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30 December 2016

2017 Windy City Pulp and Paper Show
April 21-23, 2017

As 2016 comes to a close, Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention is less than a half a year away. 
Our theme this coming convention is a combo of Red Circle Pulps and Gangster Mags celebration.
We have a guest that worked for the Goodman Company, but until we firm up the details, can't say much more.

Gangster magazines began with The Underworld in 1927, thereby it's 90th Anniversary. 
A genre that was heavily used by Harold Hersey. 
Which leads us into some exciting news regarding our upcoming Friday Night Auction. 
A collection of some truly remarkable pulps will be available for auction, and you can check out some of the sample issues in our newsletter
[all pulps in the newsletter will be in the auction and more] and on our Facebook and Website.


For Hotel Information/Registration information, visit the link below.
For con registration (Tables and membership), visit the link below.


Adventure House
Now available!

Phantom Detective - September 1940

"The Phantom and the Melody Murders" by Robert Wallace
Songdom’s Hit Parade gives way to a corpse cavalcade when the keyboard killer and his criminal cohorts rule swing lane! 
Follow the World’s Greatest Sleuth as he pits himself against the menacing evil power of a madman.

"Murder Is My Business" by Barry Brandon
"Of Lice and Men" by Thomas Thursday

Softcover, 7×10, 112 pages
$14.95



Adventure House
Now available!

G-Men – July 1939


"Golden Harvest" by C.K.M. Scanlon
F.B.I. Inspector Dan Fowler takes a trail of blood and bullets when he goes on a manhunt to check a sinister crime baron’s heinous activities!
The law is challenged by a Midas of Murder whose touch means sudden death.

"Mr. Wong Travels East" by Lee Fredericks
"Burning Oil" by Milton Lowe

Softcover, 7×10, 112 pages
$14.95
   


Adventure House
Now available!

Thrilling Wonder Stories - December 1938

"The Star Parade" by Henry Kuttner
"The Loot of Time" by Clifford Simak
"The Metal Ocean" by Eando Binder
"Bands Across the Void" by Will Garth
"The Great Adventure" by Ray Cummings
"Tidal Moon" by Stanley G. & Hellen Weinbaum
"The Cosmic Hiss" by Edmond Hamilton

8
Softcover, 7×10, 12 pages
$14.95


   



Adventures in Bronze / Altus Press

EMPIRE OF DOOM
Doc Savage & The Shadow vs. Shiwan Khan

Coming very soon!


Will Murray reports that the nice folks at Conde Nast have officially approved Empire of Doom!

The softcover is anticipated to be up for ordering this weekend (December 31/January 1).
The hardcover is not very far behind!





Airship 27 Productions
QUATERMAIN – The New Adventures Volume 2

Now available!




Airship 27 Productions announces the release of their latest title featuring a beloved action adventure protagonist. H. Rider Haggard’s classic hero, Alan Quatermain, returns in three brand new adventures all set on the Dark Continent.  Thomas Kent Miller’s novella has the big-game hunter traveling to Ethiopia to search for the fabled Library of Alexandria.  Erik Franlin pits him against an ancient cult of assassins while Alan J. Porter has the skilled tracker stuck in the middle of the Boer War trying to find the source of a diamond smuggling operation.

“This is a fun series for us,” declares Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor, Ron Fortier. “The response to volume one was so overwhelmingly positive. It has already been done as an audio book from Radio Archives and demand for more stories hasn’t stopped since we released that first book.”

Artist Graham Hill provides the cover to this second anthology while Clayton Hinkle, who provided interior illustrations for Vol 1 returns to add another dozen great pieces.  All under the supervision of Art Director Rob Davis.  Fortier adds, “We trusts our readers will welcome this new collection. In regards to this series, believe me, we’re just getting warmed up.”

Now it is time to enjoy three fast paced, original tales that capture the mystery and adventure of a wild, untamed land and the man who loved it above all else.  Journey with him and embrace the magic that was and remains Africa.



Available now from Amazon and coming soon on Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Altus Press: Pulp Blog by Morgan Wallace - Now online!

There Shall Be Darkness by C. L. Moore (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
Never Trust a Martian by Paul W. Fairman (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
“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

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available at online retailers and arriving in comic shops January 4!

THE SHADOW Volume 113: "Legacy of Death" & "The Devil's Partner"—Spotlighting cabby Moe Shrevnitz
The Knight of Darkness and his cabby aide crush crime in classic pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson and Theodore Tinsley writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, when old Landis Framingham dies, his multimillion dollar estate becomes a "Legacy of Death" to his heirs! Then, The Shadow, Margo Lane and Shrevvy investigate a young man who has followed in his father's footsteps, first as a psychoanalyst and then as "The Devil's Partner." BONUS: a classic Shadow thriller from the Golden Age of Radio! This special collector's volume showcases the classic color pulp covers by George Rozen and Charles de Feo and the original interior illustrations by Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-221-6 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:
CAPTAIN HAZZARD: Custer's Ghost by Ron Fortier

Beyond Worlds Collide By Jeff Deischer
Pulpfest 2016: #10- Guest of Honor- Ted White



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
The final quarterly issue of Blood ‘n’ Thunder is one of the best in the magazine’s 14-year run.
Number 49/50 offers the usual wide variety of articles and essays covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Among the topics explored in this double-sized farewell issue: Cornell Woolrich’s novelette “It Had to Be Murder” and Rear Window, the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller adapted from it; the 1889 story paper that may have influenced The Shadow’s creation; the 1915 cliffhanger serial smash called The Diamond from the Sky; the origins of Robert E. Howard’s demonic wizard Skelos; the short-lived 1935 radio series featuring pulpdom’s The Spider; and Depression-era apprisals of the detective-pulp market from a 1933 issue of Writer’s Digest.

There’s also an entire section — over 60 pages — devoted to the collecting and preservation of rare pulp magazines and the premiums they offered; and a 1938 novelette of African intrigue featuring L. Patrick Greene’s suave British rogue “The Major.” Finally, in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Amazing Stories, the very first magazine exclusively devoted to science fiction, we have an extensive selection of reviews of obscure SF yarns from the zine’s early years, illustrated with rare covers from the 1926-1930 period.

This final Blood ‘n’ Thunder has 210 pages and, as usual, is packed with illustrations to accompany its well-researched and well-written articles.

Trade paperback, 8x10, 210 pages
Price: $24.95

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




Bold Venture Press
ZORRO: THE COMPLETE PULP ADVENTURES VOLUME 4
Now available!

Bold Venture Press presents The Sign of Zorro, a full-length adventure from 1941, never reprinted since its original publication.

In Reina de los Angeles they no longer whisper of Señor Zorro — The Fox. For he rides no more; his sword no longer serves the oppressed. And that languorous dandy, Don Diego Vega, fritters the days away, caught in a real and terrible apathy. The sudden and tragic death of his wife has left him without any urge to don his black cloak and mask; and his father, Don Alejandro Vega, is seriously disturbed. If only his son would return to full life; if only Zorro would ride again ....

Then, through Bardoso, the one-time pirate, Don Diego receives word that the beautiful Senorita Panchita Canchola desperately needs the aid of Señor Zorro. Her brother, now the man of the household, is the dupe of a clever scoundrel, whose sinister plans threaten the Governor of California. So Zorro lives again .... And this time he must preserve the life of the man who has sworn to capture him!

This edition includes ten Zorro short stories from West magazine. In the introduction, John E. Petty examines Zorro collectibles across the decades.

CONTENTS
Introduction: “Zorro Collectibles” by John E. Petty
Novel: The Sign of Zorro
Short stories: "Zorro Frees Some Slaves," "Zorro’s Double Danger," "Zorro’s Masquerade," "Zorro Stops a Panic," "Zorro’s Twin Perils," "Zorro Plucks a Pigeon," "Zorro Rides at Dawn," "Zorro Takes the Bait," "Zorro Raids a Caravan," "Zorro’s Moment of Fear"


Paperback, 7"x10", 338 pages,
$19.95


         

Carrie Fisher: October 21, 1956 - December 27, 2016

Carrie Fisher, best known for her iconic role as Star Wars’ Princess Leia, died December 27 after suffering a heart attack four days earlier while onboard a flight from London to Los Angeles. She was 60.
Fisher was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds.
Fisher wrapped her role in Star Wars: Episode VIII in Summer 2016.
Star Wars VIII arrives in theatres December 2017.

Sadly, Fisher's mother, Debbie Reynolds, died of a stroke on December 28, 2016.

Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Short Reviews – Panama Peril, by Jean Francis Webb - New! 
Roads - New! 
Skelos Magazine: Summer 2016 issue
Short Reviews – The Diversifal, by Ross Rocklynne
Short Reviews – Asteroid of Fear, by Raymond Z. Gallun
Mysteries of the Worm


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

What the Well-Dressed Pulp Fan is Wearing (Part 2) - New! 
Roger Moore is SHERLOCK HOLMES IN NEW YORK (1976) with Patrick McNee, John Huston, Charlotte Rampling and more. Sheesh! - New! 
What the Well-Dressed Pulp Fan is Wearing (Part 1)



The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Universe Science Fiction #1
- New! 
Harlan Ellison’s covey of folderolites
J.F. Bone
Other Worlds #1
How to ruin a cover


Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and Jane - Coming to Netflix on January 6, 2017!
Starring: Marci T. House, Michael Dobson, and Omari Newton

Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic jungle tale gets a modern makeover in this stylish animated series.

After surviving a plane crash that leaves him with supernatural powers, teenage Tarzan partners with streetwise city girl Jane to protect his jungle hood and take down baddies.





Edgar Rice Burroughs
TARZAN TRILOGY

Now available in hardcover and softcover!

Tarzan Trilogy by Thomas Zachek
Three all NEW Tarzan Stories, in one book, with Illustrations
Interior illustrations by Douglas Klauba


Three all new tales of Tarzan at Point Station, a remote English outpost near the Waziri homelands. Set during the advent of World War II, we see more and more European intrusion to the Bolongo River Basin. Tarzan becomes embroiled in increasingly dangerous events as cultures clash.
  1. Tarzan and the “Fountain of Youth: Searching for the missing son of a friend, Tarzan encounters agents of an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company exploiting jungle resources for its own profit.
  2. Tarzan and the Cross of Vengeance: A team of archaeologist making a groundbreaking discovery, a group of well-meaning but naive American missionaries arriving to convert the native tribes, and a ruthless band of men with a dark purpose stir up a heady mix of challenges for Tarzan, fomenting an intertribal war that only he can stop.  
  3. Tarzan the Conqueror: When the Third Reich invades Africa to exploit the land for riches and enslave the native populations in labor camps, Tarzan must lead the tribes in an unprecedented tribal resistance.
About the author: Thomas Zachek
I grew up on the Tarzan movies and, to a lesser extent, the comics. But I became hooked on the real Tarzan in high school after picking up a new Ace paperback edition of Tarzan and the Lost Empire for fifty cents, the one with the Frank Frazetta cover of our hero, monkey on his back, hanging from a limb on a cliff and looking down upon the Roman city. I went on to collect the entire series of Ace and Ballantine paperback reissues of Burroughs’ tales (and still have them). I discovered that Burroughs’ stories were quite unlike the family-friendly Tarzan of the movies, with inarticulate Johnny Weismuller as the hulking hero living for some reason in the jungle with a classy, aristocratic Jane. No, Burroughs’ hero was a British lord who spoke educated English and had a fascinating backstory. I was impressed with the far superior level of development and action found in these tales. I attempted writing my first Tarzan tale in 2005 (Tarzan and the “Fountain of Youth”) as something of a lark, and then followed it, to date, with six more Tarzan tales. Friends encouraged me to try to get the stories published. I am grateful to Jim Sullos of ERB, Inc., for giving me the chance. Here are my first three. In these stories, I have tried to craft realistic, page-turning adventure tales featuring classic Tarzan elements while at the same time taking the character in directions that have never been done in Tarzan stories before. I invite you to share your thoughts and comments with me at zachekbooks@gmail.com.







  Now online!

New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

December 2016
We return this month to the first series of Father Brown stories from The Saturday Evening Post. 
This time, "The Wrong Shape," just as it appeared in the December 10, 1910 issue, including the illustrations by George Gibbs and, as an added bonus, a newly written introduction by Dan Neyer.


November 2016
Turning our attention to Baroness Orczy, this month you will find “The Trappist’s Vow” reprinted just as it appeared in the April, 1899 issue of The Royal Magazine, with illustrations by the Baroness's husband, Montagu Barstow.  Introduction by Dan Neyer.

We've also done some revamping of the Bob's Stuff collections and have expanded many of the annotations, giving you more information about the items and where they fall in the history of popular culture. 
We've also added a 4th collection and you will be seeing additional collections on a regular basis after the new year.


October 2016
Since a good portion of the narrative occurs on October 31st, why not curl up with "The Curse of Yig"by Zealia Brown Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft.
We've done an original layout of the story text for this reprinting and have also included lots of background information in the introduction by Bob Gay.


September 2016
Turning our attention back to the work of G. K. Chesterton, we are pleased to present the fourth Father Brown tale, "The Bolt from the Blue (The Hammer of God)," as it appeared in the November 5, 1910 issue of The Saturday Evening Post including the illustrations by George Gibbs.  Introduction is by Dan Neyer.

August 2016
Just to prove that we have some small literary interests at FAFF, we are pleased to present to you "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, as it appeared in the May 27, 1922 issue of Collier's Magazine.
Our presentation includes the illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg and an introduction by Bob Gay.

July 2016
Presenting the third (and oddly titled) Father Brown story, Why True Fishermen Always Wear Green Evening Coats, from the pages of the October 1, 1910 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, including the illustrations by George Gibb.  Introduction to the story is by Dan Neyer.

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.


Goodman Games


This is an exact reproduction of the August 1926 edition of Weird Tales.
Each issue contained a half-dozen or more stories, many of which are now still in print.
This reproduction is a high-quality scan of the original issue. It is perfect bound and slightly larger than digest size, just as the original publication.

The August 1926 issue features beautifully restored cover art by C. Barker Petrie, Jr. (illustrating a Merritt story) and includes these stories:
The Woman of the Wood, by Abraham Meritt
The Terrible Old Man, by H. P. Lovecraft
The Devil’s Pay, by August Derleth
Plus additional stories by B. Wallis, Alanson Skinner, Emma-Lindsey Squier, Edmong Hamilton, Wright Field, G. G. Pendarves, and others

144 pages, 6.5″ x 9.25″
$40.00





This is an exact reproduction of the February 1928 edition of Weird Tales.
Each issue contained a half-dozen or more stories, many of which are now still in print.
This reproduction is a high-quality scan of the original issue. It is perfect bound and slightly larger than digest size, just as the original publication.

The February 1928 issue features beautifully restored cover art by C. C. Senf and includes these stories:
The Call of Cthulhu, by H. P. Lovecraft (in its original published form – this was its first publication)
The Dream Snake, by Robert E. Howard
Mephistoles and Company, Ltd., by Seabury Quinn
Plus additional stories by Elliott O’Donnell, Stuart Strauss, Wilfred B. Talman, Frank Owen, Ray Cummings, John Martin Leahy, and others
144 pages, 6.5″ x 9.25″
$40.00




This is an exact reproduction of the June 1933 edition of Weird Tales.
Each issue contained a half-dozen or more stories, many of which are now still in print.
This reproduction is a high-quality scan of the original issue. It is perfect bound and slightly larger than digest size, just as the original publication.

The June 1933 issue features beautifully restored cover art by Margaret Brundage (the first artist to illustrate Conan) and includes these stories:
Black Colossus, by Robert E. Howard (in its original published form)
Genius Loci, by Clark Ashton Smith (in its original published form)
Nellie Foster, by August Derleth (in its original published form)
Plus additional stories by Jack Williamson, Paul Ernst, Hugh B. Cave, Carl Jacobi, Sophie Wenzel Ellis, and others

128 pages, 6.5″ x 10.25″
$40.00




This is an exact reproduction of the May 1934 edition of Weird Tales.
Each issue contained a half-dozen or more stories, many of which are now still in print.
This reproduction is a high-quality scan of the original issue. It is perfect bound and slightly larger than digest size, just as the original publication.

The May 1934 issue features beautifully restored cover art by Margaret Brundage (the first artist to illustrate Conan) and includes these stories:
Queen of the Black Coast, by Robert E. Howard (in its original published form)
Incubus, a poem by August Derleth
The Tomb-Spawn, by Clark Ashton Smith (in its original published form)
Plus additional stories by E. Hoffman Price, C. L. Moore, Anthony Rud, A. W. Bernal, Carl Jacobi, and others.

128 pages, 6.5″ x 10.25″
$40.00





This is an exact reproduction of the August 1934 edition of Weird Tales.
Each issue contained a half-dozen or more stories, many of which are now still in print.
This reproduction is a high-quality scan of the original issue. It is perfect bound and slightly larger than digest size, just as the original publication.

The August 1934 issue features beautifully restored cover art by Margaret Brundage (the first artist to illustrate Conan) and includes these stories:
The Devil In Iron, by Robert E. Howard (in its original published form)
In Slumber, a poem by Clark Ashton Smith
Plus additional stories by C. L. Moore, Hugh B. Cave, Frank Belnap Long, Jr., Katherine van der Veer, Francis Flagg, Alrton Eadie, Paul Ernst, and others

128 pages, 6.5″ x 10.25″
$40.00







Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

STARTLING MYSTERY STORIES #16

Contents
THE SMELL by Francis Flagg
THE TEMPLE OF DEATH by David H. Keller, M.D.
THE SILVER BULLET by Phyllis A. Whitney
THE MAN WHO COLLECTED EYES by Eddy C. Bertin
THE DEVIL'S ROSARY by Seabury Quinn

Digest, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$8.95


STARTLING MYSTERY STORIES #17

Contents
THE INFERNAL SHADOW by Hugh B. Cave
THE VAULTS OF YOH-VOMBIS by Clark Ashton Smith
LAURA by Joseph H. Bloom
THE VICAR OF HELL by Edward D. Hoch
THE BRIDE OF DEWER by Seabury Quinn


Digest, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$8.95


STARTLING MYSTERY STORIES #18

Contents
DROME OF THE LIVING DEAD by John Scott Douglas
CONJURED by Larry Eugene Meredith
THE GOLDEN PATIO by Aubrey Feist
THE CLEANING MACHINE by F. Paul Wilson
THE STORM THAT HAD TO BE STOPPED by Murray Leinster

Digest, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$8.95


FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION #8

Contents
DARK MOON by Charles Willard Diffin
THE ELD by Miriam Allen deFord
THE ETERNAL MAN by D. D. Sharp
THE MAIDEN'S SACRIFICE by Edward D. Hoch
WHY THE HEAVENS FELL by Epaminondas T. Snooks, D.T.G.


Digest, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$8.95


MAGAZINE OF HORROR #36

Contents
DREAD EXILE by Paul Ernst
THE TESTAMENT OF ATHAMMAUS by Clark Ashton Smith
THE VESPERS SERVICE by William R. Bauer
THE ARTIST OF TAO by Arthur Styron
THE KEY TO CORNWALL by David H. Keller, M.D.
THE EXECUTIONER by Rachel Cosgrove Payes
THE SETTLEMENT OF DRYDEN vs SHARD by W. O. Inglis
THE GRISLY HORROR by Robert E. Howard

Digest, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$8.95









Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

The Death of Newsgroups, Hello Facebook
HBO's WESTWORLD makes a grand comeback
Van Williams, Star of the Green Hornet television series, dead at 82
Is there such a thing as too much TV?


Meteor House
THE SONG OF KWASIN by Christopher Paul Carey
Now available in eBook format!

Meteor House is pleased to announce the first-ever standalone edition of Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey’s critically acclaimed novel The Song of Kwasin, the third volume of the Khokarsa series. The Song of Kwasin previously appeared only in an expensive hardcover omnibus collecting the first three novels of the Khokarsa series and it has never been published alone in its own volume! So if you’ve read Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar, and have been waiting for the epic climax to Philip José Farmer’s original Khokarsa trilogy, this new Meteor House edition—available as both an affordable trade paperback and a collectible signed limited edition hardcover—is your chance to finally read the thrilling, adventure-packed third book!

Meteor House’s new edition of The Song of Kwasin also features cover art and a frontispiece by Hugo Award-winning artist Bob Eggleton as well as rare and previously unpublished bonus materials, including:

A brand-new introduction by noted author and critic Paul Di Filippo*
A Preface to the New Edition by Christopher Paul Carey *
“Kwasin and the Bear God” by Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey (a 20,000-word novella featuring a lost adventure of Kwasin)
The Khokarsan Calendar by Philip José Farmer**
The Plants of Khokarsa by Philip José Farmer**
A Guide to Khokarsa by Christopher Paul Carey (expanded from the guide in the Restored Edition of Flight to Opar)
Notes on the Khokarsa Series by Philip José Farmer*
Philip José Farmer’s Original Outline to The Song of Kwasin**
Philip José Farmer’s Alternate Outline to The Song of Kwasin*
Correspondence by Philip José Farmer to Frank J. Brueckel and John Harwood, authors of “Heritage of the Flaming God,” the monumental essay that inspired the Khokarsa series*
* Never before published.
** Only previously available in an out-of-print and extremely hard-to-find signed limited edition.


Kindle Price: $4.99



The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Manteau
- New!
The Protectors
The Centipede (Villain)
Super Incorporated
The Hood


Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Blonde Dynamite" by William R. Cox from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, February, 1938
The girl had the private dick's heart doing double-time. And then he found that her secret of swinging brass knucks and flying sap made her a double dose of . . . . Blonde Dynamite

"Death Has a C-Book" by Hal K. Wells from THRILLING DETECTIVE, April, 1944
When Nora Malloy, red-headed lady taxi-driver, has death for a passenger, mystery burns the road!

"The Patrol" by Leonard H. Nason from ADVENTURE, September 10, 1922
A day in the life of a patrol going behind enemy lines to capture a soldier, during WWI in Europe.




Pulp Adventurecon
February 11, 2017!

Pulp Adventurecon 2017 fast approaches!
February 11, 2017
For Lauderdale, Florida
Universal Palms Hotel


Pulp Adventurecon returns to the Universal Palms Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida for another afternoon of Golden Age comic books, Pulp Magazines, Big Little Books, Old-Time Radio, movie memorabilia, vintage pin-ups and much more!

25 vendor tables filled with great stuff, and plenty of knowledgeable collectors ready to talk about their favorite characters, authors, genres, and what-not!

If you stay overnight at the Universal Palms Hotel, use the special codeword "pulp" to receive the $109 room rate.

 



Pulp Crazy - Now online!

Dum-Dum 2016 – Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Coldwater Connection
Dum-Dum 2016 – Philip José Farmer’s Ancient Opar Series
The Road by Hiroshi Aramata
Pulp Den - Now online!

The Phantom Detective
- New!
Nightscape - New!
The Magic Quirt
Darkness
King Kong Vs. Tarzan

         Pulp Den  

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

The Lost God - short story by John Russell - with illustrations - New!
Fanny Ellsworth article on writing western stories for Ranch Romances
Article on editing by Ray Long - magazine editor
Arthur S. Hoffman - Profile of Fritz Duquesne, adventurer


The Pulp Hermit - Now online!

The Dealer Of Death - New!
The Power Barons
Scorpio
Secret Mission Angola
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

Murder Marked Merry Christmas, Part 3 - New!
Murder Marked Merry Christmas, Part 2
Murder Marked Merry Christmas, Part 1
Perry Mason: novels #25 and #26
‘The Purple Monster Strikes’: a serial in 15 chapters
Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Selling the pulps with posters, II
Paul A. Carter: 1926-2017
Remembering the pulpsters

Radio Archives
James Christopher, Operator #5 Audiobook
#16 Legions of the Death Master
by Frederick C. Davis writing as Curtis Steele

Read by Milton Bagby

  Now available!

Like the tentacles of a gigantic and loathsome octopus, the ends of that infamous international espionage ring had stretched out across the United States. Lusting for power, the fiendish leader of that ring was stripping the country of its entire armaments; butchering, in the very capital of the nation, the patriots who pleaded for adequate war-strength. Operator #5, America’s Secret Service Ace, tried to oppose that ruthless Death Master — but Jimmy Christopher fought a power that scattered his own helpers, crippled the Intelligence, and threatened invasions that would have spelled utter annihilation!

 
They called James Christopher Operator #5—undercover agent, man of many identities, patriotic protector of America’s sacred shores. Working for the U. S. Intelligence Service, his job is to root out subversive elements and stand as the first line of defense against foreign invasions from all quarters. Aided by street-smart Tim Donovan and newspaperwoman Diane Elliott, Jimmy Christopher was the James Bond of the 1930s! But can even these resourceful comrades hold the line when the world is filled with ambitious dictators bent on conquering America?
 
Jimmy belonged to the clean-cut, square-jaw, clear-eyed breed of hero made popular by the F. B. I. back in those grim days. He carried a Colt automatic and wore a flexible rapier concealed in the hollow of his leather belt. A gold skull ornament dangled from a vest-pocket watch chain. It contained a fast-acting poison in case of capture by enemy agents. Jimmy Christopher played a very dangerous game, of which he was a past master.
 

Into this unprecedented crisis plunged Jimmy Christopher. Only one man, but a man who embodied the American spirit — and stands prepared to perish to protect his country.

 
Legions of the Death Master is read with stirring intensity by Milton Bagby. Originally published in th July, 1935 issue of Operator #5 magazine.

 
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Spider #118 eBook - December 1943
by Prentice Winchell 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
 
Book-length Spider novel When Satan Came to Town by Prentice Winchell writing as Grant Stockbridge
When THE CONQUEROR and his hordes from hell tried to blast their bloody way through America to the Nation’s Capital, only an ex-inmate of Alcatraz stood in their way. The madman’s hirelings knew him as Number 347. You know him as Richard Wentworth — the Spider.
 
Win, Lose — or Die! — Thrilling Mystery by Harold Francis Sorensen
Murder in the squared-circle. When Vic Graw, fight manager, was building up the Kid for the championship, he didn’t know he’d have to fight the Kid himself.
 
The Web — A Department
Conducted by The Chief
Every man a Spider!
 
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


The Shadow 365 - Now online!

A new Shadow blog, "The Shadow 365," is now online.
Every day it will be posting and discussing in chronological order the legendary pulp and comic book covers of "The Shadow."
Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men? The Shadow 365 knows!


THE SPIDER: JUSTICE BEGINS - Coming in May!

The Spider: Justice Begins, printed by Whitehall Printing Company, will be on sale May 17, 2017.
Written by Joel Frieman with art by Ryan Cody, it comes with cover by Greg Luzniak and Bob Wiacek.

The Spider, a world famous pulp fiction action hero, drives a specially outfitted car to fight evil.
Along with the Spider origin adventure, this book includes “Wizards of High Street,” a Munsey Mansion Adventure with Mr. Grun, Iron Man, Thaw the Viking, and Dr. Ahab.

For a teen+ audience, it is 48 pages and retails for $7.
The book comes in softcover with full-color cover with black and white interior.


Smilodon


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.

I'm Dreaming of a Weird Christmas . . . - New!
Dwarves on the Cover of Weird Tales
Cavemen and Jungle Women on the Cover of Weird Tales
Black People and Africa on the Cover of Weird Tales
American Indians and the American West on the Cover of Weird Tales
Weird Tales in Indiana


Tom Johnson
Now available!

Crime is on the rise in New York. Teams of professional thieves rob an art gallery and museum, while across town hoodlums murder elderly shop owners.
From the chaos rises a new hero! His team will challenge the underworld for a reckoning.
The mob is after her, and Kay Shannon is running for her life when she meets a rescuer in black.
Who is the man in the black fedora?


Kindle Price:    $2.99

Softcover edition coming in 2017.





