Ward Greene (December 23, 1892 – January 22, 1956) was a noted journalist, editor and author who is best known for running the King Features Syndicate in the heyday of newspaper comic pages and working with many legendary artists. Cora Potts was his first novel and his short story “Happy Dan, The Cynical Dog” became the basis for the Disney classic The Lady and the Tramp.
Four full classic noir novels about artists trapped in a spiral of crime, betrayal, sex and suspense.Out now: ART NOIR, four classic noir novels about artists trapped in a spiral of crime, betrayal, sex and suspense.
Ride the Nightmare by Ward Greene
The Serpent Woman by John B. Thompson
Any Man’s Playmate by James Rubel
By Flesh Alone by March Hastings
The blistering story of intolerance and hate that is as relevant today as it was when it was first published in 1940...a novel that the Fort Worth Star Telegram called "probably the most shameless and shaming book that has ever been written in America." Now it's finally back in print.
Four highly-acclaimed, literary masterpieces, some of them out of print for over 70 years, now collected for the first time on one ebook volume.
CORA POTTS * RIDE THE NIGHTMARE * DESIRE IN THE DEEP SOUTH * ROUTE 28
“For years, Ward Greene has been doing amazing things with words. He has depicted the heights and depths of human emotion with uncanny skill.” Tucson Citizen
Southerner Jake Perry is a successful, married comicbook artist living the good life in New York in the 1930s. But, bored and restless, he falls under the sway of Bellerophon Cawdor, a 'Bohemian love-cultist' in Greenwich Village, and the sadistic, erotic world he offered. Jake can't let go, pulling his dutiful high-society wife, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, into his tragic obsession with forbidden pleasures, trapping them both in a whirlpool that could destroy their lives.
Ward Greene's blistering third novel, once again set in his fictional Georgia town of Corinth, follows the booze-soaked loves, tragedies, and betrayals of people caught in the clash between old traditions and the new morality of the Jazz Age. It's a passionate conflict sparked by the return of local girl Eloise King after a decade away in New York...bringing with her the Bohemian ideals of Greenwich Village. The characters include an Italian bootlegger, a sex-starved librarian, a philandering husband, a conniving actress attracted to married men, and the return of Cora Potts, the colorful heroine of Greene's first book.
A long-lost literary masterpiece that Damon Runyon called "a story of a curious American scene, packed around a drama with an astonishing climax. Read it if you want a thrill."
This is the raw story of a lonely New Jersey highway and the people who travel it: the New Yorkers escaping to their country homes, the hard-scrabble shopkeepers, farmers and their families who live in the small, drive-by communities along the asphalt, and finally the wanderers who live on wheels, eat and drink at roadhouses, and sleep where-ever they stop when night falls...and with anyone willing, warm and desperate enough to share their beds.
A long-lost literary classic...hailed by the Raleigh News & Observer as "a powerful, arresting, unforgettable book"... back in print for the first time in 70 years.
Cora Potts was born "poor white trash" in a small town in the deep south. But she uses her beauty, cunning, ambition and pure ruthlessness to escape her destiny, to survive against adversity, and rise from poverty to wealth, in a uniquely American success story that's shocking in its raw, naked intensity.