Rubber dinosaurs and wooden elephants : essays on literature, film, and history

Author(s)

• De Camp, L. Sprague (Lyon Sprague)

Bibliographic Information

Rubber dinosaurs and wooden elephants : essays on literature, film, and history

by L. Sprague de Camp

（I.O. Evans studies in the philosophy & criticism of literature, no. 26）

Borgo Press, 1996

• : pbk

Note

Collection of previously published articles

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129) and index

Contents of Works

• Silent specters, spiders, and sauropods
• The con man from Baghdad
• Three thirds of a hero
• Lovecraft : failed aristocrat
• Conan, illusion, and reality
• Thoats, tharks, and thews
• Pseudohistory
• Books that never were
• The man who invented R. and D
• Brachiating in the family tree
• Lovecraft and the Aryans
• Howard and the Celts
• The heroic barbarian

• NCID: BA30133007
• ISBN:
  • 0893703540
  • 0893704547
• LCCN: 95005348
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: San Bernardino, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: 144 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN3435
  • DC20 : 809.3/8766
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Fantastic fiction -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Science fiction films -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA09839843