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24 June 2016

2016 Pulp Shows

The Pulp Coming Attractions Pulp Shows page has been updated with available information on the presently known pulp & paperback shows scheduled for 2016!
Click on the PULP SHOWS link below or the icon at the top of the page and start making your reservations!


Adventure House
Now available!

The Phantom Detective - April 1941

"The Murder Bund" by Robert Wallace
Follow the Phantom Detective as he takes the trail of a Fifth Column killers who threaten the peace and security of America!  Death hangs over a great city when Democracy’s foes plot a grim coup!

"Client Unknown" by Fredric Brown
"Death’s Advance Shadow" by Arthur J. Burks

 
 Cover Artist: Rafael de Soto
  
 7x10, 112 pages, $14.95

Adventure House
Now available!

Captain Future - Winter 1941

"Captain Future and the Seven Space-Stones" by Edmond Hamilton
Curt Newton, Spacefarer, and the Futuremen take off on the most thrilling treasure-hunt of all time in quest of the solar system’s greatest prize!

"Mutiny In Space" by Gawain Edwards
"Not Yet the End" by Fredrick Brown
"Grave of the Achilles" by Harl Vincent


 Cover Artist: Earle Bergey
  
 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95


Adventure House
Now available!

Wide World Adventures - August 1929

"The Cross and the Rubies" by S.B.H. Hurst
"The Coffin Ship by Major" H. Barry de Hamel
"Three Graves On the Beach" by Albert Richard Wetjen
"Spinkfex and Gold" by Kelman Frost
"The Jest Of the Jade Joss" by Captain L.B. Williams
"Chink-Running" by J.F. Wilson
"African Outlaws" by W.S. Chadwick
"With Pick and Fan" by John A. Thompson


 Cover Artist: H. W. Wesso
  
 7x10, 144 pages, $14.95



Adventures in Bronze
GLARE OF THE GORGON
Hardcover, softcover and eBook are now available!
Coming to comic shops September 7!
 

Why did a desperate man shave his head before visiting Doc Savage headquarters, only to be struck down, his pulsing brain turned to inert stone? What sinister secret did his strange slaying silence? And how was a lizard-green shadow resembling Medusa branded on Doc’s office wall?

These are only some of the questions confronting the Man of Bronze as he pursues a grisly trail of petrified corpses to post-Prohibition Chicago, whose criminal underworld is being terrorized by a serpent-haired demon engaged in a seemingly senseless slaughter spree whose ultimate target will shake Doc Savage’s men to their core.

Suspects are many, clues baffling. Death and danger lurks everywhere they turn—symbolized by the silhouette of a faceless Gorgon.

From the concrete canyons of Manhattan to the coal fields of Illinois, Doc Savage tracks a phantom fiend the likes of which he has never before hunted. Or is he the one being hunted?

Hardcover: $39.95  /  Softcover: $24.95  /  eBook:  $4.99



DOC SAVAGE: GLARE OF THE GORGON is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL162275.


Adventures in Bronze


Age of Aces Latest Dispatches
Now available on line!

Altus Press: Enjoy Pulps! by David Lee Smith - Now online!

Unknown Pulp: Ladies of the Underworld
The Phantom Detective – Oct. 1945: “Death to a Diplomat”
Pulps Pricings Sales Census: Ka-Zar Pulps, 1936-1937
“The Pot of Gold” by Eudora Ramsay Richardson (a Pre-Spider/Richard Wentworth Story)
Pulps Pricings Sales Census

Altus Press Pulp Blog by Morgan Wallace - Now online!

“The Guthrie Method” by Raymond Z. Gallun / “Desperate Remedy” by Mack Reynolds
“As You Were” by Henry Kuttner in Australia’s “American Science Fiction Magazine” series
The Irrationals by Milton Lesser (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
American Science Fiction Magazine “Common Time” by James Blish
The Thing from Another World by John W. Campbell, Jr.  


Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

Altus Press is pleased to announce its summer 2016 releases, all of which will premiere at PulpFest.
They’ll be available exclusively at the Mike Chomko, Books, table.
Altus Press books typically sell out quickly at the pulp shows, so please contact Mike to reserve your copies.
Mike will be placing his order for these titles on June 21.
Do not delay if you want to ensure copies at PulpFest.
mikechomko@gmail.com

These titles will be made available on the Altus Press website over a period of time following PulpFest.

Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE MYSTERIOUS WU-FANG #1: THE CASE OF THE SIX COFFINS
By Robert J. Hogan


“There is one Val Kildare, government agent. It is my wish that he die the most painful death in our power to inflict.”
From an underground room in Limehouse this order was given.
And now, across the Atlantic, sped a murder cargo to wipe out the only man who stood between Wu Fang, Emperor of Crime, and his conquest of the world!


201 pages
  $12.95 softcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

YEN SIN #1: THE MYSTERY OF THE DRAGON'S SHADOW
By Donald E. Keyhoe


Out of the teeming turbulent East had come Dr. Yen Sin—saff­ron-skinned wizard of crime—bringing to the capital of the West all the ancient Devil’s-lore at his command—and a horde of Asian Hell-born to help him spawn it. But Michael Traile—The Man Who Never Slept—had crammed into his own keen brain the means to cope with the sinister doctor. For he knew even the secrets of the Dragon’s Shadow and how to penetrate the yellow murder fog that had descended on the capital to mingle its blood-wisps with the mist from the Potomac.



152 pages
  $12.95 softcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

SUPER-DETECTIVE JIM ANTHONY: THE COMPLETE SERIES VOLUME 3
by Victor Rousseau


The complete reprinting of the greatest of the Doc Savage pastiches continues!
Volume Three of contains the next three adventures of Jim Anthony: “Murder Syndicate,” “The Horrible Marionettes,” and “Border Napoleon.”
This volume also includes editor notes and correspondence.



353 pages
  $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

KI-GOR: THE COMPLETE SERIES VOLUME 3
by John Peter Drummond, introduction by Howard Andrew Jones


For the first time, the Ki-Gor series from the pages of Jungle Stories is collected, complete, uncut and in order!
Volume 3 includes the next four stories:
“Tigress of T’wanbi” (Winter 1941-42)
“Slaves for the Renegade Sultan” (Spring 1942)
“Blood Priestess of Vig’Na” (Summer 1942)
“The Cannibal Horde” (Fall 1942).


318 pages
  $24.95 softcover / $34.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF THE GRIFFON VOLUME 3
by Arch Whitehouse


Fighting the aerial forces of evil for nearly ten years in the pages of Flying Aces, Kerry Keen aka The Griffon finally returns to print!
This edition continues the complete reprinting of the series.
Volume 3 contains the next six stories:
“Riddle of the Rocket”
“Cavalry of the Clouds”
“Twin-Engine Treachery”
“Test Pilot Terror”
“The Carrier Coup”
“Scourge of the Sky Brood”

275 pages
  $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF THE MOON MAN, VOLUME 2: 1934
by Frederick C. Davis, introduction by Andrew Salmon


One of the strangest pulp heroes is finally available from Altus Press!
Created by pulp fiction legend Frederick C. Davis for the pages of the ultra-rare title, Ten Detective Aces, the Moon Man fought the forces of the underworld in 38 unforgettable tales.
Volume 2 collects the next six stories from this series:
“Silver Death”
“Mark of the Moon Man”
“Crimson Shackles”
“Blood Bargain”
“The Black Lash”
“The Murder Master”
And it includes an all-new introduction by Moon Man expert Andrew Salmon.

337 pages
  $24.95 softcover / $34.95 hardcover



Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE BLACK BAT OMNIBUS VOLUME 5
by Norvell W. Page and Norman A. Daniels


Pulp hero the Black Bat returns!
This collection contains the next three adventures of the Black Bat:
“The Black Bat’s Summons”
“The Black Bat’s Invisible Enemy”
“The Voice of Doom”
uncut and restored with the original illustrations.

Featuring a story by long-time Spider author, Norvell W. Page, it’s the next volume of the complete reprinting of the series.

339 pages
  $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

HAZZARD: THE COMPLETE SERIES
by Frederick C. Davis


The Fight Against the lawless! Mark Hazzard, red-headed, fiery-tempered District Attorney of King’s County was a man of the Law, but when the law didn’t get justice, the guilty were then the prey for the Juggernaut of Justice and his own iron rules. Bucking the police and the underworld alike, Hazzard kept a secret that would send him to burn in the electric chair. Written by Frederick C. Davis, the author of the Moon Man series. Featuring all six of Mark Hazzard’s adventures in one volume!


296 pages
  $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

ADVENTURES OF A PROFESSIONAL CORPSE
by H. Bedford-Jones


Meet James F. Bronson, a man who finds dying a profitable business.
Time after time, Bronson accepts assignments to whom dying is all in the day’s work.
One of the most offbeat series that H. Bedford-Jones penned; a series for which he was inspired by an advertisement that actually appeared.


94 pages
  $11.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

INVITATION TO A CRIME: FURTHER ADVENTURES OF DENIS BURKE
by H. Bedford-Jones


Operating out of Morocco, American profiteer Denis Burke encounters business opportunities fraught with political intrigue, shady underworld characters, double-crossing associates, and devious women—all while trying not to run afoul of the law. Burke must dodge his ever-watchful nemesis, Inspector Crepin, who has vowed to expel him from the country—or better yet—put him behind bars.

A never before reprinted series by the King of the Pulps, H. Bedford-Jones.


132 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

RED RUNES OF CHINA
by H. Bedford-Jones


The runes told of mystery, of danger lurking in odd corners, of the craft of the Orient put to evil purposes in the Far West, and started young Dick Clews on a great adventurE.
A never-before-collected series, it’s now part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library.



138 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE CROSS AND THE HAMMER: AA TALE OF THE DAYS OF THE VIKINGS
by H. Bedford-Jones


H. Bedford-Jones’ thrilling novel of the Vikings and King Olaf, who broke the power of the old gods and who introduced Christianity into his realm.
One of H. Bedford-Jones’ earliest novels, it’s now part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library.



162 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE MARDI GRAS MYSTERY
by H. Bedford-Jones


Who is The Midnight Masquer? While partygoers celebrate Mardi Gras under the recently-enacted Prohibition, attention is cast to this masked character and his connection to the murder of a prominent New Orleans citizen. Did the victim’s son really commit the crime, or is there more than meets the eye?

A classic mystery written by The King of the Pulps, and now it’s part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library.

188 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THADY SHEA’S SAGA
by H. Bedford-Jones


The Navajo’s sacred relics, the seven Gods of the San Marcos, are the focus of attention between warring factions in the Old West, and washed-up actor Thaddeus Shea is caught in between the chaos!

A classic adventure written by The King of the Pulps, and now it’s part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library.



174 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

CONQUEST: THE STORY OF PIERRE RADISSON, FOUNDER OF THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY
by H. Bedford-Jones


The story of Pierre Radisson has passed into history. That he was the first man to reach the Mississippi, after De Soto, is now admitted.
 It was he who founded the Hudson’s Bay Company, and who opened up the great Northwest to the world.

One of H. Bedford-Jones’ earliest novels, now part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library.


184 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover



Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE COMPLETE TALES OF KOROPOK (DELUXE EDITION)
by Sidney Herschel Small


Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies. Comes with eBook versions of all the stories.

One of the best series from the twilight of Adventure Magazine’s run, this 11-story saga of an American undercover agent in the Far East during World War II has been sadly neglected for 75 years. But no longer! This Comprehensive set also includes over 100 illustrations by master pulp illustrators Hamilton Greene and Frank Kramer. This limited, deluxe edition collects them all! Plus: purchase of this deluxe edition entitles you to free eBook versions of these stories.


306 pages
  $75.00 deluxe hardcover



Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE COMPLETE CASES OF CARDIGAN (2 VOLUME
DELUXE EDITION)
by Frederick Nebel


Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies. Comes with eBook versions of all the stories.

Frederick Nebel’s unforgettable character Jack Cardigan was one of the main reasons behind the success of the legendary Dime Detective Magazine. His hard-boiled P.I. stories were a major influence to other writers of the era, yet only a handful have been reprinted since their original 44-story run eighty years ago. This deluxe two-volume contains the entire series of 44 stories, complete and uncut, with an introduction by Will Murray and the original illustrations by John Fleming Gould.


698 pages
  $140.00 deluxehardcoverS






Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming to online retailers in late August/early September!
Coming to comic shops September 28!

THE BLACK BAT VOLUME 6: "The Black Bat and the Trojan Horse" & "The Black Bat's Dragon Trail"
The Nemesis of Crime returns in classic 1940 pulp novels by Norman A. Daniels and The Spider's Norvell Page. First, murderous foreign agents make a deadly attack on America's prewar defenses in "The Black Bat and the Trojan Horse," an action-packed thriller edited by future Batman editor Mort Weisinger! Then, the Scourge of the Underworld foils the Dragon Master's nefarious plans in "The Black Bat's Dragon Trail," as Tony Quinn attempts to prevent the exploitation of China by a war profiteer! Plus, the Mask returns in a Golden Age classic from Nedor's Exciting Comics #6. Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95.

THE BLACK BAT #6 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL162274.


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
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 to online retailers in late August/early September!
Coming to comic shops September 28!

THE SHADOW ANNUAL #2: "The Black Master," "The Death Giver" & "The Shadow's Shadow"
Sanctum Books continues its Tenth Anniversary celebration with its biggest book ever-collecting nearly 200 pages of early pulp thrillers by Walter B. Gibson! First, the invisible hand of "The Black Master" kills the very men who serve him, leaving no trace except the promise of future murders, in The Shadow's eighth recorded adventure! Then, the Dark Avenger battles an enemy from his past who knows the hidden secrets of the mystery man who became The Shadow! Finally, the Master of Darkness confronts Thade, "The Death Giver," a murderous malefactor who spreads death for the sheer love of killing! Plus, Anthony Tollin examines Thade's deadly return in the four-color pages of Shadow Comics!  Softcover, 7x10, 192 pages, B&W, $19.95.

THE SHADOW ANNUAL #2 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL162277.


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
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)



Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Micah Harris and "Murder in the Miracle Room"


Award winning author Micah Harris had just won the PulpArk Award for Best Novel (Ravenwood Stepson of Mystery: Return of the Dugpa).  We now discuss his latest novel Murder in the Miracle Room.  This is a detective mystery with a supernatural twist.  As with all of Micah's work there is a mystery, and excitement, with of dash or so of the paranormal.  We also discuss Micah's other published work and he discusses what is coming up!
 
And his classic Becky Sharp story is now available on Kindle.  We also delve into a few tangents along the way.  Don't miss this one!


Past episodes:
Will Murray : Doc Savage in "Glare of the Gorgon"
Jeff Deischer: "The Night of the Owl" and Guest Host Ric Croxton
Gordon Dymowski on Black Bat Mystery, Vol. 3 and much more!
Sinbad: The New Voyages - The Legacy of Ray Harryhausen




BLAZE! BLOODY WYOMING (Blaze Western Series Book 12) - Coming July 1!

All J.D. Blaze wanted to do was celebrate his wife Kate’s birthday, but when you’re the Old West’s only pair of husband-and-wife gunfighters, trouble is never far away. A savage attack and a dangerous injury not only threaten Kate Blaze’s life, she also finds herself a captive of twisted killers and unsure of her own identity. But J.D. will battle with his wits, a pair of rock-hard fists, and a blazing .45 to find Kate and free her before it’s too late!

Acclaimed author John Hegenberger joins the BLAZE! team with a scorching tale of hate and revenge that leads to an apocalyptic showdown.

Read BLOODY WYOMING and see why BLAZE! is today’s bestselling Adult Western series.


Print Length: 100 pages
Pre-order Price:    $2.99

   

Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!

Collectibles Section Updated - New!
Coming Next Week: THE PURPLE EYE
October Collectibles Update
Birthday Boy: Walter B. Gibson
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER Policy Change
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER #45 Is on the Way!

Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 Blood 'N' Thunder 46/47 (Winter-Spring 2016)
Now available for immediate shipping!
The last subscriber copies will be mailed this weekend!

The 230 pages of this double issue — the first BnT of 2016 — is crammed with articles, reviews, and reprints.

The feature articles boast BnT‘s usual combination of intensive research and passionate writing. The cover story is Ed Hulse’s lengthy examination of the two Columbia serials featuring The Spider, one of pulpdom’s greatest heroes. Rick Lai details the numerous pulp references in The Sinister Shadow, Will Murray’s recent novel pitting Doc Savage against The Shadow. Robert E. Howard scholar Morgan Holmes chronicles the efforts of Conan’s creator to break into the pulp magazines published by William Clayton. Old-Time Radio authority Karl Schadow offers a history of the little-known Stay Tuned for Terror, the series written by Robert Bloch and adapted primarily from his pulp stories. Bruce Dettman provides an overview of the various characters marketed to several mediums as The Falcon.

The issue’s department installments have the usual variety. “Tricks of the Trade” presents a 1932 Writer’s Digest piece on the Western-pulp market. Horror novelist and filmmaker S. Craig Zahler reviews two 1932 issues of Weird Tales in “Off the Shelf.” In “Airwave Adventures” Martin Grams writes about lost episodes of the Mysterious Traveler, a pulpish radio series that became a fiction magazine. Ed Hulse discusses one of the first movie serials, 1914’s The Million Dollar Mystery, in “Cliffhanger Classics.” And Dave Smith covers one of the great air-war hero pulps, The Lone Eagle, in “Series Spotlight.”

The reprint section begins with an 80th-anniversary tribute to the 1936 Flash Gordon serial: Rare promotional material originally published in Universal Weekly, the Universal Pictures trade paper circulated to exhibitors. Our fiction reprint is “Drunk, Disorderly, and Dead,” a 1942 Robert Leslie Bellem mystery featuring Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. Finally, we publish long-unseen court documents relating to a Popular Publications lawsuit involving Black Mask magazine.

BnT #46/47 has the usual complement of illustrations — pulp cover reproductions, vintage movie stills, original art, and so on.

PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 HANDSOME HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
Now available for immediate shipping!

This companion volume to DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS continues Ed Hulse's groundbreaking history of American cliffhanger serials of the silent-movie era. It covers some 190 "chapter plays" released by production and distribution entities such as Universal, Vitagraph, Mutual, Arrow, Rayart, and Mascot, along with member companies of the Edison Trust and various fly-by-night independent operators.Among the legendary serial stars whose output is documented and analyzed are Francis Ford and Grace Cunard, Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber, Helen Holmes, Eddie Polo, Marie Walcamp, William Desmond, William Duncan, Eileen Sedgwick, Joe Bonomo, Elmo Lincoln, Ann Little, Jack Daugherty, Juanita Hansen, and Louise Lorraine. Serials that starred favorites from the sports and theatrical worlds — Harry Houdini, Billie Burke, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, Benny Leonard, and Maurice "Lefty" Flynn, to name a few — are also covered.

At a length of nearly 160,000 words, illustrated with hundreds of rare stills, posters, lobby cards, magazine ads and even frame blowups from surviving film elements, HANDSOME HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
is the last word on this fascinating segment of American movie history. The product of a quarter century's research, it equals if not surpasses the award-nominated DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS.

Single copy price is $29.95, but for a limited time only HANDSOME HEROES AND DISTRESSED DAMSELS can be purchased together for $49.95.
Visit muraniapress.com and use our convenient Checkout feature to order either or both.


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.




Bold Venture Press
ZORRO Volume 2 by Johnston McCulley
Officially licensed by Zorro Productions
The second of six volumes reprinting the 60+ Zorro stories published in the pulps from 1919 to 1959.
Now available!

Zorro protects old California in a trio of thrill-packed adventures!

  • The Further Adventures of Zorro (illustrated by Ed Coutts)
 
  • Zorro Deals With Treason
  • The Mysterious Don Miguel

The Further Adventures of Zorro takes the masked hidalgo to the high seas when pirates arrive on the shores of old California, and decide to claim the pueblo as their spoils!
Then, "Zorro Deals With Treason" in the form of a Zorro imposter! The Mysterious Don Miguel creates much confusion in Reina de Los Angeles. Is he Zorro’s enemy — or Don Diego Vega’s friend?
Ride with Zorro as he defends the downtrodden citizens from the oppressive government, land and sea pirates, and crafty anarchists.

There’s never been a hero like Zorro for romance and high adventure!


Trade paperback, 6"x9", 302 pages
$19.95



THE BRONZE GAZETTE #76
Now available!


Looking for something bronze to hold in your hands?
Feeling a bit let down now that HOWARD WRIGHT has ended The Bronze Gazette?

Well, never fear Johnny, as Terry Allen, Kez Wilson, and Chuck Welch have achieved the impossible. No, they've not agreed on who should play Monk. Even better, they've finished Issue #76 of the Bronze Gazette and it will soon arrive in your mailbox! Thanks to the writing talents of such Doc Savage experts as Will Murray, Anthony Tollin, Jeff Deischer, Julián Puga, Duane Spurlock, and a cast of 10 more or so, a jam-packed issue of the Bronze Gazette is heading your way.

It's not too late to get a copy of the Bronze Gazette #76 mailed to you.

Subscribe to the Bronze Gazette now at http://www.bronzegazette.com/subscribe/ and we'll start your subscription with Issue #76.

Contents
"You're About to Read The Bronze Gazette #76" by Chuck Welch
"The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage: 2016 and Beyond" by Will Murray
"Stranger in a Savage Land" by Curt Hardaway
"Sailing Through the Rocky Shoals" by Duane Spurlock
"The Doc Savage - Frank Buck Connection" by Julián Puga
"Will Murray's First Series of Doc Savage Novels" by Jeff Deischer
"Mayan Alphabet Key"
"Tallying the Tollin Savage Sanctum Reprints" by Kez Wilson
"The Sanctum Press Doc Savage Checklist" by Chuck Welch
"Rock Savage" by Will Murray
"A Novel Puzzle" by Chuck Welch
"Dynamite Doc Savage Archives Volume 1" by Bobb Cotter
"Who is Dare Devlin" by Dafydd Neal Dyar
"The Bronze Gazette Publications News Update" by Terry Allen

The Bronze Gazette. Bigger. Badder. Bronzer. (Not sold in stores.)
5.5 x 8.5 inches, 56 pages plus covers

Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 76, Summer 2016, and No. 77, Fall 2016.

$20.00 U.S.A
$30.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$35.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)

Click HERE to subscribe!
 



CARNAKI: THE LOST CASES  - Coming in July!

Table of Contents
"The Darkness" by A. F. Kidd
"The Silent Garden" by Jason C. Eckhardt
"The Shadow Suns" by John Howard
"The Steeple Monster Case" by Charles R. Rutledge
"The Moving Fur Case" by Paul R. Mcnamee
"The Delphic Bee" by Josh Reynolds
"A Hideous Communion" by James Gracey
"The Dark Trade" by John Linwood Grant
"The Grunting Man" by William Meikle
"The Dark Light" by Robert M. Price
"The Yellow Finger Experiments" by James Bojaciuk
"The Grey Dog" by John Linwood Grant






Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Short Reviews – Signal Red by Henry Guth - New!
A Best of Weird Tales - New!
The Weird Tales Novels: Golden Blood
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 9- The Single Author Collections
Short Reviews – Ordeal in Space by Ralph Sloan

Now available!

Welcome to Man Drowning, a noir tale if ever there was one. First published in hardback by Harper & Brothers in 1952, it wouldn’t have been at all out of place in the Gold Medal paperback line of the same year. Nick Banning, the book’s narrator, is a blue-collar guy and a war vet, like so many of the characters in noir books and films. And like them, he has problems, chief among them his almost uncontrollable anger and his obsessive love of a woman named Sherry, to whom he was once married. He finds Sherry in Arizona and tries to convince her, and himself, that he’s changed, that his obsession with her won’t lead him to do the kinds of things he did in the past. Sherry knows better, Nick knows better, the reader knows better, and his downward spiral has already begun.

This new edition of Man Drowning is signed by Bill Crider, who wrote the introduction, and Ron Lesser, who provided the stunning cover artwork. Limited to just 200 copies for sale.


Limited to 200 copies.
Introduction by Bill Crider.
Reprints of old Man Drowning covers, all in full color.
All copies signed by Bill Crider and cover artist Ron Lesser.
Sewn binding, ribbon marker, head and tail bands.
Cloth: $45




THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 33: The Mountain Where Crom Dwells and Other Stories TP - Coming in November!
Roy Thomas (Writer), Mike Docherty (Pencils/Cover), E. R. Cruz (Pencils), John Watkiss (Pencils), Ricardo Villagrán (Inks/Cover), and Nel Yomtov (C)

Conan scales the Mount of Crom to thwart the release of Shuma-Gorath, an ancient, malevolent demon.
But the witch queen Vammatar and the necromancer Kulan Gath seek the Books of Shuma-Gorath to free the evil god and bring it under their control!

Collects Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian #259–#267.


Trade paperback, 7 x 10, Full Color, 224 pages, $19.99, On sale November 16.

THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 33 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL160130.


CIMMERIA by Innsmouth Gold - Now available!

Digital Album
Readings by John Prusinski
Music by Robert Poyton

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app,
plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Buy Now  £7 GBP


Tracks
Cimmeria (video)
Red Slayers March (video)
The Thing on the Roof
The Frost Giant's Daughter
Solomon Kane's Homecoming
Worms of the Earth
Worms of the Earth - Bran Mak Morn
Worms of the Earth - Into the Fens
Worms of the Earth - The Bargain
Worms of the Earth - Vale Caesar
Cimmeria (music)
Let Me Live in a Bar




Cirsova Heroic Fantasy & Science Fiction Pulp Zine: Issue 2
Now available for pre-order!

Cirsova is taking pre-orders for the second issue of its a newly launched semi-pro market for Pulp adventure stories.

Late January, Cirsova launched a Kickstarter to take pre-orders for its inaugural issue. It funded in a matter of days, going on to double its original goal. We were able to begin fulfilling orders within weeks of the end of the Kickstarter – as soon as the money hit our account.

We have big plans for the future, and while we were toying with the idea of a semi-annual release, fueled by the myriad amazing submissions we got during our open submission period we ultimately decided to push forward, build momentum and aim for being a quarterly publication!

As such, we are again using Kickstarter to take pre-orders and sell ad space for Issue 2 of Cirsova. Like before, everything is paid for – stories and art - and the magazine is ready to go save for finalizing the ad layout.

This is going to be an especially cool issue, with nearly 50,000 words of original content. We've got several new and returning contributors, including an all new Dream Lords story by Adrian Cole and an essay by multiple-award-winning author Kristine Katheryn Rusch.  In addition to the fantastic piece by our regular artist, Jabari Weathers, Issue 2 will have a Kickstarter exclusive cover done by 2016 Hugo Nominee Ku Kuru Yo.


Short Stories
 • The Sealed City by Adrian Cole (all new Dream Lords story)
 
Hoskins' War by Brian K. Lowe
 
Squire Errant by Karl Gallagher
 • The Water Walks Tonight by S.H. Mansouri
 
Shark Fighter by Michael Tierney

Novella
 • Images of the Goddess by Schuyler Hernstrom

Poetry
 • My Name is John Carter (Part 2) by James Hutchings

Featured Column
 • Rescuing Women by Kristine Katheryn Rusch

Cover Art
 
Jabari Weathers
 • Ku Kuru Yo (Variant Cover)

Pledge Levels:
$2 - PDF
$10 - Softcover Copy
$18 - Softcover Copies (Both Versions)
$35 - Hardcover Copy*
$60 - Hardcover Copies* (Both Versions)






Clive Cussler: ODESSA SEA - Coming November 15!

A desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov Empire. A Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo.
Mysterious deaths on the Black Sea linked to modern-day smugglers of nuclear materials.

At the center of it all is Dirk Pitt and his team from NUMA. As the danger escalates, there’s only one man who can avert catastrophe.
From London to Washington, from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the action never stops, as Pitt races to prevent the next global war.


Hardcover, 464 pages, List Price: $29.00



Clive Cussler: PIRATE - Coming September 13!

An 800-year-old treasure . . . an ancient cypher wheel . . . a brutal murder . . . and a man who will stop at nothing to claim what he considers rightfully his.

Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle will take them halfway around the world, and at its end will be either one of the most glorious finds in history—or certain death.


Hardcover, 400 pages, List Price: $29.00



CONAN THE SLAYER #3 - Coming in September!

Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Sergio Dávila
Color:
Michael Atiyeh
Cover: 
Admira Wijaya

While on a raid, Conan and a small party of Kozaki riders—including the chief’s son—are separated from the rest of the tribe and attacked by a sea witch. Meanwhile, in their absence, disastrous events are unfolding at the Kozaki camp.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 28.

CONAN THE SLAYER #3 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL160129.

 

DARK HORSE PRESENTS #26 - Coming in September!
Jimmy Palmiotti (Writer), Justin Gray (Writer), Keith Goldberg (Writer), Kaare Andrews (Writer), John Arcudi (Writer), Alan Gordon (Writer), Rich Woodall (Writer), Paul Levitz (Writer), Aaron Campbell (Art), Troy Nixey (Art/Cover), Lucas Varela (Art), Bo Hampton (Art), Craig Rousseau (Art), and Tim Hamilton (Art)

Featuring Al Gordon and Bo Hampton’s The Once and Future Tarzan

This month’s issue of Dark Horse Presents features three new stories: Black Sinister by Kaare Andrews and Troy Nixey, Espirits de Corps by John Arcudi and Lucas Varela, and Rubber Guns by Keith Goldberg, Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Aaron Campbell!

Paul Levitz and Tim Hamilton’s Brooklyn Blood, Al Gordon and Bo Hampton’s The Once and Future Tarzan, and Rich Woodall and Craig Rousseau’s Kyrra: Alien Jungle Girl continue in this issue!


Full Color, 48 pages, $4.99, On sale September 21.


DARK HORSE PRESENTS #26 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL160182.


Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!

DEATH by ELECTION
Poster Gallery: GENE AUTRY  
Overlooked Films: "A Dime a Dance," from a BLACK MASK story by Cornell Woolrich (1995)


The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Dashiell Hammett: Bestseller Mystery B40
- New!
Nostalgia Digest Summer 2016
A Dashiell Hammett Detective
Russ Winterbotham: Super-Science Fiction Writer
Beyond Fantasy Fiction #5

The Digest Enthusiast #4
 Now available!

The fourth spectacular edition of The Digest Enthusiast is now available in print and Kindle from Amazon.

Contents:
Interviews:
Art Taylor: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
 • An insightful conversation with the award-winning author and frequent contributor to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Art Taylor.
Editors of the new generation of digital digests:
   Alec Cizak, Pulp Modern
   Jennifer Landels, Pulp Literature
   John Kenyon, Grift
   Kristen Valentine, Betty Fedora
   Sheri White, Morpheus Tales
 • The editors share their thoughts on the new generation of digital digests.

Articles:
Suspense Magazine and Novels by Richard Krauss
 • A close-up view of Suspense Magazine and its Suspense Novel series, along with the associated radio, TV and comic book series. 
Galaxy Science Fiction Novels by Steve Carper
 • Steve Carper’s comprehensive overview of the digest-sized Galaxy Novel series. 
Galaxy Magabooks by Gary Lovisi
 • Gary Lovisi’s companion piece (to Galaxy Novels): Galaxy Magabooks. 
Criswell Predicts: Fate & Spaceway by Tom Brinkmann
 • Tom Brinkmann’s exposé on The Amazing Criswell’s prognostications for Fate Magazine and Spaceway science fiction.
Shock Mystery Tales by Peter Enfantino
 • Peter Enfantino dissects Shock Mystery Tales—the shudder pulps inbred man-child.
Pocket Pin-ups trading cards
 • An unfettered peek into the Pocket Pin-Ups trading card set by Max Allan Collins.

Reviews:
H.G. Wells Society Newsletter #30
Bulldog Drummond by Snapper
Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines by Michael L. Cook

Fiction:
"A Rat Must Chew" by Gary Lovisi
"The Hideout" by Ron Fortier
"Strangers in Need" by Joe Wehrle, Jr.
"Wounded Wizard" by John Kuharik

Artwork and Cartoons:
Sean Azzopardi
Rob Davis
Brad Foster
Michael Neno
Bob Vojtko

Also includes:
Editor's Notes
Digest indexes (
Suspense Magazine)
Social media round-up
Opening Lines

Print version, $8.99, includes nearly 100 B&W cover images, 152 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest.
Kindle version, $2.99, includes over 50 color cover images.






Doc Con 2016
November 4, 5 & 6, 2016

Doc Con will be held November 4, 5 & 6, 2016.
Request that vacation time...mark those calendars and let everyone know you will be in Phoenix the first weekend of November.
Special plans are still being made to make this the best Doc Con ever!
So stay tuned for more details to follow as soon as we can announce them.


DOC SAVAGE: THE SPIDER’S WEB TRADE PAPERBACK - Coming in September!
Writer: Chris Roberson
Art: Cezar Rezak
Cover: Wilfredo Torres

While responding to a devastating earthquake that ravaged South America, Doc Savage and company discover that not only was the disaster far from natural, but it appears linked to a menace that Doc faced sixty years before! As the investigation proceeds, Doc uncovers a vast conspiracy connecting his many closed cases, spread across the decades and involving doomsdays cults, the lost Mayan empire, cyber-terrorists, and World War II! Who is responsible... and will the Man of Bronze free himself from the center of this treacherous web?

Trade paperback, 7x10, 120 pages, Full Color, $19.99, On sale September 14.


DOC SAVAGE: THE SPIDER'S WEB TPB is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL161501.



 
Doc Savage Fantasy Covers
Now online!

Kez Wilson's DOC SAVAGE FANTASY COVERS website has added a new cover!
Check out the whole series of covers at the link below!





Edgar Rice Burroughs
TARZAN ON THE PRECIPICE by Michael A Sanford
Now available for pre-order!

At the conclusion of the classic TARZAN OF THE APES by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan is despondent but assured he did what was honorable by enabling Jane to leave with his cousin, William Clayton (who believes he is the rightful heir to the Greystoke estate and can appropriately provide for Jane when they marry). But what then? There has never been an explanation of Tarzan’s activities after his presence in Wisconsin and before he begins his voyage back to Africa—until now!

This story is full of fantasy, imaginative fiction and adventure – It grabs your attention from the beginning and keeps it to the very end. As Tarzan travels north, you will have visions of Canada that will make you feel as if you are there, touching and feeling all that Tarzan does. Thinking time and again that Tarzan’s demise is imminent, he escapes only to encounter still more dangers, with each episode building more suspense and anticipation for the next. Tarzan’s discovery of a lost Viking civilization and the author’s description and explanation of it will bring you a clear picture of village life and the gruesome realities of their existence.

While you may think this is a novel of pure fiction, archaeologists are continuing to discover new Viking sites in North America. Just recently, satellite technology has revealed intriguing evidence of a second Norse settlement further south than ever before known. A new Canadian site was discovered after infrared images from 400 miles in space showed possible man-made impressions under layers of vegetation with telltale signs of iron working. And now you will have the opportunity, while joining Tarzan, to unearth and experience this new discovery.

Of course, TARZAN ON THE PRECIPICE has a double meaning. He is indeed chained with his life hanging in the balance on the precipice of a volcanic crater, but he is also on the precipice of the rest of his life, not knowing his future, abandoning his right of birth as an English Lord and bereft of the thing in life he cherishes most, Jane. All that is left for him now is Africa, which is at least known to him. Enjoy this tale and join Tarzan on his Canadian adventure as he prepares to return to Africa and a future even he cannot predict.


ORDER YOUR HARD COVER NOW!
First orders will be shipped beginning on June 30
  
TARZAN ON THE PRECIPICE
Copyright © 2016 Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Tarzan of the Apes copyright © 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Trademarks TARZAN®, TARZAN OF THE APES™ AND
   EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS® owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and Used by Permission
First Edition—June 2016
Designed by Matthew Moring/Altus Press






The Los Angeles SubERBs and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. take pleasure in finally announcing the 2016 ECOF to be held at the Warner Center Marriott hotel beginning Sunday, June 26, and ending late Tuesday evening, June 28, 2016.

    Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills
    21850 Oxnard St.
    Woodland Hills, CA 91367      818-887-4800 

Due to unavoidable delays, the room rates at the Marriott are not as favorable as we would have liked. Discount rates are now $177 per day, plus taxes.
Twenty-five rooms have been set aside for our organization.
Reservations can be made at  818-887-4800  and tell the Marriott operator that you want the Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan group rate.

Esteemed guests who have said they will attend include
John Burroughs, ERB’s grandson
Linda Burroughs, Llana Jane Burroughs, and Dejah Burroughs
James Sullos, President of ERB, Inc.
Nancy Miller (Mrs. Denny Miller)
Buddy Saunders, author of “The Martian Legion”
Martin Powell
Thomas Yeates
William Stout
Scott Tracy Griffin (with his new book “Tarzan on Film”)
Michael Hatt (author of “Tarzan Slept Here”)
Michael A. Sanford (author of an upcoming authorized Tarzan pastiche)
Michael Sellers (author of “John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood”)
Bob Zeuschner (author of a huge new ERB bibliography)
Other guests to be announced.


Special Preview Screening of Legend of  Tarzan
Screen Shot 2016-04-10 at 10.17.01 AMThis event is in conjunction with the release of the Warner Bros. “Legend of Tarzan” and we will receive an early pre-release showing of the highly anticipated film on the Warner Bros. movie lot. The WB theater can accommodate only 200 guests. The film is rated PG-13. Children under 10 will not be admitted. Movie lot security requires everyone in attendance to have pre-registered and present an ID upon exiting the bus due to security requirements at Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. will also open their WB museum for a two-hour tour, but we are limited to just 110 people. There is an extra charge to go on the tour. Bus transportation will be provided to carry guests from the Marriott hotel to and from the Warner Bros. movie lot in Burbank.


Registration
There is a two tier registration fee.

OPTION A: $85: Includes ECOF admission, bus transport, movie, goodie bag, WB studio tour.
OPTION B: $40: Same as option A but without the WB studio tour.

Pre-registration form and huckster table reservations are available on Bill Hillman’s site:
http://www.erbzine.com/dumdum/
and the ERB, Inc. website: http://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/


Tentative Schedule
    Saturday afternoon early arrivals.
    Saturday evening 6 pm: snacks at a member’s home (transportation will be arranged)
    Sunday – hand out registration packets; huckster room opens at 9 am
    Sunday panels: 10 am welcome; four panels during the day (tentative)
    Sunday evening: no-host mixer on the Marriott patio
    Monday huckster room and panels: 10-11 am  11-12 noon    2-3 pm   3-4 pm (tentative)
    Monday evening gala auction 7-9 pm
    Tuesday morning: tours of the WB museum limited to 110 people (extra charge)
    Tuesday evening: buses take us to Warner Bros. and return to the Marriott after the movie.

ECOF      ECOF 2016

ERB Books
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

by Robert B. Zeuschner

Pre-order discount extended to July 15!


 Free Copy of ERB:TB to the Person Who Orders the 200th Book!
THE BOOK IS AT THE PRINTER - Final Page Count - 736
 For those of who are ordering the Deluxe Edition (leather bound/hubbed spine without dust jacket)
and would like a copy of the dust jacket, please let Jim Gerlach know.
We can make one available to you for a nominal charge.

 


Standard Edition: (Ships July 15 - August 1)
Bound in midnight blue Cialux Italian book cloth with the spine and front cover decorations stamped in gilt. 
Color wraparound dust jacket, 675+ pages; 7”x10”; 600+ total images - 500+ in color on glossy stock
$100.00 PREORDER 10% Discount $90.00 + $14 Flat Rate shipping via Fed Ex


The Deluxe Edition:  (Ships July 15 - August 1) 
Bound in genuine red leather with a hub spine and limited to 375 signed and numbered copies with the spine and front cover decorations stamped in gilt. 
700+ pages; 7”x10”; 600+ images - 500+ in color on glossy stock
$150.00  PREORDER 10% off $135.00  + $14 Flat Rate Shipping via Fed Ex










  Now online!

