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Like an ice cream truck whistling through the neighborhood, here comes another book vending machine. Treat yourself. 🍦📚 #ad #bookX 𝗕⃥𝗢⃥𝗢⃥𝗞⃥ 𝗩⃥𝗘⃥𝗡⃥𝗗⃥𝗜⃥𝗡⃥𝗚⃥ 𝗠⃥𝗔⃥𝗖⃥𝗛⃥𝗜⃥𝗡⃥𝗘⃥𝗦⃥

That Ballantine series cover art was all done by the great Laurence Schwinger, who more recently painted the covers to the @HardCaseCrime titles Witness to Myself, The Guns of Heaven, and Shooting Star/Spiderweb.

Nominees for the Edgars discuss the greatest concerns of the genre today, along with recommending plenty of favorites. crimereads.com/state-of-the-c…

A classic Bruce Pennington work, used as a 1973 cover to 'Children of Tomorrow,' by A. E. van Vogt. Via @70sscifi tumblr.com/70sscifiart/81…

Time to take a look at the state of crime writing with @CrimeReads. crimereads.com/state-of-crime…

Utopia/Dystopia by Dylan Glynn

The latest @jordan_harper book A Violent Masterpiece launches today! A neon-tinged noir missile hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jordan-…

A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE by @jordan_harper is out today. This is THE great LA noir of the 21st century. A work of gorgeous aesthetics, thrilling storytelling, and devastating moral clarity. And of bloodied hope. It's Jordan's best novel. And the best novel you'll read this year.

Ghosts edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh (Signet Books 1988) cover by J. K. Potter. Tenth in the "Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy" series. Fine stories by Tanith Lee, C. L. Moore, Jack Vance, Charles L. Grant, Parke Godwin and more.

Americans Reaching Toward The Frontier We live in a peculiar time, asked to believe six impossible things before breakfast Why did we of all people put a man on the moon? Because space is the new frontier ... We live in a peculiar time. We are all like the White Queen, asked to believe six impossible things before breakfast. Beau's Note: "In the later years of his career, Louis always hated the fact that westerns could not be considered literature but, somehow, writing about any other period of history seemed to carry literary weight. For example if one writes a story about the Alamo or the Civil War, it is an historical. If one writes a story about a time ten years later in which cattlemen and Indians appear, it is western." How do I write a story? I take one or more characters, put them into an historical situation and let them react to it. It is a simple as that. Continue reading on @substack at link louisdlamour.substack.com/p/americans-re…

1/2 I was never much of a series writer, even though character series were popular in the pulps, but an exception were my two stories starring Jimmy Galbraith, with "Preview of Death" appearing in the Nov. 15, 1934 issue of DDM and "The Body Upstairs" in the April 1, 1935 issue.

A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K Dick. DAW, 1984. Cover by Bob Pepper.

Agatha Christie Pocket Books Cover illustrations by Tom Adams

@ThrillaRilla369 Omg. There's my plate from my childhood that I'm still using.

Did everyone eat this or was I just poor?

Thrilling Wonder Stories December 1950. Cover art is uncredited, it looks like Earle Bergey's work to me. Other writers in the issue include Eric Frank Russell, Raymond Z. Gallun, Mack Reynolds, Margaret St. Clair and Frank Belknap Long.

🎉Happy Birthday to #IanRankin, #bornonthisday in 1960. Sir Rankin is the master of Tartan Noir, bringing Edinburgh’s dark streets to life through Inspector Rebus. His gritty, real-time detective series blends crime, corruption, and psychology into modern classics.#CrimeFiction

Femme Fatale Painting Original Art (undated, unknown artist) not.pulpcovers.com/post/815063271…

Weird Tales October 1935 cover by Margaret Brundage. An excellent cover by Brundage for Edmond Hamilton's "The Six Sleepers." Writers in the issue not mentioned on the cover include C. L. Moore and Eando Binder.

"Beware of unearned wisdom." ― Carl Gustav Jung

Cool And The Crazy US One Sheet 1958