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25 November 2011
Age of Aces
Now available!

In Donald E. Keyhoe’s imaginings, the stormy skies of World War I are filled with giant pterodactyls, mystic fireballs and demon aces. But America has it’s own unnatural secret weapon: Captain Philip Strange. A mental marvel from birth, he was so terrifyingly effective that the Allies referred to him as “The Phantom Ace of G-2.” But to the Germans he was “The Brain-Devil,” whose penetrating green eyes were both a legend and a nightmare.

Keyhoe’s Philip Strange stories ran for nine years—from 1931 through 1939—in the pages of Flying Aces magazine. This first volume in our new series contains six exciting tales of terror skies! It also features an introduction by Sid Bradd and is beautifully wrapped up in an exciting new design by Chris Kalb!

Stories include:
“Cocardes of Courage” – Flying Aces, September 1931
“The Drome of Dread” – Flying Aces, November 1931
“The Red Demon” – Flying Aces, July 1932
“Scourge of the Skies” – Flying Aces, November 1932
“Vengeance of V-99” – Flying Aces, February 1933
“The Unholy Horror” – Flying Aces, July 1933
Plus:
“Donald E. Keyhoe and the Brain-Devil of G-2″ by Sidney H. Bradd
A Bibliography of all Philip Strange’s Adventures
An exciting book design by Chris Kalb.

$16.99 Trade paperback
 6″x9″ trade paperback | 346 pages | ISBN: 978-0-9820950-8-9

Available from
Amazon, Mike Chomko Books, and Adventure House

Airship 27 Productions - Now available!
ROBIN HOOD: ARROW OF JUSTICE
THE SAGA CONTINUES

Airship 27 Productions & Cornerstone Book Publishers are happy to announce the release of I.A.Watson’s second book in his new retelling of the classic Robin Hood legend.

In book one of this series, “Robin Hood, King of Sherwood,” award winning author Ian Watson introduced the classic outlaw hero from British lore in a fresh and exciting new way. We learned of a carefree youth suddenly cast into the role of hero to save his people from the cruel and sadistic tyranny of Prince John, left to rule over the kingdom while his brother, Richard the Lionheart traveled to the Holy Lands to fight in the Third Crusade.

Suffering under unbearable taxation, the people suffered daily until the brash young outlaw, Robin of Loxley, at the goading of a lovely young maid, stepped forth to challenge this illegal oppression and restore true justice to the land.  In this second chapter his daring robberies of the jaded gentry have stirred the ire of the Sheriff of Nottingham and his allies. A devious plot is hatched in the guise of an archery contest to lure the daring Robin Hood within the city limits and there trap him.  Once more Ian Watson spins a tale of action and adventure steeped in rich historical lore as he relates perhaps the most reckless of the Robin’s famed exploits.  Can the King of Sherwood, aided by his loyal band of rogues, claim the prized Golden Arrow or will the walls of Nottingham become his tomb?
Robin Hood, Arrow of Justice is another rollicking grand adventure that continues this innovative and wonderful retelling of a truly classic legend loved by millions.  This volume once again spotlights a gorgeous painted cover by Pulp Factory Award Winning recipient Mike Manley, with interior illustrations and designs by Art Director Rob Davis.  Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to return to Sherwood Forest in;

Robin Hood; Arrow of Justice

This is the tenth release of 2011 for the popular pulp production outfit and their 43rd catalog title.  “It’s been a remarkable year,” said Editor Ron Fortier, “and we’re thrilled to be ending in on such a high note.” 

ISBN: 1-613420-27-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-61342-027-0
Produced by Airship 27 Productions
Published by Cornerstone Book Publishers

Release date: 12/07/2011
Retail Price: $16.95
$3 digital PDF Available Now.
AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

Altus Press: Doc Savage in HORROR IN GOLD
Softcover - Coming in December!
Hardcover - Coming in January!

The deluxe hardcover and softcover editions will be
available on the Adventures in Bronze website.

The softcover edition will be available on Amazon.com.
Kindle, Nook, and iTunes editions will also be available.

Doc Savage in THE DESERT DEMONS
25% Off Special
Just in time for Xmas shopping, Lulu.com is discounting the hardcover edition of the new Doc Savage adventure, THE DESERT DEMONS, a whopping 25%! That's almost nine bucks off the cover price of $34.95. Here's the link:
Just type BUYMYBOOK305 into the discount code box before you buy to receive the discount.
This offer is good until December 14, 2011. Note that this edition is unsigned.

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books 
Coming in January!
DOC SAVAGE Volume 55: "The Time Terror" and "The Talking Devil"
The pulp era's greatest superman returns in two classic pulp thrillers by Lester Dent writing as "Kenneth Robeson." First, Doc and Patricia Savage enter an Arctic abyss where dinosaurs and prehistoric humans survive, and race against Japanese agents to uncover the secret of The Time Terror that could change the outcome of the war. Then, a series of crimes committed by "graduates" of the Man of Bronze's Crime College threaten to destroy Doc's reputation. What is the sinister secret of The Talking Devil? This special collectors edition showcases both color pulp covers by Emery Clarke, Paul Orban's classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray, writer of eight Doc Savage novels. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-073-1 Softcover, 7x10, 112 pp. B&W ....$14.95

DOC SAVAGE Volume 55 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111352. 
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books 
Coming in January!
THE SHADOW Volume 57: "The Five Chameleons" and "The Wasp"
Supervillain Special
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! The Knight of Darkness battles evil supercriminals in two action-packed pulp novels by Walter Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, in a never-reprinted 1932 epic, The Shadow seeks to unmask The Five Chameleons, master villains whose uncanny ability to blend with their surroundings rivals his own. Then, the Dark Avenger feels the savage sting of The Wasp in his first confrontation with one of his deadliest foes. This double-novel reprints the classic cover paintings by George Rozen and Graves Gladney and the original interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Earl Mayan, with historical articles by Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-072-4 Softcover, 7x10. 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

THE SHADOW Volume 57 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111354.
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
THE SHADOW 80TH-ANNIVERSARY 4-PACK COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION
Coming in February!
In honor of The Shadow's 80th anniversary, Sanctum Books collects its first four Shadow volumes with exclusive new bonus material in a special commemorative set.

In eight thrill-packed pulp novels, the Knight of Darkness battles supervillains The Voodoo Master, The Red Blot, Malmordo, The Golden Vulture and The Murder Master, then teams up with the real Lamont Cranston to combat the murderous criminal organization called The Hydra.

Special Bonus Collector's Items include high-quality reproductions of the rare 1934 and 1937 Shadow giveaway premium photos, and an exclusive reprint of "The Shadow of Wall Street," the legendary 1929 story that foreshadowed the pulp's greatest mystery man.

Softcover, 560 pages, B&W, $39.95

THE SHADOW 80TH ANNIVERSARY 4-PACK is solicited in the
December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111353.
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)



Beb Books - Now available!

Perley Poore Sheehan wrote all types of fiction, from action-adventure, to fantasy and science fiction and from crime stoppers to romance.  Beb Books is happy to announce the publication of two of Perley Poore Sheehan’s light comedies, Phyllis of Fountain Square (from 1916) and “Upstairs” (from 1919) in one affordable volume.

In Phyllis of Fountain Square a young man desires to become a motion picture writer. Slapstick and screwball comedies were in their day and this story is aout as screwy as they come. Jay Hopkins, a clerk at a Cincinnati packing company, has written what he’s sure will be a blockbuster movie script but just before he can mail off the script pickpockets snatch away the envelope. He then accuses a pretty girl he had been watching as being part of this gang. But when she confesses is she telling the truth or having a joke on the young man. Is she leading him deeper and deeper into crime or having a wild whirl with someone she know rather more than she’ws letting on?

“Upstairs” is very much a modern Cinderella story set in an exclusive hotel in New York. The daughter on one of its steam engineers takes over the job her brother was doing before he left for the Great War. But she dreams of going upstairs, if only for an hour, to see what it like walking among High Society. A friendly bellhop offers to lend her a gown left behind by one of the tenants but her masquerade seems on the verge of falling through from the start and as she darts from room to room in the vast hotel she leaves behind a trail of chaos and broke-hearts.
74 pages,  8.5 x 11, side stapled, with all the original illustrations
(there’s only one *sigh*) for just $5 plus postage and handling.
And don’t forget out our other recent releases
Secret Agent X #30  - “Death’s Frozen Formulas.
A vicious drug ring is leaving behind a trail of frozen corpses as it administers death to any who would betray the dope dealers. Can The Agent and his friend Betty Dale, break the secret of the drug dealers before they become corpsicles as well?
And the first two stories of Don Vega, Senor Zorro
The Curse of Capistrano from 1919 and The Further Adventures of Zorro from 1922. Both books are $5 each plus postage and handling.
Last, but hardly least, J. Allan Dunn’s  great pirate novel, Sign of the Skull.
Hunting for buried treasure in the Indian Ocean. Swashbuckling funny for just $5 plus postage and handling.

Postage is $3 for the first three books and $0.25 additional for each additional book.

Visit our web site for additional titles from Beb Books at:
http://home.sprynet.com/~beb01/bebbooks/

Have a question? Write to me at beb01@sprynet.com.

Check or money orders only!
Made payable to Brian Earl Brown

Send to:
Brian Earl Brown
11675 Beaconsfield
Detroit, MI 48224





Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark Audio Collection - Now available!
Black Mask 2: Murder IS Bad Luck Audio Collection - Now available!
Black Mask 3: The Maltese Falcon Audio Collection - Now available!

Mysterious Press and HighBridge are collaborating to create two new audio imprints:
Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio will feature new titles from the renowned mystery publisher, now an imprint of Grove/Atlantic Books, and Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio Classics will offer outstanding backlist titles, many of which have never been available on audio. Included is the Black Mask series, a multi-volume audio collection based on The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories edited by Otto Penzler.
From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction.
The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine”

Otto Penzler selected and wrote introductions to the best of the best, the darkest of these dark, vintage stories for the collection The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories. Now that collection is available for the first time on audio.

Black Mask 1 includes:
Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch; read by Eric Conger
“Come and Get It” by Erle Stanley Gardner; read by Oliver Wyman
“Arson Plus” by Peter Collinson (Dashiell Hammett); read by Alan Sklar
“Fall Guy” by George Harmon Coxe; read by Pete Larkin
“Doors in the Dark” by Frederick Nebel; read by Pete Larkin
“Luck” by Lester Dent; read by Jeff Gurner

Black Mask 2 includes:
“Ten Carats of Lead” by Stewart Sterling; read by Alan Sklar
“Murder Is Bad Luck” by Wyatt Blassingame; read by Oliver Wyman
“Her Dagger Before Me” by Talmadge Powell; read by Pete Larkin
“One Shot” by Charles G. Booth; read by Alan Sklar
“The Dancing Rats” by Richard Sale; read by Jeff Gurner

Black Mask 3 includes:
“The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett; read by Jeff Gurner
“Cry Silence” by Frederic Brown; read by Oliver Wyman
“Waiting for Rusty” by William Cole; read by Pete Larkin
Each collection is available as an audio CD or in a downloadable MP3 format.
Audio CD - Season's Savings: $26.96
MP3 format:  $20.97



Black Mask 4: The Parrot That Wouldn't Talk Audio Collection - Coming in January!
Includes:
“Bracelets” by Katherine Brocklebank; read by Carol Monda
“Diamonds Mean Death” by Thomas Walsh; read by Alan Sklar
“Murder in the Ring” by Raoul Whitfield; read by Jeff Gurner
“The Parrot That Wouldn’t Talk” by Walter C. Brown; read by Pete Larkin
“Let the Dead Alone” by Merle Constiner; read by Oliver Wyman

Black Mask 5: The Ring on the Hand of Death Audio Collection - Coming in March!
Includes:
“Knights of the Open Palm” by Carroll John Daly; read by Erik Bergmann
the “Rainbow Diamonds” series of stories (“Diamonds of Dread,” “The Man in White,” “The Blind Chinese,”
“Red Dawn,” “Blue Glass,” and “Diamonds of Death”) by Ramon Decolta; read by Johnny Heller
“The Ring on the Hand of Death” by William Rollins Jr.; read by Dan Bittner

Black Mask 6:  The Bloody Bokhara Audio Collection - Coming in April!
Includes:
“Body Snatcher” by Theodore A. Tinsley 
“Murder on the Gayway” by Dwight V. Babcock
“The Key” by Cleve F. Adams
“The Bloody Bokhara” by William Campbell Gault

Black Mask 7:  The Shrieking Skeleton Audio Collection - Coming in May!
Includes:
“A Taste for Cognac” by Brett Halliday
“Sauce for the Gander” by Day Keene
“A Little Different” by W. T. Ballard
“The Shrieking Skeleton” by Charles M. Green
“Drop Dead Twice” by Hank Searls

Black Mask 8:  The Sound of the Shot Audio Collection - Coming in June!
Includes:
“The Sound of the Shot” by Dale Clark
“Flaming Angel” by Frederick C. Davis
“Odds on Death” by Don M. Mankiewicz
“Those Catrini” by Norvell Page
“Smoke in Your Eyes” by Hugh B. Cave
“Blood, Sweat and Biers” by Robert Reeves
Black Mask 9:  The Corpse Didn't Kick Audio Collection - Coming in July!
Includes:
“The Black Bottle” by Whitman Chambers
“The Corpse Didn’t Kick” by Milton K. Ozaki
“Try the Girl” by Raymond Chandler
“Don’t You Cry for Me” by Norbert Davis
“T. McGuirk Steals a Diamond” by Ray Cummings
“Wait for Me” by Steve Fisher
“Ask Me Another” by Frank Gruber

Black Mask 10:  Death Stops Payment Audio Collection - Coming in August!
Includes:
“Dirty Work” by Horace McCoy
“Merely Murder” by Julius Long
“Murder in One Syllable” by John D. MacDonald
“Three Apes from the East” by H. H. Stinson
“Death Stops Payment” by D. L. Champion







Blogging Sax Rohmer’s The Hand of Fu Manchu, Part Three – "Golden Pomegranates" - Now online!
“Golden Pomegranates” was the third installment of Sax Rohmer’s The Si-Fan Mysteries. The story was first published in Collier’s on June 24, 1916 and was later expanded to comprise Chapters 10 - 14 of the third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries first published in 1917 by Cassell in the UK and by McBride & Nast in the US under the variant title, The Hand of Fu Manchu. The US book title marks the first time that the hyphen was dropped from the character’s name, although it was retained within the text.

Read the rest at the links below!
The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 154: Don Gates - New!
Don Gates talks to the Book Cave crew about his premiere novel "Challenger Storm - Isle of Blood".
Episode 153: The Universe of Barry Reese
Episode 152: The Green Hornet Casefiles
Episode 151: The Return of Jeff Deischer
Episode 150: Perry Rhodan
Episode 149: Death's Heretic
Episode 148: Lance Star Volume 3
Burroughs Bulletin #85 - Now available!
The Winter 2011 issue (#85) of the THE BURROUGHS BULLETIN is now available. 
It is profusely illustrated in black & white with full color front and back covers.

This issue of the Bulletin is dedicated to George T. McWhorter, the person who reinvigorated The Burroughs Bibliophiles in 1990 when he restarted The Burroughs Bulletin as a quarterly journal (hence the appellation of "New Series") and The Gridley Wave as a monthly newsletter. He maintained a regular publication schedule for 20 years, with 82 issues of the Bulletin and 245 issues of The Gridley Wave.

Contents include:
George T. McWhorter - Curriculum Vitae:
A nine-page autobiographic timeline illustrated with photos
Tributes to George: (with 8 photographs)
     * Delinda Stephens Buie - Head, Special Collections, University of Louisville Libraries
     * Hannelore B. Rader - Dean Emeritus, University of Louisville Libraries
     * Mike Conran - Editor, ERB News Dateline
     * Frank Westwood and Doreen Schlesinger - Editors, The Fantastic Worlds of ERB
     * Denny Miller - Movie Tarzan
"Tarzan at the Ready" art by Steve Rude
George T. McWhorter and ERB - Bibliographer's Banter by Henry G. Franke III
ERBracketology - Part II: The Characters of the Tarzan Stories by Patrick M. Premo
Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting - The Burroughs Bibliophiles, Inc.
Letters: John Carver with Editor's rebuttal ~ Jim Gregory ~ Malcolm Henderson ~ Rob Greer ~ A. Rodney Allbright ~ Bob Griffin
Editor's Afterword by Henry G. Franke III
Terra Incognita - a poem by Kim L. Neidigh

Subscriptions are $35 (Domestic) and $45 (International) for four quarterly issues and 12 monthly issues of THE GRIDLEY WAVE newsletter. 
Send checks or money orders to:
Henry Franke, 318 Patriot Way, Yorktown, VA 23693.
Payment via Paypal is also accepted at BurroughsBibliophiles@gmail.com

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1
Coming in February!
Brian Wood (Writer), Becky Cloonan (Art/Variant cover), Dave Stewart (Color), and Massimo Carnevale (Cover)

In this sweeping adaptation of Robert E. Howard's fan-favorite "Queen of the Black Coast," Conan turns his back on the civilized world and takes to the high seas alongside the pirate queen Bêlit, setting the stage for an epic of romance, terror, and swashbuckling. This is Conan as you've never seen him, with the combination of one of Robert E. Howard's greatest tales and the most dynamic creative team in comics!
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50, On sale February 8

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC110047 (Carnevale).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC110048 (Cloonan).


Crossroad Press: ASK THE DICE by Ed Lynskey - Now available!
Over the past two decades, Tommy Mack Zane has faithfully worked as a contract killer for Watson Ogg, the Washington, D.C. crime boss. Now middle age creeping up finds Tommy Mack edgy, jaded, and weary of his grisly trade. As he contemplates retirement, he is framed for the murder of Mr. Ogg’s niece. Desperate, Tommy Mack enlists the aid of his friends, the mercurial D. Noble and burly Esquire to do battle with Mr. Ogg and his mercenary “dark suits.” A new, better life filled with his passions for poetry and jazz drives Tommy Mack to the slambang climax where a few dark secrets about his past are unearthed.

Told in spare, lean prose, Ask the Dice is a brisk, literate, and idiosyncratic noir. Mr. Lynskey’s crime novels have been praised by such luminaries as James Crumley, Ken Bruen, and Megan Abbott. Robert Wade (Wade Miller) wrote in the San DiegoUnion-Tribune: “A new wave of young writers is experimenting with the old-style thriller…among  the most promising is Ed Lynskey.”

This eBook is available in MOBI (Kindle) EPUB (Sony / Nook / iPad / Kobo) PDF (Adobe) and PRC (Mobipocket) formats.

THE DEFINITIVE FLASH GORDON AND JUNGLE JIM, VOLUME 1
By Alex Raymond
Arriving in comic shops November 30th!
IDW’s Library of American Comics is producing The Definitive Flash Gordon & Jungle Jim as part of the Ultimate Alex Raymond Collection. The Definitive Flash Gordon & Jungle Jim will present every Sunday by Raymond from both classic strips together for the first time, in the oversized 12” x 16” champagne edition format. The artist’s post-war modernist detective series, Rip Kirby, is currently being collected.

Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney is editing and designing the deluxe editions. “Although Flash Gordon has been previously reprinted, this—finally—is the first meticulously remastered and restored edition that prints the strip in a large size and in Raymond’s original format that includes the Jungle Jim topper. We believe this will be the definitive edition for the ages.”

 Created by Raymond in 1934, Flash Gordon is arguably the most famous science fiction comic strip of all time. It follows adventures of the title character and his companions—Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov—as they leave Earth to discover the source of meteors that are threatening the planet, and gets waylaid on the planet Mongo, where they battle the evil Ming the Merciless. The three Earthlings encounter one strange race after another, from the water-breathing Shark-Men of the Undersea Kingdom, to the winged Hawkmen, to the ferocious Tusk-Men. 
All the while, Flash finds himself in the arms of one  beautiful woman after another—much to Dale Arden’s chagrin.

Jungle Jim was created as a strip topper for Flash Gordon, and followed the life of Jim Bradley, who fought pirates, slave traders, and assorted villains in the exotic Southeast Asia of the 1930s. This neglected Raymond classic also features Jim’s native cohort Kolu and femme fatale Lille DeVrille.
Hardcover, 176 pages, 12” x 16”, $75.00

Dennis McHaney
ANNIVERSARY: GLENN LORD AND THE HOWARD COLLECTOR
Now available!

Dennis McHaney’s ANNIVERSARY: GLENN LORD AND THE HOWARD COLLECTOR contains tributes to Glenn Lord from Don Herron, Morgan Holmes, Roy Thomas, Dennis McHaney, Patrice Louinet, Fred Blosser, James Reasoner, Frank Coffman, Rusty Burke, Leo Grin, Paul Herman, Bill Cavalier, Damon Sasser, Barbara Barrett, and Rob Roehm. Also included is a history of The Howard Collector and an index of The Howard Collector by Dennis McHaney. Plus, there are five works of Howard fiction from the pages of The Howard Collector. The book is available in both hardcover and softcover editions from Lulu.com.

Visit the HOWARD WORKS website for a complete contents listing.

Pages 192
Dimensions (inches) 6.0 wide × 9.0 tall
Softcover - $19.95
Hardcover - $34.95

Dime Novel Castle
Coming December 2, 2011!
Old King Brady, The Sleuth-Hound
Published in The New York Detective Library in November 1885.

Old King Brady was the first detective in dime novel fiction to appear on a regular basis; he appeared in print on average about once a month from his debut in November 1885 through mid-1894.  There are about 104 of these stories.

After a five-year absence, Old King Brady reappeared in 1899.  This time he was partnered with a youthful Harry Brady (no relation) who was known as Young King Brady.  Together the two Bradys formed a detective agency.  The Old and Young King Brady dime novel series lasted a full fourteen years, from January 1899 to December 1912, producing 726 original weekly adventures.

Old King Brady's full name is James Brady, a tall immigrant from Ireland many years ago who has been a member of the New York police force for more years than he cares to count.  Almost a mythic figure operating out of police headquarters, he has worked himself into an unusual place on the force whereby he works on only cases that interest him. He is frequently asked to investigate unusual cases. Other times adventure finds him.

His tired, weary face is handsome and clean shaven, unlike many of his detective contemporaries, who prefer beards.  He wears a long, blue coat that is tightly buttoned at the top that has innumerable pockets for carrying an array of items (as well as concealing them), and he is always seen wearing a wide brimmed hat.

Brady has several vulnerabilities, including not being able to swim and not being a very good shot with a pistol.  Notwithstanding these strikes against him, which humanize him, his chief characteristic is his bulldog tenacity.  Once he has assigned himself to a case, he will literally track a criminal down to the ends of the earth to see justice done.

Finally, Brady performs his duties like a real detective; there is an air of realism about the man.  He questions suspects, gathers clues, weighs evidence, draws conclusions until he has cornered his prey. Along the way of each tale, though, is plenty of action, enough to satisfy any dime novel detective fan.

Download this rare manuscript in Adobe PDF Format and Print-On-Demand 
Book on December 2, 2011 at:
www.DimeNovelCastle.com
Available Now!
A Wall Street Haul; Or, A Bold Stroke For A Fortune
Original Nick Carter Novel #2 By John Russell Coryell
Originally Published in Street and Smith's, New York Weekly in 1899

This rare manuscript is available in Adobe PDF Format and Print-On-Demand Book only at:

E-texts on the net this week
The Shadow in Review:
There is no new Shadow review this week.
 
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:   Now with over 1000 stories online!
"Amy Stops the Clock" by Sam Merwin, Jr. from POPULAR DETECTIVE, September, 1948
The gargantuan Miss Brewster orders a four pound steak to fortify herself for a mystery case with romantic overtones!
"Policeman By Trade" by Seabury Quinn from SHORT STORIES, May 25, 1947
Featuring: Hiji
Hiji's Police Beat was in Africa, but some aspects of his calling were apparent, even in Paris.
ELRIC: THE BALANCE LOST #8 - Coming in February!
Writer: Chris Roberson; Art: Francesco Biagini; Cover: Francesco Mattina, Matteo Scalera

The Arc-Ending Issue That Will Leave You Reeling! Elric and Hawkmoon have made their way to Tanelorn to find the seemingly unassailable city under siege. Can they beat back the forces of Chaos that have been threatening their journey all along — and as the forces of Law and Chaos converge, will they finally come face to face with Corum and Eric Beck? Legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock and New York Times bestseller Chris Roberson bring fantasy's most beloved characters back to comics in this critically acclaimed series!

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

ELRIC: THE BALANCE LOST #8 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS
(Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC110906.

FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST #1 - Arriving in comic shops November 30th!
Written by Eric Trautmann (Vampirella, Red Sonja) and illustrated by Daniel Lindro.
Covers: Alex Ross (75%), Paul Renaud (25%), Francesco Francavilla (1/10), Wagner Reis (1/25)
Story concepts and designs by Alex Ross (Kingdom Come, Marvels, Project: Superpowers).

The year is 1934, a time of two-fisted swashbuckling, of fearsome threats and wild adventure-and of ever-growing threats on the horizon.
Three valiant humans — Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov — are plucked from the Earth, traveling to the distant planet Mongo. Their exploits are legendary, battling the machinations and terror schemes of the dreaded emperor Ming, the All-Seeing Ruler of Mongo. But they did not fight alone…

The story is a six-issue arc featuring an adaptation of the Alex Raymond material from ’33-’34.
32 pages, Full Color, $1.00 Introductory Price!

FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST #4 - Coming in February!
Writer: Eric Trautmann; Artist: Daniel Indro
Covers: Alex Ross (75%), Paul Renaud (25%), Francesco Francavilla (1-in-10)

Flash Gordon and his allies — the plucky Dale Arden and brilliant Dr. Hans Zarkov — move closer to a confrontation with the forces of Ming the Merciless. Amid the political and military machinations of Mongo, Gordon faces the ferocious Lion Men, the sinister Shark Men, and a band of rebels commanded by Prince Barin!  And on Earth, Ziva places her sights on the ultimate target: Adolf Hitler.

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST #4 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS
(Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111007.

Gotham Pulp Collectors Club -  December 10, 2011!
Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area.
It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month.

 Name:  Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
Time: 1-4 PM
Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage)
Contact:  Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com

GREEN HORNET #25 - Coming in February!
Writer: Ande Parks; Artist: Igor Vitorino
Covers: Brian Denham (33%), Phil Hester (33%), and Jonathan Lau (33%)

Green Hornet battles Green Hornet, to the death. The people of Century City are convinced that Britt Reid, as Green Hornet, murdered the city's Mayor. The only way for Britt to clear his name is to track down the real killer. When Green Hornet comes face to face with his doppelganger, it may just turn out to be the last fight of his life. If Britt Reid can't defeat the costumed imposter that framed him, a hero's legacy will be destroyed forever, and Century City will fall into the hands of the evil mastermind who orchestrated the whole setup. The Outcast storyline rolls on toward its thunderous conclusion.

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

GREEN HORNET #25 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111025.

Gryphon Books - New books by Gary Lovisi!
Here’s a short list of some of my most recent books that I hope you’ll be interested in reading. They include fiction in various genres and some non-fiction. Copies gladly signed upon request. Great for Christmas and holiday gifts! Enjoy!  