New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

June 2016
Following up on last month's release, we are pleased to present the second Father Brown story, The Secret of the Sealed Garden, as it appeared in the September 3, 1910 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.  The original illustrations by George Gibbs are included along with a short introduction by Dan Neyer.  If you are new to Father Brown, you might want to read our introduction to the character found on the page, The Innocence of Father Brown, written by Dan Neyer.

May 2016
We have revamped Valentine Follows a Curious Trail (The Blue Cross) by G. K. Chesterton and fixed some errors from our previous reprinting and cleaned up the illustrations by George Gibbs.
This story now serves as the beginning of our reprinting of the original Father Brown stories as they appeared in the Post, complete with the original illustrations. 
Introductions to all are by Dan Neyer.  Best place to start is on our introductory page, The Innocence of Father Brown.


April 2016
A dictator meets his comeuppance in Kirby Draycott's The Clock Face of Schaumburg which, as explained in in the introduction, bears some resemblance to a story by a certain Mr. Poe. All the original illustrations are included, just as they appeared in the November, 1898 issue of The Royal Magazine.  Introduction is by Bob Gay.

March 2016
A tale of romance and espionage by Baroness Orczy, Number 187, as it appeared in the January, 1899 issue of Pearson's Magazine, including the illustrations by Ernest Prater.  Introduction by Dan Neyer.

February 2016
All is revealed to the members of The Grill Club in the third (and final) part of In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis, The Solicitor's Story, just as it appeared in the May, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.

January 2016
The second part of "In The Fog" by Richard Harding Davis: "The Story of the Queen’s Messenger," just as it appeared in the April, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.



The Golden Age - Now online!

Franklin Booth ~ published by Robert Frank ~ 1925 - New!
Mark Schultz ~ Assorted Covers
Robert E. Howard's Kull - the unpublished Barry Smith
Barry Smith ~ The Robert E. Howard Memorial Portfolio
Jeff Jones illustrating Red Shadows by Robert E. Howard
Misc Art illustrating Robert E. Howard
Go Hero
Coming in August!

THE SPIDER
by GO HERO X EXECUTIVE REPLICAS X PHICEN LTD


The Spider  1/6th scale Action Figure
Suggested retail price - $169.99 Extremely limited production
 
The Spider, foremost action hero in pulp fiction, was created by Harry Steeger as an avenging knight in a black cape, appearing in The Spider magazine in 118 epic novels mainly written by the legendary Norvell W. Page. For the first time ever, Executive Replicas, Phicen Ltd., and Go Hero are proud to present The Spider 1:6-Scale Action Figure. Now you can fight evil with 3 sets of hands, a detailed fabric costume (2-piece 1930s suit, removable mask, long sleeved dress shirt, dress tie, fedora, 1940s style shoes, and 2 capes — 1 Pulp Version, 1 Serial Version), 2 .045 automatic guns with removable cartridge and a double underarm holster. Includes display base & stand and four-color packaging. Scheduled to ship in August 2016. 

NOTE: Available only in the United States, Canada, and U.S. Territories.
 
Officially licensed and Authorized by Argosy Communications, Inc
 
Outfit
 1 Pair of 1940’s style shoes
 1 x Dress tie
 1 x –Long sleeved dress shirt
 1 x 1930’s style two piece suit
 1 x-fedora hat
 1 x hood (serial version)
 1 x removable mask
 2 x capes (1 x Pulp version & 1 x serial version

  
Accessories
 2 X .045 automatic guns with removable cartridge
 1 X double underarm holster
 3 X SETS OF hands
 1 X BASE & STAND
 4 COLOR PACKAGING
 
IMPORTANT NOTES
 - These are LIMITED EDITION figures based on Pre-Orders (So don't wait)
 - Professionally Manufactured by Phicen ltd.
 - Produced by Executive Replicas with permission.
 - Unrelated to any other previous products or companies using similar subject matter.
 - 15% NRD
 - International Shipping is estimated at $50

 
THE SPIDER 1/6-SCALE ACTION FIGURE is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL162901.





Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE AVON NOVELS VOLUME 1: THE STORY OF THE PHANTOM SC - Coming in September!
(Writer) Lee Falk (Cover) George Wilson

For the first time ever, the Avon edition of The Phantom is back in print! Hermes Press is proud to announce that they will be publishing all fifteen pocket Avon books! Famed artist George Wilson painted all of the covers used for the Avon series, and they are reproduced beautifully to keep all of the details from the original books intact for a new generation of Phans to enjoy! This first exciting book in the series tells the story of the childhood and adolescence of the twenty-first Phantom. His father, the twentieth Phantom, regales the reader and young Kit Walker of the men who came before him: the fighter who beat Redbeard the Pirate, while gaining the heart of Queen Natala; the harrowing actions that the twentieth Phantom took to regain the friendship of the Rope People, and many more stories! In this opening to the series, we also meet Diana Palmer, the love of the Phantom, the woman who always can count on the Phantom to rescue her, even before he becomes The Ghost Who Walks.

Softcover, 6x9, 160 pages, Black & white, $14.99, On sale September 28.

THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE AVON NOVELS VOLUME 1: THE STORY OF THE PHANTOM is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL162214.




THE HISTORY OF DOC SAVAGE: ADVENTURES IN THE PULPS PAPERBACKS, AND COMICS SC - Now available and coming to comic shops in September!
By Robert Michael Cotter

Doc Savage is the prototype of the modern fictional superhero. The character exploded onto the scene in 1933, with the Great Depression and the gathering clouds of war as a cultural backdrop. The adventure series is examined in relation to historical events and the changing tastes of readers, with special attention paid to the horror and science fiction elements. The artwork features illustrations, covers, and original art. Chapters cover Doc Savage paperbacks, pulp magazines, comic books, and fanzines, and an appendix offers biographies of all major contributors to the series. (STL014720) NOTE: This item may be available through other retail outlets before shipping to comic book specialty shops.

Softcover, 7x10, 240 pages, B&W, $25.00, On sale September 7.


THE HISTORY OF DOC SAVAGE is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL162276.



IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND CLASSIC COLLECTION VOLUME 1: DR. NO—1958-1960 HC - Coming to comic shops in November!
(W) Ian Fleming & Various (A) John Mclusky

The daring James Bond is back in a hardcover edition collecting Ian Fleming's super spy's earliest adventures in comic strip form! This volume collects together the comic strips: "Casino Royale," "Live and Let Die," "Moonraker," "Diamonds Are Forever," "From Russia With Love," and "Dr. No."

Hardcover, 9x12, 256 pages, B&W, $39.95, On sale November 9.

JAMES BOND CLASSIC COLLECTION VOLUME 1 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL162276.


Titan Books  


ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #14 - Arriving in comic shops June 29!

Tara McPherson: Astronomy and astrophysics are two passions that guide her, along with a love of anime her images of haunting mystery reach for the stars. Joe Jusko: Pump iron with the legendary artist as he shares his amazing highs and lows. Maurice Leloir: Hurtle back to the court of Louis XIV and see the stunning detailed historical art. Adam Stower: Gasp with delight at the whimsical worlds of his art.

Magazine, 96 pages, Full Color, $24.99



IRWIN ALLEN'S LOST IN SPACE: THE LOST ADVENTURES #5 - Coming in September!
(Writer) Carey Wilber, Holly Interlandi (Art/Cover) Patrick McEvoy

"Malice in Wonderland" continues! After Willoughby ESQs them to a strange dimension populated by Lewis Carroll characters, Smith, Penny, Will, and the Robot attempt to find a way out while the angry Queen of Hearts tries to chop off their heads! It's space with a psychadelic twist in this adaptation of the late Carey Wilber's teleplays.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 21.

LOST IN SPACE: THE LOST AVENTURES #5  is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL161191 (Main).

The Diamond Item Code is JUL161192 (Photo).
 
 

JAMES BOND #10 - Coming in September!
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters

Cover: Dom Reardon

EIDOLON, Chapter 4—MI6 is under attack from both hidden forces and Her Majesty's Government itself.  Why do MI5 and Whitehall want MI6 to be unable to defend itself?  Where is the terrifying Beckett Hawkwood?  What is EIDOLON?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 21.

JAMES BOND #10 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL161502.



Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!


SOJARR OF TITAN

When the First Flight to Saturn Crashes on an Alien Moon, the Robinson Crusoe of Space Clothes Himself in the Laws of a Strange Science to Win a New World!

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 194 pages
$14.95





KING'S QUEST #5 (OF 5)  - Coming in September!
Writer: Ben Acker, Heath Corson
Art: Dan McDaid

Cover A: Marc Laming
Cover B: Jonathan Lau
Cover C Subscription: Colton Worley


FLASH GORDON, THE PHANTOM, MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN, PRINCE VALIANT & JUNGLE JIM ARE GOING TO DIE!!!!! (unless they act super-heroic and defeat every flying space monster and evil laser-wielding foot soldier in the galaxy)

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 28.

KING'S QUEST #5 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL161504 (Laming cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL161505 (Lau cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL161506 (Subscription variant cover).

  
  
  

KONG OF SKULL ISLAND #3 (of 6) - Coming in September!
Writer: James Asmus
Artist: Carlos Magno
Main Cover: Nick Robles

Volcanic eruptions and political overtakings—the Kongs struggle against the horrors of Skull Island.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 14.

KONG OF SKULL ISLAND #3 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL161375.


LOBSTER JOHNSON: METAL MONSTERS OF MIDTOWN #2 (of 3) - Arriving in comic shops June 29!
Mike Mignola (Writer), John Arcudi (Writer), Tonci Zonjic (Art/Cover), and Dave Stewart (Color)

The face-off against giant robots continues as Lobster Johnson’s investigation leads him to a woman whose story reveals the ancient origins behind the machines’ gleaming exteriors.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50




LONE RANGER / GREEN HORNET #3 (OF 6) - Coming in September!
Writer: Michael Uslan
Art: Giovanni Timpano
Cover: Jan Dursema

After the family split between Britt Reid and John Reid, does The Green Hornet ally himself with Murder, Inc.? Does Olympian Jesse Owens become the new Lone Ranger? What other legendary hero learns he is related to The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet? Who appears "from out of the past" to train and guide Kato? The shocking answers all explode in Chapter 3 of "The Lone Ranger Meets The Green Hornet: Champions of Justice!"

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 14.

LONE RANGER / GREEN HORNET #3 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL161507.




LOVECRAFT ALIVE: A COLLECTION OF LOVECRAFTIAN STORIES by John Shirley - Shipping in June!

Acclaimed novelist John Shirley has written novels and tales that span the spectrum of imaginative literature, from science fiction to psychological terror to supernatural horror. One of the writers that inspired him to become a writer was H. P. Lovecraft, and in this volume Shirley pays tribute to the titan of weird fiction with a series of imaginative elaborations upon Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
 
These stories range from narratives that feature Lovecraft himself as a shadowy character (“When Death Wakes Me to Myself”) to historical tales where Lovecraftian entities emerge at critical points in the past (“Those Who Come to Dagon,” “The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner,” “Broken on the Wheel of Time”) to vibrant tales melding Lovecraftian terror with modern technology (“At Home with Azathoth,” “The Holy Grace of Cthulhu”). The volume concludes with a scintillating unpublished novella, “Broken on the Wheel of Time,” elaborating upon conceptions found in Lovecraft’s “The Shadow out of Time.”

Cover artwork by Harry O. Morris

Paperback, 253 pages, $12.50




Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Recent Book Reviews: Handsome Heroes and Vicious Villains - New!
Captain America: Cival War movie review
Gang Busters: Old Time Radio Crime Fighters
Collectors Item: The Shadow's Ring
The Lost 1933 Lone Ranger Radio Episodes
Three things you did not know about the Lone Ranger

Now available for pre-order!

Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days
Philip José Farmer’s The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
THEY WERE ONLY THE BEGINNING!


In 2014, Meteor House published Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows by Josh Reynolds, a sequel to Philip José Farmer’s The Other Log of Phileas Fogg. 2016 brings us Reynolds’ Phileas Fogg and the Heart of Osra, furthering the exploits of Jules Verne’s most iconic hero.

Now, join Meteor House as Win Scott Eckert reveals a hitherto unknown chapter in Fogg’s celebrated round-the-world journey!

December 1872. Phileas Fogg, the lovely Aouda, and his faithful manservant Passepartout, are nearing the end of their frenzied eighty-day dash around the world…

One wouldn’t think, as Fogg and Co. speed across North America on the transcontinental railroad, that they would have time to befriend a mysterious masked lawman, match wits with a long-lived criminal mastermind and his tong, and battle anti-Chinese sentiment in Old West coal mining communities.

One would be wrong.

Win Scott Eckert pulls back the veil on the previously untold tale of Mr. Phileas Fogg’s fateful encounter with the legendary masked rider of the plains and his faithful companion—an episode suppressed (with good reason!) by M. Verne himself from the final publication of his classic Around the World in Eighty Days.

Meteor House is proud to present our first limited edition chapbook, a 9,800 word adventure signed by Win Scott Eckert. As with most of our books, the print run will be determined by the number of books preordered. Only a small number will be printed beyond the preorders, so to ensure you don’t miss out, be sure to order no later than July 5th.

And here is an added bonus: if you have preordered any of our forthcoming titles, this chapbook has free shipping (and will be sent to you, along with your other book(s), after FarmerCon in early August).

So, if you have already purchased any of the following
Crossovers Expanded, Volume 1
Crossovers Expanded, Volume 2
DAYWORLD A Hole in Wednesday
Blood of Ancient Opar
Phileas Fogg and the Heart of Osra


US $8
5.5×8.5, 28 pages (9,800 words)
Limited Edition of TBD Signed copies



Moonstone Books
FOXY LADY: F.B.I. #1

Story: Mel Odom
Art: Javier Sanchez Arada
Covers: David Enebral, Fernando Ferriero

Join superstar novelist Mel Odom (Buffy, NCIS, Forgotten Realms, etc!) as Purple Haze is all around! The swinging sixties and psychedelic 70’s streets are brimming with
Unspeakable crimes. There is one woman who speaks for those who can’t, and with the help of (ex-cat burglar) T.H.E. Cat and (the thinking man’s spy) FLINT, Foxy leads her team of investigators to the truth regardless of who gets in the way.


32 pages, gray, 7” x10”, $3.50, On sale September 28.

FOXY LADY #1 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL161760.



Mystery*File - Now online!

JONATHAN LEWIS: Stories I’m Reading — ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE “The New Catacomb”
- New!
Mystery Movie Review: CALLING DR. DEATH (1943) - New!
A Movie Review by Dan Stumpf: THE WHITE GORILLA (1945)  - New!
JONATHAN LEWIS: Stories I’m Reading — ROBERT WEINBERG “Three Steps Back”
A Mystery Movie Review by Jonathan Lewis: THE INVISIBLE MENACE (1938)
Book Noted: KAREN A. ROMANKO – Television’s Female Spies and Crimefighters
Book Announcement: JONATHAN LEWIS – Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Tales
A Magazine Review by David Vineyard: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE – September 1931


Coming soon!

OCCULT DETECTIVE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE!
This magazine comes out four times a year and features new & classic occult detective fiction as well as articles, news and reviews!
The magazine is co-edited by John Linwood Grant and Sam Gafford.
Logo design by Bob Freeman.


Occult Detective Quarterly

Paperback Perils - Now online!

Blood of Ancient Opar (Christopher Paul Carey, Meteor House 2016)

Doc Ardan: The City of Gold and Lepers (Guy D'Armen, 1928/Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, 2004)
The Warlord of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914)
The Gods of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1913)  

PS Publishing
BLACK WINGS V

Now available for pre-order!

This is still listed as upcoming. Mike Chomko is accepting pre-orders for the book.

This fifth instalment of S. T. Joshi’s critically acclaimed Black Wings series features twenty stories that use H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos as the basis for imaginative ventures into the weird and terrifying. One of the central themes in Lovecraft’s work is the problematical nature of science in human affairs, and in this volume we find stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Lynne Jamneck, and Donald R. Burleson where scientists come face to face with the appalling implications of their discoveries.

Lovecraft was a master of the “sense of place,” inventing imaginary towns in New England with a rich and sinister history stretching back centuries. In this book, Jonathan Thomas, W. H. Pugmire, and Sunni K Brock bring Lovecraft’s towns of Arkham, Kingsport, and Innsmouth to life. Sam Gafford, Darrell Schweitzer, and Stephen Woodworth evoke terror in other corners of the American continent, while British writers David Hambling and John Reppion find Lovecraftian horror in little-known towns in England. The world-building that led Lovecraft to fashion an entire universe set in the realm of dreams is duplicated in tales by Cody Goodfellow, Mark Howard Jones, and Donald Tyson.

Madness is always an occupational hazard of the “searchers after horror” who populate Lovecraft’s tales. In this volume, stories by Robert H. Waugh, Nicole Cushing, and Nancy Kilpatrick searingly display the psychological aberrations of characters as they encounter the bizarre. Lovecraft himself has become an iconic character, and his gaunt, lantern-jawed figure stalks the tales by Jason C. Eckhardt and Mollie L. Burleson. This volume concludes, as did its predecessor, with a long poem by Wade German, one of the most dynamic figures in a remarkable renaissance of weird poetry inspired by the work of Lovecraft and his colleagues.

Black Wings V can take its place as a pioneering anthology that shows how the work of H. P. Lovecraft is inexhaustibly rich in the inspiration it can provide to contemporary writers of weird fiction.


AN ANTHOLOGY edited by S. T. Joshi
CATEGORY Lovecraft inspired Horror
PUBLICATION DATE May 2015
COVER ART Jason Van Hollander
PAGES 317
INTRODUCTION S. T. Joshi

EDITIONS
Unsigned Jacketed Hardcover — ISBN  978-1-848639-94-2  [£25]
300 Slipcased HC signed by the contributors  — ISBN 978-1-848639-95-9  [£50]




Thursday, July 21 through Sunday, July 24, 2016


Are you thinking about attending PulpFest 2016? You’re probably wondering what to expect from this year’s convention. PulpFest is known for its great programming and the line-up that we’re planning for our 2016 convention is shaping up to be one of our best.

We’ll be saluting a wide range of anniversaries at this summer’s pulp con: the tenth anniversary of Sanctum Books; the eightieth anniversary of THE WHISPERER and THE SKIPPER; the ninetieth anniversary of AMAZING STORIES, the first science-fiction pulp; the hundredth anniversary of the specialty pulp; and the 120th anniversary of THE ARGOSY, the original pulp magazine!



The Guest of Honor for PulpFest 2016 will be author, editor, musician, and science-fiction and pulp fan Ted White.

Born February 4, 1938, Theodore Edwin White is a Hugo Award-winning American writer, best known as a science-fiction author and editor and as a fan and music critic. In addition to books and stories written under his own name, he has also co-authored novels with Dave van Arnam as Ron Archer, and with Terry Carr as Norman Edwards.

Since the time he was a teenager, White has been a prolific contributor to science-fiction fanzines, and in 1968 he won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Despite his considerable professional credits, White maintains that his achievements in fandom mean more to him than anything else he has done. In 1953, he edited and published ZIP, the first of his many fanzines. In 1956–57, he co-edited STELLAR with Larry Stark; followed by VOID in 1960, joining founding editors Gregory and James Benford; plus MINAC, EGOBOO, and others. He was also a regular columnist for YANDRO and Richard E. Geis’ PSYCHOTIC/SF REVIEW and has been active in numerous fan events, including the organizing of the 1967 World Science Fiction Convention in New York City as co-chairman. He still remains active on several fandom- and fanzine-oriented electronic mailing lists.

In 1959, at the age of 21, White moved from Baltimore to New York City with his first wife, Sylvia Dees White. That year, he began writing music criticism for METRONOME and a column for Tom Wilson’s JAZZ GUIDE (later 33 GUIDE). As a music critic, he expanded into jazz writing and journalism for ROGUE, along with record liner notes, concert reviews and interviews. He was the only person to record an interview with Eric Dolphy, the American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist. From 1977 through 1979 as Dr. Progresso, he did the Friday afternoon DR. PROGRESSO radio show on WGTB-FM. Following the advent of the Internet, White became the music editor of the Collecting Channel website in 1999, and he continues to maintain his own website of music commentary under his Dr. Progresso pseudonym.


White’s first professional sale as a writer was a short vignette sold to PLAYBOY in 1959. Two stories released on the same day — “Phoenix,” written by Ted White and revised by Marion Zimmer Bradley for the February 1963 AMAZING STORIES and “I, Executioner,” co-authored by Terry Carr for the March 1963 IF (WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) — have been cited by our guest as his first-published stories. The author later expanded “Phoenix” into the novel PHOENIX PRIME, originally published in 1966 by Lancer Books. It was the first of the QANAR series — continuing with THE SORCERESS OF QAR (1966) and STAR WOLF (1971) — all published by Lancer. “I Executioner” became the opening chapter of his Ace book, ANDROID AVENGER.

Captain AmericaTed’s first novel — INVASION FROM 2500 — was written in collaboration with Terry Carr under the pseudonym Norman Edwards. It was published in 1964. Through 1978 he wrote two science-fiction series and eleven stand-alone novels, including one Captain America novel — THE GREAT GOLD STEAL. It was published by Bantam Books and featured a nod to its pulp forebears: one of the bad guys is named Andrew “Monk” Mayfair. Two of White’s novels were written in collaboration with Dave van Arnam, one with David Bischoff and one — using White’s Doc Phoenix character — with Marv Wolfman. Ted White was a 1966 Nebula-Award nominee for his short story, “The Peacock King,” written with Larry McCombs. He was also instrumental in kick-starting the professional careers of other writers, notably Lee Hoffman. Still writing at nearly seventy-eight years of age, White has had a number of short stories published in recent years. “The Uncertain Past” appeared in the March & April 2014 number of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION while”The Philistine” can be found in the October 2015 issue of ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT.

Our Guest of Honor’s editorial career began as an assistant and associate editor at THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION from 1963 to 1968. He also served as an associate editor at Lancer Books, working under Larry Shaw. From October 1968 until October 1978, Ted White edited AMAZING STORIES and FANTASTIC, upgrading the quality of both magazine’s fiction while showcasing a variety of talented illustrators. According to author, anthologist, and science-fiction and popular-culture historian, Mike Ashley, White ushered “AMAZING into a silver, if not a golden, age.” He also edited two 1973 anthologies, THE BEST FROM AMAZING STORIES and THE BEST FROM FANTASTIC. Both were published by Manor Books.

Ted White’s reputation as an editor impressed the publishers of HEAVY METAL who hired him in 1979 to introduce non-fiction into the magazine. White immediately hired four columnists — Jay Kinney, Lou Stathis, Steve Brown and Bhob Stewart — to cover, respectively, underground comics, music, science fiction, and movies. HEAVY METAL continued to feature mainly graphic stories during White’s tenure as the new editor wove the text into the graphic art, rather than segregating it into a separate section. In 1984-85, Ted White served as Editorial Director for STARDATE, a multi-media science-fiction magazine edited by David Bischoff.

Ted became a pulp collector as a teenager. He owns most of the science-fiction pulps from the 1940s and many from the twenties and thirties. Among his holdings are complete runs of SCIENCE WONDER STORIES and AIR WONDER STORIES, both issues of MIRACLE SCIENCE AND FANTASY STORIES, all the Futurian-edited magazines, the complete run of CAPTAIN FUTURE, and many other titles. His library of pulp and science-fiction digests is complete from 1951 through the nineties. He also owns many single-character pulps, including all but one issue of DOC SAVAGE MAGAZINE and a couple dozen issues of THE SHADOW. He also has many issues of THE AVENGER, CAPTAIN ZERO, THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE, THE WHISPERER, and other hero pulps in his collection.

White also plays keyboards and saxophone. He currently performs with the Washington, DC area improvisational group Conduit. Although we’d love to have him play, Ted will be speaking to PulpFest attendees during our evening programming about his career, fandom, pulps, science fiction, and AMAZING STORIES. His Guest of Honor speech will take place on Friday, July 22nd in the PulpFest programming room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus. We hope to see you at the convention.



To give you an idea about what you’ll encounter from July 21st through July 24th at the Hyatt Regency and the city’s spacious convention center in the Columbus, Ohio Arena district, below is the proposed scheduled for PulpFest 2016. We hope to see you at the convention.


Thursday, July 21st

Dealers’ Room
4:00 PM – 11:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Set-Up
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM — Early Registration
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Opens for Early-Bird Shopping

Programming
9:10 – 9:55 PM — Street & Smith’s Second Stringers — The Whisperer and The Skipper (Will Murray)
10:05 – 10:50 PM — Traveling through Time with H. G. Wells  (Garyn Roberts)
11:00 PM — Pulps in the Pub (join your friends in the hotel bar and talk pulp)

Friday, July 22nd

Dealers’ Room
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM — Early Registration and Dealers’ Room Set-Up
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All

Programming
1:00 – 4:15 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to be announced)
6:55 – 7:00 PM — Welcome to PulpFest 2016 (Convention Chairman Jack Cullers)
7:00 – 7:40 PM — FarmerCon XI — Collaborating with Philip José Farmer (panelists to be announced)
7:50 – 8:35 PM — Our Guest of Honor (to be announced on January 11th)
8:45 – 9:30 PM — The First Science-Fiction Pulp — An AMAZING Story (Joseph Coluccio, president of the Pittsburgh Area Fantasy and Science Fiction Club)
9:40 – 10:20 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — LOVE STORY MAGAZINE and its Romantic Sisters (Laurie Powers)
10:30 – 11:15 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE and the Pulp Western (Will Murray)

Saturday, July 23rd

Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All
10:00 AM – 10:00 PM — Gaming Track in the Clark Room, Second Floor

Programming
1:00 – 1:50 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to be announced)
2:00 – 2:50 PM — The AMAZING World of New Pulp (Ron Fortier new pulp panel)
3:00 – 3:50 PM — Ten Years in The Shadow’s Sanctum — Anthony Tollin’s Sanctum Books
5:00 – 6:50 PM — PulpFest 2016 Group Meal at a Dick’s Last Resort (Volunteer coordinator Sally Cullers)
7:00 – 7:25 PM — PulpFest 2016 Business Meeting (meet the convention organizers)
7:30 – 7:45 PM — 2016 Munsey Award Presentation (presented by J. Randolph Cox or Stephen T. Miller)
8:00 – 8:45 PM — 120 Years of THE ARGOSY — The World’s First Pulp Magazine  (Doug Ellis)
8:55 –  9:40 PM — The Artists of THE ARGOSY —  120 Years of Sensational Pulp Artists (David Saunders)
10:00 PM – ??— Saturday Night at the Auction (John Gunnison & Joseph Saine)

Sunday, July 24th

Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All (many dealers will be packing up; buying opportunities may be limited)

Please note that this schedule is subject to change.

For questions about our programming, please write to our programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
For questions about our dealers’ room, please write to our convention chairperson Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com.



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Southpaws Should Stay Single" by Dan Valentine from SUPER SPORTS, December, 1953
I figure that the baseball club is in terrific shape, because we've got Lefty Meadows, who ought to be good for at least 25 wins this year. But I haven't figured on this blonde, Gloria . . .

"The Universal Postage Stamps" by B. E. Cook from SHORT STORIES, August 10, 1946
Featuring: Harden Bayle
Harden Bayle Roused in Me Mixed Emotions - Resentment That He Could Order My Life, Eagerness for Adventure Ahead

"Bright Bulb" by Sam Merwin, Jr. from G-MEN DETECTIVE, March, 1947
Quick-thinking girl photographer Rae Gibson throws some light on the subject when a G-man is groping in the dark!


Pulp Adventurecon
November 5, 2016!




Pulp Crazy - Now online!

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft - New!
Blood of Ancient Opar with Christopher Paul Carey
The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Recent Doc Savage Film Developments
Delenda Est by Robert E. Howard 


Pulp Den - Now online!

Night of The Owl - New!
Otto Binder  - New!
Superfall
Linked, We Soar
Sensing Serafina

         Pulp Den  

Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

Behind the scenes - how the editorial office worked at Adventure magazine - New!
Review of Adventure - January 1, 1928
Adventure - Review of May 15, 1933 issue
Tom Curry - Author, Engineer, Sportsman  


PULP HORROR #3 and #4
Now available for pre-order!


On July 1st, Pulp Horror #3 and #4 will be off to the printers!

The print run will be matched to orders, so place your order at the on-line shop by then if you want to be guaranteed of receiving a copy. 

Pulp Horror 3 features

Lengthy interviews with Valancourt Books and Mortbury Press
Reviews of classic horror books by Basil Copper, Bernard Taylor, John Blackburn, Charles Birkin, Michael McDowell and more
An overview of The Black Book of Horror series
 
Pulp Horror 4 features
A massive review of Murgunstrumm the Hugh Cave collection
A look at horror fiction in Fantastic digest
A review of the German pulp series Demon Killer
Armed Service editions of HPL et al
The weird menace pulp stories of Cornell Woolrich

The prices are £8 per issue UK, £10 per issue Europe/North America, £11 for Aust/Japan.


The Paperback Fanatic  On-line Shop for pre-orders



Pulp Magazines Project - Now online!

The Argosy (August 1905): Making Ad Pages Searchable - New!


The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.


That's Pulp! by John Olsen

The Spider #33: ‘Legions of Madness’ - New!
Perry Mason: novels #13 and #14
‘The Invisible Monster’: a serial in 12 chapters
Lost Shadow OTR: ‘Suicide Resort’
The Spider #110: ‘Zara: Master of Murder’
Perry Mason: novels #11 and #12
‘Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion’: a serial in 12 chapters


Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Bits of pulp: Cthulhu, cosplay, sf
Bits of pulp: ‘Shadow Comics,’ pulp cons
Meet the original ‘X-Men,’ part 2

Radio Spirits
Green Hornet: The Big Deal
Now available!


Crooked politicians, corrupt businessmen, gangland racketeers -- they're all fair game for the masked man with the gas gun! Join Britt Reid, daring young publisher, and his faithful valet Kato as they crusade against crime in twenty thrilling episodes of The Green Hornet!

They can always count on secretary Lenore Case and ex-cop turned reporter Michael Axford, who've got their ears to the ground and their eyes open. When powerful people prey on the vulnerable, Britt uses the press (and a little pressure) to balance the scales of justice!

Includes many rare episodes, and a Program Guide by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.

Episodes Include: Death Comes to Dinner 01-05-47; The Woman and Oliver Perry 01-12-47; The Rodin Statue 01-19-47; A Shot in the Arm 02-09-47; The State's Witness 02-16-47; The Findley Case 03-02-47; The Big Deal 03-11-47; Chickens Come Home to Roost 03-18-47; Rent in Advance 03-25-47; Political Strings 04-01-47; Stolen Identity 04-08-47; The Last of the Top Hat Gang 04-15-47; Cut Rate Crime 05-06-47; Camera Obscure 05-13-47; Merger Not Preferred 05-20-47; Cornered Steel 06-03-47; Fodder for Headlines 06-10-47; The Big Mouthpiece 06-17-47; Of Thee I Sing 06-24-47; Almost Used Cars 07-08-47


Duration: 10 hours
Media: (10) CDs
Price: $39.98



Radio Spirits
The Lone Ranger: Masked Rider

Now available!

The Lone Ranger thrilled generations of radio listeners with tales of Old West drama for all ages -- and those tales are just as lively today! This heroic masked figure, dedicated to the cause of justice, is no roaring vigilante -- he is rigorously honest, morally strict, and uncompromising in his respect for the law.

You'll find yourself on the trail to excitement as legendary announcer Fred Foy combines barely-controlled enthusiasm with razor-sharp diction. He's inviting you to join Brace Beemer as the Masked Man and John Todd as Tonto for ten full hours of bullets, bank robbers, and brotherhood from 1954 -- including several rare episodes!

Includes a program guide by radio historian Elizabeth McLeod!

Episodes Include: The Bank Robbery 01-25-54; The Black Patch 01-27-54; The Treacherous Escort 01-29-54; Man Alive 02-01-54; Adventure at Rockpoint 02-03-54; A Twist of Fate 02-05-54; The Telltale Bullet 02-08-54; The Man on Top 02-10-54; The Mysterious Cotton Pickers 02-12-54; The Fiery Barricade 02-15-54; A Lesson for Congress 02-17-54; The Road to Nogales 02-19-54; Hide Hunters 02-22-54; Valley of Creeping Death 02-24-54; Johnny Becket's Courage 02-26-54; Mystery Woman 03-01-54; The Governor's Son 03-03-54; Strange Letter 03-05-54; Fortune in a Hat 03-08-54; The Enfield Rifles 03-10-54


Duration: 10 hours
Media: (10) CDs
Price: $39.98



THE ROCKETEER AT WAR! #4 (OF 4) - Arriving in comic shops June 29!
Marc Guggenheim (Writer),  Dave Bullock (art & cover)

The Rocketeer dons his helmet and soars into action to foil the Nazis’ plans to destroy New York City. But can even the jet-packed marvel defeat the combined might of the Axis powers and their diabolical PROJECT BEDLAM? Find out in the thrilling finale of…THE ROCKETEER AT WAR!

Full Color, 40 pages, $4.99



The Saint - New action franchise in the works!

Paramount has secured the book series rights for The Saint. Producing deals are being closed now, but it’s likely that Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Brad Krevoy and Robert Evans will be among the producers in hopes of launching another action franchise at the studio. If the deal makes, the studio may have another franchise in development as the character itself seems ripe for a re-do in a modern age of terrorism and corruption in the political ranks.


THE SHADOW: THE DEATH OF MARGO LANE #4 (of 5) - Coming in September!
Cover A: Matt Wagner
Writer: Matt Wagner
Art: Matt Wagner, Brennan Wagner (Colorist)


Frustrated by his loss and his inability to bring down the Red Empress, The Shadow fears he might be losing control of himself.  He seeks out the advice of a friend, lest he slip further and become an agent of vengeance, not justice.  Finally, The Master of Darkness finds his enemy’s palatial lair.  Will The Shadow be able to infiltrate the sanctum of the Red Empress?  And what dark secrets await him there?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 7.

Note: The Black & White retailer incentive cover is shown.


THE SHADOW: THE DEATH OF MARGO LANE #4 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL161512.



THE SHADOW: THE DEATH OF MARGO LANE #5 (of 5) - Coming in September!
Cover A: Matt Wagner
Writer: Matt Wagner
Art: Matt Wagner, Brennan Wagner (Colorist)


The stunning conclusion to the first Dynamite series both written and drawn by Matt Wagner.  The Shadow faces off with an unexpected threat in the dangerous lair of the Tong overlord, the Red Empress.  An epic battle pits the Master of Darkness in a struggle for his very life…one which he dare not win!  Eisner Award-winner Matt Wagner returns to both write and draw one of his favorite characters with pulp-inspired coloring by Brennan Wagner.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 28.

Note: The Black & White retailer incentive cover is shown.

THE SHADOW: THE DEATH OF MARGO LANE #5 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL161514.





The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

The Television Murders
- New!
The Golden Quest
Malmordo
The Circle of Death
The Black Dragon


THE SPUR: HELLDORADO - Now available!
by Mark Ellis (Author), Melissa Martin-Ellis (Editor)

ON LOKI, LIFE IS CHEAP AND DEATH COMES FAST

Colonel Quentin Crockett and his Offworld Operations team learn that the bloodiest way possible when they defend the isolated settlement of Crowbait Crossing from the murderous horde of the Red Cadre.

Responding to another plea for help, Crockett and his crew enter a hidden valley where the descendants of Loki’s First People are one with Nature.
But hidden deep in the valley is an awesome power, a force that will heal the planet…or utterly destroy it…

On Loki, all life is locked in savage combat—and there can never be a winner.

By Mark (James Axler) Ellis, writer of Doc Savage, The Wild, Wild West, Mack Bolan, Deathlands, and creator of the bestselling Outlanders series.


Print Length: 246 pages
Kindle Price:    $2.99

Kindle  


TARZAN: THE JESSE MARSH YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 - Coming in March 2017!
by Gaylord Dubois and Jesse Marsh

List Price: $29.99





TARZAN ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #1 (of 5) - Coming in September!
Tim Seeley (Writer), David Walker (Writer), Fernando Dagnino (Art), Sandra Molina (Color), and Duncan Fegredo (Cover)

Raised as brothers but separated by slave traders, Tarzan and his ape brother Caesar reunite when the war between man and ape takes them from the jungles of Africa to the center of the earth.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 28.


TARZAN ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #1 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL160087.




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.

Independence Day on Flying Saucer Day - New!
Two Hundred Years of Frankenstein
Captain America: The Individual vs. the Collective

Eugene C. Dolson (1860-1938)
Roberto Quaglia (b. 1962)
Leslyn MacDonald (1904-1981)
Charles Henry Mackintosh (1885-?)

THE TWILIGHT AVENGER RETURNS (Volume 2) - Now available!
by John Wooley and Terry Tidwell

The two-fisted weird mystery sequel to THE TWILIGHT AVENGER, this volume takes our hero Reece Chambers into the realm of the supernatural as he battles zombies, giant vampire bats, mad mesmerists, and silver screen serial killers. Each chapter is a self-contained story featuring the Twilight Avenger, his "partner" reporter Joan Casey, and mentor Dr. Milton Herth as they battle the weird menaces that plague 1930's Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you're a fan of THE ROCKETEER, THE SHADOW, THE GREEN HORNET, B-MOVIES, SERIALS, and PULPS then you're in for a treat with THE TWILIGHT AVENGER RETURNS! This volume also features exclusive bonus extras including: - Behind the scenes of the return of the Twilight Avenger to comics. - Exclusive artwork never before seen in print. - The Twilight Avenger Casting Call where we cast these comic adventures with real-life B-Movie stars. This is the first time in nearly 30 years these individual comic books have been collected and remastered for your reading excitement. Originally published in 1988, this is a graphic novel first sure to please longtime fans of The Twilight Avenger.


Paperback: 142 pages
Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 0.3 x 9.6 inches
$9.99





WEIRDBOOK #32
Now available!

Issue # 32 of the legendary Weirdbook is now available from Amazon and Wildside Press.

Weirdbook is the premier weird fiction magazine on the market today.

Issue #31, our first relaunch issue, was a rousing success and was
applauded by both the critic and our readers.

Weirdbook is published by John Betancourt's "Wildside Press" and
edited by former "Weird Tales" on-line editor Douglas Draa.

Weirdbook is currently appearing twice yearly with each issue topping
170 pages packed full of the best in weird fiction and poetry.


CONTENTS

Fiction

Childhood's Dread, by Taye Carrol
The Other Neighbors, by Daniel Davis
Rare Air, by Mark Slade
The Children, by J.E. Álamo
The Radiant Boy, by Kevin Wetmore
The Whisperer in the Woods, by Peter Schranz
Sweet Oblivion, by Andrew Darlington
An Unsolicited Lucidity, by Lee Clark Zumpe
Black Carnival, by Bobby Cranestone
The Howard Family Tradition, by P. R. O'Leary
Hell in a Boxcar, by Scott A. Cupp
Jorōgumo, by Kelda Crich
Clay Baby, by Jack Lee Taylor
The Corpse and the Rat: A Story of Friendship, by Joshua L. Hood
Getting Thin, by DJ Tyrer
Maybe Next Door, by Richard LaPore
Containment Protocol, by Leeman Kessler
Under a Rock, by Lori R. Lopez
The Children Must Be Hungry, by L.F. Falconer
The Road to Hell, by Kevin L. O'Brien
Maggot Coffee, by Roy C. Booth and Axel Kohagen
Baby Mine, by Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen
In Blackwalk Wood, by Adrian Cole
My Longing to See Tamar, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Gust of Wind Made by Swinging a Blade, by Molly N. Moss

Poetry
Necromancer's Lair, by Chad Hensley
The Helm, by Chad Hensley
Ex Arca Sepulcrali, by Wade German
The Laughter of Ghouls, by K.A. Opperman
Ode to Ashtoreth, by K.A. Opperman
The Necro-Conjuring Sorceress, by Ashley Dioses
What Dark Gods Are Friends to Me? by Chad Hensley
Scarlet Succubus Shrine, by Frederick J. Mayer
Penelope, Sleepless, by Darrell Schweitzer


Paperback: 174 pages
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
List Price: $12.00

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WEIRD DETECTIVE #4 (of 5) - Coming in September!
Fred Van Lente (Writer), Guiu Vilanova (Art/Cover), and Mauricio Wallace (Color)

Sebastian Greene is finding it increasingly difficult to keep his true identity a secret from his partner, Sana Fayez. At the same time, he’s finally tracked down the Juice Box Killer—but can he take on the horrendous beast by himself?