A WELL ORDERED UNIVERSE - Now available!
by Pierre V. Comtois


A new novel by author Pierre V. Comtois, A Well Ordered Universe follows in the wake of the author's other books including Marvel Comics in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1970s, Goat Mother and Others, and The Way the Future Was.

A Well Ordered Universe is a “hard” SF novel in the tradition of James P. Hogan.

In deep space, the Leap of Faith is on a one way journey to a newly discovered physical anomaly that      
some believe could be the hand of God still working the Creation.

Others, however, could care less and are determined to wreck the mission for their own reasons.
Meanwhile, co-commanders Diego Aragon and Fr. Azarias Boucher must overcome mutual suspicions and disagreements over science and religion and unite to oversee a crew whose unseen fault lines could spell disaster for their mission.

Join them and the crew of the Leap of Faith as they struggle with questions of faith and their own human frailties while racing against time to find who among them is determined to destroy them all and end man's quest for the ultimate answers to life and death and Cosmic Purpose!


Publisher: Desert Breeze
Kindle Price: $4.99
Hardcopy availability soon









23 December 2016

2017 Windy City Pulp and Paper Show
April 21-23, 2017

As 2016 comes to a close, Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention is less than a half a year away. 
Our theme this coming convention is a combo of Red Circle Pulps and Gangster Mags celebration.
We have a guest that worked for the Goodman Company, but until we firm up the details, can't say much more.

Gangster magazines began with The Underworld in 1927, thereby it's 90th Anniversary. 
A genre that was heavily used by Harold Hersey. 
Which leads us into some exciting news regarding our upcoming Friday Night Auction. 
A collection of some truly remarkable pulps will be available for auction, and you can check out some of the sample issues in our newsletter
[all pulps in the newsletter will be in the auction and more] and on our Facebook and Website.


For Hotel Information/Registration information, visit the link below.
For con registration (Tables and membership), visit the link below.


Adventure House
Now available!

Phantom Detective - September 1940

"The Phantom and the Melody Murders" by Robert Wallace
Songdom’s Hit Parade gives way to a corpse cavalcade when the keyboard killer and his criminal cohorts rule swing lane! 
Follow the World’s Greatest Sleuth as he pits himself against the menacing evil power of a madman.

"Murder Is My Business" by Barry Brandon
"Of Lice and Men" by Thomas Thursday

Softcover, 7×10, 112 pages
$14.95



Adventure House
Now available!

G-Men – July 1939


"Golden Harvest" by C.K.M. Scanlon
F.B.I. Inspector Dan Fowler takes a trail of blood and bullets when he goes on a manhunt to check a sinister crime baron’s heinous activities!
The law is challenged by a Midas of Murder whose touch means sudden death.

"Mr. Wong Travels East" by Lee Fredericks
"Burning Oil" by Milton Lowe

Softcover, 7×10, 112 pages
$14.95
   


Adventure House
Now available!

Thrilling Wonder Stories - December 1938

"The Star Parade" by Henry Kuttner
"The Loot of Time" by Clifford Simak
"The Metal Ocean" by Eando Binder
"Bands Across the Void" by Will Garth
"The Great Adventure" by Ray Cummings
"Tidal Moon" by Stanley G. & Hellen Weinbaum
"The Cosmic Hiss" by Edmond Hamilton

8
Softcover, 7×10, 12 pages
$14.95


   



Adventures in Bronze / Altus Press

EMPIRE OF DOOM
Doc Savage & The Shadow vs. Shiwan Khan

Coming very soon!


Will Murray reports that the nice folks at Conde Nast have officially approved Empire of Doom!



Adventures in Bronze / Altus Press
DOC SAVAGE: THE WILD AVENTURES #1: PYTHON ISLE SC - Coming to comic shops February 22!
(Writer) Lester Dent & Various (Cover) Joe Devito

Aviator Tom Franklin vanished in 1927, another casualty of the pioneering attempts to cross the world's great oceans by airplane. The grieving public never expected to see him alive again. So when the missing man flew out of the emptiness of the Indian Ocean, still alive and accompanied by a strange woman speaking in an even stranger tongue, a mystery worthy of Doc Savage is born. For they had escaped from a lost island harboring a secret all humanity lusted after... and would kill for!

Softcover, 6x9, 212 pages, B&W, $24.95, On sale in comic shops February 22.

DOC SAVAGE: PYTHON ISLE is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN172331.



Adventures in Bronze / Altus Press
DOC SAVAGE: THE WILD ADVENTURES #2: WHITE EYES SC - Coming to comic shops February 22!
(Writer) Lester Dent & Various (Cover) Joe Devito

All over the city, men were struck down, rendered blind and dead by an undetectable
force, their sightless eyes as featureless as alabaster statues. This was the mark of the unknown supercriminal who called himself White Eyes! Who was he? Why did he strike terror into the hearts of New York City's frightened millions? Only Doc Savage and his fighting band held the key to unmasking the secret motives of this fearsome new crime lord. But how can they defeat a phantom foe who could strike at will without fear of retribution?


Softcover, 6x9, 336 pages, B&W, $24.95, On sale in comic shops February 22.

DOC SAVAGE: WHITE EYES is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN172332.





Airship 27 Productions
QUATERMAIN – The New Adventures Volume 2

Now available!




Airship 27 Productions announces the release of their latest title featuring a beloved action adventure protagonist. H. Rider Haggard’s classic hero, Alan Quatermain, returns in three brand new adventures all set on the Dark Continent.  Thomas Kent Miller’s novella has the big-game hunter traveling to Ethiopia to search for the fabled Library of Alexandria.  Erik Franlin pits him against an ancient cult of assassins while Alan J. Porter has the skilled tracker stuck in the middle of the Boer War trying to find the source of a diamond smuggling operation.

“This is a fun series for us,” declares Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor, Ron Fortier. “The response to volume one was so overwhelmingly positive. It has already been done as an audio book from Radio Archives and demand for more stories hasn’t stopped since we released that first book.”

Artist Graham Hill provides the cover to this second anthology while Clayton Hinkle, who provided interior illustrations for Vol 1 returns to add another dozen great pieces.  All under the supervision of Art Director Rob Davis.  Fortier adds, “We trusts our readers will welcome this new collection. In regards to this series, believe me, we’re just getting warmed up.”

Now it is time to enjoy three fast paced, original tales that capture the mystery and adventure of a wild, untamed land and the man who loved it above all else.  Journey with him and embrace the magic that was and remains Africa.



Available now from Amazon and coming soon on Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Altus Press: Pulp Blog by Morgan Wallace - Now online!

There Shall Be Darkness by C. L. Moore (American Science Fiction Magazine series) - New!
Never Trust a Martian by Paul W. Fairman (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
“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
Altus Press

Argosy (Fall 2016)
by Frederick Nebel, Norbert Davis, H. Bedford-Jones,
Berton E. Cook, W. Wirt, Murray R. Montgomery, and Ralph R. Perry

Now available!

The greatest pulp magazine returns with a star-studded installment featuring several of the best authors ever to appear in Argosy, encompassing a wide variety of genres and containing a mixture of stand-alone novelettes. These stories also feature several of Argosy’s series characters such as swashbuckler Denis Burke, high-seas adventurer “Bellow Bill” Williams, soldier of fortune Jimmie Cordie, and rakehellies Cleve & d’Entreville.

$14.95 magazine$5.99 eBook
SALE PRICE
$13.95 magazine
| $4.99 eBook


Black Mask (Fall 2016)
by Carroll John Daly, T.T. Flynn, Frederick Nebel, Norbert Davis,
Raoul Whitfield, Merle Constiner, Paul Bishop, and Richard Sale

Now available!

The greatest detective magazine of all time is back for another collection of the best in hard-boiled fiction. Featuring classic material from the vaults of Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and other high-quality pulp magazines. And this issue is headlined by an all-new story, “Bucketful of Bullets,” by award-winning author Paul Bishop.

$14.95 magazine$5.99 eBook
SALE PRICE
$13.95 magazine
| $4.99 eBook


Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Fall 2016)
by Frederick C. Davis, Paul Ernst, Arthur Leo Zagat, Chandler H. Whipple,
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, Wyatt Blassingame, Hugh B. Cave, Wayne Rogers,
Kimberly B. Richardson, Henry Treat Sperry, and John H. Knox

Now available!

The Fall 2016 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries is dribbling with the best Weird Menace stories from the Popular Publications vault. Featuring classic stories by Paul Ernst, Arthur Leo Zagat, Hugh B. Cave, and G.T. Fleming-Roberts, this issue is headlined by an all-new story by Kimberly B. Richardson.

$14.95 magazine$5.99 eBook
SALE PRICE
$13.95 magazine
| $4.99 eBook





Anthony Tollin Talks Pulps and "The Shadow"

Anthony Tollin appeared this week on "Hour of the Wolf," the NY radio show on WBAI-FM.

To listen to this 90-minute program, go to:

http://wbai.org/archive.php

Click on "Hour of the Wolf, Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 1:30 AM 90 min" to listen to or download the podcast.


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Printed and arriving soon in comic shops and at online retailers!

THE SHADOW Volume 113: "Legacy of Death" & "The Devil's Partner"—Spotlighting cabby Moe Shrevnitz
The Knight of Darkness and his cabby aide crush crime in classic pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson and Theodore Tinsley writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, when old Landis Framingham dies, his multimillion dollar estate becomes a "Legacy of Death" to his heirs! Then, The Shadow, Margo Lane and Shrevvy investigate a young man who has followed in his father's footsteps, first as a psychoanalyst and then as "The Devil's Partner." BONUS: a classic Shadow thriller from the Golden Age of Radio! This special collector's volume showcases the classic color pulp covers by George Rozen and Charles de Feo and the original interior illustrations by Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-221-6 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)

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!

THE SHADOW Volume 112: "Death Token" & "Three Stamps of Death"
The Master of Darkness investigates collectible crime in two thrilling pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, a supposedly insignificant French silver franc leads to murder and mayhem until The Shadow uncovers the sinister secret behind the "Death Token." Then, three foreign postage stamps cost the lives of three men, until Lamont Cranston infiltrates the underground collectors market to discover the mysterious mystery of the murderous buying power of the "Three Stamps of Death." BONUS: a lost Shadow adventure from the Golden Age of Radio! This special collector's volume showcases the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Modest Stein and the classic interior illustrations by Edd Cartier and Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-220-9 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)

 
Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!

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.



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 March!
Coming to comic shops March 29!

THE SHADOW Volume 116: "Mox" & "Crime Country"
(Writer) Maxwell Grant & Various (Art) Earl Mayan, Tom Lovell (Cover) George Rozen, Graves Gladney
The Knight of Darkness enlists a canine sleuth to ferret out hidden crime in one of Walter Gibson's greatest novels and its never-before-reprinted sequel. First, The Shadow's investigation of a bizarre series of murders by remote control leads to the mysterious mastermind hiding within the sinister house of "Mox." Then, the Dark Avenger returns to Mox's "Crime County" after its legendary lawman is wrongly imprisoned! Plus, a lost thriller from the Golden Age of Radio!
Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

THE SHADOW VOLUME 116 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN172333.

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)



Antipodes Press
FANTȎMAS #8: THE LORD OF TERROR
by Marcel Allain

Now available!

Antipodes Press is reprinting the Fantômas novels in softcover editions.
Eight novels in the series are presently available.

Miraculously revived on a rooftop in Marseilles ten years after an apparently fatal shipwreck, Inspector Juve and his faithful friend, the journalist Jerome Fandor, renew their never-ending pursuit of the Lord of Terror. Sensing a plot behind mysterious events surrounding a diplomat entrusted with a fortune in diamonds, Juve and Fandor set out again to unmask the criminal mastermind in this, the first Fantômas novel written by Marcel Allain alone, after a decade-long hiatus following the death of series coauthor Pierre Souvestre.

Softcover, 300 pages, $21.95
The following are also available:
#7: Slippery As Sin by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#6: The Long Arm of Fantômas by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#5: A Royal Prisoner by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#4: A Nest of Spies by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#3: Messengers of Evil by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#2: The Exploits of Juve by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#1: Fantômas by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre



Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.

Past episodes:
CAPTAIN HAZZARD: Custer's Ghost by Ron Fortier

Beyond Worlds Collide By Jeff Deischer
Pulpfest 2016: #10- Guest of Honor- Ted White
Pulpfest 2016: #9 - The Munsey Award
Pat Savage: Six Scarlet Scorpions a novel by Will Murray
The Shadow's Sanctum: Tony Isabella and Anthony Tollin

ATHENA VOLTAIRE AND THE VOLCANO GODDESS #2 - Arriving in comic shops December 28!
Writer(s):  Steve Bryant
Artist Name(s): Steve Bryant   
Cover Artist(s): Steve Bryant, 
Gabriel Hardman

The Eisner-nominated adventures of Athena Voltaire continue in this latest installment! Athena flies to Hawaii in the hope of returning the artifact known as Pele’s Tears to the Kilauea Volcano, but deadly assassins, an old nemesis, and the Nazis all want the mystical item for themselves!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99 (Bryant cover)
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99 (Allred cover)






Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
The final quarterly issue of Blood ‘n’ Thunder is one of the best in the magazine’s 14-year run.
Number 49/50 offers the usual wide variety of articles and essays covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Among the topics explored in this double-sized farewell issue: Cornell Woolrich’s novelette “It Had to Be Murder” and Rear Window, the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller adapted from it; the 1889 story paper that may have influenced The Shadow’s creation; the 1915 cliffhanger serial smash called The Diamond from the Sky; the origins of Robert E. Howard’s demonic wizard Skelos; the short-lived 1935 radio series featuring pulpdom’s The Spider; and Depression-era apprisals of the detective-pulp market from a 1933 issue of Writer’s Digest.

There’s also an entire section — over 60 pages — devoted to the collecting and preservation of rare pulp magazines and the premiums they offered; and a 1938 novelette of African intrigue featuring L. Patrick Greene’s suave British rogue “The Major.” Finally, in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Amazing Stories, the very first magazine exclusively devoted to science fiction, we have an extensive selection of reviews of obscure SF yarns from the zine’s early years, illustrated with rare covers from the 1926-1930 period.

This final Blood ‘n’ Thunder has 210 pages and, as usual, is packed with illustrations to accompany its well-researched and well-written articles.

Trade paperback, 8x10, 210 pages
Price: $24.95

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



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 FLICKERING SHADOWS
How Pulpdom's Master of Darkness Brightened the Silver Screen
Now available!

FLICKERING SHADOWS! Subtitled "How Pulpdom's Master of Darkness Brightened the Silver Screen," this 98-page monograph—about the length of a typical issue of BLOOD 'N' THUNDER—fully chronicles The Shadow's career in films and television. Beginning with the character's 1931 motion-picture debut in Universal's "Shadow Detective" featurettes, Ed Hulse follows the premier pulp hero in his two Grand National feature films, his 1940 cliffhanger serial, his three Monogram "B" mysteries, his two unsold TV pilots of the '50s, and finally the big-budget 1994 spectacular starring Alec Baldwin. Along the way Hulse debunks Shadow movie myths and even covers films scripted but never made, drawing on his extensive research and in-person interviews. He also discusses the Shadow pulp magazine so as to offer context in his examination of the motion pictures.

The book is profusely illustrated with stills, posters, lobby cards, vintage pulp covers, and even frame captures from the films themselves. It's a must-have for Shadow fans. Get it today at muraniapress.com!


Trade paperback, 7x10, 98 pages
Price: $10.95


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




Bold Venture Press
ZORRO: THE COMPLETE PULP ADVENTURES VOLUME 4
Now available!

Bold Venture Press presents The Sign of Zorro, a full-length adventure from 1941, never reprinted since its original publication.

In Reina de los Angeles they no longer whisper of Señor Zorro — The Fox. For he rides no more; his sword no longer serves the oppressed. And that languorous dandy, Don Diego Vega, fritters the days away, caught in a real and terrible apathy. The sudden and tragic death of his wife has left him without any urge to don his black cloak and mask; and his father, Don Alejandro Vega, is seriously disturbed. If only his son would return to full life; if only Zorro would ride again ....

Then, through Bardoso, the one-time pirate, Don Diego receives word that the beautiful Senorita Panchita Canchola desperately needs the aid of Señor Zorro. Her brother, now the man of the household, is the dupe of a clever scoundrel, whose sinister plans threaten the Governor of California. So Zorro lives again .... And this time he must preserve the life of the man who has sworn to capture him!

This edition includes ten Zorro short stories from West magazine. In the introduction, John E. Petty examines Zorro collectibles across the decades.

CONTENTS
Introduction: “Zorro Collectibles” by John E. Petty
Novel: The Sign of Zorro
Short stories: "Zorro Frees Some Slaves," "Zorro’s Double Danger," "Zorro’s Masquerade," "Zorro Stops a Panic," "Zorro’s Twin Perils," "Zorro Plucks a Pigeon," "Zorro Rides at Dawn," "Zorro Takes the Bait," "Zorro Raids a Caravan," "Zorro’s Moment of Fear"


Paperback, 7"x10", 338 pages,
$19.95


         

The Burroughs Bulletin #96 - Now available!

Contents:
Editor's Page
"Tarzan and his Captives" by John Tucker

"Tarzan the Fearless" by Ed Hulse
Pictorial Gallery: Tarzan the Fearless
Bibliographer's Banter: "The Big swingers" by Henry G. Franke III
Art Gallery: The Legend of Tarzan by Douglas Klauba
"Interview with Tarzan artist Mike Grell" by Dennis Wilcutt
"Fandango" (poem) by John Martin
Letters to the Editor
Editor's Afterword

Subscriptions are $35 (Domestic) and $45 (International) for four quarterly issues and 12 monthly issues of THE GRIDLEY WAVE newsletter. 

Send checks or money orders to:
Henry Franke,
318 Patriot Way, Yorktown, VA 23693.
Payment via Paypal is also accepted at BurroughsBibliophiles@gmail.com



The Burroughs Bulletin #97 - Now available!

Contents:
Editor's Page
"New Authorized Editions from ERB, Inc." by Gary A. Buckingham
"King Kong vs. Tarzan" by Will Murray
"First bound copies: Ultra Rarities of ERB, Inc." by Frank Puncer
Art Gallery: Tarzan and the Vikings by Sibin Slavković and Branko Plavšić
Bibliographer's Banter: "Tarzan" by Henry G. Franke III
"What? Another ERB Bibliography?" by Bob Zeuschner
"Tarzan and the Learning ofLanguage from Text" by Yoav Seginer

Letters to the Editor

Subscriptions are $35 (Domestic) and $45 (International) for four quarterly issues and 12 monthly issues of THE GRIDLEY WAVE newsletter. 

Send checks or money orders to:
Henry Franke,
318 Patriot Way, Yorktown, VA 23693.
Payment via Paypal is also accepted at BurroughsBibliophiles@gmail.com



Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Skelos Magazine: Summer 2016 issue - New! 
Short Reviews – The Diversifal, by Ross Rocklynne
Short Reviews – Asteroid of Fear, by Raymond Z. Gallun
Mysteries of the Worm


CONAN THE SLAYER #6 - Delayed!
Cullen Bunn (Writer), Sergio Dávila (Art), Michael Atiyeh (Color), and Admira Wijaya (Cover)

In pursuit of his traitorous brother, the inexperienced new chief of the Kozaks has foolishly ventured into the bowels of Gorey Castle. The callow youth’s only hope now is his bodyguard, Conan—will the Cimmerian reach him in time? Superstar writer Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, Uncanny X-Men) and artist Sergio Dávila (Red Sonja, Swords of Sorrow) wrap up their first thrilling story arc!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

Originally scheduled to arrive in comic shops December 28.
Diamond now shows the title "not in stock" and shipping in January.






CONAN THE SLAYER #9 - Coming in March!

Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Sergio Dávila
Cover:
Frolian Gardner
Color: Michael Atiyeh

The sinister Jehungir Agha enlists the bewitching Octavia to lure Conan to the remote island of Xapur, where Agha's murderous trap is to be sprung. But other malign forces are at work in Xapur's jungle-choked ruins . . . and the Devil in Iron lurks in the shadows!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale March 29.

CONAN THE SLAYER #9 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN170150.

 

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

Roger Moore is SHERLOCK HOLMES IN NEW YORK (1976) with Patrick McNee, John Huston, Charlotte Rampling and more. Sheesh! - New! 
What the Well-Dressed Pulp Fan is Wearing (Part 1) - New! 



The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Harlan Ellison’s covey of folderolites
- New! 
J.F. Bone - New! 
Other Worlds #1
How to ruin a cover
Bellatrix IV and Albireo XII
A Blonde for Murder
Mr. Thin and Mr. Cayterer
Great Gods! It’s Wynne N. Whiteford

DOC SAVAGE: RING OF FIRE #1 (OF 4) - Coming in March!
(Writer) David Avallone (Art) Dave Acosta (Cover) Brent Schoonover

1938: Amelia Earhart is missing, volcanoes are going off under US Navy bases, Silver Death’s Heads are trying to kill Doc Savage, and FDR is quite concerned about all of this. Return to the 1930s for a thrilling four-issue miniseries reuniting the Twilight Zone: The Shadow creative team of writer David Avallone and artist Dave Acosta!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale March 29.


DOC SAVAGE: RING OF FIRE #1 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171630 (Schoonover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171631 (Marques).




Edgar Rice Burroughs
TARZAN TRILOGY

Now available in hardcover!
Softcover edition coming soon!


Tarzan Trilogy by Thomas Zachek
Three all NEW Tarzan Stories, in one book, with Illustrations
Interior illustrations by Douglas Klauba


Three all new tales of Tarzan at Point Station, a remote English outpost near the Waziri homelands. Set during the advent of World War II, we see more and more European intrusion to the Bolongo River Basin. Tarzan becomes embroiled in increasingly dangerous events as cultures clash.
  1. Tarzan and the “Fountain of Youth: Searching for the missing son of a friend, Tarzan encounters agents of an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company exploiting jungle resources for its own profit.
  2. Tarzan and the Cross of Vengeance: A team of archaeologist making a groundbreaking discovery, a group of well-meaning but naive American missionaries arriving to convert the native tribes, and a ruthless band of men with a dark purpose stir up a heady mix of challenges for Tarzan, fomenting an intertribal war that only he can stop.  
  3. Tarzan the Conqueror: When the Third Reich invades Africa to exploit the land for riches and enslave the native populations in labor camps, Tarzan must lead the tribes in an unprecedented tribal resistance.
About the author: Thomas Zachek
I grew up on the Tarzan movies and, to a lesser extent, the comics. But I became hooked on the real Tarzan in high school after picking up a new Ace paperback edition of Tarzan and the Lost Empire for fifty cents, the one with the Frank Frazetta cover of our hero, monkey on his back, hanging from a limb on a cliff and looking down upon the Roman city. I went on to collect the entire series of Ace and Ballantine paperback reissues of Burroughs’ tales (and still have them). I discovered that Burroughs’ stories were quite unlike the family-friendly Tarzan of the movies, with inarticulate Johnny Weismuller as the hulking hero living for some reason in the jungle with a classy, aristocratic Jane. No, Burroughs’ hero was a British lord who spoke educated English and had a fascinating backstory. I was impressed with the far superior level of development and action found in these tales. I attempted writing my first Tarzan tale in 2005 (Tarzan and the “Fountain of Youth”) as something of a lark, and then followed it, to date, with six more Tarzan tales. Friends encouraged me to try to get the stories published. I am grateful to Jim Sullos of ERB, Inc., for giving me the chance. Here are my first three. In these stories, I have tried to craft realistic, page-turning adventure tales featuring classic Tarzan elements while at the same time taking the character in directions that have never been done in Tarzan stories before. I invite you to share your thoughts and comments with me at zachekbooks@gmail.com.





EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ LAND THAT TIME FORGOT 2017 ANNUAL - Coming in March!

Writer: Mike Wolfer
Art:
Mike Wolfer
Cover A: Mike Wolfer
Cover B: Scalf

The breakout star of American Mythology's first THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT mini-series is spotlighted in her own, bonus-sized, pulse-pounding, solo adventure! An outcast from her own tribe and considered a goddess pariah, See-Ta learns of a terrifying phenomenon that is ravaging the wildlife of Caspak, one which could have horrifying ramifications on all of the lost world's prehistoric inhabitants. But it is the shocking architects behind the evil scheme that will leave you shivering in fear! You've never seen a Caspak story like this one, written and illustrated by life-long TLTTF fan Mike Wolfer, and lavishly colored by the incredible Ceci de la Cruz!


Full Color, 48 pages, $5.99, On sale March 22.

LAND THAT TIME FORGOT 2017 ANNUAL is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171256 (Wolfer cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171257 (Scalf cover).

 
 

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ TARZAN ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #4 (OF 5) - Arriving in comic shops December 28!
Tim Seeley (Writer), David Walker (Writer), Fernando Dagnino (Art), Sandra Molina (Color), and Duncan Fegredo (Cover)

Tarzan and Caesar uncover more worlds than their own at stake when they follow a new ally below the surface of the earth to fight the monsters threatening to rise up.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99



EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS' TARZAN ON THE PLANET OF THE APES TPB - Coming in May!
Tim Seeley (Writer), David Walker (Writer), Fernando Dagnino (Art), Sandra Molina (Color), and Duncan Fegredo (Cover)

Caesar's birth in the original Planet of the Apes films was a result of the time travel at the core of that story. Tim Seeley (Revival) and David Walker (Power Man and Iron Fist) relocate that birth to nineteenth-century Africa, where Caesar crosses paths with Tarzan, leading to a much different fate for man and ape.  Drawing deeply from the Tarzan novels and the Apes films, Seeley and Walker run Caesar and the Lord of the Jungle through the enslavement of the apes, through a century of war, and through the center of the earth. Collects issues #1-5 of the series.

144 pages, $19.99, in stores on May 17.


TARZAN ON THE PLANET OF THE APES TPB is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN170166.


Fedogan & Bremer
H. P. LOVECRAFT'S FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH AND OTHER POEMS
Now available for pre-order!
Pre-orders are expected to ship in May!
Formal release in late summer!


Our 21st-Century audio production of HPL's Fungi From Yuggoth as read by William E. Hart and with the eerie atmospheric music scored by Graham Plowman doesn't stop there: we've filled the CD with a dozen more of his best Weird Poems! The late Jon Arfstom's painting of HPL graces the cover, and S.T. Joshi has contributed the Notes in the 12-page booklet.

These readings emphasize the poetry's meter and rhyme schemes, making it easy to follow. The audio emphasis should make it clear listening even while jogging or driving in your car.

A perfect contrast and balance to our historic original production of 30 years ago!

While formal release is late summer, we are expecting to ship pre-release copies in May, so order yours NOW!

$12.95 US





FLASH GORDON: KINGS CROSS #5 (OF 5) - Coming in March!
Writer: Jeff Parker & Jesse Hamm
Art: Jesse Hamm & Grace Allison
Cover A: Jesse Hamm & Grace Allison
Cover B:
Jeff Parker
Cover C Subscription: Roberto Castro


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale March 1.

FLASH GORDON: KING'S CROSSING #5 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171644 (Hamm cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171645 (Parker cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171646 (Castro cover).

    
   
 



Goodman Games


This is an exact reproduction of the August 1926 edition of Weird Tales.
Each issue contained a half-dozen or more stories, many of which are now still in print.
This reproduction is a high-quality scan of the original issue. It is perfect bound and slightly larger than digest size, just as the original publication.

The August 1926 issue features beautifully restored cover art by C. Barker Petrie, Jr. (illustrating a Merritt story) and includes these stories:
The Woman of the Wood, by Abraham Meritt
The Terrible Old Man, by H. P. Lovecraft
The Devil’s Pay, by August Derleth
Plus additional stories by B. Wallis, Alanson Skinner, Emma-Lindsey Squier, Edmong Hamilton, Wright Field, G. G. Pendarves, and others

144 pages, 6.5″ x 9.25″
$40.00





This is an exact reproduction of the February 1928 edition of Weird Tales.
Each issue contained a half-dozen or more stories, many of which are now still in print.
This reproduction is a high-quality scan of the original issue. It is perfect bound and slightly larger than digest size, just as the original publication.

