man, these are the guys who can... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847243339
• ISBN13: 9781847243331
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 10.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Say hello to the bad guy

Pulp Fiction The Villains is about the size of a phone book, and loaded with gangsters, hustlers, and thieves. It has cops who break the law, killers, and even con men. It has authors like Hammett and Chandler all making it that more engrossing. This is a collection everyone who enjoys classic pulp fiction.

Super Reader

This has an introduction by Harlan Ellison expounding on how dodgy he used to be, and pulp-writing. A pleasant surprise to find here that, along with Hammett and Chandler, was a bunch of stories about various pulp antihero type characters from series, however, short, such as The Cobra, The Moon Man, The Phantom Crook, and even The Saint, whom it is likely many more people will have heard of. Again, one strange decision to include a chunk of stories by one writer, Frederick Nebel, with multiple unrelated 'Richmond City' crime tales, when several more writers could have been featured. Especially given a few of these aren't very good. As such, this anthology only has a 3.40 story average. Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Cat Woman - Erle Stanley Gardner Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Dilemma of the Dead Lady - Cornell Woolrich Pulp Fiction the Villains : The House of Kaa - Richard B. Sale Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Invisible Millionaire - Leslie Charteris Pulp Fiction the Villains : Faith - Dashiell Hammett Pulp Fiction the Villains : Pastorale - James M. Cain Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Sad Serbian - Frank Gruber Pulp Fiction the Villains : You'll Always Remember Me - Steve Fisher Pulp Fiction the Villains : Finger Man - Raymond Chandler Pulp Fiction the Villains : You'll Die Laughing - Norbert Davis Pulp Fiction the Villains : About Kid Deth - Raoul Whitfield Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Sinister Sphere - Frederick C. Davis Pulp Fiction the Villains : Pigeon Blood - Paul Cain Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Perfect Crime - C. S. Montanye Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Monkey Murder - Erle Stanley Gardner Pulp Fiction the Villains : Raw Law - Frederick Nebel Pulp Fiction the Villains : Dog Eat Dog - Frederick Nebel Pulp Fiction the Villains : The Law Laughs Last - Frederick Nebel Pulp Fiction the Villains : Law Without Law - Frederick Nebel Pulp Fiction the Villains : Graft - Frederick Nebel "Miss Jean Ellery annonces that it gives her pleasure to accept the invitation of Ed Jenkins to a holdup and burglary. When do we start?" The Phantom Crook finds himself in the frame of a plot to gain a wealthy man's inheritance and murder his not known about daughter. 3.5 out of 5 Anybody could be a crook, really, when you are carting a corpse around. 4 out of 5 Trying to pull off a snake smuggling plot or get him with a giant python? Don't think that will work on The Cobra. 3 out of 5 A young woman writes to the Saint asking for help, and murder and impersonation follow. 3.5 out of 5 I blame Gud instead. Pass the matches. 3 out of 5 Giving yourself up. 3 out of 5 A Prince of a skip-traced scam. 4 out of 5 Those crazy young murderers. 3.5 out of 5 Casino killing group. 3 out of 5 Collecting apartment murder. 3.5 out of 5 "You got me wrong, Kid," he said. "When did you start packin' a rod?" "When you started rubbing out women!" he said steadily. 3 out of 5 The Moon Man only has to keep his identity secr