Pulps included in this volume are: THRILL BOOK, DOCTOR DEATH, STRANGE TALES, STRANGE STORIES, TALES OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY and more.  Magazines were deliberately chosen which had short runs and thus tended to be little known and scarce. Not included in this volume are bibliographies of some of the major magazines of supernatural, horror, and weird menace such as WEIRD TALES, GHOST STORIES, HORROR STORIES, TERROR TALES, DIME MYSTERY and THRILLING MYSTERY. These may be covered in future volumes. 
This is a full color, 9x12, 112 page, softbound book for $22.
THOSE MACABRE PULPS can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB042876.

Allan Quatermain is in Africa on the search for his brother, who is hiding out in some sort of New Age temple looking for a white tribe. Along for the ride is Jesse Huston (Sharon Stone), who only wants to get married and go back to America. There is also James Earl Jones on hand as Allan's sidekick, and a villain played by Henry Silva. 

This film features Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones and Henry Silva.
The retail price is $14.95.

The date of #6 was changed from Fall 2003 to Winter 2004. It includes the following: "Last Hurrahs," a lengthy article on the waning days of the hero pulps; "Dithering Over Doc," Will Murray's conjectures regarding the timing of Doc Savage's debut; "Reminiscences of Nick Carter," a reprint of a fascinating 1918 piece written by Nick's creator, John R. Coryell; and "A Million Words a Month," a 1935 WRITER'S DIGEST article written by Mort Weisinger based on his interview with the Thrilling Group's Leo Margulies. This issue's "Cliffhanger Classics" column discusses THE JUNGLE GODDESS, a hugely successful 1922 chapterplay. As always, the articles are accompanied by pulp-cover repros, photographs, and b&w illustrations.

The BLOOD 'N' THUNDER website is at http://www.geocities.com/poppub/.

Single issues are $6 postpaid from: 
Ed Hulse, 2467 Route 10 East, Mountain Club, Bldg. 15, Apt. 4B, Morris Plains, NJ 07950
Four issue subscriptions are available for $20. 
Make checks or money orders payable to: 
MGT Media Services, POBox 0174, Baldwin, New York 11510-0174

In the aftermath of The Frost Giant's Daughter, Conan heads into battle with the men of Asgard, never suspecting the treachery they hold in store for him, nor the horror coming down from Hyperborea. Dark Horse's new interpretation of Robert E. Howard's greatest creation. 32 pages, $2.99, in stores on April 28. 

Conan #3 can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB040020.

Since last week, several websites have confirmed receiving a formal letter via the U.S. mail asking them to remove all copyrighted and trademarked material from their websites.  Numerous websites are now down. A partial listing follows:
Highlights on The Shadow at http://webs.lanset.com/lurch/pulp/shadow.html is down.
The Shrevnitz Memorial Library at http://www.angelfire.com/journal/shrevnitz/  is down.
Marc Sky's shadow pulp poster site at http://members.aol.com/thshadow99/  is down.
The Shadow Fan at www.theshadowfan.com is down and will be redesigned.
Doc Savage PDF at http://216.234.165.80/ has removed all etexts.
Shadow PDF at http://www.shadowpdf.net/ will be removing all etexts and redesigning the site. 
       Non-Shadow material will  remain for your enjoyment.
Shadow Scans at http://www9.brinkster.com/shadowscans/shadow.asp is down.
The Shadow Interior Artwork at http://www.theshadowmagazine.com/ is down.
Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF at http://www.theshadowmagazine.com/RMullenPDF.htm is down.

Next week I will have details on the three new Pulp Replicas for February.

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF and The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: 
Both sites are now down after receipt of a letter from Conde Nast.

ShadowPDF:   The ShadowPDF site has received a letter from Conde Nast. As a result, in the next couple of weeks the ShadowPDF will be changing.  Copyrighted material will be coming down. Non-Shadow material will  remain for your enjoyment.  ShadowPDF still hopes to finish posting the Amazon Anne saga and to transform the site into something about The Shadow that is not objectionable to Conde Nast.

Doc Savage PDF: 
The Doc Savage PDF site has received a letter from Conde Nast.  All etexts have been removed from the site.

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:
The Shrevnitz Memorial Library website is now down.