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 21.


WEIRD DETECTIVE #4 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL160107.



THE WEIRD TALES OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN - Now available!
by Robert E. Howard


Before he conquered books, comics, and movies, Robert E. Howard's immortal character Conan the Cimmerian was born in the pages of the pulp magazine Weird Tales.
Reprinted as they originally appeared in that legendary publication from 1934 to 1936, this ferocious anthology gathers many of the barbarian's most famous adventures:
"Red Nails," "The Hour of the Dragon," "Queen of the Black Coast," and four others.


Paperback: 272 pages
$12.95



The Wild Adventures of King Kong


Will Murray announced that he has completed his latest epic, King Kong vs. Tarzan.
Polishing and proofreading have begun.



He's back.
Kong of Skull Island.
In the story you always dreamed of reading King Kong vs. Tarzan of the Apes!




The Wild Adventures of King Kong


ZORRO COLLECTORS EDITION
Now available!

Zorro – The Dailies & Sundays (The Second Year)
Don McGregor, Tod Smith, Thomas Yeates, Tom Palmer & Rick Magyar

All dailies and Sunday pages from 04/10/2000 to 04/15/2001
Limited edition Hardcover of 100 copies
Landscape format, 230 pages, black’n white, english
Signed by Thomas Yeates

49,95 Euro


Classic Heroes

ZORRO ULTIMATE EDITION
Now available!

Zorro – The Complete Dailies & Sundays
Don McGregor, Tod Smith, Thomas Yeates, Tom Palmer & Rick Magyar

The complete dailies and Sunday pages from 04/12/1999 to 04/15/2001
Limited edition Hardcover of only 50 copies
Landscape format, 450 pages, black’n white, Sunday pages in color, english
Signed by Don McGregor, Tod Smith and Thomas Yeates

149,95 Euro


Classic Heroes






17 June 2016

2016 Pulp Shows

The Pulp Coming Attractions Pulp Shows page has been updated with available information on the presently known pulp & paperback shows scheduled for 2016!
Click on the PULP SHOWS link below or the icon at the top of the page and start making your reservations!


Adventure House
Now available!

The Phantom Detective - April 1941

"The Murder Bund" by Robert Wallace
Follow the Phantom Detective as he takes the trail of a Fifth Column killers who threaten the peace and security of America!  Death hangs over a great city when Democracy’s foes plot a grim coup!

"Client Unknown" by Fredric Brown
"Death’s Advance Shadow" by Arthur J. Burks

 
 Cover Artist: Rafael de Soto
  
 7x10, 112 pages, $14.95

Adventure House
Now available!

Captain Future - Winter 1941

"Captain Future and the Seven Space-Stones" by Edmond Hamilton
Curt Newton, Spacefarer, and the Futuremen take off on the most thrilling treasure-hunt of all time in quest of the solar system’s greatest prize!

"Mutiny In Space" by Gawain Edwards
"Not Yet the End" by Fredrick Brown
"Grave of the Achilles" by Harl Vincent


 Cover Artist: Earle Bergey
  
 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95


Adventure House
Now available!

Wide World Adventures - August 1929

"The Cross and the Rubies" by S.B.H. Hurst
"The Coffin Ship by Major" H. Barry de Hamel
"Three Graves On the Beach" by Albert Richard Wetjen
"Spinkfex and Gold" by Kelman Frost
"The Jest Of the Jade Joss" by Captain L.B. Williams
"Chink-Running" by J.F. Wilson
"African Outlaws" by W.S. Chadwick
"With Pick and Fan" by John A. Thompson


 Cover Artist: H. W. Wesso
  
 7x10, 144 pages, $14.95



Adventures in Bronze
GLARE OF THE GORGON
Hardcover, softcover and eBook are now available!
 

Why did a desperate man shave his head before visiting Doc Savage headquarters, only to be struck down, his pulsing brain turned to inert stone? What sinister secret did his strange slaying silence? And how was a lizard-green shadow resembling Medusa branded on Doc’s office wall?

These are only some of the questions confronting the Man of Bronze as he pursues a grisly trail of petrified corpses to post-Prohibition Chicago, whose criminal underworld is being terrorized by a serpent-haired demon engaged in a seemingly senseless slaughter spree whose ultimate target will shake Doc Savage’s men to their core.

Suspects are many, clues baffling. Death and danger lurks everywhere they turn—symbolized by the silhouette of a faceless Gorgon.

From the concrete canyons of Manhattan to the coal fields of Illinois, Doc Savage tracks a phantom fiend the likes of which he has never before hunted. Or is he the one being hunted?

Hardcover: $39.95  /  Softcover: $24.95  /  eBook:  $4.99


Adventures in Bronze


Age of Aces Latest Dispatches
Now available on line!


Airship 27 Podcasts - Now online!

In this hour episode Rob Davis and Ron Fortier talk more about the Brother Bones movie and explain how the project was born.






Airship 27 Productions
SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES VOLUME 2 by Aaron Smith
Now available!


Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


 

Airship 27 Productions
BROTHER BONES: THE MOVIE
Coming soon!

Franklin-Husser Entertainment LLC is thrilled to announce that they have reached out to New Pulp publisher Airship 27 in order to option the rights to Ron Fortier's character, Brother Bones, for an upcoming feature film.

“Brother Bones the Undead Avenger is a character I created over ten years ago,” Fortier recalls. “I just wanted to do my own homage to such great gun-totting vigilantes like the Shadow and the Spider. Little did I realize he would become so popular with our readers. They are forever clamoring for more of his macabre adventures.”

“New Pulp has such untapped potential,” co-founder Erik Franklin said. “There are so many vibrant, original characters that would be perfect for a cinematic adaption. Brother Bones has all that you could want in a story: exciting visuals, well-drawn characters, and each page is a cliff-hangar.”

“When Erik first showed me the book I immediately thought that Brother Bones would make a great movie.” Daniel Husser, co-founder of Franklin-Husser Entertainment LLC, commented. “The story is dark and full of action so it's perfect for us. Since we are working with Ron Fortier's creation, it is absolutely important to us that we stay faithful to the text. Many adaptations tend to change too much, damaging the original concept and we don't want that to happen.”

“It was very important to us to get Brother Bone's creator, Ron Fortier, involved with the project. He cares very much about his characters, and he only wants the best products to be associated with Brother Bones and Airship 27.” Erik said. “To that end, we discussed story possibilities at length, and we have determined what we think will be a great cinematic entrance for Brother Bones into the pantheon of cinematic heroes.”

A two minute test video was made and sent to Fortier to view.  “It virtually blew me away,” Fortier says. “Erik and Daniel had condensed in just two minutes what it had taken me almost four chapters to establish. They immediately captured the essence of the character and watching him come to life in that clip convinced me these two guys are going to make a fantastic Brother Bones feature. I couldn’t be more excited.”

The film is in its early planning stages, with the script being written by Ron Fortier and Erik Franklin. Seattle, Washington will double for Cape Noire, the setting in the Brother Bones novels. More details will be announced from Airship 27 and Franklin-Husser Entertainment LLC as they happen.

“This is going to be a big step forward for both our companies, and we look forward to presenting Brother Bones on the silver screen.” said Erik.


Airship 27 Productions is one of the pioneers of the New Pulp Movement and has been in operation for the past ten years producing beautiful quality novels and anthologies featuring both classic public domain and new pulp heroes.  Thus far there have been three Brother Bones books, a one shot comic book. Marshal Made Collectibles has produced several versions of Brother Bones action figures and soon Scaldcrow Games will be releasing an rpg module, “Ron Fortier’s Cape Noire” based on the Brother Bones adventures.  www.airship27.com

Franklin-Husser Entertainment LLC, is an independent film production company based in Seattle, Washington.  Founded by life-long friends Erik Franklin and Daniel Husser, they share a love of escapist cinema, and have decided to create feature films dedicated to bringing exciting tales of action, suspense, and adventure to audiences around the world. With interesting twists on traditional genres, Franklin-Husser Entertainment LLC, combines intelligent screenplays with high-impact action. The company primarily produces action, sci-fi, comedy, martial arts and horror films, but keep their minds open to new and exciting ideas and creative possibilities. Their first film, Revenge of the Lost, is in the process of being distributed, and their second film is in post production. www.fhentertainmentllc.com







Altus Press: Enjoy Pulps! by David Lee Smith - Now online!

Unknown Pulp: Ladies of the Underworld
The Phantom Detective – Oct. 1945: “Death to a Diplomat”
Pulps Pricings Sales Census: Ka-Zar Pulps, 1936-1937
“The Pot of Gold” by Eudora Ramsay Richardson (a Pre-Spider/Richard Wentworth Story)
Pulps Pricings Sales Census

Altus Press Pulp Blog by Morgan Wallace - Now online!

“The Guthrie Method” by Raymond Z. Gallun / “Desperate Remedy” by Mack Reynolds
“As You Were” by Henry Kuttner in Australia’s “American Science Fiction Magazine” series
The Irrationals by Milton Lesser (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
American Science Fiction Magazine “Common Time” by James Blish
The Thing from Another World by John W. Campbell, Jr.  


Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

Altus Press is pleased to announce its summer 2016 releases, all of which will premiere at PulpFest.
They’ll be available exclusively at the Mike Chomko, Books, table.
Altus Press books typically sell out quickly at the pulp shows, so please contact Mike to reserve your copies.
Mike will be placing his order for these titles on June 21.
Do not delay if you want to ensure copies at PulpFest.
mikechomko@gmail.com

These titles will be made available on the Altus Press website over a period of time following PulpFest.

Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE MYSTERIOUS WU-FANG #1: THE CASE OF THE SIX COFFINS
By Robert J. Hogan


“There is one Val Kildare, government agent. It is my wish that he die the most painful death in our power to inflict.”
From an underground room in Limehouse this order was given.
And now, across the Atlantic, sped a murder cargo to wipe out the only man who stood between Wu Fang, Emperor of Crime, and his conquest of the world!


201 pages
  $12.95 softcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

YEN SIN #1: THE MYSTERY OF THE DRAGON'S SHADOW
By Donald E. Keyhoe


Out of the teeming turbulent East had come Dr. Yen Sin—saff­ron-skinned wizard of crime—bringing to the capital of the West all the ancient Devil’s-lore at his command—and a horde of Asian Hell-born to help him spawn it. But Michael Traile—The Man Who Never Slept—had crammed into his own keen brain the means to cope with the sinister doctor. For he knew even the secrets of the Dragon’s Shadow and how to penetrate the yellow murder fog that had descended on the capital to mingle its blood-wisps with the mist from the Potomac.



152 pages
  $12.95 softcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

SUPER-DETECTIVE JIM ANTHONY: THE COMPLETE SERIES VOLUME 3
by Victor Rousseau


The complete reprinting of the greatest of the Doc Savage pastiches continues!
Volume Three of contains the next three adventures of Jim Anthony: “Murder Syndicate,” “The Horrible Marionettes,” and “Border Napoleon.”
This volume also includes editor notes and correspondence.



353 pages
  $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

KI-GOR: THE COMPLETE SERIES VOLUME 3
by John Peter Drummond, introduction by Howard Andrew Jones


For the first time, the Ki-Gor series from the pages of Jungle Stories is collected, complete, uncut and in order!
Volume 3 includes the next four stories:
“Tigress of T’wanbi” (Winter 1941-42)
“Slaves for the Renegade Sultan” (Spring 1942)
“Blood Priestess of Vig’Na” (Summer 1942)
“The Cannibal Horde” (Fall 1942).


318 pages
  $24.95 softcover / $34.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF THE GRIFFON VOLUME 3
by Arch Whitehouse


Fighting the aerial forces of evil for nearly ten years in the pages of Flying Aces, Kerry Keen aka The Griffon finally returns to print!
This edition continues the complete reprinting of the series.
Volume 3 contains the next six stories:
“Riddle of the Rocket”
“Cavalry of the Clouds”
“Twin-Engine Treachery”
“Test Pilot Terror”
“The Carrier Coup”
“Scourge of the Sky Brood”

275 pages
  $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF THE MOON MAN, VOLUME 2: 1934
by Frederick C. Davis, introduction by Andrew Salmon


One of the strangest pulp heroes is finally available from Altus Press!
Created by pulp fiction legend Frederick C. Davis for the pages of the ultra-rare title, Ten Detective Aces, the Moon Man fought the forces of the underworld in 38 unforgettable tales.
Volume 2 collects the next six stories from this series:
“Silver Death”
“Mark of the Moon Man”
“Crimson Shackles”
“Blood Bargain”
“The Black Lash”
“The Murder Master”
And it includes an all-new introduction by Moon Man expert Andrew Salmon.

337 pages
  $24.95 softcover / $34.95 hardcover



Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE BLACK BAT OMNIBUS VOLUME 5
by Norvell W. Page and Norman A. Daniels


Pulp hero the Black Bat returns!
This collection contains the next three adventures of the Black Bat:
“The Black Bat’s Summons”
“The Black Bat’s Invisible Enemy”
“The Voice of Doom”
uncut and restored with the original illustrations.

Featuring a story by long-time Spider author, Norvell W. Page, it’s the next volume of the complete reprinting of the series.

339 pages
  $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

HAZZARD: THE COMPLETE SERIES
by Frederick C. Davis


The Fight Against the lawless! Mark Hazzard, red-headed, fiery-tempered District Attorney of King’s County was a man of the Law, but when the law didn’t get justice, the guilty were then the prey for the Juggernaut of Justice and his own iron rules. Bucking the police and the underworld alike, Hazzard kept a secret that would send him to burn in the electric chair. Written by Frederick C. Davis, the author of the Moon Man series. Featuring all six of Mark Hazzard’s adventures in one volume!


296 pages
  $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

ADVENTURES OF A PROFESSIONAL CORPSE
by H. Bedford-Jones


Meet James F. Bronson, a man who finds dying a profitable business.
Time after time, Bronson accepts assignments to whom dying is all in the day’s work.
One of the most offbeat series that H. Bedford-Jones penned; a series for which he was inspired by an advertisement that actually appeared.


94 pages
  $11.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

INVITATION TO A CRIME: FURTHER ADVENTURES OF DENIS BURKE
by H. Bedford-Jones


Operating out of Morocco, American profiteer Denis Burke encounters business opportunities fraught with political intrigue, shady underworld characters, double-crossing associates, and devious women—all while trying not to run afoul of the law. Burke must dodge his ever-watchful nemesis, Inspector Crepin, who has vowed to expel him from the country—or better yet—put him behind bars.

A never before reprinted series by the King of the Pulps, H. Bedford-Jones.


132 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

RED RUNES OF CHINA
by H. Bedford-Jones


The runes told of mystery, of danger lurking in odd corners, of the craft of the Orient put to evil purposes in the Far West, and started young Dick Clews on a great adventurE.
A never-before-collected series, it’s now part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library.



138 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE CROSS AND THE HAMMER: AA TALE OF THE DAYS OF THE VIKINGS
by H. Bedford-Jones


H. Bedford-Jones’ thrilling novel of the Vikings and King Olaf, who broke the power of the old gods and who introduced Christianity into his realm.
One of H. Bedford-Jones’ earliest novels, it’s now part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library.



162 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE MARDI GRAS MYSTERY
by H. Bedford-Jones


Who is The Midnight Masquer? While partygoers celebrate Mardi Gras under the recently-enacted Prohibition, attention is cast to this masked character and his connection to the murder of a prominent New Orleans citizen. Did the victim’s son really commit the crime, or is there more than meets the eye?

A classic mystery written by The King of the Pulps, and now it’s part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library.

188 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THADY SHEA’S SAGA
by H. Bedford-Jones


The Navajo’s sacred relics, the seven Gods of the San Marcos, are the focus of attention between warring factions in the Old West, and washed-up actor Thaddeus Shea is caught in between the chaos!

A classic adventure written by The King of the Pulps, and now it’s part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library.



174 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

CONQUEST: THE STORY OF PIERRE RADISSON, FOUNDER OF THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY
by H. Bedford-Jones


The story of Pierre Radisson has passed into history. That he was the first man to reach the Mississippi, after De Soto, is now admitted.
 It was he who founded the Hudson’s Bay Company, and who opened up the great Northwest to the world.

One of H. Bedford-Jones’ earliest novels, now part of The H. Bedford-Jones Library.


184 pages
  $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover



Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE COMPLETE TALES OF KOROPOK (DELUXE EDITION)
by Sidney Herschel Small


Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies. Comes with eBook versions of all the stories.

One of the best series from the twilight of Adventure Magazine’s run, this 11-story saga of an American undercover agent in the Far East during World War II has been sadly neglected for 75 years. But no longer! This Comprehensive set also includes over 100 illustrations by master pulp illustrators Hamilton Greene and Frank Kramer. This limited, deluxe edition collects them all! Plus: purchase of this deluxe edition entitles you to free eBook versions of these stories.


306 pages
  $75.00 deluxe hardcover



Altus Press
Premiering at Pulpfest 2016!

THE COMPLETE CASES OF CARDIGAN (2 VOLUME
DELUXE EDITION)
by Frederick Nebel


Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies. Comes with eBook versions of all the stories.

Frederick Nebel’s unforgettable character Jack Cardigan was one of the main reasons behind the success of the legendary Dime Detective Magazine. His hard-boiled P.I. stories were a major influence to other writers of the era, yet only a handful have been reprinted since their original 44-story run eighty years ago. This deluxe two-volume contains the entire series of 44 stories, complete and uncut, with an introduction by Will Murray and the original illustrations by John Fleming Gould.


698 pages
  $140.00 deluxehardcoverS






Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
At the printer and coming soon!

THE BLACK BAT Volume 4: The Black Bat's Crusade & The Black Bat's Flame Trail — with classic Bondage cover!
The Nemesis of Crime returns in classic pulp novels by Norman A. Daniels and THE SPIDER's Norvell Page writing as "G. Wayman Jones." First, voodoo drums sound in cities across the nation as a wave of mysterious murders fueled by ancient magic takes a terrifying toll in "The Black Bat's Crusade," edited by future BATMAN editors Mort Weisinger and Jack Schiff! Then, "The Black Bat's Flame Trail" leads to a sinister arsonist who wields a deadly torch of terror as New York tenements burn. GOLDEN AGE OF COMICS BONUS: The Mask returns in an illustrated adventure from Nedor's EXCITING COMICS #4. This instant collector's item showcases the classic color pulp covers by Rafael DeSoto and the original interior illustrations by Harry Parkhurst and V. E. Pyles, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-207-0  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
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 printer and coming soon!

THE SHADOW Volume 108: "Vengeance Bay" & "Death Has Grey Eyes"
The Shadow confronts Nazi agents in two thrilling wartime thrillers by Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." The search for Blackbeard's pirate treasure uncovers a foreign conspiracy, and another Shadow emerges from the darkness after Lamont Cranston is kidnapped! Then, in the latter days of World War II, The Shadow uncovers a plot to secure the Nazi's future Fuehrer for a secret plan to take over the world 20 years in the future. BONUS: a lost Shadow adventure from Radio's Golden Age! This double-novel collector's edition showcases the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Modest Stein and the original interior illustrations by Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-209-4 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
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.

Past episodes:
Will Murray : Doc Savage in "Glare of the Gorgon"
Jeff Deischer: "The Night of the Owl" and Guest Host Ric Croxton
Gordon Dymowski on Black Bat Mystery, Vol. 3 and much more!
Sinbad: The New Voyages - The Legacy of Ray Harryhausen


BACK ISSUE! #89 - Arriving in comic shops June 22!

BACK ISSUE #89 spotlights BRONZE AGE ADAPTATIONS!

The Shadow, Korak: Son of Tarzan, Battlestar Galactica, The Black Hole, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Worlds Unknown, and Marvel’s 1980s movie adaptations.
Plus: PAUL KUPPERBERG surveys prose adaptations of comics!
Featuring the work of MICHAEL W. KALUTA, JACK KIRBY, DENNY O’NEIL, FRANK ROBBINS, FRANK THORNE, MICHAEL USLAN, and many more.
Featuing an alternate cover produced for DC’s Shadow series by Kaluta!

Edited by MICHAEL EURY.


Magazine, 84 pages, Full Color, $8.95







Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 Blood 'N' Thunder 46/47 (Winter-Spring 2016)
Now available for immediate shipping!

The 230 pages of this double issue — the first BnT of 2016 — is crammed with articles, reviews, and reprints.

The feature articles boast BnT‘s usual combination of intensive research and passionate writing. The cover story is Ed Hulse’s lengthy examination of the two Columbia serials featuring The Spider, one of pulpdom’s greatest heroes. Rick Lai details the numerous pulp references in The Sinister Shadow, Will Murray’s recent novel pitting Doc Savage against The Shadow. Robert E. Howard scholar Morgan Holmes chronicles the efforts of Conan’s creator to break into the pulp magazines published by William Clayton. Old-Time Radio authority Karl Schadow offers a history of the little-known Stay Tuned for Terror, the series written by Robert Bloch and adapted primarily from his pulp stories. Bruce Dettman provides an overview of the various characters marketed to several mediums as The Falcon.

The issue’s department installments have the usual variety. “Tricks of the Trade” presents a 1932 Writer’s Digest piece on the Western-pulp market. Horror novelist and filmmaker S. Craig Zahler reviews two 1932 issues of Weird Tales in “Off the Shelf.” In “Airwave Adventures” Martin Grams writes about lost episodes of the Mysterious Traveler, a pulpish radio series that became a fiction magazine. Ed Hulse discusses one of the first movie serials, 1914’s The Million Dollar Mystery, in “Cliffhanger Classics.” And Dave Smith covers one of the great air-war hero pulps, The Lone Eagle, in “Series Spotlight.”

The reprint section begins with an 80th-anniversary tribute to the 1936 Flash Gordon serial: Rare promotional material originally published in Universal Weekly, the Universal Pictures trade paper circulated to exhibitors. Our fiction reprint is “Drunk, Disorderly, and Dead,” a 1942 Robert Leslie Bellem mystery featuring Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. Finally, we publish long-unseen court documents relating to a Popular Publications lawsuit involving Black Mask magazine.

BnT #46/47 has the usual complement of illustrations — pulp cover reproductions, vintage movie stills, original art, and so on.

PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 HANDSOME HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
Now available for immediate shipping!

This companion volume to DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS continues Ed Hulse's groundbreaking history of American cliffhanger serials of the silent-movie era. It covers some 190 "chapter plays" released by production and distribution entities such as Universal, Vitagraph, Mutual, Arrow, Rayart, and Mascot, along with member companies of the Edison Trust and various fly-by-night independent operators.Among the legendary serial stars whose output is documented and analyzed are Francis Ford and Grace Cunard, Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber, Helen Holmes, Eddie Polo, Marie Walcamp, William Desmond, William Duncan, Eileen Sedgwick, Joe Bonomo, Elmo Lincoln, Ann Little, Jack Daugherty, Juanita Hansen, and Louise Lorraine. Serials that starred favorites from the sports and theatrical worlds — Harry Houdini, Billie Burke, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, Benny Leonard, and Maurice "Lefty" Flynn, to name a few — are also covered.

At a length of nearly 160,000 words, illustrated with hundreds of rare stills, posters, lobby cards, magazine ads and even frame blowups from surviving film elements, HANDSOME HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
is the last word on this fascinating segment of American movie history. The product of a quarter century's research, it equals if not surpasses the award-nominated DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS.

Single copy price is $29.95, but for a limited time only HANDSOME HEROES AND DISTRESSED DAMSELS can be purchased together for $49.95.
Visit muraniapress.com and use our convenient Checkout feature to order either or both.


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Bold Venture Press
ZORRO Volume 2 by Johnston McCulley
Officially licensed by Zorro Productions
The second of six volumes reprinting the 60+ Zorro stories published in the pulps from 1919 to 1959.
Coming June 24!

Zorro protects old California in a trio of thrill-packed adventures!

  • The Further Adventures of Zorro (illustrated by Ed Coutts)
 
  • Zorro Deals With Treason
  • The Mysterious Don Miguel

The Further Adventures of Zorro takes the masked hidalgo to the high seas when pirates arrive on the shores of old California, and decide to claim the pueblo as their spoils!
Then, "Zorro Deals With Treason" in the form of a Zorro imposter! The Mysterious Don Miguel creates much confusion in Reina de Los Angeles. Is he Zorro’s enemy — or Don Diego Vega’s friend?
Ride with Zorro as he defends the downtrodden citizens from the oppressive government, land and sea pirates, and crafty anarchists.

There’s never been a hero like Zorro for romance and high adventure!


Trade paperback, 6"x9", 302 pages
$19.95



THE BRONZE GAZETTE #76
Now available!


Looking for something bronze to hold in your hands?
Feeling a bit let down now that HOWARD WRIGHT has ended The Bronze Gazette?

Well, never fear Johnny, as Terry Allen, Kez Wilson, and Chuck Welch have achieved the impossible. No, they've not agreed on who should play Monk. Even better, they've finished Issue #76 of the Bronze Gazette and it will soon arrive in your mailbox! Thanks to the writing talents of such Doc Savage experts as Will Murray, Anthony Tollin, Jeff Deischer, Julián Puga, Duane Spurlock, and a cast of 10 more or so, a jam-packed issue of the Bronze Gazette is heading your way.

It's not too late to get a copy of the Bronze Gazette #76 mailed to you.

Subscribe to the Bronze Gazette now at http://www.bronzegazette.com/subscribe/ and we'll start your subscription with Issue #76.


The Bronze Gazette. Bigger. Badder. Bronzer. (Not sold in stores.)

Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 76, Spring 2016, and No. 77, Fall 2016.

$20.00 U.S.A
$30.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$35.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)

Click HERE to subscribe!
 



Castalia House Blog - Now online!

The Weird Tales Novels: Golden Blood - New!
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 9- The Single Author Collections
Short Reviews – Ordeal in Space by Ralph Sloan
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 8
Short Reviews – The Giants Return by Robert Abernathy


THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 33: The Mountain Where Crom Dwells and Other Stories TP - Coming in November!
Roy Thomas (Writer), Mike Docherty (Pencils/Cover), E. R. Cruz (Pencils), John Watkiss (Pencils), Ricardo Villagrán (Inks/Cover), and Nel Yomtov (C)

Conan scales the Mount of Crom to thwart the release of Shuma-Gorath, an ancient, malevolent demon.
But the witch queen Vammatar and the necromancer Kulan Gath seek the Books of Shuma-Gorath to free the evil god and bring it under their control!

Collects Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian #259–#267.


Trade paperback, 7 x 10, Full Color, 224 pages, $19.99, On sale November 16.

THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 33 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).



CIMMERIA by Innsmouth Gold - Now available!

Digital Album
Readings by John Prusinski
Music by Robert Poyton

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app,
plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Buy Now  £7 GBP


Tracks
Cimmeria (video)
Red Slayers March (video)
The Thing on the Roof
The Frost Giant's Daughter
Solomon Kane's Homecoming
Worms of the Earth
Worms of the Earth - Bran Mak Morn
Worms of the Earth - Into the Fens
Worms of the Earth - The Bargain
Worms of the Earth - Vale Caesar
Cimmeria (music)
Let Me Live in a Bar




Cirsova Heroic Fantasy & Science Fiction Pulp Zine: Issue 2
Now available for pre-order!

Cirsova is taking pre-orders for the second issue of its a newly launched semi-pro market for Pulp adventure stories.

Late January, Cirsova launched a Kickstarter to take pre-orders for its inaugural issue. It funded in a matter of days, going on to double its original goal. We were able to begin fulfilling orders within weeks of the end of the Kickstarter – as soon as the money hit our account.

We have big plans for the future, and while we were toying with the idea of a semi-annual release, fueled by the myriad amazing submissions we got during our open submission period we ultimately decided to push forward, build momentum and aim for being a quarterly publication!

As such, we are again using Kickstarter to take pre-orders and sell ad space for Issue 2 of Cirsova. Like before, everything is paid for – stories and art - and the magazine is ready to go save for finalizing the ad layout.

This is going to be an especially cool issue, with nearly 50,000 words of original content. We've got several new and returning contributors, including an all new Dream Lords story by Adrian Cole and an essay by multiple-award-winning author Kristine Katheryn Rusch.  In addition to the fantastic piece by our regular artist, Jabari Weathers, Issue 2 will have a Kickstarter exclusive cover done by 2016 Hugo Nominee Ku Kuru Yo.


Short Stories
 • The Sealed City by Adrian Cole (all new Dream Lords story)
 
Hoskins' War by Brian K. Lowe
 
Squire Errant by Karl Gallagher
 • The Water Walks Tonight by S.H. Mansouri
 
Shark Fighter by Michael Tierney

Novella
 • Images of the Goddess by Schuyler Hernstrom

Poetry
 • My Name is John Carter (Part 2) by James Hutchings

Featured Column
 • Rescuing Women by Kristine Katheryn Rusch

Cover Art
 
Jabari Weathers
 • Ku Kuru Yo (Variant Cover)

Pledge Levels:
$2 - PDF
$10 - Softcover Copy
$18 - Softcover Copies (Both Versions)
$35 - Hardcover Copy*
$60 - Hardcover Copies* (Both Versions)






Classicon
Saturday, June 18, 2016
10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

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, comic books, posters, pin-up art, and more available for sale or trade.

University Quality Inn (map)
3121 E. Grand River Ave.
Lansing, Michigan
(Just north of Frandor Shopping Center)
Saturday, June 18, 2016
10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

$3.00 admission
$25.00 for a dealer table


CONAN THE SLAYER #3 - Coming in September!

Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Sergio Dávila
Color:
Michael Atiyeh
Cover: 
Admira Wijaya

While on a raid, Conan and a small party of Kozaki riders—including the chief’s son—are separated from the rest of the tribe and attacked by a sea witch. Meanwhile, in their absence, disastrous events are unfolding at the Kozaki camp.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 28.

CONAN THE SLAYER #3 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).


 

DARK HORSE PRESENTS #26 - Coming in September!
Jimmy Palmiotti (Writer), Justin Gray (Writer), Keith Goldberg (Writer), Kaare Andrews (Writer), John Arcudi (Writer), Alan Gordon (Writer), Rich Woodall (Writer), Paul Levitz (Writer), Aaron Campbell (Art), Troy Nixey (Art/Cover), Lucas Varela (Art), Bo Hampton (Art), Craig Rousseau (Art), and Tim Hamilton (Art)

Featuring Al Gordon and Bo Hampton’s The Once and Future Tarzan

This month’s issue of Dark Horse Presents features three new stories: Black Sinister by Kaare Andrews and Troy Nixey, Espirits de Corps by John Arcudi and Lucas Varela, and Rubber Guns by Keith Goldberg, Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Aaron Campbell!

Paul Levitz and Tim Hamilton’s Brooklyn Blood, Al Gordon and Bo Hampton’s The Once and Future Tarzan, and Rich Woodall and Craig Rousseau’s Kyrra: Alien Jungle Girl continue in this issue!


Full Color, 48 pages, $4.99, On sale September 21.


DARK HORSE PRESENTS #26 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).


Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!

DEATH by ELECTION
Poster Gallery: GENE AUTRY  
Overlooked Films: "A Dime a Dance," from a BLACK MASK story by Cornell Woolrich (1995)


The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Nostalgia Digest Summer 2016
- New!
A Dashiell Hammett Detective - New!
Russ Winterbotham: Super-Science Fiction Writer - New!
Beyond Fantasy Fiction #5  - New!
Lovely Lady Series No. 7
Beyond Fantasy Fiction #4
The Digest Enthusiast #4 is here!


The Digest Enthusiast #4
 Now available!

The fourth spectacular edition of The Digest Enthusiast is now available in print and Kindle from Amazon.

Contents:
Interviews:
Art Taylor: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
 • An insightful conversation with the award-winning author and frequent contributor to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Art Taylor.
Editors of the new generation of digital digests:
   Alec Cizak, Pulp Modern
   Jennifer Landels, Pulp Literature
   John Kenyon, Grift
   Kristen Valentine, Betty Fedora
   Sheri White, Morpheus Tales
 • The editors share their thoughts on the new generation of digital digests.

Articles:
Suspense Magazine and Novels by Richard Krauss
 • A close-up view of Suspense Magazine and its Suspense Novel series, along with the associated radio, TV and comic book series. 
Galaxy Science Fiction Novels by Steve Carper
 • Steve Carper’s comprehensive overview of the digest-sized Galaxy Novel series. 
Galaxy Magabooks by Gary Lovisi
 • Gary Lovisi’s companion piece (to Galaxy Novels): Galaxy Magabooks. 
Criswell Predicts: Fate & Spaceway by Tom Brinkmann
 • Tom Brinkmann’s exposé on The Amazing Criswell’s prognostications for Fate Magazine and Spaceway science fiction.
Shock Mystery Tales by Peter Enfantino
 • Peter Enfantino dissects Shock Mystery Tales—the shudder pulps inbred man-child.
Pocket Pin-ups trading cards
 • An unfettered peek into the Pocket Pin-Ups trading card set by Max Allan Collins.

Reviews:
H.G. Wells Society Newsletter #30
Bulldog Drummond by Snapper
Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines by Michael L. Cook

Fiction:
"A Rat Must Chew" by Gary Lovisi
"The Hideout" by Ron Fortier
"Strangers in Need" by Joe Wehrle, Jr.
"Wounded Wizard" by John Kuharik

Artwork and Cartoons:
Sean Azzopardi
Rob Davis
Brad Foster
Michael Neno
Bob Vojtko

Also includes:
Editor's Notes
Digest indexes (
Suspense Magazine)
Social media round-up
Opening Lines

Print version, $8.99, includes nearly 100 B&W cover images, 152 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest.
Kindle version, $2.99, includes over 50 color cover images.






Doc Con 2016
November 4, 5 & 6, 2016

Doc Con will be held November 4, 5 & 6, 2016.
Request that vacation time...mark those calendars and let everyone know you will be in Phoenix the first weekend of November.
Special plans are still being made to make this the best Doc Con ever!
So stay tuned for more details to follow as soon as we can announce them.


DREAMS FROM THE WITCH HOUSE: FEMALE VOICES OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR  - Now available!

Now in stock in both ebook and trade paperback with the deluxe signed hardcover edition still forthcoming.

Featuring authors Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Lois Gresh, Gemma Files, Nancy Kilpatrick, Elizabeth Bear, Storm Constantine and others accompanied by the lavish color artwork of Daniele Serra, Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror is a representation of some of the finest cosmic horror and weird fiction from female authors in the field today.


eBook - $9.00
Trade Paperback - $25.00




ERB Books
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

by Robert B. Zeuschner

Now available for pre-order!


Standard Edition: (Ships July 15, 2016)
Bound in midnight blue Cialux Italian book cloth with the spine and front cover decorations stamped in gilt. 
Color wraparound dust jacket, 675+ pages; 7”x10”; 600+ total images - 500+ in color on glossy stock
$100.00 PREORDER 10% Discount $90.00 + $14 Flat Rate shipping via Fed Ex


The Deluxe Edition:  (Ships July 15, 2016) 
Bound in genuine red leather with a hub spine and limited to 375 signed and numbered copies with the spine and front cover decorations stamped in gilt. 
700+ pages; 7”x10”; 600+ images - 500+ in color on glossy stock
$150.00  PREORDER 10% off $135.00  + $14 Flat Rate Shipping via Fed Ex









Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM: THE COMPLETE SERIES: THE CHARLTON YEARS VOLUME 5 HC - Arriving in comic shops June 22!
(Writer) Joe Gill & Various (Art) Frank Bolle, Don Sherwood, Don Newton (Cover) Don Newton

The mid-1970s comic book adventures of The Phantom return in full, glorious color! Hermes Press has collected, concluding with this volume, all 74 issues of The Phantom comic books that ran from 1962-1977. This book collects issues #65-74, the last 10 stories from the series which features stories and artwork by the inimitable Don Newton. The Charlton comic book version of the grand-daddy of costumed heroes, The Ghost Who Walks, is available again, digitally remastered to look better than the original books. Also featured is an exhaustive essay on Don Newton and other special features.

Hardcover, 7x10, 240 pages, Full Color, $60.00





IRWIN ALLEN'S LOST IN SPACE #3 (of 6) - Arriving in comic shops June 22!
(Writer) Carey Wilber, Holly Interlandi
(Art) Kostas Pantoulas (Cover) 
Patrick McEvoy, Photo

The “Curious Galactics” storyline concludes! In an alien desert maze, Will and John Robinson trek on, now chariotless; fighting off strange creatures and rationing water and food the best they can. The situation seems hopeless, but it may be something entirely different from courage that gets the Galactics’ attention. Adapted from the original unfilmed teleplay!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
On sale May 11 (photo cover).
On sale May 25 (McEvoy cover).


   

 
   

JAMES BOND VOLUME 1: VARGR Hardcover - Arriving in comic shops June 22!
(Writer) Warren Ellis (Art/Cover) Jason Masters

After a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, James Bond returns to London and assumes the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. His new mission takes him to Berlin, presumably to break up an agile drug-trafficking operation. But Bond has no idea of the forces ranged in secret against him, the full range of an operation that's much scarier and more lethal than he could possibly imagine. Berlin is about to catch fire... and James Bond is trapped inside. Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents VARGR, the debut storyline in the all-new James Bond comic book series, as crafted by masterful writer Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority) and artist Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated, Guardians of the Galaxy).

Hardcover, Full Color, 168 pages, $19.99





JAMES BOND #7 - Arriving in comic shops June 22!
(Writer) Warren Ellis; (Art) Jason Masters; (Cover) Dom Reardon

After World War Two, army intelligence groups created ghost cells called "stay-behinds" across Europe in the event of a Warsaw Pact surge. “EIDOLON” is the story of a SPECTRE stay-behind structure – ghost cells of SPECTRE loyalists acting as sleepers until the time is right for a SPECTRE reformation and resurgence. The time is now.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99




Lovecraft Alive: A Collection of Lovecraftian Stories by John Shirley - Shipping in June!

Acclaimed novelist John Shirley has written novels and tales that span the spectrum of imaginative literature, from science fiction to psychological terror to supernatural horror. One of the writers that inspired him to become a writer was H. P. Lovecraft, and in this volume Shirley pays tribute to the titan of weird fiction with a series of imaginative elaborations upon Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.
 
These stories range from narratives that feature Lovecraft himself as a shadowy character (“When Death Wakes Me to Myself”) to historical tales where Lovecraftian entities emerge at critical points in the past (“Those Who Come to Dagon,” “The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner,” “Broken on the Wheel of Time”) to vibrant tales melding Lovecraftian terror with modern technology (“At Home with Azathoth,” “The Holy Grace of Cthulhu”). The volume concludes with a scintillating unpublished novella, “Broken on the Wheel of Time,” elaborating upon conceptions found in Lovecraft’s “The Shadow out of Time.”

Cover artwork by Harry O. Morris

Paperback, 253 pages, $12.50




Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Captain America: Cival War movie review
Gang Busters: Old Time Radio Crime Fighters
Collectors Item: The Shadow's Ring
The Lost 1933 Lone Ranger Radio Episodes
Three things you did not know about the Lone Ranger

Now available for pre-order!

Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days
Philip José Farmer’s The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
THEY WERE ONLY THE BEGINNING!


In 2014, Meteor House published Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows by Josh Reynolds, a sequel to Philip José Farmer’s The Other Log of Phileas Fogg. 2016 brings us Reynolds’ Phileas Fogg and the Heart of Osra, furthering the exploits of Jules Verne’s most iconic hero.

Now, join Meteor House as Win Scott Eckert reveals a hitherto unknown chapter in Fogg’s celebrated round-the-world journey!