The February 1928 issue features beautifully restored cover art by C. C. Senf and includes these stories:
The Call of Cthulhu, by H. P. Lovecraft (in its original published form – this was its first publication)
The Dream Snake, by Robert E. Howard
Mephistoles and Company, Ltd., by Seabury Quinn
Plus additional stories by Elliott O’Donnell, Stuart Strauss, Wilfred B. Talman, Frank Owen, Ray Cummings, John Martin Leahy, and others
144 pages, 6.5″ x 9.25″
$40.00




This is an exact reproduction of the June 1933 edition of Weird Tales.
Each issue contained a half-dozen or more stories, many of which are now still in print.
This reproduction is a high-quality scan of the original issue. It is perfect bound and slightly larger than digest size, just as the original publication.

The June 1933 issue features beautifully restored cover art by Margaret Brundage (the first artist to illustrate Conan) and includes these stories:
Black Colossus, by Robert E. Howard (in its original published form)
Genius Loci, by Clark Ashton Smith (in its original published form)
Nellie Foster, by August Derleth (in its original published form)
Plus additional stories by Jack Williamson, Paul Ernst, Hugh B. Cave, Carl Jacobi, Sophie Wenzel Ellis, and others

128 pages, 6.5″ x 10.25″
$40.00




This is an exact reproduction of the May 1934 edition of Weird Tales.
Each issue contained a half-dozen or more stories, many of which are now still in print.
This reproduction is a high-quality scan of the original issue. It is perfect bound and slightly larger than digest size, just as the original publication.

The May 1934 issue features beautifully restored cover art by Margaret Brundage (the first artist to illustrate Conan) and includes these stories:
Queen of the Black Coast, by Robert E. Howard (in its original published form)
Incubus, a poem by August Derleth
The Tomb-Spawn, by Clark Ashton Smith (in its original published form)
Plus additional stories by E. Hoffman Price, C. L. Moore, Anthony Rud, A. W. Bernal, Carl Jacobi, and others.

128 pages, 6.5″ x 10.25″
$40.00





This is an exact reproduction of the August 1934 edition of Weird Tales.
Each issue contained a half-dozen or more stories, many of which are now still in print.
This reproduction is a high-quality scan of the original issue. It is perfect bound and slightly larger than digest size, just as the original publication.

The August 1934 issue features beautifully restored cover art by Margaret Brundage (the first artist to illustrate Conan) and includes these stories:
The Devil In Iron, by Robert E. Howard (in its original published form)
In Slumber, a poem by Clark Ashton Smith
Plus additional stories by C. L. Moore, Hugh B. Cave, Frank Belnap Long, Jr., Katherine van der Veer, Francis Flagg, Alrton Eadie, Paul Ernst, and others

128 pages, 6.5″ x 10.25″
$40.00







THE GREEN HORNET: REIGN OF THE DEMON #4 (of 4) - Coming in March!
Writer: David Liss
Art: Kewber Baal
Cover A: Ken Lashley
Cover B: Anthony Marques

The Green Hornet and Kato are trapped in the web of the sinister crime lord Demone! The mystery began with three missing women; but the twisted game has only grown more complex – and deadly – as the pair try to reclaim the city from his Machiavellian machinations! And while the vigilante Swashbuckler seems to want to serve as their stalwart ally against villainy – can they truly trust this new masked man? Or is he just another one of Demone’s puppets? They just might not have any choice, if they want to defeat the nefarious kingpin!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale March 1.

THE GREEN HORNET: REIGN OF THE DEMON #4 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171650 (Lashley cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171651 (Marques cover).




HEADLIGHTS HONEYS: THE "PERFECT PAIR" IN VINTAGE PAPERBACKS, PULPS, AND COMICS HC - Coming March 22!
(Writers) Monte Beauchamp, Steven Heller

Once celebrated by skilled painters and sculptors throughout the history of art, with the advent of the Industrial Age and assembly line production, scores of "mams" merchandisers soon got in on the act. From "boob" aprons, t-shirts, sweat-shirts, and baseball caps to salt and pepper shakers, mugs, coffee cups, and shot glasses, from greeting cards, books, and periodicals to candied treats, from jewelry to novelty gag gifts, billions of dollars are generated annually by the objectification of breasts. There was a time, however, when their low-budget portrayal in comic books, paperbacks, and pulps came under fervid assault, and effectively squelched, by the media censors. Headlight Honeys assembles dozens of rare, salacious cover examples and delivers the scoop on this harrowing, pre-code era in American publishing.

Hardcover, 6x8, 176 pages, Full Color, $29.95, On sale March 22.

Monte Beauchamp is an award-winning art director and founder of the graphics-illustration-comics annuals BLAB! and Blab World. His books include: Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World (2013), Krampus: The Devil of Christmas (2010), and The Life & Times of R. Crumb (2008). He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Society of Illustrator’s prestigious Richard Gangel Art Director Award for 2012.

Steven Heller wears many hats (in addition to the New York Yankees): For 33 years he was an art director at the New York Times, originally on the OpEd Page and for almost 30 of those years with the New York Times Book Review. Currently, he is co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Department, Special Consultant to the President of SVA for New Programs, and writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review.


Note: There appears to be some confusion on the actual price of this book.
The cover shows $19.95. Diamond says $29.95. Amazon says $50.


HEADLIGHT HONEYS is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171722.
Cernunnos    Amazon.com  


ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #55 - Coming in February!

Published quarterly by The Illustrated Press, Illustration is a beautiful, educational, and scholarly magazine devoted to the history of American illustration art. First launched in October 2001, we have profiled over 100 artists in over 48 issues. Printed in full color, each issue features the highest quality printing, photography and color reproductions of original illustration art available anywhere. For those with an interest in popular culture, commercial art and design, publishing history, comic books, paperbacks, pulp magazines, or collecting original art, Illustration is the best source for new information on the illustrators of the past.

Magazine, 80 pages, Full Color, $15.00


ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #55 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN172339.






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ILLUSTRATORS #16 - Now available and coming soon to comic shops!

Neal Adams: An in depth look at the life and art of one of the all time greats. Packed full of stunning art from his comic days, his advertising days and unpublished work from his studio. Paul Slater: His work became a staple of British newspapers and magazines and his advertising clients are the largest companies around. Cecil Glossop: Popular and prolific illustrator for Chums (a weekly boys paper that ran from 1892 to 1941). His pirate paintings and drawings are without equal. Will Davies: He's the man behind images that shaped how Canadians saw half a century. Will Davies was so prolific, you have probably seen his work without even realizing it.

Magazine, 96 pages, Full Color, $24.99


Note: ILLUSTRATORS SPECIAL #1: THE SPANISH ARTISTS is now scheduled for February.



JAMES BOND #12 - Arriving in comic shops December 28!
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Cover: Dom Reardon


EIDOLON, CHAPTER 6: The explosive conclusion to the second JAMES BOND 007 story - Eidolon are in the open, British Intelligence is cracked and in disarray, friends are dead and enemies seem unstoppable - can James Bond intercept the most direct strike of all, from the dead hand of SPECTRE to the heart of British government?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99



JAMES BOND: BLACK BOX #1 - Coming in March!
(Writer) Ben Percy (Art) Rapha Lobosco (Cover) John Cassaday

Black Box Part One – Whiteout
The next epic adventure for 007 kicks off in the snowbound French Alps, where Bond finds himself in the crosshairs of an assassin who targets other assassins. This is the first puzzle piece in a larger adrenaline-fueled mystery that will send Bond across the globe to investigate a digital breach that threatens global security.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale March 1.

JAMES BOND: BLACK BOX #1 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171584 (Cassaday cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171585 (Reardon cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171586 (Masters cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171587 (Montes cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171588 (Moritat cover).


JAMES BOND VOLUME 2: EIDOLON HC - Coming in March!
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters, Dominic Reardon
Covers: Dominic Reardon

James Bond is trapped in Los Angeles with a MI6 agent under fire and a foreign intelligence service trying to put them both in bags… and possibly more than one foreign intelligence service. And things may not be any safer in Britain, with bodies dropping and ghosts moving in the political mist… Collecting issues #7-12 of the ongoing James Bond comic book series written by Warren Ellis, the New York Times bestselling author of Gun Machine and critically-acclaimed comic book writer (Iron Man, Planetary, Astonishing X-Men), and featuring artwork by Jason Masters (Wolverine, Batman Incorporated).


Full Color, 136 pages, $TBA, On sale March 1..

JAMES BOND VOLUME 2: EIDOLON is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171595.



JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #3 - Coming in March!
Writer: James Robinson
Art: Aaron Campbell
Covers: Mike Perkins

In the aftermath of a major terrorist attack in Tokyo by an Aum Shinrikyo-like cult, Felix Leiter finds himself unwittingly drawn into the investigation. And under the oversight of Tiger Tanaka—the Japanese James Bond—and with a squad of Tanaka’s elite operatives, Leiter himself helps to bring down the cult’s leader! But now it’s up to Leiter and Tanaka to work desperately against the clock: they must discover the secret of the cultist’s deadly bio-weapon – especially if they’re going to try and avert another terrorist attack!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale March 15.

JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #3 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171596.



JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #6 (OF 6) - Coming in March!
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Cover: Francesco Francavilla

It all comes down to this. With the Royal Navy facing off against the Hammerhead super-weapon, and Britain’s nuclear arsenal in the hands of a war-mongering megalomaniac, 007 alone must infiltrate Kraken’s fortified retreat. He has a license to kill, and he aims to use it…


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale March 29.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #6 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171598.


Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

THE GIGOLO MYSTERY
Arthur B. Reeve

FIRST TIME IN BOOK FORM!


CRAIG KENNEDY'S INGENUITY TAXED ANEW BY CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES THAT ENDED CAREER OF LOVELY LOLA LANGHORNE! Who sealed the lips of the adventurous society girl of St. James, whose lifeless body was found on the sinking Gigolo off the North Shore of Long Island? Arthur B. Reeve, author of the famous Craig Kennedy detective mystery stories, brings together a most remarkable group of characters in this amazing tale of intrigue, of love and crime in subtle conflict. You will be thrilled and fascinated as the tale unfolds.

Hardcover w/dust jacket, 6 x 9 inch, 200 pages
Retail Price $39.95
Our Price $29.95

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 200 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $12.95

Paperback, 5 x 8 inch, 200 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $12.95



SIX-GUN GORILLA
FIRST TIME IN BOOK FORM!


The Six-Gun Gorilla, named O'Neil, was raised by Bart Masters during the 1800's at a gold-mine in Colorado. Masters taught the gorilla many chores including shooting a six-gun. Masters was killed by the Strawhan Gang and O'Neil was left for dead. When the gorilla regained consciousness and found his master dead, the ape's outrage at the killing was intense and he swore he would kill the men who killed his owner. Our publication includes all of the original illustrations from the British paper "The Wizard".

Hardcover w/dust jacket, 6 x 9 inch, 336 pages
Retail Price $44.95
Our Price $29.95

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 336 pages
Retail Price $24.95
Our Price $12.95



   
JOHN CARTER THE END #2 - Coming in March!
(Writer) Brian Wood, Alex Cox (Art) Hayden Sherman (Covers) Garry Brown

MARS AT WAR
After crash-landing on the ravaged planet, circumstances separate John Carter and Dejah…both literally and ideologically. Despite their centuries of marriage, can a born warrior and Queen survive this most desperate challenge?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale March 8.

JOHN CARTER THE END #2 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171653 (Brown cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171654 (Doe cover).


 
 

KONG OF SKULL ISLAND #9 - Coming in March!
Writer: James Asmus
Artist: Carlos Magno
Main Cover: Nick Robles

Years have passed and the two civilizations have become one, surviving the hellscape that is Skull Island. Unrest stirs though, as a plot to overthrow and murder Ewata rises through the ranks.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale March 15.

KONG OF SKULL ISLAND #9 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171462.


LOBSTER JOHNSON: THE PIRATE'S GHOST #1 (OF 3)  - Coming in March!
Mike Mignola (Writer), John Arcudi (Writer), and Tonci Zonjic (Art/Cover)

The New York Harbor Patrol are in over their heads when a ghostly pirate ship appears on the Hudson River, and the Lobster's hunt for a major mob boss may have something to do with it.

32 pages, $3.99, in stores on March 29.


LOBSTER JOHNSON: THE PIRATE'S GHOST is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN170102.


Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

The Death of Newsgroups, Hello Facebook - New!
HBO's WESTWORLD makes a grand comeback
Van Williams, Star of the Green Hornet television series, dead at 82
Is there such a thing as too much TV?


Meteor House
THE SONG OF KWASIN by Christopher Paul Carey
Now available in eBook format!

Meteor House is pleased to announce the first-ever standalone edition of Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey’s critically acclaimed novel The Song of Kwasin, the third volume of the Khokarsa series. The Song of Kwasin previously appeared only in an expensive hardcover omnibus collecting the first three novels of the Khokarsa series and it has never been published alone in its own volume! So if you’ve read Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar, and have been waiting for the epic climax to Philip José Farmer’s original Khokarsa trilogy, this new Meteor House edition—available as both an affordable trade paperback and a collectible signed limited edition hardcover—is your chance to finally read the thrilling, adventure-packed third book!

Meteor House’s new edition of The Song of Kwasin also features cover art and a frontispiece by Hugo Award-winning artist Bob Eggleton as well as rare and previously unpublished bonus materials, including:

A brand-new introduction by noted author and critic Paul Di Filippo*
A Preface to the New Edition by Christopher Paul Carey *
“Kwasin and the Bear God” by Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey (a 20,000-word novella featuring a lost adventure of Kwasin)
The Khokarsan Calendar by Philip José Farmer**
The Plants of Khokarsa by Philip José Farmer**
A Guide to Khokarsa by Christopher Paul Carey (expanded from the guide in the Restored Edition of Flight to Opar)
Notes on the Khokarsa Series by Philip José Farmer*
Philip José Farmer’s Original Outline to The Song of Kwasin**
Philip José Farmer’s Alternate Outline to The Song of Kwasin*
Correspondence by Philip José Farmer to Frank J. Brueckel and John Harwood, authors of “Heritage of the Flaming God,” the monumental essay that inspired the Khokarsa series*
* Never before published.
** Only previously available in an out-of-print and extremely hard-to-find signed limited edition.


Kindle Price: $4.99



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


Diamond Comic Distributor has cancelled all retailer orders for this title.
Moonstone will likely announce if and when the material prepared for this issue will appear.


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




Moonstone Books
The Green Ghost: Declassified
By Win Scott Eckert & Eric Fein
Now available direct from Moonstone Books!
Arriving in comic shops December 28!


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



PATHFINDER: WORLDSCAPE #6 (OF 6) - Coming in March!
Writer: Erik Mona
Art: Jonathan Lau

Cover A: Elliot Fernandez
Cover B: Tom Mandrake
Cover C Subscription: Giovanni Valletta


Kulan Gath makes his final move against Tarzan and the Council of Jungle Kings just as Ruthazek’s three-world ape army crashes onto the scene! The Pathfinders, Red Sonja, John Carter, Tars Tarkas, Thun’da, and the almighty Fantomah unite in the epic conclusion to Dynamite’s sword & sorcery superstar crossover event! Written by Pathfinder publisher Erik Mona (Pathfinder: Hollow Mountain) with art from Jonathan Lau (Red Sonja and Cub). Contains a Pathfinder RPG rules appendix and bonus pull-out poster map!

Full Color, 32 pages, $4.99, On sale March 22.

PATHFINDER: WORLDSCAPE #6 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171670 (Fernandez cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171671 (Mandrake cover).
The Diamond Item Code is  JAN171672 (Valetta cover).







PRE-CODE CLASSICS: TOM CORBETT SPACE CADET VOLUME 2 - Coming in May!
(Art) Al McWilliams & Various

This is SF as it should be, with "space" substituted for "science." Here we see the wonder and unbelievable expanse of the cosmos that surrounds us, ringed planets and moons, space pirates, lost races, and even a spaceship graveyard, This book is for every boy that lives secretly inside every man who ever marveled at the saucer spaceship in Forbidden Planet. Collects Dell's Tom Corbett, Space Cadet #8 Nov/Jan 1954, #9 Feb/Apr 1954, #10 May/Jul 1954, and #11 Sept/Nov 1954, plus Prize's Tom Corbett, Space Cadet #1 May/Jun 1955, #2 Jul/Aug 1955, and 2#3 Sept/Oct 1955.

Hardcover, 7x10, 252 pages, Full Color, $59.99, On sale May 31.

PRE-CODE CLASSICS: TOM CORBETT SPACE CADET VOLUME 2  is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171927.


Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Sneaky Pete's Christmas Eve" by Johnston McCulley from G-MEN DETECTIVE, January, 1948
When reformed pickpocket Jones becomes a Yuletide guest of Ricardo and Carlotta, he is thrust into a dangerous role!

"Fate" by W. Townend from ADVENTURE, July 3rd, 1921
A man who ran away to sea to escape his fate in San Francisco seems unable to avoid returning to that city.

"Suicide Hook-Up" by Albert G. Robinson from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, August, 1941
When Barnaby Bliss, detective de luxe, took a job as bodyguard to a radio commentator, he found himself tuned in on a . . . . Suicide Hook-Up




Pulp Adventurecon
February 11, 2017!

Pulp Adventurecon 2017 fast approaches!
February 11, 2017
For Lauderdale, Florida
Universal Palms Hotel


Pulp Adventurecon returns to the Universal Palms Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida for another afternoon of Golden Age comic books, Pulp Magazines, Big Little Books, Old-Time Radio, movie memorabilia, vintage pin-ups and much more!

25 vendor tables filled with great stuff, and plenty of knowledgeable collectors ready to talk about their favorite characters, authors, genres, and what-not!

If you stay overnight at the Universal Palms Hotel, use the special codeword "pulp" to receive the $109 room rate.

 



Pulp Crazy - Now online!

Dum-Dum 2016 – Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Coldwater Connection
Dum-Dum 2016 – Philip José Farmer’s Ancient Opar Series
The Road by Hiroshi Aramata
Pulp Den - Now online!

The Magic Quirt
- New!
Darkness - New!
King Kong Vs. Tarzan
Interview With Author Suzanne Johnson
Death Rides Solar II
Near-Earth Object 2017AP
         Pulp Den  

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

Fanny Ellsworth article on writing western stories for Ranch Romances
Article on editing by Ray Long - magazine editor
Arthur S. Hoffman - Profile of Fritz Duquesne, adventurer


The Pulp Hermit - Now online!

The Power Barons
Scorpio
Secret Mission Angola
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

Murder Marked Merry Christmas, Part 2 - New!
Murder Marked Merry Christmas, Part 1
Perry Mason: novels #25 and #26
‘The Purple Monster Strikes’: a serial in 15 chapters
Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Selling the pulps with posters, II
Paul A. Carter: 1926-2017
Remembering the pulpsters

RED SONJA #3 - Coming in March!
Writer: Amy Chu
Art: Carlos Gomez
Cover: Nick Bradshaw
, J. Scott Campbell, Brandon Peterson, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Mel Rubi

Cover A: Mike McKone
Cover B: J. Scott Campbell
Cover C: Jonboy Meyers
Cover D: Cosplay Cover
Cover E Subscription: Mel Rubi

Sonja reunites with her trusty sword with the help of her new friend NYPD cop Sir Max of Bushwick. Plus, the She-Devil finally comes face to face with her old foe, the evil sorcerer Kulan Gath, and gets some of her questions about this strange new world answered.

Full Color, 24 pages, $3.99, On sale March 15.

RED SONJA #3 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171673 (McKone cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171674 (Campbell cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171675 (Meyers cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171676 (Cosplay cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN171677 (Rubi cover).

 
 
 







The Shadow 365 - Now online!

A new Shadow blog, "The Shadow 365," is now online.
Every day it will be posting and discussing in chronological order the legendary pulp and comic book covers of "The Shadow."
Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men? The Shadow 365 knows!


SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. CTHULHU: THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEADLY DIMENSIONS - Coming April 11!

A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains, along with a bizarre bone sphere covered in arcane symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, who discover a common thread that  ties together the murders--and the persons responsible.

Bizarre geometries--based on ancient schematics--point to members of a secluded cult. These men and women build strange constructs that will enable other-worldly creatures to enter our dimension, seeking sustenance. They are gaining so much power that even Moriarty fears that his empire is at risk—to the point that he seeks an unholy alliance with his eternal foe.


Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
List Price: $14.95


SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. CTHULHU is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN172071.



Subterranean Press
DEAD ON THE BONES: PULP ON FIRE
by Joe R. Lansdale
Pre-orders are now shipping!


PRODUCTION UPDATE
Subterranean Press reports that they are sitting on far more distributor and large retailer orders than they can fill for Joe R. Lansdale's Dead on the Bones.
Consider this an early warning that you might want to order now to guarantee yourself a copy.
All signs point to this one being scarce on the ground after publication.


“I was living in a pulp writer fury, a storm of imagination.” So Joe R. Lansdale, award-winning author of more than twenty novels and two hundred short works, describes the birth of his desire to be a writer after encountering pulp storytelling as a kid in TV, comics, and books. Now Dead on the Bones: Pulp on Fire collects eight stories where Lansdale pays tribute to the rip-roaring tales of his youth.

Dedicated to Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard, “Under the Warrior Star” finds hero Braxton Booker on another, battle-wracked planet, while  “Tarzan and the Land That Time Forgot” was expressly permitted by the Burroughs estate. In “Dead on the Bones,” a Conjure Man facilitates a boxing match between the living and the dead, with a twist. “The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning” crosses Poe with horrors that could have walked straight out of Lovecraft. Meanwhile, in “Naked Angel” a cop discovers a dead woman encased in ice on the noir streets of Los Angeles, not realizing he shares a personal connection with her. Other stories here bring readers face to face with vampires and far stranger creatures, all in Lansdale’s signature, Texas Mojo style.

Lansdale is rightly recognized as one of the most distinctive voices in modern fiction, pulp or otherwise. From Venus to vampires, Dead on the Bones is a fine, thoroughly enjoyable demonstration of why.

Table of Contents
Pulp Fury: An Introduction
The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning
The Redheaded Dead
King of the Cheap Romance
Naked Angel
Dead on the Bones
Tarzan and the Land That Time Forgot
Under the Warrior Star
The Wizard of the Trees

Limited: 1500 signed numbered hardcover copies
Limited Edition    $40.00
 

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.

Dwarves on the Cover of Weird Tales - New!
Cavemen and Jungle Women on the Cover of Weird Tales - New!
Black People and Africa on the Cover of Weird Tales - New!
American Indians and the American West on the Cover of Weird Tales
Weird Tales in Indiana


Tom Johnson
Now available!

Crime is on the rise in New York. Teams of professional thieves rob an art gallery and museum, while across town hoodlums murder elderly shop owners.
From the chaos rises a new hero! His team will challenge the underworld for a reckoning.
The mob is after her, and Kay Shannon is running for her life when she meets a rescuer in black.
Who is the man in the black fedora?


Kindle Price:    $2.99

Softcover edition coming in 2017.







WEIRDBOOK #33
Now available and recommended!

Weirdbook will be publishing four issues in 2017. 
Weirdbook is now a quarterly!
So issues #34 - #37 will all appear  in 2017.

Here are great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre...
Trade Paperback, 16 x 9 inches, 80 pages, $12.00

Table of Contents

Fiction
The River Flows To Nowhere by John R. Fultz
The Amnesiac’s Lament by Scott R Jones
Trance Junkie By Bruno Lombardi
Bad Faith by Will Blinn document page 56
Dwelling of the Wolf by Franklyn Searight
The Ruby Palace by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The Screams at the Keyhole by Garrett Cook
Diary of an Illness by C. M. Muller
Teatime with Mrs. Monster by James Aquilone
Train to Nowhere by Adrian Cole

Poetry & Prose
A Cure for Unrequited Love by Donald W. Schank
The Owl by S. L. Edwards
Bathory in Red by Ashley Dioses
Blood Siren's Alcove by Ashley Dioses
The Woodland funeral by K.A. Opperman
The Lady in Scarlet by K.A. Opperman
The Ghost Carriage by K. A. Opperman
Hymn to Shub-Niggurath by Darrell Schweitzer

Noctuary of Sfatlicllp by Frederick J. Mayer
Sfatlicllp's Ghoul by Frederick J. Mayer
Nile Lamia Recalls by Frederick J. Mayer



A WELL ORDERED UNIVERSE - Now available!
by Pierre V. Comtois


A new novel by author Pierre V. Comtois, A Well Ordered Universe follows in the wake of the author's other books including Marvel Comics in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1970s, Goat Mother and Others, and The Way the Future Was.

A Well Ordered Universe is a “hard” SF novel in the tradition of James P. Hogan.

In deep space, the Leap of Faith is on a one way journey to a newly discovered physical anomaly that      
some believe could be the hand of God still working the Creation.

Others, however, could care less and are determined to wreck the mission for their own reasons.
Meanwhile, co-commanders Diego Aragon and Fr. Azarias Boucher must overcome mutual suspicions and disagreements over science and religion and unite to oversee a crew whose unseen fault lines could spell disaster for their mission.

Join them and the crew of the Leap of Faith as they struggle with questions of faith and their own human frailties while racing against time to find who among them is determined to destroy them all and end man's quest for the ultimate answers to life and death and Cosmic Purpose!


Publisher: Desert Breeze
Kindle Price: $4.99
Hardcopy availability soon









16 December 2016

2017 Windy City Pulp and Paper Show
April 21-23, 2017

As 2016 comes to a close, Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention is less than a half a year away. 
Our theme this coming convention is a combo of Red Circle Pulps and Gangster Mags celebration.
We have a guest that worked for the Goodman Company, but until we firm up the details, can't say much more.

Gangster magazines began with The Underworld in 1927, thereby it's 90th Anniversary. 
A genre that was heavily used by Harold Hersey. 
Which leads us into some exciting news regarding our upcoming Friday Night Auction. 
A collection of some truly remarkable pulps will be available for auction, and you can check out some of the sample issues in our newsletter
[all pulps in the newsletter will be in the auction and more] and on our Facebook and Website.


For Hotel Information/Registration information, visit the link below.
For con registration (Tables and membership), visit the link below.


Adventures in Bronze / Altus Press

EMPIRE OF DOOM
Doc Savage & The Shadow vs. Shiwan Khan

Coming very soon!







Adventures in Bronze / Altus Press
THE WILD ADVENTURES OF KING KONG
KING KONG VS. TARZAN
Now available in softcover, hardcover and eBook editions!

BEAST-GOD VERSUS APE-MAN

The year was 1933. Filmmaker Carl Denham had captured the stupendous monster he had dubbed “King” Kong. But that was only the beginning. Denham was determined to get the dethroned ruler of Skull Mountain Island back to America, and cash in on the greatest wild animal capture in human history.

The saga of how Kong was taken in chains from his Indian Ocean kingdom to New York City has never been told. In order for the cargo freighter Wanderer to make the long transit to the Atlantic, she is forced to circumnavigate Africa—jungle home of the legendary Tarzan of the Apes!

Here is the long-anticipated clash between the Monarch of Skull Island and Lord of the Jungle.

When the largest anthropoid who ever lived encounters the savage superman raised by the great apes, will they make peace—or war?






Airship 27 Productions
WINGS OF THE GOLDEN DRAGON
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to present a brand new fantasy adventure novel that is actually the prequel to Ms Doran’s first book, “Claws of the Golden Dragon.”