Blackmask Online: 
Carnacki, The Ghost Finder  [1912 version (shorter)] by William Hope Hodgson

Larry Estep-Online Pulps: Now with over 350 stories online!
Through the Wall by G.T. Fleming-Roberts from MAMMOTH DETECTIVE (September 1942) 
A Dog-House Detective by Herbert MacAlpine from RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE (March 1912) 
Man From the Wrong Time-Track by Denis Plimmer from UNCANNY STORIES (April 1941) 
The Witch of Venice by Dorothy Quick from THRILLING ADVENTURES (June 1942) 
Crook, Fine, and Stinker by Tom Thursday from SUPER SPORTS (July 1949) 

Master of Elusion, foe of tyranny, and champion of liberation--The Escapist. Operating from a secret headquarters under the boards of the majestic Empire Theater, the Escapist and his crack team of charismatic associates roam the globe, performing amazing feats of magic to aid all those who languish in oppression's chains. The history of his creators, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, was recently chronicled in Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The best of the Escapist's adventures are now collected into one volume. 

This volume of Michael Chabon Presents...The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist collects the first two issues of the comic book and features an original story penned by Michael Chabon, the comics debut of novelist Glen David Gold, a new story written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, the painted artwork of Bill Sienkiewicz, and a wraparound cover by Chris Ware. 

152 pages, $17.95, in stores on April 28.
Escapist TPB can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB040019.

Dark Horse has provided an advance look at six pages from the first issue.
Click here to check them out!

Girasol Collectables' US Agent, John DeWalt, will have our Replicas on hand as well as few other pulp related goodies. Don't miss it!

Email Girasol Collectables at: girasol@interlog.com for additional information.

However, 10,000 copies are being printed in February for a special promotion.  Everyone who subscribed will get one of those advance copies. (They will be slightly different from the newsstand copies -- no bar code -- so you'll see more of Bob Eggleton's fantastic cover art.)  Bob is also doing the cover for #3. Steve Hickman is doing the cover for #2.  Click here for a look at upcoming material for future issues.

The Necronomicon.  Cthulhu.  A town called Arkham populated by bizarre and insane monstrosities.  These icons of horror were envisioned by one man: Howard Philips Lovecraft.  But were these visions of horror only in his mind, or could he see into a world that couldn't be seen?

From his bizarre childhood, when his mother would dress him as a girl, to his adult days, when he would meet Harry Houdini, Lovecraft was haunted by grotesque visions.  He dedicated his life to writing blood-boiling "fictional" tales, all in an attempt to appease his living nightmares.  But that obsession would take its toll.  His parents both sent to asylums and his loving wife driven away, Lovecraft would spend most of his life as a recluse, his only company being his demons and the occasional visit to his publisher.  Some called him insane.  Some called him a genius.  Either way, the story of America's greatest horror writer is a tale as haunting as the demons that plagued him.

LOVECRAFT is written by Hans Rodionoff; adapted by Keith Giffen; art and cover by Enrique Breccia. 
144 pages, $24.95, in comic shops on February 4, 2004. 

KOLCHAK #3 can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB042501.

SLAMM! THE HARDBOILED FICTION OF CJ HENDERSON by CJ Henderson & Various; cover by Scott Hanna
Eleven tales of hate, despair, and runaway violence from today's premier writer of hardboiled fiction, novelist and Punisher/Batman scribe CJ Henderson! It's bounty hunters, sex addicts, vampires, and more, set against backdrops of revenge, defiance, and urban madness. This is the man Detective Story Magazine said "knows the mean streets around us today and makes them sing with the blood and sweat of life." Contributors include Fred Harper, Richard Clark, Trevor Von Eeden, and more! 
Soft Cover, 7x10, 96 pages, b&w $10.95

SLAMM! can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB042505.

Visit Moonstone Books on the web at http://www.moonstonebooks.com/
 

THE PHANTOM #3 
Written by Ben Raab, art by Nick Derington, colors by Ken Wolak, cover by Doug Klauba. 
"Curse of the Phantom," part 1 of 2. All aboard, as Green Lantern scribe Ben Raab blows past all the stops on this time-trippin' crazy-train adventure/ A great evil has haunted the Walker family for hundreds of years: Kua! Kua, the seven-foot-tall devil god stalks Kit Walker, the current Phantom, deep into the woods of Bangalla. Studying the words of his ancestors Kit does his detective work on what motivates this fiend to hate his family so, and also what methods were used to deceive them through the ages. Will he come to grips with this unfathomable mystery in time to save his life? 32 pages, $3.50. 

Both books will be solicited in the March PREVIEWS available February 25th. 
 

The primary focus of MYSTERY*FILE is not to be an up-to-date newsletter for the field, but a place where old and new works co-exist, where older mysteries can be brought up and discussed as well as those by the most recent hot authors, and where the careers of writers can be looked at in perspective.  MYSTERY*FILE is for those fans who love to read and talk about mysteries and series characters, and those who love to make checklists and those who love to have them, and if you can assist in  accomplishing any of these goals, then so much the better.

The efforts of a number of people helped produce each issue, and they'd appreciate your comments, both on their work and on the books and the movies they talk about.  Letters are not only accepted for publication, they are requested, if not demanded.

