Pulp Noir: A Cluttered Romance

by Audrey Parente

Can two avowed hoarders of comic books, paperbacks, hardcovers, movie memorabilia, etc., etc., make room in their lives for each other? A grizzled hobbyist of old paper magazines decides to gather collectors and vendors for a weekend of swapping tall tales and lurid artwork. Four decades later, another collector picks up the torch and stumbles. The power of love convinces him to trod on...but in which direction? Can two obsessive book lovers merge their inventory into one collection?

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 10, 2015

Reviews

[Paul Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Audrey Parente has written about and for the pulp magazines for more than thirty years. Her own short stories appeared in the Arkham Sampler and in a collection from The Strange Company. She has worked for newspapers, and she has edited magazines. She's interviewed big-name pulp writers like Hugh Cave and written books about them. Now Audrey Parente has penned Pulp Noir: A Cluttered Romance. Anyone who collects old books and pulp magazines certainly knows about clutter. Parente deliberately writes this novel in the fiction-factory style of the old pulps. She crams tons of pulp lore into the novel, along with a bit of thinly-disguised autobiography. Parente even tips her hat to veteran pulp editors like Leo Margulies and writers like Robert E. Howard and Howard Phillips Lovecraft. There's even an added bit of romance scattered among the ashes of this twisted tale. It's not great literature, but it is lots of fun. Thanks, Audrey, for the memories. Those days of yesteryear were thrilling, indeed. All pulp collectors will want to add Pulp Noir to their collections.

[Audrey Parente · Rating 5 out of 5]

I dared to write it! Do You Dare to Read it? A grizzled young hobbyist of old paper magazines decides to gather collectors and vendors for a weekend of swapping tall tales and lurid artwork when he stumbles into a cougar romance. Four decades later, another collector picks up the torch and stumbles. The power of love convinces him to trod on...but in which direction?
Can two avowed hoarders of comic books, paperbacks, hardcovers, movie memorabilia, etc., etc., make room in their lives for each other?