Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Andrew Vachss - and other book finds

From: Scott Owen ( scottaowen@hotmail.com)
Date: 17 Aug 2001


Passing up HIS NAME WAS DEATH is perhaps a criminal offense--it's one of Brown's best. It sounds like the ss collections may be from the Dennis McMillan series, which basically reprinted *every* pulp story Brown ever wrote. Although there are many gems hidden in the series (which I believe ran 20 volumes or so) and it's a must for all Brown collectors, I don't recommend them. Brown was a pulp writer, basically learning his craft in public and getting paid for it. The books are loaded with beginner's efforts, experiments that didn't work, and other also-ran stories. I think it's sad that these anthologies can be found on library shelves while classic Brown collections (NIGHMARES AND GEZENSTACKS, MOSTLY MURDER, HONEYMOON IN HELL) have long since been discarded.

The WR Burnett Black Box is also worht picking up.

--Scott

>From: DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net (Mark Sullivan)
>Reply-To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
>To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Andrew Vachss - and other book finds
>Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:14:48 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Thanks to Brian and Kevin for mentioning that Vachss had a second short
>story anthology, Everybody Pays, after Born Bad (which I mistaken called
>Bad Blood recently). I found it today in a used bookstore.
>
>I also got the Black Box anthology of 4 Frederic Brown novels (Night of
>the Jabberwock, Screaming Mimi, Knock Three-One-Two and Fabulous
>Clipjoint) for just three bucks (the cover was a bit beat up, but I'm
>still quite happy).
>
>There were also a few other books I wanted to ask about:
>
>His Name Was Death and a short story anthology (I forget the title, but
>it was followed by volume 2) by Frederic Brown
>
>Fallen Angels anthology of the scripts and the short stories they were
>based on from the HBO (or was it Showtime?) series
>
>The Black Box collection of WR Burnett
>
>Dirty Laundry by Don Taylor (Mask Noir, usually a good sign)
>
>Jana by David Veronese, but someone else just asked about that
>
>Any I should go back for?
>
>Mark
>
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