The Golden Age of Pulp Fiction MEGAPACK ™, Vol. 1: George Allan England. George Allan England

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      Contents

       COPYRIGHT INFO

       A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

       The MEGAPACK™ Ebook Series

       A WORTHWHILE CRIME

       ROUGH TOSS

       THE LONGEST SIDE

       THE SUPREME GETAWAY

       EVEN IN DEATH

       FIRE FIGHT FIRE

       SPEED LIMIT

       A FLYER IN JUNK

       THE SILO

       IN MARINERS’ HOUSE

       AFRICA

       CURSED (Part 1)

       CURSED (Part 2)

       CURSED (Part 3)

       TEST TUBES

       DARKNESS AND DAWN

       BOOK I: THE VACANT WORLD

       BOOK II: BEYOND THE GREAT OBLIVION

       BOOK III: THE AFTERGLOW

       THE AIR TRUST (Part 1)

       THE AIR TRUST (Part 2)

COPYRIGHT INFO

      The George Allan England MEGAPACK™ is copyright © 2015 by Wildside Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

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      The MEGAPACK™ ebook series name is a trademark of Wildside Press, LLC. All rights reserved.

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      “Introduction,” by John Betancourt originally appeared in The Supreme Getaway and Other Tales from the Pulps and is copyright © 2008 by John Betancourt.

      “The Supreme Getaway” originally appeared in People’s Magazine, October 1916.

      “A Flyer In Junk” originally appeared in All Story, March 9, 1918.

      “The Silo” originally appeared in Argosy-All Story, date unknown.

      “Fire Fight Fire” originally appeared in Munsey’s Magazine, Vol. 35 (1906).

      “Speed Limit” originally appeared in The Cavalier, November 15, 1913.

      “The Longest Side” originally appeared in People’s Favorite Magazine November 10, 1921.

      “Test Tubes” originally appeared in Short Stories, March, 1921.

      “In Mariners’ House” originally appeared in The Cavalier, February 7, 1914.

      “Rough Toss” originally appeared in Complete Stories, May 15th, 1932.

      “Africa” originally appeared in The Cavalier, November 1908.

      “A Worthwhile Crime” originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine, August 19, 1922

A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

      George Allan England (1877–1936) is mostly remembered these days for his early science-fiction novel, Darkness and Dawn (originally published in Cavalier magazine as three different serials between 1912 and 1913). Set a thousand years in the future, Darkness and Dawn tells the story of a devastated Amer­ica. Due to its length, it was split into five volumes for paperback publication in the 1960s.

      Other works of note include The Air Trust (1915), an anti­capitalism novel about a monopoly on air travel; The Golden Blight (1912), about a ray that transmutes gold into ash; The Flying Legion (1920), a near-future (of the time!) tale of the heist of a sacred relic from Mecca; and The Empire of the Air (1914), about an invasion by beings from the fourth dimension.

      England, however, was a prolific author in many different genres: adventure, romance, mystery, and science fiction were but a few of his themes, as the stories in this volume attest. Here, then is a fine selection of England’s classic pulp stories, ranging from Darkest Africa to the laboratory, from the perils of speed to the perils of savage cannibals! If you haven’t en­countered George Allan England’s work before, you’re in for a treat. And if you’ve already discovered him, chances are high that you’ve never encountered many of these rare tales before.

      Enjoy!

      —John Betancourt

      Publisher, Wildside Press LLC

      www.wildsidepress.com

      ABOUT THE SERIES

      Over the last few years, our MEGAPACK™ ebook series has grown to be our most popular endeavor. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”

      The MEGAPACK™ ebook series (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt (me), Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Shawn Garrett, Helen McGee, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, A.E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors…who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!)

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