Pulp Classics: The Thrill Book (Sept. 1, 1919) [Paperback]

John Gregory Betancourt (Editor)

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Publication Date: September 7, 2005

Running for sixteen issues in 1919, 'The Thrill Book' was a magazine of 'strange, bizzare, occult, mysterious tales,' but not quite a fantastic-fiction magazine, mixing various types of adventure stories with often outstanding fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

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Newcomer Brahen boldly reinterprets Genesis in this inventive, if overlong, SF/fantasy hybrid that begins as a realistic drama of a young Philadelphia mother, Leigh Ann Elfman, coping with a failed marriage, then moves into an otherworldly story of unfulfilled love across the ages, including more than one paranormal paramour. A "dark presence" repeatedly appears to the psychically gifted Leigh Ann and informs her that she was first born as Leianna on Eliom, an Edenic planet of angel folk, 35,000 years earlier. Leigh Ann journeys to Eliom, where she meets Bael, her original betrothed, who still wishes to make her his bride. Leigh Ann, however, has mixed feelings at best about this prospect. Brahen writes clearly and creates distinct characters, but some judicious cutting might have improved the pace.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: Wildside Press (September 7, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592241980
• ISBN-13: 978-1592241989
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 10 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,809,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Amazon description is wrong., February 19, 2005

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This review is from: Pulp Classics: The Thrill Book (Sept. 1, 1919) (Paperback)

"The Thrill Book" is a legendary magazine, one of the holy grails of pulp collecting. Original copies sell for thousands of dollars -- if you can find them. Running for sixteen issues in 1919, it was a magazine of "strange, bizzare, occult, mysterious tales," but not quite a fantastic-fiction magazine, mixing various types of adventure stories with often outstanding fantasy, horror, and science fiction by Murray Leinster, Seabury Quinn, Francis Stevens, Perley Moore Sheehan, Tod Robbins, Edward Lucas White, Greye La Spina, and other giants of the pulp era. While sheer scarcity may have once added something to the lustre of "The Thrill Book," now that an issue is finally made available at an affordable price, the reader may appreciate that this truly was a pioneering -- and supremely entertaining -- publication.