The Best of All-Story Love: 1929

Summary:

In the first half of the 20th century, before paperbacks, there were the pulps: magazines printed on cheap wood-pulp paper, specializing in mass-produced genre fiction. While now mostly remembered for sci-fi, fantasy, and detective stories—for quick action and an emphasis on two-fisted adventure—the pulps, in actuality, had something for everyone. Including a vast array of romance titles.

The pulps were, in fact, the primary way American readers consumed romance in those pre-paperback days, and All-Story Love was one of the giants of the genre, running from 1929 to 1955. In the first anthology of its kind, editor and romance pulp researcher Lucynka Staron has assembled the very best short fiction from that magazine’s first year, complete with their original illustrations, and invites you to take a trip back in time to this forgotten part of romance history. Inside you’ll find secretaries and reporters, actresses and debutantes, matched with heroes who range from aristocrat to aviator, from vaudeville dancer to private investigator—and each of their stories a fascinating slice of then-contemporary American culture and concerns.

Contains the stories:

“Saturday Night and No Date” by Dorothy Dayton
“The Timid Vamp” by Chet Johnson
“Fate!” by Doris Knight (as Myra Gay)
“New Year and New Love” by Jane Littell
“In the Eyes of the World” by Rosalee Tree (suspected pseudonym of C. S. Montanye)
“The Love Master” by Ethel M. Dell
“Bitter-Sweet” by Hagar Wilde
“The Road Back Home” by Du Vernet Rabell
“The Palace of Love” by Doris Knight
“Twenty-Minute Princess” by Walter Marquiss
“The Paper Doll Bride” by Marjorie Gleyre
“The Tag-Along Girl” by Helen Ahern
“Remembered Rapture” by Beulah Poynter
“Wooing Wings” by Clelia S. Mount (suspected pseudonym of C. S. Montanye)

Along with an original introduction and short author/artist biographies by editor Lucynka Staron.