“We met Barbara Doran at Pulp Fest a few years ago,” recounts Airship 27 Productions Managing Editor, Ron Fortier.  “She was interested in writing New Pulp and we passed along our Submission Guidelines to her.  A few months later we received the manuscript to ‘Claws of the Golden Dragon,’ a terrific book we were only too happy to publish.”

After the success of that initial book, Doran opted to try something different for her second novel.  “Most of the first book takes place in a fictional city on the West Coast,” Fortier continues. “And is populated by some truly wonderful characters, both real and magical. This time Barbara thought it might be fun to go back in time and explore some of their origins.  Thus the inspiration for her new prequel book.”

1930s Shanghai was a place of excitement and intrigue... and magic. It is an international hotspot where foreign agents from around the world ply their trade. Brought to Shanghai to investigate a powerful new aircraft engine, young Conall McLeod becomes embroiled in a high-stakes game between gangs, spies and immortal beings. Together with his beloved Mudan Chang and hot-shot Chinese pilot, Feng Zhanchi, Conall must navigate the dangerous waters of the city's criminal undercurrents and help free a lost immortal from the clutches of evil.

Writer Barbara Doran spins a fantastic tale of action and mystery filled with some of the most memorable characters ever conceived.  Artist Gary Kato returns to offer up nine interior illustrations and Art Director Rob Davis provides the cover to this fast paced fantasy thriller. Whether deep within the cities maze of dark alleys or high atop an ancient castle of evil, no one will be able to escape from The Wings of the Golden Dragon!

Available now from Amazon and coming soon on Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Airship 27 Podcasts - Now online!

Episode # 22 of the Airship 27 Podcast is now live at the link below. 
Topics:  Farewell, Van Williams & Rob is Santa!








Altus Press

Argosy (Fall 2016)
by Frederick Nebel, Norbert Davis, H. Bedford-Jones,
Berton E. Cook, W. Wirt, Murray R. Montgomery, and Ralph R. Perry

Now available!

The greatest pulp magazine returns with a star-studded installment featuring several of the best authors ever to appear in Argosy, encompassing a wide variety of genres and containing a mixture of stand-alone novelettes. These stories also feature several of Argosy’s series characters such as swashbuckler Denis Burke, high-seas adventurer “Bellow Bill” Williams, soldier of fortune Jimmie Cordie, and rakehellies Cleve & d’Entreville.

$14.95 magazine$5.99 eBook
SALE PRICE
$13.95 magazine
| $4.99 eBook


Black Mask (Fall 2016)
by Carroll John Daly, T.T. Flynn, Frederick Nebel, Norbert Davis,
Raoul Whitfield, Merle Constiner, Paul Bishop, and Richard Sale

Now available!

The greatest detective magazine of all time is back for another collection of the best in hard-boiled fiction. Featuring classic material from the vaults of Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and other high-quality pulp magazines. And this issue is headlined by an all-new story, “Bucketful of Bullets,” by award-winning author Paul Bishop.

$14.95 magazine$5.99 eBook
SALE PRICE
$13.95 magazine
| $4.99 eBook


Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Fall 2016)
by Frederick C. Davis, Paul Ernst, Arthur Leo Zagat, Chandler H. Whipple,
G.T. Fleming-Roberts, Wyatt Blassingame, Hugh B. Cave, Wayne Rogers,
Kimberly B. Richardson, Henry Treat Sperry, and John H. Knox

Now available!

The Fall 2016 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries is dribbling with the best Weird Menace stories from the Popular Publications vault. Featuring classic stories by Paul Ernst, Arthur Leo Zagat, Hugh B. Cave, and G.T. Fleming-Roberts, this issue is headlined by an all-new story by Kimberly B. Richardson.

$14.95 magazine$5.99 eBook
SALE PRICE
$13.95 magazine
| $4.99 eBook





Anthony Tollin Talks Pulps and "The Shadow"

Anthony Tollin appeared this week on "Hour of the Wolf," the NY radio show on WBAI-FM.

To listen to this 90-minute program, go to:

http://wbai.org/archive.php

Click on "Hour of the Wolf, Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 1:30 AM 90 min" to listen to or download the podcast.


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Printed and arriving soon in comic shops and at online retailers!

THE SHADOW Volume 113: "Legacy of Death" & "The Devil's Partner"—Spotlighting cabby Moe Shrevnitz
The Knight of Darkness and his cabby aide crush crime in classic pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson and Theodore Tinsley writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, when old Landis Framingham dies, his multimillion dollar estate becomes a "Legacy of Death" to his heirs! Then, The Shadow, Margo Lane and Shrevvy investigate a young man who has followed in his father's footsteps, first as a psychoanalyst and then as "The Devil's Partner." BONUS: a classic Shadow thriller from the Golden Age of Radio! This special collector's volume showcases the classic color pulp covers by George Rozen and Charles de Feo and the original interior illustrations by Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-221-6 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)

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!

THE SHADOW Volume 112: "Death Token" & "Three Stamps of Death"
The Master of Darkness investigates collectible crime in two thrilling pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, a supposedly insignificant French silver franc leads to murder and mayhem until The Shadow uncovers the sinister secret behind the "Death Token." Then, three foreign postage stamps cost the lives of three men, until Lamont Cranston infiltrates the underground collectors market to discover the mysterious mystery of the murderous buying power of the "Three Stamps of Death." BONUS: a lost Shadow adventure from the Golden Age of Radio! This special collector's volume showcases the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Modest Stein and the classic interior illustrations by Edd Cartier and Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-220-9 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)

 
Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available and arriving in comic shops December 21!

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.



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)




Antipodes Press
FANTȎMAS #8: THE LORD OF TERROR
by Marcel Allain

Now available!

Antipodes Press is reprinting the Fantômas novels in softcover editions.
Eight novels in the series are presently available.

Miraculously revived on a rooftop in Marseilles ten years after an apparently fatal shipwreck, Inspector Juve and his faithful friend, the journalist Jerome Fandor, renew their never-ending pursuit of the Lord of Terror. Sensing a plot behind mysterious events surrounding a diplomat entrusted with a fortune in diamonds, Juve and Fandor set out again to unmask the criminal mastermind in this, the first Fantômas novel written by Marcel Allain alone, after a decade-long hiatus following the death of series coauthor Pierre Souvestre.

Softcover, 300 pages, $21.95
The following are also available:
#7: Slippery As Sin by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#6: The Long Arm of Fantômas by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#5: A Royal Prisoner by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#4: A Nest of Spies by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#3: Messengers of Evil by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#2: The Exploits of Juve by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
#1: Fantômas by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre



Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

CAPTAIN HAZZARD: Custer's Ghost by Ron Fortier

After 3 long years, the wait is over.  Ron Fortier has published the 5th novel featuring Captain Hazzard! And ths is BIG novel.  It not only features Kevin Douglas Hazzard but another great Pulp hero, Jim Anthony!  Together they wrestle with the mystery of Custer's Ghost.
 
An apparition on horseback wearing a niform stalks the western states beheading people.  No one knows where who he is, where he came from, or why he is doing this.  Captain Hazzard along with Jim Anthony weighs in to solve the Mystery. Along the way, surprising secrets are revealed that will change the lives of our 2 heroes forever.
 
Don't miss this next installment in the the Adventures of Captain Hazzard as I have a free wheeling discussion with Ron Fortier and Rob Davis aobut the new novel.


Past episodes:
Beyond Worlds Collide By Jeff Deischer
Pulpfest 2016: #10- Guest of Honor- Ted White
Pulpfest 2016: #9 - The Munsey Award
Pat Savage: Six Scarlet Scorpions a novel by Will Murray
The Shadow's Sanctum: Tony Isabella and Anthony Tollin


Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
The final quarterly issue of Blood ‘n’ Thunder is one of the best in the magazine’s 14-year run.
Number 49/50 offers the usual wide variety of articles and essays covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Among the topics explored in this double-sized farewell issue: Cornell Woolrich’s novelette “It Had to Be Murder” and Rear Window, the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller adapted from it; the 1889 story paper that may have influenced The Shadow’s creation; the 1915 cliffhanger serial smash called The Diamond from the Sky; the origins of Robert E. Howard’s demonic wizard Skelos; the short-lived 1935 radio series featuring pulpdom’s The Spider; and Depression-era apprisals of the detective-pulp market from a 1933 issue of Writer’s Digest.

There’s also an entire section — over 60 pages — devoted to the collecting and preservation of rare pulp magazines and the premiums they offered; and a 1938 novelette of African intrigue featuring L. Patrick Greene’s suave British rogue “The Major.” Finally, in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Amazing Stories, the very first magazine exclusively devoted to science fiction, we have an extensive selection of reviews of obscure SF yarns from the zine’s early years, illustrated with rare covers from the 1926-1930 period.

This final Blood ‘n’ Thunder has 210 pages and, as usual, is packed with illustrations to accompany its well-researched and well-written articles.

Trade paperback, 8x10, 210 pages
Price: $24.95

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



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 FLICKERING SHADOWS
How Pulpdom's Master of Darkness Brightened the Silver Screen
Now available!

FLICKERING SHADOWS! Subtitled "How Pulpdom's Master of Darkness Brightened the Silver Screen," this 98-page monograph—about the length of a typical issue of BLOOD 'N' THUNDER—fully chronicles The Shadow's career in films and television. Beginning with the character's 1931 motion-picture debut in Universal's "Shadow Detective" featurettes, Ed Hulse follows the premier pulp hero in his two Grand National feature films, his 1940 cliffhanger serial, his three Monogram "B" mysteries, his two unsold TV pilots of the '50s, and finally the big-budget 1994 spectacular starring Alec Baldwin. Along the way Hulse debunks Shadow movie myths and even covers films scripted but never made, drawing on his extensive research and in-person interviews. He also discusses the Shadow pulp magazine so as to offer context in his examination of the motion pictures.

The book is profusely illustrated with stills, posters, lobby cards, vintage pulp covers, and even frame captures from the films themselves. It's a must-have for Shadow fans. Get it today at muraniapress.com!


Trade paperback, 7x10, 98 pages
Price: $10.95


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




Bringing Back Classic Adventure One Page at a Time - Now online!

New Novel Coming soon!
Free Short Story!
Greatest Ever Pulp Stories #8 – The Curse of Capistrano
Greatest Ever Pulp Stories #7 – Under the Moons of Mars

Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Short Reviews – The Diversifal, by Ross Rocklynne - New! 
Short Reviews – Asteroid of Fear, by Raymond Z. Gallun
Mysteries of the Worm
Short Reviews – The Envoy, Her, by H.B. Fyfe
The Trail of Cthulhu

CONAN: EXILES #1 - Coming in January!

Funcom and Dark Horse Comics are publishing a new Conan Exiles digital comic in January.

It will be tieing in with the upcoming open-world survival game of the same name, set in the world of Conan the Barbarian. They previously worked together on the digital comic book for Funcom’s 2008 massive multiplayer game, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. The comic book was distributed to gamers and Conan fans worldwide, and was part of Funcom’s marketing campaign.

The new Conan Exiles comic is created by Michael Moreci, José Luis, and Andy Owens with input from the game’s art director Gavin Whelan and senior concept artist Anders Finér, and will give fans a new glimpse into the new events that take place in the Exiled Lands.

In the world of Conan Exiles, survival is more than tracking down food and water. Journey through a vast, seamless world filled with the ruins of ancient civilizations, uncovering its dark history and buried secrets as you seek to conquer and dominate the exiled lands. Start with nothing, but your bare hands and forge the legacy of your clan, from simple tools and weapons to gigantic fortresses and entire cities. Enslave the bandits of the exiled lands to do your bidding by breaking them on the grueling Wheel of Pain. Sacrifice the beating hearts of your enemies on the blood-soiled altars of your deity to seize true power and glory. Summon the colossal avatar of your god and see them lay waste to your enemies and their homes.

Conan Exiles will be released into Early Access on the PC on 31 January 2017 and will hit the Xbox One Game Preview Program in Spring 2017.




CONAN THE SLAYER #9 - Coming in March!

Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Sergio Dávila
Cover:
Frolian Gardner
Color: Michael Atiyeh

The sinister Jehungir Agha enlists the bewitching Octavia to lure Conan to the remote island of Xapur, where Agha's murderous trap is to be sprung. But other malign forces are at work in Xapur's jungle-choked ruins . . . and the Devil in Iron lurks in the shadows!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale March 29.

CONAN THE SLAYER #9 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA.

 

DARK HORSE PRESENTS #29 - Arriving in comic shops December 21!
Paul Levitz (Writer), Carla Speed McNeil (Writer/Art), Kaare Andrews (Writer), Dean Haspiel (Writer/Art), John Nadeau (Writer/Art), Dan Jolley (Writer), Francesco Francavilla (Writer/Art/Cover), Tim Hamilton (Art), and Troy Nixey (Art)

This month, Dark Horse is celebrating a decade of Francesco Francavilla in comics!

Features a stunning cover as well as the continuation of Francavilla’s The Black Beetle in Kara Bocek! Plus, Dean Haspiel brings his popular webcomic The Red Hook to print!

This issue also features the continuation of favorites Brooklyn Blood by Paul Levitz and Tim Hamilton; Finder: Chase the Lady by Carla Speed McNeil; The Black Sinister by Kaare Andrews, Troy Nixey, and Dave McCaig; and Murder Society by John Nadeau and Dan Jolley!


Full Color, 48 pages, $4.99



The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Other Worlds #1
- New! 
How to ruin a cover - New! 
Bellatrix IV and Albireo XII
A Blonde for Murder
Mr. Thin and Mr. Cayterer
Great Gods! It’s Wynne N. Whiteford

Edgar Rice Burroughs
TARZAN TRILOGY

Now available in hardcover!
Softcover edition coming soon!


Tarzan Trilogy by Thomas Zachek
Three all NEW Tarzan Stories, in one book, with Illustrations
Interior illustrations by Douglas Klauba


Three all new tales of Tarzan at Point Station, a remote English outpost near the Waziri homelands. Set during the advent of World War II, we see more and more European intrusion to the Bolongo River Basin. Tarzan becomes embroiled in increasingly dangerous events as cultures clash.
  1. Tarzan and the “Fountain of Youth: Searching for the missing son of a friend, Tarzan encounters agents of an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company exploiting jungle resources for its own profit.
  2. Tarzan and the Cross of Vengeance: A team of archaeologist making a groundbreaking discovery, a group of well-meaning but naive American missionaries arriving to convert the native tribes, and a ruthless band of men with a dark purpose stir up a heady mix of challenges for Tarzan, fomenting an intertribal war that only he can stop.  
  3. Tarzan the Conqueror: When the Third Reich invades Africa to exploit the land for riches and enslave the native populations in labor camps, Tarzan must lead the tribes in an unprecedented tribal resistance.
About the author: Thomas Zachek
I grew up on the Tarzan movies and, to a lesser extent, the comics. But I became hooked on the real Tarzan in high school after picking up a new Ace paperback edition of Tarzan and the Lost Empire for fifty cents, the one with the Frank Frazetta cover of our hero, monkey on his back, hanging from a limb on a cliff and looking down upon the Roman city. I went on to collect the entire series of Ace and Ballantine paperback reissues of Burroughs’ tales (and still have them). I discovered that Burroughs’ stories were quite unlike the family-friendly Tarzan of the movies, with inarticulate Johnny Weismuller as the hulking hero living for some reason in the jungle with a classy, aristocratic Jane. No, Burroughs’ hero was a British lord who spoke educated English and had a fascinating backstory. I was impressed with the far superior level of development and action found in these tales. I attempted writing my first Tarzan tale in 2005 (Tarzan and the “Fountain of Youth”) as something of a lark, and then followed it, to date, with six more Tarzan tales. Friends encouraged me to try to get the stories published. I am grateful to Jim Sullos of ERB, Inc., for giving me the chance. Here are my first three. In these stories, I have tried to craft realistic, page-turning adventure tales featuring classic Tarzan elements while at the same time taking the character in directions that have never been done in Tarzan stories before. I invite you to share your thoughts and comments with me at zachekbooks@gmail.com.





EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS' TARZAN ON THE PLANET OF THE APES TPB - Coming in May!
Tim Seeley (Writer), David Walker (Writer), Fernando Dagnino (Art), Sandra Molina (Color), and Duncan Fegredo (Cover)

Caesar's birth in the original Planet of the Apes films was a result of the time travel at the core of that story. Tim Seeley (Revival) and David Walker (Power Man and Iron Fist) relocate that birth to nineteenth-century Africa, where Caesar crosses paths with Tarzan, leading to a much different fate for man and ape.  Drawing deeply from the Tarzan novels and the Apes films, Seeley and Walker run Caesar and the Lord of the Jungle through the enslavement of the apes, through a century of war, and through the center of the earth. Collects issues #1-5 of the series.

144 pages, $19.99, in stores on May 17.


TARZAN ON THE PLANET OF THE APES TPB is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA.


Fedogan & Bremer
H. P. LOVECRAFT'S FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH AND OTHER POEMS
Now available for pre-order!
Pre-orders are expected to ship in May!
Formal release in late summer!


Our 21st-Century audio production of HPL's Fungi From Yuggoth as read by William E. Hart and with the eerie atmospheric music scored by Graham Plowman doesn't stop there: we've filled the CD with a dozen more of his best Weird Poems! The late Jon Arfstom's painting of HPL graces the cover, and S.T. Joshi has contributed the Notes in the 12-page booklet.

These readings emphasize the poetry's meter and rhyme schemes, making it easy to follow. The audio emphasis should make it clear listening even while jogging or driving in your car.

A perfect contrast and balance to our historic original production of 30 years ago!

While formal release is late summer, we are expecting to ship pre-release copies in May, so order yours NOW!

$12.95 US





THE GREEN HORNET: REIGN OF THE DEMON #1 (of 4)  - Arriving in comic shops December 21!
Writer: David Liss
Art: Kewber Baal
Cover A: Ken Lashley
Cover B: Anthony Marques

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery for most people, it could be the deadliest for The Green Hornet and Kato. With their vigilantism tearing apart organized crime, Chicago is visited by two more masked individuals: one claiming to be a friend and the other…their most formidable foe yet!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99




THE GREEN HORNET: REIGN OF THE DEMON #4 (of 4)  - Coming in March!
Writer: David Liss
Art: Kewber Baal
Cover A: Ken Lashley
Cover B: Anthony Marques

The Green Hornet and Kato are trapped in the web of the sinister crime lord Demone! The mystery began with three missing women; but the twisted game has only grown more complex – and deadly – as the pair try to reclaim the city from his Machiavellian machinations! And while the vigilante Swashbuckler seems to want to serve as their stalwart ally against villainy – can they truly trust this new masked man? Or is he just another one of Demone’s puppets? They just might not have any choice, if they want to defeat the nefarious kingpin!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

THE GREEN HORNET: REIGN OF THE DEMON #4 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA.




Hippocampus Press
A MEANS TO FREEDOM: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard
(Trade Paperback - Second Edition)

Coming January 22, 2017!


The new paperback edition of A MEANS TO FREEDOM will be officially released on January 22, 2017.
Advance orders are now being taken at the Hippocampus website.

H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard are two of the titans of weird fiction of their era. Dominating the pages of Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, they have gained worldwide followings for their compelling writings and also for the very different lives they led.

Edited by S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz, and Rusty Burke
Second softcover edition, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-61498-189-3 (two volume set)
1006 pages
$60





Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Last Stop for Ki-Gor - New!
Return to the Jungle, Ki-Gor Style
Later Savage Sword of Conan Volumes

ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #16 - Now available and coming soon to comic shops!

Neal Adams: An in depth look at the life and art of one of the all time greats. Packed full of stunning art from his comic days, his advertising days and unpublished work from his studio. Paul Slater: His work became a staple of British newspapers and magazines and his advertising clients are the largest companies around. Cecil Glossop: Popular and prolific illustrator for Chums (a weekly boys paper that ran from 1892 to 1941). His pirate paintings and drawings are without equal. Will Davies: He's the man behind images that shaped how Canadians saw half a century. Will Davies was so prolific, you have probably seen his work without even realizing it.

Magazine, 96 pages, Full Color, $24.99




JAMES BOND VOLUME 2: EIDOLON - Coming in March!
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters, Dominic Reardon
Covers: Dominic Reardon

James Bond is trapped in Los Angeles with a MI6 agent under fire and a foreign intelligence service trying to put them both in bags… and possibly more than one foreign intelligence service. And things may not be any safer in Britain, with bodies dropping and ghosts moving in the political mist… Collecting issues #7-12 of the ongoing James Bond comic book series written by Warren Ellis, the New York Times bestselling author of Gun Machine and critically-acclaimed comic book writer (Iron Man, Planetary, Astonishing X-Men), and featuring artwork by Jason Masters (Wolverine, Batman Incorporated).


Full Color, 136 pages, $TBA, On sale TBA.

JAMES BOND VOLUME 2: EIDOLON is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA.



JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #3 - Coming in March!
Writer: James Robinson
Art: Aaron Campbell
Covers: Mike Perkins

In the aftermath of a major terrorist attack in Tokyo by an Aum Shinrikyo-like cult, Felix Leiter finds himself unwittingly drawn into the investigation. And under the oversight of Tiger Tanaka—the Japanese James Bond—and with a squad of Tanaka’s elite operatives, Leiter himself helps to bring down the cult’s leader! But now it’s up to Leiter and Tanaka to work desperately against the clock: they must discover the secret of the cultist’s deadly bio-weapon – especially if they’re going to try and avert another terrorist attack!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale TBA.

JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #3 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA.



JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #6 (OF 6) - Coming in March!
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Cover: Francesco Francavilla

It all comes down to this. With the Royal Navy facing off against the Hammerhead super-weapon, and Britain’s nuclear arsenal in the hands of a war-mongering megalomaniac, 007 alone must infiltrate Kraken’s fortified retreat. He has a license to kill, and he aims to use it…


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale TBA.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #6 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA.


Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

LAND OF LOST HOPE by Johnston McCulley
FIRST EDITION!


A young San Francisco physician, Robert Berkley by name, is decoyed to the schooner Manatee and carried out to sea. He is treated with the greatest respect, but is told that he can never return to his native land. A beautiful young girl named Callisa is a member of the party on the schooner, and Berkley falls in love with her, though love is a thing forbidden in the Land of Lost Hope, to which they are going. One day, forgetful of warnings, he kisses her, which, according to the law of the land, means her death.On entering port Berkley is made kodar of the island, second in position to the king alone, and is instructed in his duties—one of which is escorting to a certain place of death (the Pool of Sharks) all condemned persons. Callisa is the youngest daughter of the king, and, upon learning of her disobedience, he orders her to be driven out on the streets in disgrace to await her execution. On hearing the king's terrible words, Berkley brands upon Callisa's arm his chosen mark, which insures respect to anything that bears it. of Southern California life in the early 1800's.

Hardcover w/dust jacket, 6 x 9 inch, 232 pages
Retail Price $39.95
Our Price $29.95
ISBN 978-1365572494

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 232 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $12.95
ISBN 978-1540732446

 
KONG OF SKULL ISLAND #6 - Arriving in comic shops December 21!
Writer: James Asmus
Artist: Carlos Magno
Main Cover: Nick Robles

The two queens will fight to ensure domain over their new civilizations, while the Kongs must tear down the monstrous king of the island.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99



LOSTER JOHNSON: THE PIRATE'S GHOST - Coming in March!
Mike Mignola (Writer), John Arcudi (Writer), and Tonci Zonjic (Art/Cover)

The New York Harbor Patrol are in over their heads when a ghostly pirate ship appears on the Hudson River, and the Lobster's hunt for a major mob boss may have something to do with it.

32 pages, $3.99, in stores on March 29.


LOBSTER JOHNSON: THE PIRATE'S GHOST is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA.


Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

HBO's WESTWORLD makes a grand comeback - New!
Van Williams, Star of the Green Hornet television series, dead at 82
Is there such a thing as too much TV?
Doctor Strange 2016 Movie Review
The "Lost" Adventures of the Lone Ranger
The Value of Dust Jackets


Meteor House
THE SONG OF KWASIN by Christopher Paul Carey
Now available in eBook format!

Meteor House is pleased to announce the first-ever standalone edition of Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey’s critically acclaimed novel The Song of Kwasin, the third volume of the Khokarsa series. The Song of Kwasin previously appeared only in an expensive hardcover omnibus collecting the first three novels of the Khokarsa series and it has never been published alone in its own volume! So if you’ve read Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar, and have been waiting for the epic climax to Philip José Farmer’s original Khokarsa trilogy, this new Meteor House edition—available as both an affordable trade paperback and a collectible signed limited edition hardcover—is your chance to finally read the thrilling, adventure-packed third book!

Meteor House’s new edition of The Song of Kwasin also features cover art and a frontispiece by Hugo Award-winning artist Bob Eggleton as well as rare and previously unpublished bonus materials, including:

A brand-new introduction by noted author and critic Paul Di Filippo*
A Preface to the New Edition by Christopher Paul Carey *
“Kwasin and the Bear God” by Philip José Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey (a 20,000-word novella featuring a lost adventure of Kwasin)
The Khokarsan Calendar by Philip José Farmer**
The Plants of Khokarsa by Philip José Farmer**
A Guide to Khokarsa by Christopher Paul Carey (expanded from the guide in the Restored Edition of Flight to Opar)
Notes on the Khokarsa Series by Philip José Farmer*
Philip José Farmer’s Original Outline to The Song of Kwasin**
Philip José Farmer’s Alternate Outline to The Song of Kwasin*
Correspondence by Philip José Farmer to Frank J. Brueckel and John Harwood, authors of “Heritage of the Flaming God,” the monumental essay that inspired the Khokarsa series*
* Never before published.
** Only previously available in an out-of-print and extremely hard-to-find signed limited edition.


Kindle Price: $4.99



Moonstone Books
The Green Ghost: Declassified
By Win Scott Eckert & Eric Fein
Now available direct from Moonstone Books!
Coming soon to comic shops!


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



PATHFINDER: WORLDSCAPE #3 (OF 6) - Arriving in comic shops December 21!
Writer: Erik Mona
Art: Jonathan Lau

Cover A: Reilly Brown
Cover B: Tom Mandrake
Cover C Subscription: Sean Izaakse


Kyra the cleric has been trapped in the Worldscape for seven days, a compassionate soul surrounded on all sides by liars, murderers, and thieves. When her heroics draw the attention of fellow dimensional fugitive John Carter of Mars, Kyra learns of potential allies who will ensure that she need not fight the darkness alone! Co-starring Red Sonja! The sides are drawn in the great battle between warriors of three worlds in a tale written by Pathfinder publisher Erik Mona (Pathfinder: Hollow Mountain) with art from Jonathan Lau (Red Sonja and Cub). Contains a Pathfinder RPG rules appendix and a bonus pull-out poster map!


Full Color, 32 pages, $4.99

 

 

PATHFINDER: WORLDSCAPE #6 (OF 6) - Coming in March!
Writer: Erik Mona
Art: Jonathan Lau

Cover A: Elliot Fernandez
Cover B: Tom Mandrake
Cover C Subscription: Giovanni Valletta


Kulan Gath makes his final move against Tarzan and the Council of Jungle Kings just as Ruthazek’s three-world ape army crashes onto the scene! The Pathfinders, Red Sonja, John Carter, Tars Tarkas, Thun’da, and the almighty Fantomah unite in the epic conclusion to Dynamite’s sword & sorcery superstar crossover event! Written by Pathfinder publisher Erik Mona (Pathfinder: Hollow Mountain) with art from Jonathan Lau (Red Sonja and Cub). Contains a Pathfinder RPG rules appendix and bonus pull-out poster map!

Full Color, 32 pages, $4.99, On sale March TBA.

PATHFINDER: WORLDSCAPE #6 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available December 28).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA.

The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA (Fernandez cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA (Mandrake cover).
The Diamond Item Code is  JAN17 TBA (Valletta cover).







Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Gnats to You!" by Joe Archibald from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, February, 1942
Featuring: Dizzy Duo
When it comes to ancient mythology, everything is Greek to Snooty and Scoop, those dizzy newshawks. And when Snooty attempts to free a hot-seat selectee with the aid of fabulous tales, he has to dig in modern ruins to unearth a homicide hair-raiser.

"Merry Christmas, Ranger!" by Johnston McCulley from TEXAS RANGERS, December, 1945
Jim Stearn's holiday gift was to be trapped by a pair of outlaws - but he brought his enemies to a showdown!

"The Flying Buzzsaw" by Harold B. McKay from AIR WONDER STORIES, April, 1930
The united forces of North America are in a titanic war in the future versus the united forces of South America. A new weapon for the North might tip the balance of the war.




Pulp Adventurecon
February 11, 2017!

Pulp Adventurecon 2017 fast approaches!
February 11, 2017
For Lauderdale, Florida
Universal Palms Hotel


Pulp Adventurecon returns to the Universal Palms Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida for another afternoon of Golden Age comic books, Pulp Magazines, Big Little Books, Old-Time Radio, movie memorabilia, vintage pin-ups and much more!

25 vendor tables filled with great stuff, and plenty of knowledgeable collectors ready to talk about their favorite characters, authors, genres, and what-not!

If you stay overnight at the Universal Palms Hotel, use the special codeword "pulp" to receive the $109 room rate.

 



Pulp Crazy - Now online!

Dum-Dum 2016 – Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Coldwater Connection
Dum-Dum 2016 – Philip José Farmer’s Ancient Opar Series
The Road by Hiroshi Aramata
Pulp Den - Now online!

King Kong Vs. Tarzan
- New!
Interview With Author Suzanne Johnson - New!
Death Rides Solar II
Near-Earth Object 2017AP
         Pulp Den  

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

Fanny Ellsworth article on writing western stories for Ranch Romances
Article on editing by Ray Long - magazine editor
Arthur S. Hoffman - Profile of Fritz Duquesne, adventurer


The Pulp Hermit - Now online!

The Power Barons
Scorpio
Secret Mission Angola
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

Murder Marked Merry Christmas, Part 1 - New!
Perry Mason: novels #25 and #26
‘The Purple Monster Strikes’: a serial in 15 chapters
‘The Shadow’: a review of the 1994 movie, part 2
‘The Shadow’: a review of the 1994 movie, part 1
Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Selling the pulps with posters, II - New!
Paul A. Carter: 1926-2017
Remembering the pulpsters
Have a pulpy Halloween
Robert Weinberg: 1946-2016
Bits of pulp: Foundation, Jedi, & more

Radio Archives
The Spider #32 Audiobook
Slaves of the Dragon
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge

Read by Nick Santa Maria

Now available!

White slavery, the loathsome traffic in women’s bodies — and souls — was stripping America of wives, sisters and sweethearts. Richard Wentworth, valiant champion of human rights, knew that an Oriental master criminal was captaining the slavery syndicate, guessed the unspeakable purpose behind those wholesale abductions. But with Nita hopelessly lost, with G-men harrying him relentlessly, can the Spider outwit his most formidable foeman and save America’s doomed womanhood?

 
The Spider was the star of his own pulp magazine for a wild decade bound by 1933 and 1943. Seeing rival pulp house Street & Smith breaking sales records with The Shadow Magazine, Popular Publications president Harry Steeger decided to clone him. Legend has it that he was playing tennis and spotted a spider walking across the court. That gave him a catchy yet creepy title. He hired mystery novelist and occultist R. T. M. Scott to write The Spider Strikes! and a sequel, The Wheel of Death. Mysteriously, Scott bowed out around the time of the first issue, dated October, 1933.
 
Enter Norvell W. Page, a newspaperman and practitioner of the Edgar Allen Poe tradition in pulps such as Dime Mystery Magazine. Writing under the pseudonym of Grant Stockbridge, Norvell W. Page remade the Spider into his own psychic twin, often dressing up as the Master of Men when delivering his monthly manuscripts. In a letter to a Spider fan, Page wrote, “Think of me as Wentworth, if you will. The line between us is not too distinct.”
 
Nick Santa Maria breathes life into the Spider in Slaves of the Dragon. Originally published in The Spider magazine, May, 1936.

 
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives
Secret Agent "X" #10 Audiobook
The Murder Monster
by Emile C. Tepperman writing as Brant House

Read by Milton Bagby

Now available at 50% off until December 29! 

 A nameless mystery man with a wartime past, backed by a shadowy group of powerful philanthropists, Secret Agent “X” took on the toughest assignments of the dirty thirties.

Operating out of the half-haunted Montgomery Mansion, “X” was also known as the Man of a Thousand Faces. A past master of disguise, he infiltrated the Underworld to crush crime in all of its hideous manifestations.


A panic-stricken cities shrank in horror from these death-dealing robots who were immune to bullets. Only Secret Agent “X” dared meet the challenge of these inhuman fiends and their master, The Murder Monster, whose pointed finger turned men and women into flaming agony.
 
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.
 
Every hero needed something to distinguish himself from his rivals. The Shadow could blend into the shadows. Doc Savage was a superman. The Spider shot first and asked no questions later. Every one of them was a consummate quick-change artist. In that respect, “X” would be no different.
 
For Secret Agent “X”, the editor decided to pit him against villains who were maestros of unbridled horror. Melodrama was the rule of the day. But Secret Agent “X” plunged into maelstroms of raw bloodlust undreamed of by The Shadow and Doc Savage. His foes were truly depraved. Terrorists. Torturers. Extortionists. Kidnappers. Stranglers. Fiends. Arsonists. These were the types of torn-from-the-tabloids master criminals “X” hunted. It was grim fare. Before long, The Spider started going up against foes as a maniacal as the ones “X” vanquished every month. But the Man of a Thousand Faces first blazed that terrible trail.
 
Follow the Man of a Thousand Faces as he confronts the menace of The Murder Monster, ripped from the pages of Secret Agent “X” magazine, December 1934 and read with chilling intensity by Milton Bagby.
 

Specially priced until December 29th. 5 hours - $4.99 Download / $9.99 Audio CDs


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Operator #5 eBook
#48 The Army from Underground - November-December 1939

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 Secret Sentinel — A Department
 
The Army From Underground by Curtis Steele
America’s greatest cities had been destroyed, her armies annihilated, by the new and awful weapons of the Yellow Vulture... Could Operator 5 rally the terrified citizens from their poor refuge in hill and wasteland, for one last bid for glory — or gallant death?
 
Mistress of Dead Spies by Emile C. Tepperman
In the secret stronghold of a leper army, a Yankee major of Intelligence fought the evil power of the strangest woman spy in history.
 
Things That Made America Great
White River of Death by Morton Taney
Over the frozen Delaware they came — a ghostly Colonial Army, marching to certain death or to a victory that would make America forever great and powerful!
 
Flagship of the Doomed by Dale DeV. Kier
The Far Eastern spy-squadron had laid its net of destruction over San Francisco Bay — and the only two men in America who could thwart their scheme were already slated for watery graves!
 
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 Spirits

Born in 1886 and still going strong in the 1940s, Nick Carter doesn't show his age at all in these exciting radio adventures -- including a rare near complete adventure written by mystery legend Robert A. Arthur!

Lon Clark stars as Carter with John Kane as reporter-sidekick Scubby Wilson, and Helen Choate and Charlotte Manson taking turns as Nick's breezy secretary Patsy Bowen.

Includes a Program Guide by radio historian Elizabeth McLeod.

Episodes Include: Nine Hours To Live 01-15-44; Records of Death 01-22-44; The Drums of Death 03-25-44; Murder by Magic 04-08-44; Kidnap For Sale Part One 04-17-44, Part Two 04-18-44, Part Three 04-19-44, Part Five 04-21-44, Part Six 04-24-44, Part Seven 04-25-44, Part Eight 04-26-44, Part Nine 04-27-44; Murder on Mad Mountain 10-22-44; The Witch of Donderberg Mountain 04-29-45; The Case of the Hanging Paperhanger 08-05-45; The Case of the Talking Tree 09-09-45; The Case of the Wandering Corpse 01-06-46; The Body in the Ice 01-27-46; The Case of the Make-Believe Robbery 06-18-46; The Case of the Red Goose Murder 09-01-46


Duration: 8 hours
Media: (8) CDs
Price: $31.95



RED SONJA #3 - Coming in March!
Writer: Amy Chu
Art: Carlos Gomez
Cover: Nick Bradshaw
, J. Scott Campbell, Brandon Peterson, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Mel Rubi

Cover A: Mike McKone
Cover B: J. Scott Campbell
Cover C: Jonboy Meyers
Cover D: Cosplay Cover
Cover E Subscription: Mel Rubi

Sonja reunites with her trusty sword with the help of her new friend NYPD cop Sir Max of Bushwick. Plus, the She-Devil finally comes face to face with her old foe, the evil sorcerer Kulan Gath, and gets some of her questions about this strange new world answered.

Full Color, 24 pages, $3.99, On sale March TBA.

RED SONJA #3 is solicited in the January PREVIEWS (Available November 30).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA (McKone cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA (Campbell cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA (Meyers cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA (Cosplay cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JAN17 TBA (Rubi cover).

 
 
 







THE SEVENTH PLAGUE: A Sigma Force Novel - Now available!
by James Rollins


If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened--could they happen again--on a global scale?

Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body--while he was still alive.

His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news arrives from Egypt. The medical team who had performed the man's autopsy has fallen ill with an unknown disease, one that is quickly spreading throughout Cairo. Fearing the worst, a colleague of the professor reaches out to a longtime friend: Painter Crowe, the director of Sigma Force. The call is urgent, for Professor McCabe had vanished into the desert while searching for proof of the ten plagues of Moses. As the pandemic grows, a disturbing question arises.

Are those plagues starting again?

Before Director Crowe can investigate, a mysterious group of assassins leaves behind a fiery wake of destruction and death, erasing all evidence. With the professor's body incinerated, his home firebombed, Sigma Force must turn to the archaeologist's only daughter, Jane McCabe, for help. While sifting through what's left of her father's work, she discovers a puzzling connection, tying the current threat to a shocking historical mystery, one involving the travels of Mark Twain, the genius of Nikola Tesla, and the adventures of famous explorer, Henry Morgan Stanley.

To unravel a secret going back millennia, Director Crowe and Commander Grayson Pierce will be thrust to opposite sides of the globe. One will search for the truth, traveling from the plague-ridden streets of Cairo to a vast ancient tomb buried under the burning sands of the Sudan; the other will struggle to stop a mad genius locked within a remote Arctic engineering complex, risking the lives of all those he holds dear.

As the global crisis grows ever larger, Sigma Force will confront a threat born of the ancient past and made real by the latest science--a danger that will unleash a cascading series of plagues, culminating in a scourge that could kill all of the world's children . . . decimating mankind forever.


Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: William Morrow
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
List Price: $27.99


The Shadow 365 - Now online!

A new Shadow blog, "The Shadow 365," is now online.
Every day it will be posting and discussing in chronological order the legendary pulp and comic book covers of "The Shadow."
Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men? The Shadow 365 knows!


SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. CTHULHU: THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEADLY DIMENSIONS - Coming April 11!

A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains, along with a bizarre bone sphere covered in arcane symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, who discover a common thread that  ties together the murders--and the persons responsible.

Bizarre geometries--based on ancient schematics--point to members of a secluded cult. These men and women build strange constructs that will enable other-worldly creatures to enter our dimension, seeking sustenance. They are gaining so much power that even Moriarty fears that his empire is at risk—to the point that he seeks an unholy alliance with his eternal foe.


Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
List Price: $14.95




Subterranean Press
DEAD ON THE BONES: PULP ON FIRE
by Joe R. Lansdale
Pre-orders are now shipping!


PRODUCTION UPDATE
Subterranean Press reports that they are sitting on far more distributor and large retailer orders than they can fill for Joe R. Lansdale's Dead on the Bones.
Consider this an early warning that you might want to order now to guarantee yourself a copy.
All signs point to this one being scarce on the ground after publication.


“I was living in a pulp writer fury, a storm of imagination.” So Joe R. Lansdale, award-winning author of more than twenty novels and two hundred short works, describes the birth of his desire to be a writer after encountering pulp storytelling as a kid in TV, comics, and books. Now Dead on the Bones: Pulp on Fire collects eight stories where Lansdale pays tribute to the rip-roaring tales of his youth.

Dedicated to Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard, “Under the Warrior Star” finds hero Braxton Booker on another, battle-wracked planet, while  “Tarzan and the Land That Time Forgot” was expressly permitted by the Burroughs estate. In “Dead on the Bones,” a Conjure Man facilitates a boxing match between the living and the dead, with a twist. “The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning” crosses Poe with horrors that could have walked straight out of Lovecraft. Meanwhile, in “Naked Angel” a cop discovers a dead woman encased in ice on the noir streets of Los Angeles, not realizing he shares a personal connection with her. Other stories here bring readers face to face with vampires and far stranger creatures, all in Lansdale’s signature, Texas Mojo style.

Lansdale is rightly recognized as one of the most distinctive voices in modern fiction, pulp or otherwise. From Venus to vampires, Dead on the Bones is a fine, thoroughly enjoyable demonstration of why.

Table of Contents
Pulp Fury: An Introduction
The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning
The Redheaded Dead
King of the Cheap Romance
Naked Angel
Dead on the Bones
Tarzan and the Land That Time Forgot
Under the Warrior Star
The Wizard of the Trees

Limited: 1500 signed numbered hardcover copies
Limited Edition    $40.00
 

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.

American Indians and the American West on the Cover of Weird Tales - New!
Weird Tales in Indiana - New!
Middle American Indians on the Cover of Weird Tales
Pirates on the Cover of Weird Tales
Hannes Bok's Uncategorizable Cover, Then Politics on the Cover of Weird Tales
Coye's Uncategorizable Covers


WEIRDBOOK #33
Now available and recommended!

Weirdbook will be publishing four issues in 2017. 
Weirdbook is now a quarterly!
So issues #34 - #37 will all appear  in 2017.

Here are great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre...
Trade Paperback, 16 x 9 inches, 80 pages, $12.00

Table of Contents

Fiction
The River Flows To Nowhere by John R. Fultz
The Amnesiac’s Lament by Scott R Jones
Trance Junkie By Bruno Lombardi
Bad Faith by Will Blinn document page 56
Dwelling of the Wolf by Franklyn Searight
The Ruby Palace by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The Screams at the Keyhole by Garrett Cook
Diary of an Illness by C. M. Muller
Teatime with Mrs. Monster by James Aquilone
Train to Nowhere by Adrian Cole

Poetry & Prose
A Cure for Unrequited Love by Donald W. Schank
The Owl by S. L. Edwards
Bathory in Red by Ashley Dioses
Blood Siren's Alcove by Ashley Dioses
The Woodland funeral by K.A. Opperman
The Lady in Scarlet by K.A. Opperman
The Ghost Carriage by K. A. Opperman
Hymn to Shub-Niggurath by Darrell Schweitzer

Noctuary of Sfatlicllp by Frederick J. Mayer
Sfatlicllp's Ghoul by Frederick J. Mayer
Nile Lamia Recalls by Frederick J. Mayer









09 December 2016

2017 Windy City Pulp and Paper Show
April 21-23, 2017

As 2016 comes to a close, Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention is less than a half a year away. 
Our theme this coming convention is a combo of Red Circle Pulps and Gangster Mags celebration.
We have a guest that worked for the Goodman Company, but until we firm up the details, can't say much more.

Gangster magazines began with The Underworld in 1927, thereby it's 90th Anniversary. 
A genre that was heavily used by Harold Hersey. 
Which leads us into some exciting news regarding our upcoming Friday Night Auction. 
A collection of some truly remarkable pulps will be available for auction, and you can check out some of the sample issues in our newsletter
[all pulps in the newsletter will be in the auction and more] and on our Facebook and Website.


For Hotel Information/Registration information, visit the link below.
For con registration (Tables and membership), visit the link below.


Adventures in Bronze / Altus Press

EMPIRE OF DOOM
Doc Savage & The Shadow vs. Shiwan Khan

Coming very soon!







Adventures in Bronze / Altus Press
THE WILD ADVENTURES OF KING KONG
KING KONG VS. TARZAN
Now available in softcover, hardcover and eBook editions!

BEAST-GOD VERSUS APE-MAN

The year was 1933. Filmmaker Carl Denham had captured the stupendous monster he had dubbed “King” Kong. But that was only the beginning. Denham was determined to get the dethroned ruler of Skull Mountain Island back to America, and cash in on the greatest wild animal capture in human history.

The saga of how Kong was taken in chains from his Indian Ocean kingdom to New York City has never been told. In order for the cargo freighter Wanderer to make the long transit to the Atlantic, she is forced to circumnavigate Africa—jungle home of the legendary Tarzan of the Apes!

Here is the long-anticipated clash between the Monarch of Skull Island and Lord of the Jungle.

When the largest anthropoid who ever lived encounters the savage superman raised by the great apes, will they make peace—or war?






Airship 27 Productions
SHERLOCK HOLMES: PICTURE OF INNOCENCE
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is proud to present Chuck Miller’s brand new, full length Sherlock Holmes novel, “The Picture of Innocence.”

The year 1885 finds Doctor John H. Watson down on his luck. His prospects look bleak until a chance encounter leads him to a meeting with another literary-minded young physician named Arthur Conan Doyle. Together, they hatch a plan for a series of works based on the adventures of Watson’s roommate, the Consulting Detective Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Then a very attractive young lady, Mary Morstan, arrives at 221 B Baker street seeking help.  Soon Holmes and Watson are drawn into the dark world of the Sholto brothers, a web of blackmail and murder. Even with the assistance of a rising playwright named Oscar Wilde, Holmes finds himself taxed to the limit of his powers when his own darkest secrets are exposed.  What truths lie beneath the surface of the Picture of Innoncence?

“Miller is one of the finest writers in New Pulp,” reports Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor, Ron Fortier. “There is originality to his writing unlike anything else out on the market today. And this particular Holmes adventure is no different. Miller puts a fresh spin on familiar characters and his story crackles with fun and mystery.”
Airship 27 Art Director Rob Davis provides the black and white interior illustrations and Mal Earl delivers his own special styling for the cover.  “Picture of Innocence” is a book for all devoted Holmes and Watson fans; young and old alike.


Available now from Amazon and coming soon on Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Airship 27 Productions
CAPTAIN HAZZARD: CUSTER'S GHOST
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to bring together two of pulpdom’s most unique and colorful heroes in one fast paced, all action adventure; “Captain Hazzard – Custer’s Ghost” by award winning New Pulp writer Ron Fortier.

When an eerie ghost rider appears on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and begins butchering innocent lives, native superstitions are fueled.  Could this wraith actually be General George Armstrong Custer returned from the dead to seek retribution for his massacre at the Battle of Little Bighorn?  Then, when gangsters attempt to kidnap a Sioux Princess at a prestigious college in New York, Captain Hazzard and his team of adventurers soon find themselves flying to Montana to unravel a truly bizarre mystery.

Accompanying them is Jim Anthony, the famous Super Detective, along with his grandfather, the Comanche shaman, Mephito.  Somewhere in those rugged mountains and plains lies a secret from the past that will change Anthony’s life forever.  But to uncover it, he and the Hazzard will have to risk all and solve the mystery of Custer’s Ghost!

Fortier, the author, and Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor, had long wanted to bring both these great heroes together.  “It’s no secret to pulp fans that both were originally invented to copy the legendary Doc Savage,” Fortier related during a recent interview.  “Whereas Jim Anthony went on to have multiple adventures, Captain Hazzard only ever appeared in one issue of his own title and then vanished.  Throughout the years he’s been known as the One Hit Wonder.”

Since beginning Airship 27 Productions, over a decade ago, Fortier and partner, Art Director Rob Davis, have devoted themselves to continuing the adventures of lesser known pulp heroes such as Captain Hazzard and Jim Anthony. To date the company has released four books featuring the Super Detective in anthologies, while Fortier took it upon himself to write the new exploits of the Champion of Justice.

“Custer’s Ghost” has been three years in the making and the author is all too aware that readers have been overly patient awaiting its completion.  The book features interiors by Davis and a stunning cover by Pat Carbajal.  “In the end I hope they will think the wait was worth it,” Fortier says hopefully.  “Just don’t ask me when number six is coming?”


Available now from Amazon and Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Altus Press
THE GREEN LAMA: THE COMPLETE PULP ADVENTURES (2 VOLUME DELUXE EDITION)
by Kendell Foster Crossen

Introductions by Will Murray, Michelle Nolan, and Martin Grams, Jr.
Now available!

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

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

The Green Lama: The Complete Pulp Adventures (2 Volume Deluxe Edition) by Kendell Foster Crossen contains the following stories:
“The Case of the Death’s-Head Face”
“The Case of the Crimson Hand”
“The Case of the Croesus of Murder”
“The Case of Babies for Sale”
“The Case of the Wave of Death”
“The Case of the Man Who Wasn’t There”
“The Case of the Clown Who Laughed”
“The Case of the Invisible Enemy”
“The Case of the Mad Magi”
“The Case of the Vanishing Ships”
“The Case of the Fugitive Fingerprints”
“The Case of the Crooked Cane”
“The Case of the Hollywood Ghost”
“The Case of the Beardless Corpse”


$140.00 hardcover



Altus Press
THE COMPLETE TALES OF KINGI BWANA (Deluxe Edition)
by Gordon MacCreagh
Introduction by Sai Shankar

Now available!

Limited hardcover edition of 50 copies. Comes with eBook versions of all the stories.
“Anything can happen in Africa!”—that’s the credo of big game hunter, trader and safari guide King, known all over the Dark Continent as Kingi Bwana.
Together with his two loyal companions, the deadly Masai warrior Barounggo and the wizened, cunning Hottentot Kaffa, the stoic American battles slave traders, ivory poachers, gold smugglers, arms traffickers, evil witch doctors and secret societies in the savanna and jungle of Central East Africa.

 $75.00 hardcover




Altus Press
THE SNARL OF THE BEAST: THE COLLECTED HARD-BOILED STORIES OF RACE WILLIAMS, VOLUME 2
by Carroll John Daly
Now available!


Race Williams returns! Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask Magazine, author Carroll John Daly pioneered the hard-boiled detective P.I. story and perfected the genre with his classic character, Race Williams. Apart from the novel-length Race Williams stories, these classic hard-boiled thrillers have rarely been reprinted, if ever.

Volume 2 contains the next batch of Race Williams stories, all from 1927 29 as Daly broke the mold of Black Mask by running serialized novels in the pages of that important magazine. Included here are "The Snarl of the Beast," "The Egyptian Lure," "The Hidden Hand," and "The Tag Murders."

Additional editorial pieces are also included: Daly's own "Putting Over a Detective Novel" was written to explain his working process while writing "The Snarl of the Beast." And it's prefaced by an all-new, scholarly introduction by Professor Brooks E. Hefner of James Madison University.

The Snarl of the Beast: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams Volume 2 continues this most important series published in years on the history of the Hard-Boiled Detective story.

483 pages
  $29.95 softcover
SALE PRICE: $28.95 softcover

You can place a pre-order on Amazon.com at the link below.


Altus Press
THE LIFE OF PINKY JENKINS, VOLUME 1
by H. Bedford-Jones

Now available!

One of the best series ever published in the pulps was written by the prolific H. Bedford-Jones, author of hundreds of stories totaling an estimated 25 millions words.
Thomas Jasper "Pinky" Jenkins, a drunk and corrupt sheriff accompanied by his deputy Parker, shot his way through nearly a score of comedy/Western stories from the 1920s.
Volume 1 includes four recently-discovered Jenkins stories by Bedford-Jones which were published under a pseudonym.

The Pinky Jenkins series may be the only series of its kind written by The King of the Pulps, and considered one of his best by Bedford-Jones aficionados.


$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $18.95 softcover |  $28.95 hardcover



Altus Press
Four New Pulp Logo T-shirts

Now available!

Terror Tales Magazine T-Shirt

This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
 Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan
 Note: black fabric only.


$19.95


Captain Zero T-Shirt

This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1950s.
 Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan
 Note: black fabric only.


$19.95


Captain Satan T-Shirt

This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
 Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan
 Note: black fabric only.


$19.95


Dime Mystery Magazine T-Shirt

This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
 Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt for men, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, Brand: Gildan
 Note: black fabric only.


$19.95

All shirts are available in Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, and XX-Large.

Altus Press





Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available and coming to comic shops December 14!

THE SHADOW Volume 112: "Death Token" & "Three Stamps of Death"
The Master of Darkness investigates collectible crime in two thrilling pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, a supposedly insignificant French silver franc leads to murder and mayhem until The Shadow uncovers the sinister secret behind the "Death Token." Then, three foreign postage stamps cost the lives of three men, until Lamont Cranston infiltrates the underground collectors market to discover the mysterious mystery of the murderous buying power of the "Three Stamps of Death." BONUS: a lost Shadow adventure from the Golden Age of Radio! This special collector's volume showcases the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Modest Stein and the classic interior illustrations by Edd Cartier and Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-220-9 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)

 
Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available and coming to comic shops December 21!

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.



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!

Beyond Worlds Collide By Jeff Deischer

Philip Wylie and Edward Balmer  wrote the classic end-of-the-world-disaster novels When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide in 1933.  These were  serious Science Fiction novels not a mere entertainment.  it tells the story of Earth's destruction and the groups of men and women who struggled to leave our world and colonize an alien planet.  It was well written, brilliantly conceived, and filled with human drama and imagination.  Unfortunately, there were several plotlines that were left hanging and there were not any more novels in the series to help bring some closure to this momentous story UNTIL NOW!
 
Veteran writer Jeff Deischer has written a third novel to continue entitled Beyond Worlds Collide which takes up where the last novel ended and reveals more detail about the further adventures of the modern-day "Argonauts who left earth to preserve what was left of the human race.
 
Jeff carries on in a similar literary style to the original stories but adds more excitement and conflict.  This is a fun excursion into the world created by Wylie and Balmer exploring the fate of the last surviving humans in the universe.  This is a fitting sequel to a classic and beloved series.


Past episodes:
Pulpfest 2016: #10- Guest of Honor- Ted White
Pulpfest 2016: #9 - The Munsey Award
Pat Savage: Six Scarlet Scorpions a novel by Will Murray
The Shadow's Sanctum: Tony Isabella and Anthony Tollin


Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
The final quarterly issue of Blood ‘n’ Thunder is one of the best in the magazine’s 14-year run.
Number 49/50 offers the usual wide variety of articles and essays covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Among the topics explored in this double-sized farewell issue: Cornell Woolrich’s novelette “It Had to Be Murder” and Rear Window, the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller adapted from it; the 1889 story paper that may have influenced The Shadow’s creation; the 1915 cliffhanger serial smash called The Diamond from the Sky; the origins of Robert E. Howard’s demonic wizard Skelos; the short-lived 1935 radio series featuring pulpdom’s The Spider; and Depression-era apprisals of the detective-pulp market from a 1933 issue of Writer’s Digest.

There’s also an entire section — over 60 pages — devoted to the collecting and preservation of rare pulp magazines and the premiums they offered; and a 1938 novelette of African intrigue featuring L. Patrick Greene’s suave British rogue “The Major.” Finally, in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Amazing Stories, the very first magazine exclusively devoted to science fiction, we have an extensive selection of reviews of obscure SF yarns from the zine’s early years, illustrated with rare covers from the 1926-1930 period.

This final Blood ‘n’ Thunder has 210 pages and, as usual, is packed with illustrations to accompany its well-researched and well-written articles.

Trade paperback, 8x10, 210 pages
Price: $24.95

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



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 FLICKERING SHADOWS
How Pulpdom's Master of Darkness Brightened the Silver Screen
Now available!