MYSTERY*FILE #41 is now available.
The first two pages of this issue can be read at http://users.ntplx.net/~lewis/Mfile.htm
The contents include:
LETTER COLUMN - You the readers.
FATAL KISS - Reviews by Steve Lewis
ADDENDA TO CRIME FICTION IV, Part 2, by Al Hubin
THE MYSTERY LIBRARY, by Robert E. Briney
FIRST YOU READ, THEN YOU WRITE - Mystery Commentary by Mike Nevins
THE DALY REPORT, by James Reasoner
DOROTHY B. HUGHES AND HOLLYWOOD, by Jeffrey Marks
THE CRIME OF MY LIFE, by Marv Lachman
Mystery MADness - Reviews by Maddie Van Hertbruggen
THE GOLD MEDAL CORNER, by Bill Crider
ANOTHER HAMMETT FIRST? by Richard Moore
REVIEWS - by Diverse Hands: Michelle Zafron, Nicole LeClerc, Alice Duberry, Kris Carabetta, and Sandi Loper-Herzog

MYSTERY*FILE is published approximately eight times a year (every six weeks) by
Steve Lewis, 62 Chestnut Road, Newington CT 06111. 
Subscriptions are available at $3.50 an issue, or four for $13 U.S.
Canada: $4.00 an issue, or four for $15
Overseas: $5.50 an issue, four for $21

The print can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB042709.

SHERLOCK HOLMES PURSUIT TO ALGIERS (1945) - Holmes and Watson learn that the King of a Ravenia has been assassinated and his son Nikolas is now a marked man. The great detective and his comrade are pressed into service to protect the life of the soon-to-be crowned monarch.

SHERLOCK HOLMES TERROR BY NIGHT (1946) - The action takes place on a speeding steam train racing from London to Edinburgh. Lady Margaret Carstairs possess a 423 karat diamond, known as the ‘Star of Rhodesia’ and her son employs Holmes to protect the priceless jewel until it reaches its home in Scotland.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: DRESSED TO KILL (1946) - Three identical musical boxes manufactured by an inmate at Dartmoor Prison are sold to three random collectors at an auction house in London. A female antagonist (Patricia Morison) and her accomplices attempt to recover the musical boxes using all means possible, even murder.

The retail price is $69.98.

The retail price of each DVD is $19.98.

The print can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
Regular: Full Color, $20.00  The Diamond Order Code is  FEB042704F
Signed:  Full Color, $40.00  The Diamond Order Code is  FEB042705F

The print features the art used for the cover of THE SPIDER 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL.

The print can be pre-ordered from the February PREVIEWS (available now). 
The Diamond Order Code is FEB042707.
This is a resolicitation from last September.

Rumor is that they'll be released as a 4-disc set, with 3 movie discs (1 for each film) and a disc of bonus materials, much like last year's Indiana Jones Trilogy DVD release. Lucas has repeatedly said not to expect the original versions of the films on DVD, so it is anticipated that the release will be much-rumored "Archive Editions", which would basically be the Special Editions released in the 1990s, only with further tweaks, changes, enhancements and additions to bring them more into line with the new prequels. An official announcement is expected by May.

Three amazing tales in one spectacular issue! First, legendary creator Michael Kaluta teams with Alan Moore for a tour of the Golden Age of Millennium City! Next, in Part 1 of a 2-part story by Art Adams and Bruce Timm, Jonni Future faces off against Cancer Blue, a conglomeration of cyber-technology that has kidnapped Jermaal. Finally, on Attabar Teru, Young Tom Strong confronts ghosts from his past.

This is a 32 page  comic for $2.95

THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Jimmy Torrance graduated from college without a hope -- he'd spent his hours at the university learning how to box, how to swim, how the hit a baseball and lead a football team. He set out for Chicago with all the enthusiastic eagerness of a man who knows in his heart of heart, that he's on the winning team. But Chicago wasn't Ivy-league college football, a there was no team to captain: What Jimmy found in Chicago was a tough life in a tough place at a miserable wage. He found the decency of folks any ordinary fellow would have branded criminals, and he found the criminality of upstanding citizens who surrounded him. He found a whore with a heart of gold, and a safe-cracker who was also a man a body could rely on. And most important of all, in that freakish, frightful burg, Jimmy found a thing called love. . . .

208 pages, Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-708-3,  $32.95

This is a unique portrait of the early decades of British civil aviation as seen through the eyes of the men and women who knew it best. Ten veterans of this golden age of flying--pilots, navigators, stewardesses and station commanders--reminisce about the early days of air travel: silver-service meals above the African bush, booming radial engines, terrible turbulence and true seat-of-the-pants flying.

