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Nine years ago we published our most succesful ever book, The Adventures of Roderick Langham, which sold over 1500 copies, and now its author, Rafe McGregor is back with an extensive collection of his essays, reviews and interviews: A Pulp Memoir.
Who really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? What are weird tales? When did Octavia Butler complete her parables? Where did Allan Quatermain retire? Why were the last two Bond movies so strange? How did Sharksploitation get so big? Why is it so hard to film the collapse of the world as we know it? What happened to gamebooks? Who is Thomas Ligotti? These and many other questions about detective, fantastic, weird, and climate fiction are answered in Rafe McGregor’s selection of his best short nonfiction from the past twenty years. The collection also includes a new essay on one of the most provocative and irreverent manifestos of the twenty-first century and reflections on writing as a practice, writing as a discipline, and writing as a career.
Some of the writing will be familiar to readers of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, but much of it will be new to you, having appeared in venues as diverse as Dalesman, The London Magazine, Crime Always Pays, Shots Crime and Thriller Ezine, Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy: The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind, CADS (Crime and Detective Stories), The Millions, Crime Factory, the Crime Readers’ Association, Crime Fiction Lover, the Arthur Conan Doyle Society, the British Society of Criminology, and the British Fantasy Society.
Rafe McGregor is a critical theorist and author of twenty books, divided evenly between monographs on culture, crime, and politics and pulp fiction. He has published over three hundred essays, reviews, and short stories, many of which have appeared in Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction, the UK’s second-longest-running amateur speculative fiction magazine.
Cover by Reece Burns.
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