Eight Dime Novels

Overview:

  • Title: Eight Dime Novels
  • Author: E. F. Bleiler
  • Year: 1974
  • ISBN-10: 0486229750
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Price: $3.50
  • Pages: xv+190
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Eight Dime Novels
  • Notes: A non-genre anthology, includes an introduction by Bleiler, and eight stories:
    • Francis Worcester Doughty's The Bradys and The Girl Smuggler,
    • the anonymously written Frank James on the Trail,
    • Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey's Scylla, The Sea Robber, or Nick Carter and the Queen of Sirens,
    • Edward J. Wheeler's Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road,
    • Colonel Prentiss Ingraham's Adventures of Buffalo Bill From Boyhood to Manhood,
    • Edward S. Ellis's The Huge Hunter,
    • William Gilbert Patten's Frank Merriwell's Nobility, and
    • Horatio Alger's Adrift in New York.
    The "dime novels" are, at the most, novelettes.