December 1872. Phileas Fogg, the lovely Aouda, and his faithful manservant Passepartout, are nearing the end of their frenzied eighty-day dash around the world…

One wouldn’t think, as Fogg and Co. speed across North America on the transcontinental railroad, that they would have time to befriend a mysterious masked lawman, match wits with a long-lived criminal mastermind and his tong, and battle anti-Chinese sentiment in Old West coal mining communities.

One would be wrong.

Win Scott Eckert pulls back the veil on the previously untold tale of Mr. Phileas Fogg’s fateful encounter with the legendary masked rider of the plains and his faithful companion—an episode suppressed (with good reason!) by M. Verne himself from the final publication of his classic Around the World in Eighty Days.

Meteor House is proud to present our first limited edition chapbook, a 9,800 word adventure signed by Win Scott Eckert. As with most of our books, the print run will be determined by the number of books preordered. Only a small number will be printed beyond the preorders, so to ensure you don’t miss out, be sure to order no later than July 5th.

And here is an added bonus: if you have preordered any of our forthcoming titles, this chapbook has free shipping (and will be sent to you, along with your other book(s), after FarmerCon in early August).

So, if you have already purchased any of the following
Crossovers Expanded, Volume 1
Crossovers Expanded, Volume 2
DAYWORLD A Hole in Wednesday
Blood of Ancient Opar
Phileas Fogg and the Heart of Osra


US $8
5.5×8.5, 28 pages (9,800 words)
Limited Edition of TBD Signed copies



Mystery*File - Now online!

JONATHAN LEWIS: Stories I’m Reading — ROBERT WEINBERG “Three Steps Back”
- New!
A Mystery Movie Review by Jonathan Lewis: THE INVISIBLE MENACE (1938)
Book Noted: KAREN A. ROMANKO – Television’s Female Spies and Crimefighters
Book Announcement: JONATHAN LEWIS – Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Tales
A Magazine Review by David Vineyard: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE – September 1931


Coming soon!

OCCULT DETECTIVE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE!
This magazine comes out four times a year and features new & classic occult detective fiction as well as articles, news and reviews!
The magazine is co-edited by John Linwood Grant and Sam Gafford.
Logo design by Bob Freeman.


Occult Detective Quarterly

Paperback Perils - Now online!

Blood of Ancient Opar (Christopher Paul Carey, Meteor House 2016)

Doc Ardan: The City of Gold and Lepers (Guy D'Armen, 1928/Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, 2004)
The Warlord of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914)
The Gods of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1913)  

PS Publishing
BLACK WINGS V

Now available for pre-order!

This is still listed as upcoming. Mike Chomko is accepting pre-orders for the book.

This fifth instalment of S. T. Joshi’s critically acclaimed Black Wings series features twenty stories that use H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos as the basis for imaginative ventures into the weird and terrifying. One of the central themes in Lovecraft’s work is the problematical nature of science in human affairs, and in this volume we find stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Lynne Jamneck, and Donald R. Burleson where scientists come face to face with the appalling implications of their discoveries.

Lovecraft was a master of the “sense of place,” inventing imaginary towns in New England with a rich and sinister history stretching back centuries. In this book, Jonathan Thomas, W. H. Pugmire, and Sunni K Brock bring Lovecraft’s towns of Arkham, Kingsport, and Innsmouth to life. Sam Gafford, Darrell Schweitzer, and Stephen Woodworth evoke terror in other corners of the American continent, while British writers David Hambling and John Reppion find Lovecraftian horror in little-known towns in England. The world-building that led Lovecraft to fashion an entire universe set in the realm of dreams is duplicated in tales by Cody Goodfellow, Mark Howard Jones, and Donald Tyson.

Madness is always an occupational hazard of the “searchers after horror” who populate Lovecraft’s tales. In this volume, stories by Robert H. Waugh, Nicole Cushing, and Nancy Kilpatrick searingly display the psychological aberrations of characters as they encounter the bizarre. Lovecraft himself has become an iconic character, and his gaunt, lantern-jawed figure stalks the tales by Jason C. Eckhardt and Mollie L. Burleson. This volume concludes, as did its predecessor, with a long poem by Wade German, one of the most dynamic figures in a remarkable renaissance of weird poetry inspired by the work of Lovecraft and his colleagues.

Black Wings V can take its place as a pioneering anthology that shows how the work of H. P. Lovecraft is inexhaustibly rich in the inspiration it can provide to contemporary writers of weird fiction.


AN ANTHOLOGY edited by S. T. Joshi
CATEGORY Lovecraft inspired Horror
PUBLICATION DATE May 2015
COVER ART Jason Van Hollander
PAGES 317
INTRODUCTION S. T. Joshi

EDITIONS
Unsigned Jacketed Hardcover — ISBN  978-1-848639-94-2  [£25]
300 Slipcased HC signed by the contributors  — ISBN 978-1-848639-95-9  [£50]




Thursday, July 21 through Sunday, July 24, 2016


Are you thinking about attending PulpFest 2016? You’re probably wondering what to expect from this year’s convention. PulpFest is known for its great programming and the line-up that we’re planning for our 2016 convention is shaping up to be one of our best.

We’ll be saluting a wide range of anniversaries at this summer’s pulp con: the tenth anniversary of Sanctum Books; the eightieth anniversary of THE WHISPERER and THE SKIPPER; the ninetieth anniversary of AMAZING STORIES, the first science-fiction pulp; the hundredth anniversary of the specialty pulp; and the 120th anniversary of THE ARGOSY, the original pulp magazine!



The Guest of Honor for PulpFest 2016 will be author, editor, musician, and science-fiction and pulp fan Ted White.

Born February 4, 1938, Theodore Edwin White is a Hugo Award-winning American writer, best known as a science-fiction author and editor and as a fan and music critic. In addition to books and stories written under his own name, he has also co-authored novels with Dave van Arnam as Ron Archer, and with Terry Carr as Norman Edwards.

Since the time he was a teenager, White has been a prolific contributor to science-fiction fanzines, and in 1968 he won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Despite his considerable professional credits, White maintains that his achievements in fandom mean more to him than anything else he has done. In 1953, he edited and published ZIP, the first of his many fanzines. In 1956–57, he co-edited STELLAR with Larry Stark; followed by VOID in 1960, joining founding editors Gregory and James Benford; plus MINAC, EGOBOO, and others. He was also a regular columnist for YANDRO and Richard E. Geis’ PSYCHOTIC/SF REVIEW and has been active in numerous fan events, including the organizing of the 1967 World Science Fiction Convention in New York City as co-chairman. He still remains active on several fandom- and fanzine-oriented electronic mailing lists.

In 1959, at the age of 21, White moved from Baltimore to New York City with his first wife, Sylvia Dees White. That year, he began writing music criticism for METRONOME and a column for Tom Wilson’s JAZZ GUIDE (later 33 GUIDE). As a music critic, he expanded into jazz writing and journalism for ROGUE, along with record liner notes, concert reviews and interviews. He was the only person to record an interview with Eric Dolphy, the American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist. From 1977 through 1979 as Dr. Progresso, he did the Friday afternoon DR. PROGRESSO radio show on WGTB-FM. Following the advent of the Internet, White became the music editor of the Collecting Channel website in 1999, and he continues to maintain his own website of music commentary under his Dr. Progresso pseudonym.


White’s first professional sale as a writer was a short vignette sold to PLAYBOY in 1959. Two stories released on the same day — “Phoenix,” written by Ted White and revised by Marion Zimmer Bradley for the February 1963 AMAZING STORIES and “I, Executioner,” co-authored by Terry Carr for the March 1963 IF (WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) — have been cited by our guest as his first-published stories. The author later expanded “Phoenix” into the novel PHOENIX PRIME, originally published in 1966 by Lancer Books. It was the first of the QANAR series — continuing with THE SORCERESS OF QAR (1966) and STAR WOLF (1971) — all published by Lancer. “I Executioner” became the opening chapter of his Ace book, ANDROID AVENGER.

Captain AmericaTed’s first novel — INVASION FROM 2500 — was written in collaboration with Terry Carr under the pseudonym Norman Edwards. It was published in 1964. Through 1978 he wrote two science-fiction series and eleven stand-alone novels, including one Captain America novel — THE GREAT GOLD STEAL. It was published by Bantam Books and featured a nod to its pulp forebears: one of the bad guys is named Andrew “Monk” Mayfair. Two of White’s novels were written in collaboration with Dave van Arnam, one with David Bischoff and one — using White’s Doc Phoenix character — with Marv Wolfman. Ted White was a 1966 Nebula-Award nominee for his short story, “The Peacock King,” written with Larry McCombs. He was also instrumental in kick-starting the professional careers of other writers, notably Lee Hoffman. Still writing at nearly seventy-eight years of age, White has had a number of short stories published in recent years. “The Uncertain Past” appeared in the March & April 2014 number of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION while”The Philistine” can be found in the October 2015 issue of ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT.

Our Guest of Honor’s editorial career began as an assistant and associate editor at THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION from 1963 to 1968. He also served as an associate editor at Lancer Books, working under Larry Shaw. From October 1968 until October 1978, Ted White edited AMAZING STORIES and FANTASTIC, upgrading the quality of both magazine’s fiction while showcasing a variety of talented illustrators. According to author, anthologist, and science-fiction and popular-culture historian, Mike Ashley, White ushered “AMAZING into a silver, if not a golden, age.” He also edited two 1973 anthologies, THE BEST FROM AMAZING STORIES and THE BEST FROM FANTASTIC. Both were published by Manor Books.

Ted White’s reputation as an editor impressed the publishers of HEAVY METAL who hired him in 1979 to introduce non-fiction into the magazine. White immediately hired four columnists — Jay Kinney, Lou Stathis, Steve Brown and Bhob Stewart — to cover, respectively, underground comics, music, science fiction, and movies. HEAVY METAL continued to feature mainly graphic stories during White’s tenure as the new editor wove the text into the graphic art, rather than segregating it into a separate section. In 1984-85, Ted White served as Editorial Director for STARDATE, a multi-media science-fiction magazine edited by David Bischoff.

Ted became a pulp collector as a teenager. He owns most of the science-fiction pulps from the 1940s and many from the twenties and thirties. Among his holdings are complete runs of SCIENCE WONDER STORIES and AIR WONDER STORIES, both issues of MIRACLE SCIENCE AND FANTASY STORIES, all the Futurian-edited magazines, the complete run of CAPTAIN FUTURE, and many other titles. His library of pulp and science-fiction digests is complete from 1951 through the nineties. He also owns many single-character pulps, including all but one issue of DOC SAVAGE MAGAZINE and a couple dozen issues of THE SHADOW. He also has many issues of THE AVENGER, CAPTAIN ZERO, THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE, THE WHISPERER, and other hero pulps in his collection.

White also plays keyboards and saxophone. He currently performs with the Washington, DC area improvisational group Conduit. Although we’d love to have him play, Ted will be speaking to PulpFest attendees during our evening programming about his career, fandom, pulps, science fiction, and AMAZING STORIES. His Guest of Honor speech will take place on Friday, July 22nd in the PulpFest programming room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus. We hope to see you at the convention.



To give you an idea about what you’ll encounter from July 21st through July 24th at the Hyatt Regency and the city’s spacious convention center in the Columbus, Ohio Arena district, below is the proposed scheduled for PulpFest 2016. We hope to see you at the convention.


Thursday, July 21st

Dealers’ Room
4:00 PM – 11:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Set-Up
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM — Early Registration
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Opens for Early-Bird Shopping

Programming
9:10 – 9:55 PM — Street & Smith’s Second Stringers — The Whisperer and The Skipper (Will Murray)
10:05 – 10:50 PM — Traveling through Time with H. G. Wells  (Garyn Roberts)
11:00 PM — Pulps in the Pub (join your friends in the hotel bar and talk pulp)

Friday, July 22nd

Dealers’ Room
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM — Early Registration and Dealers’ Room Set-Up
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All

Programming
1:00 – 4:15 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to be announced)
6:55 – 7:00 PM — Welcome to PulpFest 2016 (Convention Chairman Jack Cullers)
7:00 – 7:40 PM — FarmerCon XI — Collaborating with Philip José Farmer (panelists to be announced)
7:50 – 8:35 PM — Our Guest of Honor (to be announced on January 11th)
8:45 – 9:30 PM — The First Science-Fiction Pulp — An AMAZING Story (Joseph Coluccio, president of the Pittsburgh Area Fantasy and Science Fiction Club)
9:40 – 10:20 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — LOVE STORY MAGAZINE and its Romantic Sisters (Laurie Powers)
10:30 – 11:15 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE and the Pulp Western (Will Murray)

Saturday, July 23rd

Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All
10:00 AM – 10:00 PM — Gaming Track in the Clark Room, Second Floor

Programming
1:00 – 1:50 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to be announced)
2:00 – 2:50 PM — The AMAZING World of New Pulp (Ron Fortier new pulp panel)
3:00 – 3:50 PM — Ten Years in The Shadow’s Sanctum — Anthony Tollin’s Sanctum Books
5:00 – 6:50 PM — PulpFest 2016 Group Meal at a Dick’s Last Resort (Volunteer coordinator Sally Cullers)
7:00 – 7:25 PM — PulpFest 2016 Business Meeting (meet the convention organizers)
7:30 – 7:45 PM — 2016 Munsey Award Presentation (presented by J. Randolph Cox or Stephen T. Miller)
8:00 – 8:45 PM — 120 Years of THE ARGOSY — The World’s First Pulp Magazine  (Doug Ellis)
8:55 –  9:40 PM — The Artists of THE ARGOSY —  120 Years of Sensational Pulp Artists (David Saunders)
10:00 PM – ??— Saturday Night at the Auction (John Gunnison & Joseph Saine)

Sunday, July 24th

Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All (many dealers will be packing up; buying opportunities may be limited)

Please note that this schedule is subject to change.

For questions about our programming, please write to our programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
For questions about our dealers’ room, please write to our convention chairperson Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com.



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"The Tide Brings Murder" by Joe Archibald from G-MEN DETECTIVE, Fall (October) 1946

The fickle heart of a small-town girl leads F.B.I. Agent Mal Sturman to a scene of slaughter and Nazi treachery!

"Range Rookers" by Cliff Walters from TEXAS RANGERS, February, 1951

Wedge Wilson runs up against some gold-mine swindlers!

"The Purple Death" by Jack Barnette from AMAZING STORIES, July, 1929
Two scientists invent a supposedly beneficial tube that emits a ray that causes the Purple Death.



Pulp Adventurecon
November 5, 2016!




Pulp Crazy - Now online!

Blood of Ancient Opar with Christopher Paul Carey - New!
The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Recent Doc Savage Film Developments
Delenda Est by Robert E. Howard 


Pulp Den - Now online!

Superfall  - New!
Linked, We Soar - New!
Sensing Serafina
Sea Station Umbra
Glare of The Gorgon
Deadly Ties

         Pulp Den  

Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

Review of Adventure - January 1, 1928 - New!
Adventure - Review of May 15, 1933 issue
Tom Curry - Author, Engineer, Sportsman  


PULP HORROR #3 and #4
Now available for pre-order!


On July 1st, Pulp Horror #3 and #4 will be off to the printers!

The print run will be matched to orders, so place your order at the on-line shop by then if you want to be guaranteed of receiving a copy. 


Pulp Horror 3 features

Lengthy interviews with Valancourt Books and Mortbury Press
Reviews of classic horror books by Basil Copper, Bernard Taylor, John Blackburn, Charles Birkin, Michael McDowell and more
An overview of The Black Book of Horror series
 

Pulp Horror 4 features
A massive review of Murgunstrumm the Hugh Cave collection
A look at horror fiction in Fantastic digest
A review of the German pulp series Demon Killer
Armed Service editions of HPL et al
The weird menace pulp stories of Cornell Woolrich

The prices are £8 per issue UK, £10 per issue Europe/North America, £11 for Aust/Japan.




The Paperback Fanatic  On-line Shop for pre-orders







The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.


That's Pulp! by John Olsen

Perry Mason: novels #13 and #14 - New!
‘The Invisible Monster’: a serial in 12 chapters
Lost Shadow OTR: ‘Suicide Resort’
The Spider #110: ‘Zara: Master of Murder’
Perry Mason: novels #11 and #12
‘Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion’: a serial in 12 chapters


Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Bits of pulp: Cthulhu, cosplay, sf
Bits of pulp: ‘Shadow Comics,’ pulp cons
Meet the original ‘X-Men,’ part 2

Radio Archives
The Green Lama #7 Audiobook
The Hollywood Ghost & The Beardless Corpse

by Kendell Foster Crossen writing as Richard Foster
Read by James C. Lewis

Now available!

With this seventh Green Lama audiobook, we come to the climax of the original adventures of millionaire Jethro Dumont, who journeyed to the mountains of Tibet and came back on a mission to erase evil from the face of the earth as the first Buddhist superhero, The Green Lama!

The Green Lama often visited tinsel town, which he does once more in The Case of the Hollywood Ghost. Bloody footprints left by no visible being leave a scene of murder, but where will they take the investigation? Only The Green Lama Knows.
 
Written during a vogue of invisible men movies––Universal released The Invisible Man Returns and The Invisible Woman in 1940––this entry focuses on a similar production, The Man from Nowhere. When the busy set is bedeviled by the imaginary lead villain, an uncatchable killer calling himself the Hollywood Ghost, Jethro Dumont takes a hand in the game in this sequel to his earlier Hollywood triumphs, Babies for Sale and The Wave of Death.
 
The Case of the Beardless Corpse marked the ultimate Green Lama exploit penned by creator Kendell Foster Crossen writing as Richard Foster. Although Crossen continued his jade-robed hero in comic books and on radio, he never wrote another novelette. But The Lama went out in style, investigating the bizarre circumstances surrounding the slaying of a high-ranking German diplomat––whose face was shaved by his mysterious murderer after death. Working from that baffling clue, The Green Lama follows a trail of blood to a satisfying conclusion, assisted by his surviving circle of followers, which included magician Theodor Harrin and the ever-mysterious Lady from Lhasa, Magga.
 
James C. Lewis reads the swan song of the strangest pulp superhero ever imagined...Om Mani Padme Hum! The Green Lama Knows!
 
6 hours - $11.99 Download / $23.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives
 Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Spider #108 eBook
September 1942

by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge

  Now available!

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.
 
Another epic exploit of America’s best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s: The Spider — Master of Men! Richard Wentworth — the dread Spider, nemesis of the Underworld, lone wolf anti-crime crusader who always fights in that grim no-man’s land between Law and lawless — returns in vintage pulp tales of the Spider, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
Table of Contents:
 
Meet the Spider! by Will Murray
 
The Web — A Department
Conducted by The Chief
Voices from the Spider fan front.
 
Book-Length Spider Novel
Hell Rolls on the Highways! by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
It was a battle of vital import, because the Turnpike Pirates were destroying U.S. motor transportation! It was a battle of violence, because trained killers struck swiftly and for huge reward! It was a battle of iron wills, because the Evangelist, new “brain” of the Underworld, had sworn to consign the Spider and his tiny loyal band to the fiery pits of hell — by the power of his weirdly psychic mind alone!
 
Curtain for the Masked Marksman — An Ed Race Story by Emile C. Tepperman
The girl’s ensemble was exactly like the clothes worn by the blonde manikin that sent two men to awful death! She tightened her finger on the trigger — unaware that she was about to slay the Masked Marksman — the only man who could save her from Maxime’s special brand of doom!”




Radio Archives
 Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Dare-Devil Aces #102 eBook
Death Has No Wings - September 1940

  Now available!

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
 
Dare-Devil Aces was another of the many pulps that rode the wave of popularity of World War I aviation tales in the decade after the conflict. It made its debut in February 1932 and lasted for an astounding 135 issues. It finally closed after World War II ended, with the November 1946 issue. During its run, it presented a wide assortment of high-flying aerial series, including The Red Falcon, The Vanished Legion, The Three Mosquitoes, Molloy and McNamara, The Black Sheep of Belogue, The Mongol Ace, Chinese Brady, Captain Babyface, Smoke Wade and others. Strap on your flying helmet, toss that scarf about your neck and get ready for some soaring action in the skies over France and Germany during the Great War. Dare-Devil Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
Table of Contents:

 
The Blood of the Brave — An Editorial
 
Death Has No Wings — Thrilling Novel of War Skies
by O.B. Myers
Beginning — the greatest adventure of our times! Mr. Myers writes the dramatic sky story of today! — and it is a story that moves across the pages of our living history with the force of a million men! There may be blood on the pages, but you will find it is the Blood of the Brave, and you will think of this novel for long years after you have read it!
 
The Shadow Of The Swastika — Smashing Novel of War in the Sky
by Darrell Jordan
You have seen it above the Capitals of Europe; it is everywhere that knows the graves of free men and the death of liberty. It is the cold within the Shadow of the Swastika — as cold as the hands of the dead!
 
No Glory For Nazis — Stirring Novel of Sky Battle
by Daniel Winters
Somewhere, sometime, somehow — the hand of Death must turn, and in its fingers hold the sword of justice. In the far Valhalla of the gallant and the brave — there shall be No Glory for Nazis!
 
The Vickers Kid — Smashing Air Story
by William Porter
Christy Sheridan pits his guts and his guns against the world!
 
Wings For Fools — Stirring Air Story
by Hal White
Skybusters! — in the great tradition — and wings for fools!
 
Soldier Of The Damned — Thrilling Air Story
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Rick Ryan plays a game of his own in the red and lonely sky!
 
Story Behind The Cover — Special Sky Feature
by Frederick M. Blakeslee
Interesting facts of the modern war!
 
Air Angles — Special Sky Feature
by Dusty Dowst
The Lafayette Escadrille — and the glory thereof!
 
The Hot Air Club — A Department
Conducted by Nosedive Ginsburg
Ginsburg speaks his noble but simple mind!



RED SONJA VOLUME 3 #6 - Arriving in comic shops June 22!
Writer: Marguerite Bennett
Art: Aneke
Cover: Marguerite Sauvage

In the second of our two-part finale, the Hyrkanian forces clashes, sister against brother, in bloody civil war for the Falcon Throne. Revelations, explosions, betrayals, and triumph await as the soul of Hyrkania – and Sonja herself – hang in the balance.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99







The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Archive
THE MYSTERY TROOPER
Starring Robert Frazer and Blanche Mehaffey
Syndicate Pictures 1931 / 10 Chapters

Shipping in June!

Jack Logan travels to the Northwest to try to locate a mine that belonged to his murdered uncle and is there besieged by crooks wanting to steal the map to the mine from him. He helps rescue pretty Helen Holt and her brother Billy from the crooks and returns them to their foster father Red Eagle, with the assistance of the phantom "Mystery Trooper," who lives in Ghost City and finds respite in playing melancholy melodies on a dusty pump organ. When Logan and Helen compare notes, they realize the Mystery Trooper, who has thrown a bag of gold nuggets through a window to Helen and Billy, must know more bout the mine than he is saying, and so may White Cloud, a beguiling wild white horse. It is said that he who discovers White Cloud's secret home shall also discover great riches. Is this true?

A new digital transfer of the serial created at the USC Cinema Archive and restored by Eric Stedman.






The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

The Golden Quest

Malmordo
The Circle of Death
The Black Dragon


TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE: SEASON ONE - Now available!

“Just in time for Father’s Day and the theatrical release, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release the long awaited animated series that aired when Saturday Morning Cartoons reigned supreme. Available on DVD on June 14, 2016, Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle: Complete Season One was created by the Filmation Studio for CBS and follows the animated adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ape man from the 1970’s. The two-disc collectors set includes all 16 episodes from the series’ first season, and is priced to own at $19.98 SRP.

As the opening narration explains: “The jungle: Here I was born; and here my parents died when I was but an infant. I would have soon perished, too, had I not been found by a kindly she-ape named Kala, who adopted me as her own and taught me the ways of the wild. I learned quickly, and grew stronger each day, and now I share the friendship and trust of all jungle animals. The jungle is filled with beauty, and danger; and lost cities filled with good, and evil. This is my domain, and I protect those who come here; for I am Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle!”

“Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle was animated the old fashion way, with many hours of hand drawn stills,” said Mary Ellen Thomas, Vice President Family & Animation Marketing and Partner Brands. “They don’t make animation like this anymore, and we are really proud to be releasing this timeless classic just in time for the July release of Tarzan in theaters.”


16 22-MINUTE EPISODES:
Tarzan and the City of Gold
Tarzan and the Vikings
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Tarzan and the Forbidden City
Tarzan and the Graveyard of the Elephants
Tarzan's Return to the City of Gold
Tarzan and the Strange Visitors
Tarzan and the Land of the Giants
Tarzan and the Knights of Nimmr
Tarzan's Rival
Tarzan and the City of Sorcery
Tarzan at the Earth's Core
Tarzan and the Ice Creature
Tarzan and the Olympiads
Tarzan's Trial
Tarzan, the Hated

Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle: Complete Season One
Street Date: June 14, 2016
Total Running Time: Approx 352 minutes
Price: $19.98 SRP


TARZAN ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #1 (of 5) - Coming in September!
Tim Seeley (Writer), David Walker (Writer), Fernando Dagnino (Art), Sandra Molina (Color), and Duncan Fegredo (Cover)

Raised as brothers but separated by slave traders, Tarzan and his ape brother Caesar reunite when the war between man and ape takes them from the jungles of Africa to the center of the earth.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 28.


TARZAN ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #1 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).





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.

Two Hundred Years of Frankenstein - New!
Captain America: The Individual vs. the Collective
- New!
Eugene C. Dolson (1860-1938)
Roberto Quaglia (b. 1962)
Leslyn MacDonald (1904-1981)
Charles Henry Mackintosh (1885-?)

The Twilight Avenger Returns (Volume 2) - Now available!
by John Wooley and Terry Tidwell

The two-fisted weird mystery sequel to THE TWILIGHT AVENGER, this volume takes our hero Reece Chambers into the realm of the supernatural as he battles zombies, giant vampire bats, mad mesmerists, and silver screen serial killers. Each chapter is a self-contained story featuring the Twilight Avenger, his "partner" reporter Joan Casey, and mentor Dr. Milton Herth as they battle the weird menaces that plague 1930's Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you're a fan of THE ROCKETEER, THE SHADOW, THE GREEN HORNET, B-MOVIES, SERIALS, and PULPS then you're in for a treat with THE TWILIGHT AVENGER RETURNS! This volume also features exclusive bonus extras including: - Behind the scenes of the return of the Twilight Avenger to comics. - Exclusive artwork never before seen in print. - The Twilight Avenger Casting Call where we cast these comic adventures with real-life B-Movie stars. This is the first time in nearly 30 years these individual comic books have been collected and remastered for your reading excitement. Originally published in 1988, this is a graphic novel first sure to please longtime fans of The Twilight Avenger.


Paperback: 142 pages
Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 0.3 x 9.6 inches
$9.99





WEIRDBOOK #32
Now available!

Issue # 32 of the legendary Weirdbook is now available from Amazon and Wildside Press.

Weirdbook is the premier weird fiction magazine on the market today.

Issue #31, our first relaunch issue, was a rousing success and was
applauded by both the critic and our readers.

Weirdbook is published by John Betancourt's "Wildside Press" and
edited by former "Weird Tales" on-line editor Douglas Draa.

Weirdbook is currently appearing twice yearly with each issue topping
170 pages packed full of the best in weird fiction and poetry.


CONTENTS

Fiction

Childhood's Dread, by Taye Carrol
The Other Neighbors, by Daniel Davis
Rare Air, by Mark Slade
The Children, by J.E. Álamo
The Radiant Boy, by Kevin Wetmore
The Whisperer in the Woods, by Peter Schranz
Sweet Oblivion, by Andrew Darlington
An Unsolicited Lucidity, by Lee Clark Zumpe
Black Carnival, by Bobby Cranestone
The Howard Family Tradition, by P. R. O'Leary
Hell in a Boxcar, by Scott A. Cupp
Jorōgumo, by Kelda Crich
Clay Baby, by Jack Lee Taylor
The Corpse and the Rat: A Story of Friendship, by Joshua L. Hood
Getting Thin, by DJ Tyrer
Maybe Next Door, by Richard LaPore
Containment Protocol, by Leeman Kessler
Under a Rock, by Lori R. Lopez
The Children Must Be Hungry, by L.F. Falconer
The Road to Hell, by Kevin L. O'Brien
Maggot Coffee, by Roy C. Booth and Axel Kohagen
Baby Mine, by Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen
In Blackwalk Wood, by Adrian Cole
My Longing to See Tamar, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Gust of Wind Made by Swinging a Blade, by Molly N. Moss

Poetry
Necromancer's Lair, by Chad Hensley
The Helm, by Chad Hensley
Ex Arca Sepulcrali, by Wade German
The Laughter of Ghouls, by K.A. Opperman
Ode to Ashtoreth, by K.A. Opperman
The Necro-Conjuring Sorceress, by Ashley Dioses
What Dark Gods Are Friends to Me? by Chad Hensley
Scarlet Succubus Shrine, by Frederick J. Mayer
Penelope, Sleepless, by Darrell Schweitzer


Paperback: 174 pages
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
List Price: $12.00

Weirdbook #32 - Wildside Press    Weirdbook #32 - Amazon.com  

  Weirdbook Magazine Blogspot    Facebook: Weirdbook



WEIRD DETECTIVE #4 (of 5) - Coming in September!
Fred Van Lente (Writer), Guiu Vilanova (Art/Cover), and Mauricio Wallace (Color)

Sebastian Greene is finding it increasingly difficult to keep his true identity a secret from his partner, Sana Fayez. At the same time, he’s finally tracked down the Juice Box Killer—but can he take on the horrendous beast by himself?


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 21.


WEIRD DETECTIVE #4 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 29).



THE WEIRD TALES OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN - Coming June 20!
by Robert E. Howard


Before he conquered books, comics, and movies, Robert E. Howard's immortal character Conan the Cimmerian was born in the pages of the pulp magazine Weird Tales.
Reprinted as they originally appeared in that legendary publication from 1934 to 1936, this ferocious anthology gathers many of the barbarian's most famous adventures:
"Red Nails," "The Hour of the Dragon," "Queen of the Black Coast," and four others.


Paperback: 272 pages
$12.95



The Wild Adventures of King Kong


Will Murray announced that he has completed his latest epic, King Kong vs. Tarzan.
Polishing and proofreading have begun.



He's back.
Kong of Skull Island.
In the story you always dreamed of reading King Kong vs. Tarzan of the Apes!




The Wild Adventures of King Kong


William Patrick Maynard - Now online!

“The Golden Flask” was the eighth installment of Sax Rohmer’s serial, Fu-Manchu. First published in The Story-Teller in May 1913, it later comprised Chapters 21-23 of the novel, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (initially re-titled The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu for North American publication). Rohmer added brief linking material to the start of this episode for its book publication in an effort to tie the story closer together with its immediate predecessor. “The Golden Flask” is unique in not being centered upon Dr. Petrie’s infatuation with Karamaneh, but rather upon our heroes’ obsession with bringing Dr. Fu-Manchu to justice.


Read the rest at the link below.

William Patrick Maynard - Now online!

Special Mavel Edition is a little remembered comics reprint title of the early 1970s. Its fifteenth and penultimate issue dated December 1973 featured the debut of a new series, Master of Kung Fu. Marvel’s timing was perfect as Bruce Lee was now a major star at the U.S. box office and David Carradine’s Kung Fu series was a critical and ratings success on the small screen.

Marvel had optioned the rights to Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu characters several years before when Pyramid paperback reprints of the 13 Rohmer novels were selling strong thanks to the popularity of the Christopher Lee film series. Marvel already had their own Fu Manchu clones in the form of the Yellow Claw and the Mandarin, but Master of Kung Fu gave them the opportunity to build a contemporary martial arts title out of a sequel to Rohmer’s highly influential thriller series.


Read the rest at the link below.








10 June 2016

2016 Pulp Shows

The Pulp Coming Attractions Pulp Shows page has been updated with available information on the presently known pulp & paperback shows scheduled for 2016!
Click on the PULP SHOWS link below or the icon at the top of the page and start making your reservations!


Adventures in Bronze
News update from Will Murray!

With the release of my latest Doc Savage novel, Glare of the Gorgon, and the announcement that Dwayne Johnson will be playing the Man of Bronze in an upcoming Sony Doc Savage film, we thought this would be perfect time to update our loyal customers on our future plans.

Six years ago in the summer of 2011, Altus Press launched the Wild Adventures of Doc Savage with The Desert Demons, based in an unpublished Lester Dent manuscript. Since then, we've produced 12 new novels and reprinted 6 others. Doc Savage has battled King Kong and encountered his dark counterpart, The Shadow, in two stupendous crossovers, Skull Island and The Sinister Shadow. 

Last summer, we launched the Wild Adventures of Tarzan, a new series of exploits that will continue under the auspices of Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.’s. publishing imprint.

This summer, we will launch the Wild Adventures of King Kong, in which the iconic monster battles Tarzan of the Apes. King Kong Vs. Tarzan tells the trilling untold story of the capture of Kong and his transport to America via Africa. 

Later this year, we will release Six Scarlet Scorpions, the first in The Wild Adventures of Pat Savage. That's right, Doc’s adventurous cousin, Patricia, is getting her own series of books. If readers support this new venture, we might release one Pat novel every year or so.

We will wrap up 2016 with Mr. Calamity, our 13th new Doc Savage novel.

And of course there is also the growing line of Doc Savage audiobooks currently being released by Radio Archives. This is an ongoing series.

Next year, we have exciting plans, including a rematch between Doc and The Shadow, and some other surprises.

The Wild Adventures series has expanded far beyond our original expectations, and we couldn’t have done it without you all. So we want to thank  our customers for their support over the last six years. Great things lie ahead!



Adventures in Bronze
GLARE OF THE GORGON
Hardcover, softcover and eBook are now available!
 

Why did a desperate man shave his head before visiting Doc Savage headquarters, only to be struck down, his pulsing brain turned to inert stone? What sinister secret did his strange slaying silence? And how was a lizard-green shadow resembling Medusa branded on Doc’s office wall?

These are only some of the questions confronting the Man of Bronze as he pursues a grisly trail of petrified corpses to post-Prohibition Chicago, whose criminal underworld is being terrorized by a serpent-haired demon engaged in a seemingly senseless slaughter spree whose ultimate target will shake Doc Savage’s men to their core.

Suspects are many, clues baffling. Death and danger lurks everywhere they turn—symbolized by the silhouette of a faceless Gorgon.

From the concrete canyons of Manhattan to the coal fields of Illinois, Doc Savage tracks a phantom fiend the likes of which he has never before hunted. Or is he the one being hunted?

Hardcover: $39.95  /  Softcover: $24.95  /  eBook:  $4.99


Adventures in Bronze


ADVENTURES IN THE STRAND: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE & THE STRAND MAGAZINE - Now available!
by Mike Ashley

Conan Doyle’s name is synonymous with The Strand magazine, chiefly because of the Sherlock Holmes stories but also due to many of his other contributions, such as the Professor Challenger stories, his articles on spiritualism and fairies, and his coverage of the major battles of World War I. From 1891 until his death in 1930, almost 300 contributions by Doyle were published in The Strand, including 120 stories, 9 serialized novels, and dozens of other items including poetry and interviews. It is impossible fully to appreciate Conan Doyle’s artistic development without considering the context of The Strand, as it published almost all of his most memorable and important stories, but it also published essays, commentary and other works that have become unjustly forgotten. Doyle’s contributions highlight, for example, his abilities as a sportsman, an interest which frequently found its way into his fiction. This study charts his outlook and views, examines his shifting reputation during his lifetime, and assesses how Doyle’s contributions to The Strand fit into his overall output as a writer. Ashley uncovers hidden aspects of Doyle’s writings that reveal him to be a more broadly talented writer than he is often given credit for.

Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 9 inches
List Price: $34.95




Age of Aces Latest Dispatches
Now available on line!


Airship 27 Productions
BROTHER BONES: THE MOVIE
Coming soon!

Franklin-Husser Entertainment LLC is thrilled to announce that they have reached out to New Pulp publisher Airship 27 in order to option the rights to Ron Fortier's character, Brother Bones, for an upcoming feature film.

“Brother Bones the Undead Avenger is a character I created over ten years ago,” Fortier recalls. “I just wanted to do my own homage to such great gun-totting vigilantes like the Shadow and the Spider. Little did I realize he would become so popular with our readers. They are forever clamoring for more of his macabre adventures.”

“New Pulp has such untapped potential,” co-founder Erik Franklin said. “There are so many vibrant, original characters that would be perfect for a cinematic adaption. Brother Bones has all that you could want in a story: exciting visuals, well-drawn characters, and each page is a cliff-hangar.”

“When Erik first showed me the book I immediately thought that Brother Bones would make a great movie.” Daniel Husser, co-founder of Franklin-Husser Entertainment LLC, commented. “The story is dark and full of action so it's perfect for us. Since we are working with Ron Fortier's creation, it is absolutely important to us that we stay faithful to the text. Many adaptations tend to change too much, damaging the original concept and we don't want that to happen.”

“It was very important to us to get Brother Bone's creator, Ron Fortier, involved with the project. He cares very much about his characters, and he only wants the best products to be associated with Brother Bones and Airship 27.” Erik said. “To that end, we discussed story possibilities at length, and we have determined what we think will be a great cinematic entrance for Brother Bones into the pantheon of cinematic heroes.”

A two minute test video was made and sent to Fortier to view.  “It virtually blew me away,” Fortier says. “Erik and Daniel had condensed in just two minutes what it had taken me almost four chapters to establish. They immediately captured the essence of the character and watching him come to life in that clip convinced me these two guys are going to make a fantastic Brother Bones feature. I couldn’t be more excited.”

The film is in its early planning stages, with the script being written by Ron Fortier and Erik Franklin. Seattle, Washington will double for Cape Noire, the setting in the Brother Bones novels. More details will be announced from Airship 27 and Franklin-Husser Entertainment LLC as they happen.

“This is going to be a big step forward for both our companies, and we look forward to presenting Brother Bones on the silver screen.” said Erik.


Airship 27 Productions is one of the pioneers of the New Pulp Movement and has been in operation for the past ten years producing beautiful quality novels and anthologies featuring both classic public domain and new pulp heroes.  Thus far there have been three Brother Bones books, a one shot comic book. Marshal Made Collectibles has produced several versions of Brother Bones action figures and soon Scaldcrow Games will be releasing an rpg module, “Ron Fortier’s Cape Noire” based on the Brother Bones adventures.  www.airship27.com

Franklin-Husser Entertainment LLC, is an independent film production company based in Seattle, Washington.  Founded by life-long friends Erik Franklin and Daniel Husser, they share a love of escapist cinema, and have decided to create feature films dedicated to bringing exciting tales of action, suspense, and adventure to audiences around the world. With interesting twists on traditional genres, Franklin-Husser Entertainment LLC, combines intelligent screenplays with high-impact action. The company primarily produces action, sci-fi, comedy, martial arts and horror films, but keep their minds open to new and exciting ideas and creative possibilities. Their first film, Revenge of the Lost, is in the process of being distributed, and their second film is in post production. www.fhentertainmentllc.com







Airship 27 Productions
THE TOWERS OF METROPOLIS VOLUME 1
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is proud to announce the release of their newest title, “The Towers of Metropolis,” a prequel anthology based on silent sci-fi movie.

In 1927 German filmmaker Fritz Lang brought to the screen one of the most ground breaking sci-fi melodramas of all time based on the screenplay he co-wrote with his wife, novelist Thea von Harbou.  Set in a futuristic urban dystopia, the story follows the attempts of Freder, the son of the city’s ruler, and Maria, a citizen of the lower levels, to bridge the gulf separating the economic classes of the city. It is regarded as a classic and one of the first full-length movies in the genre.

“I first saw the film at the World Science Fiction Convention years ago,” reports Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor, Ron Fortier.  “It simply blew me away.  That a film this sophisticated and brilliant could be realized during the earliest days of movie making was astounding. Those images of that futuristic city and its underlying cautionary tale simply became a part of me. I never forgot them. To put together this anthology and revisit that world has been something truly special for all of us here at Airship 27. We hope our fans will enjoy our efforts here.”

