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Raymond Chandler: A Mysterious Something in the Light: A New Biography

10 best books like Raymond Chandler: A Mysterious Something in the Light: A New Biography (Tom Williams): The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories, Rock Bottom, The Puzzle of the Silver Persian, Wolf: The Lives of Jack London, The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey, The Herring Seller's Apprentice, Raymond Chandler Speaking, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads, Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore, Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
AuthorOtto Penzler
ISBN0307455432
An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. 
 
Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir.  It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by...
Rock Bottom
AuthorSarah Andrews
Rivers, oceans, streams, lakes—it doesn't matter what shape it takes, Em Hansen is terrified of the water. She hasn't shared her phobia with her new husband, Fritz, and when his best friend, Tiny, organizes a month-long, private, white-water rafting trip through the Grand Canyon as a wedding gift,...
The Puzzle of the Silver Persian
AuthorStuart Palmer
ISBN0553259342
Miss Withers needs recovery time after her trip to Catalina where she bore some responsibility in identifying the guilty. So what happens after she boards a ship to England? Someone disappears from the railing. Did she go into the water voluntarily? Was she pushed/pulled in?

Then when in London,...
Wolf: The Lives of Jack London
AuthorJames L. Haley
ISBN0465004784
Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—by turns playing the role of hobo, sailor, prospector, and oyster pirate. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would...
The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey
AuthorFred Nadis
The rollicking true story of the legendary writer and editor who ruled over America’s fantasy and supernatural pulp journals in the mid-twentieth century, and shaped today’s UFO and sci-fi cultures: Ray Palmer.

 Meet Ray Palmer. A hustler, a trickster, and a visionary. The hunchbacked...
The Herring Seller's Apprentice
AuthorL.C. Tyler
ISBN0230529658
Ethelred Tressider is a crime writer with problems. His latest novel is going nowhere, mid-life crisis is looming and he's burdened by the literary agent he probably deserves: Elsie Thirkettle, a diminutive but determined individual who claims to enjoy neither the company of writers nor literature...
Raymond Chandler Speaking
AuthorRaymond Chandler
ISBN0520208358
Tough-minded and typically idiosyncratic, here is Chandler on Chandler, the mystery novel, writing, Hollywood, TV, publishing, cats, and famous crimes. This skillfully edited selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters...
Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads
AuthorDavid Morrell
ISBN1933515562
The most riveting reads in history meet today's biggest thriller writers in Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads.

Edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads examines 100 seminal works of suspense through essays contributed by such esteemed modern thriller writers as: David...
Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore
AuthorLance Parkin
ISBN1781310777
"In Magic Words Lance Parkin has crafted a biography that is insightful, scrupulously fair-minded and often very funny, a considerable achievement given its unrelentingly grim, unreasonable and annoying subject. Belongs on the bookshelf of any halfway decent criminal profiler." ALAN MOORE

For...
Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics
AuthorMichael Schumacher
ISBN1608190137
In Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics, Michael Schumacher delves beneath Eisner's public persona to draw connections between his life and his art. Eisner's career spanned a remarkable eight decades, from his scrappy survival at the dawn of comics' Golden Age in the late 1930s to the beginning...
The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore
AuthorGeorge Khoury
ISBN1893905241
More than just a tribute book, The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore tells Moore's story, as the reclusive British author speaks enthusiastically and passionately about his life and work in an extensive series of interviews.

Moore displays his trademark wit and shares his unique insight...
Raymond Chandler: A Biography
AuthorTom Hiney
ISBN0802136370
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Raymond Chandler is an uncensored look at the tortured man who wrote the classic mystery novels The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Using recently uncovered archival materials including personal papers and correspondence, biographer Thomas Hiney vividly...
Alan Moore: Storyteller
AuthorGary Spencer Millidge
ISBN0789322293
The definitive book on Alan Moore, renowned as one of the most important talents in contemporary comics and graphic novels, and his trailblazing works of visual storytelling. Alan Moore is one of the most important creative forces in the history of comics. His innovative works, which include V for...
From Hell Companion
AuthorAlan Moore
ISBN1603093036
Co-Published by Top Shelf and Knockabout.
FROM HELL occupies a monumental place in the history of the graphic novel: a Victorian masterpiece of murder and madness which has won numerous awards, spawned a major Hollywood film, and remained a favorite of readers around the world for over two decades.
Now,...
John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood
AuthorMichael D. Sellers
ISBN0615682316
How did Disney's film become a calamity of historic proportions? Michael Sellers, a Hollywood filmmaker himself, saw the disaster approaching and fought to save the project — but without success. In John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood, Sellers details every blunder and betrayal that led to the...
Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard
AuthorMark Finn
Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, King Kull, and others that defined heroic fantasy, lived and died in the small town of Cross Plains, Texas. While his books remain in print, Howard himself has fallen into obscurity, his life mired in speculation and half-truth. This engaging biography traces the...
Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
AuthorJeffrey J. Kripal
ISBN0226453839
In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men," thrilled readers and audiences—and simultaneously...
Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman
AuthorMarc Tyler Nobleman
ISBN1580892892
Every Batman story is marked with the words "Batman created by Bob Kane." But that isn't the whole truth. A struggling writer named Bill Finger was involved from the beginning. Bill helped invent Batman, from concept to costume to character. He dreamed up Batman's haunting origins and his colorful...
Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural
AuthorJim Steinmeyer
ISBN1585426407
The seminal biography of the twentieth century’s premier chronicler of the paranormal, Charles Fort—a man whose very name gave rise to an adjective, fortean, to describe the unexplained.

By the early 1920s, Americans were discovering that the world was a strange place.

Charles...
Unbound
AuthorJulie Kaewert
ISBN0553577158
England's prestigious Plumtree Press is about to release a shocking book that exposes coded messages in a famous novel--codes alleged to be printer's errors. The messages are so treacherous, that if discovered at the original time of publication, the author would have been hung for treason. Now,...
Come in Alone
AuthorWarren Ellis
ISBN0970936001
They want me to entertain you bastards," Warren Ellis began his series of columns for the comic book Internet destination website Comic Book Resources.
Part social commentary, part sitting at-the-feet-of-Socrates, part kick in the ass, COME IN ALONE was the column that would zig when you thought...
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now
AuthorPeter Straub
ISBN1598530488
Like its companion volume, this Library of America hardcover contains 750 pages of classic tales of horror, hauntings, terrifying obsessions, and unearthly presences. The lineup of American Gothic masters includes Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Jack Finney, Shirley Jackson, Paul Bowles,...
A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
AuthorSteven Ujifusa
ISBN1451645074
In the tradition of David McCullough’s grand histories, the sweeping story of one man’s quest to build the fastest, finest ocean liner in history—set against the politics, culture, and enterprise of twentieth century America.

The story of a great American builder.

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