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Many events are being cancelled due to the COVID-19 threat,
so please verify your event is still happening before traveling.



2020 Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention
Celebrating the 90th anniversary of ASTOUNDING
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of BLACK MASK
 Rescheduled due to COVID-19 threat!
  September 11-13, 2020

 




Adventure House

Adventure House is pleased to announce that Adventure House has acquired a number of the Girasol Collectables reprint files.
They will be releasing on a monthly basis a number of their public domain titles as part of our monthly offerings.

June 2020
Spicy Mystery Stories – 11/35  Now available!
Spicy Detective Stories – 09/34 Now available!

May 2020
GOLDEN FLEECE – 01/39  - Coming soon!
SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES – 08/34  - Coming soon!

April 2020
MAGIC CARPET – 07/33 - Now available!
SPICY MYSTERY STORIES – 10/35 Now available!

March 2020
Spicy-Adventure Stories – 04/35 - Now available!
Strange Tales – 01/32 - Now available!

February 2020
Golden Fleece – 12/38 - Now available!
Spicy Mystery Stories – 09/35 - Now available!

January 2020
Spicy-Adventure Stories – 03/35  - Now available!
Spicy Detective Stories – 07/34  - Now available!


Adventure House
Now available!

High Adventure #172

Warren Hastings Miller Foreign Legion Stories
The Hell’s Angels Squad
Five Men of the Legion
Hell’s Angels Rebel
Hell’s Angels Set A Trap Discreet Rescue
The Desperation of Mr. Dee
The Color-Guard
The Honor of the Legion
It Takes the Legion


Cover Artist: Unknown

7x10, 110 pages
$12.95







Adventure House
Now available!

G-8 and His Battle Aces #59

Aces of the Damned by Robert J. Hogan
With the silence of a ghost but with the frightening forces of anavalanche, the curse of blindness descended upon Paris!
And in the empty sky where fighting men tripped their guns at theWar Gods, the dice of death were stacked against the dying Yanks.
There is only one way for the Master Spy—and he takes this last chance of wings of flaming disaster!

Two Strikes on Death by Greaseball Joe

7×10, 110 pages
$12.95




Adventures in Bronze
The Wild Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1
Now available insoftcover!


Now ready for immediate order in trade paperback format.
Early orders will ship in the first week of June. $19.95 plus postage.
Wraparound cover by Joe DeVito.

Ten traditional tales of Victorian London’s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he investigates some of his most baffling mysteries.

* Is a blue-skinned dinosaur tearing up the Essex countryside? “The Wild Adventure of the Indigo Impossibility” provides the astonishing answer.
* Holmes and Watson plunge into the darkest dens of Limehouse in search of “The Mystery of the Elusive Li Shen.” Is heman, myth, or monster?
* What is the secret of the uncatchable Thames footpad chronicled in “The Adventure of Old Black Duffel?”
* A famous American soldier of fortune asks Sherlock Holmes to locate a Russian adventuress long believed dead in “The Adventure of the Nebulous Nihilist.”
* Did fairies lure a young Manchester boy to his doom? “The Misadventure of the Bonny boy” tells the chilling tale.
* A wealthy art collector challenges Sherlock Holmes with an unsolvable riddle. Or is it a riddle? What is “The Enigma of Neptune’s Quandary?”
* Is a dead man haunting his own office––or might an even stranger explanation exist for why his frightened face isimprinted on a windowpane? “The Adventure of the Glassy Ghost”reveals all.
* A fiendish murderer strikes down victim after victim in “The Problem of the Bruised Tongues.” The only clue: the discolored tips of their tongues.
* “The Adventure of the Throne of Gilt.” What could it be, and why should Dr. John Watson fear it so?
* A revengeful enemy plots a gruesome end for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in “The Unsettling Matter of the Graveyard Ghoul.”




Adventures in Bronze

Age of Aces
Now available!