MARS NEEDS BOOKS! (Borgo / Wideside, tpb original, 2011, $20.), A new, original science fiction novel about men on Mars who have escaped the oppresive Earth world government that controls EVERYTHING. Ryan had been one of their most trusted agents until now. However Ryan knows that his mind has been tampered with and nothing is as it seems. Now he has become a reader, an obsessive paperback reader and collector, but why? And why does he read only the old hard-copy hard-boiled crime and noir paperbacks from the Last Century -- as all the men on Mars do? In a novel with aspects of Orwell's bleak 1984 and dark doses of Philip K. Dick, Ryan seeks to discover the truth behind all the lies and mind control in his world. Is it all some conjured up literary fantasy in his own guilt-twisted mind? Is he still confined in a prison cell back on Earth, reading a science fiction novel called Mars Needs Books! The men on Mars read, collect, trade and talk obsessively about the great old crime writers and the great old vintage paperbacks even as they do all they can to defy the all-controlling government Authority that seeks to crush all men by manipulation of a digital record that is created out of lies and changed by the minute. What is the truth!  

Honky-Tonk Girl by Charles Beckman, Jr. with an introduction by Gary Lovisi (Borgo / Wildside, tpb, 2011, $16.) A classic hard crime and noir Jazz novel by a famed Texas Jazz musician and pulp writer. This new edition reprints the rare Falcon Books digest with the same cover art, now in a new attractive trade paperback edition for the first time in 60 years! It's a teriffic read, a stunning Jazz noir tale where Johnny Nickles and his Jazz band seek to escape criminals and corrupt pols who are killing them off one by one.  

Paperback Parade #79, (Gryphon Books, digest magazine, $10) latest issue with articles on the "The Frankenstein Horror Series" classic horror paperbacks by Peter Enfantino; A checklist of Holloway House 'Black Experience' paperbacks by Dan Roberts; "Century Science Fiction" paperbacks by Jon D. Swartz; "Colossus and the Works of D.F.Jones" by Gary Lovisi, news, ads, and more!

Bad Girls Need Love Too (Krause Books, 2010, a great bargain at just $10.) is a lovely hardcover book with almost 200 of the greatest sexy and provocative paperback covers shown in full color and accompanied by the outrageous and campy blurbs and teaser text that was used to help sell these books to legions of frisky male paperback buyers in the 50s and 60s. It’s a fun, cool ride and makes a great gift book for that special someone at a special bargain price of just $10.00!

More Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ramble House, 2011, trade paperback, $16; hardcover $29.) collects three new Sherlock Holmes pastiches, two long stories that were heavily cut when published which have been restored to their original lengths and are published here for the first time in America. The book includes a new introduction about how the stories came to be written and a Historical Note at the end of each story to put them into historical perspective. This book is the all-tme Bestseller of Ramble House Books!

Also still available:
Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Ramble House, 2007, trade paperback, $16; hardcover $29.) My earlier collection of three Sherlock Holmes pastiche stories, including “The Adventure of the Missing Detective” which the Mystery Writers of America nominated as Best Short Story of the year. Also contains a new introduction and an  Afterword by famed author Richard A. Lupoff.

Murder of a Bookman (Wildside Mystery Double #5, 2011, trade paperback original, $16.) Two biblio-mystery crime novels back-to-back in this new “Double” format. Murder of A Bookman has Detective Bentley Hollow investigating the brutal murder of bookseller Brian MacDonald, who was less than honest in his professional and personal dealings, so there is no lack of suspects. Meanwhile, Hollow has problems of his own, his wife has just left him and he has been partnered on the case with a detective he loathes and who hates him. By the time he finds a solution to the crime his life will be irrevocably changed! First of a new mystery series.

Bookman is backed with The Paperback Show Murders by Robert Reginald, (cover art by Robert Maguire) where murders at an LA paperback show form the backdrop for a fun crime read. Both books feature fascinating and fun lore from the world of collectable books. You’ll get a kick out of reading both sides of this new biblio mystery Wildside  “Double”!

Driving Hell’s Highway (Wildside Mystery Double #4, 2011, trade paperback original, $16.) He had no past and no future, only the long open road ahead of him. What he would find out there he had no idea, but he knew it would be full of danger and violence. A hard-boiled surreal noir novel about a lone man driving the back roads of America and what he finds there. This novel is backed with Devil’s Plague by Michael R. Collings a fine violent murder mystery novel.

Gargoyle Nights (Wildside Double #16, 2011, trade paperback, $16.) In the last days of Oldearth’s last city the greatest wizard of mystical Shenumbra creates a monstrous gargoyle to carry out his sinister designs -- then things get out of hand. Inspired by the fantasy horrors of H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Jack Vance; a series of three previously published stories in which the dreaded gargoyle pursues it’s dark mission throughout the eons.  This novel is backed with Do The Weird Crime, Do The Weird Time by Don Webb, a stunning collection of bizarre crime stories.
Ultra-Boiled (Ramble House, 2010, trade paperback $20; hardcover $39, cover art by Joseph Cali), this first edition book collects 23 of my most intense hard crime tales from various print magazines, online sources, and adds many new, never-before published stories as well. A big, fat book full of hard, brutal, intense crime and noir stories the way they used to be written in the good old days!     ORDERING: All books are available from the publisher’s websites: Krause Books at www.krausebooks.com; Ramble House at www.ramblehouse.com and Wildside at www.wildsidebooks.com; and of course ALL are also available from Gryphon Books.

SIGNED COPIES are available at Gryphon Books and gladly signed upon request.  
POSTAGE: 1 to 3 books via Media Mail $3.00; Priority Mail $6.00
                  4 to 7 books via Media Mail $5.00; Priority Mail $9.00
                  Outside USA please inquire on postage rates.  
PAYMENT: You can pay using VISA or Mastercard via email at gryphonbooks@att.net, or send a check to our address:  
Gryphon Books, PO Box 280209, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11228, USA

iGuide: The Vintage Paperback Price Guide - Now online!
Jon Warren and Graham Holroyd and I have launched a new Paperback Price Guide site.
It is a 100% free of charge searchable paperback database with prices, based on Graham Holroyd’s price guide book.

The database contained here contains tens of thousands of web pages of information on individual paperback books. Each page contains a description of the book and estimated values, as well as a section for "Real Market Data", actual prices contributed by our Board of Advisors.

The neat thing about this new version is that anyone can edit the pages andupload images, even add price comps from auctions.
It is a wikipedia of vintage paperbacks.

iPulpFiction.com - New the week of November 27 - Dec 3!

From the AUG. 19, 1942 issue of Detective Fiction Weekly
CORN WHISKEY MURDERS by Wyatt Blassingame
“Welcome to Sanctity Key, mister. Hell’s on a rampage and murder’s been done, but maybe we can fetch you a snort anyhow!”It goes to prove that the cup that cheers can be the potion that poisons.
[ Publisher: Black Mask Magazine - 5,100 words - 75¢ ]
PIRATE STORIES: THE GHOST OF CAPTAIN BRAND by Howard Pyle
Who can resist tales of swashbuckling action and exotic adventure? Sail away with iPulp's ongoing anthology of classic pirate tales. If you dig deep enough perhaps you will discover treasure — an original work or three written just for iPulp readers.

Howard Pyle  was an illustrator and author of books for young people. His 1883 classic publication <i> The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood</i>  remains in print, and his other books include a four-volume set on King Arthur.[ Publisher: iPulpFiction.com - 13,000 words - $1 ]
THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS by Suzanne Flaig
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love murdered me.[ Publisher: Desert Sleuths - 2,300 words - 25¢ ]
TALES OF YESTERYEAR #2: MURPHY'S WAKE by Tommy Hancock
A good Chicago cop stands by helplessly as his own brother soils the uniform he lives for. Until the day their father dies, then finally the gloves are off and THE NIGHT falls! [ Publisher: ProSe - 3,100 words - 50¢ ]

JOHN CARTER: A PRINCESS OF MARS

Entertainment Weekly published a photo of John Carter versus a white ape from the upcoming motion picture due in theaters March 2012.

Entertainment Weekly

JOHN CARTER: A PRINCESS OF MARS MOVIE EDITION - Coming in February!
Writer:  Steve Moore
This adaptation not only gives readers an amazing novelization of Disney's upcoming John Carter film, but also the original text of A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The movie John Carter tells the story of a war-weary Civil War veteran who is inexplicably transported to Mars. He quickly — and reluctantly — becomes embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions among the planet's inhabitants. The adaptation, written by Stuart Moore, wonderfully brings the movie's otherworldly action and adventure to the page, while keeping the themes of family, planetary survival, and loyalty at heart.
Softcover, 5x8, 560 pages, $9.99

JOHN CARTER: A PRINCESS OF MARS MOVIE EDITION is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111324.
JOHN CARTER OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 - Coming in February!
Writer: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Set in the late 1800's, a broken veteran of the Civil War named John Carter stumbles upon an ancient artifact that teleports him to the planet Barsoom! Once there, he quickly realizes what the natives call Barsoom is what he knows as the planet Mars, and that his only way home is linked to a vicious civil war tearing the planet's inhabitants apart. The first volume of the John Carter Omnibus collection collects the original text from the first three of Edgar Rice Burrough's world-famous novels. Published from 1912-1914, A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, and The Warlord of Mars are the most famous of the John Carter of Mars books.

Trade paperback, 6x9, 768 pages, $16.99

JOHN CARTER OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111325.
JOHN CARTER OMNIBUS VOLUME 2 - Coming in February!
Writer: Edgar Rice Burroughs

The second volume of the John Carter Omnibus collection contains the original text from the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh of Edgar Rice Burrough's world-famous novels. Originally published between 1916 and 1930, Thuvia, Maid of Mars; The Chessmen of Mars; The Master Mind of Mars; and A Fighting Man of Mars are amazing classic adventure stories that have thrilled generations.

Trade paperback, 6x9, 976 pages, $16.99

JOHN CARTER OMNIBUS VOLUME 2 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111326.
JOHN CARTER OMNIBUS VOLUME 3 - Coming in February!
Writer: Edgar Rice Burroughs

The third and final volume of the John Carter Omnibus collection includes the original text from the eighth, ninth, tenth, and the two short stories and make up the eleventh of Edgar Rice Burrough's world-famous Barsoom novels. Originally published between 1934 and 1943, Swords of Mars; Synthetic Men of Mars; Llana of Gathol; John Carter and the Giant of Mars; and Skeleton Men of Jupiter have taken readers on journeys beyond imagination for generations.

Trade paperback, 6x9, 912 pages, $16.99

JOHN CARTER OMNIBUS VOLUME 3 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111327.

KING CONAN: THE PHOENIX ON THE SWORD #2 (of 4)
Coming in February!
Tim Truman (Writer), Tomás Giorello (Artist), José Villarrubia (Color), and Andrew Robinson (Cover)

Conspirators move in the shadows as King Conan's troops move to quell a Pictish uprising, leaving the newly crowned king exposed to the machinations of four influential traitors who seek to wrest the crown from Conan's lifeless brow! But something even deadlier moves silently in the night, answering the call of the ancient serpent god Set. A faithful servant of darkness, the wizard Thoth-Amon toils in Aquilonia and prays for a rebirth of power that will unleash untold evils!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50, On sale February 29

KING CONAN: THE PHOENIX ON THE SWORD #2 is solicited in the
December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC110049.

Laurie's Wild West - Now online!
 Pulps A-Z: The Letter N - New!
Pulps A-Z: The Letter M
The History of DIME NOVEL ROUND-UP
PULPS A-Z: Letters K and L  
For Halloween - a Video of Weird Tales Covers
Pulps A - Z: The J's
Kid Wolf Rides Again Over at Meridian Bridge
Pulps A - Z: The I's
Historic Magazine Collection, Including Pulps, For Sale
Western Fiction Review Likes RIDING THE PULP TRAIL
Wednesday's Forgotten Pulp: ARTISTS AND MODELS STORIES
Pulps A - Z: The H's
Week #2 of the RIDING THE PULP TRAIL contest



THE LONE RANGER #2 - Coming in February!
Writer: Ande Parks; Artist: Esteve Polls
Cover: Francesco Francavilla

The Lone Ranger and Tonto enter the rough, legendary old west town of Abilene, Kansas. While in town to deliver outlaws to the local Marshal, Lone Ranger encounters an infamous lawman turned gunfighter at the end of his career. After a brutal and bloody shootout, the gunfighter faces off against an angry, vengeful mob, and Lone Ranger is caught in the middle. How does a hero who has sworn not to kill resolve a dispute between so many men, with so many guns?

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

LONE RANGER #2 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111024.

Lone Scout of Letters - Now available!
Herbert C. Klatt was a primary figure of the Lone Scouts of America movement in Texas. Not only did he contribute to Lone Scout, the organization’s official organ, he also wrote articles for a plethora of “tribe papers” and edited Lone Scout columns for regional and community newspapers.

Despite all this, Klatt is probably best known as a friend and correspondent of Texas author Robert E. Howard. Klatt’s importance in Howard’s biography has not been fully explored, but he was instrumental in the introduction of his more famous friend to the group of writers that eventually produced The Junto, including Harold Preece and Booth Mooney.

Upon his death in 1928, Klatt’s friends attempted to garner support for a memorial collection of his writings. Plans were made and printers contacted, but the attempt was never realized—-until today.

This anthology collects Klatt's letters to Tevis Clyde Smith and a sampling of his Lone Scout material. It also includes material by Robert E. Howard, Truett Vinson, and Smith.

222 pages, 6.0 wide × 9.0 tall
This anthology is available in two editions via lulu.com: hardcover for $25 and paperback for $16.  

LORD OF THE JUNGLE #3 - Coming in February!
(Writer) Arvid Nelson (Artist) Roberto Castro
(Covers) Lucio Parillo (50%), Paul Renaud (50%), Francesco Francavilla (1-in-10)

Panthers, crocodiles, snakes, pirates... Jane Porter and her fellow castaways have been through a lot since they were stranded in the African jungle. But now they face an even greater threat – the vicious troop of apes who killed Lord Greystoke over twenty years ago. All the while, "White Skin", a mysterious wild man, lurks just out of sight. Whether he is a friend or an enemy remains to be seen. And what is his connection to the seaside cabin Jane and her companions have come to call home? Find out in Lord of the Jungle #3: The Call of the Primitive!

LORD OF THE JUNGLE #3 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC110986.

Mike Chomko - November  2011 newsletter is now available!
Mike's November 2011 newsletter is now available.
Orders over $20 are discounted approximately 10%.
Shipping is between $2-6, depending on the weight of your order (media mail or bound printed matter). 
Michael Chomko, 2217W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542

Mike has also establish a website where you can download his current and past newsletters.
The website is located at http://sites.google.com/site/mikechomkobooks/
You can also visit Mike's storefront at Amazon.com.
Moonstone Books: DOMINO LADY: BLONDE AMBITION LIMITED EDITION HC
Coming in March!
Writer: Nancy Holder; Art: Steve Bryant
This will be the only time this material is reprinted in color! Join New York Times best-selling author Nancy Holder as she makes sure that Domino Lady gets embroiled in all kinds of mysteries that need her special touch. She will bring the bad guys to their knees any way she can! This volume collects Domino Lady #1-5 of the regular series, plus an exclusive brand-new Domino Lady/Boston Blackie Cthulhu tale!
Hardcover, 162 pages, Full Color, $41.99

THIS IS A RESOLICITATION - PREVIOUS ORDERS WERE CANCELLED

DOMINO LADY: BLONDE AMBITION is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111129.

Moonstone Books: Honey West #5 - Coming in March!
Story: Elaine Lee
Art: Ronn Sutton, Colors: Ken Wolak
Covers: Marat Mychaels

The ALL NEW adventures of the first female private eye continue!

Join Vertigo’s (“Vamps”) writer Elaine Lee for the conclusion of “Murder on Mars” as Honey goes undercover on the set of the sci-fi film Amazons of Mars to investigate the mysterious death of Zu Zu Varga, queen of the B-movies. It looks like murder, but who had motive? Was it the scheming ingénue, the down-on-his luck director, the jealous agent, or the ageing teen heartthrob? Robots, aliens and murder in 1960s CA!

32 pages, color, $3.99

THIS IS A RESOLICITATION - PREVIOUS ORDERS WERE CANCELLED

HONEY WEST #5 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111130.
The Lone Ranger: Vendetta - Coming in March!
Howard Hopkins (Author), Doug Klauba (Cover)

The Masked Man in a brand-new adventure! From out of the past comes a mysterious killer systematically murdering anyone with a connection to the Masked Rider of the Plains former identity. When all signs point to Butch Cavendish, a man long dead, The Lone Ranger finds himself trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the life of his faithful Indian companion hanging in the balance!

Paperback: 130 pages
Publisher: Moonstone
ISBN-10: 1936814153
ISBN-13: 978-1936814152
$4.99
THE LONE RANGER: VENDETTA  is solicited in the
December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111135.

Peril Press - More new Kindle titles are now available!
The City of the Living Dead [Illustrated] by Laurence Manning and Fletcher Pratt
Guardian of the Trail by Johnston McCulley
Rainbow by the Tail by James P Olsen
Sanded in San Diego by Johnston McCulley
Thubway Tham's Thanksgiving Dinner by Johnston McCulley

 
Philip José Farmer - Coming in 2012!

U.K publisher Titan Books has entered into an agreement with the
Estate of Philip Jose Farmer to bring a large selection of
Mr. Farmer's backlist titles back into print.

Significantly, many of the books which are a part of the arrangement initially were published as standalone novels, but came to be considered part of Mr. Farmer's ongoing Wold Newton Family cycle.

Now, for the very first time, these novels will be published and packaged as a formal part of a Wold Newton series.
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
First up is Mr. Farmer's The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, a "secret history" novel revealing the hidden events behind Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. First published in 1973, the book is considered to be one of the first examples of elder steampunk.

The Other Log of Phileas Fogg is currently scheduled for release in May 2012, and will be available at major outlets such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Editions will include trade paperback and digital (Kindle & Nook).
Time's Last Gift
Second in Titan's lineup is Mr. Farmer's Time's Last Gift, a time travel novel featuring a well known Lord of the Jungle, whose initials, TLG, happen to match the abbreviation of the book's title. First published in 1972, and revised in 1977, Time's Last Gift is one of Mr. Farmer's finest novels, and serves as a prequel to his series of books featuring the land of Khokarsa in Ancient Africa (Hadon of Ancient Opar, Flight to Opar, and the forthcoming The Song of Kwasin.)


Time's Last Gift is currently scheduled for release in June 2012, and will be available at major outlets such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Editions will include trade paperback and digital (Kindle & Nook).
Lord Tyger
Third in Titan's lineup is Mr. Farmer's Lord Tyger, considered by many to be Mr. Farmer's finest standalone novel. First published in 1970, the novel tells the tale of Ras Tyger, who is kidnapped by an insane millionare bent on recreating the famous Lord of the Jungle. Tyger is raised in a remote African valley by people he believes to be apes; heroic, and beautiful, he is master of his world. And he rules his kingdom with sex, savagery, and sublime innocence. But the laws of nature and those of man are set to collide....

Lord Tyger is currently scheduled for release in July 2012, and will be available at major outlets such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Editions will include trade paperback and digital (Kindle & Nook).



PULPED! - The Official New Pulp Podcast! - New podcast now available online!
Episode 17: CHALLENGER STORM - New!  
PULPED! hosts Don Gates, author of CHALLENGER STORM and Ron Fortier, Gates' Publisher!  The book and more is discussed, then the entire gang discusses examples of good New Pulp in the trends section of the program!
Episode 16: Derrick Ferguson Part 2
Episode 15: Derrick Ferguson: FOUR BULLETS FOR DILLON
Episode 14: Memphis Science and Fantasy Convention
Episode 13: Author Kevin Hearne and THE IRON DRUID CHRONICLES
Episode 12: Richard Lee Byers 'THE IMPOSTOR' Gets PULPED!
Episode 11: David Liss, Writer of MYSTERY MEN Talks new Pulp Comics!
Quatermain #3 - Coming in February!
Writer: Clay and Susan Griffith
Pencils: Patricio Carbajal
Cover Artist:  Patricio Carbajal

Deep in central Africa, Allan Quatermain must join with his former enemy, the sorcerer Lokongoi, to escape the bloody power of Bwana Nzige. With a small band of refugees, Quatermain makes his way into the treacherous Congo forest, with death all around. But Quatermain’s new ally may have a secret more terrifying than any he has ever encountered.

QUATERMAIN #3 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC110889.

QUEEN SONJA #25 - Arriving in comic shops November 30th!
Writer: Luke Lieberman; Penciller/Inker: Fritz Casas; Cover: Lucio Parrillo (50%), Chasen Grieshop (50%)

The final battle for the throne, the fate of an empire hangs in the balance!  All loyalties tested and schemes lain bare in the final showdown between Queen Sonja and Emperor Antonious!
32 pages, Full Color,  $3.99  
QUEEN SONJA #28 - Coming in February!
Writer: Luke Lieberman; Artist: Milton Estevam
Cover: Frank Martin (50%), Lucio Parrillo (50%)

Koliostri strikes, Xander and Melea in his dungeons the wizard unleashes his zealous minions and wreaks havoc across the land, striking at the heart of the empire. Sonja must grapple with a foe that worships death, and gives blood freely to their cause.

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

QUEEN SONJA #28 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111011.

Radio Archives
Now available!

The Jade Ogre Is Doc Savage's Epic Adventure!
Will Murray's monumental Doc Savage adventure The Jade Ogre is now available
in a 12-hour audiobook from RadioArchives.com.
 
Based on an outline by Lester Dent, The Jade Ogre tells the story of one of Doc Savage's most exciting and exotic adventures. Accompanied by his five aides, his cousin Pat Savage, and a cast of unique characters, Doc races to unlock the secret of the Jade Ogre, a fantastic Oriental villain who unleashes death in the form of disembodied flying arms, capable of disintegrating its victims in a flash of fire. But the lethal flying arms are merely the cover for a more deadly menace – the mysterious Jade Fever, which strikes down its victims with a deadly virus that turns its victims green as jade.

Click here to hear an audio sample
In addition to the 36-chapter story, the 12 hour Audiobook includes two bonus audio features: a continuation of Will Murray's discussion of the creation of Doc Savage, and his memory of creating The Jade Ogre from Lester Dent's notes, plus how Pat Savage has contributed to the Doc Savage canon.

Coming soon



RANCHO DIABLO: DARK HORSE - Now available!
When beautiful Lizzie Payton showed up in Shooter's Cross with the magnificent black stallion Satan, Sam Blaylock's friend Duane Beatty fell for her - hard. What Duane didn't know was that Lizzie had trouble dogging her trail, trouble that would put Duane and all his friends on Rancho Diablo in danger and wind up in a blistering shootout in the streets of Shooter's Cross!

DARK HORSE is the rapid-fire fifth installment in the saga of Sam Blaylock and his friends and family as they try to make a home for themselves and carve an empire out of the wilds of frontier Texas.

RANCHO DIABLO is created and written by best-selling, award-winning novelists Mel Odom, Bill Crider, and James Reasoner.




RED SONJA #67 - Coming in February!
Writer: Eric Trautmann; Artist: Walter Geovani
Cover: Walter Geovani (50%), Jack Herbert (50%)

A sword for hire. A client with ready cash. A world full of adventure and possibility. What could possibly go wrong?  If Red Sonja's history is any indication, plenty. A new chapter begins for the She-Devil with a Sword.

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

RED SONJA #67 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111010.


Robert E. Howard Foundation Press - Coming soon!
A collection of all of Howard’s Science Fiction stories with a color cover by Mark Schultz and an introduction by former REHupan and author Mike Stackpole.


Coming soon!

NUMBER 13, an adaption of Edgar Rice Burroughs' THE MONSTER MEN. This is written by Martin Powell and illustrated by Tom Floyd. The graphic novel will be available from Dark Horse Comics' Sequential Pulp Comics imprint. Artwork © Tom Floyd.

Nik Poliwko and Martin Powell are collaborating on THE MONSTER OF FRANKENSTEIN, a new graphic novel inspired by Dick Briefer's classic pre-code horror comic book series, and the legendary novel by Mary Shelley. Coming in 2012 from Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics. Artwork © Nik Poliwko


Shadowhawke - Now available!
From K.G. McAbee & Tom Johnson  

Deposed from her Balkan kingdom, the Spider Lady rules a new kingdom in America. Taking over the New York underworld, she operates from a hidden underground cavern. Those who oppose her are forced into her deadly web. But one man and his fighting team take up the trail to bring justice to the Queen of the underworld. The Shadowhawke!  

With the ever-rising cost of pulp-related books, Tom Johnson re-launched his old Fading Shadows imprint to see if it was possible to produce a book for under $10.00. With Gail McAbee’s birthday coming up in November, Tom chose their action-packed pulp story, “Shadowhawke: First Flight” as an experiment.

This 128-page (4 x 7) paperback is the result. Printing isn’t cheap, but we’ve eliminated the middleman. With only a few copies ordered for this experimental product, Tom is offering them on a first come basis at $7.95, plus postage. This was not meant for regular sales and is not available on Amazon or in bookstores. Contact Tom at fadingshadows40@gmail.com for ordering information while they last.
 Available now in very limited supply.

Startling Stories: Fall 2011 - Now available!

Welcome back to everyone’s favorite pulp anthology, Startling Stories! We return with this special All-Classic, All-Pulp Reprint special issue and resolve to be the “Best Damn SF Magazine in the Solar System”. Which—considering the state of our solar system—is a goal we can most definitely aspire to!

Since the advent of the modern science fiction genre in 1926 with the first issue of Hugo Gernsbach’s "Amazing Stories", there have been literally thousands of stories that have fired the imaginations of millions of readers. With a vast array of styles, themes and ideas SF and fantasy authors have explored all the myriad aspects of “life, the universe, and everything”, with varying degrees of success.

For an editor, the joy of mining this rich heritage can also be the most frustrating and difficult of tasks. What tales should be bypassed and which chosen to best entertain his readers? To best represent all that SF can accomplish? To best convey and pass on his love for the field and what it can be? Not an easy task, I can tell you. Here in Startling Stories we try to do this by showcasing some of the forgotten sci-fi practitioners of the past. Of the glorious age of Pulp Science Fiction... As well as featuring these great stories, we also have Classic Pulp Art & Pin-ups, plus 2 Golden Age Comics from "Outer Space" by the legendary Steve Ditko!

Paperback: 148 pages
Publisher: Wild Cat Books
ISBN-10: 098395321X
ISBN-13: 978-0983953210



Tarzan of the Apes & Other Tales: A Centenary Edition - Coming in June!
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Hardcover: 800 pages
Publisher: Gollancz; (21 Jun 2012)
ISBN-10: 0575129166
ISBN-13: 978-0575129160


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Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Weird Tales on Film: Thriller - New!
Minnie Faegre Knox (1886-1980) - New!
Harry Irving Shumway (1883-1974)
Who Wrote the Most Letters in Weird Tales?
Who Wrote the Most Poems for Weird Tales?
Who Wrote the Most Stories for Weird Tales?
Weird Tales on Film
Weird Tales and World War I
Gretta (1904-1988)
Jay Wilmer Benjamin (1902-1977)


WARLORD OF MARS #17
Coming in February!
Writer: Arvid Nelson; Artist: Edgar Salazar
Covers: Joe Jusko (50%), Lucio Parrillo (50%), Stephen Sadowski (1-in-15)

John Carter returns to his beloved Helium, only to find it in the clutches of a brutal dictator. His princess, Dejah Thoris, is a prisoner of the evil priests who control the cult of Issus, the false goddess worshipped throughout Mars. John Carter's enemies have branded him a heretic and an outcast, but Carter has his own allies – his son, Carthoris, the great Thark warrior, Tars Tarkas, and his own sword arm! Warlord of Mars #17: Helium Divided is the second-to-last installment of the Gods of Mars story arc. The stage is set for the final confrontation!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

WARLORD OF MARS #17 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC110978.
WARLORD OF MARS: DEJAH THORIS #12
Coming in February!
Writer: Robert Place Napton; Artist: Carlos Rafael
Covers: Paul Renaud (33%), Fabiano Neves (33%), Stephen Segovia (33%)

The Boora Witch has invaded Dejah Thoris' mind and taken control of her personality. In a bold move, she undermines Dejah's father and grandfather and begins to take control of Helium.  Kantos Kan suspect something is amiss and begins playing a dangerous game to discover the truth behind Dejah's treacherous behavior.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

WARLORD OF MARS: DEJAH THORIS #12 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC110981.
WARLORD OF MARS:
DEJAH THORIS VOLUME 2: PIRATE QUEEN OF MARS TPB
Coming in March!
Writer: Arvid Nelson; Artist: Carlos Rafael; Cover: Paul Renaud

Greater and Lesser Helium are united behind Dejah Thoris. But just when things seem to be getting back to normal, Helium's precious supply of water begins running dry. Dejah heads to the Antarctic ice caps to investigate, only to find herself pulled into the deadly mysteries of the forbidden south. A swashbuckling adventure of sky pirates, renegade princesses, lost treasure, and ancient curses abound in Dejah Thoris: Pirate Queen of Mars! Collecting issues #6-10 of the ongoing series, along with a complete cover gallery.

Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, Full Color, $17.99

WARLORD OF MARS: DEJAH THORIS VOLUME 2 is solicited in the
December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC110984.
WARLORD OF MARS: FALL OF BARSOOM #4
Arriving in comic shops November 30th!
Writer: Robert Place Napton;  Penciller/Inker: Roberto Castro;  
Covers: Joe Jusko (main), Francesco Francavilla (1/10)

100,000 YEARS BEFORE THE TIME OF JOHN CARTER! A tribe of Red Martians attacks the Atmosphere Plant just as it's about to go operational.  Meanwhile, the savage Warhoon march on the last stronghold of the Orovar — the city of Horz — determined to wipe the White Martians from the face Mars.  This is the penultimate chapter in the Fall of Barsoom!
32 pages, Full Color,   $3.99
WARLORD OF MARS: FALL OF BARSOOM TPB
Coming in February!
Writer: Robert Napton; Artist: Roberto Castro; Cover: Joe Jusko

100,000 years before the time of John Carter! Barsoom is a dying world: its once mighty oceans are receding and its atmosphere grows more tenuous by the day. The Orovars, who have dominated for a million years, are on the verge of extinction at the hands of the Green Hordes and the emerging Red Martians. Two Orovars — a Scientist and a General — race against time to save their people before Mars plunges into barbarism! This trade paperback collects the 5-issue series into one volume along with a cover gallery.

Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, Full Color, $19.99


WARLORD OF MARS: FALL OF BARSOOM TPB is solicited in the
December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC110985.
WARRIORS OF MARS #1
Coming in February!
Written by Robert Place Napton; Art by Jack Jadson; Cover by Joe Jusko
Before John Carter another earthman visited the Red planet: Lt. Gullivar Jones.
Now these legendary warriors are brought together for the first time!

When Lt. Guillivar Jones happens upon a mysterious old man with a beautiful carpet he soon finds himself transported through space and time to the planet Mars where he meets the beautiful Princess Hera and a ferocious tribe of Red Martians bent on capturing her!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

WARRIORS OF MARS #1 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC110974.
ZORRO RIDES AGAIN #8 (OF 12) - Coming in February!
Writer: Matt Wagner; Artist: John K. Snyder III; Cover: Matt Wagner

The one and only Matt (MAGE, GRENDEL) Wagner is in the home-stretch of his epic story of Zorro!  As the Los Angeles soldiers try to lure-in El Zorro for a final showdown, Zorro begins to question everything he does and everything for which he stands. There're thrilling times ahead as ZORRO RIDES AGAIN with issue #8 from Dynamite Entertainment!

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

ZORRO RIDES AGAIN #8 is solicited in the December PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is DEC111026.



18 November 2011
Adventure House - Now available!
HIGH ADVENTURE #121
Stories of Asian Mystery by H. Bedford-Jones
7x10, 112 pages, $9.95
Cover Artist: Walter M. Baumhofer



Adventure House - Now available!
Phantom Detective - November 1933, 128 pages, $14.95
"Gamblers in Death" by Robert Wallace
"Bantam Gets A Break" by Ray Humphreys
"Payoff" by Joe Archibald
"Forty Years" by Robert Wallace
"Pens and Poker" by James W. Egan
Double Action Gang Magazine - Sept. 1936, 128 pages, $14.95
"Taking the Rap" by harry Sinclair Drago
"Cargo of Fate" by W.C. Tuttle
"By Electrical Transmission" by Cliff Campbell
Planet Stories - Summer 1940, 128 pages, $14.95
"Space-Liner X-87" by Ray Cummings
"The Forbidden Dream" by Ross Rocklynne
"Exiles of the Three Red Moons" by Carl Selwyn
"The Cosmic Juggernaut" by John Russell Fearn
"The Dark Swordsmen of Saturn" by Neil R. Jones
"Sphere of the Never-Dead" by Sam Carson
"Star Pirate" by Frederick A. kummer, Jr.
"Asteroid H277—Plus" by Harry Walton



Age of Aces
Now available!

In Donald E. Keyhoe’s imaginings, the stormy skies of World War I are filled with giant pterodactyls, mystic fireballs and demon aces. But America has it’s own unnatural secret weapon: Captain Philip Strange. A mental marvel from birth, he was so terrifyingly effective that the Allies referred to him as “The Phantom Ace of G-2.” But to the Germans he was “The Brain-Devil,” whose penetrating green eyes were both a legend and a nightmare.

Keyhoe’s Philip Strange stories ran for nine years—from 1931 through 1939—in the pages of Flying Aces magazine. This first volume in our new series contains six exciting tales of terror skies! It also features an introduction by Sid Bradd and is beautifully wrapped up in an exciting new design by Chris Kalb!

Stories include:
“Cocardes of Courage” – Flying Aces, September 1931
“The Drome of Dread” – Flying Aces, November 1931
“The Red Demon” – Flying Aces, July 1932
“Scourge of the Skies” – Flying Aces, November 1932
“Vengeance of V-99” – Flying Aces, February 1933
“The Unholy Horror” – Flying Aces, July 1933
Plus:
“Donald E. Keyhoe and the Brain-Devil of G-2″ by Sidney H. Bradd
A Bibliography of all Philip Strange’s Adventures
An exciting book design by Chris Kalb.

$16.99 Trade paperback
 6″x9″ trade paperback | 346 pages | ISBN: 978-0-9820950-8-9

Available from
Amazon, Mike Chomko Books, and Adventure House

Airship 27 presents ALL STAR PULP COMICS
Now available!
Airship 27 Productions has joined forces with Redbud Studio to produce their first join venture;  Airship 27 presents ALL STAR PULP COMICS.  Airship 27 Managing Editor Ron Fortier explains, “Rob Davis is our Art Director when we put together our pulp novels and anthologies. But when we work on comics he assumes the role of Head Honch for our comics division, Redbud Studio.”

The two finally found a project that would bring both departments together in one big and exciting event.  “We assembled seven pulp writers,” Fortier continued, “ and put together art teams to work with them on brining classic and new pulp heroes to graphic life.”  This first volume features the following characters and their creative teams.

The Green Lama by Adam Garcia & Mike Fyles
Jim Anthony Super Detective by Erwin K. Roberts & Pedro Cruz
The Black Bat by C. Willam Russette & Wayne Beeman
The Blue Lady by Sean Taylor & James Ritchey III
The Rook by Barry Reese & Craig Wilson
Secret Agent X by Bobby Nash & Jeremy McHugh
Domino Lady by Percival Constantine, Rock Baker & Jeff Austin

The cover if by Jeff Butler and features the Green Lama & the Domino Lady.

Edited by Rob Davis & Ron Fortier, Airship 27 Presents ALL STAR PULP COMICS is 58 pages black and white and sold only from Indy Planet for $6.99 (plus shipping & handling) 


AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!


Altus Press - Now available!

The Dr. Zeng Omnibus
by E. Hoffmann Price, W.T. Ballard &  Robert Leslie Bellem

Join Doctor Zeng Tse-Lin’s battle with crime and the Japanese menace in the mysterious world of San Francisco’s Chinatown. An American who posed as a Chinese scholar, Dr. Zeng’s stories have never been
completely reprinted before... until now.

Featuring all seven installments: "Fangs of Doom," "Blood Cargo," "Sinister House," "Camelback Kill," "Lion’s Loot," "Blackmail Clinic" and "Corpse Cargo." Includes an all-new introduction by Will Murray.
410 pages | $34.95 softcover | $44.95 hardcover

Altus Press and Pro Se Productions
New PULP OBSCURA line announced!

Two Pulp Publishers join forces to bring Fans more and more of the stories they love!  Altus Press, the foremost publisher in quality Pulp reprints as well as the Publisher of THE WILD ADVENTURES OF DOC SAVAGE and Pro Se Productions, one of the leading companies in the New Pulp Movement announce today a cooperative effort and imprint to provide even more Pulp Fiction, both classic and New, to diehard fans of Pulp or simply exciting adventure fiction!

Beginning in February, Altus Press and Pro Se Productions will work in conjunction to produce related products. When Altus Press publishes specially selected titles featuring rare and largely forgotten Pulp characters’ original stories, Pro Se will bring together the best writers of New Pulp today and simultaneously release a collection of newly written tales starring the same character. This stunning partnership will showcase both the classic adventures of some of pulp's lost treasures while simultaneously allowing New Pulp's finest to bring those characters back to life.

“For a long time, I thought there was a good opportunity to simultaneously release classic pulp reprints and a companion volume of new stories featuring that same character. These are solid, well-rounded characters who have tons of untapped potential. I'm glad to see there are plans afoot to take advantage of this and utilize two companies' joint promotions towards a common complimentary product,” notes Altus Press' Publisher Matt Moring.
This is,” said Tommy Hancock, Partner in and Editor in Chief of Pro Se Productions, “an honor and privilege for both me personally and Pro Se.   Working with Matt and Altus Press to provide complimentary material to the great work he is already doing is simply a good move forward for Pro Se.  And I am such a fan of the obscure, lesser known, even totally forgotten characters of Pulp that this project is already one of my favorites and it’s just a few days old.”

Beginning with the first cooperative publication in February, Pro Se will initiate a new imprint.  PULP OBSCURA will be the title of the line and will feature a logo and other graphics highlighting the relationship between Pro Se and Altus Press.  Both companies will provide various forms of cross promotion as well for the complimentary releases.

“Pro Se,” Hancock commented, “has largely stayed out of the Public Domain market as far as New Pulp goes because many publishers are doing the better known characters and doing them well.  We’ve been looking for something different, something that makes Pro Se distinctive in this field.  PULP OBSCURA, shining the talent of writers and creators on the little or completely unknown heroes and villains of Classic Pulp, makes that distinction.”

Pro Se Press will publish a New Pulp collection each time Altus Press produces a new reprint collection that both companies consider appropriate for the PULP OBSCURA treatment.  Pro Se, with the encouragement of Altus Press, will also be exploring Altus Press’ catalog and be publishing New Pulp collections of previously published reprints that will have no future volumes.

The first PULP OBSCURA related project will be THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF RICHARD KNIGHT VOLUME ONE written by Donald E. Keyhoe to be released from Altus Press in February. Best known for writing the adventures of Philip Strange, UFO legend Donald E. Keyhoe also wrote another long-running aerial hero for the pages of FLYING ACES: Richard Knight. This collection will include the first four stories from this series, tales that mix in elements of lost races, dinosaurs and more!

Also in February, Pro Se will simultaneously release THE NEW ADVENTURES OF RICHARD KNIGHT VOLUME ONE as the debut title in its Pulp Obscura line.   Based on the stories included in Altus Press’ volume, six writers will write Knight as he wings into all new dangers, startling mysteries, and discoveries that may very well change the world!

The writers featured in this first collection are-Terry Alexander - A member of multiple writers groups. Primarily a horror writer, Published in several anthologies from Static Movement, Open Casket Press, Living Dead Press, Knightwatch Press, May December Publications, Paper Cut Publishing, Moonstone Books and Mini Komix.

Barry Reese-Award winning New Pulp Author known for his characters THE ROOK and LAZARUS GRAY as well as being one of the most talented and prolific writers in New Pulp today.  Published by Marvel Comics, Wild Cat Books, Airship 27 Productions, Moonstone, Pro Se, and more.  Also Author of GREEN HORNET and AVENGER tales published by Moonstone Adam L. Garcia-Author of the Award winning GREEN LAMA UNBOUND and other works centered around the Lama, including short stories, more novels, and audio scripts.  Also Author and Creator of other characters, including DOCK DOYLE.

Ian Watson-Award winning Author, known thus far for his work primarily with Airship 27 Productions.  Writer of tales in SHERLOCK HOLMES, CONSULTING DETECTIVE and GIDEON CAIN.  Also Author of the well received critically acclaimed novel ROBIN HOOD-KING OF SHERWOOD.
Frank Schildiner-Pulp Author known for work with Airship 27 on characters such as THE BLACK BAT, RAVENWOOD, and SECRET AGENT X and with Black Coat Press on such concepts as THE TOFF and JEAN KARIVEN as well as stories for Nemo Publishing.  Currently developing a novel for Pro Se Productions.

Joshua Reynolds- Author known for multiple works, including stories centered around classic Pulp character JIM ANTHONY for Airship 27 and DRACULA for his own PulpWork Press.  Also an Author for The Black Library as well having been published by Pro Se Press, Innsmouth Press, and countless others.  Considered one of the fastest, most consistent and prolific Authors in the New Pulp field.

Other PULP OBSCURA collections are currently in the works and any writers or artists interested in being a part of these projects can email Hancock at proseproductions@earthlink.net for submission details. Both Moring and Hancock cite a massive list of works coming in the near future starring Classic Pulp Characters in both Reprints and New Pulp Collections. “I'm excited to see just how new Authors take to these characters and what they come up with. There are so many forgotten characters that the possibilities are endless,” Moring comments.

For more information on Altus Press, go to www.altuspress.com.  To learn more about Pro Se Productions, go to www.prosepulp.com.

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!
DOC SAVAGE Volume 53: "Ost" & "According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic"
The Man of Bronze battles the supernatural in classic pulp thrillers by Lester Dent writing as "Kenneth Robeson." First, Doc Savage follows his stolen dirigible to a magic island and discovers the lost city of Ost, in an expanded novel with never-before-published text from Lester Dent's original manuscript. Then, Renny Renwick awakens in the body of a fugitive gangster after encountering a strange impish man. What is the bizarre connection between the One-Eyed Mystic, a stolen military secret and a Nazi plot? This classic pulp reprint features the original color pulp covers by Robert G. Harris and Modest Stein, Paul Orban's classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray, writer of eight Doc Savage novels. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-066-3 Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, $14.95
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!
THE SHADOW Volume 55: "The Green Hoods" and "Silver Skull"
The Shadow's true identity takes center stage in two classic pulp novels that inspired the classic 1940 Shadow movie serial. First, explorer Kent Allard is invited to join The Green Hoods, a hooded secret society whose true purpose is an enigma. Then, airplanes carrying wealthy passengers disappear over the Rockies, setting The Shadow on the trail of the criminal mastermind called Silver Skull. PLUS "Prelude to Terror," a 1939 radio classic. This instant collector's item showcases both classic pulp covers by George Rozen, the original interior illustrations by Edd Cartier and commentary by popular-culture historians Ed Hulse and Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-065-6 Softcover, 7x10. 128 pages B&W, $14.95
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
Beb Books - Now available!
Perley Poore Sheehan wrote all types of fiction, from action-adventure, to fantasy and science fiction and from crime stoppers to romance.  Beb Books is happy to announce the publication of two of Perley Poore Sheehan’s light comedies, Phyllis of fountain Square (from 1916) and “Upstairs” (from 1919) in one affordable volume.

In Phyllis of Fountain Square a young man desires to become a motion picture writer. Slapstick and screwball comedies were in their day and this story is aout as screwy as they come.

Jay Hopkins, a clerk at a Cincinnati packing company, has written what he’s sure will be a blockbuster movie script but just before he can mail off the script pickpockets snatch away the envelope. He then accuses a pretty girl he had been watching as being part of this gang. But when she confesses is she telling the truth or having a joke on the young man. Is she leading him deeper and deeper into crime or having a wild whirl with someone she know rather more than she’ws letting on?

“Upstairs” is very much a modern Cinderella story set in an exclusive hotel in New York. The daughter on one of its steam engineers takes over the job her brother was doing before he left for the Great War. But she dreams of going upstairs, if only for an hour, to see what it like walking among High Society. A friendly bellhop offers to lend her a gown left behind by one of the tenants but her masquerade seems on the verge of falling through from the start and as she darts from room to room in the vast hotel she leaves behind a trail of chaos and broke-hearts.

74 pages,  8.5 x 11, side stapled, with all the original illustrations (there’s only one *sigh*)
for just $5 plus postage and handling.
And don’t forget out our other recent releases

Secret Agent X #30  - “Death’s Frozen Formulas”
A vicious drug ring is leaving behind a trail of frozen corpses as it administers death to any who would betray the dope dealers. Can The Agent and his friend Betty Dale, break the secret of the drug dealers before they become corpsicles as well?

And the first two stories of Don Vega, Senor Zorro
The Curse of Capistrano from 1919 and The Further Adventures of Zorro from 1922. Both books are $5 each plus postage and handling.

Last, but hardly least, J. Allan Dunn’s  great pirate novel, Sign of the Skull.
Hunting for buried treasure in the Indian Ocean. Swashbuckling funny for just $5 plus postage and handling.

Postage is $3 for the first three books and $0.25 additional for each additional book.

Visit our web site for additional titles from Beb Books at:
http://home.sprynet.com/~beb01/bebbooks/

Have a question? Write to me at beb01@sprynet.com.

Cash or money orders only!
Made payable to Brian Earl Brown
Send to:
Brian Earl Brown
11675 Beaconsfield
Detroit, MI 48224




Blogging Sax Rohmer’s The Hand of Fu Manchu, Part Two – "Zarmi of the Joy Shop" - Now online!
“Zarmi of the Joy Shop” was the second installment of Sax Rohmer’s The Si-Fan Mysteries. The story was first published in Collier’s on May 13, 1916 and was later expanded to comprise Chapters 5 - 9 of the third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries first published in 1917 by Cassell in the UK and by McBride & Nast in the US under the variant title, The Hand of Fu Manchu. The US book title marks the first time that the hyphen was dropped from the character’s name, although it was retained within the text.

Read the rest at the links below!
The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 153: The Universe of Barry Reese - New!
Barry Reese joins the Book Cave crew to talk about his newest series, Lazarus Gray.
Episode 152: The Green Hornet Casefiles
Episode 151: The Return of Jeff Deischer
Episode 150: Perry Rhodan
Episode 149: Death's Heretic
Episode 148: Lance Star Volume 3
Episode 147: Wayne Reinagel
Episode 146: Comics Podcast Crossover
Episode 145: Gayleen Froese
Episode 144: The Rook Volume 6
Episode 143: The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage
Conan: The Adventurer - Season 2, Part 1 will be available November 22nd!

Shout! Factory has officially informed retailers that Conan: The Adventurer - Season 2, Part 1 is coming to DVD on November 22nd, at a cost of $19.93 SRP.

Conan The Adventurer follows Conan and his friends on their quest to rescue Conan's family from an evil spell, cast by the Serpent Man wizard Wrath-Amon. In these first episodes of Season Two, he fights wizards, gods and pirates looking to break the curse that has turned his family to stone. The first 13 episodes of the 2nd season of the original animated series, together on a 2-DVD set!


Source: TVShowsonDVD

CONAN THE BARBARIAN (2011) DVD - Arriving in stores November 22nd!
The most legendary Barbarian of all time is back this summer! Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades in the public imagination — in prose and graphics, on the big screen and small, in games and properties of all kinds — Conan's exploits in the Hyborian Age now come alive like never before in a colossal 3D action-adventure film. A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil. Deftly adapted from the original works of Robert E. Howard and faithful to the mythology and psychology of his iconic character, "Conan the Barbarian" stars Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Said Taghmaoui, and Ron Perlman.

The 3D/2D Blu-ray Disc and DVD releases are both loaded with ferocious bonus materials that include two audio commentaries, a history of the Conan franchise featurette, “The Man Who Would Be Conan: Robert E. Howard” featurette that looks at the creator of the famous character plus two additional featurettes that examine the action and fight scenes.

DVD/BLU-RAY COMBO—Combo Pack    $39.99
DVD    $29.99


CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1
Coming in February!
Brian Wood (Writer), Becky Cloonan (Art/Variant cover), Dave Stewart (Color), and Massimo Carnevale (Cover)

In this sweeping adaptation of Robert E. Howard's fan-favorite "Queen of the Black Coast," Conan turns his back on the civilized world and takes to the high seas alongside the pirate queen Bêlit, setting the stage for an epic of romance, terror, and swashbuckling. This is Conan as you've never seen him, with the combination of one of Robert E. Howard's greatest tales and the most dynamic creative team in comics!
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50, On sale February 8


Dime Novel Castle
Now available!
Original Nick Carter Novel #2 By John Russell Coryell
Originally Published in Street and Smith's, New York Weekly
for 15 weeks, between March 2 and June 18, 1887.

A Wall Street Haul; Or, A Bold Stroke For A Fortune
Featuring Nick Carter, Detective

 

This is a rare manuscript featuring the second adventure of Nick Carter created by John Russell Coryell. Nick Carter has been a private detective for a little over a year and has been very successful in his chosen vocation.  Everyone knows his pseudonym, Harvey Jones, but no one knows the existence of his real identity except Inspector Byrnes.  Nick has married the girl he fell in love with in his first adventure, and in this tale he involves her a bit in solving the mystery of “A Wall Street Haul,” a massive amount of bonds taken from one of New York’s most famous banks –– and with precious few clues to go by.  It is necessary to read this story first because Nick Carter’s next adventure is The Sequel.
Download this rare manuscript in Adobe PDF Format on November 18, 2011.
PDF eBook (160 Pages) = $9.95
Printed Softcover Book = $14.95 + $3 S&H

E-texts on the net this week
The Shadow in Review:
This weeks new Shadow review is "The Chinese Primrose" from the February 15, 1941 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
 
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:   Now with over 1000 stories online!
"Slip Service" by Joe Archibald from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, February, 1941
Featuring: Dizzy Duo
When a chopper made mincemeat out of Honest Eddie Grubb - the Robin Hood of Roxbury - those two screwball newshawks, Snooty and Scoop, stirred up a hot-seat concoction.
"Guardian of the Trail" by Raley Brien from EXCITING WESTERN, September, 1949
For the sake of Beth Patchey and the Rafter P Ranch, fighting Bob Polk pits himself against dangerous odds.  Raley Brien is a pseudonym of Johnston McCulley.
Fight Card Series - Now available!
Mel Odom and Paul  Bishop teamup
to create and write the pulp inspired Fight Card series!

The Fight Card series began when Mel Odom released a short story on Kindle which caught the attention of Paul Bishop, a career LAPD detective, who -- like himself -- grew up on pulps, Gold Medal novels, and the idea of tough guys. They talked about the story, about their mutual loves, and wished that someone still wrote stories like that. Mel and Paul ultimately decided, much to our benefit, that they would write the stories they longed to read.

The series is set in the 1950s. Mel's character, Mickey Flynn, is a merchant marine sailor who's tough as nails.  Paul's character is Patrick Flynn, an LAPD detective on Chief Parker's infamous Hat Squad.  The brothers grew up in an orphanage in Chicago where they were taught the "sweet science" by Father Tim.  The orphanage is nicknamed Our Lady of the Glass Jaw.

Once other writers found out what they were doing, a few of them wanted on board and were granted admission to the club. 
Coming up next is Eric Beetner's "Split Decision" in December.

The Fight Card covers are by Keith Birdsong

Felony Fists:  Los Angeles 1954
Patrick “Felony” Flynn has been fighting all his life. Learning the “sweet science” from Father Tim the fighting priest at St. Vincent’s, the Chicago orphanage where Pat and his older brother Mickey were raised, Pat has battled his way around the world – first with the Navy and now with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Legendary LAPD chief William Parker is on a rampage to clean up both the department and the city. His elite crew of detectives known as The Hat Squad is his blunt instrument – dedicated, honest, and fearless. Promotion from patrol to detective is Pat’s goal, but he also yearns to be one of the elite.

And his fists are going to give him the chance.

Gangster Mickey Cohen runs LA’s rackets, and murderous heavyweight Solomon King is Cohen’s key to taking over the fight game. Chief Parker wants wants Patrick “Felony” Flynn to stop him – a tall order for middleweight ship’s champion with no professional record.

Leading with his chin, and with his partner, LA’s first black detective Tombstone Jones, covering his back, Patrick Flynn and his Felony Fists are about to fight for his future, the future of the department, and the future of Los Angeles.
The Cutman:  Havana, Cuba. 1954.

Mickey Flynn is an ex-Korean War vet turned merchant marine. He was born in the ghettos of Chicago and raised in an orphanage with his younger brother, Patrick. He was one of several young men who received an education from the nuns at St. Vincent's.

But he was also taught the "sweet science" by Father Tim, a Golden Gloves boxer and retired police officer who only knew one way to bring a troubled boy to manhood. Father Tim worked with his young charges, taught them how to jab and punch and throw a hook that seemed to come out of nowhere. When the young men left St. Vincent's (Our Lady of the Glass Jaw), they were changed, fit and ready to take on the troubles the encountered around the world, no matter where they found them.

Now Mick's in Havana, working on WIDE BERTHA, his ship. After surviving a fierce storm at sea, the last thing Mick and the crew need to do is get crossways with the Italian organized crime flooding Havana, but it doesn't take much to put him in the cross hairs of a vengeful mob boss working for Lucky Luciano.

Unable to get free of bad luck and unfortunate circumstance, Mick ends up in the ring in an illegal boxing match fighting a human killing machine.

FLASH GORDON: INVASION OF THE RED SWORD #6 - Arriving in comic shops November 23rd!
Writer: Brendan Deneen; Artist: Eduardo Garcia
In this stunning conclusion to Ardden's second Flash Gordon story arc, the truth behind The General's true identity is finally revealed, and he has a shocking connection to none other than Dr. Hans Zarkov! With the Red Sword's forces about to conquer Mongo, Flash must do whatever necessary to defeat his fellow earthlings — and possibly find a way home!  Meanwhile, Ming has his own plans, plans that lead directly into the next arc, The Vengeance of Ming!
22 pages, Full Color, $3.99  
FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST #4 - Coming in February!
Writer: Eric Trautmann; Artist: Daniel Indro
Covers: Alex Ross (75%), Paul Renaud (25%), Francesco Francavilla (1-in-10)

Flash Gordon and his allies — the plucky Dale Arden and brilliant Dr. Hans Zarkov — move closer to a confrontation with the forces of Ming the Merciless. Amid the political and military machinations of Mongo, Gordon faces the ferocious Lion Men, the sinister Shark Men, and a band of rebels commanded by Prince Barin!  And on Earth, Ziva places her sights on the ultimate target: Adolf Hitler.

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

GREEN HORNET #25 - Coming in February!
Writer: Ande Parks; Artist: Igor Vitorino
Covers: Brian Denham (33%), Phil Hester (33%), and Jonathan Lau (33%)

Green Hornet battles Green Hornet, to the death. The people of Century City are convinced that Britt Reid, as Green Hornet, murdered the city's Mayor. The only way for Britt to clear his name is to track down the real killer. When Green Hornet comes face to face with his doppelganger, it may just turn out to be the last fight of his life. If Britt Reid can't defeat the costumed imposter that framed him, a hero's legacy will be destroyed forever, and Century City will fall into the hands of the evil mastermind who orchestrated the whole setup. The Outcast storyline rolls on toward its thunderous conclusion.