Now five visionary new pulp writers have envisioned four dramatic tales which unfold in this amazing world prior to the events of that film. The book begins with a special introductory essay by author Fred Lang, Jr. and then William & Michael Maynard join forces with Michael Panush, Kevin Noel Olson and Erik Franklin to guide readers back to those vaulted, shining Towers of Metropolis in this new collection inspired by Lang’s masterpiece.

Award winning Metropolis enthusiast Michael Kaluta provides the cover with artist Pedro Cruz offering twelve amazing interior illustrations.  All beautifully assembled by Airship 27 Art Director Rob Davis to create a book any fan of the film will want for their personal library.

“Metropolis is something truly unique in the annals of science fiction history,” Fortier concludes. “I believe we’ve done it justice with The Towers of Metropolis.”


 Available from Amazon in hard copy and coming soon on Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Altus Press: Enjoy Pulps! by David Lee Smith - Now online!

Unknown Pulp: Ladies of the Underworld
The Phantom Detective – Oct. 1945: “Death to a Diplomat”
Pulps Pricings Sales Census: Ka-Zar Pulps, 1936-1937
“The Pot of Gold” by Eudora Ramsay Richardson (a Pre-Spider/Richard Wentworth Story)
Pulps Pricings Sales Census

Altus Press Pulp Blog by Morgan Wallace - Now online!

“The Guthrie Method” by Raymond Z. Gallun / “Desperate Remedy” by Mack Reynolds
“As You Were” by Henry Kuttner in Australia’s “American Science Fiction Magazine” series
The Irrationals by Milton Lesser (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
American Science Fiction Magazine “Common Time” by James Blish
The Thing from Another World by John W. Campbell, Jr.  


Altus Press

Next week, Altus Press will be announcing all of their releases that will premiere at Pulpfest.
It could be their largest number of new books at single time!
Details next week!



Altus Press
Now available!

 
Magician George Chance, AKA the crime-fighter known as The Ghost,
who has done more in the service of the Law than any other man of his generation.

Master of the science of criminology, remorseless crime-tracker and criminal catcher!
When The Ghost walks, the underworld stirs into deadly life to combat him.

This omnibus contains the first two adventures of The Ghost, uncut, and with the original illustrations.

264 pages
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $18.95 softcover




Altus Press
Now available!

THE CRIMSON MASK OMNIBUS VOLUME 2
by Norman A. Daniels
 
Part of the early 1940s pulp hero revival, pharmacist Bob Clarke takes on the underworld as The Crimson Mask!
Volume 2 contains the next five adventures:
“The Crimson Mask and the Vanishing Men”
“The Crimson Mask's Ghost Trail”
“The Diamond Death Trail”
“The Money Trail”
“Murders of the Black Rose”

All stories are uncut and contain all of the original illustrations.

280 pages
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $18.95 softcover

Altus Press


Altus Press
Now available!

THE COMPLETE CASEBOOK OF SGT. BRINKHAUS
by Frederick Nebel
Introduction by Will Murray


 
Following Donahue and Cardigan, Frederick Nebel’s longest-running detective series featured the hard-boiled exploits of Sgt. Otto Herman “Brinky” Brinkhaus and Inspector Peter Larsen of the Portsend Detective Bureau as chronicled in the pages of Detective Action Stories, Dime Detective Magazine, and Detective Fiction Weekly.

389 pages

$29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $27.95 softcover



Altus Press
The Brazen Peacock
by H. Bedford-Jones

Now available!

H. Bedford-Jones pens this thrilling tale of adventure in the Middle East.

Fraser, his whereabouts unknown to his father following the Great War,
finds himself in the middle of a battle over a lost idol and on the road to Baghdad.
And just what does Fraser have to do with the treasured Brazen Peacock?

It’s another volume in the H. Bedford-Jones Library.

171 pages
$14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $13.95 softcover


Altus Press
Will o’ the Wisp
by H. Bedford-Jones

Now available!

To horse, ye English captains! In the king’s name, ride! For Brian Desmond, spy for France, takes the Dover road tonight!
A superb novel of spies and swords and one of H. Bedford-Jones’ best historicals, as it originally appeared in Argosy Magazine.

241 pages
$14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $13.95 softcover



Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!

THE SHADOW VOLUME 107: "The Killer" & "The Museum Murders"
The Master of Darkness proves that "the weed of crime bears bitter fruit" in chilling pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, "The Killer" launches a campaign of serial murder until he makes an appointment with death with The Shadow! Then, priceless treasures are moved to secret strongholds for wartime safekeeping, leading to vicious robbery attempts from two gangs of murderous cutthroats. GOLDEN AGE OF COMICS BONUS: Another fantastic adventure of Iron Munro illustrated by George Tuska! This collector's classic features the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Graves Gladney plus interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-208-7  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
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 SPIDER Volume 9: "The Mad Horde" & Slaves of the Laughing Death"
The pulp era's most bloodthirsty avenger continues his deadly war against crime in two violent pulp novels by Norvell Page. First, "The Mad Horde" of rabid creatures is unleashed upon mill towns to undermine America's vital steel industry. Then, in "Slaves of the Laughing Death," the fiend of 1000 faces known only as Munro returns for a deadly rematch with the Spider, armed with a deadly weapon that causes victims to laugh until they die! This double novel pulp reprint showcases the classic color covers by Rafael De Soto and John Newton Howitt, John Fleming Gould's classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-206-3 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
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

 

Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Will Murray : Doc Savage in "Glare of the Gorgon"


The legendary Will Murray discusses his latest Wild Adventure of Doc Savage "Glare of the Gorgon" based on an original plot by Howard Davis and Lester Dent and including more of Dent's original prose work.  Will discusses his future plans for more wild adventures and for a new series of stories starring PAT SAVAGE!  And of course, there are more juicy tidbits about what is on the horizon for Will.  Don't miss this one!


Past episodes:
Jeff Deischer: "The Night of the Owl" and Guest Host Ric Croxton
Gordon Dymowski on Black Bat Mystery, Vol. 3 and much more!
Sinbad: The New Voyages - The Legacy of Ray Harryhausen

Andrew Salmon and the New Sherlock Holmes Fightcard Novel
The League of the Seventh Son; Steve Payne's new Secret Agent X Novel
Michael Panush and his novel "The Dagger Men"
Tom and Ginger Johnson: The Pulp Power Couple
Rick Lai, Cthulhu, and Dangerous Things!


Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 Blood 'N' Thunder 46/47 (Winter-Spring 2016)
Now available for immediate shipping!

The 230 pages of this double issue — the first BnT of 2016 — is crammed with articles, reviews, and reprints.

The feature articles boast BnT‘s usual combination of intensive research and passionate writing. The cover story is Ed Hulse’s lengthy examination of the two Columbia serials featuring The Spider, one of pulpdom’s greatest heroes. Rick Lai details the numerous pulp references in The Sinister Shadow, Will Murray’s recent novel pitting Doc Savage against The Shadow. Robert E. Howard scholar Morgan Holmes chronicles the efforts of Conan’s creator to break into the pulp magazines published by William Clayton. Old-Time Radio authority Karl Schadow offers a history of the little-known Stay Tuned for Terror, the series written by Robert Bloch and adapted primarily from his pulp stories. Bruce Dettman provides an overview of the various characters marketed to several mediums as The Falcon.

The issue’s department installments have the usual variety. “Tricks of the Trade” presents a 1932 Writer’s Digest piece on the Western-pulp market. Horror novelist and filmmaker S. Craig Zahler reviews two 1932 issues of Weird Tales in “Off the Shelf.” In “Airwave Adventures” Martin Grams writes about lost episodes of the Mysterious Traveler, a pulpish radio series that became a fiction magazine. Ed Hulse discusses one of the first movie serials, 1914’s The Million Dollar Mystery, in “Cliffhanger Classics.” And Dave Smith covers one of the great air-war hero pulps, The Lone Eagle, in “Series Spotlight.”

The reprint section begins with an 80th-anniversary tribute to the 1936 Flash Gordon serial: Rare promotional material originally published in Universal Weekly, the Universal Pictures trade paper circulated to exhibitors. Our fiction reprint is “Drunk, Disorderly, and Dead,” a 1942 Robert Leslie Bellem mystery featuring Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. Finally, we publish long-unseen court documents relating to a Popular Publications lawsuit involving Black Mask magazine.

BnT #46/47 has the usual complement of illustrations — pulp cover reproductions, vintage movie stills, original art, and so on.

PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 HANDSOME HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
Now available for immediate shipping!

This companion volume to DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS continues Ed Hulse's groundbreaking history of American cliffhanger serials of the silent-movie era. It covers some 190 "chapter plays" released by production and distribution entities such as Universal, Vitagraph, Mutual, Arrow, Rayart, and Mascot, along with member companies of the Edison Trust and various fly-by-night independent operators.Among the legendary serial stars whose output is documented and analyzed are Francis Ford and Grace Cunard, Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber, Helen Holmes, Eddie Polo, Marie Walcamp, William Desmond, William Duncan, Eileen Sedgwick, Joe Bonomo, Elmo Lincoln, Ann Little, Jack Daugherty, Juanita Hansen, and Louise Lorraine. Serials that starred favorites from the sports and theatrical worlds — Harry Houdini, Billie Burke, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, Benny Leonard, and Maurice "Lefty" Flynn, to name a few — are also covered.

At a length of nearly 160,000 words, illustrated with hundreds of rare stills, posters, lobby cards, magazine ads and even frame blowups from surviving film elements, HANDSOME HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
is the last word on this fascinating segment of American movie history. The product of a quarter century's research, it equals if not surpasses the award-nominated DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS.

Single copy price is $29.95, but for a limited time only HANDSOME HEROES AND DISTRESSED DAMSELS can be purchased together for $49.95.
Visit muraniapress.com and use our convenient Checkout feature to order either or both.


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.




Bold Venture Press
ZORRO Volume 2 by Johnston McCulley
Coming this month!


Officially licensed by Zorro Productions
The second of six volumes reprinting the 60+ Zorro stories published in the pulps from 1919 to 1959.






Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 9- The Single Author Collections - New!
Short Reviews – Ordeal in Space by Ralph Sloan
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 8
Short Reviews – The Giants Return by Robert Abernathy

Centipede Press
MASTERS OF THE WEIRD TALE: FRITZ LEIBER
Now available!

An astounding two-volume collection of Fritz Leiber’s best weird and horror fiction, across 900 pages, with over 20 full page illustrations, many in full color, with a stunning wraparound dustjacket by Tom Kidd. Also included is a new introduction by editor John Pelan, with photographs of the author and images of old editions of his books.

The two volumes are enclosed in a handsome slipcase ribbon marker, cloth slipcase, and other extras. The complete contents are shown below.
The edition is limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, and the book is signed by Tom Kidd, Rodger Gerberding, John Pelan, Travis Lewis, and Allen Koszowski, and has a special facsimile signature by Fritz Leiber.


EDITION INFORMATION
Limited to 250 copies, each signed by John Pelan, Tom Kidd, Allen Koszowski, Travis Lewis, and Rodger Gerberding.
New introduction by John Pelan.
Two handsome volumes in a single slipcase.
Extensive bibliography.
Many photographs of Fritz Leiber, both in black & white and color.
Slipcase, ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full color wraparound dustjacket art by Tom Kidd.

PRICING
Cloth: $275, signed in slipcase (on sale from $295). This item will ship around June 15.
Cloth: $285 with a copy of Pan's Labyrinth Studies in the Horror Film. Shipping around June 15.
Cloth: $425 with an unsigned copy of Fred Chappell Masters of the Weird Tale. Shipping around June 15.




Charlie Chan 3-Film Collection - Now available!

These three classic Charlie Chan mysteries made by famed B-movie titans Monogram pictures gives us two different Charlies in the persons of Sidney Toler (The Red Dragon) and Roland Winters (The Feathered Serpent, The Sky Dragon), but both styles of supersleuth must tackle truly draconian mysteries and murder. The Red Dragon finds Charlie (Toler) and Number Three Son Tommy (Benson Fong) cracking codes and uncovering killers down in Mexico City. The Feathered Serpent sees Charlie (Winters), Number One Son Lee (Keye Luke), and Tommy Chan (Victor Sen Yung) once again in Mexico on a deadly expedition for Aztec gold. The Sky Dragonpresents Charlie and Lee with an inflight locked-cabin murder mystery high above the clouds on board a commercial airliner.

Price:$24.99



THE CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 33 - Coming in November!
by Roy Thomas (Author), Mike Docherty (Art), E. R. Cruz (Art), John Watkiss (Art), Villagrán (Art)

Conan must scale the forbidden Mount of Crom to prevent the release of the ancient god-demon Shuma Gorath, imprisoned by Crom himself!
But the witch queen Vammatar and her necromancer husband, Kulan Gath, also seek the summit--and the iron-bound Books of Shuma-Gorath, with which they plan to free the malevolent god and bring it under their own baleful control!


Trade paperback, 7 x 10, Full Color, 224 pages



Classicon
Saturday, June 18, 2016
10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

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, comic books, posters, pin-up art, and more available for sale or trade.

University Quality Inn (map)
3121 E. Grand River Ave.
Lansing, Michigan
(Just north of Frandor Shopping Center)
Saturday, June 18, 2016
10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

$3.00 admission
$25.00 for a dealer table


DARK HORSE PRESENTS #23 - Arriving in comic shops June 15!
Alan Gordon (Writer), Dean Motter (Writer/Art), Carla Speed McNeil (Writer/Art), Rich Woodall (Writer), Michael T. Gilbert (Writer/Art), Dennis Calero (Writer/Art), Bo Hampton (Art), Craig Rousseau (Art), and Mike Mignola (Cover)

This month, return to the urban jungle in The Once and Future Tarzan, written by Alan Gordon with art by Bo Hampton! Then, Dean Motter takes us back to Radiant City with a new Mister X story: Pokerface!

Plus, Carla Speed McNeil’s Finder: Chase the Lady, Rich Woodall and Craig Rousseau’s Kyrra: Alien Jungle Girl, and Michael T. Gilbert’s Mr. Monster continue! Finally, Dennis Calero’s The Suit reaches its thrilling conclusion—all in this issue of Dark Horse Presents!


Full Color, 48 pages, $4.99


Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!

DEATH by ELECTION
Poster Gallery: GENE AUTRY  
Overlooked Films: "A Dime a Dance," from a BLACK MASK story by Cornell Woolrich (1995)


DEJAH THORIS #5 - Arriving in comic shops June 15!
Writer: Frank J. Barbiere
Art: Francesco Manna

Cover: NEN

Dejah continues her quest into the badlands, searching for secrets from her past, while Helium falls under the control of the mysterious Councilman Valoris. Will Dejah be able to unravel the truth behind her forgotten past before the city of Helium tears itself apart?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99








The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Beyond Fantasy Fiction #5  
- New!
Lovely Lady Series No. 7 - New!
Beyond Fantasy Fiction #4 - New!
The Digest Enthusiast #4 is here! - New!
Paperback Parade #93
Jerome Bixby & Joe E. Dean: Beyond Fantasy Fiction
Pulp Literature #10 Spring 2016
A “Christmas Present” from the Mysterious Traveler

The Digest Enthusiast #4
 Now available!

The fourth spectacular edition of The Digest Enthusiast is now available in print and Kindle from Amazon.

Contents:
Interviews:
Art Taylor: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
 • An insightful conversation with the award-winning author and frequent contributor to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Art Taylor.
Editors of the new generation of digital digests:
   Alec Cizak, Pulp Modern
   Jennifer Landels, Pulp Literature
   John Kenyon, Grift
   Kristen Valentine, Betty Fedora
   Sheri White, Morpheus Tales
 • The editors share their thoughts on the new generation of digital digests.

Articles:
Suspense Magazine and Novels by Richard Krauss
 • A close-up view of Suspense Magazine and its Suspense Novel series, along with the associated radio, TV and comic book series. 
Galaxy Science Fiction Novels by Steve Carper
 • Steve Carper’s comprehensive overview of the digest-sized Galaxy Novel series. 
Galaxy Magabooks by Gary Lovisi
 • Gary Lovisi’s companion piece (to Galaxy Novels): Galaxy Magabooks. 
Criswell Predicts: Fate & Spaceway by Tom Brinkmann
 • Tom Brinkmann’s exposé on The Amazing Criswell’s prognostications for Fate Magazine and Spaceway science fiction.
Shock Mystery Tales by Peter Enfantino
 • Peter Enfantino dissects Shock Mystery Tales—the shudder pulps inbred man-child.
Pocket Pin-ups trading cards
 • An unfettered peek into the Pocket Pin-Ups trading card set by Max Allan Collins.

Reviews:
H.G. Wells Society Newsletter #30
Bulldog Drummond by Snapper
Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines by Michael L. Cook

Fiction:
"A Rat Must Chew" by Gary Lovisi
"The Hideout" by Ron Fortier
"Strangers in Need" by Joe Wehrle, Jr.
"Wounded Wizard" by John Kuharik

Artwork and Cartoons:
Sean Azzopardi
Rob Davis
Brad Foster
Michael Neno
Bob Vojtko

Also includes:
Editor's Notes
Digest indexes (
Suspense Magazine)
Social media round-up
Opening Lines

Print version, $8.99, includes nearly 100 B&W cover images, 152 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest.
Kindle version, $2.99, includes over 50 color cover images.






Doc Con 2016
November 4, 5 & 6, 2016

Doc Con will be held November 4, 5 & 6, 2016.
Request that vacation time...mark those calendars and let everyone know you will be in Phoenix the first weekend of November.
Special plans are still being made to make this the best Doc Con ever!
So stay tuned for more details to follow as soon as we can announce them.


Doc Savage Fantasy Covers
Now online!

Kez Wilson's DOC SAVAGE FANTASY COVERS website has added a new cover!
Check out the whole series of covers at the link below!




ERB Books
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

by Robert B. Zeuschner

Now available for pre-order!


Standard Edition: (Ships July 15, 2016)
Bound in midnight blue Cialux Italian book cloth with the spine and front cover decorations stamped in gilt. 
Color wraparound dust jacket, 675+ pages; 7”x10”; 600+ total images - 500+ in color on glossy stock
$100.00 PREORDER 10% Discount $90.00 + $14 Flat Rate shipping via Fed Ex


The Deluxe Edition:  (Ships July 15, 2016) 
Bound in genuine red leather with a hub spine and limited to 375 signed and numbered copies with the spine and front cover decorations stamped in gilt. 
700+ pages; 7”x10”; 600+ images - 500+ in color on glossy stock
$150.00  PREORDER 10% off $135.00  + $14 Flat Rate Shipping via Fed Ex









FRITZ LEIBER’S FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER: THE CLOUD OF HATE AND OTHER STORIES TP - Arriving in comic shops June 15!
Dennis O’Neil (Writer), Howard Chaykin (Art), and Walter Simonson (Art/Cover)
 
In 1973, industry titan Denny O’Neil joined master artists Howard Chaykin and Walt Simonson to adapt stories starring Fritz Leiber’s timeless fantasy characters, the barbarian Fafhrd and the nimble rogue the Gray Mouser. Now, for the first time ever, Dark Horse Books is collecting all of those exciting tales of swords and devilry into one handsome collection!
 
• Drawn by Howard Chaykin and Walt Simonson!
• Bonus story penciled by Jim Starlin!


Trade Paperback, 7” x 10”, Full Color, 136 pages, $17.99

 



Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

THE BLACK FLAME

Toward the end of the Twentieth Century-so say historians of the age of the Second Enlightenment-civilization died in a blaze of atomic and bacterial warfare. Barbarism followed the holocaust, the Dark Centuries during which humanity rested and prepared for a charge to new heights of development. Amid the ruins of one civilization, another and greater slowly grew.

Old records were rediscovered, new knowledge was added to that of the Ancients. Then came the discovery of immortality, and Joaquin Smith and his especially beautiful sister, Margaret, began their search for power-and the story of the Black Flame begins. Black Margot, they called her, this most beautiful woman of the Immortals, "a black flame blowing cold across the world." The Black Flame, loved by men, hated by women-vibrantly alive, yet bored with living-restless as though demon-driven-who did not age, who remains untouched by the passing of time. In Margot of Urbs, Stanley G. Weinbaum has created one of the most fascinating characters in science fiction.

There are others-good, honest Hull Tarvish of the "mountainies"-old Einar, who rediscovers atomic energy-Tim Connor, who awakens from a thousand year sleep, a victim of enforced electrolepsis, a man from the forgotten past-Evanie Sair, the Sorceress-Joaquin Smith, the Master-Martin Sair, the giver of life-Jan Orm who leads a revolution, and others.

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 300 pages
$14.95



LORDS OF THE JUNGLE #4 (of 6) - Arriving in comic shops June 15!
(Writer) Corinna Bechko (Art) Roberto Castro
(Covers) Felipe Massafera, Roberto Castro


Tensions rise as Tarzan's options run out and he finds himself left with nothing but an impossible choice. Meanwhile, Sheena discovers that London is more like a jungle than she could have imagined. Together they face the fight of their lives, with the fate of both their homes hanging in the balance.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99





 

Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Captain America: Cival War movie review
Gang Busters: Old Time Radio Crime Fighters
Collectors Item: The Shadow's Ring
The Lost 1933 Lone Ranger Radio Episodes
Three things you did not know about the Lone Ranger

Now available for pre-order!

Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days
Philip José Farmer’s The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
THEY WERE ONLY THE BEGINNING!


In 2014, Meteor House published Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows by Josh Reynolds, a sequel to Philip José Farmer’s The Other Log of Phileas Fogg. 2016 brings us Reynolds’ Phileas Fogg and the Heart of Osra, furthering the exploits of Jules Verne’s most iconic hero.

Now, join Meteor House as Win Scott Eckert reveals a hitherto unknown chapter in Fogg’s celebrated round-the-world journey!

December 1872. Phileas Fogg, the lovely Aouda, and his faithful manservant Passepartout, are nearing the end of their frenzied eighty-day dash around the world…

One wouldn’t think, as Fogg and Co. speed across North America on the transcontinental railroad, that they would have time to befriend a mysterious masked lawman, match wits with a long-lived criminal mastermind and his tong, and battle anti-Chinese sentiment in Old West coal mining communities.

One would be wrong.

Win Scott Eckert pulls back the veil on the previously untold tale of Mr. Phileas Fogg’s fateful encounter with the legendary masked rider of the plains and his faithful companion—an episode suppressed (with good reason!) by M. Verne himself from the final publication of his classic Around the World in Eighty Days.

Meteor House is proud to present our first limited edition chapbook, a 9,800 word adventure signed by Win Scott Eckert. As with most of our books, the print run will be determined by the number of books preordered. Only a small number will be printed beyond the preorders, so to ensure you don’t miss out, be sure to order no later than July 5th.

And here is an added bonus: if you have preordered any of our forthcoming titles, this chapbook has free shipping (and will be sent to you, along with your other book(s), after FarmerCon in early August).

So, if you have already purchased any of the following
Crossovers Expanded, Volume 1
Crossovers Expanded, Volume 2
DAYWORLD A Hole in Wednesday
Blood of Ancient Opar
Phileas Fogg and the Heart of Osra


US $8
5.5×8.5, 28 pages (9,800 words)
Limited Edition of TBD Signed copies



Mike Chomko -  June/July 2016 newsletter is now available!

Mike has released a list of pulp-related books and periodicals available from Mike Chomko for June/July 2016

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

Send Mike an email at mikechomko@gmail.com to subscribe to his catalogue.

Mike has established a website where you can download his current and past newsletters.
The website is located at http://sites.google.com/site/mikechomkobooks/



Moonstone Books
The Green Ghost: Declassified
By Win Scott Eckert & Eric Fein
Coming in October!

The Green Ghost—magician sleuth George Chance—returns! Once a debunker of the supernatural, the Green Ghost terrorized criminals with his horrific skull-face and wraithlike abilities. But criminologist Chance came back from Europe changed—for his wartime experiences taught him: the occult and night creatures were real! Thrill to new prose and comic book tales featuring a multitude of murderers, monsters, and crossovers with I.V. Frost, the Domino Lady, and more!

Authors: Win Scott Eckert, Eric Fein
Artist: David Niehaus
Cover: Malcolm McClinton
Softcover, 7” x 10”, grayscale, $14.99






Moonstone Books
DOMINO LADY THREESOME #3
By Bobby Nash & Sergio Ibanez

Coming in October!

The Many Deaths of Domino Lady…
Where were you the day you died? When the third murdered woman wearing a Domino Lady costume is found in a back alley in Hollywood, the real Domino Lady investigates. She is not alone. Also looking into the killings is police woman Peggy Allen, who moonlights as the mysterious crime fighter, the Woman in Red, and a young super hero named Bulletgirl Can Pulp's #1 adventuress and her new friends get to the bottom of this mystery before innocent lives are lost?


Writer: Bobby Nash
Art: Sergio Ibanez
Cover: Glenn Fernandez
32 pages, grayscale, $3.50






Mystery*File - Now online!

A Mystery Movie Review by Jonathan Lewis: THE INVISIBLE MENACE (1938)
- New!
Book Noted: KAREN A. ROMANKO – Television’s Female Spies and Crimefighters - New!
Book Announcement: JONATHAN LEWIS – Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Tales
A Magazine Review by David Vineyard: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE – September 1931
A Movie Review by Walter Albert: KING OF THE JUNGLE (1933)
JONATHAN LEWIS: Stories I’m Reading — H. P. LOVECRAFT “The Terrible Old Man”


Paperback Perils - Now online!

Blood of Ancient Opar (Christopher Paul Carey, Meteor House 2016)

Doc Ardan: The City of Gold and Lepers (Guy D'Armen, 1928/Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, 2004)
The Warlord of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914)
The Gods of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1913)  

Planetary Stories #36 - Now online!

Planetary Stories #36

CAUTION by Charles Stoddard
The ship's instruments suggested the materials constructing the city's buildings were completely alien

XENOGRAFT - Written and illustrated by George Karagiannis
Bad news. There's an ice worm infestation in the cryotubes.

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN by William Quincy Belle
An unexpected correction of a mishap.

INTERFERON  by Martyn Osmundsen
A political look at universal expansion

R.O.A.C. by Martian Edwards
The Royal Office for Accelerated Claims was another example of convoluted red tape.

SALT by Gerd Maximovic
Who would have thought a planet of salt could present such hazards?

THE GREATEST DISCOVERY by Gerd Maximovic
It works! I used it myself!


Pulp Spirit #25

MARTIAN HONEY by Pierre Comtois
Martian honey was sweet, but finding it could be murder!

QUEEN OF THE RIVER by James J Griffin
She yearned for money, but Death got in her way!

LOST MERMAID by Kevin Breen
Being a captive wasn't going to stop her!

THE LOCKED ROOM MURDER CASE by Richard Logan   
Another exciting Gumshoe 2040

SHRINK RAP by Craig Faustus Buck
There was a gun in his drawer, and it was loaded.

WHERE IS HELEN? by Gerd Maximovic
BEING immortal was one thing; STAYING immortal was another matter.




PS Publishing
BLACK WINGS V

Now available for pre-order!

This is still listed as upcoming. Mike Chomko is accepting pre-orders for the book.

This fifth instalment of S. T. Joshi’s critically acclaimed Black Wings series features twenty stories that use H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos as the basis for imaginative ventures into the weird and terrifying. One of the central themes in Lovecraft’s work is the problematical nature of science in human affairs, and in this volume we find stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Lynne Jamneck, and Donald R. Burleson where scientists come face to face with the appalling implications of their discoveries.

Lovecraft was a master of the “sense of place,” inventing imaginary towns in New England with a rich and sinister history stretching back centuries. In this book, Jonathan Thomas, W. H. Pugmire, and Sunni K Brock bring Lovecraft’s towns of Arkham, Kingsport, and Innsmouth to life. Sam Gafford, Darrell Schweitzer, and Stephen Woodworth evoke terror in other corners of the American continent, while British writers David Hambling and John Reppion find Lovecraftian horror in little-known towns in England. The world-building that led Lovecraft to fashion an entire universe set in the realm of dreams is duplicated in tales by Cody Goodfellow, Mark Howard Jones, and Donald Tyson.

Madness is always an occupational hazard of the “searchers after horror” who populate Lovecraft’s tales. In this volume, stories by Robert H. Waugh, Nicole Cushing, and Nancy Kilpatrick searingly display the psychological aberrations of characters as they encounter the bizarre. Lovecraft himself has become an iconic character, and his gaunt, lantern-jawed figure stalks the tales by Jason C. Eckhardt and Mollie L. Burleson. This volume concludes, as did its predecessor, with a long poem by Wade German, one of the most dynamic figures in a remarkable renaissance of weird poetry inspired by the work of Lovecraft and his colleagues.

Black Wings V can take its place as a pioneering anthology that shows how the work of H. P. Lovecraft is inexhaustibly rich in the inspiration it can provide to contemporary writers of weird fiction.


AN ANTHOLOGY edited by S. T. Joshi
CATEGORY Lovecraft inspired Horror
PUBLICATION DATE May 2015
COVER ART Jason Van Hollander
PAGES 317
INTRODUCTION S. T. Joshi

EDITIONS
Unsigned Jacketed Hardcover — ISBN  978-1-848639-94-2  [£25]
300 Slipcased HC signed by the contributors  — ISBN 978-1-848639-95-9  [£50]




Thursday, July 21 through Sunday, July 24, 2016


Are you thinking about attending PulpFest 2016? You’re probably wondering what to expect from this year’s convention. PulpFest is known for its great programming and the line-up that we’re planning for our 2016 convention is shaping up to be one of our best.

We’ll be saluting a wide range of anniversaries at this summer’s pulp con: the tenth anniversary of Sanctum Books; the eightieth anniversary of THE WHISPERER and THE SKIPPER; the ninetieth anniversary of AMAZING STORIES, the first science-fiction pulp; the hundredth anniversary of the specialty pulp; and the 120th anniversary of THE ARGOSY, the original pulp magazine!



The Guest of Honor for PulpFest 2016 will be author, editor, musician, and science-fiction and pulp fan Ted White.

Born February 4, 1938, Theodore Edwin White is a Hugo Award-winning American writer, best known as a science-fiction author and editor and as a fan and music critic. In addition to books and stories written under his own name, he has also co-authored novels with Dave van Arnam as Ron Archer, and with Terry Carr as Norman Edwards.

Since the time he was a teenager, White has been a prolific contributor to science-fiction fanzines, and in 1968 he won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Despite his considerable professional credits, White maintains that his achievements in fandom mean more to him than anything else he has done. In 1953, he edited and published ZIP, the first of his many fanzines. In 1956–57, he co-edited STELLAR with Larry Stark; followed by VOID in 1960, joining founding editors Gregory and James Benford; plus MINAC, EGOBOO, and others. He was also a regular columnist for YANDRO and Richard E. Geis’ PSYCHOTIC/SF REVIEW and has been active in numerous fan events, including the organizing of the 1967 World Science Fiction Convention in New York City as co-chairman. He still remains active on several fandom- and fanzine-oriented electronic mailing lists.

In 1959, at the age of 21, White moved from Baltimore to New York City with his first wife, Sylvia Dees White. That year, he began writing music criticism for METRONOME and a column for Tom Wilson’s JAZZ GUIDE (later 33 GUIDE). As a music critic, he expanded into jazz writing and journalism for ROGUE, along with record liner notes, concert reviews and interviews. He was the only person to record an interview with Eric Dolphy, the American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist. From 1977 through 1979 as Dr. Progresso, he did the Friday afternoon DR. PROGRESSO radio show on WGTB-FM. Following the advent of the Internet, White became the music editor of the Collecting Channel website in 1999, and he continues to maintain his own website of music commentary under his Dr. Progresso pseudonym.


White’s first professional sale as a writer was a short vignette sold to PLAYBOY in 1959. Two stories released on the same day — “Phoenix,” written by Ted White and revised by Marion Zimmer Bradley for the February 1963 AMAZING STORIES and “I, Executioner,” co-authored by Terry Carr for the March 1963 IF (WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) — have been cited by our guest as his first-published stories. The author later expanded “Phoenix” into the novel PHOENIX PRIME, originally published in 1966 by Lancer Books. It was the first of the QANAR series — continuing with THE SORCERESS OF QAR (1966) and STAR WOLF (1971) — all published by Lancer. “I Executioner” became the opening chapter of his Ace book, ANDROID AVENGER.

Captain AmericaTed’s first novel — INVASION FROM 2500 — was written in collaboration with Terry Carr under the pseudonym Norman Edwards. It was published in 1964. Through 1978 he wrote two science-fiction series and eleven stand-alone novels, including one Captain America novel — THE GREAT GOLD STEAL. It was published by Bantam Books and featured a nod to its pulp forebears: one of the bad guys is named Andrew “Monk” Mayfair. Two of White’s novels were written in collaboration with Dave van Arnam, one with David Bischoff and one — using White’s Doc Phoenix character — with Marv Wolfman. Ted White was a 1966 Nebula-Award nominee for his short story, “The Peacock King,” written with Larry McCombs. He was also instrumental in kick-starting the professional careers of other writers, notably Lee Hoffman. Still writing at nearly seventy-eight years of age, White has had a number of short stories published in recent years. “The Uncertain Past” appeared in the March & April 2014 number of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION while”The Philistine” can be found in the October 2015 issue of ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT.

Our Guest of Honor’s editorial career began as an assistant and associate editor at THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION from 1963 to 1968. He also served as an associate editor at Lancer Books, working under Larry Shaw. From October 1968 until October 1978, Ted White edited AMAZING STORIES and FANTASTIC, upgrading the quality of both magazine’s fiction while showcasing a variety of talented illustrators. According to author, anthologist, and science-fiction and popular-culture historian, Mike Ashley, White ushered “AMAZING into a silver, if not a golden, age.” He also edited two 1973 anthologies, THE BEST FROM AMAZING STORIES and THE BEST FROM FANTASTIC. Both were published by Manor Books.

Ted White’s reputation as an editor impressed the publishers of HEAVY METAL who hired him in 1979 to introduce non-fiction into the magazine. White immediately hired four columnists — Jay Kinney, Lou Stathis, Steve Brown and Bhob Stewart — to cover, respectively, underground comics, music, science fiction, and movies. HEAVY METAL continued to feature mainly graphic stories during White’s tenure as the new editor wove the text into the graphic art, rather than segregating it into a separate section. In 1984-85, Ted White served as Editorial Director for STARDATE, a multi-media science-fiction magazine edited by David Bischoff.

Ted became a pulp collector as a teenager. He owns most of the science-fiction pulps from the 1940s and many from the twenties and thirties. Among his holdings are complete runs of SCIENCE WONDER STORIES and AIR WONDER STORIES, both issues of MIRACLE SCIENCE AND FANTASY STORIES, all the Futurian-edited magazines, the complete run of CAPTAIN FUTURE, and many other titles. His library of pulp and science-fiction digests is complete from 1951 through the nineties. He also owns many single-character pulps, including all but one issue of DOC SAVAGE MAGAZINE and a couple dozen issues of THE SHADOW. He also has many issues of THE AVENGER, CAPTAIN ZERO, THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE, THE WHISPERER, and other hero pulps in his collection.

White also plays keyboards and saxophone. He currently performs with the Washington, DC area improvisational group Conduit. Although we’d love to have him play, Ted will be speaking to PulpFest attendees during our evening programming about his career, fandom, pulps, science fiction, and AMAZING STORIES. His Guest of Honor speech will take place on Friday, July 22nd in the PulpFest programming room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus. We hope to see you at the convention.



To give you an idea about what you’ll encounter from July 21st through July 24th at the Hyatt Regency and the city’s spacious convention center in the Columbus, Ohio Arena district, below is the proposed scheduled for PulpFest 2016. We hope to see you at the convention.


Thursday, July 21st

Dealers’ Room
4:00 PM – 11:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Set-Up
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM — Early Registration
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Opens for Early-Bird Shopping

Programming
9:10 – 9:55 PM — Street & Smith’s Second Stringers — The Whisperer and The Skipper (Will Murray)
10:05 – 10:50 PM — Traveling through Time with H. G. Wells  (Garyn Roberts)
11:00 PM — Pulps in the Pub (join your friends in the hotel bar and talk pulp)

Friday, July 22nd

Dealers’ Room
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM — Early Registration and Dealers’ Room Set-Up
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All

Programming
1:00 – 4:15 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to be announced)
6:55 – 7:00 PM — Welcome to PulpFest 2016 (Convention Chairman Jack Cullers)
7:00 – 7:40 PM — FarmerCon XI — Collaborating with Philip José Farmer (panelists to be announced)
7:50 – 8:35 PM — Our Guest of Honor (to be announced on January 11th)
8:45 – 9:30 PM — The First Science-Fiction Pulp — An AMAZING Story (Joseph Coluccio, president of the Pittsburgh Area Fantasy and Science Fiction Club)
9:40 – 10:20 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — LOVE STORY MAGAZINE and its Romantic Sisters (Laurie Powers)
10:30 – 11:15 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE and the Pulp Western (Will Murray)

Saturday, July 23rd

Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All
10:00 AM – 10:00 PM — Gaming Track in the Clark Room, Second Floor

Programming
1:00 – 1:50 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to be announced)
2:00 – 2:50 PM — The AMAZING World of New Pulp (Ron Fortier new pulp panel)
3:00 – 3:50 PM — Ten Years in The Shadow’s Sanctum — Anthony Tollin’s Sanctum Books
5:00 – 6:50 PM — PulpFest 2016 Group Meal at a Dick’s Last Resort (Volunteer coordinator Sally Cullers)
7:00 – 7:25 PM — PulpFest 2016 Business Meeting (meet the convention organizers)
7:30 – 7:45 PM — 2016 Munsey Award Presentation (presented by J. Randolph Cox or Stephen T. Miller)
8:00 – 8:45 PM — 120 Years of THE ARGOSY — The World’s First Pulp Magazine  (Doug Ellis)
8:55 –  9:40 PM — The Artists of THE ARGOSY —  120 Years of Sensational Pulp Artists (David Saunders)
10:00 PM – ??— Saturday Night at the Auction (John Gunnison & Joseph Saine)

Sunday, July 24th

Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All (many dealers will be packing up; buying opportunities may be limited)

Please note that this schedule is subject to change.

For questions about our programming, please write to our programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
For questions about our dealers’ room, please write to our convention chairperson Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com.



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"A Guy Who Could Say "No"" by Byron Bishop from SHORT STORIES, March 25, 1946

Thinking! That's a Queer Way to Waste Time for a Guy That Can Really Use His Fists.  A boxing story.

"Manuscript of Murder" by Peter Warren from THRILLING DETECTIVE, April, 1950
Literary agent Carter learns that truth is stranger than fiction!


"Lafe Evens Up" by Victor Rousseau from ALL-STORY WEEKLY, May 11, 1915
The lumber business in Quebec. A manager must regain face or leave the lumber biz forever. A minor story but Rousseau!



PULPlications!

PULPlications! Is proud to present its first in a series of New Pulp Heroes for a New Millennium!
Introducing DARE DEVLIN, the Supreme Adventurer !


A fearless green-eyed red-haired handsome Devil who fights on the side of the Angels! Scion of fourteen generations of heroic American pioneers dedicated to physical, intellectual and moral self-development since 1776, he's achieved "Peak Human" Condition!

Devlin and his Amazing Associates, all of whom faced certain Death and lived, now consider themselves to be living on "borrowed time" and honor-bound to use every remaining moment seeking justice for all! Where others may be daunted, they rise to any Challenge, because they all should've died long ago!

The Supreme Adventurer and his Amazing Associates battle the Brain-Wrecker, the Destroyer of Minds! Following a trail of madness and death, they'll travel under the polar ice to the shores of Japan before coming to grips not only with the Brain-Wrecker but also an unexpected and even more powerful foe!

Available now in paperback or a deluxe hard cover version with an added bonus story, “Mechanized Death!”

Paperback, 6x9, 322 pages, $14.99
Hardcover, 6x9, 388 pages, $29.99

Hardcover (Signed & Numbered), 6x9, 388 pages, $35.00 (Ships June 1st)

For collectors , pre-orders for a special crimson cloth hard cover edition signed by the author, Dafydd Neal Dyar as well as the introduction writer, the Eisner Award nominee Martin Powell and Rondo Award winner, cover artists Mark Maddox are now open at Fantom Press.



