Post by Calenture on Nov 19, 2012 9:22:16 GMT
Clumsy subject line, but space is limited.
I did read some horror in the past couple of years, notably Walter De La Mare and Oliver Onions (can't resist announcing that I found an Onions story I like more than The Beckoning Fair One!)
Anyway that's all by the by. More recently I've returned to pet love of noir fiction, which in turn led to me buying a few Hard Case Crime publications. The last was James (Postman Always Rings Twice) Cain's recently discovered last novel, The Cocktail Waitress. A horror story if ever there was one.
Last night I found this page, linked with above image, where I learned that King has put off e-publishing his novel Joyland in order to let Hard Case Crime get their publication out first.
Delicious cover as usual from this company, this one painted (yeah, painted) by Robert McGinnis and Glen Orbik.
This bit is cribbed from the Hard Case Crime page:
'Since its debut in 2004, Hard Case Crime has been the subject of enthusiastic coverage by a wide range of publications including The New York Times, USA Today, Time, Playboy, U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Houston Chronicle, New York magazine, the New York Post and Daily News, Salon, Reader’s Digest, Parade and USA Weekend, as well as numerous other magazines, newspapers, and online media outlets. The Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "Hard Case Crime is doing a wonderful job publishing both classic and contemporary ‘pulp’ novels in a crisp new format with beautiful, period-style covers. These modern ‘penny dreadfuls’ are worth every dime." Playboy praised Hard Case Crime’s "lost masterpieces," writing "They put to shame the work of modern mystery writers whose plots rely on cell phones and terrorists." And the Philadelphia City Paper wrote, "Tired of overblown, doorstop-sized thrillers...? You’ve come to the right place. Hard Case novels are as spare and as honest as a sock in the jaw."'
I did read some horror in the past couple of years, notably Walter De La Mare and Oliver Onions (can't resist announcing that I found an Onions story I like more than The Beckoning Fair One!)
Anyway that's all by the by. More recently I've returned to pet love of noir fiction, which in turn led to me buying a few Hard Case Crime publications. The last was James (Postman Always Rings Twice) Cain's recently discovered last novel, The Cocktail Waitress. A horror story if ever there was one.
Last night I found this page, linked with above image, where I learned that King has put off e-publishing his novel Joyland in order to let Hard Case Crime get their publication out first.
Delicious cover as usual from this company, this one painted (yeah, painted) by Robert McGinnis and Glen Orbik.
This bit is cribbed from the Hard Case Crime page:
'Since its debut in 2004, Hard Case Crime has been the subject of enthusiastic coverage by a wide range of publications including The New York Times, USA Today, Time, Playboy, U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Houston Chronicle, New York magazine, the New York Post and Daily News, Salon, Reader’s Digest, Parade and USA Weekend, as well as numerous other magazines, newspapers, and online media outlets. The Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "Hard Case Crime is doing a wonderful job publishing both classic and contemporary ‘pulp’ novels in a crisp new format with beautiful, period-style covers. These modern ‘penny dreadfuls’ are worth every dime." Playboy praised Hard Case Crime’s "lost masterpieces," writing "They put to shame the work of modern mystery writers whose plots rely on cell phones and terrorists." And the Philadelphia City Paper wrote, "Tired of overblown, doorstop-sized thrillers...? You’ve come to the right place. Hard Case novels are as spare and as honest as a sock in the jaw."'