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

Hard Case Crime
Just announced and coming in August 2012!
THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH by Ariel S. Winter
Cover art by Chuck Pyle

THERE’S NEVER BEEN A BOOK LIKE THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH

A breathtaking first novel written in the form of three separate crime novels, each set in a different decade and penned in the style of a different giant of the mystery genre.

1931—The body found in the gutter in France led the police inspector to the dead man’s beautiful daughter—and to her hot-tempered American husband.
1941—A hardboiled private eye hired to keep a movie studio’s leading lady happy uncovers the truth behind the brutal slaying of a Hollywood starlet.

1951—A desperate man pursuing his last chance at redemption finds himself with blood on his hands and the police on his trail...

Three complete novels that, taken together, tell a single epic story, about an author whose life is shattered when violence and tragedy consume the people closest to him. It is an ingenious and emotionally powerful debut performance from literary detective and former bookseller Ariel S. Winter, one that establishes this talented newcomer as a storyteller of the highest caliber.
First publication ever!
Contains three full-length novels—the longest book in Hard Case Crime history


IN THE SHADOW OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
Arriving in comic shops November 23rd!

In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes features 21 stories published during the earliest days of detective literature, 1862 to 1910. These stories are stand-outs in the field, and though not well-known today, they easily match or beat Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective in whose shadow they have been relegated. IDW corrects that literary oversight in this "best of the best" collection.  
Trade Paperback, B&W, 362 pages, 7 x 10, $16.99

iPulpFiction.com - New the week of November 20 - 26!

From the February 1942 issue of SUPER SCIENCE STORIES
THE HUNTED ONES by John E. Harry
He had sworn to destroy an alien world—and himself with it. But one day under a battle-filled sky he discovered the strength of a conquered people’s creed; “There will be death but no retreat. And in the end there must he victory!”[ Publisher: Black Mask Magazine - 14,600 words - $1 ]
From the November 1945 issue of ALL-STORY LOVE
HEART IN THE CLOUDS by Dorothy Brodine
Had Vincent a right to speak of the future when each kiss he shared with Chris might be the last? Is a heart ever safe in a flyer’s care?  [ Publisher: Black Mask Magazine - 7,800 words - 75¢ ]
New Pulp: Secret Agent X: Ruins of Lost Souls by H. Jarrod Courtemanche
Deep in the Jungles of Cambodia, Japanese soldiers unearth a deadly threat from the past. Can Agent X stop them from unleashing it on the world? [ Publisher: Airship 27 - 15,100 words - $1 ]

KING CONAN: THE PHOENIX ON THE SWORD #2 (of 4)
Coming in February!
Tim Truman (Writer), Tomás Giorello (Artist), José Villarrubia (Color), and Andrew Robinson (Cover)

Conspirators move in the shadows as King Conan's troops move to quell a Pictish uprising, leaving the newly crowned king exposed to the machinations of four influential traitors who seek to wrest the crown from Conan's lifeless brow! But something even deadlier moves silently in the night, answering the call of the ancient serpent god Set. A faithful servant of darkness, the wizard Thoth-Amon toils in Aquilonia and prays for a rebirth of power that will unleash untold evils!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50, On sale February 29

THE LAST PHANTOM #10 - Arriving in comic shops November 23rd!
Writer: Scott Beatty, Art:  Eduardo Ferigato
Cover: Alex Ross, Stephen Sadowski (1-in-10), Fabiano Neves (1-in-15)
Finally, back in Bengali, Kit Walker returns to The Phantom's secret sanctum… THE SKULL CAVE! Haunted by the specters of the past, Kit reflects on The Phantom's legacy as the origin of The Ghost Who Walks is retold! And after learning new details of where he came from, Kit discovers secrets in the Skull Cave's darkest recesses that shed new light on The Phantom's uncertain future!
32 pages, Full Color, $3.99
THE LOVECRAFT LIBRARY, VOL. 1: HORROR OUT OF ARKHAM
Arriving in comic shops November 23rd!
One of H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous creations, the city of Arkham, Massachusetts, plays a prominent role in many of the influential author’s tales of the macabre. This collection of eight classic tales of horror all feature the Lovecraft County locale, including “Herbert West—Reanimator,” “The Unnamable,” “The Colour Out of Space,” “The Dunwich Horror,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” “The Dreams of the Witch House,” The Thing on the Doorstep,” and “The Shadow Out of Time.” Features lavish full-color illustrations by painter Menton3 and an introduction by Arkham House editor and noted author Robert Weinberg. This is one book that true horror fans can’t do without! 

Hardcover, Full Color, 232 Pages,  6” x 9”, $16.99



Laurie's Wild West - Now online!

Pulps A-Z: The Letter M - New!
The History of DIME NOVEL ROUND-UP
PULPS A-Z: Letters K and L  
For Halloween - a Video of Weird Tales Covers
Pulps A - Z: The J's
Kid Wolf Rides Again Over at Meridian Bridge
Pulps A - Z: The I's
Historic Magazine Collection, Including Pulps, For Sale
Western Fiction Review Likes RIDING THE PULP TRAIL
Wednesday's Forgotten Pulp: ARTISTS AND MODELS STORIES
Pulps A - Z: The H's
Week #2 of the RIDING THE PULP TRAIL contest



THE LONE RANGER #2 - Coming in February!
Writer: Ande Parks; Artist: Esteve Polls
Cover: Francesco Francavilla

The Lone Ranger and Tonto enter the rough, legendary old west town of Abilene, Kansas. While in town to deliver outlaws to the local Marshal, Lone Ranger encounters an infamous lawman turned gunfighter at the end of his career. After a brutal and bloody shootout, the gunfighter faces off against an angry, vengeful mob, and Lone Ranger is caught in the middle. How does a hero who has sworn not to kill resolve a dispute between so many men, with so many guns?

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

PARKER: THE MARTINI EDITION - Arriving in comic shops November 23rd!
Darwyn Cooke's first two Parker books, The Hunter and The Outfit, are collected in a tremendous, special oversized hardcover edition—with an ADDITIONAL 65 pages of Darwyn Cooke content—including a BRAND NEW story and a beautiful slipcase!
Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter graphic novel debuted in July 2008 to instantaneous popular and critical acclaim. It made the New York Times best-seller list and won coveted Eisner and Harvey awards. The second graphic novel, The Outfit, was released last year and was met with similar response, and is currently under consideration for nominations in this year’s awards season.

The Hunter and The Outfit tell the story of Parker, Richard Stark's classic anti-hero, as he returns to New York to settle the score with his wife and partner in crime after they betray him in a heist gone terribly wrong. After evening the field and reclaiming his prize, the Outfit decide to do some score settling of their own... and learn much too late that when you push a man like Parker, it had better be all the way to the grave.

This very special collection measures an impressive 9 x 13 inches and weighs in at 334 pages. Extras include an extended art gallery section as well as a brand-new 8-page Parker story by Darwyn Cooke, unique to this volume.
Hardcover, Partial Color, $75.00, 360 Pages, 9” x 13”,  978-1-60010-980-5
Peril Press - More new Kindle titles are now available!
Forgotten Depths - 6 Astounding Pulp Fiction Novellas [Illustrated] by Sewell Peaslee Wright
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930
FROM THE OCEAN’S DEPTHS By Sewell Peaslee Wright
Man came from the sea. Mercer, by his thought-telegraph, learns from the weirdly beautiful ocean-maiden of a branch that returned there.

Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930
INTO THE OCEAN'S DEPTHS, A Sequel to “From the Ocean's Depths,” By Sewell Peaslee Wright
To save Imee's race of Men-Who-Returned-To-The-Sea, two Land-Men answer the challenge of the dreaded Rorn, corsairs of the under-seas.

Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930
THE FORGOTTEN PLANET By Sewell Peaslee Wright
The authentic account of why cosmic man damned an outlaw world to be, forever, a leper of Space.

Astounding Stories of Super-Science, September 1930
THE TERRIBLE TENTACLES OF L-472 By Sewell Peaslee Wright
Commander John Hanson of the Special Patrol Service records another of his thrilling interplanetary assignments.

Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931
THE DARK SIDE OF ANTRI By Sewell Peaslee Wright
Commander John Hanson relates an interplanetary adventure illustrating the splendid Service spirit of the men of the Special Patrol.

Astounding Stories, April, 1931
THE GHOST WORLD By Sewell Peaslee Wright
Commander John Hanson records another of his thrilling interplanetary adventures with the Special Patrol Service.

This edition includes all of the original illustrations as well as a Cover gallery!
Who Goes There? Special Edition [Illustrated] by John W Campbell
Astounding Science Fiction, August 1938
“WHO GOES THERE?” by John W Campbell (as Don A. Stuart)
Who—is that your closest friend—or a monstrous imitation, breed of an alien deadly world? WHO GOES THERE—?

Astounding Science Fiction – August 1952
Who Goes There? By John W Campbell
Review by P. Schuyler Miller
Post movie release book review of 1951 Reprint of Who Goes There collection.

Science Fiction Stories, May 1956
Parodies Tossed
JOHN W. CAMPBELL Jr. "Who Goes There?"
by Randall Garrett
Condensed version of the story in verse.

This Edition has been loving restored from the original publication in the Aug 1938 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, and includes All of the original illustrations from that publication. Also included is a Cover Gallery.

This is the breath taking, claustrophobic, and paranoid story that inspired The Thing From Another World (1951), John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), and The Thing - Prequel (2011).
Also available:
An Intimate Study of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Hair of the Dogie by James P Olsen
The Other Now by Murray Leinster
Twilight Zone by Mary Keegan



The PulpRack - Now online!
A review of this new edition of Mundy's story, the first new edition in more than 70 years. - New!
Captain Philip Strange Volume 1: Strange War
The Gault Papers Part 4: Mundy's Omnibus Editions & Nonfiction
The Gault Papers Part 3: Mundy's Tros Saga
The Gault Papers Part 2: Talbot Mundy's JimGrim Stories
The Gault Papers: Talbot Mundy's Tibetan Stories.
Pulps1st - New pulp T-Shirt line now available!
Pre-Xmas Sale: Buy 4, get 1 free until November 28!

Pulps 1st has opened a storefront for pulp image cover t-shirts.
You can reach the storefront from pulps1st.com and clicking on the shirts button.

Pulps1st has obtained a license with Argosy Communication, Inc. to sell shirts with Popular Publications pulp covers. Below is a partial list of the fine covers images available.
Pre-Xmas Sale: Buy 4, get 1 free! Use code XMAS5FOR4 at checkout.
Now through Nov 24, Shipping is FREE! Buy 3 or more products and use the code BUY3SHIP in the cart.  It's possible you can't use both of these at the same time, but give it a shot!


Now available are:
The Spider March 1934, Citadel of Hell
Secret Six, 1st issue, The Red Shadow
Secret 6: The Monster Murders
Operator #5 Invisble Empire
Wings Summer 1948
Gang World
Ten Detective Aces
Public Enemy 1st Issue Dec 1935
Black Book Detective 1st Black Bat
Black Book Detective March 1933
Planet Stories 1st Issue Winter 1939
Masked Rider 1st Issue		 Angel Detective
Black Bat Detective Mysteries
North*West Stories Fall 1939
Exciting Western March 1947
Exciting Western April 1945
Battle Stories February 1928
10-Story Detective 1st  Issue
Thrilling Mystery with Green Ghost
Startling Stories 1st issue
Phantom Detective August 1939
And more  . . . . .

There are now over 75 t-shirts available (some images are duplicated as XXX-Large has to be offered as a separate item).

Shirts are available in Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, XX-Large and XXX-Large as well as various colors.
Prices are $20.00 and $27.00 ( XXX-large) plus shipping.
 

Radio Archives
Now available!

The history of the thriller is populated by striking supervillains—Doctor Nikola, Professor Moriarity, Fantomas, and perhaps the most diabolical of all, Doctor Fu Manchu. A variation on these evil geniuses was the Mad Scientist. And no fictional scientist was madder than the man who called himself Doctor Death.
 
The creation of a newspaperman and pulp writer named Harold Ward writing under the obscure pen name of Zorro, Doctor Death was the star of his own bizarre pulp magazine back in 1935. He was equal parts Doctor Frankenstein and Albert Einstein, with a dash of Fu Manchu and a dram of wormwood. In reality, a Yale psychologist with the improbable name of Rance Mandarin, Doctor Death was a scientist who wandered over to the dark side, consorting with demons, elementals, zombies, disinterred mummies, other unclean denizens of Hell.
Apparently, Mandarin practiced a strange brand of necromancy because he believed that the Almighty had commanded him to force modern man to abandon automation, quit the factories, cease inventing, and revert to a pre-industrial state. In the depths of the great Depression of the 1930s, this may have struck the American reading public as the height of horror.

A frightened nation responded to this challenge by organizing the Secret Twelve, a band of the top U. S. civil and business leaders, whose number included the President of the United States and the nation's top gang leader! It was quite a group. The heroic head of that organization was the remarkable Jimmy Holm, a millionaire criminologist and occultist who joined New York's Finest as a detective. Working under Inspector John Ricks, and sometimes allied with Mandarin's mysterious assistant, the exotic Nina Fererra, Holm battled Doctor Death from Manhattan to Egypt and into the very bowels of Hell itself.
 
The series is one of the rare unabashedly supernatural series the pulps ever produced. When Jimmy Holm confronts the undead minions of Doctor Death, the mummies and zombies are the real deal. The explanation for that is very simple: Harold Ward was a frequent contributor to the legendary Weird Tales magazine…and that's why Doctor Death is a classic of its type.
 
RadioArchives.com is resurrecting this wild and wonderful series by presenting Doctor Death's first fatal foray into reversing mankind's fortunes, 12 Must Die, in a audiobook voiced by the talented Joey D'Auria. Get yours today for $14.98 for Audio CDs and $9.98 for the Digital Download!
Coming soon:



Radio Spirits - Now available!

The final classic radio adventures of The Green Hornet were crafted for their times. In these exciting episodes, The Green Hornet (portrayed by Jack McCarthy) and Kato (Paul Carney) combat communism and communist sympathizers, take down crooked politicians, and smash rackets on the waterfront.

Join the daring young publisher and his faithful valet as they hunt the biggest of all game in the last 20 shows that the radio series ever produced! Digitally remastered and restored, 19 of these programs are presented here for the first time anywhere.

Includes a Program Guide by Martin Grams, Jr. and Terry Salomonson.


Episodes Include:
Political Crossfire 10-01-52
Spy Master 10-03-52
The Changing Alibi 10-08-52
Keys to a Robbery 10-10-52
Election Boomerang 10-15-52
Proof of Treason 10-17-52
Jeff Warren's Safe 10-22-52
Unknown Assassin 10-24-52
The Microfilm of Death 10-29-52
The Hawkridge Gems 10-31-52
 A Friday Night in the Mountains 11-05-52
The Simple Clue 11-07-52
The Triple-Cross 11-12-52
Ceiling on Crime 11-14-52
The Cigarette Filters 11-19-52
Shipment for Korea 11-21-52
Gas House Ending 11-26-52
Murder and Espionage 11-28-52
Pretenders to the Throne 12-03-52
Axford's Romantic Disaster 12-05-52


RED SONJA #59 - Arriving in comic shops November 23rd!
Writer: Eric Trautman; Art: Walter Geovanni; Covers: Fabiano Neves, Walter Geovanni
Trapped between rival factions eager to seize the throne of Koth, Sonja discovers that there's more than shifting allegiances and court intrigues at work. Ancient alchemy and forgotten sciences may be more powerful than even Red Sonja's blades.
32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

Robert E. Howard - Film projects in the works!
According to an exclusive interview at THE DAILY BLAM, Fredrik Malmberg says there are “no firm plans” for a sequel to CONAN THE BARBARIAN, but he still has plenty of big plans. He’s currently focusing on bringing other Robert E. Howard stories to the big screen: “A Conan sequel would be nice, but also of course, we’re working on both Kull the Conqueror  and Dark Agnes , and Vultures as of now…. We have been working a little bit on one of his stories called “Pigeons From Hell,” which is a pivotal, classic horror story that he wrote. The boxing stories, we’ve actually also been discussing some of that.”


Coming soon!

Sequential Pulp Comics has released promo art for their 2012 release, CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS by Mark Ellis and Steven E. Gordon. The graphic novel will be available in 2012 from Dark Horse Comics' Sequential Pulp Comics imprint. Artwork © Steven E. Gordon.

Sequential Pulp Comics is thrilled to have adventure scribe extraordinaire, Mark Ellis and comics' legend, Pablos Marcos team for a retelling of H. Rider Haggard's KING SOLOMON'S MINES. Artwork © Pablos Marcos.

A Tim Burgard TARZAN sketch. Tim is illustrating our graphic novel, TARZAN AT THE EARTH'S CORE, licensed and authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and written by Martin Powell. Published by Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics. Coming 2012 in celebration of the Ape-Man's 100th Anniversary. Tarzan ™ ERB, Inc. Artwork © Tim Burgard.




Shadowhawke - Now available!
From K.G. McAbee & Tom Johnson  

Deposed from her Balkan kingdom, the Spider Lady rules a new kingdom in America. Taking over the New York underworld, she operates from a hidden underground cavern. Those who oppose her are forced into her deadly web. But one man and his fighting team take up the trail to bring justice to the Queen of the underworld. The Shadowhawke!  

With the ever-rising cost of pulp-related books, Tom Johnson re-launched his old Fading Shadows imprint to see if it was possible to produce a book for under $10.00. With Gail McAbee’s birthday coming up in November, Tom chose their action-packed pulp story, “Shadowhawke: First Flight” as an experiment.

This 128-page (4 x 7) paperback is the result. Printing isn’t cheap, but we’ve eliminated the middleman. With only a few copies ordered for this experimental product, Tom is offering them on a first come basis at $7.95, plus postage. This was not meant for regular sales and is not available on Amazon or in bookstores. Contact Tom at fadingshadows40@gmail.com for ordering information while they last.
 Available now in very limited supply.

Tarzan: His First 100 Years - Coming in 2012!
How Ancient Literature became Modern Mythology, and created an Ape-Man mecca in Southern California
by David A. Lemmo and Rachael Wenban

A centennial history of Tarzan will be appearing in 2012 to coincide with the world-wide celebrations of both the first multimedia superstar and the first super hero to appear in the 20th Century:  TARZAN: HIS FIRST 100 YEARS. How Ancient Literature became Modern Mythology, and created an Ape-Man mecca in Southern California.  The authors are David A. Lemmo and Rachael Wenban.  David is curator of the Museum of Modern Mythology and Pop Culture with over thirty years experience as an antiquarian bookseller, and a long time ERB/Tarzan fan.  Rachael is a midwife and photographer, with twelve years experience as a book seller. The publisher is Angel City Press of Santa Monica, California.

TARZAN: HIS FIRST 100 YEARS is an examination and reference work on the Ape-Man.  The authors' emphasis is on the socio-economic-scientific history of his many incarnations in the context of entertainment that became modern mythology.  The book is similar to TARZAN AND TRADITION by Erling B. Holtsmark, in that the authors examine Tarzan in the context of mythology.  However, where Holtsmark covers only the first six books, this new work includes all of the stories as part of "The Saga" (as with the labors and wanderings of Hercules, Odysseus, and King Arthur).  Holtsmark stays with ancient mythology in his juxtapositions, where TARZAN: HIS FIRST 100 YEARS includes the Ape-Man's connections to ancient myth, legends, modern literature, science, culture, and how all of these led to the concept of modern myth.

The book emphasizes the inter-genre aspect of the meme we know of as Tarzan, which enables him to adapt to the future.  That Tarzan is more than just a "jungle man" is integral to the core of the original character.  He is also a British Lord, family man, secret agent, science fiction adventurer, an RAF officer during World War II, and at times, has been a paranormal investigator.  This is a distinctly different way of presenting the character we thought we knew for a hundred years, following him into a growing 21st Century World.

Tarzan's connections to both ancient myth and modern characters greatly helped the growth and acceptance of the academic study of pop culture.  He is a "Bridge between two Pantheons," a century-old expression of the ancient mythic age.  His impact on society and cultural heritage extends beyond mere entertainment: a symbol of environmental conservation and animal rights, protector of indigenous traditional cultures, and is a world-wide example of the capacity of humans to rise above unfortunate circumstances to become rational, ethical, and dignified.

Tarzan is at the head of a line of early 20th Century archetypes (such as The Shadow and Doc Savage) that were later combined by writers to create new ones (such as Superman and Batman).  The Ape-Man pioneered (beginning in 1916) the Fandom movement that pervades our culture.  Here's a quote by iconic fantasy/science fiction author Ray Bradbury: "Edgar Rice Burroughs was and is the most influential writer, bar none, of our century."  When asked about this statement by writer Lawrence Grobel, Bradbury replied, "I have talked to astronauts, biochemists, anthropologists, astronomers---they all say Edgar Rice Burroughs."

Tellers of Weird Tales - New blog now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Harry Irving Shumway (1883-1974) - New!
Who Wrote the Most Letters in Weird Tales? - New!
Who Wrote the Most Poems for Weird Tales? - New!
Who Wrote the Most Stories for Weird Tales? - New!
Weird Tales on Film - New!
Weird Tales and World War I - New!
Gretta (1904-1988)
Jay Wilmer Benjamin (1902-1977)



WARLORD OF MARS: DEJAH THORIS #8
 Arriving in comic shops November 23rd!
Written by Arvid Nelson; Art by Carlos Rafael
Covers: Paul Renaud (33%), Joe Jusko (33%), Alé Garza (33%)

Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, and Phondari, Pirate Queen of Mars, find themselves in the clutches of Phodari's old master, Xen Brega. But before Xen was Phondari's master, he was her slave. Phondari wasn't the kindest of mistresses, and Xen's looking for a little vengeance. He's invited Phondari and Dejah to dinner... to be the main course! If Dejah and Phondari can escape the butcher's knife, Dejah might just learn a thing or two about the mysterious coin she discovered, and why Phondari is so interested in it. Get ready for Dejah Thoris #8: The Hoard of Segotha!
32 pages, Full Color,  $3.99

WARLORD OF MARS #17 - Coming in February!
Writer: Arvid Nelson; Artist: Edgar Salazar
Covers: Joe Jusko (50%), Lucio Parrillo (50%), Stephen Sadowski (1-in-15)

John Carter returns to his beloved Helium, only to find it in the clutches of a brutal dictator. His princess, Dejah Thoris, is a prisoner of the evil priests who control the cult of Issus, the false goddess worshipped throughout Mars. John Carter's enemies have branded him a heretic and an outcast, but Carter has his own allies – his son, Carthoris, the great Thark warrior, Tars Tarkas, and his own sword arm! Warlord of Mars #17: Helium Divided is the second-to-last installment of the Gods of Mars story arc. The stage is set for the final confrontation!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
WARLORD OF MARS: DEJAH THORIS #12 - Coming in February!
Writer: Robert Place Napton; Artist: Carlos Rafael
Covers: Paul Renaud (33%), Fabiano Neves (33%), Stephen Segovia (33%)

The Boora Witch has invaded Dejah Thoris' mind and taken control of her personality. In a bold move, she undermines Dejah's father and grandfather and begins to take control of Helium.  Kantos Kan suspect something is amiss and begins playing a dangerous game to discover the truth behind Dejah's treacherous behavior.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
WARLORD OF MARS:
DEJAH THORIS VOLUME 2: PIRATE QUEEN OF MARS TPB
Coming in March!
Writer: Arvid Nelson; Artist: Carlos Rafael; Cover: Paul Renaud

Greater and Lesser Helium are united behind Dejah Thoris. But just when things seem to be getting back to normal, Helium's precious supply of water begins running dry. Dejah heads to the Antarctic ice caps to investigate, only to find herself pulled into the deadly mysteries of the forbidden south. A swashbuckling adventure of sky pirates, renegade princesses, lost treasure, and ancient curses abound in Dejah Thoris: Pirate Queen of Mars! Collecting issues #6-10 of the ongoing series, along with a complete cover gallery.

Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, Full Color, $17.99
WARLORD OF MARS: FALL OF BARSOOM TPB - Coming in February!
Writer: Robert Napton; Artist: Roberto Castro; Cover: Joe Jusko

100,000 years before the time of John Carter! Barsoom is a dying world: its once mighty oceans are receding and its atmosphere grows more tenuous by the day. The Orovars, who have dominated for a million years, are on the verge of extinction at the hands of the Green Hordes and the emerging Red Martians. Two Orovars — a Scientist and a General — race against time to save their people before Mars plunges into barbarism! This trade paperback collects the 5-issue series into one volume along with a cover gallery.

Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, Full Color, $19.99
WARRIORS OF MARS #1 - Coming in February!
Written by Robert Place Napton
Art by Jack Jadson
Cover by Joe Jusko
“Black & White” Retailer Incentive cover by Joe Jusko
“Negative Effect Art” Retailer Incentive cover by Joe Jusko
“Virgin Art” Retailer Incentive cover by Joe Jusko
FROM THE PAGES OF WARLORD OF MARS!
Before John Carter another earthman visited the Red planet: Lt. Gullivar Jones. Now these legendary warriors are brought together for the first time!

When Lt. Guillivar Jones happens upon a mysterious old man with a beautiful carpet he soon finds himself transported through space and time to the planet Mars where he meets the beautiful Princess Hera and a ferocious tribe of Red Martians bent on capturing her!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
ZORRO RIDES AGAIN #8 (OF 12) - Coming in February!
Writer: Matt Wagner; Artist: John K. Snyder III; Cover: Matt Wagner

The one and only Matt (MAGE, GRENDEL) Wagner is in the home-stretch of his epic story of Zorro!  As the Los Angeles soldiers try to lure-in El Zorro for a final showdown, Zorro begins to question everything he does and everything for which he stands. There're thrilling times ahead as ZORRO RIDES AGAIN with issue #8 from Dynamite Entertainment!

32 pages, Full Color, $3.99





11 November 2011
Age of Aces
Now available!

In Donald E. Keyhoe’s imaginings, the stormy skies of World War I are filled with giant pterodactyls, mystic fireballs and demon aces. But America has it’s own unnatural secret weapon: Captain Philip Strange. A mental marvel from birth, he was so terrifyingly effective that the Allies referred to him as “The Phantom Ace of G-2.” But to the Germans he was “The Brain-Devil,” whose penetrating green eyes were both a legend and a nightmare.

Keyhoe’s Philip Strange stories ran for nine years—from 1931 through 1939—in the pages of Flying Aces magazine. This first volume in our new series contains six exciting tales of terror skies! It also features an introduction by Sid Bradd and is beautifully wrapped up in an exciting new design by Chris Kalb!

Stories include:
“Cocardes of Courage” – Flying Aces, September 1931
“The Drome of Dread” – Flying Aces, November 1931
“The Red Demon” – Flying Aces, July 1932
“Scourge of the Skies” – Flying Aces, November 1932
“Vengeance of V-99” – Flying Aces, February 1933
“The Unholy Horror” – Flying Aces, July 1933
Plus:
“Donald E. Keyhoe and the Brain-Devil of G-2″ by Sidney H. Bradd
A Bibliography of all Philip Strange’s Adventures
An exciting book design by Chris Kalb.

$16.99 Trade paperback
 6″x9″ trade paperback | 346 pages | ISBN: 978-0-9820950-8-9

Available from
Amazon, Mike Chomko Books, and Adventure House

Airship 27 Productions - Now available!