Through the dark night sky, streaking swiftly with their Hisso engines thundering, is the greatest trio of aces on the Western Front—the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes,” the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! At point was Captain Kirby, impetuous young leader of the great trio; on his right was little Lieutenant “Shorty” Carn, the mild-eyed, corpulent little Mosquito and lanky Lieutenant Travis, eldest and wisest ofthe Mosquitoes on his left! Flying in a V formation through four exciting hell-bent tales from the pages of Popular Publication’s Battle Aces.

Stories Include: The X-Gun Flight (Jan 32), The Iron Ace (Feb 32), The Flying Dreadnought (Jun 32), The 20-Ace Patrol (Jul 32). All illustrated by John Fleming Gould





Captain Philip Strange is back in eight more weird WWI stories spanning the run of theseries in the penultimate volume of this series. 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 and the verdamntBrain-Devil by the Boche. Just when you thought there were no more ways to die in war, the Germans come up with some even more gruesome ways! if you’re not just being incinerated by the sun’s ray focused through enormous lenses, you’re being gassed with a horribly disfiguring plague; drowned in a sea of blood or injected with a serum that turns you into a hyped up fighting hellion until you keel over dead; maybe you’ll be lucky and just haveyour own munitions blow up your entire outfit, or simply have your head chopped off and mounted on some psychotic ace’swings. Thankfully, we have have Captain Philip Strange onour side to stop them in eight of his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!

Stories Include: The Code of K-14 (Feb 32), The Masked Marauders (Mar 33), The Sky Torch (Apr 33), Marauders Without Mercy (Oct 33), Legion of theLost (Aug 34), Valley of Vengeance (Jun 35), Fokkers of the Red Fog (Aug 37), Headsman Strafe (Feb 38).


Age of Aces







Airship 27 Productions
THE BAY PHANTOM – Volume 3
Midnight in Hell’s Cathedral

Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to announce the release of the third action packed Bay Phantom adventure by stellar New Pulp writer, Chuck Miller.

Once again Mobile, Alabama’s mysterious crime-fighter, the Bay Phantom, finds himself battling another criminal mastermind. This one is know only as the Kraken and has the power to turn people into mindless puppets and have them do his bidding; leaving chaos and destruction in their path. As if that wasn’t enough for the Phantom to deal with, his friend, Tom Dart, is about to be executed in state prison for crimes he did not commit. Can Maribelle Darcy devise a plan to rescue Dart before the fatal hour arrives?

And then a certain Federal Agent named Elliot Ness arrives in townwith the goal of capturing the Bay Phantom.

“Nobody writes like Chuck, Miller,” insist Airship 27 Production’sManaging Editor Ron Fortier. “Chuck has a truly unique style that blendsboth black comedy with off-the-wall pulp action. You can say what youwill about this series, but it is never boring.” Returning to the seriesto handle interior illustrations is artist Kevin Paul Shaw Broden andChris Rawding provides the cover all under the helm of Art Director RobDavis.

Once again pulp scribe Chuck Miller weaves a zany, madcap pulp thriller like no one else can. This is action-adventure with a Southern Twist not to be missed.


  Available from Amazon and on Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Airship 27 Productions
WEB SERIES – BROTHER BONES

Filmmakers Bryan Patterson and Eugene Hawkinsare teaming with accomplished comic book/New Pulp writer Ron Fortier tobring Fortier's New Pulp character Brother Bones to life in a new web series.Patterson is producer of Another Girl (by Allison Burnett), War of the Zombiesand Broken Freedom, and his production partner Eugene Hawkins served as producerof Daddy's Little Girl and Totem and director of Two Scoops and The Sacrifice. Fortier has written for such prestigious names as the Terminator, the Green Hornet and the Incredible Hulk. Brother Bones is released by Fortier's very own Airship 27 Productions. The pilot, to be directed by Hawkins, will be scripted by Jeff Provine, whose previous screenplay was The Woods. He also founded the Okie Comics Magazine, where he edits and contributed New Pulp titles such as "When Film Goes Missing" and "Thunderbird." In addition to his writing, Provine is professor of English at OCCC and instructor at OU for their History of Comics seminar.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Airship 27 Productions
AIRSHIP 27 & RADIO ARCHIVES TEAM UP

We’re thrilled to announce the newest promotional event orchestrated between Radio Archives and Airship 27 Production.

