This history of the protosuperhero is accessible general readers, fans, and students, while also detailed enough for scholars. The author asserts that the book does not seek to explain the themes a
Increasing literacy rates and advanced printing technology gave rise to the pulp magazine in the late 19th century. Affordable, disposable, and commercially in-demand, the fiction magazines remained
Drawing from a large number of college course syllabi, Nevins limits each author to two novels in order to include as many different canonical authors as possible within the space allowed. She aims to
The anxiety and dread of wartime Britain is recaptured in this anthology of horror stories and supernatural fiction dating from 1914–18. Selections include Max Beerbohm's "Enoch Soames," Algernon Blac
This unique, one-volume encyclopedia contains entries on the more than 2000 superheroes, private eyes, cowboys, pilots, and adventure heroes who appeared in comics during the Golden Age (1935-1949) of
A young engineer and his secretary awake in the ruins of a Manhattan skyscraper to discover that they've been asleep for 1,500 years. The city's architecture isn't all that's crumbled ? humanity has d
A truly astonishing, illustrated history of Science fiction, covering fantasy, and horror, with forays into crime, mystery and the gothic. Using timelines, online links, illustrations, posters, movie