Move over Doc Savage and Captain Hazzard,
here comes America’s newest pulp hero - CHALLENGER STORM

Airship 27 Productions and Cornerstone Book Publishers present another new pulp hero crafted in the mold of the classic 1930s adventurers. The sole survivor of a senseless tragedy, the heir to a massive fortune devotes himself to a life protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty. From his base of operations at the Miami Aerodrome Research & Development Laboratories, he and his colorful associates brave any danger to bring justice to those in need.

His name is Clifton Storm... the world will call him "Challenger".

THE ISLE OF BLOOD

When a wealthy aviation tycoon asks Storm to help return his kidnapped daughter, the MARDL crew is plunged into a rescue-mission on the tiny island-nation of La Isla de Sangre.   From the sunny streets of Miami to the assault on a guerrilla enclave & the ruins of a lost-city deep in the jungle, the action is non-stop in this debut pulp thriller.  Can Storm rid La Isla de Sangre from the vicious warlords known as the Villalobos Brothers and defeat the mysterious Goddess of Death?
Join Challenger Storm and his loyal band of adventurers as they fly off on this, the first of a brand new series of pulp thrillers.  Writer Don Gates and legendary graphic artist, Michael Kaluta join forces to unleash this exciting and original new pulp hero guaranteed to provide pulp fans with explosive thrill-a-minute entertainment. All brought to you by the always ground-breaking crew of Airship 27 Productions; Pulp Fiction for a New Generation!

ISBN:  1-613420-23-4
ISBN 13:  978-1-613420-23-2
Produced by Airship 27 Productions
Published by Cornerstone Book Publishers

Retail Price: $16.95
Digital Download Now Available for $3 –
11/20/2011 @ (www.IndyPlanet.com) for $15

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books - Coming in early 2013!


RETURN OF THE SHADOW and the revised, updated SHADOW SCRAPBOOK have both been rescheduled for early 2013, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of RETURN and The Shadow's pulp and radio revival.

Audio Realms: Masters of Horror Limited Edition - Coming in June!
Signed by artist Tom Baxa
H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E Howard, Algernon Blackwood, Clark Ashton Smith, F. Marion Crawford.
150 numbered copies only!

Before the likes of Stephan King, Clive Barker and Dean Koontz; when the craft of telling a story did not include the visual aid of television; when the only tools of horror were the imagination of the story teller, and the manipulation of the imagination of the reader; were the true Masters of Horror; H.P. Lovecraft,

Volume One Includes:
“A Haunted Island” – Algernon Blackwood
“The Lair of the White Worm” – Bram Stoker (Dracula)
“The Haunter of the Dark” – H. P. Lovecraft
“The Devotee of Evil” – Clark Ashton Smith
“The Voice of El-Lil” – Robert E. Howard
“The Statement of Randolph Carter” – H.P. Lovecraft

Blogging Sax Rohmer’s The Hand of Fu Manchu, Part One – "The Flower of Silence" - Now online!
The Flower of Silence” was the first installment of Sax Rohmer’s The Si-Fan Mysteries. The story was first published in Collier’s on April 8, 1916 and was later expanded to comprise the first four chapters of the third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries first published in 1917 by Cassell in the UK and by McBride & Nast in the US under the variant title, The Hand of Fu Manchu. This third serial began only four months after the second concluded. The US book title marks the first time that the hyphen was dropped from the character’s name, although it was retained within the text.

Read the rest at the links below!
The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 152: The Green Hornet Casefiles - New!
Ron Fortier, David Boop and Bobby Nash join the Book Cave to talk about The Green Hornet Casefiles.
Episode 151: The Return of Jeff Deischer
Episode 150: Perry Rhodan
Episode 149: Death's Heretic
Episode 148: Lance Star Volume 3
Episode 147: Wayne Reinagel
Episode 146: Comics Podcast Crossover
Episode 145: Gayleen Froese
Episode 144: The Rook Volume 6
Episode 143: The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage
Clive Clussler: Devil's Gate (The Numa Files) - Available in bookstores November 14th!
Clive Cussler  (Author), Graham Brown (Author)

A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster- when their boat explodes. What is happening in that part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA(r) Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations. Their penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities.

Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler, Devil's Gate is one of the most thrilling novels yet from the grand master of adventure.

Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult (November 14, 2011)
ISBN-10: 0399157824
ISBN-13: 978-0399157820

CONAN: ROAD OF KINGS #10
Arriving in comic shops November 16th!
Roy Thomas (Writer), Dan Panosian (Art), Dan Jackson (Color), and Aleksi Briclot (Cover)

With Tarantia under siege, Conan just wants to get out of town, but the promise of a reward wins out. Drafted into an assassination plot, the Cimmerian becomes part of the struggle over who will rule Aquilonia, while still protecting the mother and child in his care. But when the plan falls apart, Conan finds himself up against both an army and the palace dragon!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50

Dime Novel Castle
Now available!
Old Sleuth, the Detective; or, The Bay Ridge Mystery
Originally Published June 10, 1872

Old Sleuth is a famous detective much feared by the underworld because he has an uncanny knack for finding obscure clues to unravel mysteries that have baffled the police.  A supposedly wizened old man with white, mutton chop whiskers and glasses, Old Sleuth is in reality Harry Loveland, a man presumably in his early 30s -- at least in the first story; in the subsequent tales, he is, in fact, an old man.

The creation of Harlan Page Halsey (October 23, 1837-- December 16, 1898), Old Sleuth was the first detective in dime novel fiction to be featured in a continuous series of stories; his adventures, however, were few and far between.

The first Old Sleuth story was printed in the weekly story paper, The Fireside Companion (Old Sleuth, the Detective; or, The Bay Ridge Mystery) on June 10, 1872; it concluded three months later on October 14, 1872.  Five more Old Sleuth tales followed in 1875, 1883, 1884, 1888 and 1891.  The stories were reprinted in the Old Sleuth Library in the late 1880s and some of them were reprinted elsewhere over the years to the very end of the dime novel era.

Visit our Website Now for a FREE Dime Novel, in Adobe eBook Format!
Download Issue #1 from the Nick Carter Detective Library
"The Solution of a Remarkable Case"



Dime Novel Castle
Coming November 18th!
A Wall Street Haul; Or, A Bold Stroke For A Fortune
Original Nick Carter Novel #2 By John Russell Coryell
Originally Published in Street and Smith's, New York Weekly in 1899

 

This is the second adventure of Nick Carter created by John Russell Coryell. Nick Carter has been a private detective for a little over a year and has been very successful in his chosen vocation.  Everyone knows his  pseudonym, Harvey Jones, but no one knows the existence of his real identity except Inspector Byrnes.  Nick has married the girl he fell in love with in his first adventure, and in this tale he involves her a bit in solving the mystery of “A Wall Street Haul,” a massive amount of bonds taken from one of New York’s most famous banks –– and with precious few clues to go by.  It is necessary to read this story first because Nick Carter’s next adventure is The Sequel.
Download this rare manuscript in Adobe PDF Format on November 18, 2011.

E-texts on the net this week
The Shadow in Review:
There is no new Shadow review this week.
 
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:   Now with over 1000 stories online!
"Twilight Zone" by Mary Keegan from ALL-STORY WEEKLY, August 19, 1916
A married couple's souls are stuck in a kind of twilight zone between life and death.  A "Different Story" feature from All-Story Weekly.
"The Riddle Thumbs a Ride" by Robert Leslie Bellem from HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE, November, 1946
Featuring: Dan Turner
The beauteous bride of that aging flicker star had a good sound reason for hitch-hiking, all right - but when she picked Dan Turner's car for that lift she thereby led him into one of the locoedest killery setups ever to run wild, even in movietown!
Gollancz - Now available!

In this volume Conan learns the secrets of the RED NAILS and the JEWELS OF GWAHLUR, meets THE SLITHERING SHADOW and THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE, visits THE POOL OF THE BLACK ONE and travels BEYOND THE BLACK RIVER. A selection of other tales and fragments round out this new collection of a classic character.

Contents:
"The People of the Black Circle"
"The Slithering Shadow"
"Drums of Tombalku" (draft)
"The Pool of the Black One"
"Red Nails"
"Jewels of Gwahlur"
"Beyond the Black River"

Paperback: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0575115025
ISBN-13: 978-0575115026

Haffner Press - Now available!
Shannach – The Last: Farewell to Mars
by Leigh Brackett
Introduction by Anne McCaffrey
Illustrated by Ed Emshwiller and Frank Kelly Freas
Picking up where Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances left off, this volume collects the final 17 stories of strange adventures on other worlds from the undisputed "Queen of Space Opera."  Drawn from the last years of pulp magazines such as Planet Stories, Startling Stories, and Thrilling Wonder Stories, Shannach – The Last: Farewell to Mars sees Brackett at the peak of her talents. 

Oddly, it is at this point where she abandons the "planetary romance" sub-genre and embarks on a small string of stories tinged with social relevance. This departure didn't stop editors asking for some of "that old Brackett magic" and she offered up two latter day tales ("The Road to Sinharat" and "Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon") before returning to chronicle further adventures of Eric John Stark in her final "Skaith" novels. Closing out the collection is a trio of tales written on commission from the "king of anthologies," Roger Elwood.

The book is adorned with Frank Kelly Freas' and Ed Emshwiller's vintage illustrations from the original  pulp magazines.

Hardcover, 582 pages, $40.00
Haffner Press - Autumn 2011 Update!
Things have been über-busy at the Secret Moon Base, but it's time for a status update on all that's happening so . . . Onward!

1) SHANNACH - THE LAST: FAREWELL TO MARS
We now hold copies of this brand new release and it's be-yoo-tee-full!  With Kelly Freas' vintage cover art, this is a really great looking book.  And the contents are equally awesome.  Of course, with all this "keen-ness" something went wrong.  The original dustjacket had an intolerable typo (my bad) on the spine, so we've gone ahead and printed a corrected second-state dustjacket. All copies ordered direct from Haffner Press, and select retailers, will ship with the first-state jacket wrapped to the book and shrinkwrapped, with a rolled and bagged copy of the second state jacket included.  $40 gets it to you with free shipping in the Continental USA.

2) 2011 WORLD FANTASY CONVENTION
We're also recovering from an unplanned opportunity to exhibit at the 2011 World Fantasy Convention in San Diego last week.  We arranged to have SHANNACH?THE LAST: FAREWELL TO MARS make it's debut, and we tried as best we could to collect autographs in the charity books, IN MEMORY OF WONDER'S CHILD and THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE JACK WILLIAMSON LECTURESHIP.  We think succeeded fairly well on all counts and we'll announce in a few weeks what new signatures have been added to these books.

3) ARTIST ROLL CALL
We are *extremely* pleased to announce that we have deals with the following artists for two of our 2012 releases:

THE COMPLETE JOHN THUNSTONE by Manly Wade Wellman will have cover art by Raymond Swanland.  Raymond's work is ideally suited to the supernatural horrors that John Thunstone faces in this massive collection.  We hope to have images before the end of the year.

THE MICHAEL GRAY MYSTERIES by Henry Kuttner & Catherine L. Moore, a collection of four paperback original novels from the late 50s, will feature original cover art by classic movie poster and paperback artist Robert McGinnis. Mr. McGinnis has recently been providing cover art for Hard Case Crime's line of books, and we're eager to see what he delivers for this Kuttner/Moore title. 

4) THUNDER IN THE VOID
Holy cow!  As if that weren't enough, we're days away from sending THUNDER IN THE VOID, a massive collection of Space Opera stories by Henry Kuttner (including a never-before-published story, "The Interplanetary Limited") to the printer.  You can reserve your $40 copy here or, preorder it as part of one of our (in)famous "Early Bird" deals on the Haffner Press homepage.

5) HOLLYWOOD ON THE MOON / MAN ABOUT TIME: THE PETE MANX ADVENTURES
With all the other goings-on with our Henry Kuttner projects, we want to assure you all that this project to collect all the SF collaborations of Henry Kuttner and Arthur K. Barnes is going forward and we look for a release in Late February.  Details are here.

6) FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERIES
Keep Watching the Skies for news on our upcoming slate of Fredric Brown titles.  Editorial work on the first two volumes is in the home stretch and we will announce contents, pricing, and availability as soon as possible.

7) HALO FOR HIRE: THE PAUL PINE MYSTERIES
Meanwhile, we will take this opportunity to briefly announce that we have an agreement to collect all the novels and shorts featuring Chicago private eye Paul Pine from Howard Browne (sometimes writing as "John Evans".) 
Contents are:
   HALO IN BLOOD
   HALO FOR SATAN
   HALO IN BRASS
   "So Dark for April"
   A TASTE OF ASHES
   "The Paper Gun"

A fine summary of the "Paul Pine" works is available on the Thrilling Detective website.
We'll have ordering information as soon as it becomes available.
Okay, fellow astrogators.  That's it for now.  We'll send another update around the Thanksgiving holiday. 
Meanwhile, there are hundred of orders still to be processed for SHANNACH - THE LAST: FAREWELL TO MARS.  (Oh, my aching back!)

Keep Watching the Skies!
Stephen Haffner
Big Poobah

H.R. Haggard - New Yahoo Newsgroup!
A new Yahoo Newsgroup has been launched that is dedicated to one of the greatest of adventure/fantasy writers , H.R. Haggard.
Click on the link below to visit the Homepage and join!
ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #35
Now available and arriving in comic shops November 16th!

This issue of Illustration features the pulp art of Joe Szokoli, perhaps best known for overpainting a few dozen of H.J. Ward's original pulp paintings.

Also featured are:
"The Art of Harry Clark" by John Osier
"Walt Reed: A Life in Illustration" by David Saunders

Magazine, 96 pages, Full Color, SRP: $15.00

iPulpFiction.com - New the week of November 13 -19!

From RANGELAND ROMANCES: SADDLEMATE FOR THE BADLANDS by Oliver King
Curvaceous Claire Briscoe may have committed an unforgivable sin when she gave a helping hand—and her heart— to her fathers enemy. Publisher: Black Mask Magazine - 9,100 words - 75¢
From the Nov. 1914 issue of ADVENTURE:  KING DICK by Talbut Mundy
Dick Anthony of Arran was the first of Talbut Mundy's grand character sagas. It ran as an eight-part series in Adventure from August 1914-March 1915. King Dick is the fourth of these adventures that chronicle the hero’s efforts to lead Persian rebels against imperial colonialism. Mundy’s stories often featured strong female characters.

To the best of our knowledge, this iPulp edition is the first time a Dick Anthony of Arran tale has been published since 1915.  Publisher: Black Mask Magazine - 25,400 words - $1
WEIRD HORROR TALES #3: BILLIE HELL by Michael Vance
1928 — Born and abandoned, the son of a hooker and a murderer, and raised by the prostitutes and thugs in the notorious red-light district of Light’s End, Maine, Billie Hell is a cut below the rest.
Publisher: Airship 27 - 5,500 words - 75¢

JOHN CARTER, A PRINCESS OF MARS #3 (OF 5) - Arriving in comic shops November 16th!
Based on the Novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Adaptation by Roger Langridge
Art by Filipe Andrade, Cover by Skottie Young
Imprisoned by the brutish Tharks of Mars, John Carter must fight his way to freedom - not just for his own sake, but for that of Dejah Thoris, the princess he loves! But first he must prove himself in the arena - in a fight to the death!  All this plus the sad secret of Sola, as Marvel's brand-new adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic tale continues!
32 pages, $2.99



Laurie's Wild West - Now online!

The History of DIME NOVEL ROUND-UP - New!
PULPS A-Z: Letters K and L  - New!
For Halloween - a Video of Weird Tales Covers
Pulps A - Z: The J's
Kid Wolf Rides Again Over at Meridian Bridge
Pulps A - Z: The I's
Historic Magazine Collection, Including Pulps, For Sale
Western Fiction Review Likes RIDING THE PULP TRAIL
Wednesday's Forgotten Pulp: ARTISTS AND MODELS STORIES
Pulps A - Z: The H's
Week #2 of the RIDING THE PULP TRAIL contest


Monte Herridge: THE SERIES CHARACTERS FROM DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY - Now online!
Monte Herridge has a new series at the Mystery*Files Blog on series characters from DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.

#8: Candid Jones - New
#7: Tug Norton
#6: Battle McKim
#5 - Secret Agent George Devrite
#4 - Colin Haig
#3 - Arty Beele
#2 - Happy McGonigle by Paul Allenby
#1 - Shamus Maguire by Stanley Day
Moonstone Books: The Spider: Satan’s Seven Swordsmen
Arriving in comic shops November 16th!
Story: Norvell W. Page
Art: Gary Carbon

A Wide-Vision Graphic Novel!
The Spider—cloaked, fanged nightmare in black— delivers swift justice with a pair of .45 automatics! Set against a world at war, this epic adventure is laced with great over-the-top action foreshadowing James Bond!  The Spider battles the sinister Dr. Fuji and his deadly ring of assassins spearheading a large-scale terror attack on  America! 

80 pages, 7” x 10”, grayscale, $9.95

Moonstone Books: PHASES of the MOON: Full Moon Conclusion!
Coming in March!
Story: Paul D. Storrie, CJ Henderson, Earl Mac Rauch
Art: Nathan Stockman, Glen Fernandez
Cover: Andy Black

The conclusion to the decade-spanning craziest serial-killer saga of all time, starring SHEENA: QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE!  What started with The Spider, Domino Lady, Honey West, Kolchak and others…ends here!

*Plus a recently uncovered BUCKAROO BANZAI part of this tale!
*Plus an epilogue starring KOLCHAK, as years later he uncovers the even more startling truth behind the lies!

48 pages, $4.99
Moonstone Books: The HONEY WEST Files Vol.1 - Coming in March!
Author: G. G. Fickling

The first female private eye is back in action: a volatile combination of Marilyn Monroe and Mike Hammer!

First appearing in 1957, Honey went on to star in eleven novels and the successful 1965 TV show starring Anne Francis, as well as the current series of comic books from Moonstone!

For the FIRST TIME anywhere, the original Honey West novels will be reprinted in one series of books!

Most of the books are long out of print, so here’s your chance to catch her!

In this volume: “This Girl for Hire”, “A Gun for Honey”, and “Girl on the Loose”.

Trade paperback, 600 pages, 6” x 9”, $23.99
Moonstone Books - Coming in March!
The LONE RANGER Chronicles
THE FIRST EVER COLLECTION of
NEW Lone Ranger prose stories!

The masked ex-Texas Ranger and his Native American companion Tonto fight injustice in the Wild West!

Stories include meetings with The Cisco Kid, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, as well as the origin of Tonto and the origin of Silver!

Authors include Spur Award winner Johnny D Boggs, James Reasoner, Alex Award winner Mel Odom, Anthony Award winner Bill Crider, Matthew Baugh, Tim Lasiuta, Joe Gentile, Paul Kupperberg, Denny O’Neil, Kent Conwell, David McDonald, Thom Brannon, Troy D. Smith, Chick Dixon, and Richard Dean Starr.

Edited: Matthew Baugh, Tim Lasiuta
Cover: David Palumbo
6” x 9”, 288 pages, $18.95
Trade paperback
Hardcover

Moonstone Books: The SPIDER: Shadow of Evil - Coming in March!
Author: CJ Henderson
Cover: J. Anthony Kosar

The first new Spider novel in 65 years picks up where the last left off, packed to the gills with the greatest slam-bang action ever penned by master pulpster CJ Henderson!

Richard Wentworth, the Spider, wonders if his long struggle against the forces of evil has been worth it? Should he continue, or grab for personal happiness before his time runs out? Then, at the moment he makes his decision, fate unleashes the most hellish horrors against New York City of all time!

Paperback, 4” x 6”, 190 pages, $6.99

Moonstone Books: The SPIDER: Slaughter, Inc. - Coming in March!
Author: Donald Cormack
Cover: Stephen Bryant

For the FIRST time anywhere…the last Spider pulp novel ever written…is published as an actual Spider novel!
A criminal genius has created an organization to sell murder where innocents are fingered for the crimes. When Nita Van Sloan is framed for murder, the Spider must infiltrate the cartel in disguise and clean house!

Trade paperback, 6” x 9”, 190 pages, $14.95
Night Shade Books: THE MISCELLANEOUS FICTIONS OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH
Coming in December!

By popular demand, we announce The Miscellaneous Fictions of Clark Ashton Smith, an expanded edition of the planned Tales of India and Irony.

The Miscellaneous Fictions of Clark Ashton Smith complements our five volume Collected Fantasies series.
As with the Collected Fantasies series, editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - "The Sorcerer Departs" by Donald Sidney-Fryer
The Animated Sword
Prince Alcouz and the Magician
The Malay Crise
The Ghost of Mohammed Din
The Mahout
The Rajah and the Tiger
Something New
The Flirt
The Perfect Woman
A Platonic Entanglement
The Expert Lover 		A Copy of Burns
Checkmate
The Infernal Star
House of the Monoceros
Dawn of Discord
The Dead will Cuckold You
The Hashish-Eater
Appendices
Story Notes
Bibliography
Errata for The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith volumes 1 through 5
"O Amor atque Realitas!" By Donald Sidney-Fryer



Planetary Stories - The October 2011 issue is now online with additional content!
PLANETARY STORIES #23 / PULP SPIRIT #13 are now available online for immediate reading!
TWO features have been added. I felt they were too important to hold for Issue 24.

First, there is a report from Ahrvid Engholm about a presentation he attended at the Stockholm Technical Museum, with some great Swedish scientists in attendance plus many NASA displays. Ahrvid took many photos while he was there, and we've included many of them. (Did you know there was a Swedish astronaut who had been of TWO Discovery missions?)

In addition to that, there is a PDF action comic book attached! You've gotta see CHOPPER JANE vs UFOs - It's a First.

PLANETARY STORIES #23

PULP SPIRIT #13
Thursday, August 9th – Sunday, August 12th, 2012

The PulpFest organizing committee is delighted to announce that next year’s convention will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Columbus, Ohio—a bigger and better venue for a con that has been growing by ten percent per year since its start in 2009. PulpFest 2012 will begin on Thursday evening, August 9th, and run through Sunday, August 12th.

PulpFest chairman Jack Cullers has spent the last three months scouting hotels to find one better equipped to host our steadily growing conference. The committee investigated the possibility of moving to other cities, including Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh, before electing to remain in Columbus, from which PulpFest has drawn a substantial number of new members to our community.

Size, location, affordability, and availability are just a few of the many factors that must be taken into consideration when selecting a venue. After careful consideration, we settled on the Hyatt Regency because it not only meets our current needs but is large enough to accommodate our continued growth.

Although PulpFest enjoyed a good working relationship with the Ramada Plaza, that hotel’s shortcomings had grown to outnumber its advantages. We think the Hyatt will be a much better fit. The downtown area is ideal for out-of-town attendees lacking rental cars; the hotel sits in the middle of the active Short North Arts District and is just a few minutes’ walk from the trendy Arena District. There are shops and restaurants galore right outside the hotel’s entrance. Ohio State University is nearby, and various tourist attractions are easily accessible, offering numerous entertainment options for PulpFest members accompanied by their families.

The Hyatt Regency recently completed a $12 million refurbishment of its guest rooms, adding WiFi access, iHome Stereo with iPod docking access, and other amenities commensurate with the hotel’s size and stature. Attendees who don’t feel like going outside for meals or libations can take advantage of the Hyatt’s spacious cafe, coffee bar, and cocktail lounge. Fitness-minded members can take a break for shopping in the dealers room to enjoy the hotel’s indoor pool, spa services, and 24-hour gym.

Dealers should have an easier time loading and unloading their wares, thanks to a separate hotel entrance leading directly to a freight elevator that stops on the floor where our huckster room will be located. The Hyatt’s ballroom will easily accommodate more tables than did the Ramada Plaza’s conference center.

The many advantages afforded by our new home will result in an increase in our sleeping-room rate to $109 per night, which includes one free parking pass. However, since the Hyatt Regency is significantly more spacious and comfortable, we believe attendees will be very pleased with our choice. We’re also confident that you’ll appreciate the hotel’s proximity to a wide variety of shops, eateries, and other attractions.

In the weeks and months to come, we’ll be presenting you with more information about the Hyatt Regency and our plans for PulpFest 2012, which we are determined to make the best yet. So please be sure to revisit us frequently for the latest news!
Pulpville Press - Now available!

Largely known for his hard boiled detective stories, Frederick L. Nebnel wrote stories in many genres of pulp fiction. This book collects together a few of his airplane action/mystery stories.

CONTENTS:
"Yangtze Yellow"
Gales and McGill, sky-partners, sweep down the air-trails to wipe out an ancient score.

"Wolves of the Wind"
On the wings of the wind they drove their outlaw planes, ruled by a woman's hand!

"Sky Scrappers"
Gales and McGill were top-aces of Tropic air. But in all their flaming flights they'd never bucked a play as deadly as lay beyond the Border of Lost Men.

"Sky Blazers" On an old trail to new treasure, against cutthroat cunning and the fury of Polar gods, Jess Marlow fought for right of skyway.

"Flyers of Fortune" Gales and McGill, air-busters, trample on a Chinese dragon's tail.

130 pages
7 x 10 inches
$15

Quatermain #3 - Coming in February!
Writer: Clay and Susan Griffith
Pencils: Patricio Carbajal
Cover Artist:  Patricio Carbajal

Deep in central Africa, Allan Quatermain must join with his former enemy, the sorcerer Lokongoi, to escape the bloody power of Bwana Nzige. With a small band of refugees, Quatermain makes his way into the treacherous Congo forest, with death all around. But Quatermain’s new ally may have a secret more terrifying than any he has ever encountered.

QUEEN SONJA #24 - Arriving in comic shops November 16th!
Writer: Luke Lieberman; Penciller/Inker: Fritz Casas; Cover: Lucio Parrillo (50%), Adriano Batista (50%)
When finally the forces of Emora and Songoria meet in open battle, who lives and who dies?  Can Queen Sonja stop the Emperor's  onslaught on Songoria from a hundred Leagues away?  And once she sits on the Emperor's throne, will she ever give it up?

32 pages, Full Color,  $3.99  

Coming soon!

The Monster of Frankenstein vacationing in the Himalayas!
Coming in 2012 from Sequential Pulp and Dark Horse Comics, a graphic novel based on the works of Mary Shelley and Dick Briefer. Written by Martin Powell with Artwork by Nik Poliwko. Artwork © 2011 Nik Poliwko.

A study of Nat-Ul as she is abducted by a pterodactyl from the Eternal Savage for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ THE ETERNAL SAVAGE as adapted by Martin Powell and illustrated by Steven E Gordon. Authorized by ERB, Inc. and published by Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics. Artwork © 2011 Steven E Gordon

Shadowhawke - Now available!
From K.G. McAbee & Tom Johnson  

Deposed from her Balkan kingdom, the Spider Lady rules a new kingdom in America. Taking over the New York underworld, she operates from a hidden underground cavern. Those who oppose her are forced into her deadly web. But one man and his fighting team take up the trail to bring justice to the Queen of the underworld. The Shadowhawke!  

With the ever-rising cost of pulp-related books, Tom Johnson re-launched his old Fading Shadows imprint to see if it was possible to produce a book for under $10.00. With Gail McAbee’s birthday coming up in November, Tom chose their action-packed pulp story, “Shadowhawke: First Flight” as an experiment.

This 128-page (4 x 7) paperback is the result. Printing isn’t cheap, but we’ve eliminated the middleman. With only a few copies ordered for this experimental product, Tom is offering them on a first come basis at $7.95, plus postage. This was not meant for regular sales and is not available on Amazon or in bookstores. Contact Tom at fadingshadows40@gmail.com for ordering information while they last.
 Available now in very limited supply.