Abundantly illustrated with over 150 period posters, archive photos, and memorabilia, this is a wonderful work of nostalgia and a priceless piece of social history told by those who experienced it firsthand. Aurum, 2003. 
Hard Cover, 8x10, 186 pages, $29.95.

This book is now available from Bud Plant.

G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #12 is solicited in the February PREVIEWS (available January 28th).
Request Diamond Item Code FEB042857
 

ARGOSYcan be pre-ordered from Mike Chomko for $13.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

Debuting to strong ratings, last month's broadcast of the two-part, four-hour BATTLESTAR GALACTICA mini-series earned the Sci Fi Channel its third highest ratings ever for a program. The second night of GALACTICA grabbed a larger share of the audience than the first night. Usually this kind of good news would be enough to launch the program into a full-fledged series but the show's high cost per episode is contributing to cold feet by Sci-Fi Channel suits. It's expected that all of the primary cast members from the mini-series will re-appear in the series version of GALACTICA. 

THE PULP WESTERN by John A. Dinan
THE PULP WESTERN was originally published by the Borgo Press in 1983 and is coming back in print. Fully illustrated, this classic book has been revised with additional material for this new edition. The release date is February 2nd.  THE PULP WESTERN will retail for $12.95 plus $2 shipping and handling. 

The earlier edition, 128 pages long, has long-served as a vital reference concerning the Western pulps. It features chapters on Western dime novels, hero and romance Western pulps, the writers, artists, and editors who worked for the Western pulps, and more. There are also an essays on WILD WEST WEEKLY, plotting the pulp Western story, and Westerns in Europe. Finally, there's autobiographical material from Elmer Kelton and B. M. Bower.

PRIVATE EYES IN THE COMICS by John A. Dinan
PRIVATE EYES IN THE COMICS is a reprint of a book originally published in 1989. It covers private-eye comic books through that year. Ever wondered what role the private eye played in comic books? Now you get your lesson: from master pulp historian John A. Dinan comes the first book on PIs in the Comics! A history and appreciation of the tough guy, the deadly dame and the dog in the trenchcoat. Illustrated.  PRIVATE EYES IN THE COMICS  retails for $14.95 plus $2 shipping and handling. 
 

PRIVATE EYELASHES by Jack French
PRIVATE EYELASHES is a book of lady detectives on radio. The release date is February 14th.  PRIVATE EYELASHES will retail for $16.95 plus $2 shipping and handling. 

THE PULP WESTERN and PRIVATE EYES IN THE COMICS are also available from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

Both titles can also be pre-ordered from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

Acknowledging that this year marks the 70th birthday of many notable pulp heroes (including Doc Savage, The Spider, G-8, The Phantom Detective, Nick Carter, and Pete Rice), BLOOD 'N' THUNDER #6 pays tribute to the great single-character magazines of yore.  In "Last Hurrahs," Mark Trost and Ed Hulse revisit the waning days of the classic hero titles, analyzing the final issues and commenting on the characters' evolutions (or lack of same). Noted pulp historian and novelist Will Murray makes his first appearance in BnT with "Dithering Over Doc," a slightly expanded version of his PEAPS article postulating that Doc Savage, Pete Rice, and the reconstituted Nick Carter might have been intended to make their pulp-page debuts the year before they actually did. Speaking of Nick, his dime-novel incarnation was believed by many readers to be a real person; this according to his creator, John Coryell, who reminisces about the Great Detective in an article we're reprinting from a 1918 issue of DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE. Our latest installment of "Tricks of the Trade" features a 1935 interview with Thrilling Group editor-in-chief Leo Marguiles—an interview conducted by Mort Weisinger, the SF fan who would become one of Leo's proteges in just a few years! And "Cliffhanger Classics" spotlights THE JUNGLE GODDESS, a phenomenally popular silent serial inspired by the stories of H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The BLOOD 'N' THUNDER website is at http://www.geocities.com/poppub/.

Soft cover, 156 pages, Full color, $15.95.

CONAN COLLECTOR PIN #3 is solicited in the February PREVIEWS (available January 28th).
Request Diamond Item Code FEB042615

PRELUDE TO ARMAGEDDON can also be pre-ordered from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF:   Nothing new this week.

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Nothing new this week.

ShadowPDF:   Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF:   Nothing new this week.

