PULP ORIGINALS
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PULP ORIGINALS was created by Lee Horsley and Allan Guthrie, whose websites are Crimeculture and Noir Originals.
NOIR ORIGINALS offers an exciting mix of fiction, reviews, articles, essays and interviews. It was launched in April 2003, and issue #2 was published in August 2003. In his first issue, Allan Guthrie explained the genesis of the site and of Noir Originals Zine: “The idea for the website stemmed from a love of noir fiction. Since I write noir fiction, the New Writers part of the site was an obvious choice. But I also read noir fiction (in hefty doses), and I was determined to offer something that might satisfy other readers of this terrific genre…I asked a few friends and acquaintances if they’d be interested in contributing an article or a review for a new website dedicated to noir fiction. I received an overwhelmingly positive response, out of which Noir Originals Zine sprang into life.”
ALLAN GUTHRIE was born two years before David Goodis died. Allan lives in Edinburgh with his inspirational and extremely supportive wife, Donna. His first novel Two-Way Split will be published by Wit's End in May 2004. His second novel will be published as part of Dorchester Publishing's new heavy-hitting mass market paperback Hard Case Crime imprint, which will also include slightly less well-known authors, such as Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins and Erle Stanley Gardner. Kiss Her Goodbye is scheduled for publication in the first half of 2005. A number of Allan's short stories have been (or are due to be) published in e-zines ( Hardluck Stories, The Murder Hole, Plots With Guns, Shred of Evidence) , Cyber-Pulp (electronic and, latterly, print) anthologies ( Down These Dark Streets, Grave Possessions, Historical Hardboiled, Dark Streets After Hours and Be Mine ), and UK print magazine Bullet. Allan is the editor/webmaster of Noir Originals and is commissioning editor for Pulp Originals. Contact Allan
CRIMECULTURE is an academic internet site launched in October 2002. Our hope is that we have something to offer anyone teaching or studying crime fiction, film and television, true crime writing and graphic art. Recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of university courses being offered on crime-related topics: crimeculture has proven to be an exciting context for bringing together people involved in the study of popular culture and for giving encouragement to students who would like the chance to share their work in an international forum. The site was created by Lee and Katharine Horsley, and now has contributing editors from America, Australia and Canada as well as Britain.
After graduating from the University of Minnesota, LEE HORSLEY came to England as a Fulbright Scholar to do postgraduate work in English Literature and has lived here ever since (with an English husband and three children, now all in their twenties). She has been at the University of Lancaster since 1974 - currently teaching twentieth-century British and American literature and two specialist crime courses. Over the last fifteen years, she has written two books on literature and politics – Political Fiction and the Historical Imagination (Macmillan, 1990) and Fictions of Power in English Literature 1900-1950 (Longman, 1995) – and more recently The Noir Thriller (Palgrave, 2001). Her current projects include a book on twentieth-century British and American crime fiction for OUP, supported by a Research Leave Award (2003-04) from the AHRB; and another (jointly with her daughter, Katharine Horsley) called Fatal Families: Representations of Domesticity in Twentieth-Century Crime Stories (contracted to Greenwood Press). Both of these should be out sometime in 2005-06. Together with Katharine, Lee is editor and webmaster for Crimeculture; she is co-editor and webmaster for Pulp Originals. Contact Lee
Lee Horsley's work on crime fiction is supported by
The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) funds postgraduate and advanced research within the UK's higher education institutions. All AHRB awards are made on the basis of academic excellence. For additional information on the AHRB for publication purposes, please contact Lucy Furlong at c.varley@ahrb.ac.uk or telephone 0117 987 6777
READ CHAPTER OF SLEEP WITH THE DEVIL
READ CHAPTER OF WHO HAS WILMA LATHROP?
READ BILL CRIDER'S INTRODUCTION TO DAY KEENE
READ BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON DAY KEENE
READ CHAPTER OF THE DEVIL WEARS WINGS BUY THE DEVIL WEARS WINGS
READ WHITTINGTON'S 'I REMEMBER IT WELL'
READ JASON STARR'S INTRODUCTION TO HARRY WHITTINGTON
READ CHAPTER OF SQUEEZE PLAY BUY SQUEEZE PLAY
READ JASON STARR'S INTRODUCTION TO JAMES McKIMMEY
Link to: Crimeculture Noir Originals
