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Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was an American author and screenwriter, known for his pulp crime fiction. Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Espite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in The New York Times, he was little-recognized in his lifetime. Only after death did Thompson’s literary stature grow, when in the late 1980s, several novels were re-published in the Black Lizard series of re-discovered crime fiction.

Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was an American author and screenwriter, known for his pulp crime fiction. Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in The New York Times, he was little-recognized in his lifetime.

One of Jim Thompson's most bitter and sexually explicit novels, Child of Rage still has the ability to shock readers over 30 years after its original publication, back in 1974 With a new introduction by Ed Gorman, an interview with Thompson's original paperback publisher, two original color works by Harry O orris, created just for this edition, two photographs of Jim Thompson himself, a small reproduction of the original paperback cover art, and a bonus novella by Thompson ( A Horse in the Baby's Bathtub ), long out of print.

Bound in cloth with gold cloth panels igned by Ed Gorman and Harry O.

Edition Details

• Limited to 250 copies, each signed by Ed Gorman and Harry O. Morris.
• Introduction by Ed Gorman.
• Color cover art and frontispiece by Harry O. Morris.
• Includes a bonus short novel.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• Child of Rage. Centipede Press page for Child of Rage
• Jim Thompson (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Jim Thompson