Pulp Adventurecon
November 5, 2016!




Pulp Crazy - Now online!

The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Recent Doc Savage Film Developments
Delenda Est by Robert E. Howard 


Pulp Den - Now online!

Sensing Serafina - New!
Sea Station Umbra - New!
Glare of The Gorgon
Deadly Ties
The Crossroads
The Hatching
Fever City  
         Pulp Den  

Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

Review of Adventure - January 1, 1928 - New!
Adventure - Review of May 15, 1933 issue
Tom Curry - Author, Engineer, Sportsman  
Some beautiful covers from the Elks magazine by Alex Raymond
Some beautiful covers from the Elks magazine by Edgar F. Wittmack

PULP HORROR #3 and #4
Now available for pre-order!

On July 1st, Pulp Horror #3 and #4 will be off to the printers!

The print run will be matched to orders, so place your order at the on-line shop by then if you want to be guaranteed of receiving a copy. 

The prices are £8 per issue UK, £10 per issue Europe/North America, £11 for Aust/Japan.








The Paperback Fanatic  On-line Shop for pre-orders







The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.


That's Pulp! by John Olsen

‘The Invisible Monster’: a serial in 12 chapters - New!
Lost Shadow OTR: ‘Suicide Resort’
The Spider #110: ‘Zara: Master of Murder’
Perry Mason: novels #11 and #12
‘Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion’: a serial in 12 chapters


Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Bits of pulp: Cthulhu, cosplay, sf
Bits of pulp: ‘Shadow Comics,’ pulp cons
Meet the original ‘X-Men,’ part 2

RETURN OF THE OLD ONES - Coming this Fall!

Dark Regions Press will be releasing Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror edited by Brian M. Sammons with epic wraparound cover artwork by Vincent Chong this year!

Featuring stories of Lovecraftian and cosmic horror based in pre, during and post-apocalyptic earth, Return of the Old Ones contains new stories by Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Curran, Jeffrey Thomas, Cody Goodfellow, Christine Morgan, William Meikle, Tim Waggoner, Stephen Mark Rainey and many more.

Return of the Old Ones: Apocalyptic Lovecraftian Horror will be launched for preorder in a multi-book launch campaign in the fall of this year from Dark Regions Press.
Learn more by visiting their website or Facebook page at the links below.






The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Archive
THE MYSTERY TROOPER
Starring Robert Frazer and Blanche Mehaffey
Syndicate Pictures 1931 / 10 Chapters

Shipping in June!

Jack Logan travels to the Northwest to try to locate a mine that belonged to his murdered uncle and is there besieged by crooks wanting to steal the map to the mine from him. He helps rescue pretty Helen Holt and her brother Billy from the crooks and returns them to their foster father Red Eagle, with the assistance of the phantom "Mystery Trooper," who lives in Ghost City and finds respite in playing melancholy melodies on a dusty pump organ. When Logan and Helen compare notes, they realize the Mystery Trooper, who has thrown a bag of gold nuggets through a window to Helen and Billy, must know more bout the mine than he is saying, and so may White Cloud, a beguiling wild white horse. It is said that he who discovers White Cloud's secret home shall also discover great riches. Is this true?

A new digital transfer of the serial created at the USC Cinema Archive and restored by Eric Stedman.






The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

The Golden Quest
- New!
Malmordo - New!
The Circle of Death
The Black Dragon


Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction (Early Classics of Science Fiction) - Now available!
by Lisa Yaszek  (Editor), Patrick B. Sharp  (Editor)


For nearly half a century, feminist scholars, writers, and fans have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about “boys and their toys,” pointing to authors such as Mary Shelley, Clare Winger Harris, and Judith Merril as proof that women have always been part of the genre. Continuing this tradition, Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction offers readers a comprehensive selection of works by genre luminaries, including author C. L. Moore, artist Margaret Brundage, and others who were well known in their day, including poet Julia Boynton Green, science journalist L. Taylor Hansen, and editor Mary Gnaedinger. Providing insightful commentary and context, this anthology documents how women in the early twentieth century contributed to the pulp-magazine community and showcases the content they produced, including short stories, editorial work, illustrations, poetry, and science journalism. Yaszek and Sharp’s critical annotation and author biographies link women’s work in the early science fiction community to larger patterns of feminine literary and cultural production in turn-of-the-twentieth-century America. In a concluding essay, the award-winning author Kathleen Ann Goonan considers such work in relation to the history of women in science and engineering and to the contemporary science fiction community itself.

Series: Early Classics of Science Fiction
Pages: 432
Publisher: Wesleyan
Hardcover: $90.00
Softcover: $29.95



TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE: SEASON ONE - Coming June 14!

“Just in time for Father’s Day and the theatrical release, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release the long awaited animated series that aired when Saturday Morning Cartoons reigned supreme. Available on DVD on June 14, 2016, Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle: Complete Season One was created by the Filmation Studio for CBS and follows the animated adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ape man from the 1970’s. The two-disc collectors set includes all 16 episodes from the series’ first season, and is priced to own at $19.98 SRP.

As the opening narration explains: “The jungle: Here I was born; and here my parents died when I was but an infant. I would have soon perished, too, had I not been found by a kindly she-ape named Kala, who adopted me as her own and taught me the ways of the wild. I learned quickly, and grew stronger each day, and now I share the friendship and trust of all jungle animals. The jungle is filled with beauty, and danger; and lost cities filled with good, and evil. This is my domain, and I protect those who come here; for I am Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle!”

“Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle was animated the old fashion way, with many hours of hand drawn stills,” said Mary Ellen Thomas, Vice President Family & Animation Marketing and Partner Brands. “They don’t make animation like this anymore, and we are really proud to be releasing this timeless classic just in time for the July release of Tarzan in theaters.”


16 22-MINUTE EPISODES:
Tarzan and the City of Gold
Tarzan and the Vikings
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Tarzan and the Forbidden City
Tarzan and the Graveyard of the Elephants
Tarzan's Return to the City of Gold
Tarzan and the Strange Visitors
Tarzan and the Land of the Giants
Tarzan and the Knights of Nimmr
Tarzan's Rival
Tarzan and the City of Sorcery
Tarzan at the Earth's Core
Tarzan and the Ice Creature
Tarzan and the Olympiads
Tarzan's Trial
Tarzan, the Hated

Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle: Complete Season One
Street Date: June 14, 2016
Total Running Time: Approx 352 minutes
Price: $19.98 SRP


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.

Eugene C. Dolson (1860-1938)
Roberto Quaglia (b. 1962)
Leslyn MacDonald (1904-1981)
Charles Henry Mackintosh (1885-?)
Lady Eleanor Smith (1902-1945)
Dorothea Gibbons (1902-1989)


THE TWILIGHT ZONE / THE SHADOW #3 (OF 4) - Arriving in comic shops June 15!
(Writer) David Avallone (Art) Dave Acosta (Cover) Francesco Francavilla

What if you discovered your whole life was an elaborate, unbelievable fiction? And what if you found yourself tasked with creating it all over again, from the beginning? In a wondrous land bounded only by imagination, a typewriter can kill just as surely as a gun. The Shadow finds himself with an unwritten future, facing a blank page straight from a mysterious stationary store that we call… the Twilight Zone.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99






WEIRDBOOK #32
Now available!

Issue # 32 of the legendary Weirdbook is now available from Amazon and Wildside Press.

Weirdbook is the premier weird fiction magazine on the market today.

Issue #31, our first relaunch issue, was a rousing success and was
applauded by both the critic and our readers.

Weirdbook is published by John Betancourt's "Wildside Press" and
edited by former "Weird Tales" on-line editor Douglas Draa.

Weirdbook is currently appearing twice yearly with each issue topping
170 pages packed full of the best in weird fiction and poetry.


CONTENTS

Fiction

Childhood's Dread, by Taye Carrol
The Other Neighbors, by Daniel Davis
Rare Air, by Mark Slade
The Children, by J.E. Álamo
The Radiant Boy, by Kevin Wetmore
The Whisperer in the Woods, by Peter Schranz
Sweet Oblivion, by Andrew Darlington
An Unsolicited Lucidity, by Lee Clark Zumpe
Black Carnival, by Bobby Cranestone
The Howard Family Tradition, by P. R. O'Leary
Hell in a Boxcar, by Scott A. Cupp
Jorōgumo, by Kelda Crich
Clay Baby, by Jack Lee Taylor
The Corpse and the Rat: A Story of Friendship, by Joshua L. Hood
Getting Thin, by DJ Tyrer
Maybe Next Door, by Richard LaPore
Containment Protocol, by Leeman Kessler
Under a Rock, by Lori R. Lopez
The Children Must Be Hungry, by L.F. Falconer
The Road to Hell, by Kevin L. O'Brien
Maggot Coffee, by Roy C. Booth and Axel Kohagen
Baby Mine, by Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen
In Blackwalk Wood, by Adrian Cole
My Longing to See Tamar, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Gust of Wind Made by Swinging a Blade, by Molly N. Moss

Poetry
Necromancer's Lair, by Chad Hensley
The Helm, by Chad Hensley
Ex Arca Sepulcrali, by Wade German
The Laughter of Ghouls, by K.A. Opperman
Ode to Ashtoreth, by K.A. Opperman
The Necro-Conjuring Sorceress, by Ashley Dioses
What Dark Gods Are Friends to Me? by Chad Hensley
Scarlet Succubus Shrine, by Frederick J. Mayer
Penelope, Sleepless, by Darrell Schweitzer


Paperback: 174 pages
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
List Price: $12.00

Weirdbook #32 - Wildside Press    Weirdbook #32 - Amazon.com  

  Weirdbook Magazine Blogspot    Facebook: Weirdbook



WEIRD DETECTIVE #1 (of 5) - Arriving in comic shops June 15!
Fred Van Lente (Writer), Guiu Vilanova (Art/Cover), and Mauricio Wallace (Color)

The streets of New York have been plagued by a pattern of crimes too weird and bizarre for the average detective. Lurking in the evidence are shadows of loathsome horrors from beyond space and time, seeking to usher in the unimaginable evil of the Old Ones. And the only man capable of fighting against the unspeakable terrors isn’t a man at all. Detective Sebastian Greene is one of them—it takes a monster to catch a monster.


Full Color, 48 pages, $3.99




THE WEIRD TALES OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN - Coming June 20!
by Robert E. Howard


Before he conquered books, comics, and movies, Robert E. Howard's immortal character Conan the Cimmerian was born in the pages of the pulp magazine Weird Tales.
Reprinted as they originally appeared in that legendary publication from 1934 to 1936, this ferocious anthology gathers many of the barbarian's most famous adventures:
"Red Nails," "The Hour of the Dragon," "Queen of the Black Coast," and four others.


Paperback: 272 pages
$12.95



William Patrick Maynard - Now online!

“Andaman — Second!” was the seventh installment of Sax Rohmer’s serial, Fu-Manchu first published in The Story-Teller in April 1913. The story would later comprise Chapters 18-20 of the novel, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (originally re-titled The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu for U.S. publication). Rohmer returned the series to its Holmesian roots by mining Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans” for inspiration. Conan Doyle’s case concerns stolen submarine plans taken from Cadogan West while Rohmer’s story involves stolen aero-torpedo plans taken from Norris West. “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans” was published in 1912, just a few months before Rohmer wrote “Andaman — Second!” and shows that Sherlock Holmes was still very much a model for the Fu-Manchu series at this early stage.

Read the rest at the link below.









03 June 2016

2016 Pulp Shows

The Pulp Coming Attractions Pulp Shows page has been updated with available information on the presently known pulp & paperback shows scheduled for 2016!
Click on the PULP SHOWS link below or the icon at the top of the page and start making your reservations!


2016 and 2017 Film Releases
All dates are subject to change.

June 24, 2016
INDEPENDANCE DAY: RESURGEANCE
July 1, 2016
July 15, 2016
July 22, 2016
July 29, 2016
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
GHOSTBUSTERS
STAR TREK BEYOND
THE BOURNE BETRAYAL
August 5, 2016
SUICIDE SQUAD
September 2, 2016
September 30, 2016
PATIENT ZERO
DEEPWATER HORIZON
October 7, 2016
October 21, 2016

GAMBIT
JACK REACHER 2

November 4, 2016
November 18, 2016
DOCTOR STRANGE
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
December 16, 2016
December 21, 2016
December 25, 2016
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY
PASSENGERS
JUMANJI
To be announced
HOWARD LOVECRAFT AND THE FROZEN KINGDOM
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
ROBINSON CRUSOE
KING COBRA
MIDNIGHT SUN
THE VEIL


January 13, 2017
THE DARK TOWER
February 10, 2017
February 17, 2017
THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE
MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE

March 3, 2017
March 10, 2017
March 17, 2017
March 24, 2017
March 31, 2017
THE WOLVERINE 2
KONG: SKULL ISLAND
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
DARK UNIVERSE: THE MUMMY
GHOST IN THE SHELL
May 5, 2017
May 19, 2017
May 26, 2017

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2
TERMINATOR: GENISYS 2
STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII

June 9, 2017
June 23, 2017
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ASCENDANT
WONDER WOMAN
July 7, 2017
July 14, 2017
July 21, 2017
July 28, 2017
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
SPIDERMAN: HOMECOMING
September 29, 2017
THE EQUALIZER 2
October 6, 2017
ALIEN: CONVERGENT
November 3, 2017
November 10, 2017
November 17, 2017

THOR: RAGNAROK
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
JUSTICE LEAGUE: PART 1

December TBA, 2017
December 22, 2017
AVATAR 2
THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN


Adventures in Bronze
GLARE OF THE GORGON
Hardcover, softcover and eBook are now available!
 

Why did a desperate man shave his head before visiting Doc Savage headquarters, only to be struck down, his pulsing brain turned to inert stone? What sinister secret did his strange slaying silence? And how was a lizard-green shadow resembling Medusa branded on Doc’s office wall?

These are only some of the questions confronting the Man of Bronze as he pursues a grisly trail of petrified corpses to post-Prohibition Chicago, whose criminal underworld is being terrorized by a serpent-haired demon engaged in a seemingly senseless slaughter spree whose ultimate target will shake Doc Savage’s men to their core.

Suspects are many, clues baffling. Death and danger lurks everywhere they turn—symbolized by the silhouette of a faceless Gorgon.

From the concrete canyons of Manhattan to the coal fields of Illinois, Doc Savage tracks a phantom fiend the likes of which he has never before hunted. Or is he the one being hunted?

Hardcover: $39.95  /  Softcover: $24.95  /  eBook:  $4.99


Adventures in Bronze


ADVENTURES IN THE STRAND: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE & THE STRAND MAGAZINE - Now available!
by Mike Ashley

Conan Doyle’s name is synonymous with The Strand magazine, chiefly because of the Sherlock Holmes stories but also due to many of his other contributions, such as the Professor Challenger stories, his articles on spiritualism and fairies, and his coverage of the major battles of World War I. From 1891 until his death in 1930, almost 300 contributions by Doyle were published in The Strand, including 120 stories, 9 serialized novels, and dozens of other items including poetry and interviews. It is impossible fully to appreciate Conan Doyle’s artistic development without considering the context of The Strand, as it published almost all of his most memorable and important stories, but it also published essays, commentary and other works that have become unjustly forgotten. Doyle’s contributions highlight, for example, his abilities as a sportsman, an interest which frequently found its way into his fiction. This study charts his outlook and views, examines his shifting reputation during his lifetime, and assesses how Doyle’s contributions to The Strand fit into his overall output as a writer. Ashley uncovers hidden aspects of Doyle’s writings that reveal him to be a more broadly talented writer than he is often given credit for.

Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 9 inches
List Price: $34.95




Age of Aces Latest Dispatches
Now available on line!


Age of Aces
Now available!

The Jailbird Flight
By Donald E. Keyhoe


Below the Rio Grande he had once been known as “The Killer.” Now Captain Bruce Kirby flew through hell skies, leader of the strangest squadron that ever dared face death from flaming Spandaus. Outcasts—all of them—branded with the convict’s arrow! No cowards came to the Jailbird drome—only those dishonored war eagles who chose a chance to die in action rather than rot behind prison bars. Hot tempers, liquor, and the madness of war had brought them low—but beneath it all they still were men! A former U.S. Marine pilot, author Donald E. Keyhoe was a prolific contributor to the pulp magazines, but he is perhaps best remembered for his UFO research in the Fifties and Sixties. In August of 1931, Keyhoe started three long-lived series in three different aviation magazines: Captain Philip Strange in Flying Aces; The Devil Dog Squadron in Sky Birds; and The Jailbird Flight in Battle Aces. This volume features the first seven Jailbird adventures published by Popular Publications in 1931 and ‘32: The Jailbird Flight, The Drome of Vanishing Men, The Masked Skull Squadron, The Jailbird Ace, Dead Man’s Drome, Claws of the Jailbird, and The Skeleton Ace.

$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 318 pages|

Available from:  AmazonMike Chomko Books, and Adventure House


Age of Aces
Now available!

Captain Philip Strange: Strange Staffels
By Donald E. Keyhoe


America’s enemies have assembled squadrons of flying furies, exploding skeletons, and invisible airplanes to turn the tide of the First World War. But when things get weird, we get Strange. Captain Philip Strange, that is—ace pilot and so-called “Brain-Devil” of G-2 Intelligence. His assignment? Journey from the back-alleys of Paris to the skies over Germany, taking down flying fortresses, cursed aerodromes, strafing skulls, and other wild weapons of mass destruction! This fourth volume of Philip Strange missions includes seven thrilling tales: Satan's Staffel, The Vanishing Staffel, Hoodoo Drome, The Skull Staffel, The Skeleton Barrage, Staffel of the Starved, and The Staffel Invisible.

$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 394 pages

Available from:  AmazonMike Chomko Books, and Adventure House


Altus Press: Enjoy Pulps! - New pulp blog by David Lee Smith is now online!

Unknown Pulp: Ladies of the Underworld - New!
The Phantom Detective – Oct. 1945: “Death to a Diplomat”
Pulps Pricings Sales Census: Ka-Zar Pulps, 1936-1937
“The Pot of Gold” by Eudora Ramsay Richardson (a Pre-Spider/Richard Wentworth Story)
Pulps Pricings Sales Census

Altus Press Pulp Blog by Morgan Wallace - Now online!

“The Guthrie Method” by Raymond Z. Gallun / “Desperate Remedy” by Mack Reynolds - New!
“As You Were” by Henry Kuttner in Australia’s “American Science Fiction Magazine” series
The Irrationals by Milton Lesser (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
American Science Fiction Magazine “Common Time” by James Blish
The Thing from Another World by John W. Campbell, Jr.  


Altus Press
Now available!

 
Magician George Chance, AKA the crime-fighter known as The Ghost,
who has done more in the service of the Law than any other man of his generation.

Master of the science of criminology, remorseless crime-tracker and criminal catcher!
When The Ghost walks, the underworld stirs into deadly life to combat him.

This omnibus contains the first two adventures of The Ghost, uncut, and with the original illustrations.

264 pages
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $18.95 softcover




Altus Press
Now available!

THE CRIMSON MASK OMNIBUS VOLUME 2
by Norman A. Daniels
 
Part of the early 1940s pulp hero revival, pharmacist Bob Clarke takes on the underworld as The Crimson Mask!
Volume 2 contains the next five adventures:
“The Crimson Mask and the Vanishing Men”
“The Crimson Mask's Ghost Trail”
“The Diamond Death Trail”
“The Money Trail”
“Murders of the Black Rose”

All stories are uncut and contain all of the original illustrations.

280 pages
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $18.95 softcover

Altus Press


Altus Press
Now available!

THE COMPLETE CASEBOOK OF SGT. BRINKHAUS
by Frederick Nebel
Introduction by Will Murray


 
Following Donahue and Cardigan, Frederick Nebel’s longest-running detective series featured the hard-boiled exploits of Sgt. Otto Herman “Brinky” Brinkhaus and Inspector Peter Larsen of the Portsend Detective Bureau as chronicled in the pages of Detective Action Stories, Dime Detective Magazine, and Detective Fiction Weekly.

389 pages

$29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $27.95 softcover



Altus Press
The Brazen Peacock
by H. Bedford-Jones

Now available!

H. Bedford-Jones pens this thrilling tale of adventure in the Middle East.

Fraser, his whereabouts unknown to his father following the Great War,
finds himself in the middle of a battle over a lost idol and on the road to Baghdad.
And just what does Fraser have to do with the treasured Brazen Peacock?

It’s another volume in the H. Bedford-Jones Library.

171 pages
$14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $13.95 softcover


Altus Press
Will o’ the Wisp
by H. Bedford-Jones

Now available!

To horse, ye English captains! In the king’s name, ride! For Brian Desmond, spy for France, takes the Dover road tonight!
A superb novel of spies and swords and one of H. Bedford-Jones’ best historicals, as it originally appeared in Argosy Magazine.

241 pages
$14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $13.95 softcover



Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming to comic shops June 8!
Now available at online retailers!


THE SPIDER Volume 9: "The Mad Horde" & Slaves of the Laughing Death"
The pulp era's most bloodthirsty avenger continues his deadly war against crime in two violent pulp novels by Norvell Page. First, "The Mad Horde" of rabid creatures is unleashed upon mill towns to undermine America's vital steel industry. Then, in "Slaves of the Laughing Death," the fiend of 1000 faces known only as Munro returns for a deadly rematch with the Spider, armed with a deadly weapon that causes victims to laugh until they die!  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
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)



Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Jeff Deischer: "The Night of the Owl" and Guest Host Ric Croxton
Author Jeff Deischer talks about his latest novel in the Argetverse Series.  The Superhero Team, The 3 Musketeers, confronts the mystery of The Owl.  Is it a man or a monster?  The Owl roams he night striking down its victims.  But why?  For what purpose?  More superhero action from one of the best pulp writers in our time.
 
Jeff and my old Ric Croxton reminisce the way we did when the Book Cave was in full swing.  Don't miss this One!


Past episodes:
Gordon Dymowski on Black Bat Mystery, Vol. 3 and much more!
Sinbad: The New Voyages - The Legacy of Ray Harryhausen

Andrew Salmon and the New Sherlock Holmes Fightcard Novel
The League of the Seventh Son; Steve Payne's new Secret Agent X Novel
Michael Panush and his novel "The Dagger Men"
Tom and Ginger Johnson: The Pulp Power Couple
Rick Lai, Cthulhu, and Dangerous Things!

Black Coat Press
New titles now available!

POSTHUMOUS CORRESPONDENCE
by Restif de la Bretonne
adapted by Brian Stableford

Contents:
Les Posthumes (1802)
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford.

Restif gave free rein to his imagination in Posthumous Correspondence (first written in 1787-89; augmented in 1796, and finally published in 1802), presented as a sequence of letters between Monsieur de Fontlhète and his beloved wife Hortense.

In this first volume, Fontlhète makes contact with Yfflasie and Clarendon, two discorporated souls and learns of their adventures in the afterlife; later, he acquires artificial wings, uses his new-found power to oppose evil and fight crime, taking on tyrants and warmongers, then gains the ability of exchanging identities by taking over other people's bodies with his own soul.

In the second volume, we meet Duke Multipliandre, whose adventures include not only the acquisition of several superpowers, but a vast series of erotic exploits, some involving the ability of exchanging identities by taking over other people's bodies. After visiting many exotic lands, Multipliandre boldly crosses the boundaries of the known world, in order to explore the hypothetical world of Restif's cosmogonic and evolutionary theories traveling to the Moon and Mars.

In the third and final volume, Duke Multipliandre visits the other known planets of the solar system and numerous other worlds then unknown to science, including trans-Uranian planets, a comet and three planets within the orbit of Mercury, and interacts with their peculiar inhabitants. After that, he sets off to visit several other solar systems, including those of Sirius and Vega, and several nebulae, before concluding his journey in the "astral center," into which the entire universe will one day be dissolved, before being regenerated as an entirely new universe. Multipliandre then returns to Earth, where, immortal by virtue of his super-powers, he settles down to witness the entire future of the Earth, initially coping with a new form of life born from a close encounter between the planet and a comet, which produces, among other plant and animal species, a race of winged humans, whom Multipliandre calls "angels."

Posthumous Correspondence was intended to be the most ambitious, fantastic and all-encompassing of all the exotic literary endeavors that Restif had originally planned to write, the ultimate version of his speculative cosmogony.



VOLUME 1: US $29.95 /GBP £20.99
5x8 
trade paperback, 388 pages

VOLUME 2: US $29.95 /GBP
£20.99
5x8 
trade paperback, 388 pages

VOLUME 3: US $29.95 /GBP
£20.99
5x8 
trade paperback, 388 pages

ALL THREE VOLUMES: US $67.95 (25% DISCOUNT)

 



Black Dog Books
New titles now available!


Sky Blazers
By Frederick Nebel

The Scourge of the South Sea Skies
When a flying buddy goes missing, Jack Pelham is thrust into danger as the search expands from looking for his friend to seeking a lost treasure. Mystery rides high in this thrilling tale of the South Seas.
 
Wind Patrol
Black wings poise the finger of doom over the Indo-China coast. Murder and pillage paralyze the great fleet of Brackett's Airway as Bill Shade flies a shadowy sky-path to a temple of terror.
 
Brood of the Wind
Murder paints a crimson swath across the South Pacific sky from Noumea to Port Moresby. Pearls! . . . Jim Cole drapes the challenge around his seaplane's struts, and swoops into the red.
 
Sky Blazers
Over the frozen skies of Alaska, Jess Marlow plays a hand in the embittered battle for territorial freight rights between old Michael Harrigan and Kurt Dikeman. When the rumor of gold is spread, the battle escalates, with death in its frosty wake!
 
Fly-By-Night
Through icy air, Miller takes off with his motley passengers-only to find himself battling sky pirates seeking a $100,000 payday in bank gold!
 
With an introduction by Tom Roberts.


Trade paperback / 228 pages / Price: $19.95 US

The Juggernaut of Terror
By Carl McK. Saunders


Central City runs red from gangland war. Corruption and political graft undermine authority to the highest levels. In steps Captain John Murdock, Chief of Detectives, whose only interest is to do his job. Unpopular with both the media and with his superiors, nevertheless Murdock's methods gets results,—whether battling blackmailers, bootleggers, drug runners or organized crime!

Collected are the initial twenty stories in this long-running, reader favorite series, including:

Hard
The Murder Game
Pure Bluff
Tickets to Hell
Red Harvest
Frame-Up
The Pay-Off
The Square Seven
Wanted-One Corpse
Murder Ahead
Guests From the East
Furnace of Death
Trigger Traffic
The Key to Hell
The Wax Witness
The Murder Mill
The Dead Alibi
The Black Hood
The Juggernaut of Terror
Red Tape
 
With an introduction by Garyn G. Roberts, lecturer and award-winning popular culture historian.
Cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer.


Trade paperback / 320 pages / Price: $19.95 US





Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 HANDSOME HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
Now available for immediate shipping!

This companion volume to DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS continues Ed Hulse's groundbreaking history of American cliffhanger serials of the silent-movie era. It covers some 190 "chapter plays" released by production and distribution entities such as Universal, Vitagraph, Mutual, Arrow, Rayart, and Mascot, along with member companies of the Edison Trust and various fly-by-night independent operators.Among the legendary serial stars whose output is documented and analyzed are Francis Ford and Grace Cunard, Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber, Helen Holmes, Eddie Polo, Marie Walcamp, William Desmond, William Duncan, Eileen Sedgwick, Joe Bonomo, Elmo Lincoln, Ann Little, Jack Daugherty, Juanita Hansen, and Louise Lorraine. Serials that starred favorites from the sports and theatrical worlds — Harry Houdini, Billie Burke, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, Benny Leonard, and Maurice "Lefty" Flynn, to name a few — are also covered.

At a length of nearly 160,000 words, illustrated with hundreds of rare stills, posters, lobby cards, magazine ads and even frame blowups from surviving film elements, HANDSOME HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
is the last word on this fascinating segment of American movie history. The product of a quarter century's research, it equals if not surpasses the award-nominated DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS.

Single copy price is $29.95, but for a limited time only HANDSOME HEROES AND DISTRESSED DAMSELS can be purchased together for $49.95.
Visit muraniapress.com and use our convenient Checkout feature to order either or both.


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 BLOOD 'N' THUNDER SAMPLER
Now available!

Since 2002 Blood 'n' Thunder has celebrated adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Vintage pulp magazines, motion pictures, radio dramas, and newspaper comic strips are covered in its pages with extensively researched articles by the most prominent historians specializing in the study of these media.

The Blood 'n' Thunder Sampler offers previously unreprinted articles as they originally appeared in the magazine. Essentially, it's a book-length BnT that gives readers a better idea of what the typical issue looks like.

Included are surveys of the classic pulps Adventure, Dime Detective, and The Popular Magazine; essays on the first films featuring popular pulp characters Zorro and Hopalong Cassidy; articles chronicling the Old-Time Radio exploits of The Green Hornet; an overview of the mystery/espionage thrillers featuring Clubfoot the Avenger; a personal reflection on the return of Fu Manchu; a profile of distinguished adventure-story writer Gordon Young; legendary Black Mask editor Joseph "Cap" Shaw on writing for the pulps; and much more. In short, it's the perfect introduction to Blood 'n' Thunder.

Readers of the Sampler would have to purchase six issues of the journal at $12.50 each to get the material included in this book for $24.95.

It's the perfect introduction to the wonderful world of vintage pop culture chronicled in Blood 'n' Thunder. If you've heard of BnT but never seen a copy, this is the book for you!

PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.



THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscriptions for 2016 are now available!


Issue 76 of the Bronze Gazette is going to press!
This week is your last chance to subscribe and reserve copies of issue 76 & 77.
It's just $20 (USA), $30 (Canada) and $35 (International) to get a two-issue subscription.

Earlier this summer, Howard Wright announced that issue 75 would be the final number of his Doc Savage-oriented fanzine, The Bronze Gazette.
 
Howard began the zine in 1990 as The Doc Savage Gazette. (The name was quickly changed after four issues because of trademark problems.)
It’s clearly been a labor of love for Howard, who has regularly put out three issues a year for 25 years now.
But Howard decided it was time to move on.
 
However, The Bronze Gazette will continue!
PULPlications — run by Terry Allen of Fantom Press and Keith Wilson of Doc Savage Fantasy Covers — will be the publisher, while Chuck Welch of Flearun will be the editor.
The Bronze Gazette’s 76th issue will debut in Spring 2016.
Terry says the zine will keep its digest size, and will run about 48 pages.
There will be a slate of regular contributors, but article submissions will be welcomed.


Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 76, Spring 2016, and No. 77, Fall 2016.

$20.00 U.S.A
$30.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$35.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)

Click HERE to subscribe!
 



Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Short Reviews – Ordeal in Space by Ralph Sloan - New!
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 8 - New!
Short Reviews – The Giants Return by Robert Abernathy
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 7
Short Reviews – The Enchantress of Venus by Leigh Brackett
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 6

Centipede Press
MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION: FRITZ LEIBER
Now available!


Poet, actor, playwright, chess expert, master of fantastic fiction. Fritz Leiber was a true Renaissance Man. His writing crossed all boundaries, from horror to sword and sorcery. This book goes deep into Leiber’s underrated science fiction oeuvre. It’s a comprehensive, page-turning cache that captures Leiber’s thoroughly original style — altogether mystical, beautiful, and sometimes disturbing.

“The Foxholes of Mars” is a literary assault: a frightening, nitro-fueled tale of war on Mars, with one soldier questioning the futility and purpose of the battle against bug-eyed aliens — a distant mirror-image of our own times. “Space-Time for Springers” is told through the glaring eyes of Gummitch, a cat who happens to possess a genius IQ and a voracious appetite for scientific knowledge. “Night Passage” takes us on a dark journey into a Las Vegas where Earthlings and extra-terrestrials mingle and gamble — and where one man takes a moonlit ride with a mystery woman from Mercury, tailed by some very scary pursuers. “The Mutant’s Brother” is a malevolent mix of horror and SF, a tale of identical twins who each carry a frightful chromosome. One of them is also a monstrous serial killer. The literally chilling “A Pail of Air” takes place in an underground nest, where a family fights to survive in a sunless, moonless, post-apocalyptic world where even helium and carbon dioxide become crawling, shapeless threats.

Fritz Leiber was a storyteller and prophet for the ages. His work will never be dated or irrelevant. Treat this book like a crystal ball. These pages chronicle the world to come. You’ve been warned.


Over 700 pages of Fritz Leiber’s best science fiction.
Afterword by John Pelan.
Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.
Signed by John Pelan and cover artists Jim & Ruth Keegan.
Fully cloth bound, gorgeous dustjacket, ribbon marker, head and tail bands.

Cloth in dustjacket $45

Centipede Press
MASTERS OF THE WEIRD TALE: FRITZ LEIBER
Now available!

An astounding two-volume collection of Fritz Leiber’s best weird and horror fiction, across 900 pages, with over 20 full page illustrations, many in full color, with a stunning wraparound dustjacket by Tom Kidd. Also included is a new introduction by editor John Pelan, with photographs of the author and images of old editions of his books.

The two volumes are enclosed in a handsome slipcase ribbon marker, cloth slipcase, and other extras. The complete contents are shown below.
The edition is limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, and the book is signed by Tom Kidd, Rodger Gerberding, John Pelan, Travis Lewis, and Allen Koszowski, and has a special facsimile signature by Fritz Leiber.


EDITION INFORMATION
Limited to 250 copies, each signed by John Pelan, Tom Kidd, Allen Koszowski, Travis Lewis, and Rodger Gerberding.
New introduction by John Pelan.
Two handsome volumes in a single slipcase.
Extensive bibliography.
Many photographs of Fritz Leiber, both in black & white and color.
Slipcase, ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full color wraparound dustjacket art by Tom Kidd.

PRICING
Cloth: $275, signed in slipcase (on sale from $295). This item will ship around June 15.
Cloth: $285 with a copy of Pan's Labyrinth Studies in the Horror Film. Shipping around June 15.
Cloth: $425 with an unsigned copy of Fred Chappell Masters of the Weird Tale. Shipping around June 15.




Classicon
Saturday, June 18, 2016
10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

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, comic books, posters, pin-up art, and more available for sale or trade.

University Quality Inn (map)
3121 E. Grand River Ave.
Lansing, Michigan
(Just north of Frandor Shopping Center)
Saturday, June 18, 2016
10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

$3.00 admission
$25.00 for a dealer table


The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 3: A Vintage from Atlantis - Now available!

Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and shape “weird fiction” in the early twentieth century, alongside contemporaries H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, drawing upon his background in poetry to convey an unparalleled richness of imagination and expression in his stories of the bizarre and fantastical.

The Collected Fantasies series presents all of Smith’s fiction chronologically. Authorized by the author’s estate and endorsed by Arkham House, the stories in this series are accompanied by detailed background notes from editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, who in preparation for this collection meticulously compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith’s own notes and letters. Their efforts have resulted in the most definitive and complete collection of the author’s work to date.

A Vintage from Atlantis is the third of five volumes collecting all of Clark Ashton Smith’s tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. It includes all of his stories from “The Holiness of Azédarac” (1931) to “The God of the Asteroid” (1932), as well as an introduction by Michael Dirda.


Series: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.9 x 8.9 inches
List Price: $17.99




THE COMPLETE FICTION OF H. P. LOVECRAFT  - Coming July 1!

THE COMPLETE FICTION OF H. P. LOVECRAFT collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume areThe Case of Charles Dexter Ward, "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Color Out of Space," "The Dunwich Horror," and many more hair-raising tales.

Hardcover: 1112 pages
Publisher: Chartwell Books
List Price: $14.99



Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!

DEATH by ELECTION
Poster Gallery: GENE AUTRY  
Overlooked Films: "A Dime a Dance," from a BLACK MASK story by Cornell Woolrich (1995)


The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

The Digest Enthusiast #4 is here!
- New!
Paperback Parade #93
Jerome Bixby & Joe E. Dean: Beyond Fantasy Fiction
Pulp Literature #10 Spring 2016
A “Christmas Present” from the Mysterious Traveler

The Digest Enthusiast #4
 Now available!

The fourth spectacular edition of The Digest Enthusiast is now available in print and Kindle from Amazon.

Contents:
Interviews:
Art Taylor: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
 • An insightful conversation with the award-winning author and frequent contributor to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Art Taylor.
Editors of the new generation of digital digests:
   Alec Cizak, Pulp Modern
   Jennifer Landels, Pulp Literature
   John Kenyon, Grift
   Kristen Valentine, Betty Fedora
   Sheri White, Morpheus Tales
 • The editors share their thoughts on the new generation of digital digests.

Articles:
Suspense Magazine and Novels by Richard Krauss
 • A close-up view of Suspense Magazine and its Suspense Novel series, along with the associated radio, TV and comic book series. 
Galaxy Science Fiction Novels by Steve Carper
 • Steve Carper’s comprehensive overview of the digest-sized Galaxy Novel series. 
Galaxy Magabooks by Gary Lovisi
 • Gary Lovisi’s companion piece (to Galaxy Novels): Galaxy Magabooks. 
Criswell Predicts: Fate & Spaceway by Tom Brinkmann
 • Tom Brinkmann’s exposé on The Amazing Criswell’s prognostications for Fate Magazine and Spaceway science fiction.
Shock Mystery Tales by Peter Enfantino
 • Peter Enfantino dissects Shock Mystery Tales—the shudder pulps inbred man-child.
Pocket Pin-ups trading cards
 • An unfettered peek into the Pocket Pin-Ups trading card set by Max Allan Collins.

Reviews:
H.G. Wells Society Newsletter #30
Bulldog Drummond by Snapper
Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines by Michael L. Cook

Fiction:
"A Rat Must Chew" by Gary Lovisi
"The Hideout" by Ron Fortier
"Strangers in Need" by Joe Wehrle, Jr.
"Wounded Wizard" by John Kuharik

Artwork and Cartoons:
Sean Azzopardi
Rob Davis
Brad Foster
Michael Neno
Bob Vojtko

Also includes:
Editor's Notes
Digest indexes (
Suspense Magazine)
Social media round-up
Opening Lines

Print version, $8.99, includes nearly 100 B&W cover images, 152 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest.
Kindle version, $2.99, includes over 50 color cover images.






Doc Con 2016
November 4, 5 & 6, 2016

Doc Con will be held November 4, 5 & 6, 2016.
Request that vacation time...mark those calendars and let everyone know you will be in Phoenix the first weekend of November.
Special plans are still being made to make this the best Doc Con ever!
So stay tuned for more details to follow as soon as we can announce them.


Doc Savage Feature Film - Dwayne Johnson confirms role in the film! 

Dwayne Johnson confirmed on Instagram that he will play the title character in director Shane Black's upcoming "Doc Savage" film.





ERB Books
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

by Robert B. Zeuschner

Now available for pre-order!


