Although the subject matter of the dime novels included detective, military, and even early science fiction stories, it was the western dime novel that dominated the market. Full text pdfs for several dime novels are listed below. I read dime novels whenever i could get them as a boy, and never met any opposition from my father. It is almost exclusively devoted to mens and boys publications. Books about detective and mystery stories, english sorted by. Aug, 20 although the subject matter of the dime novels included detective, military, and even early science fiction stories, it was the western dime novel that dominated the market. He tries to force the young lady to accept his attentions, when the father enters and shows him the door. This novel takes place in the late 1800s where racism against native american and african americans was unfortunately highly prevalent in both words and actions. The beadle collection of dime novels by new york public library free ebook project gutenberg. Stanford also provides time lines of major events in the history of dime novels for the years 1860 to 1920. Contents information excerpted from the internet speculative fiction database art. Having falling in love with a rich heiress, the villain comes to ask for her hand, but is refused.
Lydia schurman, in particular, provided extremely valuable feedback at an early stage in the project. This time we have dime detective, a pulp detective novel set in the 50s. Feb 16, 2014 i got scammed on reverb whats in the scam box. Dick dobbs detective weekly dillinghams american authors library dillinghams dainty series dillinghams globe library dillinghams home series dillinghams magnolia library dillinghams metropolitan library dillinghams palmetto library dime novel roundup the dime novel dime pocket joke book. Dime novels were a format of inexpensive popular fiction produced in the united states between 1860 and 1930.
Both genres flourished from the middle to the close of the 19th century in. Pulp magazines often referred to as the pulps, also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines. I recall that the first ones i ever read were dogeared and scuffed, and had been around the house for many years before i came upon them and tasted their delights. Known to mystery and sf buffs as a novelist and prolific shortstory writer, goularts natural interest in the genre led him to do comprehensive research on the history of the pulps from 1882 through their demise in the 1950s. Pdf dime novels and series books have, for more than a century, provided a battleground. And now these dime novels have been passed to me, and while i loved him and respect his passion for dime novels, i believe there are others who will appreciate them much more than i ever could. Our reproduction of this material does not represent an endorsement of the content. Here we present dime novels, penny dreadfuls, story papers and pulp magazines. He subsequently appeared as a character in various dime novels.
Western comic book plus free and legal public domain books. He was the first character to use the word sleuth to denote a detective, the words original definition being. I mean, why read a book written today about a private dick in the 50s. The core of the american collection dates 18601915 and the british collection dates 18951935. Dime novels and story papers targeted a youthful working class audience with their thrilling, stereotyped tales of wild west adventures, master criminals, detective. First, they were all heroes of dime novels and nickel weeklies published during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Org is a free, noncommercial project with the goal of preserving selected paperbased cultural artifacts for future generations of readers, in the form of cover. Curated by demian katz, with graphics by joanne quinn. Brandies university library, special collections collection of dime novel literature, primarily focusing on publications on men and boys. Villanova university, book show, free ebooks, literature, novels, clay. Detective and mystery stories, dime novels, american specimen.
Dime novel definition is a usually paperback melodramatic novel. Free comic bookscomic book coversclick and goearly readingfree comicsold. A dime novel was a cheap and generally sensational tale of adventure sold as popular entertainment in the 1800s. The whole novel offers a big gray area for the reader to explore as its nooks and crannies are plentiful and deep enough but they do not take away from the action, which was the primary reason people bought dime novels.
The pulp magazine collection 355 series, 2,970 issues. Dime novels can be considered the paperback books of their day, and they often featured tales of mountain men, explorers, soldiers, detectives, or indian fighters. Download the pulp magazine collection 355 series, 2,970 issues torrent or any other torrent from other e books direct download via magnet link. Ginni beam, d magazine kent explodes into the crime genre with a detective who has all the qualities thatll make her stand out from the crowd. April 1902 to september 1909, starring 19th century highwayman dick turpin. Sep 04, 2018 selected special collections dime novel collection popular paperback fiction, nineteenth century, approximately 40,000 titles. Dime novel definition of dime novel by merriamwebster. Indeed it is my recollection that he read them himself.
The history of the beginning of the series is given in part ii of this book under year 1860. Knockout uk comic collection 1940s1950s 151 comics download. The beadle collection of dime novels given to the new york public library by dr. The last true dime novel series, street and smiths new buffalo bill weekly, stopped publication in 1912 p. The old king brady stories are also noteworthy for providing a slightly more realistic portrayal of detective work than the average dime novel. Cummings, 1933, by william cleveland miller page images at hathitrust. Adventures with intelligent apes treasure of the golden crater from adventure library, no. The rise of the american hero the texas collection. Nick carter is a fictional character that began as a dime novel private detective in 1886 and has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century. A plus rating as a resource book, good bibliography, beware the price is high. Rhyzyk is a member of a unit investigating the drug sales of a violent drug dealer which intensifies after a large, surveilled drug sale goes off track. The term dime novels had little reference to the price at which they booklets were sold, but it was applied especially to any sensational detective or bloodandthunder novel in pamphlet form. Dime novels article about dime novels by the free dictionary.