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:
Coming Soon: The Phantom Detective in The Crime Castle  (December 1934)

Blackmask Online: 
Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 350 stories online!
Time Will Tell by Joe Archibald from THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE (September 1934) 
Mis-leading Lady by Mary Mason Beale from HOLLYWOOD LOVE ROMANCES (Spring 1939) 
Peace at Last by George Foxhall from RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE (February 1912) 
The Little Doc by Harrison Hendryx from THRILLING SPORTS (March 1940) 
Gray Magic by Lew York from  POPULAR FICTION MAGAZINE (January 1932) 

THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH (edited by James Van Hise) is 8 1/2 x 11, 192 pages with a full color front cover byFrank R. Paul (from WONDER STORIES illustrating The City of the Singing Flame) and full color back cover from the British pulp magazine TALES OF WONDER (also illustrating The City of the Singing Flame). Each book is $17.95 + $7.00 priority shipping or $3.00 media mail (overseas shipping will be more).

SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION: There will be a special hard cover edition (with dust jacket) limited to 500 copies. Pre-publication price is $75.00. A small portion of these will be signed editions (by one or more of the contributing artists, and the editor) and all pre-publication orders of the hard cover will receive the signed edition, which will be otherwise priced at $100.00 upon publication with the unsigned hard covers remaining at $75.00. All hardcover editions will include a special color print of vintage pulp art from a Clark Ashton Smith story (more information forthcoming).

Order from: James Van Hise, 57754 Onaga Trail, Yucca Valley, CA 92284. Email: Jimvanhise@aol.com

Girasol Collectables' US Agent, John DeWalt, will have our Replicas on hand as well as few other pulp related goodies. Don't miss it!

Email Girasol Collectables at: girasol@interlog.com for additional information.

Dark Horse has a free online issue of THE GOON #1 available for reading on their website at http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/preview.php?theid=12-592.

Thanks to Alan Hardy for the recommendation.

Future plans include at least six books collecting over 70 stories by Henry Kuttner.  DETOUR TO OTHERNESS, a collection of his best work, has already been announced.  Other collections include a horror collection edited by Stefan R. Dzienianowicz and Robert Morrish (Cemetery Dance), Fantasy Press-esque books collecting the Hollywood on the Moon series and the "Pete Manx" time traveling farces, and Kuttner's latter day mystery novels including Man Drowning.

The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson is currently projected at eight volumes (and growing).
There will be two more Leigh Brackett collections.

Stephen Haffner and Richard A. Hauptmann, Jack Williamson's bibliographer, have been working for the better part of three years on Seventy-Five: The Diamond Anniversary of a Science Fiction Pioneer - Jack Williamson.
This will be an oversized 600-page hardcover with excerpts from Jack's key novels, classic short stories and essays, plus four never before published stories from across Jack's amazing career.  It includes sidebars with over 300 illustrations and an 18-page full color reprint of his Beyond Mars Sunday comic strip.  Arthur C. Clarke and Connie Willis provide introductory material. 

CEMETERY DANCE MAGAZINE is available in better bookstores and from Cemetery Dance Publications.

JAMES BOND: OCTOPUSSY is solicited in the February PREVIEWS (available January 28th).
Request Diamond Item Code FEB042623
JAMES BOND: OCTOPUSSY can also be ordered from AmazonUK.

RAINBOWFANTASIA: 35 SPECTRUMATIC TALES OF WONDER
Selected and with notes by Forrest J Ackerman, Introduction by Anne Hardin
Trade paperback-$24.00            Hardcover-$40
562 pages, 6x9, paperback, illustrated, A massive anthology of wonderful re-discovered classic stories of the golden age of sci-fi and fantasy pulp fiction, many heretofore unavailable for decades. The selections in this anthology include stunning representatives of practically every type of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror represented in the pre-World War II era of speculative fiction. No anthology gives a better feel for or a more consistently higher caliber of golden age story telling in the genre. Each story has a color in its title, hence the anthology title, RAINBOWFANTASIA.

SCI-FI WOMANTHOLOGY edited by Forrest J Ackerman & Pam Keesey
372 pages, Includes Stories by Andre Norton, Catherine L. Moore, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, and many others. Includes a selection of annotated recommended readings chosen by Forrest J Ackerman and Pam Keesey.
Hardbound:  $34.95        Trade Paper:  $19.95

MARTIANTHOLOGY: Compiled by Forrest J Ackerman, Edited by Anne Hardin
302 pages, 6"x 9", illustrated    Trade Paper: $19.95    Trade Cloth:  $34.95
Years ago, when these stories were composed, life on Barsoom resided solely in the imaginations of certain special inhabitants of Jasoom (E.R. Burroughs-speak for Mars and Earth). This anthology captures the spirit of that "exploration"-long before a rocket from Earth had actually visited the fourth planet and shown it to be a sandy red surface pockmarked by meteor impacts and with no life-sustaining atmosphere.

