商品簡介
This volume collects critical essays that provide a broader understanding of the magazineWeird Tales and its authors, artists, readers, and editorial practices, as well as the larger impact that the periodical had on popular culture and genre fiction. In particular, these essays explain whyWeird Tales deserved its subtitle “The Unique Magazine” and why works by some of its authors have endured.
作者簡介
Justin Everett is associate professor and Director of Writing Programs at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and the coauthor ofDynamic Argument (2012). Everett created the Pulp Studies area for the Popular Culture Association and serves as its co-chair.
Jeffrey Shanks is an archaeologist with the National Park Service whose research interests include the use of anthropological and sociological themes in early 20th century pulp fiction. He has authored a number of popular and scholarly articles on Robert E. Howard, including recent essays inConan Meets the Academy (2012),Pulp Fiction of the 20s and 30s (2013), andUndead in the West II (Scarecrow Press, 2013).