Tellers of Weird Tales - New blog now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Gretta (1904-1988) - New!
Jay Wilmer Benjamin (1902-1977) - New!
George Armin Shaftel's Books - New!
George Armin Shaftel (1903-1999) - New!
Maud E. Uschold (1896-1982)
Weird Tales Covers
More Weird Tales from the Victorian Age
Weird Tales from the Victorian Age
Weird Tales from the Romantic Era
Weird Tales from the Revolution, Restoration, and Union
Weird Tales from the Renaissance



Warriors of Mars - Coming in February!
Writer: Robert Napton; Art" Jack Jadson; Cover: Joe Jusko

After the incredible critical and commercial success of Dynamite's Warlord of Mars, Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris, and Warlord of Mars: Fall of Barsoom series, comes Warriors of Mars #1!  Before John Carter another earthman visited the Red planet: Lt. Gullivar Jones.  Now these legendary warriors are brought together for the first time!  When Lt. Guillivar Jones happens upon a mysterious old man with a beautiful carpet he soon finds himself transported through space and time to the planet Mars where he meets the beautiful Princess Hera and a ferocious tribe of Red Martians bent on capturing her!  Warriors of Mars is written by Warlord of Mars: Fall of Barsoom writer Robert Napton, drawn by Jack Jadson, with covers by the legendary Joe Jusko and will hit comic stores February 2012!

"Gullivar was written first, but Carter cornered the market and became a legend," says writer Robert Napton.  "It's Gullivar Vs. John Carter-let the battle begin!  It's a thrill to bring these two southern gents together on the same stretch of red turf and let them have at it.  But it won't be all blood and guts.  There's a story to be told.  Many have heard of Gullivar of Mars, but don't know who he is and how he's a different sort of man from Carter despite being caught in the same otherworldly circumstances.  This is one mash-up fans of pulp won't want to miss."

"We've found a smart and clever way to tie these two pulp heroes together and rescue Gullivar from relative obscurity and place him up on the dais among the greats," adds Dynamite Editor Joe Rybandt.  "We're going to explore more of the eras of Mars with Gullivar, the past, present and future and  Robert Napton has proven himself more than capable of spinning some excellent Barsoomian tales and we've paired him with a great new artistic find in Jack Jadson."

Princess of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the first of his famous series, which initially began publication in serialized form within the pages of All-Story Magazine in February 1912. It is also Burroughs' first novel, predating his Tarzan stories. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the story is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction.

ZORRO RIDES AGAIN #5 (of 12)
Arriving in comic shops November 16th!
Writer: Matt Wagner;  Penciller/Inker: Esteve Polls;  Cover: Matt Wagner

Zorro faces a crippling loss!  Can he muster enough strength to do what he does best and fight back? The one and only Matt Wagner (MAGE, GRENDEL) is nearing the conclusion to his epic story of Zorro! Find out as Zorro Rides Again in issue #5!

32 pages, Full Color,  $3.99





04 November 2011
2011-2012 Film Release Dates
November 11, 2011
November 18, 2011
December 16, 2011
December 21, 2011
December 21, 2011
 IMMORTALS
TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN
SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
February 10, 2012
February 17, 2012
March 9, 2012
May 4, 2012
May 11, 2012
June 8, 2012
June 22, 2012
July 3, 2012
July 20, 2012
August 3, 2012
August 3, 2012
 STAR WARS" THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D
GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE
JOHN CARTER (OF MARS)
THE AVENGERS
DARK SHADOWS
PROMETHEUS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
THE BOURNE LEGACY
TOTAL RECALL


Adventure House - Now available!
G-8 and His Battle Aces #40: SCOURGE OF THE STEEL MASK
by Robert J. Hogan
He came from the very fires of Hell to blight the Living, and he cared not for the cost of his Lust! G-8 has found himself at last, opposed to a fiend he cannot hope to fight—a fiend whose Allies have been taken from the Dregs of the Earth, and whose Hate to fiercer than the forces of the Sky!

ISBN: 1-59798-417-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-59798-417-1
110 pages
Cover Artist: Frederick Blakeslee

Age of Aces
Now available!

In Donald E. Keyhoe’s imaginings, the stormy skies of World War I are filled with giant pterodactyls, mystic fireballs and demon aces. But America has it’s own unnatural secret weapon: Captain Philip Strange. A mental marvel from birth, he was so terrifyingly effective that the Allies referred to him as “The Phantom Ace of G-2.” But to the Germans he was “The Brain-Devil,” whose penetrating green eyes were both a legend and a nightmare.

Keyhoe’s Philip Strange stories ran for nine years—from 1931 through 1939—in the pages of Flying Aces magazine. This first volume in our new series contains six exciting tales of terror skies! It also features an introduction by Sid Bradd and is beautifully wrapped up in an exciting new design by Chris Kalb!

Stories include:
“Cocardes of Courage” – Flying Aces, September 1931
“The Drome of Dread” – Flying Aces, November 1931
“The Red Demon” – Flying Aces, July 1932
“Scourge of the Skies” – Flying Aces, November 1932
“Vengeance of V-99” – Flying Aces, February 1933
“The Unholy Horror” – Flying Aces, July 1933
Plus:
“Donald E. Keyhoe and the Brain-Devil of G-2″ by Sidney H. Bradd
A Bibliography of all Philip Strange’s Adventures
An exciting book design by Chris Kalb.

$16.99 Trade paperback
 6″x9″ trade paperback | 346 pages | ISBN: 978-0-9820950-8-9

Available from
Amazon, Mike Chomko Books, and Adventure House

Altus Press - Now available!
The Green Lama: The Complete Pulp Adventures Volume 2
Authored by Kendell Foster Crossen, Illustrated by V.E. Pyles,
Introduction by Michelle Nolan

Om! Ma-ni pad-me Hum! The first of its kind, the complete adventures of the Green Lama follows the adventures of Buddhist Jethro Dumont and his aides as they battle the forces of evil in the western world. Written by Kendell Foster Crossen, it’s non-stop action in the vein of The Shadow!

Never completely reprinted before, the series is collected in three volumes. Each volume contains an all-new introduction, focusing on a different aspect of the character’s life across several forms of popular media. Volume 2 contains an introduction by comics historian Michelle Nolan and features the next five stories: "The Case of the Death's-Head Face," "The Case of the Clown Who Laughed," "The Case of the Invisible Enemy," "The Case of the Mad Magi," and "The Case of the Vanishing Ships."
GREEN LAMA is a trademark controlled by, and licensed from, Argosy Communications, Inc.
512 pages | 6" x 9" | $34.95 softcover | $44.95 hardcover
Altus Press - Coming soon!
Dan Fowler: G-Man Companion
by Tom Johnson, Will Murray, Robert Sidney Bowen,
Charles Greenberg, & Norvell W. Page

For nearly 20 years, Dan Fowler and his G-men battled crimedom in the pages of G-MEN DETECTIVE. Now, author Tom Johnson has indexed each issue, listing everything you need to know about the series. Also included are complete reprints of the two best Dan Fowler stories as chosen by Johnson and pulp historian Will Murray: "Give 'Em Hell" by Norvell W. Page and "Bullet Justice" by Charles Greenberg. And reprinted in its entirety for the first time: "I Cover the Murder Front," the lost, rejected Dan Fowler story.
Featuring additional articles by Tom Johnson and Will Murray, this is the ultimate history of the series.

414 pages | $34.95 softcover | $44.95 hardcover
Altus Press - Coming soon!

Adventurers Inc.: Spook Trail
Authored by Jeff Deischer and William G. Bogart

Back after 65 years! The trio of heroes that make up the team of Adventurers, Inc. return for an all-new novel-length adventure: "Spook Trail" by Jeff Deischer. This pulp-sized collection is designed to look like a long-lost issue of an ADVENTURERS, INC. pulp magazine. Issue 1 also includes the original Adventurers, Inc. story, "The Crazy Indian," complete and uncut, written by Doc Savage writer William G. Bogart.


166 pages | 6.69" x 9.61" | $14.95 softcover


Altus Press
Altus Press - Coming soon!
The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Volume 1: 1931-32
by Frederick Nebel, Introduction by Will Murray,
Illustrations by John Fleming Gould, Cover by Walter Baumhofer

The greatest series from the pages of Dime Detective Magazine is finally collected in four large editions. Running from 1931-37, Frederick Nebel's P.I. Jack Cardigan was one of the main reasons for that magazine's success as well as highly influential to the most popular hard-boiled writers of the day. Sadly, only a handful of the 44-installment series have ever been reprinted since their original appearances 80 years ago. This reprint series will reprint the entire run.

Volume 1 contains an all-new introduction by Will Murray and features the first 11 stories, complete, uncut, and with the original John Fleming Gould illustrations:

"Death Alley" (November, 1931)
"Hell’s Pay Check" (December, 1931)
"Six Diamonds and a Dick" (January, 1932)
"And There Was Murder" (February, 1932)
"Phantom Fingers" (March, 1932)
"Murder on the Loose" (April, 1932)
 "Rogues' Ransom" (August, 1932)
"Lead Pearls" (September, 1932)
"The Dead Don't Die" (October, 1932)
"The Candy Killer" (November, 1932)
"A Truck-Load of Diamonds" (December, 1932)

394 pages, price TBD


Altus Press - Coming soon!

The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Volume 2: 1933
Authored by Frederick Nebel

The greatest series from the pages of Dime Detective Magazine is finally collected in four large editions. Running from 1931-37, Frederick Nebel's P.I. Jack Cardigan was one of the main reasons for that magazine’s success as well as highly influential to the most popular hard-boiled writers of the day. Sadly, only a handful of the 44-installment series have ever been reprinted since their original appearances 80 years ago. This series collects the entire run.

Volume 2 continues the series and features the next 11 stories, complete, uncut, and with the original John Fleming Gould illustrations:

"The Murder Cure" (January, 1933)
"Me--Cardigan" (February, 1933)
"Doorway to Danger" (March 1, 1933)
"Heir to Murder" (April 1, 1933)
"Dead Man's Folly" (May 1, 1933)
"Murder Won't Wait" (May 15, 1933)		 "Chains of Darkness" (June 15-July 1, 1933)
"Scrambled Murder" (July 15, 1933)
"Death After Murder" (August 15, 1933),
"Murder & Co." (September 15, 1933)
"Murder a la Carte" (November 15, 1933)

372 pages | 6" x 9" | $29.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover

Altus Press

Altus Press - Coming soon!
Ki-Gor: The Complete Series Volume 2
Authored by John Peter Drummond
List Price: $29.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover
386 pages

For the first time, the Ki-Gor series from the pages of JUNGLE STORIES is collected, complete, uncut and in order! Volume 2 includes the next five stories:

"Ki-Gor and the Paradise That Time Forgot" (Fall 1940)
"The Empire of Doom" (Winter 1940-41)
 "Lair of the Beast" (Spring 1941)
"Ki-Gor and the Temple of the Moon-God" (Summer 1941)
"White Savage" (Fall 1941)
Altus Press - Coming soon!
The Complete Adventures of Richard Knight Volume 1
Authored by Donald E. Keyhoe with an Introduction by Will Murray
List Price: $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover
approximately 230 pages

Best known for writing the adventures of Philip Strange, UFO legend Donald E. Keyhoe also wrote another long-running aerial hero for the pages of FLYING ACES: Richard Knight. These wild adventures also mix in elements of lost races, dinosaurs and more! Volume 1 collects the first six stores from 1936-37:

"Vultures of the Lost Valley"
"Hell Flies High"
"Death Flies the Equator"
"Falcons from Nowhere"
"Masks Over Madrid"
"Wings of the Emerald"
Altus Press - Coming soon!
The Dr. Zeng Omnibus
by E. Hoffmann Price, W.T. Ballard &  Robert Leslie Bellem

Join Doctor Zeng Tse-Lin’s battle with crime and the Japanese menace in the mysterious world of San Francisco’s Chinatown. An American who posed as a Chinese scholar, Dr. Zeng’s stories have never been
completely reprinted before... until now.

Featuring all seven installments: "Fangs of Doom," "Blood Cargo," "Sinister House," "Camelback Kill," "Lion’s Loot," "Blackmail Clinic" and "Corpse Cargo." Includes an all-new introduction by Will Murray.
410 pages | $34.95 softcover | $44.95 hardcover
Altus Press - Coming soon!
The Complete Adventures of Oke Oakley and Secrets, Inc.
by Frederick C. Davis, introduction by Will Murray

From 1933 to 1935, Frederick C. Davis chronicled the cases of Hollywood P.I. firm Secrets, Inc.
Led by Clay “Oke” Oakley and assisted by Cherry Morris and Archibald Brixey,
Secrets, Inc. investigated some of the weirdest and most ingenious crimes
in the long history of Dime Detective Magazine—all centering around the film industry.
Never before reprinted, this lost classic is available for the first time in nearly 80 years.


474 pages | $34.95 softcover | $44.95 hardcover
Altus Press - Coming soon!
Secret Agent "X" - The Complete Series Volume 6
Authored by G.T. Fleming-Roberts & Paul Chadwick
 Introduction by Tom Johnson

For 41 issues from 1934 to 1939, SECRET AGENT "X" battled the forces of evil in the pages of his own pulp magazine. Now, for the first time... the complete pulp series is being reprinted in nine deluxe omnibus editions! The text has been reset and all the original interior illustrations have been remastered.

This volume contains the next five stories, by G.T. Fleming-Roberts and Paul Chadwick: "Brand of the Metal Maiden," "Dividends of Doom," "The Fear Merchants," "Faceless Fury" and "Subterranean Scourge." This is THE Secret Agent "X" reprint series to own!
492 pages | $34.95 softcover | $44.95 hardcover
Altus Press - Coming soon!
The Secret 6 Classics: Return Engagement With Death
Authored by Emile C. Tepperman
List Price: $24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover
280 pages
Klaw, Murdoch and Kerrigan... the FBI's Suicide Squad return
in this collection of six classic Suicide adventures
from the pages of ACE G-MEN STORIES from 1939-43:

The Suicide Squad Reports for Death: Kerrigan, Murdoch and Klaw in a smashing F.B.I. Novel--In all the Service they were the Law's toughest, shield-bearing crime fighters--and their job was to come through or die!

The Suicide Squad--Dead or Alive!: Storm Troop gangsters took over the Hill City government. Blue-uniformed killers picked up the blood-purge hunt for Kerrigan, Murdoch, and Klaw--the three F.B.I. aces who had to capture a city just to rescue a red-headed girl!

The Suicide Squad and the Murder Bund: Murdoch, Kerrigan and Klaw, the F.B.I.'s dauntless Suicide Squad, must daily fight with dogged, unbelievable courage--merely to earn the right to live! Could this fabulous team of crime-fighters lock guns in deadly combat with the Skull and Swastika Corps--and still remain a trio?
The Masked Marksman's Command Performance: What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable body? The answer, we'll bet, would be something like the meeting between Ed Race, the Masked Marksman--and the Suicide Squad!

The Suicide Squad's Dawn Patrol: The Japs were planning a barbarous air raid on America--that much was known to Kerrigan, Murdoch and Klaw, the F.B.I.'s indomitable Suicide Squad. When, where and bow this hellish blitzkrieg was to come, they were grimly determined to find out, even if that meant permitting the lovely, evil Madam Sail to lure them to the reincarnated Japanese Diva-King--who could command men to
destroy themselves!

Move Over, Death!: Kerrigan, Murdoch and Klaw--the fabulous fighting Feds--had finally been given the assignment which no G-man could take--and live! Gladly, with grins on their battle-scarred faces, they walked into the Nazi trap, with blazing guns punctuating their war cry: "Move over, Death!"

Andy Briggs: TARZAN, THE JUNGLE WARRIOR - Coming in 2012!

A Sneak Preview from Andy Briggs of the proposed cover for next year's follow-up sequel to the best-selling TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE LEGACY.




Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!
DOC SAVAGE Volume 52: "Violent Night," "Strange Fish"
& "The Screaming Man" - Triple-novel World War II Special
The Man of Bronze battles America's enemies in three World War II thrillers by Lester Dent writing as "Kenneth Robeson." First, Doc Savage has only two days to unmask the disguised Adolf Hitler, who has fled a collapsing Nazi Germany! Then, the Man of Bronze is framed for murder as he hunts an undercover Gestapo officer. Finally, after Johnny Littlejohn vanishes on a secret mission for Army Intelligence, Doc goes on a rescue mission to the Far East. Can he unmask a murderous fugitive from Nazi Germany in time to save his aide? This classic pulp reprint features the original color pulp covers by Modest Stein, Paul Orban's classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray, writer of eight Doc Savage novels. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-064-9 Softcover, 7x10, 144 pages, B&W, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!
THE SHADOW Volume 54: "The Golden Quest" and "The Masked Headsman"
The Dark Avenger and Harry Vincent share center stage in two thrilling tales of lost treasure by Walter Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, The Shadow and his ablest agent journey to Michigan timber country in a thrilling tale of deadly avarice, betrayal and a forgotten gold mine. Then, a supercrook preys upon aristocratic refugees from the Spanish civil war, leading The Shadow into a deadly dual with The Masked Headsman. This instant collector's item showcases both classic pulp covers by George Rozen, the original interior illustrations by Tom Lovell, commentary by popular-culture historian Will Murray plus "The Shadow Around the World." (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-063-2 Softcover, 7x10. 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
At the printers and arriving later this month!
DOC SAVAGE Volume 53: "Ost" & "According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic"
The Man of Bronze battles the supernatural in classic pulp thrillers by Lester Dent writing as "Kenneth Robeson." First, Doc Savage follows his stolen dirigible to a magic island and discovers the lost city of Ost, in an expanded novel with never-before-published text from Lester Dent's original manuscript. Then, Renny Renwick awakens in the body of a fugitive gangster after encountering a strange impish man. What is the bizarre connection between the One-Eyed Mystic, a stolen military secret and a Nazi plot? This classic pulp reprint features the original color pulp covers by Robert G. Harris and Modest Stein, Paul Orban's classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray, writer of eight Doc Savage novels. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-066-3 Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, $14.95
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
At the printers and arriving later this month!
THE SHADOW Volume 55: "The Green Hoods" and "Silver Skull"
The Shadow's true identity takes center stage in two classic pulp novels that inspired the classic 1940 Shadow movie serial. First, explorer Kent Allard is invited to join The Green Hoods, a hooded secret society whose true purpose is an enigma. Then, airplanes carrying wealthy passengers disappear over the Rockies, setting The Shadow on the trail of the criminal mastermind called Silver Skull. PLUS "Prelude to Terror," a 1939 radio classic. This instant collector's item showcases both classic pulp covers by George Rozen, the original interior illustrations by Edd Cartier and commentary by popular-culture historians Ed Hulse and Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-065-6 Softcover, 7x10. 128 pages B&W, $14.95
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Twelve issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)
Black Coat Press
The November releases are now available!

THE XENOBIOTIC INVASION by Théo Varlet
adapted by Brian Stableford

The Xenobiota had invaded the tracks; a vehement thrust of the extraterrestrial creation was developing aggressive battalions of lichen on the rails, a reddish-purple coating bristling with spikes, like a giant crystallization. In the vault, packets of branched stalactites were hanging from the trolley-wires and the feeder cables. Prolongations of these vegetal masses were surging forth, developing like the sections of an expanding telescope. After a brief interval, a blood-red bubble formed at the tip, which burst with a noise like a pop-gun, projecting its dust of spores.  

Aurore Lescure, the first woman astronaut to have gone into space, returns to Earth with deadly alien spores which feed on electricity and threatens to utterly destroy our civilization.

US$20.95 / GBP £12.99
5x8 trade paperback, 220 pages

The Nyctalope Steps In is a collection of 15 stories featuring France's premier pulp superhero from the 1920s and 1930s. The title piece is a translation of a rare tale serialized in a regional newspaper in 1942, the last story ever written by the character's creator, Jean de La Hire, in which his hero comes to terms with France's occupation by the Nazis.

Fourteen other stories, eight of which were especially written for this volume, offer more exciting adventures from the Nyctalope's secret origins, lost in the mists of time, to his excursions into the future, from the blood-drenched trenches of World War I to the far-off planet Mars.

Also included in this book is a complete Nyctalope chronology by Emmanuel Gorlier.

US$24.95 / GBP £16.99
5x8 trade paperback, 352 pages

THE WING by Jean Richepin
adapted by Brian Stableford

She had had a vision of Joson winged, wanting to fly toward her in order to ask her for the figures on electrical fertilization, and she had great difficulty stopping herself from crying out: "No! Don't fly like that! You'll have a horrible fall! Your wings are poor. It only needs one. That wing I shall furnish myself. Wait!"
 
The Wing, A Romance of the New Age (1911) is the story of the alerion, a flying machine capable of neutralizing gravity by harnessing Earth's telluric currents, powered by atomic disintegration and controlled by radio signals; but even more, it is the story of its inventors, their lives and loves, and the tragedies that bind them.

US$22.95 / GBP £14.99
5x8 trade paperback, 324 pages

Black Coat Press



The Black Temple
Fantasy and heavy metal collide in this animated, psychedelic quest of barbarians, she-demons, and monsters!

The Black Temple is a 3d Animated film being produced here in Melbourne by Cameron Crichton and SubZero Media. We are looking for sponsors and fans. If you like Conan, Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, Warhammer, World of Warcraft, Frazetta, Bisley, Heavy Metal, D&D, Moorcock, Lovecraft, Gor, Gore and Hot Chicks then this film is for you.

PREMISE
Based loosely on Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf, The ageing warrior, Seven, is introspective, philosophical and verging on insanity. He is outcast from society under his own volition as he believes himself above and separate from them, but at the same time he wrestles with his internal 'wolf', his base, lower self, his desire for sex, stimulants and violent conquest. He wanders the land searching for a mystical place called the Black Temple, his Holy Grail, an analogy for his self acceptance which will bring him back into the world and allow him to appreciate life.

INFLUENCE
The amazing films of Ray Harryhausen; Jason and the Argonauts, Sinbad and Clash of the Titans, to name a few, provide huge amounts of inspiration for The Black Temple. Writers like Michael Moorcock, H.P. Lovecraft and John Norman who create worlds of wonder and original fantasy are also inspiring us to create an original world through which we can spin an amazing story.
If you like what we are doing here and you would like to be a part of the production all you have to do is provide a link to your most suitable concept art when you make a sponsor donation, you can donate any amount. As well as receiving the standard rewards for sponsoring The Black Temple you go into the running for your creature concept to be realised as a fully animated 3D character in the movie plus a cash prize of $400.

Join us on Facebook and follow the progress of our production and the concept art competition. All artwork will be uploaded to our facebook album and published in our feed with links to the artist's site. At the end of Stage Two Ten finalists will be selected by the Director and the winner will be judged by our sponsors.

Winners will receive AUD$400, a deluxe pack, an invitation to the premiere screening of The Black Temple, full accreditation in both the film and on IMDB and a featurette in the special features on the DVD release.
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER / MURANIA PRESS
Coming later this month!
BAREHANDED CASTAWAYS by J. Allan Dunn

Number Two in Murania’s Classic Pulp Reprints series, featuring J. Allan Dunn’s BAREHANDED CASTAWAYS, written in 1921 and published in the legendary pulp magazine ADVENTURE. It’s the suspenseful story of nine men stranded on an island without tools, weapons, or supplies—not even so much as a watch or penknife among them. Dunn’s compelling account of their desperate struggle to survive in inhospitable surroundings enthralled ADVENTURE readers and is still regarded as the finest story of its kind. The Murania Press edition includes a new Preface by BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER editor Ed Hulse, along with an Introduction by ADVENTURE’s editor, Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, reprinted from the magazine’s “Camp-Fire” department.

BAREHANDED CASTAWAYS is priced at $19.95 and will be available through the new Murania Press web site, which will go on line in mid-November (www.muraniapress.com).

Also coming late next month, after several unavoidable postponements, will be the long-awaited DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS.
Additionally, Murania head honcho Ed Hulse offers an apology for recent shipping snafus affecting BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER subscribers: “Some months ago, while simultaneously coping with health problems, financial difficulties and a family tragedy, I accepted the help of a well-meaning friend who offered to assist with order fulfillment and subscriber shipments of BnT’s Spring and Summer issues. Unfortunately, she became overwhelmed and as a result some subscriber copies of issues 29 and 30 fell between the cracks. I believe the errant copies have now all been mailed, but any subscribers who still haven’t received theirs should contact me at bnteditor@yahoo.com.”

The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 151: The Return of Jeff Deischer - New!
Jeff Deischer joins the Book Cave crew to chat about his latest novel.
Episode 150: Perry Rhodan
Episode 149: Death's Heretic
Episode 148: Lance Star Volume 3
Episode 147: Wayne Reinagel
Episode 146: Comics Podcast Crossover
Episode 145: Gayleen Froese
Episode 144: The Rook Volume 6
Episode 143: The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage
CLASSICON - Pulp, Paperback and Glamour Art Show - Saturday, November 12!
Classicon is one of the first pulp/paperback shows ever established.
There are 35 tables and thousands of collectable old Pulp magazines, digests, and paperbacks available for sale or trade.

More information is available at our website:  http://www.curiousbooks.com/classicon.html
Please feel free to call Ray Walsh if you have any questions at Curious Book Shop, (517) 332-0112
Cliffhanger Treasury #2 - Now available!
By Eric Stedman

The second king-size issue of classic serial-character-related stories and art.

BLUE BEETLE in "Origin of the Blue Beetle"
BULLETMAN vs. The Black Spider
CAPTAIN VIDEO: "Makino, the Indestructible Antagonist"
DESERT HAWK: "Curse of the Lost Pharaoh"
DON WINSLOW: "Toguchi’s Escape"
MASK OF FU MANCHU: Chapter 2
THE MASKED MARVEL: "Public Enemy No. 1"
PERILS OF NYOKA: Chapter 2: "Valley of Sacrifice"
THE OREGON TRAIL: Chapter 2
ROCKETMAN: "Venus Afire"
ROCKY LANE: "Renegade’s Ambush"
SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE: Chapter 1
SPY SMASHER: "The Adventure of the Golden Wasp"
THUNDA: "The Monsters from the Mists"

Publisher The Serial Squadron
Published November 4, 2011
Pages 172
Binding Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink Black & white
Dimensions (inches) 8.5 wide × 11.0 tall


Clive Clussler: Devil's Gate (The Numa Files) - Coming November 14th!
Clive Cussler  (Author), Graham Brown (Author)

A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster- when their boat explodes. What is happening in that part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA(r) Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations. Their penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities.

Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler, Devil's Gate is one of the most thrilling novels yet from the grand master of adventure.

Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult (November 14, 2011)
ISBN-10: 0399157824
ISBN-13: 978-0399157820


CONAN THE BARBARIAN (2011) DVD - Coming November 22nd!
The most legendary Barbarian of all time is back this summer! Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades in the public imagination — in prose and graphics, on the big screen and small, in games and properties of all kinds — Conan's exploits in the Hyborian Age now come alive like never before in a colossal 3D action-adventure film. A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil. Deftly adapted from the original works of Robert E. Howard and faithful to the mythology and psychology of his iconic character, "Conan the Barbarian" stars Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Said Taghmaoui, and Ron Perlman.
DVD/BLU-RAY COMBO—Combo Pack    $39.99
DVD    $29.99


CRIME, MYSTERY, & GANGSTER FICTION MAGAZINE INDEX
by Phil Stephensen-Payne, William G. Contento, & Stephen T. Miller
Now available!