For a very limited time, Radio Archives will be selling their Doc Savage and The Shadow Bargain Pack, containing 14 Double Novel Pulp reprintsthat feature 7 classic Shadow pulp books and 7 classic Doc Savage books.
This is 28 pulp novels for the low sale price of $56.
Here is the Cool Part. Along with this purchase, customers will receive 25 Audible.com codes redeemable for 25 Airship 27 audiobooks at no extra cost.
Postage is $4.00 and Radio Archives will select the 25 audiobooks you will receive.
Don’t worry, there will be opportunities for buyers of the BargainPack to get codes for all 147 Airship 27 audiobooks on Audible/Amazon.

Podcast listeners can go to:
https://www.radioarchives.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=5999
or go to RadioArchives.com and type Bargain in the search box.

This is a “last call” bargain event as Radio Archives has a limited number of this Bargain Pack remaining.
As each purchased if finalized, you will receive 25 promo codes and a url link to redeem them at Audible.com.
There is no cost to redeem the codes at Audible.
You will have a library of 25 audiobooks of the best New Pulp adventure titles from Airship 27.
You’ll be able to stream or download the audiobook to your smart phone, tablet or computer. You own the audiobooks for your lifetime.

This is a fantastic deal not to be missed.
Pulp fans get 14 mint classic pulp reprint books plus 25 exciting Airship 27 audio experiences. Airship 27 is one of the leading pioneers of theNew Pulp movement and Audible contains 147 of their titles.
Something for any pulp fan’s taste. Don't waste another second. Again, once the audiobooks are gone, the event ends.


Altus Press / Steeger Books: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Milo March Returns to Print in May

The Black Mask Library Headlines the New Book Releases at the Windy City Pulp Convention
Save 30% This Weekend: The Steeger Books Black Friday–Cyber Monday Weekend Sale Is On
Farewell Altus Press, Hello Steeger Books
Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at Pulpfest 2019
Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Show


Altus Press / Steeger Books
Wave 2 is now available!

Milo March #4: As Old As Cain
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

Insurance investigator Milo March is under pressure to solve a classic whodunit in a small town. Athens, Ohio, is a place full of historic monuments, many of them still walking the streets. But now the excitement of Hollywood has burst on the scene, with a studio shooting a biopic about a rugged pioneer who played a role in the founding of Athens County. Descendants of the story’s hero still live in Athens, and are the owners of valuable antiques, books, and other heirlooms passed down to them from the early 1800s. The studio has arranged to use these gems of Americana as props, insuring them with a million-dollar policy. With such a large sum at stake, the insurance company sends Milo to check on the security measures at the little museum where the items are housed under guard.

The job seems like a snap—until a bludgeoned body and alot of smashed-open cases send everyone into a panic. Among the stolen items is a personal diary written by Hanna’s wife, which appears tobe an object of intense interest, or even obsession. Milo can’t imagine why a diary from the early 1800s should be so dangerous as to leadto murder, but he’ll have to find out. Was it a matter of greed, professional ambition, or something bizarre like a delusional fixation on the long-dead pioneer woman who penned the diary? If being unpleasant or eccentric made someone a murderer, then there was full cast of characters to choose from, including a pedantic historian, a shiftless ex-cop, and a couple of snooping old biddies, not to mention a scheming scriptwriter, a genius director, and a man-eating blonde starlet.

