THIS FICTION BUSINESS
by H. Bedford-Jones
Mr. H. Bedford-Jones writes:

"This book is not to be regarded as tyro. Under his own and assumed an authority on story-writing; by no means should it be read by anyone who aspires to literature, for, like Socrates, it will assuredly corrupt them and lead them into the worship of strange gods. It is destined only for those who desire to make a living by writing stories, in the hope that it may be of some benefit to them.

"As may be imagined, the author is superbly assured of his competence to admonish, divert and perhaps assist the names, he has something like forty books, of divers natures, to his discredit, and well over a hundred book-length novels, with as many novelettes and some hundreds of short stories. At one time he even made verse pay him a living wage. With the exception of perhaps half a dozen stories, he has sold all he has written, and he writes prolifically."

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H. G. WELLS
by J. D. Beresford
I have taken as my text the normality of Mr. Wells, on the understanding that I shall define the essential term as I will; and this brief outline of his early experiences may help to show, inter alia, that he viewed life from many angles before he was twenty-seven.

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THE PULP JUNGLE
by Frank Gruber
This is the story of Frank Gruber's days in the pulp jungle, his memories of the editors who bought his material and the writers who were working then. Erle Stanley Gardner, Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and the incredible Max Brand are strong subplots in this document of one of the most exciting times and eras in popular American fiction.

This book is also a profound document for anyone interested in writing or knowing more about some of the fine authors America has produced. It is also a history of BLACK MASK, the now-defunct magazine which ranks next to Edgar Allan Poe in the shaping of American mystery fiction as we know it today.

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ROLLERAGE
"The World on Roller Skates"
August 1943

The world of roller skating, focusing on Roller Derby. This is a reprint of the August 1943 issue of RolleRage magazine.

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ROLLERAGE
"The World on Roller Skates"
February 1945

The world of roller skating, focusing on Roller Derby. This is a reprint of the February 1945 issue of RolleRage magazine.

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VILLAINS GALORE
by Mary Noel

Everyone who is interested in popular taste and popular journal-ism in the United States should be delighted by this book. It is the first study ever made of the American "story papers" of the nineteenth century. The story papers were not quite magazines and not quite newspapers; consequently, they have been ne-glected by the historians of both these categories. The story pa-pers were published weekly; they specialized in thrilling fiction and uplifting articles; they avoided political controversy and de-fended the sanctity of the home against all comers; and they were read by millions who got from them the kind of entertain-ment that comes now from soap opera and the movies. The peak of the story paper age was reached in the 1870's, when Street & Smith's New York Weekly was running "Bertha, The Sewing Machine Girl, or, Death at the Wheel." Today we are likely to think of Bertha as a tearful and much-abused girl; it is reassuring to learn from Miss Noel that the original Bertha was full of fight and responded to danger in true American fashion. When the boss's son made insinuating remarks to Bertha she really told him off: "Beast! villain! coward! are you so idiotic as to suppose your promises would have a feather's weight with me, even if you were the perfection of manly beauty and loaded down with wealth, instead of the vain, empty-headed, hollow-hearted disgusting fright that you are? I am a poor working-girl, obliged to toil late and early for a mere subsistence, but I con-sider myself as far above you as heaven is above the earth."

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