edited by Otto Penzler You want pulp fiction?  We got pulp fiction.  1,140 double-columned pages packed with the best crime stories from the golden age of the pulps -- the 1920s, 30s & 40s -- when writers like Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Paul Cain, Leslie Chartiers, Erle Stanley Gardner, Frederick Nebel, and a host of others all wrote their heart out for 2¢ a word.  Divided into three sections -- The Crimefighter, The Villians and The Dames -- this massive tome contains over fifty stories and two complete novels.  This is a book that you'll want to save for those special nights when it's pitch black and freezing cold and the wind is rattling the windowpanes.  You'll want to turn off all lights in the house except for your reading lamp that's poised over your cracked leather armchair, put a stack of old Billie Holiday records on the turntable, pour yourself a couple fingers of hard liquor and settle in for a prolonged look at the underworld, out of which, somwhere along the way, the  unconscious will emerge and you'll be face to face with the heart of darkness of the good ol' USA.