Murder wasn’t supposed to happen in Athens, Ohio, and the cops want these crimes to be solved fast. The pressure is on Miloto identify the killer before he strikes again—and to recover the heirlooms before anyone cashes in the million-dollar policy.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook

Milo March #5: The Splintered Man
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

It’s been two years since Milo March sneaked into East Germany to capture a valuable Western deserter. Now, as a major in the Army Reserves, he is recalled to tackle a much weirder case. No one knows why Hermann Gruss, head of the counterespionage police in West Germany, disappeared behind the Iron Curtain. Did he defect voluntarily, or was he taken by force? Either way, Milo hasto get him back before he reveals secrets that the U.S. shared withhim.

Some say Gruss suffers from a dread disease and is being treated in East Berlin with the latest wonder drug by his friend Dr. Oderbruch. Milo suspects that Oderbruch, a former Nazi, is experimenting on Gruss, bouncing him in and out of insanity like a yo-yo by dosing him with LSD, then healing his “schizophrenia” with an antidote. Withholding the antidote is a handy way to squeeze information out of Gruss, and the drug experiments are part of a larger, fiendish project involving mind control of the military.

In his effort to gain access to Oderbruch and find Gruss, Milo ends up in the arms of the lustful Frau Beate, who plies himwith Soviet champagne and vodka. Milo is reasonably safe if hangoversare the only menace. But when his disguise as a Russian secret-policeagent is blown, he is packed off to a mental hospital. There he joinsGruss as the doctor’s latest guinea pig.

Milo survived a marathon interrogation by the Communists during his last mission. But this is different—the hallucinogenic effectsof LSD threaten to splinter his mind into pieces. How will he escapethe closely guarded hospital, bringing both Gruss and the evil Oderbruchback with him to the West? Milo’s quick-witted action and sheer nerve,not to mention his irreverence toward authority figures on both sides,make for the wildest trip of all—an insane car chase back to the FreeWorld.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook

Milo March #6: A Lonely Walk
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

Milo March, Madison Avenue insurance detective, is sent to Rome to investigate the double-indemnity claim on the policy of a young woman who may have been murdered. Anna Maria went walking on a beach, allegedly to bathe in the healing seawater. A few hours later she was found lying nude on the sand, with no apparent signs of violence to the body. An accidental drowning, says the medical report, and the family puts in a claim for the large benefit. The insurance company, understandably, would like to confirm that the death was indeed an accident.

Although the case is quickly closed by the police, the whispers of Rome will not be silenced. They insist that the girl was murdered, that she’d been consorting with VIPs at a wild drug party, that shewas pregnant and the guilty man did not want any trouble. It is rumoredthat politicians made the police hush up the truth, lest a scandaltopple the Christian-Democrat government, allowing the Communists totake over.

Milo is warned to leave the case alone. If he persists,he may find himself arrested, he may get orders from his own American Embassy, or he may even be killed by someone… or some thing. All of thismay happen if he says out loud that a girl of no importance died becausesomeone wanted her dead. But the question—and the shocking surprise—is who actually killed her?

A Lonely Walk was inspired by the true story of Wilma Montesi, whose death in 1953 led to a scandal that rocked Italy with revelations of corruption in high places. The real-life case remains unsolved death to this day. Not so Milo’s investigation of the girl who took a lonely walk—until Death came to keep her company.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook







Altus Press / Steeger Books
Coming soon!

Steeger Books will be premiering ten new titles at the Windy CityPulp & Paper Convention in April. Headlining these are the first six books in the Black Mask Library, with each featuring a novel or series character which is rare or never-before reprinted. The releases also featuring Volume 4 of the Super Detective Jim Anthony series, as well as three more installments in the H. Bedford-Jones Library, including the long-awaited novel, The Seal of John Solomon.

If you are attending the convention, these releases (and more) can be purchased as the Mike Chomko, Books booth.

Here are the details on all of these releases:


Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith
By Robert Reeves, introduction by Kenneth S. White, cover by Rafael DeSoto


Long considered one of the best of the Black Mask authors, author Robert Reeves’s longest-running detective character actually first appeared in the 1939 novel, Dead and Done For. Cellini Smith, accountant for a New York City pinball gangster, must clear his boss’s name after being accused of murder. Featuring an introduction by BlackMask editor Kenneth S. White, and a cover illustration by the great Rafael de Soto.