FLICKERING SHADOWS! Subtitled "How Pulpdom's Master of Darkness Brightened the Silver Screen," this 98-page monograph—about the length of a typical issue of BLOOD 'N' THUNDER—fully chronicles The Shadow's career in films and television. Beginning with the character's 1931 motion-picture debut in Universal's "Shadow Detective" featurettes, Ed Hulse follows the premier pulp hero in his two Grand National feature films, his 1940 cliffhanger serial, his three Monogram "B" mysteries, his two unsold TV pilots of the '50s, and finally the big-budget 1994 spectacular starring Alec Baldwin. Along the way Hulse debunks Shadow movie myths and even covers films scripted but never made, drawing on his extensive research and in-person interviews. He also discusses the Shadow pulp magazine so as to offer context in his examination of the motion pictures.

The book is profusely illustrated with stills, posters, lobby cards, vintage pulp covers, and even frame captures from the films themselves. It's a must-have for Shadow fans. Get it today at muraniapress.com!


Trade paperback, 7x10, 98 pages
Price: $10.95


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




Bringing Back Classic Adventure One Page at a Time - Now online!

New Novel Coming soon! - New! 
Free Short Story!
Greatest Ever Pulp Stories #8 – The Curse of Capistrano
Greatest Ever Pulp Stories #7 – Under the Moons of Mars
Greatest Ever Pulp Stories #6 – The Man of Bronze

Greatest Ever Pulp Stories #5 – Twelve Peers

Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Short Reviews – Asteroid of Fear, by Raymond Z. Gallun - New! 
Mysteries of the Worm
Short Reviews – The Envoy, Her, by H.B. Fyfe
The Trail of Cthulhu

The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Bellatrix IV and Albireo XII
- New! 
A Blonde for Murder - New! 
Mr. Thin and Mr. Cayterer - New! 
Great Gods! It’s Wynne N. Whiteford - New! 
Hammett’s seventh digest-sized collection
Nothing’s Impossible
November 1965 Newsstand
Famous Fantastic Mysteries Digest

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 TRILOGY

Coming very soon!

Tarzan Trilogy by Thomas Zachek
Three all NEW Tarzan Stories, in one book, with Illustrations
Interior illustrations by Douglas Klauba


Three all new tales of Tarzan at Point Station, a remote English outpost near the Waziri homelands. Set during the advent of World War II, we see more and more European intrusion to the Bolongo River Basin. Tarzan becomes embroiled in increasingly dangerous events as cultures clash.
  1. Tarzan and the “Fountain of Youth: Searching for the missing son of a friend, Tarzan encounters agents of an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company exploiting jungle resources for its own profit.
  2. Tarzan and the Cross of Vengeance: A team of archaeologist making a groundbreaking discovery, a group of well-meaning but naive American missionaries arriving to convert the native tribes, and a ruthless band of men with a dark purpose stir up a heady mix of challenges for Tarzan, fomenting an intertribal war that only he can stop.  
  3. Tarzan the Conqueror: When the Third Reich invades Africa to exploit the land for riches and enslave the native populations in labor camps, Tarzan must lead the tribes in an unprecedented tribal resistance.
About the author: Thomas Zachek
I grew up on the Tarzan movies and, to a lesser extent, the comics. But I became hooked on the real Tarzan in high school after picking up a new Ace paperback edition of Tarzan and the Lost Empire for fifty cents, the one with the Frank Frazetta cover of our hero, monkey on his back, hanging from a limb on a cliff and looking down upon the Roman city. I went on to collect the entire series of Ace and Ballantine paperback reissues of Burroughs’ tales (and still have them). I discovered that Burroughs’ stories were quite unlike the family-friendly Tarzan of the movies, with inarticulate Johnny Weismuller as the hulking hero living for some reason in the jungle with a classy, aristocratic Jane. No, Burroughs’ hero was a British lord who spoke educated English and had a fascinating backstory. I was impressed with the far superior level of development and action found in these tales. I attempted writing my first Tarzan tale in 2005 (Tarzan and the “Fountain of Youth”) as something of a lark, and then followed it, to date, with six more Tarzan tales. Friends encouraged me to try to get the stories published. I am grateful to Jim Sullos of ERB, Inc., for giving me the chance. Here are my first three. In these stories, I have tried to craft realistic, page-turning adventure tales featuring classic Tarzan elements while at the same time taking the character in directions that have never been done in Tarzan stories before. I invite you to share your thoughts and comments with me at zachekbooks@gmail.com.





FULL WOLF MOON - Coming May 16!
by Lincoln Child


The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist...featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic.

Legends, no matter how outlandish, are often grounded in reality. This has been the guiding principle behind the exhilarating career of Jeremy Logan, the "enigmologist"--an investigator who specializes in analyzing phenomena that have no obvious explanation--previously seen in The Forgotten Room, The Third Gate, and Deep Storm. Logan has often found himself in situations where keeping an open mind could mean the difference between life and death, and that has never been more true than now.

Logan travels to an isolated writers' retreat deep in the Adirondacks to finally work on his book when the remote community is rocked by the grisly discovery of a dead hiker on Desolation Mountain. The body has been severely mauled, but the unusual savagery of the bite and claw marks call into question the initial suspicions of a wild bear attack. When Logan is asked to help investigate, he discovers no shortage of suspects capable of such an attack--and no shortage of locals willing to point the finger and spread incredible rumors. One rumor, too impossible to believe, has even the forest ranger believing in werewolves. As Logan gets to know the remote deep-woods landscape, including a respected woman scientist still struggling with the violent loss of her father in these very woods, Logan realizes he's up against something he has never seen before.

His most action-packed and white-knuckled novel to date, Full Wolf Moon is the perfect combination of exotic locales, provocative science, and raw action that make for a deeply entertaining Lincoln Child blockbuster.


Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches
$26.95


Amazon.com    


Hippocampus Press
A MEANS TO FREEDOM: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard
(Trade Paperback - Second Edition)

Coming January 22, 2017!


The new paperback edition of A MEANS TO FREEDOM will be officially released on January 22, 2017.
Advance orders are now being taken at the Hippocampus website.

H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard are two of the titans of weird fiction of their era. Dominating the pages of Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, they have gained worldwide followings for their compelling writings and also for the very different lives they led.

Edited by S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz, and Rusty Burke
Second softcover edition, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-61498-189-3 (two volume set)
1006 pages
$60





IRWIN ALLEN'S LOST IN SPACE: THE LOST ADVENTURES #6 - Arriving in comic shops December 14!
(Writer) Carey Wilber, Holly Interlandi (Art/Cover) Patrick McEvoy

Final issue!
Sentenced to have their heads chopped off, Will, Penny, Doctor Smith, and the Robot either have to find a way out of the Queen of Hearts' dungeon or a way out of the dimension all together — and the key to the latter might be a few words contained in a silly rhyme. But will it get them out in time?


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99






Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Last Stop for Ki-Gor - New!
Return to the Jungle, Ki-Gor Style
Later Savage Sword of Conan Volumes
Rapiers Ride!
Gray Maiden
Conan RPG

ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #16 - Now available and coming soon to comic shops!

Neal Adams: An in depth look at the life and art of one of the all time greats. Packed full of stunning art from his comic days, his advertising days and unpublished work from his studio. Paul Slater: His work became a staple of British newspapers and magazines and his advertising clients are the largest companies around. Cecil Glossop: Popular and prolific illustrator for Chums (a weekly boys paper that ran from 1892 to 1941). His pirate paintings and drawings are without equal. Will Davies: He's the man behind images that shaped how Canadians saw half a century. Will Davies was so prolific, you have probably seen his work without even realizing it.

Magazine, 96 pages, Full Color, $24.99




JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #3 (OF 6) - Arriving in comic shops December 14!
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Cover: Francesco Francavilla

After a massacre in Dubai, 007 closes in on the mysterious Kraken. But while investigating a mercenary safehouse in Yemen, Bond discovers the most advanced Q-Branch technology can sometimes prove less an asset than a liability. And a weapon is only as lethal as the man who wields it...

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99




Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON

Conan is King of Aquilonia. His enemies, through the use of a strange talismantic jewel known as the Heart of Ahriman, resurrect a sorceror of renown powers, Xaltotun. Conan is forced from his kingdom and begins his strenuous campaign to regain his throne. He travels alone through many exotic lands, experiencing a variety of exciting adventures, before he is ready to return to battle his usurper.

This book contains the original texts as they first appeared in Weird Tales pulp magazine as well as all of the original illustrations which accompanied the stories.

Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 9 inch, 310 pages
Retail Price $44.95
Our Price $29.95
ISBN 978-1365537493

Hardcover with casewrap cover, 8.25 x 10.5 inch, 310 pages
Retail Price $34.95
Our Price $29.95

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 310 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $12.95
ISBN 978-1540448828


 
 
LORDS OF THE JUNGLE Trade Paperback  - Arriving in comic shops December 14!
Cover: Alex Ross Writer: Corinna Bechko Art: Roberto Castro, Felipe Massafera

Tarzan has long been the protector of his jungle stronghold… but now he journeys deep into his enemy’s territory: the heart of London! Half a world away and nearly a century later, Sheena battles foes of her own when she is mysteriously swept through time and space to 1930’s Africa, leaving her own land unprotected. Will these two Lords of the Jungle find enough common ground to join forces? Or will the resulting culture clash lead to mutual destruction? For the first time ever, literary great Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Lord of the Jungle teams up with Sheena, the Queen of the Jungle created by comic book legends Will Eisner and Jerry Iger!

Trade paperback, 7" x 10", 152+ pages, $19.99





Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Van Williams, Star of the Green Hornet television series, dead at 82 - New!
Is there such a thing as too much TV?
Doctor Strange 2016 Movie Review
The "Lost" Adventures of the Lone Ranger
The Value of Dust Jackets


Moonstone Books
The Green Ghost: Declassified
By Win Scott Eckert & Eric Fein
Now available direct from Moonstone Books!
Coming soon to comic shops!


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



The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

The Protectors

The Centipede (Villain)
Super Incorporated
PRE CODE CLASSIC AMAZING ADVENTURES HC VOL 01 - Arriving in comic shops December 14!
(Art) Murphy Anderson, Wally Wood, Alex Schomburg, Norman Saunders & others

Oh, boy, we got an out'n'out doozy for you this time, with the six 1950's issues of Ziff Davis' Amazing Advenutures, brim full with work from the likes of Murphy Anderson, Jerry Siegel, Ogden Whitney, Wally Wood, Alex Schomburg, Frank Giacola, Bernard Krigstein, Norman Saunders, Ross Andru, and a host of other talented writers and artists. I could say more, like how #2 contains "The Steel Monster," a kickass riff on Ted Sturgeon's "Killdozer" yarn from 1944 (also homaged by Marvel some 20 years later). Collects issues #1-6 (1950 to Fall 1952).


Hardcover, 7x10, 216 pages, Full Color, $59.99





Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Baldy Simmons Goes Rose Bowl" by Jack Kofoed from THRILLING SPORTS, November, 1940

Featuring: Baldy Simmons
It's a Big Jump From the Squared Circle of Grunt and Groan to the Gridiron - But It's Worth It!

"Them Picks" by Phil Lang & Robert P. Janette from ALL-STORY WEEKLY, June 8, 1918
Porgy McGuire, many time loser with the law, wants to stay clean and honest, but his wife has other ideas.

"Murder in Fine Print" by O. B. Myers from G-MEN DETECTIVE, July, 1948
A reading glass helps Detective Cummings solve a case that looked like an accident.




Pulp Adventurecon
February 11, 2017!

Pulp Adventurecon 2017 fast approaches!
February 11, 2017
For Lauderdale, Florida
Universal Palms Hotel


Pulp Adventurecon returns to the Universal Palms Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida for another afternoon of Golden Age comic books, Pulp Magazines, Big Little Books, Old-Time Radio, movie memorabilia, vintage pin-ups and much more!

25 vendor tables filled with great stuff, and plenty of knowledgeable collectors ready to talk about their favorite characters, authors, genres, and what-not!

If you stay overnight at the Universal Palms Hotel, use the special codeword "pulp" to receive the $109 room rate.

 



Pulp Crazy - Now online!

Dum-Dum 2016 – Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Coldwater Connection
Dum-Dum 2016 – Philip José Farmer’s Ancient Opar Series
The Road by Hiroshi Aramata
Pulp Den - Now online!

Death Rides Solar II

Near-Earth Object 2017AP
The Damp Fedora
Realms of Edenocht
         Pulp Den  

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

Fanny Ellsworth article on writing western stories for Ranch Romances - New!
Article on editing by Ray Long - magazine editor
Arthur S. Hoffman - Profile of Fritz Duquesne, adventurer
Pulp AdventureCon 2016
Dee Linford - Western Author, Journalist, Technical Writer

The Pulp Hermit - Now online!

The Power Barons
Scorpio
Secret Mission Angola
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 #25 and #26 - New!
‘The Purple Monster Strikes’: a serial in 15 chapters
‘The Shadow’: a review of the 1994 movie, part 2
‘The Shadow’: a review of the 1994 movie, part 1
Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Paul A. Carter: 1926-2017 - New!
Remembering the pulpsters
Have a pulpy Halloween
Robert Weinberg: 1946-2016
Bits of pulp: Foundation, Jedi, & more

Radio Archives

Audiobooks at a 50% discount!
This newsletter, the Anniversary Celebration spotlight is on Audiobooks!
All 149 audiobooks are 50% off.
All Audiobook Audio CDs and Digital Downloads are included.
Whether you are experiencing one of our Audiobooks for the first time or completing your collection, this is the sale of the year.
The spotlight on Audiobooks ends December 8th.


Radio Archives
Captain Future #4 Audiobook
The Triumph of Captain Future by Edmond Hamilton
Read by Milton Bagby
Now available!
 
Racing to the Ringed Planet in Answer to Earth’s Clarion Call, the Wizard of Science seeks a Forbidden Elixir of Life—and Finds the City of Eternal Youth!

 
The Captain Future stories were not only populated with magnificent characters, but they were also set in a wild, imaginative, almost psychedelic universe. Edmond Hamilton built worlds and star systems that in many ways completely disregarded what the public knew to be true about outer space, but they did not care. Nearly every planet in our solar system could support life and danger lurked there, too. Although the original stories took place amongst familiar planets, Hamilton would take readers far beyond anything familiar in later tales.
 
Published from 1940 to 1951, Captain Future stories initially take place in the far flung year of 1990. As the series progressed, Hamilton moved away from pinning the ongoing adventures to a particular time and focusing more on forming continuity, where stories built on one another. This allowed for a freedom of imagination, for Hamilton to tell stories without restrictions.
 
Although Captain Future was initially modeled on Doc Savage, hints and influences of other heroes make their way into the stories as well. For instance, the Planet Police summon Captain Future with a signal flare fired into the sky, similarly to Batman, the Phantom Detective, and others. Also, Captain Future has a female interest, although he never fully admits that she might be a romantic one. A member of the Space Patrol, Joan Randall proves in story after story that she can stand alongside the Futuremen. She also clearly has affection for Curt Newton, waiting for him to acknowledge his feelings for her that as so many Pulp heroines do.
 
Rocket into science fiction adventure and discover new worlds. Ripped from the pages of the Fall 1940 issue of Captain Future magazine, “The Triumph of Captain Future” is read with wonder and excitement by Milton Bagby.

  
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs


A nameless mystery man with a wartime past, backed by a shadowy group of powerful philanthropists, Secret Agent “X” took on the toughest assignments of the dirty thirties. Operating out of the half-haunted Montgomery Mansion, X was also known as the Man of a Thousand Faces.



In ten days there were ten murders. Bestial terror talons ripped the heart and soul from a city—as they ripped life from its civic monarchs. And in the funeral wake of these awesome claws lay the dried, bloodless husks of what once were men. The Grim Reaper stalked the city with a handful of horror. Alone, bucking this mad march to the grave, was Secret Agent “X”—the Man of a Thousand Faces. Countless times had “X” manhunted murderers. But never before had his trail carried him up a corpse-runged ladder of human husks.
 
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. Operating out of the supposedly haunted Montgomery Mansion, Secret Agent “X” ventures forth in a bewildering array of false identities to infiltrate the darkest underbelly of the underworld—and destroy it from within. A master investigator of a thousand guises and surprises. The only clue to his true identity is his haunting whistle…..
 
Though Paul Chadwick was the creator and architect of the weird menace series that Secret Agent “X” would be, other well known Pulp writers also added their own contributions to the canon. All writing under the “Brant House name”, G. T. Fleming-Roberts, Emile C. Tepperman, and Wayne Rogers wrote Secret Agent “X” tales as well over the 41 story run.
 
Follow the Man of a Thousand Faces as he confronts the menace of Talons of Terror, ripped from Secret Agent “X” magazine, April 1935 and read with chilling intensity by Milton Bagby.

 
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives
James Christopher, Operator #5 Audiobook
#10 The Red Invader
by Frederick C. Davis writing as Curtis Steele

Read by Milton Bagby

Now available at 50% off until December 15! 

A happy crowd, inspired by the spirit of Christmas, was milling joyously in Times Square, New York. Suddenly, cutting through the sounds of gayety, came a shrill whine. It became louder, and at the very second of midnight, a gigantic shell exploded, killing, maiming, destroying! At twelve hour intervals thereafter — no man knew in advance where — another shell burst devastatingly. Two great powers were openly accused in the newspapers. War — savage and bloody — was imminent, and Operator #5 realized that he had encountered his most cunning foe, the clever woman spy — Radi Havara!

 
Jimmy Christopher was the star of the most audacious pulp magazine ever conceived. With the rise of European fascism in the form of Benito Mussolini of Italy, Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany and General Francisco Franco of Spain—not to mention myriad lesser despots and dictators—Americans began to fear for their future. The dread of being drawn into a second World War became a topic of grave concern in that Depression year of 1934.

At pulp magazine publisher Popular Publications, they took note of this isolationist trend and commissioned writer Frederick C. Davis to help develop a hero for their new monthly magazine, entitled Secret Service Operator #5.

“The basic concept of Operator #5 came from Harry Steeger, the publisher, or Rogers Terrill, the editor, or both,” Davis recalled. “It was that Operator #5 must save the United States from total destruction in every story, every month. When I was called in to start the series Terrill already had a cover illustration—the White House being blown up. I did the first Operator 5 around this picture.”

Into this unprecedented crisis plunged Jimmy Christopher. Only one man, but a man who embodied the American spirit — and stands prepared to perish to protect his country.
The Red Invader is read with stirring intensity by Milton Bagby. Originally published in the January, 1935 issue of Operator #5 magazine.

 
Specially priced until December 15th. 5 hours - $4.99 Download / $9.99 Audio CDs


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Spider #117 eBook
October 1943
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
 
A Book-Length Spider Novel
The Spider and Hell’s Factory by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Only Richard Wentworth, Nita and two staunch friends stood in the path of a tidal wave of treason and destruction. For hell’s own handyman, The Chief, had moved into America’s greatest center of war industry, to organize a mass blood purge for all patriots!
 
Date for Dying — A Thrill-Packed Story by Francis K. Allan
Headstrong, willful Connie would follow Red right through hell... And that was exactly where Red was going!
 
Death’s Dress Rehearsal — An Ed Race Story by Emile C. Tepperman
A lead-slinging waitress led Ed Race on a homicidal game of murder tag — in which he was It!
 
The Web — A Department
Conducted by The Chief
Young America is tough!
 
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 Spirits

Born in 1886 and still going strong in the 1940s, Nick Carter doesn't show his age at all in these exciting radio adventures -- including a rare near complete adventure written by mystery legend Robert A. Arthur!

Lon Clark stars as Carter with John Kane as reporter-sidekick Scubby Wilson, and Helen Choate and Charlotte Manson taking turns as Nick's breezy secretary Patsy Bowen.

Includes a Program Guide by radio historian Elizabeth McLeod.

Episodes Include: Nine Hours To Live 01-15-44; Records of Death 01-22-44; The Drums of Death 03-25-44; Murder by Magic 04-08-44; Kidnap For Sale Part One 04-17-44, Part Two 04-18-44, Part Three 04-19-44, Part Five 04-21-44, Part Six 04-24-44, Part Seven 04-25-44, Part Eight 04-26-44, Part Nine 04-27-44; Murder on Mad Mountain 10-22-44; The Witch of Donderberg Mountain 04-29-45; The Case of the Hanging Paperhanger 08-05-45; The Case of the Talking Tree 09-09-45; The Case of the Wandering Corpse 01-06-46; The Body in the Ice 01-27-46; The Case of the Make-Believe Robbery 06-18-46; The Case of the Red Goose Murder 09-01-46


Duration: 8 hours
Media: (8) CDs
Price: $31.95




RED SONJA #0 - Arriving in comic shops December 14!
Writer: Amy Chu
Art: Carlos Gomez
Cover: Nick Bradshaw


25¢ INTRODUCTORY PRICED ISSUE!

The barbarian She-Devil with a Sword faces a whole different world and challenges in this new adventure written by Amy Chu and drawn by Carlos Gomez. Somewhere deep underground, strange and powerful demons clad in metal armor attack and roust Red Sonja from a deep magical sleep. Confused and weaponless, she must find a way to defeat these mysterious creatures, escape from her solitary prison, and make her way to the surface to discover where she is, and why she was put there...

Full Color, 24 pages, $0.25


THE SEVENTH PLAGUE: A Sigma Force Novel - Arriving in book stores December 13!
by James Rollins


If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened--could they happen again--on a global scale?

Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body--while he was still alive.

His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news arrives from Egypt. The medical team who had performed the man's autopsy has fallen ill with an unknown disease, one that is quickly spreading throughout Cairo. Fearing the worst, a colleague of the professor reaches out to a longtime friend: Painter Crowe, the director of Sigma Force. The call is urgent, for Professor McCabe had vanished into the desert while searching for proof of the ten plagues of Moses. As the pandemic grows, a disturbing question arises.

Are those plagues starting again?

Before Director Crowe can investigate, a mysterious group of assassins leaves behind a fiery wake of destruction and death, erasing all evidence. With the professor's body incinerated, his home firebombed, Sigma Force must turn to the archaeologist's only daughter, Jane McCabe, for help. While sifting through what's left of her father's work, she discovers a puzzling connection, tying the current threat to a shocking historical mystery, one involving the travels of Mark Twain, the genius of Nikola Tesla, and the adventures of famous explorer, Henry Morgan Stanley.

To unravel a secret going back millennia, Director Crowe and Commander Grayson Pierce will be thrust to opposite sides of the globe. One will search for the truth, traveling from the plague-ridden streets of Cairo to a vast ancient tomb buried under the burning sands of the Sudan; the other will struggle to stop a mad genius locked within a remote Arctic engineering complex, risking the lives of all those he holds dear.

As the global crisis grows ever larger, Sigma Force will confront a threat born of the ancient past and made real by the latest science--a danger that will unleash a cascading series of plagues, culminating in a scourge that could kill all of the world's children . . . decimating mankind forever.


Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: William Morrow
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
List Price: $27.99


The Shadow 365 - Now online!

A new Shadow blog, "The Shadow 365," is now online.
Every day it will be posting and discussing in chronological order the legendary pulp and comic book covers of "The Shadow."
Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men? The Shadow 365 knows!


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.

Middle American Indians on the Cover of Weird Tales - New!
Pirates on the Cover of Weird Tales
Hannes Bok's Uncategorizable Cover, Then Politics on the Cover of Weird Tales
Coye's Uncategorizable Covers
Strange People on the Cover of Weird Tales
Weird Forces on the Cover of Weird Tales


Van Williams, TV's Green Hornet: February 27, 1934 to November 29, 2016

Van Williams, who portrayed the masked crime-fighter The Green Hornet in a memorable TV series, has died. He was 82.

In The Green Hornet, an adaptation of the radio serial that debuted in the 1930s, Williams starred as playboy editor/publisher Britt Reid, who inherited The Daily Sentinel newspaper from his father, who died in jail after being framed for a crime he did not commit. Reid donned a mask, fedora and long coat to battle the bad guys as the Hornet. Famed martial-arts expert Bruce Lee, then unknown in the U.S., played Kato, Reid's manservant. He drove his boss around town in their ominous, gadget-packed Black Beauty car.

Williams is survived by Vicki, his wife of 57 years, and their daughters Nina, Tia and Britt, and twin daughters from a previous marriage, Lisa and Lynne. He also had nine grand children.




WEIRDBOOK #33
Now available and recommended!

Weirdbook will be publishing four issues in 2017. 
Weirdbook is now a quarterly!
So issues #34 - #37 will all appear  in 2017.

Here are great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre...
Trade Paperback, 16 x 9 inches, 80 pages, $12.00

Table of Contents

Fiction
The River Flows To Nowhere by John R. Fultz
The Amnesiac’s Lament by Scott R Jones
Trance Junkie By Bruno Lombardi
Bad Faith by Will Blinn document page 56
Dwelling of the Wolf by Franklyn Searight
The Ruby Palace by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The Screams at the Keyhole by Garrett Cook
Diary of an Illness by C. M. Muller
Teatime with Mrs. Monster by James Aquilone
Train to Nowhere by Adrian Cole

Poetry & Prose
A Cure for Unrequited Love by Donald W. Schank
The Owl by S. L. Edwards
Bathory in Red by Ashley Dioses
Blood Siren's Alcove by Ashley Dioses
The Woodland funeral by K.A. Opperman
The Lady in Scarlet by K.A. Opperman
The Ghost Carriage by K. A. Opperman
Hymn to Shub-Niggurath by Darrell Schweitzer

Noctuary of Sfatlicllp by Frederick J. Mayer
Sfatlicllp's Ghoul by Frederick J. Mayer
Nile Lamia Recalls by Frederick J. Mayer









02 December 2016

2016 and 2017 Film Releases
All dates are subject to change.

December 16, 2016
December 21, 2016
December 25, 2016
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY
PASSENGERS
JUMANJI

January 6, 2017 UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS
February 10, 2017
February 17, 2017
February 17, 2017
THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE
MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE

THE DARK TOWER
March 3, 2017
March 10, 2017
March 17, 2017
March 24, 2017
March 24, 2017
March 31, 2017
THE WOLVERINE 2
KONG: SKULL ISLAND
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
DARK UNIVERSE: THE MUMMY
KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD
GHOST IN THE SHELL
May 5, 2017
May 19, 2017
May 26, 2017

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2
TERMINATOR: GENISYS 2
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES

June 2, 2017
June 9, 2017
June 9, 2017
June 16, 2017
WONDER WOMAN
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ASCENDANT
THE MUMMY
KINGSMEN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
July 7, 2017
July 14, 2017
July 21, 2017
July 28, 2017
SPIDERMAN: HOMECOMING
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
JUMANJI
August 4, 2017
ALIEN: CONVENANT
September 29, 2017
THE EQUALIZER 2
November 3, 2017
November 10, 2017
November 17, 2017

THOR: RAGNAROK
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
JUSTICE LEAGUE: PART 1

December TBA, 2017
December TBA, 2017
December 22, 2017
AVATAR 2
STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII
THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN

2017 Windy City Pulp and Paper Show
April 21-23, 2017

As 2016 comes to a close, Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention is less than a half a year away. 
Our theme this coming convention is a combo of Red Circle Pulps and Gangster Mags celebration.
We have a guest that worked for the Goodman Company, but until we firm up the details, can't say much more.

Gangster magazines began with The Underworld in 1927, thereby it's 90th Anniversary. 
A genre that was heavily used by Harold Hersey. 
Which leads us into some exciting news regarding our upcoming Friday Night Auction. 
A collection of some truly remarkable pulps will be available for auction, and you can check out some of the sample issues in our newsletter
[all pulps in the newsletter will be in the auction and more] and on our Facebook and Website.


For Hotel Information/Registration information, visit the link below.
For con registration (Tables and membership), visit the link below.