CD-ROM: Locus Press, Available now!
Hardcover: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, Coming in 2012!
The index is based (with permission) on the two classic indexes in this field (both now long out of print):
  • Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Fiction: A Checklist of Fiction in U.S. Pulp Magazines, 1915-1974 compiled by Michael L. Cook and Stephen T. Miller 
  • Monthly Murders: A Checklist and Chronological Listing Of Fiction In The Digest-Size Mystery Magazines In The United States And England compiled by Michael L. Cook
The CRIME, MYSTERY, & GANGSTER FICTION MAGAZINE INDEX: 1915-2010 combines, enhances, and brings up to date the information from these previous indexes, and includes thousands of magazine cover images.
Includes indexes by Author, Title, Issue, Series, Publisher, Artist, and Chronological by Author.

Statistics:
Magazine Titles: 870
Magazine Issues: 15,387
Authors: 16,634
Fiction (stories & serial segments): 112,456
Poems: 1,432
Non-Fiction (articles, columns, etc.): 37,530
Cover Images: 13,048

The CD-ROM version of the index can be read on any computer with a CD-ROM/DVD drive and a web browser.
There is no software to load. Price: $24.95.

For more information see http://www.philsp.com/cfi1.html.

I don't often do reviews. Primarily because I just don't have the time. However, sometimes a product comes along that just screams out to be mentioned. The CRIME, MYSTERY, & GANGSTER FICTION MAGAZINE INDEX is one of those products. If you have a serious interest in the pulps, you will absolutely want to have this CD Index. The CD contains a index for each author, title, issue, series, publisher, and artist, as well as a chronological index by author. There is also an Issue Checklist which I find most helpful. You can look up any crime, mystery, or gangster pulp and display a grid that shows the volume and number of each issue and when it was published. There is also a brief history of the magazine and the publishers name and address (when known). Better yet, when you click on the volume and number for an issue, a new screen reveals the full contents of the magazine along with a thumbnail of the cover that links back to the cover database at Galactic Central!  If you are online, a larger cover scan will be available to view. The index is similar to the online Fiction Mags Index.




The CD Index can be used on a Windows of Macintosh PC with a CD-ROM or DVD drive. Although publication in several hardbound volumes is planned for 2012, the hard copy will no doubt be pricey and not as easy to use as the html version that works with your web browser and is now available at an unbelieveable price. This index has been a work-in-progress for quite a few years and Phil Stephensen-Payne, William G. Contento, and Stephen T. Miller have done an astounding job that they can well be proud of. I heartily recommend this product with no reservations.
Curse of the Phantom Shadow
Pulp inspired film project in the works!

The year is 1948 and the United States has a new enemy, The Phantom Shadow. This dark figure has diabolical plans for captured scientist, Dr. Hammond, and his War Department weapons of mass destruction. Upon the Phantom Shadow launching a treacherous missile attack on key locations in the United States, the government takes action.

There is only one man to call, Agent 236, an elite government agent. Agent 236 has been dispatched to launch a rescue.

Along the way, Agent 236 is befriended by a  spunky, sarcastic, gas station attendant who just happens to have pinup girl good looks.  She also just happens to be looking for a little action,and excitement. Luckily, Agent 236 is the man of her dreams. Agent 236 puts the station attendant and her tow truck into service in pursuit of the Phantom Shadow.
Why Are We Raising Money?
After spending the bulk of my personal savings, we are still short of completing our movie. We need to rent a vintage 1940s tow truck, a green screen stage, and bring our cast and crew to our final shooting location in Pahrump, Nevada.  In addition to this we have post-production costs to consider.
We have 75% of our movie's footage in the can. The last 25% is unfortunately the most expensive.

Rewards
As our way of saying thank you, we are offering rewards. Assuming we reach our funding goals, all of the rewards will be sent out January 12th of 2012. The exceptions being movie credits, and the final DVD. These rewards will arrive approximately in May of 2012. (As soon as post-production has been completed.)

Project Intentions
Once our project has been completed, we intend to submit it to many film festivals. More importantly we hope to use this short film as a launch pad to a feature length film with the same characters. Ideally we would like to shoot 3 feature length movies with these characters, and situations. Most importantly, we want a showcase to demonstrate the talent of our cast and crew.

Project History
These characters and situations are the culmination of almost one decade of work. They had their origins in comic book proposals. I have spent the last three years, in many cases working without a crew, assembling props from scratch,  and acquiring our initial footage. This has been a labor of love, passion, and limitless tenacity. As anyone who knows me will attest, I always finish what I start.

Thank you for stopping by our project's page, and we hope you can find it in your hearts (and wallets) to help us in this endeavor!

Dime Novel Castle
Now available!
Old Sleuth, the Detective; or, The Bay Ridge Mystery
Originally Published June 10, 1872

Old Sleuth is a famous detective much feared by the underworld because he has an uncanny knack for finding obscure clues to unravel mysteries that have baffled the police.  A supposedly wizened old man with white, mutton chop whiskers and glasses, Old Sleuth is in reality Harry Loveland, a man presumably in his early 30s -- at least in the first story; in the subsequent tales, he is, in fact, an old man.

The creation of Harlan Page Halsey (October 23, 1837-- December 16, 1898), Old Sleuth was the first detective in dime novel fiction to be featured in a continuous series of stories; his adventures, however, were few and far between.

The first Old Sleuth story was printed in the weekly story paper, The Fireside Companion (Old Sleuth, the Detective; or, The Bay Ridge Mystery) on June 10, 1872; it concluded three months later on October 14, 1872.  Five more Old Sleuth tales followed in 1875, 1883, 1884, 1888 and 1891.  The stories were reprinted in the Old Sleuth Library in the late 1880s and some of them were reprinted elsewhere over the years to the very end of the dime novel era.

Visit our Website Now for a FREE Dime Novel, in Adobe eBook Format!
Download Issue #1 from the Nick Carter Detective Library
"The Solution of a Remarkable Case"



Doc Con 14 - Saturday, November 12, 2011!

It has been a challenging year this year to prepare for this con, but we finally have some information to get to all of you.
Doc Con 14 will be held at Courtney Rogers' house in Glendale, Arizona on Saturday, November 12, 2011.
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Courtney will open his doors at 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning, with the con officially kicking off at 10 a.m. We will be going until 5 or 6 p.m. After that time, those who would like to stay are invited to “Doc Con after Dark.”

There will be an entrance fee of $20, just like the past three years. This amount will get you a copy of "The Big Book of Bronze #4" that Jay Ryan is feverishly putting together, plus cover lunch. The main food and soft drinks and water will be provided. We will have several activities throughout the day to keep everyone occupied, plus plenty of time for individual and group discussions. It will be our usual great day of fun and fellowship based around Doc Savage.

Jay Ryan will be hosting Friday night activities, which will include going out for dinner and then recording a radio play at his home.
Stay tuned for more information regarding Friday night.

We will also convene for Sunday breakfast for those so inclined.

Here is what you need to do:
— Let us know if you are attending
— We will have a raffle again this year. Those choosing to participate should bring an item or items.
— Bring whatever items you want to give away, sell, or show off
— We are also asking everyone to bring some ancillary food items. Either chips, desserts or other snacks would be great.
     Please let us know what you'd like to bring so we can (hopefully) prevent us from getting too much of one thing.
— Bring $20 cash for the entrance fee
— Bring cash (or check) in case there is something you see to buy. Terry Allen will be coming with plenty of Fantom Press merchandise, too.
— Bring your ideas for a short session to discuss Doc Con 15 and future of Doc Con

Thank you for your patience, and we all look forward to seeing each other in November.
Courtney Rogers & William Lampkin
E-texts on the net this week
The Shadow in Review:
This weeks new Shadow review is "The Living Shadow" from the April 1931 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
 
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:   Now with over 1000 stories online!
"Homicide Haul" by Robert Carlton from THRILLING DETECTIVE, February, 1953
The taxi meter was ticking . . . but not the passenger's heart!
"Boomerang Blade" by Norman A. Daniels from SECRET AGENT "X", March 1936
Jason McGee was a fighting Irishman. He fought his way to the bantam crown, fought his way to a first grade detective's post - and fought his way out of it. He socked a lieutenant on the nose. But now he faced a double-barreled frame that called for more than fists.
Electric Tiki / Sideshow Collectables: DOC SAVAGE STATUE
Now available and pre-orders are shipping!

Sideshow Collectables and Electric Tiki presents the eighteenth character
in its ongoing tribute to Classic Heroes, Doc Savage!

"He rights wrongs and punishes evildoers." Clark Savage, Jr., aka Doc Savage, first appeared in 1933 in the pages of Doc Savage magazine. Created by Henry W. Ralston and John L. Nanovic for Street and Smith publications, Doc Savage was created to capitalize on the success of another pulp hero, The Shadow. Writer Lester Dent was the first to fully flesh out the character, and artist James Bama gave the "Man of Bronze" the classic appearance he is known for today. Having been trained by a team of scientists from birth, Doc grew to almost superhuman abilities.

Electric Tiki's Doc Savage statue depicts the hero on an icy winter base, featuring the original "Fortress of Solitude." The translucent blue dome reveals a hidden hatch, featuring the Doc Savage logo. Standing 12" tall, Doc Savage is sculpted by Rubén Procopio and Bryan Wynia.



SRP: $199.99




Girasol Collectables - Now available!
Full Color 16” x 24” Art Prints by Patrick J. Jones

Barbarian splendor at its very best! Top quality offset printed reproductions on 8pt stock of the
stunning masterpieces by acclaimed fantasy artist and master instructor Patrick J. Jones.
Only $20 each!
(+$9 s&h in North America for 1 - 2 prints) • (+$12 s&h in North America for 3 - 5 prints)
Special Offer: BOTH for $45 including s&h!
Shipped in sturdy mailing tubes.
Paypal to: info@girasolcollectables.com      Checks or international money orders made payable to:
Girasol Collectables Inc., 3501 Glen Erin Drive, Suite 1409, Mississauga, ON L5L 2E9 Canada
The Forbidden Kingdom
 Army Of The Damned

Girasol Collectables
2012 Spider Pulp Doubles

#22 - January 2012 (variant cover option)
#25 - October 1935 - Overlord of the Damned - V1 cover
#82 - July 1940 - Dictator's Death Merchants - V2 cover

#23 - April 2012
#95 - August 1941 - The Spider and the Scarlet Surgeon
#104 - May 1942 - The Spider and the Death Piper

#24 - July 2012
#34 - July 1936 - Laboratory of the Damned
#77 - February 1940 - Hell’s Sales Manager

#25 - October 2012
#87 - December 1940 - The Spider and the Jewels of Hell
#114 - March 1943 - Recruit for the Spider Legion

Subscriptions are $50 including s&h within North America as usual;
for $60, we include both cover versions of #22.
Individual copies are $14.95 plus $3.05 s&h, total $18.


Girasol Collectables


Girasol Collectables - November Pulp Replicas!
Girasol Collectables is pleased to announce three more issues in its ongoing series of Pulp Replicas.
Click here or on the images to the right for a look at larger Pulp Replica cover images.

Monthly Special: All three for $75 ($10 off)

Our first Replica this month is THE SPIDER #74 featuring "The Spider and the Faceless One" from November 1939. $35

Our second Replica this month is SPICY ADVENTURE #9 from June 1935. $25

Our third Replica is SPICY WESTERN #4 from February 1937 - $25

Girasol also accepts Paypal as an alternate method of payment.
Other than Replicas, please confirm availability first before ordering items such as pulp magazines or other books.
Payments can be made to our regular info@girasolcollectables.com email address.

As always, these reprints  are exact copies including the illustrations, ads, and back-up stories and have been printed on off-white paper, staple-bound and finished off with a high quality reproduction of the original cover.
The only thing missing is the smell (alas) and the flaking newsprint.

Email Girasol Collectables at: info@girasolcollectables.com.
A complete listing, along with other items such as books, fanzines and of course pulps, can be found on
the Girasol Collectables website at http://www.girasolcollectables.com/

All payments must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables and mailed to:
Neil Mechem c/o Girasol Collectables
3501 GlenErin Drive, Apt. 1409,
Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L 2E9





ALL DETECTIVE MAGAZINE  ($25 each postpaid)
#27 January 1935

BLACK MASK MAGAZINE  ($35 each postpaid)
April 1920 - First issue!
June 1,1923 - The rare KKK issue

CIVIL WAR STORIES ($25 each postpaid) 
Spring 1940

DAN TURNER  ($25 each postpaid)
Dan Turner Hollywood DetectiveNo. 1 (January 1942)
Dan Turner Hollywood Detective No. 2 (April 1942)

DOCTOR DEATH  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February 1935
#2  March 1935
#3  April 1935

DR. YEN SIN  ($35 each postpaid)
#1 May/June 1936
#2 July/August 1936
#3 September/October 1936

EERIE TALES($20 eachpostpaid)
#1 July 1941

GOLDEN FLEECE  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 October 1938
#2 November 1938
#3 December 1938
#4 January 1939
#5  February 1939
#6  March 1939
#7  April 1939
#8 May 1939
#9 June 1939

HORROR STORIES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 January 1935
#5  July 1935

MAGIC CARPET ($25 each postpaid)
#1 January 1933
#2 April 1933
#3 July 1933
#4  October 1933
#5  January 1934

THE MYSTERIOUS WU FANG ($35 )each postpaid
#1  September 1935
#2  October 1935
#3  November 1935
#4  December 1935
#5  January 1936
#6  February 1936
#7 March 1936

MYSTERY ADVENTURE MAGAZINE  ($25 each postpaid)
November 1936 with a rare Domino Lady cover appearance

THE OCTOPUS ($35 each postpaid)
February/March 1939

OPERATOR 5  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  The Masked Invasion (April 1934)
#2  The Invisible Empire (May 1934)
#3  The Yellow Scourge (June 1934)
#4  The Melting Death (July 1934)
#5  Cavern of the Damned (August 1934)
#6  Master of Broken Men (September 1934)
#7  Invasion of the Dark Legions (October 1934)
#8  The Green Death Mists (November 1934)
#9  Legions of Starvation (December 1934)
#10 The Red Invader (January 1935)
#11 The League of War Monsters (February 1935)
#12  The Army of the Dead (March 1935)
#13  March of the Flame Marauders (April 1935)
#14 Blood Reign of the Dictator (May 1935)
#15 Invasion of the Yellow Warlords (June 1935)
#16 Legions of the Death Master (July 1935)
#17  Hosts of the Flaming Death (August 1935)
#18 Invasion of the Crimson Death Cult (September 1935)
#19 Attack of the Blizzard Men (October 1935)
#20 Scourge of the Invisible Death (November 1935)
#21 Raiders of the Red Death (December 1935)
#22  War-Dogs of the Green Destroyer (January 1936)
#23 Rockets From Hell (February 1936)
#24  War Masters from the Orient (March 1936)
#25 Crimes Reign of Terror (April 1936)
#26 Death's Ragged Army (June-July 1936)
#27 Patriot's Death Battalion (August-Sept. 1936)
#28 The Bloody Forty-Five Days (Oct.-Nov. 1936)

ORIENTAL STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1  Oct./Nov. 1930                        
#2  Dec. 1930/Jan 1931
#3  February/March 1931
#4  Spring 1931
#5  Summer 1931
#6  Autumn 1931
#7  Winter 1932
#8  Spring 1932
#9  Summer 1932

PIRATE STORIES ($25 )each postpaid
#1  November 1934

THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE ($25 )each postpaid
#1  February 1933

SAUCY MOVIE TALES  ($25 each postpaid)
#3   December 1935 (#1 after a title change)
#4   January 1936  (#2 after a title change)
#5   March 1936 
#11 September 1936

THE SCORPION ($35 each postpaid)
April/May 1939

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ($25 each postpaid)
October 1931

SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#2  November 1934 [#1 after the ashcan]
#3  December 1934
#4  January 1935
#5  February 1935
#6  March 1935
#7  April 1935
#8  May 1935
#9 June 1935
#10 July 1935
#12 September 1935
#13 October 1935
#14 November 1935
#16 January 1936
#17 February 1936
#18 March 1936
#19 April 1936
#20 May 1936
#21 June 1936
#22 July 1936
#23 August 1936
#24 September 1936
#25 October 1936
#26 November 1936
#27 December 1936
#28 January 1937
#39 December 1937

SPICY-DETECTIVE STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#1  May 1934
#3  July 1934
#5  September 1934
#6  October 1934
#7  November 1934
#8  December 1934
#9  January 1935
#10 February 1935
#11 March 1935
#12  April 1935
#13 May 1935
#14 June 1935
#15 July 1935
#16 August 1935
#17 September 1935
#18 October 1935
#19 November 1935
#20 December 1935
#21 January 1936
#24 April 1936
#25 May 1936
 #26 June 1936
#27 July 1936
#29 September 1936              
#30 October 1936
#31 November 1936
#76 August 1940
 SPICY-MYSTERY STORIES  ($25 )each postpaid
#2  June 1935
#3  July 1935
#4  August 1935
#5  September 1935
#6  October 1935
#7  November 1935
#8  December 1935
#9  January 1936
#10 February 1936
#11 March 1936
#12 April 1936
#13 May 1936
#14 June 1936
#15 July 1936
#16 August 1936
#17 ­ September 1936
#19 November 1936
#20 December 1936
#21 January 1937
#22 February 1937
#23 March 1937
#26 June 1937

SPICY WESTERN STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#2   December 1936 
#3   January 1937
#4   February 1937
#14 December 1937 

THE SPIDER  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  The Spider Strikes! (October 1933)
#2  The Wheel of Death (November 1933)
#3  Wings of the Black Death (December 1933)
#4  City of Flaming Shadows (January 1934)
#5  Empire of Doom (February 1934)
#6  Citadel of Hell (March 1934)
#7  Serpent of Destruction (April 1934)
 #8  The Mad Horde (May 1934)
#9  Satan's Death Blast  (June 1934)
#10 The Corpse Cargo  (July 1934)
#11 Prince of the Red Looters (August 1934)
#12 Reign of the Silver Terror (September 1934)
#13  Builders of the Black Empire (October 1934)
#14  Death's Crimson Juggernaut (November 1934)
#15  The Red Death Rain (December 1934)
#16 The City Destroyer (January 1935)
#17 The Pain Emperor  (February 1935)
#18  The Flame Master (March 1935)
#19 Slaves of the Crime Master (April 1935)
#20 Reign of the Death Fiddler (May 1935)
#21 Hordes of the Red Butcher (June 1935)
#22 Dragon Lord of the Underworld (July 1935)
#23 Master of the Death Madness (August 1935)
#24 King of the Red Killers (September 1935)
#25 Overlord of the Damned (October 1935)
#26 Death Reign of the Vampire King (November 1935)
#27 Emperor of the Yellow Death (December 1935)
#28 The Mayor of Hell (January 1936)
#29 Slaves of the Murder Syndicate (February 1936)
#30 Green Globes of Death (March 1936)
#31 The Cholera King (April 1936)
#32 Slaves of the Dragon (May 1936)
#33 Legions of Madness (June 1936)
#34 Laboratory of the Damned (July 1936)
#35 Satan's Sightless Legion (August 1936)
#36 The Coming of the Terror (September 1936)
#37 The Devil's Death Dwarfs (October 1936)
#38 City of Dreadful Night (November 1936)
#39 Reign of the Snake Men (December 1936)
#40 Dictator of the Damned (January 1937)
#41 The Mill-Town Massacres (February 1937)
#42 Satan's Workshop (March 1937)
#43 Scourge of the Yellow Fangs (April 1937)
#44 The Devil's Pawnbroker (May 1937)
#45 Voyage of the Coffin Ship (June 1937)
#46 The Man Who Ruled in Hell (July 1937)
#47 Slaves of the Black Monarch (August 1937)
#48 Machine Guns Over the White House (Sept 1937)
#49 The City That Dared Not Eat (October 1937)
#50 Master of the Flaming Horde (November 1937)
#51 Satan's Switchboard (December 1937)
#52 Legion of the Accursed Light (January 1938)
#53 The City of Lost Men (February 1938)
#54 The Grey Horde Creeps (March 1938)
#55 City of Whispering Death (April 1938)
#56 When Thousands Slept in Hell (May 1938)
#57 Satan's Shackles (June 1938)
#58 The Emperor from Hell (July 1938)
#59  The Devil's Candlesticks (August 1938)
#60  The City That Paid to Die (September 1938)
 #61  The Spider at Bay (October 1938)
#62  Scourge of the Black Legions (November 1938)
#63  The Withering Death (December 1938)
#64  Claws of the Golden Dragon (January 1939)
#65  The Song of Death (February 1939)
#66  The Silver Death Rain (March 1939)
#67  Blight of the Blazing Eye (April 1939)
#68  King of the Fleshless Legion (May 1939)  
 #69  Rule of the Monster Men (June 1939)
#70  The Spider and the Slaves of Hell (July 1939)
#71  The Spider and the Fire God (August 1939)
#72  The Corpse Broker (September 1939)
#73  The Spider and the Eyeless Legion (Oct. 1939)
#74  he Spider and the Faceless One (Nov. 1939)

STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#2 December 1933

STRANGE STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February 1939

STRANGE TALES  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 September 1931
#2 November 1931
#3 January 1932
#4  March 1932
#5 June 1932
#6 October 1932
#7 January 1933

TERROR TALES  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  September 1934
#2  October 1934
#3  November 1934
#4  December 1934
#5  January 1935
#6  February 1935
#7 March1935
#8 April 1935
#9 May 1935
#10 June 1935
#11 July 1935
#12  August 1935
#13  September 1935
#14  October 1935
#15  November 1935
#16  December 1935
#17 January 1936
#18 February 1936
#19 March 1936
#20 April 1936
#21 May 1936
#22 June 1936
#23 July/Aug 1936
#24 Sept-Oct 1936
#25 Nov-Dec 1936
#26 Jan-Feb 1937
#27 March/April 1937
#28 May-June 1937
#29 July-August 1937
#30 September/October 1937

THRILLING MYSTERY ($25 each postpaid)
#1 October 1935

WEIRD TALES  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  March 1923
#2  April 1923
#3  May1923
#4  June 1923
#5  July/August 1923
#6  September 1923
#7  October 1923
#8   November 1923
#9   December 1923/January 1924 
#10  February 1924
#11  March 1924
#12  April 1924
#13  Anniversary Issue May/June/July/24 ($50)
#14  November 1924 - One of the rarest WT's
#15  December 1924
#16  January 1925
#17 February 1925
#19 April 1925
#21 June 1925
#22  July 1925
#23  August 1925
#24  September 1925
 #25  October 1925
#26  November 1925
#27  December 1925
#31  April 1926
#40  January 1927
#53  February 1928
#59  August 1928
#117 September 1933
#118 October 1933
#128 August 1934
#143 November 1935
#173 June 1938
Last Months Replicas


Gotham Pulp Collectors Club - November 12, 2011!
Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area.
It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month.

 Name:  Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
Time: 1-4 PM
Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (WestVillage)
Contact:  Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com

Hard Case Crime - Coming in 2012!

February 2012
THE COMEDY IS FINISHED by Donald E. Westlake
Cover art by Gregory Manchess

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours to buck up American troops in the field. And not the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People’s Revolutionary Army, who’ve decided that kidnapping Koo Davis would be the perfect way to bring their cause back to life...
April 2012
BLOOD ON THE MINK by Robert Silverberg
Cover art by Michael Koelsch

Somewhere in Philadelphia, a master engraver is turning out brilliant forgeries of U.S. currency plates for organized crime. To bring the operation down from the inside, the government sends an agent undercover posing as a West Coast crime lord’s right-hand man. It’s a dangerous game of impersonation—one that could prove fatal when the agent’s secret begins to unravel...

Unavailable for half a century and never before published in book form, BLOOD ON THE MINK features a new afterword by the author discussing the novel’s origins in the pages of one of the last surviving pulp magazines—plus two of Silverberg’s short stories from the pulps, also appearing for the first time in more than 50 years.
May 2012
69 BARROW STREET / STRANGE EMBRACE by Lawrence Block
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
69 BARROW STREET:
Greenwich Village: home to every form of depravity and perversion known to man...or woman.

It’s on the streets of the Village that Ralph met Stella—but what started as a love affair between a painter and his seductive muse has become torment as he’s found himself drawn into her world of cruel pleasures. It's a tinderbox of hatred and desire—and when beautiful Susan Rivers moves into their apartment building, tempting Ralph and Stella both, it’s set to ignite.

From dim waterfront bars to the movie houses of Times Square, from nights in rat-trap hotel rooms to drug-fueled orgies in ground-floor apartments, no one can bring 1960s New York to life like Edgar Award winner Lawrence Block. And in this early tale of psychological suspense—unavailable for fifty years and never before published under his real name—readers will discover a harrowing portrait of men and women pushed to their limits and beyond. It’s a double shot of darkness as only Lawrence Block can deliver it.

STRANGE EMBRACE:
They say the show must go on—but in the case of Broadway’s next sensation, A Touch of Squalor, someone’s out to make sure the show never opens. And when threats don’t do the trick, a straight razor to the throat just might.

It’s a case for the NYPD...but with a mysterious killer targeting his cast, producer Johnny Lane can’t just wait in the wings. There’s a Playbill full of suspects, giving Johnny the casting challenge of his career: who to put in the role of murderer, when the wrong call could bring down the curtain on his show—or his life!

Published here for the first time in half a century—and the first time ever under the author’s real name—STRANGE EMBRACE is one of MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block’s earliest detective novels. And for fans of Block’s whodunits who want to see where it all began, it’s cause for a standing ovation.
June 2012!
FALSE NEGATIVE by Joseph Koenig
Cover art by Glen Orbik

JOSEPH KOENIG RETURNS—WITH HIS FIRST NEW NOVEL IN 20 YEARS!

Newspaperman Adam Jordan’s byline ran above two big articles in the early editions. One of them got him fired. The other landed him a job writing true crime pieces for Real Detective magazine. The story he’s working on now—a beauty contestant found strangled on an Atlantic City beach—is one that boardwalk power brokers would rather see covered up then covered. And if Adam keeps digging, he may find that he’s digging his own grave...

First publication ever! 




H.P. LOVECRAFT: THE DUNWICH HORROR #2 (OF 4)
Arriving in comic shops November 9th!
Joe R. Lansdale (Writer), Peter Bergting (Art), menton3 (Colors)

H.P. Lovecraft is known as one of the key founders of modern horror, cited as a major influence by many prominent authors, such as Stephen King. In collaboration with renowned Lovecraft historian and literary caretaker Robert Weinberg, IDW is bringing you the definitive Lovecraft comics updated for a 21st century audience.

The limits of sanity are stretched as the Horror continues! The monstrous Wilbur Whatley is determined to get his hands on the most nefarious book in history... the Necronomicon! As we get hints about Wilbur’s disturbing deformation we also learn of another terrifying threat... Wilbur’s brother who “looks more like his father!” The definitive Lovecraft experience continues, courtesy of Joe Lansdale and company!
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE - Now available!
by Lee Houston, Jr.
Someday, Humanity will finally reach the stars.

Upon that day, mankind will ironically discover that the rest of the universe has much of the same foibles and problems they do. Missing people, greed, theft, bigotry, and other failings are not limited to just Old Earth. Thankfully, there are beings like Hugh Monn, Private Detective to help resolve those issues.

The debut collection from author/creator Lee Houston, Junior is a New Pulp mash up of two classic genres: the hard boiled detective and science fiction! Join Hugh on eight thrilling cases as he walks the glittering, yet dark streets of Galveston 2 and finds as much mayhem and corruption in the future as there's ever been!