Standard Edition: (Ships July 15, 2016)
Bound in midnight blue Cialux Italian book cloth with the spine and front cover decorations stamped in gilt. 
Color wraparound dust jacket, 675+ pages; 7”x10”; 600+ total images - 500+ in color on glossy stock
$100.00 PREORDER 10% Discount $90.00 + $14 Flat Rate shipping via Fed Ex


The Deluxe Edition:  (Ships July 15, 2016) 
Bound in genuine red leather with a hub spine and limited to 375 signed and numbered copies with the spine and front cover decorations stamped in gilt. 
700+ pages; 7”x10”; 600+ images - 500+ in color on glossy stock
$150.00  PREORDER 10% off $135.00  + $14 Flat Rate Shipping via Fed Ex









Edgar Rice Burroughs Comics
 All New Comic Strips created exclusively for ERB, Inc.
You can subscribe for only $1.99 / month

 
 
Fifteen strips currently available on the  Burroughs comics website:
"Tarzan of the Apes" by Roy Thomas and Pablo Marcos, adapting the original Tarzan novels.
"Tarzan" by Roy Thomas and Tom Grindberg, featuring new Tarzan adventures.
John Carter: Warlord of Mars by Roy Thomas and Rodolfo Pérez Garcia.
"Korak the Killer" by Ron Marz and Rick Leonardi.
"Carson of Venus" by Martin Powell and Tom Floyd.
"The Eternal Savage" by Martin Powell and Steven E. Gordon.
"The War Chief" by Martin Powell and Nik Poliwko.
"The Cave Girl" by Martin Powell and Diana Leto.
"Pellucidar" by Chuck Dixon and Gary Kwapsiz.
"The Land That Time Forgot" by Martin Powell and Pablo Marcos.
"The Mucker" by Ron Marz and Lee Moder
"The Monster Men" by Tom Simmons, Erik Roman, L Jamal Walton, and Cristian Docolomansky
 "The Lost Continent" by Martin Powell and Oscar González 

 "The Jungle Girl" by Martin Powell and Will Meugniot
"The Outlaw of Torn" by Thomas Simmons and Jake Bilbao





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Featuring art from your favorite ERB comic strips!
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The Land that Time Forgot Comic Tee
The Mucker Comic Tee
The War Chief Comic Tee
Carson of Venus Comic Tee
Pellucidar Comic Tee
John Carter Comic Tee
Eternal Savage Comic Tee
Korak the Killer Comic Logo Tee
Tarzan Comic Tee
Cave Girl Comic Tee
Tarzan of the Apes Comic Tee


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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan Mosaic unveiling at the Tarzana Community & Cultural Center


Thomas Yeates’ well known image, TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION, has been created in mosaic form [5′ diameter]
and installed in the plaza of the Tarzana Community & Cultural Center.

The artist, Thomas Yeates, is a long-time favorite of all TARZAN fans.
TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION is a modern version of the logo done by Roy G. Krenkel from 1966
that was originally modeled after the P. J. Monahan oil painting used on the front cover of Argosy Weekly Magazine Dec. 9 1922.


The mosaic itself was done by Vita Nova Luxury Mosaics located in Pacoima, California – 818-897-2432.
Gali Rotstein was the mosaic artist – her detail and vision is wonderful and a faithful rendering of the Yeates art.
Heidi L. Huber really moved it along with her energy and enthusiasm for the project.



Edgar Rice Burroughs
TARZAN MYTH & MYSTERY AT BRAZOS VALLEY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
JUNE 16 - OCTOBER 29, 2016


The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History proudly announces the premiere of its upcoming exhibition, TARZAN: Myth & Mystery,on display from June 16-Oct 29, 2016. This exhibition will open on Thursday, June 16th, at 6 pm, with a free public lecture by Edgar Rice Burroughs Bibliophile Jim Goodwin, followed by a wine & hors d’oeuvres reception & gallery viewing.

A reader and collector of Edgar Rice Burroughs for over 55 years, Goodwin will discuss the story behind Burroughs’ Tarzan tales, interesting Burroughs background and Tarzan trivia, and other fascinating anecdotes about Burroughs’ writing. A native Texan and a graduate of Stephen F. Austin University, Goodwin worked in the communications industry for 37 years. He is the co-founder of the Texas chapter of the Burroughs Bibliophiles, the “Hell’s Benders.” The name “Hell’s Benders” originated from Burroughs’ Western fiction novel, The Bandit of Hell’s Bend, featuring a character named Tex. Mr. Goodwin currently resides in Iowa Park, Texas with his wife, Rita, of 43 years and is blessed with two daughters and 4 grandchildren.

Jim Goodwin
This exclusive exhibit showcases items from an extensive collection of Tarzan and Edgar Rice Burroughs memorabilia. Early publications, beautiful original artwork, rare books, and rarely seen film posters will be shown alongside stunning taxidermy animals from central Africa. Through this colorful and exciting exhibit, visitors can explore the natural settings of the Tarzan books, the life of author Edgar Rice Burroughs, the bold world of pulp art, Tarzan’s international appeal, and other related topics.

The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History is committed to promoting science, and cultural and natural history with the integration of art in exhibits and educational programs. This exhibit was made possible in part through Hotel Tax Revenue funded from the City of College Station through the Arts Council of Brazos Valley. The Museum partnered with Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., private collectors, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, and the Anthropology Department at Texas A&M University to produce this outstanding display.






Facebook - Now online!

There are numerous groups on Facebook that are of potential interest to pulp fans.

The Shadow Knows
Agents of The Shadow

Flearun - A Doc Savage Group
Fans of Bronze

G-8 and Operator #5
The Spider - Master of Men
Flash Gordon
The Others [The Gray Seal, Nick Carter, Fantomas, Arsene Lupin, The Saint]
Professor Jameson alias 21MM392

The Pulp Heroes
Pulp, Pulp Everywhere and Lots and Lots to Read
Pulp Talk
Pulp Magazine Authors and Literature Fans

The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Serial Archive

ERBzine
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Facebook Forum
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Worlds of Adventure

PulpFest
Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

Pulp Coming Attractions


Robert E. Howard Comics Group
The Robert E. Howard Foundation

Robert E. Howard Readers
Two Gun Bob--The Worlds of Robert E.  Howard
The International Robert E. Howard Fan Association
Conan the Cimmerian
REH: Two-Gun Raconteur

Altus Press
Weird Tales Magazine



  Now online!

New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

May 2016
We have revamped Valentine Follows a Curious Trail (The Blue Cross) by G. K. Chesterton and fixed some errors from our previous reprinting and cleaned up the illustrations by George Gibbs.
This story now serves as the beginning of our reprinting of the original Father Brown stories as they appeared in the Post, complete with the original illustrations. 
Introductions to all are by Dan Neyer.  Best place to start is on our introductory page, The Innocence of Father Brown.


April 2016
A dictator meets his comeuppance in Kirby Draycott's The Clock Face of Schaumburg which, as explained in in the introduction, bears some resemblance to a story by a certain Mr. Poe. All the original illustrations are included, just as they appeared in the November, 1898 issue of The Royal Magazine.  Introduction is by Bob Gay.

March 2016
A tale of romance and espionage by Baroness Orczy, Number 187, as it appeared in the January, 1899 issue of Pearson's Magazine, including the illustrations by Ernest Prater.  Introduction by Dan Neyer.

February 2016
All is revealed to the members of The Grill Club in the third (and final) part of In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis, The Solicitor's Story, just as it appeared in the May, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.

January 2016
The second part of "In The Fog" by Richard Harding Davis: "The Story of the Queen’s Messenger," just as it appeared in the April, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.


Famous (and forgotten) Fiction is a new site featuring familiar and obscure fiction along with articles, pictures and essays.  In the Writings section, we have fiction by H. C. Bailey (the first Reggie Fortune story), Carl Stephenson, Sinclair Lewis and a large selection of Kipling, including the complete Mowgli stories and "The Man Who Would Be King."  We've also added an article about Sleeman's An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, that includes a complete reprinting of the work.

In Comics, there is an overview of Superman #205 ("The Man Who Destroyed Krypton!") and a look at a Steve Ditko illustrated story that bears a strong resemblance to a well-known story by Carl Stephenson.The Pictures section starts with a group of collectible (and some not so) items and is the first of 24 collections.

The site is hoping for subscribers to keep it going and future plans call for more stories, more articles and there are a number of novels  we also intend to add to the mix.
New material will be appearing on the last Friday of each month (which means we'll have more new stuff at the end of February). 
In a few month  s, we will also be offering ebooks: on the site (in PDF) and at Amazon and B&N in their proprietary formats.


Girasol Collectables

SPECIAL NOTICE
The Girasol Pulp Replicas project is complete.
No NEW Replicas will be added to the catalogue.
We will, for an as yet undetermined period, be keeping the existing catalogue available.

Girasol Collectables has begun retiring the less-active Replicas.
The replicas listed below will be discontinued in the next month or two.
Don't delay if there are any you're interested in!
Contact us before ordering large quantities to confirm availability.

Soon to be retired pulp replica editions!
All Detective #27
Civil War Stories
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #1, 2
Dime Mystery Book #1
Eerie (Canadian pulp)
Mystery Adventures #7
Phantom Detective #1
Pirate Stories #1
Soldiers of Fortune #1
Strange Detective Stories #2
Strange Stories #1
Thrilling Mystery #1


All of the remaining issues shown below are available now.
We'd like to thank everybody that has supported the project over the years, and we hope that the Replicas continue to provide reading and research enjoyment for years to come.
We do not anticipate taking on any other pulp reprint projects at this time and our Pulp Cover Gallery project is our only active item at present.



Girasol accepts checks, International money orders, and Paypal as methods of payment.
Other than Replicas, please confirm availability first before ordering items such as pulp magazines or other books.
Paypal 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

Back issues - Still available!

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)

DIME MYSTERY BOOK ($35 each postpaid)
#1 December 1932

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
#2 February 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  T
he 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)

#29 America's Plague Battalions (December 1936)
#30 Liberties Suicide Legion (January 1937)
#31 Seige of the Thousand Patriots (February 1937)

#32 Patriot's Death March (March-April 1937)
#33 Revolt of the Lost Legions (May-June 1937)
#34 Drums of Destruction (July-August 1937)
#35 The Army Without a Country (Sept-Oct 1937)
#36 The Bloody Frontier (Nov-Dec 1937)
#37 The Coming of the Mongol Hordes (Jan-Feb 1938)
#38 The Seige that Brought the Black Death (Mar-Apr 1938)
#39 Revolt of the Devil Men (May-June 1938)
#40 The Suicide Battalion (July-Aug 1938)
#41 The Day of the Damned (Sept-Oct 1938)
#42 The Dawn that Shook the World (Nov-Dec 1938)
#43 When Hell Came to America (Jan-Feb 1939)
#44 Invasion from the Sky (March-April 1939)
#45 Winged Hordes of the Yellow Vulture (May-June 1939)
#46 War Tanks of the Yellow Vulture (July-Aug 1939)
#47 Corpse Cavalry of the Yellow Vulture (Sept-Oct 1939)
#48 The Army from Underground (Nov-Dec 1939)

ORIENTAL STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1  October / November 1930                        
#2  December 1930 / January 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
#9   July 1936
#11 September 1936

#17 March 1937

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
#11 August 1935
#12 September 1935
#13
October 1935
#14 November 1935
#15 December 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
#36 
September 1937
#39
December 1937

SPICY-DETECTIVE STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#1  May 1934
#3  July 1934
#4  August 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
#22 February 1936
#23 March 1936

#24 April 1936
#25 May 1936
#26 June 1936
#27 July 1936
#28 August 1936
#29 September 1936              
#30 October 1936
#31 November 1936
#32 December 1936
#33 January 1937

#42 October 1937
#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
#18 October 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)
#1  November 1936
#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  The Spider and the Faceless One (Nov. 1939)
#75  
Satan's Murder Machines (December 1939)
#76  The Spider and the Pain Master (January 1940)
#77 Hell's Sales Manager (February 1940)
#78 Slaves of the Laughing Death (March 1940)

#79 The Man From Hell (April 1940)
#80 The Spider and the War Emperor (May 1940)
#81 Judgement of the Damned (June 1940)
#82
Dictator's Death Merchants
(July 1940)
#83 Pirates From Hell (August 1940)
#84 Master of the Night-Demons (Sept. 1940)
#85 The Council of Evil (October 1940)
#86 The Spider and his Hobo Army (November 1940)
#87 The Spider and the Jewels of Hell (Dec. 1940)
#88 Harbor of Nameless Dead (January 1941)
#89 The Spider and the Slave Doctor (February 1941)
#90 The Spider and the Sons of Satan (March 1941)
#91  Slaves of the Burning Blade (April 1941)
#92  The Devil's Paymaster (May 1941)
#93 The Benevolent Order of Death (June 1941)
#94 Murder's Black Prince (July 1941)
#95 The Spider and the Scarlet Surgeon (August 1941)
#96 The Spider and the Deathless One (September1941)
#97 The Satan's Seven Swordsmen (October1941)
#98 Volunteer Corpse Brigade (November1941)
#99 The Crime Laboratory (December 1941)

#100 Death and The Spider  (January 1942)
#101 Murder's Legionaires (February 1942)
#102 The Gentleman from Hell (March 1942)
#103 Slaves of the Ring (April 1942)
#104 The Spider and the Death Piper (May 1942)
#105 Revolt of the Underworld (June 1942)
#106 Return of the Racket Kings (July 1942)

#107 Fangs of the Dragon (August 1942)
#108 Hell Rolls on the Highways (September 1942)

#109 Army of the Damned (October 1942)
#110 Zara, Master of Murder (November 1942)

#111 The Spider and the Flame King (December 1942)
#112 The Howling Death (January 1943)

#113 Secret City of Crime (February 1943)
#114 Recruit for the Spider Legion (March 1943)
#115 The Spider and the Man from Hell (June1943)
#116 The Criminal Horde (August1943)
#117 The Spider and Hell's Factory (October1943)
#118 When Satan Came to Town (December1943)

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

#31 November-December 1937
#32 January-February 1938
#33 March-April 1938
#34 May-June 1938

#35 July-August 1938
#36 September-October 1938
#37 November-December 1938
#38 January-February 1939
#39 March-April 1939
#40 May-June 1939

#41 July-August 1939
#42 September-October 1939
#43 November/December 1939

#44 January/February 1940
#45 March/ April 1940
#46 May/June 1940
#47 July 1940
#48 September 1940
#49 November 1940

#50 January 1941
#51 March 1941

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
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#9   December 1923/January 1924 
#10  February 1924
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#13  Anniversary Issue May/June/July/24 ($50)
#14  November 1924 - One of the rarest WT's
#15  December 1924

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Girasol Collectables
Pulp Cover Gallery Edition Volume 5
The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5
Now available!

Volume 5 of our Pulp Cover Gallery series is in the works, scheduled for a mid-May release.
This edition will be the same overall format as our other volumes, featuring sets of cover scans of The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5.
One difference this time out is that the images are square-cut, they do not show the rough pulp edges.
The same bonded leather hardcover exterior, 8.5" x 11" interior pages, 130+ pages, full color throughout,
with a brief introduction and checklist with cover artist credit where known.
As before, this is not a book about the pulp titles featured, it is a visual reference of the covers. Lots of great viewing!

Order before April 01, 2016 and save $10!
$140 including shipping & handling* (*within North America, for overseas orders add $25.)






Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
3rd Saturday of every month

 Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area.
It meets the 3rd Saturday of every month.
Check the website at the link below for exact time and place information.

Name:  Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
Time: 1-5 PM
Place:  
Muhlenberg Library on West 23rd Street.

Contact:  Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com

Gotham Pulp Collectors Club

             Now available for pre-order!  


Production Update from Haffner Press!

Quite far along, this volume sees all proofreading complete except for the long-awaited introduction.
This cover image is still a work-in-progress and Raymond Swanland once again demonstrates that he is the master of heroic and kinetic action.



THIS IS IT! The BIG one!
All the tales of Eric John Stark in a single volume.
The stories, the novels, and for the first time, Brackett’s working notes for the abandoned FOURTH “Stark” novel from 1977.


Contents
“Queen of the Martian Catacombs”
“Enchantress of Venus”
“Black Amazon of Mars”
“Stark and the Star Kings”
The Ginger Star
The Hounds of Skaith
The Reavers of Skaith
“1977: Notes for Stark #4″

Artwork by Raymond Swanland
Edited by Stephen Haffner
ISBN: 9781893887862
720+ pages
Smythe-sewn Hardcover
                                               
Preorder price: $45


Haffner Press
LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL
Now available for pre-order!  


Production Update from Haffner Press!

Proofreading is also complete on this title as well. We are still waiting for clearances and permissions on a several texts and images that we feel MUST be a part of this book.
And remember, there's a NEW AND UNPUBLISHED Brackett-tale in here!     



Leigh Brackett (1915-1978), noted author of mystery & science fiction novels—with screenplays for THE BIG SLEEP, RIO BRAVO and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK—sees her Centennial celebrated with a previously unpublished story in the forthcoming Haffner Press collection: LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL.

Discovered by editor Stephen Haffner, Brackett’s unpublished story “They” is a mature science fiction tale of power and intrigue, of homegrown xenophobia versus stellar exploration, with an answer to the ultimate question: “Are we alone?”

“They” leads off this tribute volume collecting the majority of Brackett’s nonfiction writings, supplemented with vintage interviews and commentaries/remembrances from such luminaries as Ray Bradbury, Michael Moorcock, Richard A. Lupoff and more.

“Her dialogue crackled, the characters lived and breathed. For any burgeoning fan of film, you couldn’t ask for a better inspiration than Leigh Brackett.” —George Lucas
“She had a marvelous ability for moving a narrative along…I remember one story of mine which had me frozen…she took over and wrote the first thousand words—and it was published that way.” —Ray Bradbury

LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL covers numerous facets and events of Brackett’s life, in her own words, and in the words of those who knew her:
 - Brackett writes of bringing Philip Marlowe into the 1970s for Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye . . .
 - SF-author and NASA employee Joseph Green records the time he hosted Brackett at the launch of Apollo XII . . .
 - Bookseller Ray Walsh documents the day he escorted Brackett to view a new groundbreaking space-fantasy film in the summer 1977 . . .

Available for preorder, LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL continues the effort begun in 2002 by Haffner Press to collect, preserve, and present the works of Leigh Brackett for current and future generations.


Edited by Stephen Haffner
ISBN-13 978-1893887-84-8
500pp. Trade Paperback
$25.00



Haffner Press
FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY VOLUME 1: MURDER DRAWS A CROWD
(Writer) Fredric Brown, Jack Seabrook (Cover) Norman Saunders
Still available for pre-order!


Production Update from Haffner Press!

As recounted previously, this book was actually printed in December 2015, but the binding job was so poor (we can show you in Chicago) that we rejected the run and the printer refused to correct the situation. We are updating the book to a 2016 release and plan to send it and DEATH IN THE DARK to a different printer at the same time.

A massive fix of liquor-fueled murder, smoke-clouded mystery, and hard-hitting revenge from the author of The Screaming Mimi and The Fabulous Clipjoint. This archival-quality hardcover assembles 38 incredibly rare stories from 1938-1942, with the original Pulp artwork from such magazines as Thrilling Detective, Masked Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. This is the book Fredric Brown fans have been waiting for!

Introduction by Jack Seabrook                     
ISBN: 9781893887787                               
744 pages                                         
Over 100 illustrations                            
39 pulp magazine stories:  • Detective  • Mystery  • Horror  • Western   
100-pg appendix with the "V.O.N. Munchdriller" &  "William Z. Williams" comedies                  
Decorated endpapers                               
Smythe-sewn binding                               
Full cloth-covered binding boards              
                                               
Preorder price: $40
On publication: $45


Haffner Press
FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY VOLUME 2: DEATH IN THE DARK
(Writer) Fredric Brown, Jack Seabrook (Cover) Norman Saunders
Available for pre-order!


Production Update from Haffner Press!

Proofreading is complete and Fredric Brown bibliographer Jack Seabrook is hard at work on his  introduction. We still need to secure a few logos for the decorated endsheets. We want a different cover for this book. The Saunders piece here is fine, but it doesn't match any of the contents. Once all materials are complete, we'll send this to the printer alongside MURDER DRAWS A CROWD.
“. . . enough good people put Brown on their must-read lists and then become evangelists to keep his name alive on the same high shelf as Hammett, Thompson, Ross Macdonald and other crime icons. Somewhere up in literary heaven, I hope he’s looking down, sipping a beer, playing his flute and smiling.”—Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune

While the editor of this series only recently came upon the above quote from 2008, these eyes read no truer words. Work has been underway for nearly a year on assembling the first two volumes of a series provisionally titled LOADED: THE COLLECTED FREDRIC BROWN. Now is your chance to get in on the ground floor of what is hoped to be the definitive collection of Fredric Brown sans his science fiction works. Assembled in chronological order of publication, this set will contain all the short fiction (of all genres: mystery, horror, noir, western, detection, etc.) and all of Brown’s novels (again, excepting his sf works). You’ll be able to enjoy Fredric Brown at his longer lengths from The Fabulous Clipjoint and Night of the Jabberwock to The Lenient Beast and Mrs. Murphy’s Underpants.

Assisting with this effort have been Brown bibliographer Phil Stephensen-Payne and Brown biographer Jack Seabrook. This massive undertaking could not have been accomplished without their help.


Introduction by Jack Seabrook
744 pages                                     
Over 90 illustrations                         
32 pulp magazine stories: • Detective  • Mystery  • Horror          
80-pg appendix with the "Colonel Cluck/Kluck,"  "Barnyard Bill Says—" & "Willie Skid" bits  
Decorated endpapers                           
Smythe-sewn binding                           
Full cloth-covered binding boards   
          

Preorder price: $40


 
Haffner Press
The Watcher at the Door: The Early Kuttner, Volume Two
Now available for pre-order!

Edited by Stephen Haffner
Foreword by Robert A. Madle
Introduction by Dr. Garyn G. Roberts
Cover Art by Jon Arfstrom
700+ page Hardcover
$45.00


Production Update from Haffner Press!

The artwork is in hand, along with the introduction and foreword. Proofreading is also complete, so this will likely be the next title to go to the printer!


Before his marriage to (and subsequent collaborations with) Catherine L. Moore, Henry Kuttner was a frequent contributor to the pulp magazines that specialized in the weird, supernatural, horror, and science fiction genre. Beginning in 1936, with the minor classic “The Graveyard Rats,” Kuttner launched a steady stream of short stories aimed at Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Thrilling Mystery, and others.

Writing for Weird Tales brought Kuttner into direct correspondence with that magazine’s premier contributor. H. P. Lovecraft. Kuttner set several stories in Lovecraft’s “Cthulhu Mythos” and two are presented in THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR: “Hydra” and “The Hunt.”

At this point in his still-young career, Kuttner had cracked the science fiction market and was steadily publishing in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Science Fiction, and made his first sale to the new prestigious fantasy magazine, UNKNOWN.

In the course of writing the stories collected in this volume, Kuttner married Catherine Lucille Moore on June 7, 1940 (in New York with artist Virgil Finlay as Best Man).
THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR is the second volume in a three-volume “Early Kuttner” set collecting many of Kuttner’s earliest stories, most of which have never been reprinted.





Haffner Press
The Complete Ivy Frost
by Donald Wandrei

Cover Art by Raymond Swanland
Now available for pre-order!



Production Update from Haffner Press!

Currently going through another round of proofreading, we have the cover art on hand (Raymond Swanland rocks it again!) and we await the introduction. The cover titles will be redone in a bronze/copper hue, and a lot of work remains on cleaning up all the covers of Clues Detective Stories that decorate the endsheets as well as designing eighteen double-page chapterheads.

It may come as a surprise to some that Donald Wandrei wrote more mysteries than all his horror, fantasy, and science fiction tales combined. This volume collects all eighteen adventures of Wandrei’s ratiocinative detective I.V. Frost, who is ably assisted by his beautiful and tough female assistant, Jean Moray. A scientist and inventor, Frost has his own approach to solving mysteries. Rather than following the usual hard-drinking, trench-coated style of many of his contemporaries, Frost’s strategy was to mix the logic of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes with the technology of Lester Dent’s Doc Savage. In 2000, D.H. Olson edited a volume published by Fedogan and Bremer collecting the first eight of Frost’s adventures. A second volume of the remaining 10 tales was promised but never materialized.

Hardcover
$40



Haffner Press
The Michael Gray Mysteries
C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner

Now available for pre-order!



Production Update from Haffner Press!

This magnificent tome has been proofread twice and Ed Gorman's wonderful introduction has been delivered.
In Hollywood terms, we put this "in turnaround" while we seek a cover design that reflects the atmosphere of late-1950s San Francisco.



Edited by Stephen Haffner Introduction by Ed Gorman Cover Art by Lawrence Noble
A massive omnibus of four novels from the late 1950s all featuring the amateur sleuthing of San Francisco psychoanalyst Michael Gray.

The Murder of Eleanor Pope —Psychoanalyst Michael Gray leads police to a three-time killer!
The Murder of Ann Avery —Psychoanalyst solves brutal slaying!
Murder of a Mistress —Psychoanalyst Michael Gray solves the killing of a girl who knew too much about too many men who had too damned much to lose.
Murder of a Wife —Marked for Murder! No one believed her—not even the police!


Hardcover
$40


Haffner Press Status Update:
Nearly everything is in hand to bring this 4-novel omnibus to you.
Once we have Fredric Brown's MURDER DRAWS A CROWD under our belt and out in the wild, this is the next title to go to press.
NOTE: this title is part of a 3-book combo of Horror & Detective titles that features an exclusive chapbook. See the Haffner Press homepage for details.





Haffner Press
The Six Sleepers, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Five
Now available for pre-order!


Production Update from Haffner Press!

Bob Madle's fantastic intro is done and the manuscript has been proofread. Additional work is needed cleaning up the graphics for the appendix.


Following on from THE REIGN OF THE ROBOTS, THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON, VOLUME FOUR, THE SIX SLEEPERS, THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON, VOLUME FIVE brings you more of the World Wreckers vintage works.
Here, Hamilton really put his Remington’s to the task with more stories for WEIRD TALES as well as some of his best work (which is to say some of the best work ever to appear in) for WONDER STORIES. Depending on the length of ephemera in the appendix, this volume may also see Hamilton crack the Tremaine-era of ASTOUNDING STORIES.

As with previous volumes in this series, an appendix showcasing the original pulp magazine illustrations also bulks large with obscura including reader’s letters from the vintage magazines commenting on these stories, along with editorial correspondence between Hamilton and his editors.


Introduction by Robert A. Madle
Cover Art by Margaret Brundage
Illustrated by C.C. Senf, Frank R. Paul, H.W. "Wesso" Wessolowski, Hugh Rankin, Joseph Doolin, Virgil Finlay
600+ page Hardcover
$40.00



Haffner Press
Hollywood on the Moon / Man About Time: The Pete Manx Adventures
Arthur K. Barnes & Henry Kuttner

Now available for pre-order!


Production Update from Haffner Press!

We had an introduction lined up for this from a noted SF comic, but it appears to have evaporated.
The book also needs different cover art.
This Bergey image from Startling Stories, while awesome, doesn't match the time-frame of these stories. We'll have more news later this year.


Prior to his marriage to fellow science-fantasy writer Catherine L. Moore in 1940, Henry Kuttner wrote stories of Lovecraftian horror, weird-menace “shudder” tales, and thrilling adventure stories. But he also wrote blood-n-thunder Space Opera stories in the vein of Edmond Hamilton (one of young Kuttner’s favorite authors) told with a rough-edge style similar to Kuttner’s protege Leigh Brackett.
Arthur K. Barnes, an early friend of Kuttner, published his first story “Lord of the Lightning” for Wonder Stories in December 1931. His “Interplanetary Hunter” series featuring Miss Gerry Carlyle of the London Interplanetary Zoo was originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories.

Together, Kuttner & Barnes collaborated (and in some cases, wrote independently) on two series of science fiction adventures for Thrilling Wonder Stories. The first, the “Hollywood on the Moon” series, featured ace cameraman Tony Quade of Nine Planets Films, Inc. and his crew skipping around the solar system (even teaming up with Gerry Carlyle a few times!) humorously encountering all manner of weird alien life.

The second series, dealt with the hilarious temporal romps of carnival barker, conman, and small-time crook Pete Manx. Pete is always on the run from some debt collector, or running to his lastest scam for an easy buck. Inevitably, Manx always ends up in the laboratory of Dr. Mayhem, whose unreliable time machine launches Pete into the past where he finds himself in hotter water than before.
This volume collects all the SF collaborations of these two punsters and features the interior illustrations of the original magazines.


Introduction by Ron Goulart
Cover Art by Earle K. Bergey
600+ pp. Hardcover
$40.00



Hard Case Crime
Coming soon!
July 2016

SOHO SINS by Richard Vine
Cover art by Robert Maguire


They were the New York art scene’s golden couple—until the day Amanda Oliver was found murdered in her SoHo loft, and her husband Philip confessed to shooting her. But was he a continent away when the trigger was pulled? Art dealer Jackson Wyeth sets out to learn the truth, and uncovers the dangerous secrets lurking beneath the surface of ManhattanÕs posh galleries and decadent parties, a world of adultery and madness, of beautiful girls growing up too fast and men making fortunes and losing their minds. But even the worst the art world can imagine will seem tame when the final shattering sin is revealed...

This stunning debut novel from an editor of one of world’s leading fine art publications offers an insider’s tour of the New York and international art worlds, and a searing, unforgettable visit to the darkest chambers of the human heart.

 - First publication ever!
 - An extraordinary first novel by an art world insider
 - Cover features a lost work by legendary painter Robert Maguire


Hardcover, 352 pages, $22.99


James Bond - New actor signed for the role?

Since the news of Daniel Craigs departure from the 007 franchise, rumours have run rampant as to who will replace him on the next film, Throne of Spies.
Idris Elba, Tom Hardy and Tom Hiddleston have been among the primary candidates cited in the rumors.
31 year old English actor Theo James, known primarily from the Divergent trilogy, has reportedly been announced to be the new James Bond.
The first film starring the actor will be released in Febuary 2017 and three consecutive Bond flicks are reportedly outlined in his contract.


There has been no "official" confirmation yet from the Bond camp.  

 


Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

ROUGH ON RATS

Joe Stone disappeared leaving his partner, Arthur Smith, with an I O U for $38,000 and a fit to temper.
Smith hired Anthony Martin to find Stone, and, with difficulty, Anthony found him.
And there, instead of ending, the case begins.

Some of the characters:
ANTHONY MARTIN-a private investigator with a file of unpaid bills, a vulnerable but well-cushioned conscience, and a profitable proposition.
JERRY JONES-a girl who really belongs with the cows and chickens but can usually be found in slacks, or less, at various bars around town.
ARTHUR SMITH-a rotund, pig-eyed little man, who wants help and plenty of it, but not from the police.
PAT TEMPLE-a beautiful girl with beautiful clothes in a beautiful apartment-but where did she get all that beautiful money?
VINCENT KOALER-a helpful hotel clerk with a bald head and a penchant for gambling of all sorts.
JOE STONE-an elusive gentleman in a business that caters to some of the less happy characteristics of mankind.
PHIL ARKIN-an intelligent cop, with an education and personality, whoe imminent retirement will be a great loss to the Vice Squad.
MICK-amiable and loyal, owner and bartender of "The Lucky Spot"-hangout of B-girls, butter-and-egg men, and an assortment of questionable characters.

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 260 pages
$14.95


KING'S QUEST #2 - Arriving in comic shops June 8!
Ben Acker, Heath Corson (Writers); Dan McDaid (Art); Mark Laming, Jonathan Lau (Covers)

Bazillions of light years from Earth, our heroes split up! Mandrake the Magician and Prince Valiant face a barren planet of undead soldiers, as Flash Gordon, The Phantoms, and Jungle Jim plunge into the heart of Mongo to save damsel-in-distress Dale Arden! …Or, at least they think that’s what they’re doing!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99





 

Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Captain America: Cival War movie review
Gang Busters: Old Time Radio Crime Fighters
Collectors Item: The Shadow's Ring
The Lost 1933 Lone Ranger Radio Episodes
Three things you did not know about the Lone Ranger


The Robert E. Howard Newsline
Now online!


Bringing you the latest news in Robert E. Howard books, pulp reprints, comics, audio, conventions, games, and whatever else seems applicable.


September 15-17, 2016! 

COME MEET HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES
GET THEIR AUTOGRAPH!   HAVE YOUR PICTURE TAKEN WITH THEM!

ROBERT FULLER
KEIR DULLEA
GARY LOCKWOOD
LUCIANA PALUZZI
DEBRA PAGET
THE AMAZING KESKIN
JIM ROSIN
MARK REDFIELD
CAROL FORD
JOE MARTELLE
KENT McCORD
DABNEY COLEMAN
KATHY GARVER
BERNIE KOPELL
JOHN AMOS
BRITT EKLAND
GERI REISCHL
RUSTY GILLIGAN
EDDIE DEEZEN
JEREMY AMBLER


EVENTS
So much goes on during the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention that we suggest you look over the schedules and map out what seminars and movies you want to see during the weekend.
 
ADMISSION
Cost is $20 per person, per day. Children under the age of 16 are free.
You can pay for admission at the front gate when you attend the convention.
Admission gives you access to everything during the weekend.
  
EVERYONE WHO ATTENDS GETS A FREE 56-PAGE PROGRAM GUIDE!

Purchasing tickets in advance will save you money. Tickets are $15 per person, per day. If you pay for admission at the door, the cost is $20 per person, per day.
 
The purchase of a Saturday Evening Dinner Banquet Ticket includes free admission for Saturday. If you plan to attend the entire weekend and the dinner banuqet, buy a two-day ticket for every dinner banquet ticket you buy.

VENDORS AND DEALER ROOM HOURS
Thursday, 10 am to 9 pm
Friday, 10 am to 9 pm
Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm


HOTEL
The Convention is held at Hunt Valley Wyndham in Maryland.
The Hotel is located at 245 Shawan Road, Hunt Valley, Maryland, 21031
 Hotel phone number: 410-785-7000
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS BOOKING A ROOM, ASK FOR SHARON.


Mystery*File - Now online!

Book Announcement: JONATHAN LEWIS – Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Tales
A Magazine Review by David Vineyard: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE – September 1931
A Movie Review by Walter Albert: KING OF THE JUNGLE (1933)
JONATHAN LEWIS: Stories I’m Reading — H. P. LOVECRAFT “The Terrible Old Man”


Off-Trail Publications - Now available!

THE TEXAS-SIBERIA TRAIL
by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Introductions by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson and John Locke

Before he was a comic-book pioneer, Major Malcolm-Wheeler Nicholson wrote adventure tales for the great pulp magazines—and no run-of-the-mill pulp fiction was it. The Major served as a cavalry officer on the southwest border during the Mexican Revolution. While the First World War raged in Europe, he fought the Moro insurgency in the southern Philippines. Then followed his strangest assignment, conducting espionage in legendarily hostile Siberia. After the war he was stationed in Western Europe. These places became the settings for the majority of his hardboiled adventure stories. His use of authentic detail, combined with his superior storytelling ability, make his stories difficult to put down. You read one of the Major’s entrancing tales—and your imagination is transported back to those real places of danger and daring!

This inaugural collection of the Major’s fiction includes stories set in all four of his real-life arenas, originally published in top adventure pulps: Adventure, Argosy, The Popular Magazine. It is time for the Major to receive his due—as one of the genuine larger-than-life men of the pulps. Included is an in-depth introduction by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, the Major’s granddaughter.

“Yes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson is one of the very, very few people responsible for the birth of the comic book industry as the visionary founder of what we today call DC Comics. And, yes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson is one of the very, very few people responsible for giving the world Superman.”

Michael Uslan,
Executive Producer of all the Batman movies,
Comic book historian, and author of his memoir, The Boy Who Loved Batman.

“Not many adventure writers can claim to have based their stories on their own exploits. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson could—and because of it, his evocations of heroism and combat have a believability and a personal depth unlike anything else in pulp fiction.”

Gerard Jones,
Author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book.

6x9-inch perfect bound; 264 pages, $20.00

Checkout  earlier titles by clicking on the link below.

 
 
 
 
 

PANACEA: A Novel - Coming July 5!
by F. Paul Wilson


Two secret societies vie for control of the ultimate medical miracle--Panacea--in the latest novel by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson.

Medical examiner Laura Hanning has two charred corpses and no answers. Both bear a mysterious tattoo but exhibit no known cause of death. Their only connection to one another is a string of puzzling miracle cures. Her preliminary investigation points to a cult in the possession of the fabled panacea--the substance that can cure all ills--but that's impossible.

Laura finds herself unknowingly enmeshed in an ancient conflict between the secretive keepers of the panacea and the equally secretive and far more deadly group known only as 536, a brotherhood that fervently believes God intended for humanity to suffer, not be cured. Laura doesn't believe in the panacea, but that doesn't prevent the agents of 536 from trying to kill her.

A reclusive, terminally ill billionaire hires Laura to research the possibility of the panacea. The billionaire's own body guard, Rick Hayden, a mercenary who isn't who he pretends to be, has to keep her alive as they race to find the legendary panacea before the agents of 536 can destroy it.


Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
List Price: $25.99




PAPERBACK PARADE #93 - Now available!

PAPERBACK PARADE #93 is just out!
The latest issue of my FULL COLOR rare and vintage paperback collectors magazine is chock full of great covers and articles.

In this issue we look at:
The James Bond UK Pan paperbacks
Rare and unusual film and TV tie-in paperbacks
Favorite paperback covers by a fan
Then we cosy up with Kozy Books, a great series of 1960s US gga sleaze
Philip Wylie faces death
A look at the crime gga sf Venus Prime series
News, ads, letters and much more.

Back issues also available while they last!

 
ORDERING INFORMATION:  We accept VISA, Mastercard, US checks drawn on a US bank, (in USD only) or Paypal to our email address at “gryphonbooks@att.net
You can also purchase Paperback Parade at our ebay store at the link below. 
Please contact me with any questions or write to our address: GRYPHON BOOKS,  PO Box 280209,  Brooklyn, NY 11228-0209,  USA

Paperback Parade single issue is $15.00 + postage. Query on back issues AND ON AD RATES.
Subscriptions:   Domestic: 3 issues for $40.00;    ALL INTERNATIONAL: 3 issues $65.00

POSTAGE RATES: Domestic: the first item (book) is $3.00 media mail + 50 cents each additional item. International: the first book is $14.00 via First Class International, $2.00 each additional book.
All books and magazines are mailed through the U.S. Postal Service. Query on Priority Mail or other mailing methods.




Paperback Perils - Now online!

Blood of Ancient Opar (Christopher Paul Carey, Meteor House 2016)
- New!
Doc Ardan: The City of Gold and Lepers (Guy D'Armen, 1928/Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, 2004)
The Warlord of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914)
The Gods of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1913)  

Perils on Planet X
Perils on Planet X #1, #2, and #3
by Christopher Mills and Gene Gonzales

Now available!


Standard Comic, Full Color, 32 pages
Print: $4.99 for each issue
Download: $0.99 for each issue


They are only available by mail order from IndyPlanet.
This is is the best way to support us and the book, as the profits go directly to Chris and Gene.
Each issue is 32 full-color pages, printed on high-quality, heavy paper stock.


A vast, unexplored, alien world of natural and scientific wonders. Jungles, deserts and arctic wastes teeming with bizarre and savage beasts, fantastic monsters that defy evolution or reason. A dazzling variety of warlike peoples, whom, despite obvious technological advances, still swear, live and die by the sword.

Then, there’s the princess, of course.

The most beautiful woman of at least two worlds, stunning, sensual and immediately desirable. Strong of will and of unquestionable moral fiber, she is not only worth fighting and dying for, but worth defying a world for, just to receive a kind word or shy smile.



Planetary Stories #36 - Now online!

Planetary Stories #36

CAUTION by Charles Stoddard
The ship's instruments suggested the materials constructing the city's buildings were completely alien

XENOGRAFT - Written and illustrated by George Karagiannis
Bad news. There's an ice worm infestation in the cryotubes.

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN by William Quincy Belle
An unexpected correction of a mishap.

INTERFERON  by Martyn Osmundsen
A political look at universal expansion

R.O.A.C. by Martian Edwards
The Royal Office for Accelerated Claims was another example of convoluted red tape.

SALT by Gerd Maximovic
Who would have thought a planet of salt could present such hazards?

THE GREATEST DISCOVERY by Gerd Maximovic
It works! I used it myself!


Pulp Spirit #25

MARTIAN HONEY by Pierre Comtois
Martian honey was sweet, but finding it could be murder!

QUEEN OF THE RIVER by James J Griffin
She yearned for money, but Death got in her way!

LOST MERMAID by Kevin Breen
Being a captive wasn't going to stop her!

THE LOCKED ROOM MURDER CASE by Richard Logan   
Another exciting Gumshoe 2040

SHRINK RAP by Craig Faustus Buck
There was a gun in his drawer, and it was loaded.

WHERE IS HELEN? by Gerd Maximovic
BEING immortal was one thing; STAYING immortal was another matter.