ACKERMANTHOLOGY: 65 Astonishing Rediscovered Sc-Fi Shorts
Millennium Edition - edited by Forrest J Ackerman, foreword by John Landis
Trade Paper: $16.95      Trade Hardbound: $28.95
Stories by Isaac Asimov, Harry Bates, Ray Bradbury, H. L. Gold, A. Merritt, Catherine L. Moore, H. G. Wells, and more. A sold out wonder, now back-in-print! 

EXPANDED SCIENCE FICTION WORLDS OF FORREST J. ACKERMAN AND FRIENDS
Hardbound: $26.95     Trade Paper: $14.95
The newly expanded version of the long out of print classic is replete with even more of Forrest J Ackerman and his talented friends and collaborators. Joining such notable collaborators as Theodore Sturgeon and A. E. van Vogt are classic authors Catherine L. Moore,  Donald A. Wollheim, and more. Six new treats join the classic greats: Dwellers in the Dust; Micro-man; A Martian Oddity; Confessions of a Science Fiction Addict; The Big Sleep; Metropolis Ueber Alles; Burn, Witch, Burn!; And Then the Cover Was Bare; The Lure and Lore of the "Blind Spot"; In the Year 2012 with J.U. Giesy; Task of the Temponaut with Norbert F. Novotny; Yvala with Catherine L. Moore; The Cosmic Kidnappers with Christian Vallini; The Girl Who Wasn't There with Tigrina, William Nolan and Charles Fritch; The Atomic Monument with Theodore Sturgeon; Nyusa, Nymph of Darkness with Catherine L. Moore; Time to Change w Marcial Souto; Great Gog's Grave with Donald A. Wollheim; The Naughty Venusienne with Morgan Ives; Hollerbochen's Dilemma; It Came to Kill with Jack Jardine; Dhacthwu! Remember? with Robert A. W. Lowndes; Tarzan and the Golden Loin; Count Down to Doom with Charles Nuetzel; The Far-Out Philosopher of Science Fiction; The Lady Takes A Powder with Tigrina; Laugh Clone Laugh with A. E. van Vogt; When Frighthood was in Flower; The Record; The Man Who Was Thirsty; The House in the Twilight Zone; Letter to an Angel; The Radclyffe Effect

These titles can be order from James Rock Publishing at http://www.rockpublishing.com/ and Sense of Wonder Press, an imprint of James Rock Publishing, at http://www.senseofwonderpress.com/.

These titles are also now available from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt -NEW!
All 6 parts as they originally appeared in ARGOSY ALL-STORY magazine for November 8, 1924 through December 13, 1924.  Includes full color covers and all the original pulp illustrations.
A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 
All 6 parts as they originally appeared in 1930 BLUE BOOK. Includes full color covers.
The Land of Hidden Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs. 
All 5 parts as they originally appeared in 1931 BLUE BOOK. Includes full color covers.
This volume includes 20 additional pages on ERB.
The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley.
All 6 chapters as they originally appeared in 1926 ARGOSY. Includes full color covers.
The Planet of Peril by Otis Adelbert Kline.
All 6 chapters as they originally appeared in 1929 ARGOSY. Includes full color covers.

Each reprint is $25 plus shipping ($7 priority mail or $3 media mail).
Jim Van Hise, 57754 Onaga Trail, Yucca Valley, CA 91184. 
Check, money order or PayPal: Jimvanhise@aol.com

John Milius is reportedly still intent on getting the project off the ground, and that's even without original star Arnold Schwarzenegger. The most recent name branded about for the part of the older Conan is wrestler Triple H. 

THE MEMOIRS OF HORATIO HUMBERTON by J. Paul Suter, introduction by Robert Weinberg
A total of ten adventure novelettes appeared in DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE between July 1932 and January 1937 featuring the Necrologist Sleuth, Horatio Humberton. These stories feature elements of the supernatural, and the outrageous, and are collected here for the first time. Unfortunately only one featured a cover illustration for the magazine. You will not be disappointed with these hard-boiled escapades, bordering on humorous escapist detective fiction.  The ten stories are:  The Angel of the Damned, Eyes of the Dead, The Werewolf Horrors, The Mill of Horror, Seconds of Doom, Shoes for the Dead, Post Mortem, Dead and Buried, The Hairy Death, and The Corpse the Cat Dragged In.

Writing in THE DIME DETECTIVES (The Mysterious Press, 1988), Ron Goulart said: "Horatio Humberton...was a part-time dick and a full-time undertaker. 'Though Horatio Humberton earned the principal part of his living by the
direction of funerals," it was explained "another science, the study of crime, was much nearer his heart. When it came to embalming a murdered man, he could do a good job; but he would be far more enthusiastic in the task of
finding the murderer."  The retail price of this 386-page book will be $50.

THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE DEAN by Merle Constiner, introduction by Robert Weinberg
The Dean operates a fortune-telling business in a disreputable part of town. He is assisted in his adventures by Benton Matthews, a specialist in locks and guns. He also has the ear of Captain Kunkle, and grudgingly, the assistance of Lieutenant Malloy of the police department. Clients arrive with outrageous problems which generally lead to brilliant solutions. These nineteen unusual and unique stories will be published in THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF THE DEAN, by Merle Constiner and introduced by Robert Weinberg. They were originally published in DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE from August 1940 through December 1945. A folio-sized hardcover, this "Lost Treasure from the Pulps" will retail for $75.

THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF BILL BRENT by Frederick C. Davis, introduction by Robert Weinberg
Bill Brent works for a newspaper, and as punishment he is assigned the "Lorna Lorne's Lost Lover's Advice Column" by his editor. However, inquiries for advise addressed to Lorna often result in misadventures, murder, and mayhem. The fifteen stories to be published in THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF BILL BRENT, by Frederick C. Davis, introduced by Robert Weinberg, were originally published in DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE from May 1941 through June 1946. A folio-sized hardcover, this "Lost Treasure from the Pulps" will retail for $75.

Several new titles have been added to the LOST TREASURES FROM THE PULPS series for later in 2004. 
Coming up are:  THE COMPLEAT MOON MAN by Frederick C. Davis - which will include all of the Moon Man stories ever published  and THE MAGICAL MYSTERIES OF DON DIAVOLO by Clayton Rawson - authorized by the Rawson estate, this volume will include the four very scarce Don Diavolo novels from the pulps as well as Rawson's five other pulp detective short stories.  Making it a true collector's item, BSDB hopes to have a new introduction for the book by Clayton Rawson's son.

Mike Chomko is now accepting pre-orders for all three of these volumes.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net to reserve yours today.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

This issue really cranks up the noir, as it dives deep into Kolchak's very soul. He begged Tony for a nice, normal lead, and that's what he got. Seems an Air Force base in upstate New York's engaged in a little cover up, so our man Carl Kolchak high-tails it cross country in a fresh pressed suit and a smile on his face. Using his singular reporting skills, and his annoying interpersonal skills, he gets all the answers allright. Too bad these answers may send him straight to an insane asylum. How cruel is Man? Wanna find out? Carl did, and would love to lay it out for you. Right here. Right now. 

The first Pulp Rack e-text!  A story by Lemuel De Bra, "In Shanghai Alley," from the June 1930 issue of TRIPLE-X MAGAZINE.  Again, this is provided thanks to the generous John Locke.
You'll find the story at this URL: http://pulprack.com/index5.html

STRANGE TALEScan also be ordered from Mike Chomko.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $2 for shipping and handling.
Contact Mike at chomko@enter.net.
Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 

THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT by Edgar Rice Burroughs
I am forced to admit that even though I had traveled a long distance to place Bowen Tyler's manuscript in the hands of his father, I was still a trifle skeptical as to its sincerity, since I could not but recall that it had not been many years since Bowen had been one of the most notorious practical jokers of his alma mater. The truth was that as I sat in the Tyler library at Santa Monica I commenced to feel a trifle foolish and to wish that I had merely forwarded the manuscript by express instead of bearing it personally, for I confess that I do not enjoy being laughed at. I have a well-developed sense of humor -- when the joke is not on me.

Mr. Tyler, Sr., was expected almost hourly. The last steamer in from Honolulu had brought information of the date of the expected sailing of his yacht Toreador, which was now twenty-four hours overdue. Mr. Tyler's assistant secretary, who had been left at home, assured me that there was no doubt but that the Toreador had sailed as promised, since he knew his employer well enough to be positive that nothing short of an act of God would prevent his doing what he had planned to do. I was also aware of the fact that the sending apparatus of the Toreador's wireless equipment was sealed, and that it would only be used in event of dire necessity. There was, therefore, nothing to do but wait . . .

136 pages, Trade Hardcover, ISBN: 1-59224-577-3, $26.95

$7.95 plus $2.50 shipping (Media Mail) for a single copy.
 

HIGH ADVENTURE #75 features The Green Lama in Crosesus of Murder. (March 2004)
HIGH ADVENTURE #76 features Ki-Gor in The Sword of Sheba and Lost Priestess of the Nile. (May 2004)
HIGH ADVENTURE #77 features the Green Ghost in The Case of the Clumsy Cat.  (July 2004)

$9.95 plus $2.50 shipping (Media Mail) for a single copy. 
 