Some of the early science fiction that appeared in dime novels dealt with fantastic inventions, and by far the most famous dime novel inventors were frank reade and his son frank reade, jr. Jun 28, 2017 the beadle collection of dime novels given to the new york public library by dr. Dime novels and series books have, for more than a century, provided a battleground for a contest over childrens reading. Selected texts from the series secret service by various authors nick carter, detective.
The standard guide to this colorful genre is albert johannsens house of beadle and adams and its dime and nickel novels norman, okla. The mind bomb by uncredited by right of succession by uncredited none but i by jack gaughan survival by uncredited down on the farm by uncredited the seeds of gonyl part 1 of 3 by uncredited to the last. Available for as little as a nickel or as much as a dime, they opened up leisure reading for the masses in a way previously not possible. President woodrow wilson announced his fourteen point plan for european peace in january 1918. She also has another book project in development that would focus on three fulllength dime novels from the new york detective library and would include notations and a variety of secondary materials aimed at demonstrating their influence on detective fiction as. Dime novels helped shape modern concept of the book as a commodity item. The stories were mainly adventure stories, detective stories or westerns, with a. Jan 17, 2014 allan pinkerton opened the nations first private detective agency and later wrote memoirs in the early 1900s based on some of his cases. Home dime novels in special collections library guides. The phrase dime novel is often used to describe various forms of late 19th and early 20th thcentury popular fiction. Plus, we also hold a large and growing selection of comic strips and pulp fiction.
I have added a dispute tag to the section that claims that there is a resurgence of the dime novel. About the only feature of the covers of the original dime novels that. Deadwood dick is a fictional character who appeared in a series of dime novels, originally published between 1877 and 1897 by edward lytton wheeler. Nickels and dimes dime novels from the collections of. Dime novel definition and meaning collins english dictionary. Digital dime novels university of minnesota libraries. The dime by kathleen kent is the first novel of a series featuring hardnosed det. Dime novel, a type of inexpensive, usually paperback, melodramatic novel of adventure popular in the united states roughly between 1860 and 1915.
This enterprise became known as the dime novel club and was based in brooklyn, new york. Hess collection materials university of minnesota libraries. The even better news is that all the content is free. Stanfords dime novel and story paper collection consists of over 8,000 individual items, and includes long runs of the major dime novel series frank leslies boys of america, happy days, beadles new york dime library, etc. Also included is an excerpt from randy chandlers novel dime detective whose book cover is used here, since the one on the short story isnt cleared for prime time tv. Typical yellowbacks numbered 321, and new dime novels, with illuminated covers, 310 more. The solution of a remarkable case, by a celebrated author the great spy system, or, nick carters promise to the president, by a celebrated author adventures of buffalo bill from boyhood to manhood, by colonel prentiss ingraham. And it was the western dime novel that introduced the western hero who would stand as a distinctively american archetype to the present day. Air stories established in 1927 fiction house edited by j. Home dime novels in special collections library guides at.
Welcome to comic book plus, the site where every day is party day. The beadle collection of dime novels by new york public. Dime novels in special collections dime novels were published from the middle nineteenth century through the early twentieth century and were largely pulp fiction aimed at a young male audience. Aug 10, 2016 covers of dime novels and other early popular literature ca. Project gutenberg offers 61776 free ebooks for kindle, ipad, nook, android, and. The general fiction holdings are a better bet for researchers interested in womens dime novels. The dime novel and the detective story uconn today. Although the dime novel had a limited number of years as a dominate book form, it had a significant impact on book production and marketing. The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, referring to story papers, five and tencent weeklies, thick book reprints, and sometimes early pulp magazines. The dime novel style of storytelling lives on even today. Cover of the boy nihilist, by allan arnold, in pluck and luck, june 16, 1909. This is more of a scholarly approach taking a look at american dime novels and detective roots. It ran for 274 issues from november 1931 to august 1953, mainly on a monthly basis, increasing to twicemonthly in 1933 to 1935 and declining to bimonthly for the final three years. The dime novel is a form of late 19thcentury and early 20thcentury u.
Pulps were the successor to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short. Shirley papers 376 published materials box folder folder title published materials dime novels a fighting western novel, new york. As time went on, the dime novel s niche was gradually superseded by the pulp magazine format. And it was the western dime novel that introduced the western hero who would. Shirley papers 376 published materials box folder folder title. Apr 01, 2012 im back for round two of comet press randy chandler novel collection. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. St george henry rathborne 26 december 1854 16 december 1938, who also wrote as harrison adams and many other names, was an american author of boys stories and dime novels. Dime detective magazine dime detective magazine was the most popular of popular publications line of detective pulps and one of the companys longest surviving titles. Release dates 2 also known as aka 0 release dates usa 1 march 1909. Dime novel collection selected special collections. This list developed from my own mixed delight and frustration in looking for online copies of dime novels and story papers. This guide lists the dime novels held in special collections.