$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Rex Sackler
By D.L. Champion, introduction by Ed Hulse, illustrated by Peter Kuhlhoff, cover by Rafael DeSoto


Author D.L. Champion’s knack for penning quirky series characters reached a new height with his stories of skinflint shamus Rex Sackler, one of Black Mask’s longest-running and most beloved series. Already a reader favorite for his Inspector Allhoff stories in Black Mask’s companion title, Dime Detective, Champion chronicled the offbeat cases of Rex Sackler, the greedy gumshoe who “could squeeze a nickel till the buffalo cried uncle.”

The Rex Sackler series allowed Champion to display his talent for sardonic wit and humor inmore than two dozen frequently hilarious novelettes published in Black Mask during the 1940s. This volume collects the first eight stories. With an all-new introduction by Ed Hulse.


$24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover


Let the Dead Alone: The Complete Black Mask Cases ofLuther McGavock
By Merle Constiner, introduction by Evan Lewis, illustrated by Peter Kuhlhoff, cover by Rafael DeSoto


The Luther McGavock stories are not your garden variety hardboiled detective yarns. These Black Mask stories are so rich in place and detail that they almost seem a travelogue of small-town life in the Deep South.

Having bounced around to just about every major agency in the country, Luther McGavock finally settled in the Atherton Browne Agency in Memphis, and his cases take him to small towns in the Tennessee hill-country. As an outsider, McGavock is our tour guide to this odd world of the Deep South.

Written by one of the most polished writers to see print in Black Mask, author Merle Constiner’s writing is vivid, his characters complex, and his mysteries deep. This edition collects the first four stories in the series. Includes an all-new introduction by Evan Lewis.


$24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover


Dead Evidence: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Harrigan
By Ed Lybeck, introduction by Will Murray, illustrated by Arthur Rodman Bowker, cover by Jes Schlaikjer


Quite likely one of the most hyped—and most mysterious—Black Mask authors to ever appear in its pages, Ed Lybeck made his debut as one of editor Joesph Shaw’s new faces in the wake of Dashiell Hammett’s departure. For Black Mask, Lybeck penned the hard-boiled stories of Francis St. Xavier Harrigan, a former gunman-turned-reporter for the New York Leader.

Though his duration as a Black Mask author was brief, his status as one of its greatest alums was certified by his inclusion in the historic retrospective of Black Mask, The Hard-boiled Omnibus. This edition collects—for the first time—the entirety of Lybeck’s Black Mask output. Includes an all-new introduction by pulp historian Will Murray.


$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Boomerang Dice: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Johnny Hi Gear
By Stewart Sterling, introduction by Will Murray, illustrated by Arthur Rodman Bowker, cover by Jes Schlaikjer


One of the most talented authors to be recruited to write for Black Mask Magazine following the departure of Dashiell Hammett, Stewart Sterling made a lasting impression on readers with his initial series character, Johnny Hi Gear: undercover police agent K-Five who battled gambling rackets during the Great Depression.

Never before reprinted, this popular series jump-started Sterling’s writing career which covered spans of time in radio, TV, and hardcovers, along with writing some of pulpdom’s most popular heroes, the Black Bat and The Spider. Collecting all 8 stories, along with an all-new introduction by Will Murray.


$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Blood on the Curb
By Joseph T. Shaw, cover by Stockton Mulford


Joseph T. Shaw, the editor of Black Mask Magazine, has written one of the most exciting adventure mysteries of 1936.

Blood on the Curb is the dramatic story of the New York Police Department’s bloody battle to wipe out the famous “Black Hand” gang which terrorized the Lower East Side.

Newly-recruited Paul Cardine is placed in charge of a special squad of officers—all of Italian decent—to find the man at the top of what appears to be a consolidated conglomerate of crime families.

