Yesterday's Faces: Violent lives

Yesterday's Faces: Violent lives

Author: Robert Sampson

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Adventure, suspense, above all violence--these filled the lives of the characters brightening the pulp magazines. From the early 1900s to the 1950s, these magazines of popular fiction offered hard-paced entertainment and high wonder. In "Violent Lives" Robert Sampson calls up a vivid selection of adventurers, spies, and warriors.


Yesterday's Faces

Yesterday's Faces

Author: Robert Sampson

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780879725143

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In this fifth volume of the Yesterday's Faces series, Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903-1930 pulps. Sparkling brightly among these characters are Terence O'Rourke, Captain Blood, and the ferocious Hurricane Williams. More characters include Peter the Brazen, in China, Sanders of the River, in Africa--and much, much more.


Yesterday's Faces: Dangerous horizons

Yesterday's Faces: Dangerous horizons

Author: Robert Sampson

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 242

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In this fifth volume of the Yesterday's Faces series, Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903-1930 pulps. Sparkling brightly among these characters are Terence O'Rourke, Captain Blood, and the ferocious Hurricane Williams. More characters include Peter the Brazen, in China, Sanders of the River, in Africa--and much, much more.


Yesterday's Faces, Volume 4

Yesterday's Faces, Volume 4

Author: Robert Sampson

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780879724153

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For the fourth volume of this series, Robert Sampson has selected more than fifty magazine series characters to illustrate the development of the character of the detective. Included here are both the amateur and professional detective, female investigators, deducting doctors, brilliant amateurs, and equally brilliant professional police. There are private detectives reflecting Holmes and hard-boiled cops from the parallel traditions of realism and melodramatic fantasy. Characters include Brady and Riordan, Terry Trimble, Glamorous Nan Russell, J. G. Reeder, plus many others.


H.P. Lovecraft: Reanimator Tales

H.P. Lovecraft: Reanimator Tales

Author: H.P. Lovecraft

Publisher: Caliber Comics

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 151

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Contained within are the H.P. Lovecraft tales originally known as Grewsome Tales and later dubbed Herbert West - Reanimator are presented here in newly edited versions. In addition, award winning writer Steven Philip Jones provides an all new Reanimator tale plus the script for the audio version of From the Dark. As a bonus, an essay written by Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature is presented in this collection. A must gift for any H.P. Lovecraft fan or collector.


Yesterday's Faces: Strange days

Yesterday's Faces: Strange days

Author: Robert Sampson

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780879722623

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The second volume within this series presents more than fifty series characters within pulp fiction, selected to represent four popular story types from the 1907-1939 pulps--scientific detectives, occult and psychic investigators, jungle men, and adventurers in interplanetary romance. Some characters--Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Craig Kennedy, Anthony (Buck) Rogers--became internationally known. Others are now almost forgotten, except by collectors and specialists.


Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3

Yesterday's Faces, Volume 3

Author: Robert Sampson

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1987-12

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780879723637

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More than forty criminal heroes are examined in this volume. They include evil characters such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Li Shoon, Black Star, the Spider, Rafferty, Mr. Clackworthy, Elegant Edward, Big-nose Charlie, Thubway Tham, the Thunderbolt, the Man in Purple, and the Crimson Clown, plus many, many more! The development of these characters is traced across more than two decades of crime fiction published in Detective Story Magazine, Flynn's, Black Mask, and other magazines. The conventions that made these stories a special part of popular fiction are examined in detail.


Yesterday's Monsters

Yesterday's Monsters

Author: Hadar Aviram

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0520291549

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In 1969, the world was shocked by a series of murders committed by Charles Manson and his “family” of followers. Although the defendants were sentenced to death in 1971, their sentences were commuted to life with parole in 1972; since 1978, they have been regularly attending parole hearings. Today all of the living defendants remain behind bars. Relying on nearly fifty years of parole hearing transcripts, as well as interviews and archival materials, Hadar Aviram invites readers into the opaque world of the California parole process—a realm of almost unfettered administrative discretion, prison programming inadequacies, high-pitched emotions, and political pressures. Yesterday’s Monsters offers a fresh longitudinal perspective on extreme punishment.


God of Violence Yesterday, God of Love Today?

God of Violence Yesterday, God of Love Today?

Author: Helen Paynter

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-05-20

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1532691033

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Do you find the violence in the Old Testament a problem? Does it get in the way of reading the Bible—and of faith itself? While acknowledging that there are no easy answers, in God of Violence Yesterday, God of Love Today?, Helen Paynter faces the tough questions head-on and offers a fresh, accessible approach to a significant issue. For all those seeking to engage with the Bible and gain confidence in the God it portrays, she provides tools for reading and interpreting biblical texts, and points to ways of dealing with the overall trajectories of violence.