Adventure House
Now available!

High Adventure #151
Planet Stories Special Issue


"The Man The Tech-Men Made" by Fox B. Holden
"Sword of Tormain" by Eric Storm
and more.

Cover Art: Kelly Freas

   
7x10, 110 pages, $12.95

   

Adventure House
Now available!

G-8 And His Battle Aces #50

"The Flight of the Hell Hawks" by Robert J. Hogan
G-8 could see those Claws of Death, sharpened with hate and with the strength of steel, grasping Yank pilots from their pits and hurling them to horrible destruction. 
What was the ghastly secret that had given them life? 
How could brave men fight back at the Vultures who murdered them in the sky?


Cover Art: Frederick Blakeslee

7x10, 112 pages, $12.95



Adventure House
Now available!

The Phantom Detective - January 1943

"Murder Makes the Bets" by Robert Wallace
Death is the payoff when a diabolical master of crime turns to the sport world for his field of operations and hurls a bold challenge at the Phantom! 
Follow the daring exploits of Richard Curtis Van Loan as he battles to smash a million-dollar racket.

"Maybe He’s Waiting" by James Donnelly
"Killer’s Pal" by C.S. Montanye

   
7x10, 112 pages, $14.95



Adventure House
Now available!

Captain Future - Spring 1942

"Outlaws of the Moon" by Edmond Hamilton
Curt Newton leads the valiant Futuremen in the thrilling fight to preserve a priceless lunar heritage! 
Follow the World’s Greatest Space-farer, Captain Future, as he embarks on the most perilous exploits of his career.

"The Alien Intelligence" by Jack Williamson
"Guinea Pig" by Arthur K. Barnes
"The Dummy That Saved Earth" by Graph Waldeyer


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



Adventure House
Now available!

Wide World Adventures - September 1929

"The Vengeance of the Shark" by Albert Richard Wetjen
"Medico" by Lt. W.J. Stamper
"The Blind Boy of El Shetma" by Warren Hastings Miller
"Brown’s Tiger" by P. Chamier Tripp
"The Law of Their Kind" by Anderson McCully
"One More River To Cross" by Major George Fielding Elliot
"Shylock McLean’s Mutton Mail" by George McPherson Hunter

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




Adventures in Bronze / Altus Press
THE WILD ADVENTURES OF KING KONG
KING KONG VS. TARZAN
Now available in softcover, hardcover and eBook editions!

BEAST-GOD VERSUS APE-MAN

The year was 1933. Filmmaker Carl Denham had captured the stupendous monster he had dubbed “King” Kong. But that was only the beginning. Denham was determined to get the dethroned ruler of Skull Mountain Island back to America, and cash in on the greatest wild animal capture in human history.

The saga of how Kong was taken in chains from his Indian Ocean kingdom to New York City has never been told. In order for the cargo freighter Wanderer to make the long transit to the Atlantic, she is forced to circumnavigate Africa—jungle home of the legendary Tarzan of the Apes!

Here is the long-anticipated clash between the Monarch of Skull Island and Lord of the Jungle.

When the largest anthropoid who ever lived encounters the savage superman raised by the great apes, will they make peace—or war?






Age of Aces
Now available!

CAPTAIN PHILIP STRANGE: STRANGE SPECTRES by Donald E. Keyhoe

A mental marvel from birth, who used his talents on stage as a boy, Philip Strange is now known as “The Phantom Ace of G-2″ by the Allies during WWI. “Horrors of war” takes on a whole new meaning when WWI erupts with paranormal activity: Flaming planes piloted by charred skeletons; Battleship crews that mysteriously vanish; Medieval knights falling from the sky; The spirit of the Red Baron himself haunting the frontlines! When World War I gets weird, only America’s own “Phantom Ace of G-2” has a ghost of a chance against the supernatural slaughter. Captain Philip Strange in his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!

Take another trip through the imaginings of Donald E. Keyhoe, where the WWI war skies are filled with giant bats, invisible fire, and beautiful spies. And where America turns to its own unnatural secret weapon: Captain Philip Strange. A mental marvel from birth, he was so terrifyingly effective as the Allies’ top agent that the Germans were offering a king’s ransom for his death. This fifth volume of weird WWI adventures collects six stories featuring Germany’s wildest attempts to win the war and Captain Philip Strange’s counter measures!

Stories include:
“Scourge of the Spectre,” – Flying Aces, August 1935
“Spectre of the Red Knight,” – Flying Aces, January 1932
“The Vanishing Avenger,” – Flying Aces, February 1934
“The Ghost from G-2,” – Flying Aces, May 1934
“Strafe of the Flying Corpse,” – Flying Aces, January 1936
“The Armored Corpse,” – Flying Aces, March 1936


Trade paperback, 6"x9", 350 pages, $16.99


SQUADRON OF THE DEAD by Frederick C. Painton


The Squadron of the Dead contained all the hellions of ten armies! Men without hope; men courting death; men who loved to kill; men who laughed and fought, drank and cursed, lived hard, and died harder. Americans, British, Russians—even Germans—made up their ranks, and only one bond held them together: Death lay ahead of them. They were assigned the grim missions no other squadron dared to take—for they had all been condemned to die!

Each of the eight stories in Painton’s Squadron of the Dead is the story of a different pilot who has been condemned to death and sent to the squadron to serve out his sentence. And die they did, dropping spies, bombing impossible places, strafing infantry for harassed Allied battalions. These men flew recklessly, savagely, knowing they could live again only when death really claimed them. Then their names would shine once again in the casualty announcements and they would be posthumously awarded the Legion d’Honneur.

Frederick C. Painton, a prolific pulp author and venerated newspaper man, wrote the eight Squadron of the Dead stories contained in this anthology in 1935 for Sky Birds magazine.
Painton is best remembered for his coverage of World War II for Reader’s Digest magazine.

Stories include:
“Today We Die,” – Sky Birds, February 1935
“Ghosts of the Living,” – Sky Birds, March 1935
“The Glory Gambler,” – Sky Birds, April 1935
“Tarmac of Treason,” – Sky Birds, June 1935
“Death’s Dreadnaughts,” – Sky Birds, July 1935
“Legion of the Unlucky,” – Sky Birds, August 1935
“Duel of Dishonor,” – Sky Birds, September 1935
“Slaughter of the Dead,” – Sky Birds, December 1935

Plus:
”About the Author” by Frederick C. Painton


Trade paperback, 6"x9", 362 pages, $16.99





Airship 27 Productions
THE RETURN OF THE DOMINO LADY
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to announce that pulpdom’s sexiest masked adventure is back in a brand new collection of her sexy exploits.  From a gang of corrupt policemen to secret Nazis saboteurs out to destroy the Los Angeles Olympics, the beautiful and wily crime-fighter has her hands full in this new quartet of tales by Gene Moyers, Brad Mengel, Robert Ricci and Paul Findley. 

“Volume One of this series was a whopping success for us,” reports Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor Ron Fortier.  “We couldn’t keep copies on our tables at the pulp cons.  Our readers, both men and women, are extremely fascinated by this character as there were so few female pulp heroes back in the 30s and 40s.”

Airship 27 Productions was also thrilled to reassemble the art team that made Volume One so beautiful for the fans.  Under the helm of Art Director Rob Davis, artist James Lyle delivered another twelve fantastic black and white interior illustrations while Canadian Ted Hammond offered his second Domino Lady cover; a stunning image that captures the allure and mystery inherent in this great character.

As always, lovely socialite Ellen Patrick weaves her way in and out of trouble, donning her black silk domino mask whenever injustice rears its ugly head. From the time of her father’s murder, Ellen has dedicated herself to righting wrongs.  She just does it in a most peculiar fashion becoming the pulps’ most alluring and deadly hero; the Domino Lady.


Available now from Amazon and Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Airship 27 Productions
CAPTAIN HAZZARD: CUSTER'S GHOST
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to bring together two of pulpdom’s most unique and colorful heroes in one fast paced, all action adventure; “Captain Hazzard – Custer’s Ghost” by award winning New Pulp writer Ron Fortier.

When an eerie ghost rider appears on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and begins butchering innocent lives, native superstitions are fueled.  Could this wraith actually be General George Armstrong Custer returned from the dead to seek retribution for his massacre at the Battle of Little Bighorn?  Then, when gangsters attempt to kidnap a Sioux Princess at a prestigious college in New York, Captain Hazzard and his team of adventurers soon find themselves flying to Montana to unravel a truly bizarre mystery.

Accompanying them is Jim Anthony, the famous Super Detective, along with his grandfather, the Comanche shaman, Mephito.  Somewhere in those rugged mountains and plains lies a secret from the past that will change Anthony’s life forever.  But to uncover it, he and the Hazzard will have to risk all and solve the mystery of Custer’s Ghost!

Fortier, the author, and Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor, had long wanted to bring both these great heroes together.  “It’s no secret to pulp fans that both were originally invented to copy the legendary Doc Savage,” Fortier related during a recent interview.  “Whereas Jim Anthony went on to have multiple adventures, Captain Hazzard only ever appeared in one issue of his own title and then vanished.  Throughout the years he’s been known as the One Hit Wonder.”

Since beginning Airship 27 Productions, over a decade ago, Fortier and partner, Art Director Rob Davis, have devoted themselves to continuing the adventures of lesser known pulp heroes such as Captain Hazzard and Jim Anthony. To date the company has released four books featuring the Super Detective in anthologies, while Fortier took it upon himself to write the new exploits of the Champion of Justice.

“Custer’s Ghost” has been three years in the making and the author is all too aware that readers have been overly patient awaiting its completion.  The book features interiors by Davis and a stunning cover by Pat Carbajal.  “In the end I hope they will think the wait was worth it,” Fortier says hopefully.  “Just don’t ask me when number six is coming?”


Available now from Amazon and Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Altus Press
THE SNARL OF THE BEAST: THE COLLECTED HARD-BOILED STORIES OF RACE WILLIAMS, VOLUME 2
by Carroll John Daly
Now available!


Race Williams returns! Originally appearing in the pages of Black Mask Magazine, author Carroll John Daly pioneered the hard-boiled detective P.I. story and perfected the genre with his classic character, Race Williams. Apart from the novel-length Race Williams stories, these classic hard-boiled thrillers have rarely been reprinted, if ever.

Volume 2 contains the next batch of Race Williams stories, all from 1927 29 as Daly broke the mold of Black Mask by running serialized novels in the pages of that important magazine. Included here are "The Snarl of the Beast," "The Egyptian Lure," "The Hidden Hand," and "The Tag Murders."

Additional editorial pieces are also included: Daly's own "Putting Over a Detective Novel" was written to explain his working process while writing "The Snarl of the Beast." And it's prefaced by an all-new, scholarly introduction by Professor Brooks E. Hefner of James Madison University.

The Snarl of the Beast: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams Volume 2 continues this most important series published in years on the history of the Hard-Boiled Detective story.

483 pages
  $29.95 softcover
SALE PRICE: $28.95 softcover

You can place a pre-order on Amazon.com at the link below.


Altus Press
THE LIFE OF PINKY JENKINS, VOLUME 1
by H. Bedford-Jones

Now available!

One of the best series ever published in the pulps was written by the prolific H. Bedford-Jones, author of hundreds of stories totaling an estimated 25 millions words.
Thomas Jasper "Pinky" Jenkins, a drunk and corrupt sheriff accompanied by his deputy Parker, shot his way through nearly a score of comedy/Western stories from the 1920s.
Volume 1 includes four recently-discovered Jenkins stories by Bedford-Jones which were published under a pseudonym.

The Pinky Jenkins series may be the only series of its kind written by The King of the Pulps, and considered one of his best by Bedford-Jones aficionados.


$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover
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Altus Press
Pulp Logo T-shirts

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Black Mask T-Shirt
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All shirts are available in Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, and XX-Large.










 


Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.

Past episodes:
Pulpfest 2016: #9 - The Munsey Award
Pulpfest 2016: #10- Guest of Honor- Ted White

Pat Savage: Six Scarlet Scorpions a novel by Will Murray
The Shadow's Sanctum: Tony Isabella and Anthony Tollin
Pulpfest 7 - The New Pulp Panel

Pulpfest 6: Author Barbara Doran's Readings
Black Coat Press
New titles now available!

TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 13: SANG FROID
Edited by J-M. & R. Lofficier
Cover by Michel Borderie

Stories by Jason Scott Aiken, Matthew Baugh, Adam Mudman Bezecny, Nicholas Boving, Nathan Cabaniss, Matthew Dennion, Brian Gallagher, Martin Gately, Travis Hiltz, Paul Hugli, Rick Lai, Nigel Malcolm, Christofer Nigro, John Peel, Frank Schildiner, Sam Shook, Michel Stéphan, David L. Vineyard and Jared Welch.

Sang Froid, i.e. Cold Blood! The ability to stay calm in difficult or even dangerous situations... as exhibited by French sleuth Joseph Rouletabille aboard the transiberian "Horror Express"... Or martial arts master Caine and Jed Puma confronted by an insane plan to seize the Wild Wild West... Not to forget the great warlock Quentin Moretus Cassave coming face to face with the Dark Gods, Doctor Omega determined to solve a most enigmatic temporal murder, Sâr Dubnotal battling Dracula, and Sir Wilfred Ivanhoe sworn to defeat the evil Bishop of Aquila...

All this, plus the return of Fantômas, the People of the Pole and the Enchanted City of Africa, Vampires in Berlin and Los Angeles, and a host of Frankenstein Monsters!

In this thirteenth volume of Tales of the Shadowmen, the only anthology dedicated to international heroes and villains of pulp literature, writers from Canada, England, France and the United States, pay homage to those great champions and master criminals who enchanted our adolescence.

Contents:
Jason Scott Aiken: Galazi in the Enchanted City starring Galazi, Queen Toulommia
Matthew Baugh: A Dollar’s Worth of Fists starring Kwai Chang Caine, the Black Coats, Jed Puma
Adam Mudman Bezecny: Harry’s Homecoming starring Harry Dickson, Doctor Ox
Nicholas Boving: The Aquila Curse starring Renaud the Montauban, Ivanhoe, Etienne de Navarre
Nathan Cabaniss: From Paris with Hate starring OSS 117, Fantômas, Diabolik
Matthew Dennion: A Purpose in Life starring Micharl Myers, the Black Coats
Brian Gallagher: The Berlin Vampire starring Captain Vampire, The Vampire Countess, Von Bork
Martin Gately: Rouletabille Rides the Horror Express starring Rouletabille, Sir Alexander Saxton, James Wells
Micah Harris: The Goat of Saint Elster starring Quentin Moretus Cassave
Travis Hiltz: The Island of Exodus starring The People of the Pole, The Wandering Jew
Paul Hugli: As Easy as 1, 2, 3... starring John Carter, Jean Saint-Clair, Nikola Tesla
Rick Lai: Eve of Destruction starring Dr. Mabuse, Fantômas, the Black Coats
Nigel Malcolm: Maximum Speed starring M. Lecoq, Loveday Brooke, Simon Carne
Christofer Nigro: Bad Alchemy starring the Frankenstein Monsters
John Peel: Time to Kill starring Doctor Omega, Bob Morane
Frank Schildiner: The Taking of Frankenstein starring Gouroull, Wu Fang, Dr. Xavier
Sam Shook: Bringer of the Outer Dark starring Hareton Ironcastle, Sâr Dubnotal, Chandu, El Borak
Michel Stéphan: One Summer Night at Holy Cross starring Bob Morane, Harry Callahan
David L. Vineyard: The Moon of the White Wolf starring Arsène Lupin, John Silence, Bulldog Drummond
Jared Welch: Styrian Rhapsody starring Eugenie Danglars, Louise d'Armilly, Mircalla Karnstein


US $23.95 /GBP £15.99
6x9
trade paperback, 300 pages
THE APOCRYPHAL NAPOLEON
by Louis Geoffroy
Adapted by Brian Stableford
Cover by Dimitri Rastorgoueff

The pyramid, in its full extent, as covered with white marble, and on the face that overlooked Paris was inscribed, in golden letters of prodigious dimension, a single word: NAPOLÉON.

 
The Apocryphal Napoléon (1836) by Louis Geoffroy, a French Magistrate, is celebrated as the first extended exercise in “alternate history.” In it, Napoleon succeeds in subduing Russia in 1812, invades England in 1814 and goes on to become the enlightened ruler of the world.

The book details with great and methodical precision the conquest of the world by the French Emperor, and the technical and scientific achievements made by a united planet under Napoleon's leadership: electric-powered airships, weather control, flying cars, making sea water drinkable, and even the discovery of a new planet christened, Vulcan.

If read with an awareness of its historical context, The Apocryphal Napoléon reveals itself as a rich and profound work that still has a great deal to offer the contemporary reader, and still has a challenge to pose to ideas and ideals of social progress.

Contents:
Napoléon et la Conquête du Monde (1812-1832) [Napoleon And The Conquest Of The World] (Delloye, 1836; rev. as Napoléon Apocryphe, Paulin, 1841)
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford.


US $29.95 /GBP £19.99
5x8 
trade paperback, 384 pages

THE PERFUME OF LUST
by Gaston Danville
Adapted by Brian Stableford
Cover by Mike Hoffman

“Instead of the lugubrious silence of a necropolis,” Miss Slow said, “there are songs and cries, a whole concert that gives the illusion of life in a magical city!”
 
In The Perfume of Lust (1905), a ship is trapped in the waters of Atlantis when a submarine eruption returns the lost continent to the surface, and its crew and passengers are subjected to strange mental influences that stimulate their erotic impulses.

Gaston Danville’s characters are haunted by memories, unconscious impulses and the poignant emotions provoked by those internal spurs. He based his accounts of delusion and obsession on what he took to be sound theories of positivistic psychology which added an extra dimension of cruelty to his fiction and an extra dose of intensity to his eroticism.

Contents:
Le Parfum de volupté by Gaston Danville, Mercure de France, 1905.
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford.


US $20.95 /GBP
£12.99
5x8 
trade paperback, 236 pages
 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Black Dog Books
War-Nymphs of Venus: The Complete Planet Stories Tales
by Ray Cummings (Author), Gene Christie (Editor), Tom Roberts (Introduction)

Now available!

Journey to worlds afar and combat space pirates, find a new utopian world shrouded in fear, follow an interstellar bounty hunter on his obsessive task, see man’s conquest of a frozen planet fail, and witness the Shadow Squad battle a new and unknown enemy.

This volume collects the complete contributions to Planet Stories by one of the pioneers in the science fiction genre, and includes such previously uncollected works as “Phantom of the Seven Stars,” “Gods of Space,” “The Flame Breathers,” “Monster of the Asteroid,” “The Man Who Killed the Earth,” “Space-Wolf,” “Space-Liner X-87,” “War-Nymphs of Venus” plus five others.

With an introduction by Tom Roberts.

Softcover, 360 pages, $19.95
Black Dog Books  Amazon.com


Black Dog Books
The Thing from--Outside
by George Allan England (Author), Gene Christie (Editor), Tom Roberts (Introduction)

Now available!

"George Allan England . . . to my mind, ranks with Edgar Rice Burroughs and Albert Payson Terhune as one of the three supreme literary artists of the house of Munsey."—H.P. Lovecraft

When science fiction was a new and yet undefined genre, pre-dating the vast-reaching, intergalactic sagas of Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke, one of the most successful authors of the era was George Allan England. Garbed in his rapid-paced storytelling, England depicts people affected by advancing technology and unexplainable events, always delving further, towards a central theme, asking the question of “What if?”

What if . . .
. . . viewing events from other periods of history became possible?
. . . the implantation of a mechanical heart could grant near immortality?
. . . Earth were visited by an alien intelligence looking for science projects?
. . . a device were created to predict crime before it happens and weed out from society those individuals with predilection for such behaviors?
. . . the intelligence of man were surgically spliced with the brutish physic of a great ape?

The answers to these and other questions may be discovered in The Thing from—Outside.

With an introduction by Tom Roberts


Softcover, 252 pages, $19.95


Black Dog Books
In the Shadow: and Other Uneasy Stories
by C.A. Tod Robbins (Author), Gene Christie (Introduction)

Now available!

Strip away the façade of sanity and discover why C.A. “Tod” Robbins is considered a curator of malevolence. From the author of “Spurs” and “The Terrible Three,” sources for the classic horror films Freaks and The Unholy Three, comes this new collection of bizarre masterpieces to make you shudder.

SAFE AND SANE—The watchdogs of wisdom howl as the counter-effects of boredom take a mysterious twist.

UNDYING HATRED—The Hand of Death dispenses its black gift with odd equality.

IN THE SHADOW—The death of a matriarch perverts the thoughts and actions of an entire family.

THE MAN WHO ESCAPED—An unlikely hero faces off against unavoidable Fate in this mysterious offering.

The roots of evil clutch at the reader in these and other strangling tales. The fiction of C.A. “Tod” Robbins has been compared to the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and other masters of the weird and bizarre. In this volume, readers may savor some of Robbins’ twisted tales that have remained unavailable for decades, not collected previously in book form.

Also included are two newly discovered works!


Softcover, 228 pages, $19.95




Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
The final quarterly issue of Blood ‘n’ Thunder is one of the best in the magazine’s 14-year run.
Number 49/50 offers the usual wide variety of articles and essays covering adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Among the topics explored in this double-sized farewell issue: Cornell Woolrich’s novelette “It Had to Be Murder” and Rear Window, the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller adapted from it; the 1889 story paper that may have influenced The Shadow’s creation; the 1915 cliffhanger serial smash called The Diamond from the Sky; the origins of Robert E. Howard’s demonic wizard Skelos; the short-lived 1935 radio series featuring pulpdom’s The Spider; and Depression-era apprisals of the detective-pulp market from a 1933 issue of Writer’s Digest.

There’s also an entire section — over 60 pages — devoted to the collecting and preservation of rare pulp magazines and the premiums they offered; and a 1938 novelette of African intrigue featuring L. Patrick Greene’s suave British rogue “The Major.” Finally, in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Amazing Stories, the very first magazine exclusively devoted to science fiction, we have an extensive selection of reviews of obscure SF yarns from the zine’s early years, illustrated with rare covers from the 1926-1930 period.

This final Blood ‘n’ Thunder has 210 pages and, as usual, is packed with illustrations to accompany its well-researched and well-written articles.

Trade paperback, 8x10, 210 pages
Price: $24.95

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Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
 FLICKERING SHADOWS
How Pulpdom's Master of Darkness Brightened the Silver Screen
Now available!

FLICKERING SHADOWS! Subtitled "How Pulpdom's Master of Darkness Brightened the Silver Screen," this 98-page monograph—about the length of a typical issue of BLOOD 'N' THUNDER—fully chronicles The Shadow's career in films and television. Beginning with the character's 1931 motion-picture debut in Universal's "Shadow Detective" featurettes, Ed Hulse follows the premier pulp hero in his two Grand National feature films, his 1940 cliffhanger serial, his three Monogram "B" mysteries, his two unsold TV pilots of the '50s, and finally the big-budget 1994 spectacular starring Alec Baldwin. Along the way Hulse debunks Shadow movie myths and even covers films scripted but never made, drawing on his extensive research and in-person interviews. He also discusses the Shadow pulp magazine so as to offer context in his examination of the motion pictures.

The book is profusely illustrated with stills, posters, lobby cards, vintage pulp covers, and even frame captures from the films themselves. It's a must-have for Shadow fans. Get it today at muraniapress.com!


Trade paperback, 7x10, 98 pages
Price: $10.95


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Bringing Back Classic Adventure One Page at a Time - Now online!

Free Short Story!
Greatest Ever Pulp Stories #8 – The Curse of Capistrano
Greatest Ever Pulp Stories #7 – Under the Moons of Mars
Greatest Ever Pulp Stories #6 – The Man of Bronze

Greatest Ever Pulp Stories #5 – Twelve Peers

THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #77 is now available!
 
Contents
Cover: Steve Rude
"Let's Meet in Columbus, Chicago, or Phoenix" by Chuck Welch

"Casting Doc's Crew" by Tim Faurote
"An Interview with Steve Rude" by J. C. Ringgenberg
"A Solution to the Novel Puzzle" by Chuck Welch
"Pat Savage Steps Out from Doc's Shadow" by Will Murray
"The True Location of the Tunnel Terror" by Julián Puga
A review of "Glare of the Gorgon" by Mark O. Lambert
"The Bronze Gazette Interview: Howard Wright" by Terry Allen
"Doc Savage: The Spider's Web" by Howaard Wright
"The Genesis of Doc Wilde" by Tim Byrd
"The Bronze Gazette Publications News Update" by Terry Allen

Plus
The Bronze Gazette Doc Con 2016 Program Guide

Contents
Cover: Cristian Diaz
"It's Showtime Folks"
by Chuck Welch
"Twenty Questions with Will Murray" by Jeff Deischer
"Ten Questions, Give or Take, with Joe DeVito" by Jeff Deischer
"Pat Savage Goes Solo" by Will Murray
"The Man Who First Painted Doc Savage" by Bobb Cotter
"The Sanctum Press Doc Savage Checklist"
"A Retrospective of Doc Con XVIII" by Dafydd Neal Dyar
"A look Back at Doc Con XVIII" by Robert Leeper and fred Kuentz
"Doc Con Guests" by Paul R. Staff

 
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Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Mysteries of the Worm
Short Reviews – The Envoy, Her, by H.B. Fyfe
The Trail of Cthulhu
Short Reviews – The Star Saint, by A.E. Van Vogt  
Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors  
CONAN OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 TPB - Arriving in comic shops December 7!

Conan's earliest adventures, now available in affordable omnibus format!

Featuring the legendary run of comics greats Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord, This 472 page omnibus features favorites such as Born on the Battlefield, The Frost Giant's Daughter, The God in the Bowl, and more!


Full Color, 7" x 10", 472 pages, $24.99





DEJAH THORIS: SOLDIER OF MEMORY TP - Arriving in comic shops December 7!
Writer: Frank J. Barbiere
Art: Francesco Manna, Nen Chang
Cover: Nen Chang

Prepare yourself for Dejah Thoris, the exotic heroine of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Warlord of Mars, as you've never seen her before! When her father disappears, Dejah Thoris assumes the throne... but she soon stands accused of treason, a victim of a far-reaching conspiracy. Hunted by her people and devastated by a terrible secret from her past, she embarks on a self-imposed exile, assuming a new identity and enlisting as a rookie soldier on the farthest, deadliest borders of Barsoomian civilization. There, the Princess of Mars seeks to unravel the mysteries of the past and clear her name!

Trade paperback, 7x10, 160 pages, Full Color, $19.99





The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Hammett’s seventh digest-sized collection
- New! 
Nothing’s Impossible - New! 
November 1965 Newsstand - New! 
Famous Fantastic Mysteries Digest - New! 
Links to Today’s Digests
Exploring the Unknown #30
A World Called Sunrise
Ray Palmer: Change Agent  
Arthur J. Burks’ Little America
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 Benito Gallego, 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




Edgar Rice Burroughs Comics
 New Artist – Benito Gallego
For The New Adventures of Tarzan comic strip

The comic strip, The New Adventures of Tarzan, written by Roy Thomas, now features an exciting new artist, Benito Gallego. The former artist for this comic strip, Tom Grinberg – who was instrumental in helping us launch our web comic program – has moved on to other projects.

BENITO GALLEGO
Benito Gallego (born in Madrid, Spain) decided he loved comics at a tender age, even before he learned to read. He’s been drawing all his life – filling any blank space on every piece of paper that fell into his hands with his doodles. Benito collaborated by providing comics and pin-ups for fanzines and publications in Spain while attending the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid. And, he continued drawing comics while developing a parallel career in advertising and graphic design –which paid the bills for many years.


