The Spicy Mystery MEGAPACK ®: 25 Tales from the "Spicy" Pulps

Hugh B. Cave · Victor Rousseau · Atwater · Norman A. Daniels · Ellery Watson Calder

Aug 2015 · Wildside Press LLC

About this ebook

This volume of Wildside Press's best-selling MEGAPACK® series focuses on tales first published in the "Spice" line of pulp magazines. Here are 25 mystery tales considered quite titillating in their day, but mild by modern standards. 

About the author

Cave was born in England, came to the U.S. as a child and grew up around Boston, attending Boston University. He began writing while in high school and has written more than 40 books. He lived in Haiti for almost five years, owned and ran a Blue Mountain coffee plantation in Jamaica for 15 years. From Wikipedia: Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960) was a writer of pulp fiction who was active in Great Britain and the United States in the first half of the 20th century. He wrote under the pen names "Victor Rousseau" and "H. M. Egbert." Emanuel first came to the U.S. in 1901. He also lived in Canada from 1912 to 1916, a period during which he wrote most of his best works. Although he began his career as a novelist, he gained popularity for his works of pulp fiction. After an early career as a reporter for the New York World and as an editor of Harper's Weekly, he became a fiction writer. He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, frontier stories, western romance and crime fiction, but was probably best known as an early exponent of science fiction and fantasy. His best known novels in those genres were The Messiah of the Cylinder, a story of a man placed in suspended animation for 100 years, and The Eye of Balamok, a lost-race novel. Several of his stories were adapted for Western films, and he was the author of one silent film screenplay, The Devil's Tower, based on one of his stories.