The cavalry officer figure is available to preorder for our summer show season, and all mail orders are scheduled to begin shipping after july 4th weekend of this year. The solution of a remarkable case, by a celebrated author the great spy system, or, nick carters promise to the president, by a celebrated author. Second, ive now got at least one sample of each available for purchase here in the sites collectibles section. This article is brought to you for free and open access by the milner library at isu red. This collection includes uncensored images and content from the historical record, some of which are objectionable and offensive.
Selected texts selected texts from the series secret service by various authors nick carter, detective. Project gutenberg offers 61,607 free ebooks to download. Cliffhanger movies tell essentially the same types of stories as dime novels, and the indiana jones and the mummy movies are essentially the dime novel in big budget form. The hess houses over 65,000 individual dime novels. Free comic bookscomic book coversclick and goearly. From the new magnet library collection at the george peabody library. We are the original and still the premier site to read and download golden and silver age comic books. Dime novel and penny dreadfuls collection, 18741953 southern.
The general rare book fiction holdings contain dime novel authors whose work was republished by non dime novel publishers. The granddaddy of the dime detectives, golden argosy later argosy, was launched by young, enterprising frank munsey. Beadles dime library, captain jack the scalper or the private detective. Mar 30, 2017 a dime novel was a cheap and generally sensational tale of adventure sold as popular entertainment in the 1800s. Obrien 1922, by new york public library multiple formats at filed under. Eugene sues great novels eureka detective series the eureka series every boys new monthly every day series of choice reading. Wells 589 the return of the undead short story by arthur leeds as by arthur leads 599 lukundoo 1907 short story by edward lucas white 607 vale of the corbies short story by arthur j. Dime novel definition of dime novel by the free dictionary. Special thanks to the many dime novel scholars who supported this project both indirectly through their writing and directly by a constant willingness to answer questions and share information. Hansen revels in the lingo of tabloid and tale, of dime novel and detective story. The following list of archives was compiled over two years of research into womens dime novels. Betty rhyzyk, a transplanted brooklyn new york police officer now working as a narcotics detective in texas. Dime novels and penny dreadfuls collection special. Additional digitized dime novels can be found at northern illinois university and the university of south florida.
Erasmus beadle 18211894 published popular songbooks and a number of dime novels, with heroes such as nick carter and deadwood dick. Why not just read a book written during the height of the pulp detective craze. Combining marxist literary theory with american labor history, michael denning explores what happened when, in the nineteenth century, working people began to read cheap novels and the fiction question became a class question. Pulp fiction comic book plus free and legal public. The action gives rise to the rumors about the participants in the robberies and chases, fueling peoples imaginations and putting the frontiersmen of those times, whether on the. This collection includes holdings from the walter f. The eyrie weird tales, november 1925 the eyrie essay by the editor 581 the stolen body 1898 short story by h. He is believed to have produced over 330 volumes of fiction in the course of a 60year career.
Simultaneous with its period of explosive growth, chicago began to appear in dime novels starting in the 1870s, when stories focusing on detective heroes and urban crime became popular. The dime s tight plotting and masterful suspense is no surprise. A facsimilie reprint by the dime novel club, this is an exact copy of the original, in number of pages, size, style of type and illustrations. Guide to the dime novel club reprints university of dayton. In the early 1900s, challenged by new forms of cheap reading and other popular entertainment, and by increases in postal rates, dime novels gradually died out. The fourteen points included free trade, open diplomacy, arms reductions, and an international organization to settle disputes without war. A dime novel series containing primarily frontier, western, detective and mystery stories reprinted from beadles half dime library. The writings of lester del rey have been removed due to a request by john betancourt of wildside press. This collection consists of popular dime novel series from the 19th century. The comments are based on personal visits to over half of these archives and published archive descriptions. To protect herself, the young lady calls on the famous detective, hawkshaw. Download and read online for free ebooks written by dime novel club.
Stanfords dime novel and story paper collection consists of over 8,000. The opening sentence, 2010 saw the resurgence of the dime novel format is not supported by refs, runs contrary to the rest of the article, and seems like a puff piece for the ebook industry. Judson, whose stories, some based on his own adventures, were. Bold weekly, two chums afloat or the cruise of the arrow, april 24, 1909. Mechanic accents is a widely acclaimed study of american popular fiction and workingclass culture. This chapter examines dime novels and series books as one of the first. Dime novel article about dime novel by the free dictionary. Project gutenberg offers 61776 free ebooks for kindle, ipad, nook, android, and iphone. Free short story flesh and word, by randy chandler, is free in the kindle store, courtesy of publisher comet press.
Several thousand have been microfilmed and there are digital issues available for download. This threevolume work is annotated with aas holdings, and the society maintains checklists of the publications of other dime novel publishers. It is also available directly in person at shows through the remainder of the year. I am deeply grateful to institutions that devote resources to making digitized copies of such literature available but often frustrated by the amount of time it takes to find out if a particular item is online and to work through different cataloguing systems to find. Its strongest weaponthe ability to go beyond the criticism about its historical inaccuracycaused, however, the downfall of dime novel as it could never be looked on as anything more than a pastime and a short list of impressive feats intended to inspire people to do things to stand out from the mass.