Painted cover by David Russell.
ISBN/EAN13: 1466481900 / 9781466481909
184 pages

The Incredible Adventures of Doc Atlas: The Doc Atlas Omnibus
Michael A. Black (Author), Ray Lovato (Author),
Geoff Darrow (Illustrator), Tim Faurote (Illustrator), Matthew Lovato (Illustrator)
Now available!

Set in the era of the 1940s and 50s, this collection of pulp-style novellas follows the adventures of the mighty Doc Atlas and crew from the jungles of Central America to the frozen tundra of the North Pole. Whether they’re prowling the streets of Manhattan, investigating reports of a killer gorilla (with the purported brain of an executed criminal) or a crashed flying saucer in a small town named Roswell, New Mexico, Doc and company always see the investigation through to the end. Written with historical hindsight, these tales combine the best elements of the pulp era with actual historical figures and events.

Paperback: 284 pages
Publisher: Dark Oak Mysteries
ISBN-10: 161009025X
ISBN-13: 978-1610090254
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches


James Bond Returns: Bond 23 Now Titled "Skyfall"
 “Shooting on the latest James Bond movie starts Monday, Daniel Craig revealed at this morning’s press conference for Skyfall, the 23rd 007 movie” Deadline’s Tim Adler reported from London on Thursday, November 3, 2011.  The feature, which returns Daniel Craig as James Bond for the third time, also stars Javier Bardem as the main villain of the piece, who may or may not be Bond nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Due in U.S. theaters on November 9, 2012, Skyfall also stars Bérénice Marlohe, Albert Finney, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris, in addition to Judi Dench, who returns as M. The film is written by John Logan and directed by Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition).
JOHN CARTER OF MARS: WORLD OF MARS #2 (OF 4)
Arriving in comic shops November 9th!
Based on the Novel by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Written by Peter David; Art by Luke Ross; Cover by Mico Suayan

The thrilling prequel to the Disney adaptation of John Carter World of Mars continues!
Sab Than, would-be ruler of Zodanga, has kidnapped the magnificent Dejah Thoris, the Princess of Mars, in order to bring her home city of Helium to its knees.  Unfortunately for him, he's about to learn that capturing a Martian princess and holding onto her is not exactly the same thing.  Meanwhile, Tars Tarkas promises to help an old friend on a dangerous quest, only to discover himself face to face with a Martian white ape and his "old friend" nowhere to be found!  It's part two of the official prelude to the highly awaited Disney film, based on the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs tales of Barsoom, the original Martian chronicles.

32 pages, $3.99





KULL: THE CAT AND THE SKULL #2
Arriving in comic shops November 9th!
David Lapham (Writer), Gabriel Guzman (Pencils), Dan Jackson (Color), and Jo Chen (Cover)

With unparalleled military might and the diligent King Kull on the throne, there are few threats to the mighty Valusian empire, but among the top are the snake-men. They have the ability to change their shape to blend in with the populace, striking from the familiar. What, then, could terrify a snake-man? The greatest threats to civilization are just the pawns of a horrible wizard with powers that dwarf the considerable magics of the snake-men. What chance does Kull, a mortal man, stand against a seemingly all-powerful, immortal foe?

32 pages, $3.50

THE LAST PHANTOM ANNUAL #1 - Arriving in comic shops November 9th!
Writer: Scott Beatty; Artist: Johnny Desjardins; Cover: Alex Ross

What happens in the Skull Cave... STAYS in the Skull Cave! Clues to the fate of the previous Phantom are uncovered in this untold tale of skullduggery in the heart of the Deep Woods! As the Ghost Who Walks battles to thwart tomb raiders, Kit Walker's estranged father may be sealing his own doom within the Phantom's own secret sanctum!
BONUS: Secrets of the Skull Cave revealed in a dynamite double-page spread!

40 pages, Full Color, $4.99
Laurie's Wild West - Now online!
For Halloween - a Video of Weird Tales Covers - New!
Pulps A - Z: The J's
Kid Wolf Rides Again Over at Meridian Bridge
Pulps A - Z: The I's
Historic Magazine Collection, Including Pulps, For Sale
Western Fiction Review Likes RIDING THE PULP TRAIL
Wednesday's Forgotten Pulp: ARTISTS AND MODELS STORIES
Pulps A - Z: The H's
Week #2 of the RIDING THE PULP TRAIL contest

Moonstone Books: THE SPIDER VERSUS WEREWOLF
Arriving in comic shops November 9th!

A seething, ferocious nightmare from the Spider’s dark past invades New York City, preying upon the innocent and the helpless. Mutilated victims are strewn in the blood-slick streets, and once normal men have become murderous monsters. The Master of Men must face the deadly demons alone. Not even his beloved Nita Van Sloan can be trusted when everyone—including the Spider himself—may not be what they seem.

Story: Martin Powell
Art: Jay Piscopo
Cover: Dan Brereton
40 pages, grayscale, $3.99


Moonstone Books: BLACK BAT VERSUS DRACULA
Arriving in comic shops November 9th!

For the first time in history three eras collide in one place as Pulp Fiction's newest heroine, Death Angel joins forces with Pulp's enduring vigilante The Black Bat to battle the eternal face of horror, Dracula. Mike (The Phantom) Bullock and rising star Eric Johns bring this spine-tingling tale of darkness, lust and fear to you, wrapped in a visceral cover crafted by horror comic legend Dan Brereton.

Story: Mike Bullock
Art: Eric Johns
Cover: Dan Brereton
40 pages, grayscale, $3.99


Moonstone Books: DOMINO LADY VERSUS THE MUMMY
Arriving in comic shops November 9th!

The Egyptian sorceress Nephthys has promised to build her mummified mistress the perfect mate. Together, they cut a bloody swath across 1930’s Hollywood in search of the last few perfect bodies to harvest to complete the process. The last thing Nepthys or the mummy expected to run across was The Domino Lady, a perfect body that fights back.

Story: Nancy Holder, Bobby Nash
Art: Rock Baker, Jeff Austin
Cover: Dan Brereton
40 pages, grayscale, $3.99

Off-Trail Publications - Now available!

New from Off-Trail Publications:
THE PERIL OF THE PACIFIC by J. Allan Dunn
The complete PEOPLE'S serial
Introduction by John Locke

When J. Allan Dunn broke into the pulps in 1914, he drew upon his well-traveled past for inspiration. The Peril of the Pacific, a five-part serial from Street & Smith’s PEOPLE’S magazine (July-November 1916), incorporates his experiences like no other story, taking for its settings the places in the west that Dunn knew best, San Francisco and California’s Central Coast.

Reprinted for the first time since its original publication, Peril is a Japanese invasion epic. It’s the future history, set in 1920, of a war pitting a force of American irregulars against a relentless naval empire bent on conquest. In the Americans’ favor: iron will and a new generation of futuristic technology. At risk: the entire American west . . . and a beautiful young woman . . .
6x9-inch perfect bound; 168 pages, $14.00 postpaid
Check or Money Order to:
Off-Trail Publications
2036 Elkhorn Rd.
Castroville, CA 95012
Or:
PayPal: offtrail@redshift.com

Checkout  earlier titles by clicking on the link below.
  

Peril Press - More new Kindle titles are now available!
Abra Cadaver! by Robert Turner
Storm Over the Americas (The Eagle) by Capt. Kerry McRoberts
The Transient Corpse by Robert Turner
"Who Goes There?" Special Edition [Illustrated] [Annotated] by John W Campbell
Message to Morgan by Guy Russell
Boomerang Blade by Norman A Daniels (Oct 30, 2011)
Success Story by Robert Turner
Missing Men by Capt. Kerry McRoberts
Shocking Detective Tales: 7 Popular Detective Pulp Fiction Shorts by C.K.M. Scanlon
Stories of Detectives and Corpses: 6 Thrilling and Popular Detective Pulp Fiction Shorts by C.K.M.  Scanlon
Cast Your Plug Upon the Water by Fenton W Earnshaw
The Doctor Prescribes Doom by Robert Edgar
Pulp Magazines Project - Now online!
The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary & artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides information on the history of this important but long neglected medium, along with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers.

At the heart of the Project's mission is the archive itself. In summer 2011, it began with a modest library of five representative first-generation pulp titles from the early twentieth century. Over time, the archive will expand, new magazines will be digitized, and contextual materials added. Eventually, the archive will feature a broad range of pre-1923 titles, post-1923 titles where copyright has lapsed, and full volume runs of select titles from 1896 to 1946.

The Project is dedicated to fostering ties between communities of collectors, fans, and academics devoted to pulp magazines, and will offer opportunities for research and collaboration to both scholars and enthusiasts alike. We will provide information on upcoming conferences and conventions, and promote new working relationships between academics and the hundreds of pulp fans and collectors beyond the college and university.
Pulp Newsgroups - Now online!
There are numerous pulp newsgroups that are of potential interest to pulp fans. 
Information on several of these groups and a link to sign up is posted below.

Abraham Merritt: This group is dedicated to all of the fiction of ABRAHAM MERRITT. Merritt's novels, short stories, paperbacks, hardcovers, pulps, reprints, and any movies based on these works can all be discussed here. Also, any artwork from any of the above pertaining to Merritt's writing can be discussed and displayed. If interested, questions and statements about other authors that copied or imitated Merritt's style can be posted.  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ABEMERRITTFANS/

CoverUps: Sharing and trading of Pulp Fiction covers. Discussion not only allowed, but encouraged! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cover_Ups/

Doc Con:  The annual Doc Savage Convention gathered together for the first time on October 24, 1998. The convention also known as Doc Con is the brainchild of Rob Smalley who together with Jay Ryan, Paul Cook and Courtney Rogers have hosted the event each year in Arizona. Traditionally held the second Saturday of each November, Doc Con attracts residents from around the country, for a weekend of planned Doc Savage events as well as discussions and camaraderie. Follow along with the planning each year by participating in this group.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Doc_Con/

Edgar Rice Burroughs Group: This group is dedicated to the study and appreciation of one of the greatmasters of literary adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Creator of numerous famous characters, such as Tarzan, Carson Napier, and John Carter of Mars, and exciting worlds, such as Venus, Barsoom, and Pellucidar, Burroughs is widely recognized as one of the fathers of the Pulp Era and modern heroic fiction.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edgarriceburroughs/

FictionMags: The purpose of this mailing list is to discuss the history of fiction magazines, and to exchange information about magazines which have carried fiction, past or present. Particular emphases are on the "Gaslight" magazines of circa 1880-1914, the pulp magazines of the first half of the 20th century, the "Big Slick" magazines of the mid-20th century, the digest-sized magazines of the 1950s and 1960s -- and any other areas of magazine publishing which have been important for fiction. Discussion may cover aspects of the publishing history of the magazines concerned, their editors and editorial policies, the authors they published, and so on.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/fictionmags/

Flearun: This group is for fans of all the incarnations of Doc Savage. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flearun/

H.R. Haggard: This group is dedicated to one of the greatest of adventure/fantasy writers , H.R. Haggard.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/masterofadventureriderhaggard/

Justice Inc.: This group is dedicated to the [1940's pulp version] of Richard Benson and his group of crime fighting adventurers , Justice Inc. Everything about this group can be discussed [ comics, pulps, radio shows, paperbacks, current news]also if anyone is interested in Paul Ernst---In the roaring heart of the crucible...... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JUSTICEINC/

Otis Adelbert Kline: This group is devoted to Otis Adelbert Kline. His works in the science fiction, weird and historical fiction genre and his general biography can also be discussed here.
Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OTISKLINE/ to join!

Pulp Fiction Uncensored: is for all fans of Pulp Fiction!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pulp_Fiction_Uncensored/

PulpMags: If you're interested in the old pulp magazines, this forum is the place to be. We deal with OLD pulps only! If you're looking for something dealing with modern "pulp fiction" style writing, you'd be bored here.This moderated list is setup along the lines of PEAPS, the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, and all pulp fans across the world are welcome. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpMags/

Pulp Swap Group:  Place your swappable pulps and digest, plus wants, in the file section or individual messages. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpSwap/

REH Comics Group: This group is dedicated to the characters created by Robert E Howard that have appeared in comic book form from Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Cross Plains Comics, Dynamite Entertainment etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheREHcomicsgroup/

Vintage Paperbacks:  A forum for readers and collectors of classic paperback books, primarily from the "vintage era" of 1939 to 1960 (roughly speaking). Ace Doubles, Dell Mapbacks, L.A. Bantams, Gold Medal, Avon, Handibooks, and many more - we cover them all. Discussion of all genres is welcome and we particularly want to hear about any rare and unusual paperbacks or stories *about* paperbacks that you might be able to share. We discuss the cover artists, the writers, the publishers, and anyone and everyone connected with the great world of vintage paperback books. Read a great old book lately? Come on in and tell us about it! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VintagePaperbacks/

Western Pulps: This list is dedicated to the discussion of Western pulp magazines -- the characters, the authors, the stories, the paperback reprints, and anything else connected with Western pulps. Though the primary emphasis is on pulps, we also discuss non-pulp Western novels, movies, comics, etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WesternPulps/
PULPDOM #67 (October 2011) - Now available!
The contents include:
"Pellucidar Revisited" Part 3 by Mike Taylor - Books 6, 7, and onward!.

"The Golden Rainbow" by George Ethelbert Walsh
from THE ALL-STORY CAVALIER WEEKLY dated August 29, 1914

""Votes for Men" by Percy Atkinson
from THE ALL-STORY CAVALIER WEEKLY dated July 25, 1914

Mike Taylor Review: OLDEN TALES by Bradford M. Day

Cover by G. M. Farley.


This issue has a full color front and back cover and is profusely illustrated with full color and black & white illustrations. 
Back issues are available as print on demand: $10 (color) and $6 (black & white) each (postpaid) anywhere in USA. 
Five issue subscriptions are $30.

Contact C. E. Cazedessus II, P.O. Box 2340, Pagosa Springs, Colorado 81147
Email: moonfire@frontier.net

Pulpville Press - Now available!
Pelham Rutledge Shattuck, an American adventurer in the Orient who becomes a symbol of power and the answer to a prophecy as he becomes Shadak Khan--Captain Trouble--the Fighting Fool--heir to the throne of Kubla Khan.

Follow all of his adventures as they originally appeared in Thrilling Adventures pulp magazine, as he fights the forces of evil in order to be crowned the successor of the great Kubla Khan.

274 pages
6 x 9 inches
$15

Radio Archives

Radio Archives, known as a leading producer of quality Audio collections as well as a popular purveyor of Pulp Fiction announces the blending of the two in its latest product line. Not only is Radio Archives adding twelve new audiobooks to its future lineup, it is doing so with the direction of perhaps the best known Pulp expert and author of the modern era. Acting as series producer, historian/author Will Murray lends his name to Radio Archive’s newest line of audiobooks. Will Murray’s Pulp Classics are now available from Radio Archives and take both Pulp and audio to a whole new level!
Murray’s involvement with past Radio Archives projects led to this new innovation in sharing Pulp classics with today’s audience. “Like everything about my association with RadioArchives.com,” stated Murray, “it was like being struck by lightning. They had just released the first two Doc Savage audiobooks and were preparing The Spider and Secret Agent X, which I had recommended to them, when Tom Brown suggested expanding the line under the umbrella of Will Murray’s Pulp Classics.”
 
With the success of the Doc Savage audiobooks, based on Murray’s Doc novels, and the early indicators that The Spider audiobook was a hit, discussion of this project turned toward what other classic characters would get the Will Murray’s Pulp Classic treatment. “We already had a full Spider program planned, and the first Secret Agent X novel, The Torture Trust, mapped out,” Murray explained, “so Tom and I hashed out a number of titles that would both compliment and contrast those. As a kind of pulp alternate-reality version of Batman, the Black Bat was a natural. Since Zombies are all the rage, who better than the past master of the undead, Dr. Death? With the legions of weird menaces like mad scientists, vampires and—yes, more Zombies—that he fought, G-8 and His Battles Aces, made sense. And for a dose of Untouchables-style reality, George Fielding-Eliot’s hard-fighting G-Man, Dan Fowler. In almost every case, we’re launching each character with his inaugural exploit.”
 
Although the stories used in Will Murray’s Pulp Classics first appeared in print during the heyday of the Pulp magazines, Murray sees the transition of these tales to audiobooks as a good and logical one. “Pulp fiction endures because in contrast to the bloated novels modern publishers insist on foisting upon the reading public, vintage pulp fiction tells a fast-moving, never-flagging, riveting narrative that holds you in your seat until you careen to The End. Audiobooks demand that the reader’s attention be held tightly. Whether it’s Doc Savage, the Spider or Dan Fowler, pulp novels are a perfect fit. I’ve had several of my Destroyer novels adapted as audiobooks in years past, but this is the first time I’d been hands-on in this medium since I worked with Roger Rittner on the Adventures of Doc Savage radio series.”
 
Murray looks forward to the future of the Pulp Classics line and sees the customers and listeners as a vital part of it. “For the first year, we’re going to be introducing our top heroes. The buying public will tell us whether they want more G-8, Dr. Death or the Spider. And I’m sure that same audience will make suggestions. I’d like to do some horror and fantasy pulp writers, like A. Merritt and William Hodgson, a few exceptional Westerns, and high adventures in the Talbot Mundy vein. But pulp fans prefer heroes, so we’ll see if, for example, we can find a Dan Turner detective story that works as an audiobook. Ultimately, I hope we can mine all the major pulp genres. We expect involved and excited listeners will be the ones to surprise us, not vice versa.”
 
The first two entries in Will Murray’s Pulp Classics are now available from Radio Archives.
Radio Archives
If Batman ever had a brother,
he would be the pulp hero called the Black Bat.
 
Both bat-caped heroes debuted in the same year, 1939. It was a strange coincidence. Blame The Shadow for that. He was in his eighth year fighting crime in the pages of his celebrated pulp magazine, and Orson Welles was bringing him to life on radio, when two different publishers decided the time was perfect to copy The Shadow.
 
Batman was the creation of artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. He debuted in Detective Comics #37, dated March, 1939, in "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate," which was freely adapted from the 1936 Shadow mystery, Partners of Peril.
 
At virtually the same time, over at the Thrilling Group pulp house, editor in chief Leo Margulies asked prolific writer Norman A. Daniels to create a new hero for Black Book Detective magazine. Daniels came up with a character he called the Tiger. Margulies liked his idea, but decided the new hero should be more mysterioso, like The Shadow, and renamed him the Black Bat. The new nemesis of criminals was first published in the July, 1939 Black Book Detective.

As they appeared on the covers of their respective magazines, Batman and the Black Bat were strikingly similar. While the Black Bat lacked Batman's signature spread-winged chest emblem and bat-ears on his cowl, both had similar finned gauntlets.
 
The similarities did not go much beyond their ebony costumes. The Black Bat was a district attorney named Anthony Quinn—this was long before the actor of that name made the scene. Blinded by a cowardly criminal, Quinn lost his sight, his face acid-scarred around the eyes. No longer able to practice law, Quinn retired. But a miracle eye transplant restored his sight, and more. Quinn discovered that he could see in the dark. This gave him inspiration.
 
Gathering together a small band of assistants—reformed conman "Silk" Kirby and muscleman "Butch" O'Leary—Quinn decided to wage an unrelenting secret war on the criminal element. Joining him is lovely Carol Baldwin. It was the corneas of her dying policeman father which were grafted into Tony's own eyes, restoring his sight.
 
The first Black Bat adventure, Brand of the Black Bat, relates all that. It's a stirring story of crime and corruption, and of a courageous avenger determined to track down the vicious gangster who robbed him of his brilliant career, all the while thwarting Captain MacGrath of the N.Y.P.D., who suspects Quinn and the Black Bat are one and the same. For like The Shadow, but unlike Batman, The Bat carries a brace of .45 automatics and the will to use them. This does not make the cloaked vigilante popular with the police.
 
There has never been a media crossover for this long-running pulp hero. No radio show, no movie serial, no comic books. So it is with justifiable pride that RadioArchives.com lures the Black Bat out of the shadows of his original era and into the 21st century with his first audiobook, read with impeccable skill and fidelity by the accomplished Michael McConnohie.  Brand of the Black Bat is available now from Radio Archives for $14.98 for Audio CDs and $9.98 for the Digital Download!
Radio Archives
Never before had any criminal openly challenged
The Spider!
Never before had the Master of Men faced a foe
who welcomed personal combat with the
grim avenger whom all others feared.
And while they fought ... men and women
were dying by the scores, as a new and fearless criminal army forms under the dark banner of
that gentlemanly killer ... The Fly!   

One of pulp fiction's most popular vigilante avengers comes to audiobooks for the first time in Prince of the Red Looters, the first Spider audiobook from RadioArchives.com. Prince of the Red Looters is available now in both a deluxe six-CD set and MP3 digital download.

Producer/Director Roger Rittner says, "Prince of the Red Looters is an astounding accomplishment, wedding dynamic narration from two unique stars of stage and screen, specially selected sound effects, and a complete period music score."

This action-packed story features Nick Santa Maria and Robin Riker narrating and voicing the character parts. "They've done outstanding work in this exciting novel-length adventure of the classic pulp hero, The Spider," Roger says.

In Prince of the Red Looters, The Spider faces one of his most cunning criminal enemies — The Fly! The Fly's ruthlessly efficient crime organization commits a chain of bold and deadly atrocities on New York City, while The Fly taunts The Spider in a series of ever more dangerous duels.

"The sword fights will have listeners sitting on the edge of their seats," Roger says. "Prince of the Red Looters will be a stunning addition to RadioArchives.com's audiobook line."

Prince of the Red Looters inaugurates Will Murray's Pulp Classics, a new series of pulp-related audiobooks from RadioArchives.com. Each entry in the series is a classic pulp adventures personally chosen by Will Murray, one of the country's foremost experts on all things pulp.

"I'm very excited to present to listeners some of my favorite pulp stories in this engaging format," Will says. "This first Spider audiobook is a grand launch to the series."
Radio Archives: Accidental Death (Science Fiction)
Now available!

The only survivor of a doomed starship, stranded in his spacesuit, leaves a frantic message about a strange alien "talent". Classic sci-fi by Peter Baily, from ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION magazine, February 1959. Starring Terwilliger Rhinehart. 21 minutes.
 
Pulp Radio stories are full-cast audio plays adapted from the short stories and novelettes of the pulp fiction magazines of the 1930s-1950s. Specially dramatized and produced in dimensional sound with professional cast, stereo sound effects, and period music.

Digital download: $4.95

Radio Archives - Coming soon!



RED SONJA #58 - Arriving in comic shops November 9th!
Writer: Eric Trautman; Art: Walter Geovanni; Covers: Fabiano Neves, Walter Geovanni
Red Sonja's adventure in Khorshemish — the opulant capital of Koth — continues. Political and family intrigues have placed the She-Devil With A Sword between rival noble families, all intent on seizing the throne of Koth. On one side, the disgraced family of her slain enemy — Cavvalus of Koth — plots Sonja's destruction. On the other, Strabonus, Prince of the realm, and quite possibly insane. Amidst assassins, alchemists, and royal intrigue, Sonja discovers that not all wars are fought with swords. 32 pages, Full Color, $3.99

Coming soon!

Cover of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES graphic novel by Martin Powell and Jamie Chase. Michael Hudson, Art Director.  To be published in 2012 by Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics. Artwork © Jamie Chase.

Character study of the legendary ape-man by artist Tim Burgard, who'll be joining Martin Powell on the upcoming graphic novel, TARZAN AT THE EARTH'S CORE. To be published in 2012 to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Tarzan of the Apes, officially licensed and authorized by the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Published by Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics.Tarzan ™ ERB, Inc. Artwork © Tim Burgard.

A preview of character sketches from an upcoming graphic novel of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic THE ETERNAL SAVAGE, illustrated by Steven E Gordon and written by Martin Powell. Authorized by ERB, Inc. and published by Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics. Artwork © Steven E. Gordon.


Tarzan 3D animated feature - Coming in 2012!
Germany's Constantin Film acquired animation rights to the "Tarzan" novels from  Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. in Tarzana.ca.
Ambient Entertainment, which did the animation for "Animals United," will work on "Tarzan."
The first book in the series, Tarzan of the Apes, was published in 1912 and spawned two dozen sequels and a long line of film features since 1918.
Directors: Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe ~ Screenwriter: Reinhard Klooss
Tellers of Weird Tales - New blog now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Maud E. Uschold (1896-1982) - New!
Weird Tales Covers - New!
More Weird Tales from the Victorian Age - New!
Weird Tales from the Victorian Age
Weird Tales from the Romantic Era
Weird Tales from the Revolution, Restoration, and Union
Weird Tales from the Renaissance
Harriet A. Bradfield (1899-1953)
Anonymous
Weird Tales from Ancient Times
THE THIRD BEAST - Now available!
by Patrick H. Adkins, author of Lord of the Crooked Paths

Stephen King meets Edgar Rice Burroughs
in a pulp-inspired suburban Lost Race horror thriller.

Anthropologist Carl Stevens looked out at what used to be his quiet suburban neighborhood and mused that his whole world seemed to have changed. He had no idea how right he was. When civilization collapses around you into depravity and madness, the only reasonable response may be to arm yourself to the teeth and try to fight your way out!

A missing child, predatory bands of machete-wielding youths, neighbors who begin to display cranial features more suited to the prehuman fossils Stevens studies—The Third Beast is a gripping tale of imagination, suspense, terror, and headlong action in the tradition of the wildest pulp yarns.
 “An impressive accomplishment . . . really nightmarish fantasy, replete with thrills. . . .  I found the story fascinating, its effect powerful.”
—Paul Spencer, editor, Kalki

This 76,000-word novel is now available for Kindle, Nook, iPad, and other devices (including desktop and laptop computers using free, downloadable software) at a limited-time promotional price of only 99 cents. 

A free sample of the opening chapters is available from major retailers.

Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels by Christopher R. Yates
(New publications to the list are in bold)

Trance, Kelly Meding, Pocket Books, $7.99, October 25, 2011 - Now available!
The Society of Steam, Book 2: Hearts of Smoke & Steam, Andrew Mayer, Pyr, $16.00, November 22, 2011
Final Crisis: The Novel, Greg Cox, Ace, $7.99, November 29, 2011
Wild Cards II: Aces High, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $15.99, December 20, 2011
Invasion: Book 1 of the Secret World Chronicle, Mercedes Lackey, et al., Baen, $7.99, December 27, 2011
Empire State, Adam Christopher, Angry Robot, $12.99, December 27, 2011
Fantastic Four: The Baxter Effect,  Dave Stern, Pocket, $19.99, January 7, 2012
Wayne of Gotham, Tracy Hickman, It Books, $26.99, January 17, 2012
After the Golden Age, Carrie Vaughn, Tor, $7.99, January 31, 2012
The Plain Man [Max August], Steve Englehart, Tor, $7.99, January 31, 2012 
World Divided: Bk. 2 of the Secret World Chronicle, Mercedes Lackey, et al., Baen, $25.00, February 7, 2012
Costume Not Included: To Hell and Back, Book 2  Matthew Hughes, Angry Robot, $7.99, March 27, 2012
Pax Britannia: Pax Omega, Al Ewing, Abaddon Books, $9.99, April 17, 2012
Bitter Seeds, Ian Tregillis, Tor, $7.99, April 24, 2012
Wild Cards XXI: Fort Freak, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $7.99, April 24, 2012
Pax Britannia: Time’s Arrow, Jonathan Green, Abaddon Books, $9.99,  May 2012
The Arena Man [Max August], Steve Englehart, Tor, $24.99, June 2012
Changeling, Kelly Meding, Pocket Books, $7.99, June 2012
The Coldest War, Ian Tregillis, Tor, $25.99, August 2012
Seven Wonders, Adam Christopher, Angry Robot, $12.99, December 12, 2012


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