 

G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #12 features The Panther Squadron. (April 2004)
G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #13 features The Spider Staffel. (July 2004)

Win-Place-and Show by Roger Torrey, BLACK MASK, May 1935
The Corpse in the Doorway by James H. S. Moynahan, DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE, January 1st, 1934
Guiana Trap by Tom Curry, DIME ADVENTURE MAGAZINE, October 1935
Death Dines Out by Paul Ernst, DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE, January 1936
A Death in the Family by R.D. Torrey, DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE, June 1st,1934

Thanks to John Locke for passing along this information.

"Greetings from the dead," declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing---along with his entire collection---from his mansion in New Mexico.

At first, robbery is suspected, but the truth proves far stranger: As a final challenge to his three sons, Broadbent has buried himself and his treasure somewhere in the world, hidden away like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. If the sons wish to claim their fabulous inheritance, they must find their father's carefully concealed tomb.

The race is on, but the three brothers are not the only ones competing for the treasure. This secret is so astounding it cannot be kept quiet for long. With half a billion dollars at stake, as well as an ancient Mayan codex that may hold a cure for cancer and other deadly diseases, others soon join the hunt---and some of them will stop at nothing to claim the grave goods.

THE CODEX (ISBN: 0765307006) is a 400 page hardcover from Forge Books for $24.95. 

In the aftermath of The Frost Giant's Daughter, Conan heads into battle with the men of Asgard, never suspecting the treachery they hold in store for him, nor the horror coming down from Hyperborea. Dark Horse's new interpretation of Robert E. Howard's greatest creation. 32 pages, $2.99, in stores on April 28.

This comic will be solicited in the February PREVIEWS available on January 28th.

This collection will be available on February 3rd.  You can pre-order it now for $74.96 (25% off the retail price). 
Visit the Kino Video website to take advantage of this special offer on a great collection of classic films.
Thanks to John Locke for the tip on this collection.

Robert Mullen's Shadow PDF:   Nothing new this week.

The Shadow Magazine Interior Artwork: Nothing new this week.

ShadowPDF:   Nothing new this week.

Doc Savage PDF:  Terror Takes Seven (September 1945)

The Shrevnitz Memorial Library:
Coming Soon: The Phantom Detective in The Crime Castle  (December 1934)

Blackmask Online: 
Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 350 stories online!
Pell Street Blues by Achmed Abdullah from THE BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE (March 1935)
Rough Toss by George Allan England from COMPLETE STORIES (May 15th, 1932) 
Whipped by Peter Grant from SPICY WESTERN STORIES (November 1936) 
The Wild Whampoo of the Whampolo by Thomas Thursday from BLUE RIBBON SPORTS (December, 1937) 
Dicks Die Hard by Theodore Tinsley from GOLD SEAL DETECTIVE (March 1936) 

Master of Elusion, foe of tyranny, and champion of liberation--The Escapist. Operating from a secret headquarters under the boards of the majestic Empire Theater, the Escapist and his crack team of charismatic associates roam the globe, performing amazing feats of magic to aid all those who languish in oppression's chains. The history of his creators, Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, was recently chronicled in Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The best of the Escapist's adventures are now collected into one volume. 

This volume of Michael Chabon Presents...The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist collects the first two issues of the comic book and features an original story penned by Michael Chabon, the comics debut of novelist Glen David Gold, a new story written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, the painted artwork of Bill Sienkiewicz, and a wraparound cover by Chris Ware. 

152 pages, $17.95, in stores on April 28.
This trade paperback will be solicited in the February PREVIEWS available on January 28th.

FEARLESS, based on a series of books by Francine Pascal, starred Rachael Leigh Cook (SHE'S ALL THAT) as a young FBI agent genetically incapable of feeling fear. The chief criticism of the series was that Cook's character came off more affectless than fearless.

This series marks the first time that Raboy's Flash Gordon strips have ever been collected. Beginning his comics career in 1940, Emanuel "Mac" Raboy is perhaps best known for his work on Captain Marvel, Jr. and the Green Lama in the 1940s. He graduated from a government-funded art class, was heavily influenced by Alex Raymond's style, and, in the Spring of 1948, he signed on with King Features to illustrate the "Flash Gordon" Sunday page. Following in the footsteps of his idol, Mac Raboy's run on this serial was actually longer than Raymond's. Raboy drew the strip until his death in December of 1967, and several of his early wood engravings (from his fine art days) remain in the permanent collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum.  This is a 256 page, black and white, trade paperback for a retail price of $19.95.

You can order online at the Things From Another World website.

Update:  Warner Bros. has now officially announced the DVD release of The Flintstones: Season One for 3/16!  The 4-disc set will SRP for $64.92 and will feature all the episodes in their original full frame aspect ratio with Dolby Digital mono audio.