After contacting Roy Thomas, Benito got his first professional assignments working with Roy on both his series', Anthem and Captain Thunder & Blue Bolt – published by Heroic Publishing. Since then, Benito has been working with other top talents in the comic medium such as Cary Bates and Sal Buscema at DC Comics, Brian Azzarello, and Paul Kupperberg. Benito has produced a variety of illustration work including Marvel character trading cards and Monsters! and Dinosaurs for Upper Deck and he also created illustrations for books like the Diego’s Dragon series, written by Kevin Gerard.

Benito recently finished artwork for a graphic novel on the life of reggae star, Bob Marley, written by Jim McCarthy, while also working on Apama the Undiscovered Animal – a comic series based on concepts and characters from the movie: Hero Tomorrow, created by Milo Miller and Ted Sikora.

Benito lives in Alicante, on the east coast of Spain, with his wife, Soraya, and daughter, Alona, who are his most ferocious and grateful art critics. You may follow Benito’s art at www.Facebook.com/BenitoGallego.Art/

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Edgar Rice Burroughs Comics
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The Mucker Comic Tee
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Carson of Venus Comic Tee
Pellucidar Comic Tee
John Carter Comic Tee
Eternal Savage Comic Tee
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Cave Girl Comic Tee
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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!

November 2016
Turning our attention to Baroness Orczy, this month you will find “The Trappist’s Vow” reprinted just as it appeared in the April, 1899 issue of The Royal Magazine, with illustrations by the Baroness's husband, Montagu Barstow.  Introduction by Dan Neyer.

We've also done some revamping of the Bob's Stuff collections and have expanded many of the annotations, giving you more information about the items and where they fall in the history of popular culture. 
We've also added a 4th collection and you will be seeing additional collections on a regular basis after the new year.


October 2016
Since a good portion of the narrative occurs on October 31st, why not curl up with "The Curse of Yig"by Zealia Brown Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft.
We've done an original layout of the story text for this reprinting and have also included lots of background information in the introduction by Bob Gay.


September 2016
Turning our attention back to the work of G. K. Chesterton, we are pleased to present the fourth Father Brown tale, "The Bolt from the Blue (The Hammer of God)," as it appeared in the November 5, 1910 issue of The Saturday Evening Post including the illustrations by George Gibbs.  Introduction is by Dan Neyer.

August 2016
Just to prove that we have some small literary interests at FAFF, we are pleased to present to you "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, as it appeared in the May 27, 1922 issue of Collier's Magazine.
Our presentation includes the illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg and an introduction by Bob Gay.

July 2016
Presenting the third (and oddly titled) Father Brown story, Why True Fishermen Always Wear Green Evening Coats, from the pages of the October 1, 1910 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, including the illustrations by George Gibb.  Introduction to the story is by Dan Neyer.

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.


FLASH GORDON: KINGS CROSS #2 (OF 5) - Arriving in comic shops December 7!
Writer: Jeff Parker & Jesse Hamm
Art: Jesse Hamm & Grace Allison
Cover A: Jesse Hamm & Grace Allison
Cover B: Lara Margarida
Cover C Subscription: Roberto Castro


Superstar JEFF PARKER (Future Quest) returns to FLASH GORDON, alongside the astounding team of JESSE HAMM & GRACE ALLISON! The Phantoms, Mandrake The Magician and Flash are on the run from forces they don’t understand! Do our on-the-run titans stand a chance against spiders made of apes!?!?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

 
 
 



FULL WOLF MOON - Coming May 16!
by Lincoln Child


The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist...featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic.

Legends, no matter how outlandish, are often grounded in reality. This has been the guiding principle behind the exhilarating career of Jeremy Logan, the "enigmologist"--an investigator who specializes in analyzing phenomena that have no obvious explanation--previously seen in The Forgotten Room, The Third Gate, and Deep Storm. Logan has often found himself in situations where keeping an open mind could mean the difference between life and death, and that has never been more true than now.

Logan travels to an isolated writers' retreat deep in the Adirondacks to finally work on his book when the remote community is rocked by the grisly discovery of a dead hiker on Desolation Mountain. The body has been severely mauled, but the unusual savagery of the bite and claw marks call into question the initial suspicions of a wild bear attack. When Logan is asked to help investigate, he discovers no shortage of suspects capable of such an attack--and no shortage of locals willing to point the finger and spread incredible rumors. One rumor, too impossible to believe, has even the forest ranger believing in werewolves. As Logan gets to know the remote deep-woods landscape, including a respected woman scientist still struggling with the violent loss of her father in these very woods, Logan realizes he's up against something he has never seen before.

His most action-packed and white-knuckled novel to date, Full Wolf Moon is the perfect combination of exotic locales, provocative science, and raw action that make for a deeply entertaining Lincoln Child blockbuster.


Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches
$26.95


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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.

Pulp replica editions to be retired in 2017!
Black Mask #1, #43
Dime Mystery #1
Dr Yen Sin (all 3 issues)
Horror Stories #1, 2, 5
Wu Fang (all 7 issues)

Pulp replica editions previously retired!
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


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
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All payments must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables and mailed to:
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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
#7  October 1923

#8   November 1923

#9   December 1923/January 1924 
#10  February 1924
#11  March 1924
#12  April 1924
#13  Anniversary Issue May/June/July/24 ($50)
#14  November 1924 - One of the rarest WT's
#15  December 1924

#16  January 1925
#17 February 1925
#18
March 1925
#19 April 1925
#20 May 1925
#21 June 1925
#22  July 1925
#23  August 1925
#24
 September 1925
#25  October 1925
#26  November 1925
#27  
December 1925
#28 January 1926
#29 February 1926
#30 March 1926
#31  April 1926
#32  May 1926
#33  June 1926
#34  July 1926
#35  August 1926
#36  September 1926
#37 October 1926
#38 November 1926
#39 December 1926
#40  January 1927
#53  February 1928
#59  August 1928
#96 December 1931
#107 November 1932
#108 December 1932
#111 March 1933
#114 June 1933

#115 July 1933
#117 September 1933
#118 October 1933
#121 January 1934
#124 April 1934
#125
May 1934
#128 August 1934
#129 September 1934
#131 November 1934
#130 October 1934
#132 December 1934
#134 February 1935
#135 March 1935
#143 November 1935
#151 July 1936
#152 August 1936
#153 October 1936
#173 June 1938


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
Typically the 3rd Saturday of every month
Check the website at the link below for the latest schedule.

 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

Haffner Press
New Leigh Brackett Combo offer!
Now available for pre-order!

In addition to containing “They,” a brand-new Leigh Brackett story, the contents of the LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL book continues to grow.
So, it seems a natural to offer a combo of it, THE BOOK OF STARK, and our most recent Brackett title, SHANNACH—THE LAST: FAREWELL TO MARS.
Ordering the combo will put you first in line as well as lock-in your total price for:

LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL is still being offered at $25, but with the addition of new content, the final price will certainly be higher. Wait until you see what we uncovered! (Keep Watching the Skies, indeed!)

THE BOOK OF STARK is still holding at $45 and we hope to have news of who will be providing the introduction very soon (fingers-crossed!). As you may gather, this massive tome collects the four “Eric John Stark” stories, the three novels of the “Skaith” series, and will be the first appearance of Brackett’s outline for a new Stark novel that she abandoned in 1977 to take on the screenwriting duties for the sequel to STAR WARS. The dustjacket and endpapers are provided by Raymond Swanland.

SHANNACH—THE LAST: FAREWELL TO MARS is the third and final volume collecting all Brackett’s science fiction stories published in her lifetime. At nearly 600 pages, it’s a excellent addition to your library; many stories being reprinted for the first time and nearly as many appearing in their first hardcover appearance. The cover art is by Frank Kelly Freas and illustrated endpapers are by Ed Emshwiller. Grandmaster Anne McCaffrey provides the introduction.

$110.00 with free shipping!







             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 noted before, Volume One, MURDER DRAWS A CROWD was initially printed in December 2015, but the quality was so poor that we rejected the finished inventory and the printer refused to mount a second effort that would meet our (and your) expectations. Since then, we've been looking for a new printer whom we feel can get the job done.  
                                                       
Fairly soon, we will be giving a different printer the job to make THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR: THE EARLY KUTTNER, VOLUME TWO. If all goes well, we will send Volume One and Volume Two of the FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY to this printer at the same time. Ideally, these Browns will be ready in the 4th quarter. 


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!

Fairly soon, we will be giving a printer the job to make THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR: THE EARLY KUTTNER, VOLUME TWO. If all goes well, we will send Volume One and Volume Two of the FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY to this printer at the same time. Ideally, these Browns will be ready in the 4th quarter. 
“. . . 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!

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

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!

The assembly of Donald Wandrei's colossal 744-page collection of all 18 stories of sleuth IVY FROST and his partner Jean Moray (from the pages of CLUES DETECTIVE STORIES) passed another hurdle with the recent delivery of the interior art by Chris Kalb!

Chris has re-purposed the original black and white pulp illos for each story as double-page spreads opening each tale. They are simply fantastic!

The introduction by Wandrei expert D.H. Olson is in hand and all that remains is the last proofreaders pass on three remaining stories with a final touch-up on the magazine covers reproduced on the full-color endpapers.   



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!

With the rigamarole in getting the Fredric Brown titles back on track, this omnibus of four 1950s mystery novels, THE MICHAEL GRAY MYSTERIES by Henry Kuttner and Catherine L. Moore, has been pushed down the publication list.                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 We can report that aside from acquiring new cover art (the image at left is a placeholder; yeah, we know it says "Henry Kutter"...), we are in possession of the proofread manuscript, the Ed Gorman introduction, and the finished interior design.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
We are soon to send out an offer to a new cover artist and hope to hear back some good news.   



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!

December 2016

THE KNIFE SLIPPED by Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover art by Robert McGinnis


THE LOST DETECTIVE NOVEL BY THE CREATOR OF PERRY MASON!

At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gardner was the best-selling American author of the 20th century, and world famous as the creator of crusading attorney Perry Mason. Gardner also created the hardboiled detective team of Cool and Lam, stars of 29 novels published between 1939 and 1970—and one that’s never been published until now.

Lost for more than 75 years, THE KNIFE SLIPPED was meant to be the second book in the series but got shelved when Gardner’s publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool’s tendency to "talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people." But this tale of adultery and corruption, of double-crosses and triple identities —however shocking for 1939—shines today as a glorious present from the past, a return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious plot twists.

Donald Lam has never been cooler—not even when played by Frank Sinatra on the U.S. Steel Hour of Mystery in 1946. Bertha Cool has never been tougher. And Erle Stanley Gardner has never been better.


First publication ever!



Hermes Press: MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN: THE KING YEARS VOLUME 2 - Arriving in comic shops December 7!
(Art) Fred Fredericks & Various

Hermes Press' second and final volume of this series, a reprint of comic book version of the 20th Century's most famous fictional magician in this deluxe version of King Features comics' Mandrake the Magician! Lee Falk's newspaper strip, Mandrake the Magician, offered readers, magic, occult and the fantastic and King Feature's comic book version, which saw print during the height of the Silver Age, was a worthy entry into the world of comic books. This volume of the complete comic book run of Mandrake the Magician presents the six complete comics in restored to their original four color glory. Reprints issues #6-10 as well as the Mandrake the Magician one shot published in Dell Four Color #752.

Hardcover, 8x10, 176 pages, Full Color, $49.99

 

Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Return to the Jungle, Ki-Gor Style - New!
Later Savage Sword of Conan Volumes
Rapiers Ride!
Gray Maiden
Conan RPG

Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

GOLDEN BLOOD
GOLD--AND DEATH!


Price Durand's heart lifted as he hefted the great axe, Korlu. Ahead, across the desert, was a forbidding mountain, topped by a castle of marble and gold. Within that castle, the girl he loved was a prisoner.

There was a scream of fright from somewhere beside him. A brilliant fan of rose and topaz light was lifting into the indigo sky ahead. In its rays a picture appeared. A gigantic yellow snake, vast as a cloud, coiled in the air above the mountain. Her body was as yellow as the snake, and it had something of the same slender, sinuous grace. Her full lips were voluptuous and cruel.

Price Durand knew they were fated to meet in the flesh. It was part of a huge struggle in which science and sorcery were weirdly blended, the prize was incalculable--and no man could foresee the outcome!

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 300 pages
$12.95




An outlaw of space, she was, with the strength of ten men. Here is an interplanetary story that will fill you with enthusiasm. She whipped the man she loved ... then rescued him from death.

This is the Golden Amazon in all of her original pulp adventures with the original illustrations.

Hardcover w/dust jacket, 6 x 9 inch, 180 pages
$29.95

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 180 pages
$12.95



THE LAST HIEROGLYPH: THE COLLECTED FANTASIES OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH VOLUME 5 - Coming January 10!
by Clark Ashton Smith


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.

The Last Hieroglyph is the fifth 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 Dark Age" (1933) to "The Dart of Rasasfa" (1961).

Trade paperback, 316 pages
List Price: $17.99





Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Is there such a thing as too much TV? - New!
Doctor Strange 2016 Movie Review
The "Lost" Adventures of the Lone Ranger
The Value of Dust Jackets



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.

Moonstone Books
Arriving in comic shops December 7!

GUNS OF THE BLACK BAT #3
Writer: Ron Fortier
Art: Silvestre Szilagyi
Cover: Michael Stribling

Domino Lady and the Phantom Detective travel to the Congo to find a life-saving plant as the Black Bat and the rest of his team continue to battle prehistoric humans and animals on the streets of Manhattan.

32 pages, grayscale, $3.50



The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

The Protectors

The Centipede (Villain)
Super Incorporated
Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Homicide Master" by Norman A. Daniels from SECRET AGENT "X", December, 1938
Fate gave Headquarters Detective Max Stoddard a break when it put him on the murder scene at the crucial moment. But in her own way Fate made up for it, for Stoddard found himself up against a crime master. And the only way he could solve this murder was for him to - commit a murder himself.

"Death Hogs the Spotlight" by Tagre Detbar from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, October, 1942
When Satan revised Dixie Devere's act, for her new cue he sounded Gabriel's horn.

"Horrible Harry's Glass Jaw" by Lyon Mearson from ARGOSY, January 26, 1918
Horrible Harry Harrigan is undisputed vaudeville boxing champion, until he comes up against the stage's strong woman.




Pulp Adventurecon
February 11, 2017!

Pulp Adventurecon 2017 fast approaches!
February 11, 2017
For Lauderdale, Florida
Universal Palms Hotel


Pulp Adventurecon returns to the Universal Palms Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida for another afternoon of Golden Age comic books, Pulp Magazines, Big Little Books, Old-Time Radio, movie memorabilia, vintage pin-ups and much more!

25 vendor tables filled with great stuff, and plenty of knowledgeable collectors ready to talk about their favorite characters, authors, genres, and what-not!

If you stay overnight at the Universal Palms Hotel, use the special codeword "pulp" to receive the $109 room rate.

 



Pulp Crazy - Now online!

Dum-Dum 2016 – Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Coldwater Connection
Dum-Dum 2016 – Philip José Farmer’s Ancient Opar Series
The Road by Hiroshi Aramata
Pulp Den - Now online!

Death Rides Solar II
- New!
Near-Earth Object 2017AP - New!
The Damp Fedora
Realms of Edenocht
         Pulp Den  

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

Article on editing by Ray Long - magazine editor - New!
Arthur S. Hoffman - Profile of Fritz Duquesne, adventurer
Pulp AdventureCon 2016
Dee Linford - Western Author, Journalist, Technical Writer

The Pulp Hermit - Now online!

The Power Barons
Scorpio
Secret Mission Angola
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

‘The Purple Monster Strikes’: a serial in 15 chapters - New!
‘The Shadow’: a review of the 1994 movie, part 2
‘The Shadow’: a review of the 1994 movie, part 1
The Spider #35: ‘Satan’s Sightless Legion’
Perry Mason novels: #23 and #24

Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Remembering the pulpsters - New!
Have a pulpy Halloween
Robert Weinberg: 1946-2016
Bits of pulp: Foundation, Jedi, & more

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/

QUEENSBERRY JUSTICE: The Fight Card Sherlock Holmes Omnibus Kindle Edition - Now available!
by Andrew Salmon  (Author), Mike Fyles (Illustrator), Paul Bishop (Editor)


In 2013, Fight Card Books added a bold, new chapter to the rich literary tradition of Sherlock Holmes with the publication of the first Fight Card Sherlock Holmes tale, Work Capitol. The book was an instant hit and two more followed. These tales covering the years Holmes spent honing his fighting skills in and out of the boxing ring struck a chord with readers and garnered great reviews.

Now, for the first time, ALL three tales: Work Capitol, Blood to the Bone and A Congression of Pallbearers are collected in one action-packed volume. And more!

Exclusive to this collection:
3 Brand new Fight Card Sherlock Holmes short stories!
Foreword by Paul Bishop, the co-creator of Fight Card
New Introduction by Andrew Salmon
Cover Galleries for all 3 books
Sample pages from the handwritten manuscripts
An alternate version of one of the trilogy's most dramatic scenes

Print Length: 425 pages
Kindle Price:    $9.99



Radio Archives

Audiobooks at a 50% discount!
This newsletter, the Anniversary Celebration spotlight is on Audiobooks!
All 149 audiobooks are 50% off.
All Audiobook Audio CDs and Digital Downloads are included.
Whether you are experiencing one of our Audiobooks for the first time or completing your collection, this is the sale of the year.
The spotlight on Audiobooks ends December 8th.


Radio Archives
The Spider #31 Audiobook
The Cholera King
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria

Now available! 

 Death in its ugliest form ravaged America. An ambitious, clever madman, master of a far-flung criminal empire, spread cholera germs through every rank and class of a large and totally unsuspecting populace. Numbed by terror, the citizens fled from certain death... while the police, baffled and powerless, campaigned relentlessly against the Spider, the only man able to save the stricken and bring the Plague Master to justice!

 
Meet the Spider—Master of Men! More just than the Law...more dangerous than the Underworld. Hated, wanted, feared by both! Alone and desperate, he wages a deadly, one-man war against the super-criminals whose long-planned crime-coup will snuff a thousand lives! Can the Spider prevent this slaughter of innocents? This was how the editors of The Spider magazine first introduced their avenging new hero.
During the difficult decade encompassed by the years 1933-1943, a commanding figure blazed his way through a legion of Depression-era super-criminals, Nazi spies and saboteurs. He was wealthy criminologist Richard Wentworth. He was also secretly the Spider!

Never before or since has there been a hero like the Spider. For ten grim years, the Spider battled the underworld, imprinting his scarlet seal on the bodies of the criminals he slew. Driven, hunted, and violently committed to exterminating criminals of all calibers. A self-appointed savior of humanity, driven manic-depressive, and possibly undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, the Spider was known as the Master of Men.
 
Once more,the incomparable Nick Santa Maria reads another thrilling Spider exploit. The Cholera King originally published in The Spider magazine, April, 1936.

 
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Operator #5 eBook
#47 Corpse Cavalry of the Yellow Vulture - September-October 1939

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 Nameless Death — An Editorial
 
Corpse Cavalry of the Yellow Vulture by Curtis Steele
Company after company, Operator 5 hurled his gallant volunteers against the Asiatic hordes in a desperate attempt to draw off the enemy siege of the east. For that ruthless tyrant, called the Yellow Vulture, had a stranglehold on America’s eastern seaboard, and silent factories and idle shipping testified to the doom of a once great country. Yet when the sons of Liberty at last arose to throw off the conqueror’s yoke, they were met by the most terrible calamity in history — an incredible Japanese weapon which plunged America in complete midnight darkness and butchered her patriots in a fiend-made night of hell!
 
Things That Made America Great
The Red Hill of Death by Morton Taney
General Washington was racing against time, as the British attack began — and it was a young lieutenant of artillery named Alexander Hamilton who gave him the twenty-four hours that stood between young America and disaster!
 
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

 


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THE SEVENTH PLAGUE: A Sigma Force Novel - Coming December 13!
by James Rollins


If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened--could they happen again--on a global scale?

Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body--while he was still alive.

His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news arrives from Egypt. The medical team who had performed the man's autopsy has fallen ill with an unknown disease, one that is quickly spreading throughout Cairo. Fearing the worst, a colleague of the professor reaches out to a longtime friend: Painter Crowe, the director of Sigma Force. The call is urgent, for Professor McCabe had vanished into the desert while searching for proof of the ten plagues of Moses. As the pandemic grows, a disturbing question arises.

Are those plagues starting again?

Before Director Crowe can investigate, a mysterious group of assassins leaves behind a fiery wake of destruction and death, erasing all evidence. With the professor's body incinerated, his home firebombed, Sigma Force must turn to the archaeologist's only daughter, Jane McCabe, for help. While sifting through what's left of her father's work, she discovers a puzzling connection, tying the current threat to a shocking historical mystery, one involving the travels of Mark Twain, the genius of Nikola Tesla, and the adventures of famous explorer, Henry Morgan Stanley.

To unravel a secret going back millennia, Director Crowe and Commander Grayson Pierce will be thrust to opposite sides of the globe. One will search for the truth, traveling from the plague-ridden streets of Cairo to a vast ancient tomb buried under the burning sands of the Sudan; the other will struggle to stop a mad genius locked within a remote Arctic engineering complex, risking the lives of all those he holds dear.

As the global crisis grows ever larger, Sigma Force will confront a threat born of the ancient past and made real by the latest science--a danger that will unleash a cascading series of plagues, culminating in a scourge that could kill all of the world's children . . . decimating mankind forever.


Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: William Morrow
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
List Price: $27.99


The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

The Stars Promise Death  
The Robot Master  
Merry Mrs. MacBeth
 
The Shadow 365 - Now online!

A new Shadow blog, "The Shadow 365," is now online.
Every day it will be posting and discussing in chronological order the legendary pulp and comic book covers of "The Shadow."
Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men? The Shadow 365 knows!


SHERLOCK HOLMES OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 Trade Paperback - Now available!
Cover: John Cassaday Writer: Various Art: Various

Presenting three captivating mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, in the first-ever Omnibus collecting his comic book adventures! From young Holmes’ first encounter with Dr. John Watson, to the detective’s role reversal as a suspect for murder, to a rash of Liverpool killings seemingly committed by a supernatural entity, the finest whodunnits in the Dynamite Entertainment library begin with this very volume! Collects the complete “Trial of Sherlock Holmes”, “Year One”, and “Liverpool Demon” storylines.

Trade paperback, 7" x 10", 400 pages, $34.99






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.

Pirates on the Cover of Weird Tales - New!
Hannes Bok's Uncategorizable Cover, Then Politics on the Cover of Weird Tales - New!
Coye's Uncategorizable Covers - New!
Strange People on the Cover of Weird Tales
Weird Forces on the Cover of Weird Tales
Vampires and Corpuscles
Robots and Men in Iron on the Cover of Weird Tales
Spiders on the Cover of Weird Tales


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

Now available!
Sif: Even Dragons Have Their Endings, Asgard Trilogy, Book 2, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Joe Books, $12.48, November 15, 2016
The Flash: The Haunting of Barry Allen, Clay & Susan Griffith, Titan Books, $7.99, November 29, 2016

Coming soon!
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Sinners, Larry Correia & John Ringo, Baen, $27.00, December 6, 2016
Warriors Three: Godhood’s End, Asgard Trilogy, Book 3, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Joe Books, $12.99, December 6, 2016
Captain America: Restitution, David McDonald, Joe Books, $12.99, December 20, 2016
Captain Canuck: The Terror Birds, Neil Dougherty, Chapterhouse Books, $9.95, December 28, 2016
Avalanche: Secret World Chronicle (Bk. 5), Mercedes Lackey, et al., Baen, $25.00, January 3, 2017
Pax Britannia: The El Sombra Trilogy, Al Ewing, Abaddon, $15.99, January 10, 2017
Iron Man: Mutually Assured Destruction, Patrick Shand, Joe Books, $12.99, January 10, 2017
Gotham: Dawn of Darkness, Jason Starr, Titan Books, $7.99,  January 31, 2017
Thanos: Death Sentence, Stuart Moore, Marvel, $24.99, February 14, 2017
Spider-Man: subtitle to be announced, Jim Beard, Joe Books, $9.99, February 22, 2017
Wild Cards VI: Ace in the Hole, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $17.99,  February 28, 2017
Arrow: A Generation of Vipers, Clay & Susan Griffith, Titan Books, $7.99, March 28, 2017
The Last Adventure of Constance Verity, A. Lee Martinez, Saga Press, $15.99, April 11, 2017
Guardians of the Galaxy: Collect Them All, Corinne Duyvis, Marvel, $24.99, April 18, 2017
Gotham: subtitle to be announced, author to be announced, Titan Books, $7.99, April 25, 2017

Wild Cards XXIII: High Stakes, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $15.99, May 2, 2017
Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology, eds. Tricia Reeks & Kyle Richardson, Meerkat Press, $16.95, May 16, 2017

The Flash: subtitle to be announced, author to be announced, Titan Books, $7.99, May 30, 2017
Immortal Architects
(Interminables #2), Paige Orwin, Angry Robot, $7.99, June 6, 2017
Wild Cards VII: Dead Man’s Hand, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $17.99, June 13, 2017

Judge Anderson: Year One, Alec Worley, Abaddon, $9.99, June 13, 2017
Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory, Knopf, $26.95, 
June 27, 2017
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge, Larry Correia & John Ringo, Baen, $7.99, June 27, 2017
Spider-Man: Forever Young, Stefan Petrucha, Marvel, $24.99, June 20, 2017
Heroine Complex, Sarah Kuhn, DAW, $7.99, July 4, 2017
Heroine Worship, Sarah Kuhn, DAW,$15.00, July 4, 2017
Monster Hunter Siege, Larry Correia, Baen, $27.00, August 1, 2017
Miles Morales/Spider-Man title to be announced, Jason Reynolds, Marvel Press, $17.99, August 1, 2017
Wonder Woman: Warbringer, Leigh Bardugo, Random House, $18.99, August 29, 2017
Constance Verity Saves the World, A. Lee Martinez, Saga Press, $24.99, September 12, 2017

The Monster Hunter Files, eds. Bryan Thomas Schmidt & Larry Correia, Baen, $29.99, September 20, 2017
Ghosts of Empire, George Mann, Titan Books, $9.95, October 25, 2017
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints, Larry Correia & John Ringo, Baen, $27.00, November 10, 2017
Wild Cards XXIV: Mississippi Roll, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $25.99, November 20, 2017

Monster Hunter Guardian, Larry Correia & Sarah Hoyt, Baen, $27.00, January 6, 2018


WEIRDBOOK #33
Now available and recommended!

Weirdbook will be publishing four issues in 2017. 
Weirdbook is now a quarterly!
So issues #34 - #37 will all appear  in 2017.

Here are great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre...
Trade Paperback, 16 x 9 inches, 80 pages, $12.00

Table of Contents

Fiction
The River Flows To Nowhere by John R. Fultz
The Amnesiac’s Lament by Scott R Jones
Trance Junkie By Bruno Lombardi
Bad Faith by Will Blinn document page 56
Dwelling of the Wolf by Franklyn Searight
The Ruby Palace by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
The Screams at the Keyhole by Garrett Cook
Diary of an Illness by C. M. Muller
Teatime with Mrs. Monster by James Aquilone
Train to Nowhere by Adrian Cole

Poetry & Prose
A Cure for Unrequited Love by Donald W. Schank
The Owl by S. L. Edwards
Bathory in Red by Ashley Dioses
Blood Siren's Alcove by Ashley Dioses
The Woodland funeral by K.A. Opperman
The Lady in Scarlet by K.A. Opperman
The Ghost Carriage by K. A. Opperman
Hymn to Shub-Niggurath by Darrell Schweitzer

Noctuary of Sfatlicllp by Frederick J. Mayer
Sfatlicllp's Ghoul by Frederick J. Mayer
Nile Lamia Recalls by Frederick J. Mayer