PS Publishing
BLACK WINGS V

Now available for pre-order!
Shipping in May!


This fifth instalment of S. T. Joshi’s critically acclaimed Black Wings series features twenty stories that use H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos as the basis for imaginative ventures into the weird and terrifying. One of the central themes in Lovecraft’s work is the problematical nature of science in human affairs, and in this volume we find stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Lynne Jamneck, and Donald R. Burleson where scientists come face to face with the appalling implications of their discoveries.

Lovecraft was a master of the “sense of place,” inventing imaginary towns in New England with a rich and sinister history stretching back centuries. In this book, Jonathan Thomas, W. H. Pugmire, and Sunni K Brock bring Lovecraft’s towns of Arkham, Kingsport, and Innsmouth to life. Sam Gafford, Darrell Schweitzer, and Stephen Woodworth evoke terror in other corners of the American continent, while British writers David Hambling and John Reppion find Lovecraftian horror in little-known towns in England. The world-building that led Lovecraft to fashion an entire universe set in the realm of dreams is duplicated in tales by Cody Goodfellow, Mark Howard Jones, and Donald Tyson.

Madness is always an occupational hazard of the “searchers after horror” who populate Lovecraft’s tales. In this volume, stories by Robert H. Waugh, Nicole Cushing, and Nancy Kilpatrick searingly display the psychological aberrations of characters as they encounter the bizarre. Lovecraft himself has become an iconic character, and his gaunt, lantern-jawed figure stalks the tales by Jason C. Eckhardt and Mollie L. Burleson. This volume concludes, as did its predecessor, with a long poem by Wade German, one of the most dynamic figures in a remarkable renaissance of weird poetry inspired by the work of Lovecraft and his colleagues.

Black Wings V can take its place as a pioneering anthology that shows how the work of H. P. Lovecraft is inexhaustibly rich in the inspiration it can provide to contemporary writers of weird fiction.


AN ANTHOLOGY edited by S. T. Joshi
CATEGORY Lovecraft inspired Horror
PUBLICATION DATE May 2015
COVER ART Jason Van Hollander
PAGES 317
INTRODUCTION S. T. Joshi

EDITIONS
Unsigned Jacketed Hardcover — ISBN  978-1-848639-94-2  [£25]
300 Slipcased HC signed by the contributors  — ISBN 978-1-848639-95-9  [£50]




Thursday, July 21 through Sunday, July 24, 2016


Are you thinking about attending PulpFest 2016? You’re probably wondering what to expect from this year’s convention. PulpFest is known for its great programming and the line-up that we’re planning for our 2016 convention is shaping up to be one of our best.

We’ll be saluting a wide range of anniversaries at this summer’s pulp con: the tenth anniversary of Sanctum Books; the eightieth anniversary of THE WHISPERER and THE SKIPPER; the ninetieth anniversary of AMAZING STORIES, the first science-fiction pulp; the hundredth anniversary of the specialty pulp; and the 120th anniversary of THE ARGOSY, the original pulp magazine!



The Guest of Honor for PulpFest 2016 will be author, editor, musician, and science-fiction and pulp fan Ted White.

Born February 4, 1938, Theodore Edwin White is a Hugo Award-winning American writer, best known as a science-fiction author and editor and as a fan and music critic. In addition to books and stories written under his own name, he has also co-authored novels with Dave van Arnam as Ron Archer, and with Terry Carr as Norman Edwards.

Since the time he was a teenager, White has been a prolific contributor to science-fiction fanzines, and in 1968 he won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Despite his considerable professional credits, White maintains that his achievements in fandom mean more to him than anything else he has done. In 1953, he edited and published ZIP, the first of his many fanzines. In 1956–57, he co-edited STELLAR with Larry Stark; followed by VOID in 1960, joining founding editors Gregory and James Benford; plus MINAC, EGOBOO, and others. He was also a regular columnist for YANDRO and Richard E. Geis’ PSYCHOTIC/SF REVIEW and has been active in numerous fan events, including the organizing of the 1967 World Science Fiction Convention in New York City as co-chairman. He still remains active on several fandom- and fanzine-oriented electronic mailing lists.

In 1959, at the age of 21, White moved from Baltimore to New York City with his first wife, Sylvia Dees White. That year, he began writing music criticism for METRONOME and a column for Tom Wilson’s JAZZ GUIDE (later 33 GUIDE). As a music critic, he expanded into jazz writing and journalism for ROGUE, along with record liner notes, concert reviews and interviews. He was the only person to record an interview with Eric Dolphy, the American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist. From 1977 through 1979 as Dr. Progresso, he did the Friday afternoon DR. PROGRESSO radio show on WGTB-FM. Following the advent of the Internet, White became the music editor of the Collecting Channel website in 1999, and he continues to maintain his own website of music commentary under his Dr. Progresso pseudonym.


White’s first professional sale as a writer was a short vignette sold to PLAYBOY in 1959. Two stories released on the same day — “Phoenix,” written by Ted White and revised by Marion Zimmer Bradley for the February 1963 AMAZING STORIES and “I, Executioner,” co-authored by Terry Carr for the March 1963 IF (WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) — have been cited by our guest as his first-published stories. The author later expanded “Phoenix” into the novel PHOENIX PRIME, originally published in 1966 by Lancer Books. It was the first of the QANAR series — continuing with THE SORCERESS OF QAR (1966) and STAR WOLF (1971) — all published by Lancer. “I Executioner” became the opening chapter of his Ace book, ANDROID AVENGER.

Captain AmericaTed’s first novel — INVASION FROM 2500 — was written in collaboration with Terry Carr under the pseudonym Norman Edwards. It was published in 1964. Through 1978 he wrote two science-fiction series and eleven stand-alone novels, including one Captain America novel — THE GREAT GOLD STEAL. It was published by Bantam Books and featured a nod to its pulp forebears: one of the bad guys is named Andrew “Monk” Mayfair. Two of White’s novels were written in collaboration with Dave van Arnam, one with David Bischoff and one — using White’s Doc Phoenix character — with Marv Wolfman. Ted White was a 1966 Nebula-Award nominee for his short story, “The Peacock King,” written with Larry McCombs. He was also instrumental in kick-starting the professional careers of other writers, notably Lee Hoffman. Still writing at nearly seventy-eight years of age, White has had a number of short stories published in recent years. “The Uncertain Past” appeared in the March & April 2014 number of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION while”The Philistine” can be found in the October 2015 issue of ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT.

Our Guest of Honor’s editorial career began as an assistant and associate editor at THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION from 1963 to 1968. He also served as an associate editor at Lancer Books, working under Larry Shaw. From October 1968 until October 1978, Ted White edited AMAZING STORIES and FANTASTIC, upgrading the quality of both magazine’s fiction while showcasing a variety of talented illustrators. According to author, anthologist, and science-fiction and popular-culture historian, Mike Ashley, White ushered “AMAZING into a silver, if not a golden, age.” He also edited two 1973 anthologies, THE BEST FROM AMAZING STORIES and THE BEST FROM FANTASTIC. Both were published by Manor Books.

Ted White’s reputation as an editor impressed the publishers of HEAVY METAL who hired him in 1979 to introduce non-fiction into the magazine. White immediately hired four columnists — Jay Kinney, Lou Stathis, Steve Brown and Bhob Stewart — to cover, respectively, underground comics, music, science fiction, and movies. HEAVY METAL continued to feature mainly graphic stories during White’s tenure as the new editor wove the text into the graphic art, rather than segregating it into a separate section. In 1984-85, Ted White served as Editorial Director for STARDATE, a multi-media science-fiction magazine edited by David Bischoff.

Ted became a pulp collector as a teenager. He owns most of the science-fiction pulps from the 1940s and many from the twenties and thirties. Among his holdings are complete runs of SCIENCE WONDER STORIES and AIR WONDER STORIES, both issues of MIRACLE SCIENCE AND FANTASY STORIES, all the Futurian-edited magazines, the complete run of CAPTAIN FUTURE, and many other titles. His library of pulp and science-fiction digests is complete from 1951 through the nineties. He also owns many single-character pulps, including all but one issue of DOC SAVAGE MAGAZINE and a couple dozen issues of THE SHADOW. He also has many issues of THE AVENGER, CAPTAIN ZERO, THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE, THE WHISPERER, and other hero pulps in his collection.

White also plays keyboards and saxophone. He currently performs with the Washington, DC area improvisational group Conduit. Although we’d love to have him play, Ted will be speaking to PulpFest attendees during our evening programming about his career, fandom, pulps, science fiction, and AMAZING STORIES. His Guest of Honor speech will take place on Friday, July 22nd in the PulpFest programming room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus. We hope to see you at the convention.



To give you an idea about what you’ll encounter from July 21st through July 24th at the Hyatt Regency and the city’s spacious convention center in the Columbus, Ohio Arena district, below is the proposed scheduled for PulpFest 2016. We hope to see you at the convention.


Thursday, July 21st

Dealers’ Room
4:00 PM – 11:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Set-Up
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM — Early Registration
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Opens for Early-Bird Shopping

Programming
9:10 – 9:55 PM — Street & Smith’s Second Stringers — The Whisperer and The Skipper (Will Murray)
10:05 – 10:50 PM — Traveling through Time with H. G. Wells  (Garyn Roberts)
11:00 PM — Pulps in the Pub (join your friends in the hotel bar and talk pulp)

Friday, July 22nd

Dealers’ Room
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM — Early Registration and Dealers’ Room Set-Up
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All

Programming
1:00 – 4:15 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to be announced)
6:55 – 7:00 PM — Welcome to PulpFest 2016 (Convention Chairman Jack Cullers)
7:00 – 7:40 PM — FarmerCon XI — Collaborating with Philip José Farmer (panelists to be announced)
7:50 – 8:35 PM — Our Guest of Honor (to be announced on January 11th)
8:45 – 9:30 PM — The First Science-Fiction Pulp — An AMAZING Story (Joseph Coluccio, president of the Pittsburgh Area Fantasy and Science Fiction Club)
9:40 – 10:20 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — LOVE STORY MAGAZINE and its Romantic Sisters (Laurie Powers)
10:30 – 11:15 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE and the Pulp Western (Will Murray)

Saturday, July 23rd

Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All
10:00 AM – 10:00 PM — Gaming Track in the Clark Room, Second Floor

Programming
1:00 – 1:50 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to be announced)
2:00 – 2:50 PM — The AMAZING World of New Pulp (Ron Fortier new pulp panel)
3:00 – 3:50 PM — Ten Years in The Shadow’s Sanctum — Anthony Tollin’s Sanctum Books
5:00 – 6:50 PM — PulpFest 2016 Group Meal at a Dick’s Last Resort (Volunteer coordinator Sally Cullers)
7:00 – 7:25 PM — PulpFest 2016 Business Meeting (meet the convention organizers)
7:30 – 7:45 PM — 2016 Munsey Award Presentation (presented by J. Randolph Cox or Stephen T. Miller)
8:00 – 8:45 PM — 120 Years of THE ARGOSY — The World’s First Pulp Magazine  (Doug Ellis)
8:55 –  9:40 PM — The Artists of THE ARGOSY —  120 Years of Sensational Pulp Artists (David Saunders)
10:00 PM – ??— Saturday Night at the Auction (John Gunnison & Joseph Saine)

Sunday, July 24th

Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All (many dealers will be packing up; buying opportunities may be limited)

Please note that this schedule is subject to change.

For questions about our programming, please write to our programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
For questions about our dealers’ room, please write to our convention chairperson Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com.



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Reply to Satan" by Ralph Franklin from SECRET AGENT "X", October, 1937

To save the girl he loved, Detective Doug Weldon challenged killer's hell-guns with his personal....Reply to Satan

"Up Swiftwater Canon" by George M. Johnson from ARGOSY WEEKLY, June 5, 1920
A bank courier is murdered and $10,000 payroll stolen. The Sheriff investigates in a nice contemporary western police procedural.

"Homicide Tally" by H. Q. Masur from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, December, 1941
From warblers to wicker baskets in one easy hop. That was the setup Counselor Carew found at the Humming Bird Club. For he arrived just in time to see a glamor gal canary swing into a dance of death.



PULPlications!

PULPlications! Is proud to present its first in a series of New Pulp Heroes for a New Millennium!
Introducing DARE DEVLIN, the Supreme Adventurer !


A fearless green-eyed red-haired handsome Devil who fights on the side of the Angels! Scion of fourteen generations of heroic American pioneers dedicated to physical, intellectual and moral self-development since 1776, he's achieved "Peak Human" Condition!

Devlin and his Amazing Associates, all of whom faced certain Death and lived, now consider themselves to be living on "borrowed time" and honor-bound to use every remaining moment seeking justice for all! Where others may be daunted, they rise to any Challenge, because they all should've died long ago!

The Supreme Adventurer and his Amazing Associates battle the Brain-Wrecker, the Destroyer of Minds! Following a trail of madness and death, they'll travel under the polar ice to the shores of Japan before coming to grips not only with the Brain-Wrecker but also an unexpected and even more powerful foe!

Available now in paperback or a deluxe hard cover version with an added bonus story, “Mechanized Death!”

Paperback, 6x9, 322 pages, $14.99
Hardcover, 6x9, 388 pages, $29.99

Hardcover (Signed & Numbered), 6x9, 388 pages, $35.00 (Ships June 1st)

For collectors , pre-orders for a special crimson cloth hard cover edition signed by the author, Dafydd Neal Dyar as well as the introduction writer, the Eisner Award nominee Martin Powell and Rondo Award winner, cover artists Mark Maddox are now open at Fantom Press.



Pulp Adventurecon
November 5, 2016!




Pulp Crazy - Now online!

The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs - New!
Recent Doc Savage Film Developments
Delenda Est by Robert E. Howard 
Swords in the Mist (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 3) by Fritz Leiber
Conan Vs Rune by Barry Windsor-Smith
The Affair of the Cuckolded Warlock by H. Warner Munn

Pulp Den - Now online!

Glare of The Gorgon - New!
Deadly Ties
The Crossroads
The Hatching
Fever City  
         Pulp Den  

Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

Adventure - Review of May 15, 1933 issue
Tom Curry - Author, Engineer, Sportsman  
Some beautiful covers from the Elks magazine by Alex Raymond
Some beautiful covers from the Elks magazine by Edgar F. Wittmack

Pulp Magazines Project - Now online!

Publishing legends The Black Mask (1920), Weird Tales (1923), and Amazing Stories (1926) are considered so “extremely rare and valuable” that the U.S. Library of Congress houses its collection of 277 issues in Washington, D.C.’s Rare Book and Special Collections Division—along with the personal libraries of Presidents, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and one of only three known perfect copies of the Gutenberg Bible in existence. With its latest addition of 4 issues of The Black Mask (Aug. & Sept. 1920; Dec. 1921; and Apr. 1922), the Pulp Magazines Project has made all 3 classic titles available together—for the first time—in high-quality, cover-to-cover digital editions.

Also available at the Pulp Magazines Project, new issues of the iconic “weird menace” pulp, Dime Mystery Magazine (Apr. 1938 and Sept. 1946); Adventure (Jul. 1, 1928; feat. Walt Coburn’s “The Man Who Hated Himself”); Western Story (Jul. 27, 1940); Detective Story (May 1938; feat. Zorro-creator Johnston McCulley’s “Thubway Tham’s Thothial Thecurity”); and histories of both The Black Mask (E.R. Hagemann; UCLA) and Dime Mystery Magazine (Emily Sisler; University of West Florida).



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.


The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.


That's Pulp! by John Olsen

Lost Shadow OTR: ‘Suicide Resort’ - New!
The Spider #110: ‘Zara: Master of Murder’
Perry Mason: novels #11 and #12
‘Government Agents vs. Phantom Legion’: a serial in 12 chapters
Lost Shadow OTR: ‘The Insidious Serpent’
The Spider, #4: ‘City of Flaming Shadows’

Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Bits of pulp: Cthulhu, cosplay, sf
Bits of pulp: ‘Shadow Comics,’ pulp cons
Meet the original ‘X-Men,’ part 2
The ebb and flow of pulp fandom online

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/

 Burroughs Group:
This group is dedicated to the study and appreciation of one of the greatmasters of literary adventure,  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/

Radio Archives
Secret Agent "X" #11 Audiobook
The Sinister Scourge

by Paul Chadwick writing as Brant House
Read by Milton Bagby

Now available!


His true face unknown, his identity forever buried in a secret government file, Secret Agent “X” came back from the dead to take on the sinister sadists and evil extortionists who prey on innocent Americans. A master of disguise who carries a non-lethal gas gun, “X” the unknown is backed by a cabal of wealthy citizens and is answerable only to the shadowy K-9 in Washington.  

 
Unseen, horrible as the tightening coils of some spectral serpent, the dope ring worked! Those who betrayed its secrets died in the agonies of the green-hued poison death. Those who served it became sweating, shattered slaves. And Agent “X” dared both death and slavery to fight the sinister scourge!
 
The enigma of enigmas, Secret Agent “X” has been deputized by a high government official to battle the darkest, most diabolical enemies of America before they sink their poisonous fangs into the nation’s healthy core. Faceless and unsung, “X” infiltrates these threats in a bewildering array of disguises.
 
Paul Chadwick specialized in telling melodramatic mystery yarns saturated in an atmosphere of impending doom. The pulp editors called these menace stories. Eventually, these thrillers evolved into sub-genre known as weird menace. In Secret Agent “X”, a cloud of diabolical danger hangs over the heads of every innocent character until “X”, using his fists, his gas gun, or his loyal operatives, shatters the threat for all time.
 
No one knew who Secret Agent “X” really was. Not his readers. Not his editors. Not even his writer, conceivably. To this day in the 21st Century, his true identity is still a deep mystery. That’s keeping a secret!
 
Follow the Man of a Thousand Faces as he confronts the menace of The Sinister Scourge, ripped from the pages of Secret Agent “X” magazine, January 1935 and read with chilling intensity by Milton Bagby.
 
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs



Radio Archives
Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Operator #5 eBook
#42 The Dawn That Shook the World - November-December 1938

by Curtis Steele

Now available!

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.
 
Jimmy Christopher, clean-cut, square-jawed and clear-eyed, was the star of the most audacious pulp magazines ever conceived — Operator #5. Savage would-be conquerors, creepy cults, weird weather-controllers and famine-creating menaces to our mid-western breadbasket... these were but a few of the fiendish horrors that Jimmy Christopher was forced to confront. Operator #5 returns in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.


 
Table of Contents:
 
Introduction by Will Murray
The Enemy is Here! — Editorial
 
Thrilling Feature-Length Novel of America’s Undercover Ace
The Dawn That Shook the World by Curtis Steele
Over the entire civilized world had broken the terrible, false dawn of anarchy and revolution that threatened to consume America in its fury! But Operator 5 and his volunteer aides saw one desperate chance to avert disaster. Overseas sailed this valiant little band, on them resting the final hope of civilization. And there, in his lair, they found and fought, blow upon blow, the devil dictator who had sworn to weld the whole world into an evil empire and make an end, for all time, of freedom, justice and liberty!
 
Things That Made America Great
The Guns That Swam to Battle by Morton Taney
Only one British fort stood between the Colonial troops and a great victory — yet that fort was impregnable. In this hour of darkness for young America’s hopes, a single ray of light gleamed. For one Yankee, who wouldn’t be licked, had found the way to beat the world’s greatest army — without firing a single bullet!
 
The Secret Sentinel — A Department
 
Secret Sentinel Reports — Our Readers
 
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.
All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi formats for the ultimate in compatibility.
If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want.
If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want. $3.99.

Radio Archives
Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Horror Stories eBook

John H. Knox

Now available!

These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook. As a special bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this Horror Stories series of eBooks.
 
Horror Stories! The dark companion to Dime Mystery Magazine. Created to showcase stories too horrible for Terror Tales. The third of the triumvirate of fear pulps. This brand of fiction came to be called Weird Menace. The mystery-and-menace formula proved so successful that publisher Popular Publications produced Dime Mystery Magazine, Terror Tales and Horror Stories. These three dominated the Weird Menace genre all through the 1930s. Blurbed as “mystery-horror” stories instead of “mystery-terror,” Horror Stories was formulated differently that its companion titles. Damn the plot. Pour on the menace! This ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Horror Stories magazine, all written by Arthur J. Burks, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.


 
Table of Contents:
 
Horror Stories — An Introduction by Will Murray
 
Men Without Blood — January 1935 issue of Horror Stories by John H. Knox
Even knives could draw from them no blood. Yet it was blood that they sought, blood that they sucked from their victim’s headless corpses!
 
The Blood Moon — July 1935 issue of Horror Stories by John Knox
The man who had come to help Cicely Blain had to look on, impotent and horrified, as the ritual fiends prepared to strip the skin from her quivering body.
 
When the Blood-God Ruled — November 1935 issue of Horror Stories by John H. Knox
They called her the Lady of the Night — that savage goddess who exacted terrible sacrifices from her worshippers. Could Stanley Osborn, knowing his only hope of escaping agonizing death at her hands, call on another deity — in whom he would never believe!
 
The Pain People — February-March 1937 issue of Horror Stories by John H. Knox
She gloried in the ecstasy of the passion-crazed and moon-blinded beings whose priestess she was. And she led the man who loved her, unsuspecting, down the tortuous midnight paths of that hell where Pain is King!
 
Dance of the Beast People — December 1940 issue of Horror Stories by John H. Knox
What was it that turned those simple miners’ wives into savage, snarling beasts, hungry for the kill? Could it be that in them still flowed the horror-tainted blood of the Nagualists — that the black sorcery of a distant past had come again out into the open to ravage and destroy?
 
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TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS: 1964
Frank Frazetta Full-color Edition
ITZL CHA UNBOUND!
Now available!


Ever since Biblo and Tannen placed a banner across the cover art of TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS to keep from shocking the public, fans have longed to see the famous Frazetta image properly displayed on their copies of the Canaveral Press dust-jacket.

Now, after over 100 hours of research, careful study of more than 70 different Frazetta watercolors, and careful production, the Alternate Timeline™ version of TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS is available from Recoverings.

With coloring approved by Frazetta friend and collector, and Edgar Rice Burroughs scholar Robert R. Barrett, this full color dust-jacket presents the art with the same palette and watercolor techniques that Frazetta himself might well have used at that point in his career.

Here is a new way to see and display the final collection of ERB’s shorter Tarzan stories. This is how the jacket might have looked if Canaveral had had the money to do it right.

A limited edition, only 64 of these jackets will be available.
Each will be individually printed, to order, on an Epson Stylus Pro 3880, with 8-color UltraChromeK3 archival inks on 47lb. Red River Premium Matte paper, to closely match the stock of the original.
Each jacket will be numbered and inscribed to the buyer.
Limited to 64 copies: $40.00




Robert E. Howard Days
June 10 and 11, 2016!

The Robert E. Howard Foundation and Project Pride of Cross Plains, Texas are proud to announce the dates and Guest of Honor for the 2016 version of Howard Days, to be held June 10th and 11th at the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains.

This year’s Guest of Honor is Michael Scott Myers, screenwriter for the movie The Whole Wide World, the biographical film based on the book One Who Walked Alone, which recounted the relationship between Robert E. Howard and Novalyne Price. We are happy to welcome Michael as our GOH, as he is the perfect person to blend with our Howard Days theme this year, Anniversaries.

2016 finds us with a number of important Robert E. Howard Anniversaries: 110 years since his birth, 80 years since his death, 70 years since the publication of Skull Face and Others, 50 years since Conan the Adventurer from Lancer, 40 years since Glenn Lord’s The Last Celt, 30 years since Novalyne Price Ellis’ One Who Walked Alone and 20 years since the movie The Whole Wide World (which was based on Novalyne’s book).

Michael’s involvement with The Whole Wide World began with his being a student of Novalyne Price Ellis in Lafayette, LA. Having read her book about Howard, he knew what a wonderful movie it would make. So, our Guest of Honor is doubly qualified this year and we’re thrilled to have him.

There is lots more information to follow and you can read about it here and at the Howard Days blog. While the cold winds of January are blowing now, make plans to come to Texas in June where the warmth will be in both the air and in the fellowship of Robert E. Howard fans!

Panel Schedule

FRIDAY June 10. Panels to be held in the Cross Plains High School Library


11 am: 30 YEARS OF HOWARD DAYS. The origins and history of Howard Days will be discussed, along with a showing of photos from over the years. Rusty Burke, Bill Cavalier and Susan McNeel-Childers of Cross Plains will tell their tales.
1:30 pm: The Whole Wide World and One Who Walked Alone. Guest of Honor Michael Scott Myers will discuss the movie, the book and Novalyne Price Ellis, as interviewed by Mark Finn.
2:30 pm: Presentation of the Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards. Rusty Burke, Bill Cavalier and a cast of several. 30 minutes.
9:00 pm: Fists at the Ice House. Mark Finn, Chris Gruber, Jeff Shanks and Patrice Louinet will entertain you with a spirited discussion of the Pugilistic Bob Howard, complete with readings from Howard’s boxing tales. Held on the actual site of the Ice House where Howard boxed.

SATURDAY June 11. Panels to be held at the Cross Plains Senior Center


11:00 am: REH and FRAZETTA: Celebrating the Fifty Year Legacy of the Lancers. Come hear a lively discussion about this benchmark event in Howard Publishing along with the importance of Frank Frazetta’s iconic cover paintings for the series.
Panelists to include: Gary Romeo, Special Guest Val Mayerik, Jeff Shanks and Rusty Burke (with an opening monologue by Bill Cavalier).

1:30 pm: The Life of Robert E. Howard – A discussion of Howard’s life, his working habits, his mannerisms, his routines, his quirks, his interests. We’ll talk about Howard the Man as opposed to Howard the Writer and also show some rare Howard artifacts (typescripts, photos etc.). Panelists to include: Mark Finn, Patrice Louinet, Chris Gruber and Paul Herman.

2:30 pm: The First Annual Glenn Lord REH Symposium. A presentation by several REH scholars regarding Howard the Writer, with special essay readings by Daniel Look,  Jonas Pridas, Todd Vick, Dierk Guenther. Moderator: Jeff Shanks. 90 minutes.





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Robert E. Howard
QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST Audiobook

Now available for pre-order!

At the right is the finished cover art, sans lettering, for an audio book of the REH classic, QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST from BonaFide Outlaw Freepress coming out in July.
The list price is $19.95, but the audiobook can be pre-ordered for $14.95.
To pre-order, click on the link below and then click on the SHOP NOW button at the top of the page.

Pre-orders will ship July 18.




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The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Archive
THE SPIDER'S WEB
Research copies are now available!


Archive DVD featuring Warren Hull - 15 Chapters (Complete)

One of the major original pulp heroes comes to the screen in the greatest adaptation of pulp to film ever created, featuring Warren Hull and Iris Meredith. Consistently rated one of the top 5 cliffhanger serials of all time by fans, and hugely influential. Source: new digital transfer of 16mm original print, complete, with generally excellent sharp picture quality, restored picture element with stabilization, exposure correction, and noise reduced audio.

Status: Restoration complete, archive DVD requests are shipping now.
To request a research copy, click here.





The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Archive
TARZAN THE FEARLESS SERIAL
Now available!

DVD Set, 12 Episodes + Memorabilia Slideshow
2 hours 26 minutes
$ 21.95

Chapter Titles
1 THE DIVE OF DEATH 16:56
2 THE STORM GOD STRIKES! 18:11
3 THUNDERING DEATH 12:42
4 THE PIT OF PERIL 15:23
5 BLOOD MONEY 6:54
6 VOODOO VENGEANCE 11:21
7 CAUGHT BY CANNIBALS 8:10
8 THE CREEPING TERROR 7:05
9 EYES OF EVIL 13:53
10 THE DEATH PLUNGE 5:49
11 HARVEST OF HATE 9:14
12 JUNGLE JUSTICE 15:10
SLIDESHOW


Click on the link above for complete details on this production, a preview from Chapter 1, and the ordering link.


THE RESTORATION

The existing feature version of TARZAN THE FEARLESS is a hastily-assembled condensation of the original material which presents a good deal of it out of order and some scenes without proper setup or explanation.

Additional footage not seen since the serial's original release has been made available to the Squadron which will be incorporated into this DVD restoration of the serial that will be presented in original single-chapter form, with opening and closing titles and cliffhanger endings intact.

Existing content here is presented in its original cliffhanger format, and every chapter is represented in the DVD. Stil-missing sections have been reconstructed and summarized according to the available information in the existing original script draft, the Big Little Book text, and published descriptions of chapters as released.

The content which remains missing from the serial involved a capture of the explorers by the Koso tribe and their escape from execution, and a sequence in which Tarzan rescues Mary from capture by the soldiers of Zar but is knocked from a high rock by a thrown bolo, then rescued by his friend Taug the gorilla. Photos from both sequences are included in the DVD.

Light toning effects are used mostly on the early episodes to help bring out the clarity of the image and define action locations.



The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

The Circle of Death
- New!
The Black Dragon
The Golden Vulture
The Third Skull
The Devil's Feud

Skelos Press
SKELOS: THE JOURNAL OF WEIRD FICTION AND DARK FANTASY
Kickstarter campaign lauches May 10 and runs through June 10!
First issue to ship in late June / early July!


Skelos Press is proud to announce the launch of its new flagship journal with a Kickstarter campaign that will begin on Tuesday May 10th. The first issue of SKELOS: THE JOURNAL OF WEIRD FICTION AND DARK FANTASY will feature a never-before-published fantasy piece by Robert E. Howard (Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane) illustrated by the legendary Mark Schultz (Xenozoic Tales, Coming of Conan, Prince Valiant). Also featured is a new sword and sorcery novelette by Keith Taylor (Bard series, Cormac Mac Art), a long-awaited sequel to his classic tale "Men from the Plain of Lir" originally published in WEIRD TALES. This story will be illustrated by the fantastic Tomás Giorello (Dark Horse King Conan). Another highlight of the issue will be a tale of dark fantasy from World Fantasy Award nominee and John W. Campbell Award nominee Scott A. Cupp.

SKELOS is edited by Mark Finn, author of the World Fantasy Award-nominated BLOOD AND THUNDER; Chris Gruber, editor of Robert E. Howard's BOXING STORIES from the University of Nebraska Press; and Jeffrey Shanks, co-editor of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated UNIQUE LEGACY OF WEIRD TALES.

Editor Mark Finn stated, "I'm excited to be part of the editorial staff for this journal. We are finding and publishing material that we love to read, and read about. There's a long-standing tradition to weird fiction, and we think we can contribute something new and exciting to it."

The first issue will contain short fiction from such talented writers as Charles Gramlich, Dave Hardy, Jason Ray Carney, Ethan Nahte, Scott Hannan, and Matt Sullivan; a fully illustrated adaptation of Grettir and the Draugr from the Icelandic sagas by Samuel Dillon; weird verse by Frank Coffman, Pat Calhoun, Kenneth Bykerk, and Jason Hardy; Insightful essays by Nicole Emmelhainz, Karen Kohoutek, and Jeffrey Shanks; reviews by Charles Hoffman, Bobby Derie, Keith West, Todd Vick, Paul McNamee, Deuce Richardson, Brian Murphy,
and Josh Adkins; and with illustrations by Mark Schultz, Tomás Giorello, Samuel Dillon, and David Cullen.

The Kickstarter campaign will run until June 10 and the issue will begin shipping in late June with an ebook version available at the same time.
More information can found at the Skelos Press Facebook page at the link below or you can follow the project on Twitter @SkelosPress.



TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE: SEASON ONE - Coming June 14!

“Just in time for Father’s Day and the theatrical release, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release the long awaited animated series that aired when Saturday Morning Cartoons reigned supreme. Available on DVD on June 14, 2016, Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle: Complete Season One was created by the Filmation Studio for CBS and follows the animated adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ape man from the 1970’s. The two-disc collectors set includes all 16 episodes from the series’ first season, and is priced to own at $19.98 SRP.

As the opening narration explains: “The jungle: Here I was born; and here my parents died when I was but an infant. I would have soon perished, too, had I not been found by a kindly she-ape named Kala, who adopted me as her own and taught me the ways of the wild. I learned quickly, and grew stronger each day, and now I share the friendship and trust of all jungle animals. The jungle is filled with beauty, and danger; and lost cities filled with good, and evil. This is my domain, and I protect those who come here; for I am Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle!”

“Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle was animated the old fashion way, with many hours of hand drawn stills,” said Mary Ellen Thomas, Vice President Family & Animation Marketing and Partner Brands. “They don’t make animation like this anymore, and we are really proud to be releasing this timeless classic just in time for the July release of Tarzan in theaters.”


16 22-MINUTE EPISODES:
Tarzan and the City of Gold
Tarzan and the Vikings
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Tarzan and the Forbidden City
Tarzan and the Graveyard of the Elephants
Tarzan's Return to the City of Gold
Tarzan and the Strange Visitors
Tarzan and the Land of the Giants
Tarzan and the Knights of Nimmr
Tarzan's Rival
Tarzan and the City of Sorcery
Tarzan at the Earth's Core
Tarzan and the Ice Creature
Tarzan and the Olympiads
Tarzan's Trial
Tarzan, the Hated

Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle: Complete Season One
Street Date: June 14, 2016
Total Running Time: Approx 352 minutes
Price: $19.98 SRP


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.

Eugene C. Dolson (1860-1938) - New!
Roberto Quaglia (b. 1962) - New!
Leslyn MacDonald (1904-1981)
Charles Henry Mackintosh (1885-?)
Lady Eleanor Smith (1902-1945)
Dorothea Gibbons (1902-1989)


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

Now available!
X-Men: Days of Future Past, Alex Irvine, Marvel, $7.99
Ghosts of Karnak, George Mann, Titan Books, Ltd., $7.99
Velveteen vs. The Seasons, Seanan McGuire, ISFic Press, $30.00

Coming soon!
Stiletto [sequel to The Rook], Daniel O’Malley, Little, Brown & Co., $25.99, June 14, 2016
Captain America: Sub Rosa, David McDonald, Joe Books, $9.99, June 21, 2016
Man from Atlantis, Patrick Duffy, Permuted Platinum, $16.00, June 21, 2016
Sif: Even Dragons Have Their Endings, Asgard Trilogy, Book 2, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Joe Books, $9.99, July 5, 2016
The Interminables, Paige Orwin, Angry Robot, $7.99, July 5, 2016
The Conclave of Shadow [Missy Masters #2], Alyc Helms, Angry Robot, $7.99, July 5, 2016
Heroine Complex, Sara Kuhn, DAW Books, $15.00, July 5, 2016
Warriors Three: Godhood’s End, Asgard Trilogy, Book 3, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Joe Books, $9.99, July 19, 2016
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, Paul Crilley, Marvel, $24.99, July 19, 2016
Lara Croft and the Blade of Gwynnever, Dan Abnett & Nik Vincent, DK Publishing, $12.99,  July 26, 2016
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge, Larry Correia & John Ringo, Baen, $27.00 August 2, 2016
Suicide Squad: The Official Movie Novelization, Marv Wolfman, Titan Books, $7.99, August 9, 2016

Wild Cards XXIII: High Stakes, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $25.99, August 23, 2016
Marvel’s Iron Man: Mutually Assured Destruction, Patrick Shand, Joe Books, $9.99, August 23, 2016
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: Castaways, David MacDonald, Joe Books, $9.99, August 30, 2016
Black Widow: Forever Red, Margaret Stohl, Marvel Press, $9.99, September 6, 2016
Futuristic Violence & Fancy Suits, David Wong, St. Martin’s Griffin, $16.99, October 4, 2016
Wild Cards VI: Ace in the Hole, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $17.99, October 4, 2016
Black Widow: Red Vengeance, Margaret Stohl, Marvel Press, $17.99, October 11, 2016
Doctor Strange: The Fate of Dreams, Devin Grayson, Marvel, $24.99, October 18, 2016
Iron Man: The Gauntlet, Eoin Colfer, Marvel Press, $16.99, October 25, 2016
The Flash: The Haunting of Barry Allen, Clay & Susan Griffith, Titan Books, $7.99, October 25, 2016
Gotham: Dawn of Darkness, Jason Starr, Titan Books, $7.99,  November 29, 2016

Monster Hunter Memoirs: Sinners, Larry Correia & John Ringo, Baen, $27.00, December 6, 2016
Avalanche: Secret World Chronicle (Bk. 5), Mercedes Lackey, et al., Baen, $25.00, January 3, 2017

Monster Hunter Tales, eds. Bryan Thomas Schmidt & Larry Correia, Baen, $29.99, January 6, 2017
Pax Britannia: The El Sombra Trilogy, Al Ewing, Abaddon, $15.99, January 10, 2017


WEIRDBOOK #32
Now available!

Issue # 32 of the legendary Weirdbook is now available from Amazon and Wildside Press.

Weirdbook is the premier weird fiction magazine on the market today.

Issue #31, our first relaunch issue, was a rousing success and was
applauded by both the critic and our readers.

Weirdbook is published by John Betancourt's "Wildside Press" and
edited by former "Weird Tales" on-line editor Douglas Draa.

Weirdbook is currently appearing twice yearly with each issue topping
170 pages packed full of the best in weird fiction and poetry.


CONTENTS

Fiction

Childhood's Dread, by Taye Carrol
The Other Neighbors, by Daniel Davis
Rare Air, by Mark Slade
The Children, by J.E. Álamo
The Radiant Boy, by Kevin Wetmore
The Whisperer in the Woods, by Peter Schranz
Sweet Oblivion, by Andrew Darlington
An Unsolicited Lucidity, by Lee Clark Zumpe
Black Carnival, by Bobby Cranestone
The Howard Family Tradition, by P. R. O'Leary
Hell in a Boxcar, by Scott A. Cupp
Jorōgumo, by Kelda Crich
Clay Baby, by Jack Lee Taylor
The Corpse and the Rat: A Story of Friendship, by Joshua L. Hood
Getting Thin, by DJ Tyrer
Maybe Next Door, by Richard LaPore
Containment Protocol, by Leeman Kessler
Under a Rock, by Lori R. Lopez
The Children Must Be Hungry, by L.F. Falconer
The Road to Hell, by Kevin L. O'Brien
Maggot Coffee, by Roy C. Booth and Axel Kohagen
Baby Mine, by Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen
In Blackwalk Wood, by Adrian Cole
My Longing to See Tamar, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Gust of Wind Made by Swinging a Blade, by Molly N. Moss

Poetry
Necromancer's Lair, by Chad Hensley
The Helm, by Chad Hensley
Ex Arca Sepulcrali, by Wade German
The Laughter of Ghouls, by K.A. Opperman
Ode to Ashtoreth, by K.A. Opperman
The Necro-Conjuring Sorceress, by Ashley Dioses
What Dark Gods Are Friends to Me? by Chad Hensley
Scarlet Succubus Shrine, by Frederick J. Mayer
Penelope, Sleepless, by Darrell Schweitzer


Paperback: 174 pages
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
List Price: $12.00

Weirdbook #32 - Wildside Press    Weirdbook #32 - Amazon.com  

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THE WEIRD TALES OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN - Coming June 15!
by Robert E. Howard


Before he conquered books, comics, and movies, Robert E. Howard's immortal character Conan the Cimmerian was born in the pages of the pulp magazine Weird Tales.
Reprinted as they originally appeared in that legendary publication from 1934 to 1936, this ferocious anthology gathers many of the barbarian's most famous adventures:
"Red Nails," "The Hour of the Dragon," "Queen of the Black Coast," and four others.


Paperback: 272 pages
$12.95



William Patrick Maynard - Now online!
Fu_Manchu_(Grindhouse)The late Harry Alan Towers is best remembered by Sax Rohmer fans for writing and producing five Fu Manchu films starring Christopher Lee and two Sumuru films starring Shirley Eaton in the 1960s. Towers would later write and produce a third Sumuru film starring Alexandra Kamp in 2003. This effort was a sci-fi reworking of the concept that owed little to Rohmer. What is less well known was that Towers had also spent years trying to make a sixth Fu Manchu film that would also have marked a significant break from its predecessors.

Read the rest at the link below.