Never before reprinted, Blood on the Curb is one of Shaw’s rarest hardcovers, and it contains all the hallmarks of his hard-boiled novels that saw publication in Black Mask Magazine.


$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Super-Detective Jim Anthony: The Complete Series, Volume 4
By Victor Rousseau and Edwin Truett Long, illustrated by Joseph Szokoli, cover by H.J. Ward


The complete reprinting of the greatest of the Doc Savage pastiches continues! Volume Four contains the next five adventures of Jim Anthony: “Spies of Destiny,” “I.O.U. Murder,” “Cold Turkey,” “Mrs. Big,” and “Needle’s Eye.”

$29.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover


The Seal of John Solomon: The Adventures of John Solomon, Volume 4 (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, cover by Modest Stein


John Solomon returns! In this classic thriller from the pages of Argosy Magazine, the mysterious ship’s chandler encounters a lost race of Crusaders deep in the Sahara. Continue the story of John Solomon, author H. Bedford-Jones’ longest-running series character, with this next book in the series.


$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Pirates Ain’t All Dead Yet: The Complete Adventures of Captain Struthers (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Roger B. Morrison, cover by Modest Stein


A story of modern-day seafaring by the “King of the Pulps”—H. Bedford-Jones—the whimsical Captain Struthers series is reminiscent of his popular Pinky Jenkins adventures. Never before reprinted, this edition also includes another of Bedford-Jones’ sea stories as a bonus.

$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


The Jewels of Ling Ti (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Charles L. Wrenn


Captain Jim Hanecy, agent and dealer in antiques, was no stranger to intrigue, but he and his partner, Toptit, soon found more than they bargained for in the ancient city of Cheng-tu. Never before reprinted in its entirely, The Jewels of Ling Ti is a classic adventure of the Orient by the “King of the Pulps”—H. Bedford-Jones— written at the height of his popularity.

$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Steeger Books












Altus Press / Steeger Books
Now available!

The Spider #38: City of Dreadful Night  - New!
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Looting, murdering bands of desperadoes roamed the streets of New York like wanton jackals who destroyed what they could not devour. An underworld Juggernaut had been unleashed upon Manhattan, turning it into a placeof desolation and terror. The Thuggees of the East, those masters of murder, the cruel minions of Tang-akhmut, held the city in a state of siege. One man could save New York—Richard Wentworth, the avenging Spider, and Richard Wentworth, hunted by the police, hated by the underworld he fought, hadbeen ordered shot on sight!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

The Western Raider #2: The Hawk Rides Back From Death - New!
By Stone Cody, Tom Mount

Out of disaster, Silver Trent rallied the shattered remnants of his once-proud crew… for El Diablo’s new and bloody terror decreed dishonor for the girl Silver loved and tortured death for every honest rider in thestricken borderlands. Yet what hope had the Rio Robin Hood’s tattered ghostsof men—if El Diablo could send a hundred flashing, well-trained killersagainst every loyal man they mustered?

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #37: The Devil’s Death-Dwarfs 
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

The most diabolical criminal ever to menace America, Tang-akhmut, the Egyptian, had descended like a blighting plague on Cincinnati. Tang-akhmut, leading a new and terrible army of dwarfed monsters—scourging helpless women with poisoned and barbed whips; who set about systematically to wreck the water supply of the city and then set uncontrollable conflagrations to cover his looting. Richard Wentworth, the Spider, penniless, a man outside the law, once more faces him in single-handed battle!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

Operator 5 #20: Scourge of the Invisible Death 
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

No man could explain that death which struck from the stratosphere, turning men into statues, stripping the United States of defenses. Operator 5—Ace of the American Secret Service—uncovered an espionage organization which was working against our country when Washington recaptured Yorktown, in 1781!… But now, a madman with limitless ambition headed the Secret Loyalists, determined to make himself Emperor of America, and Operator 5 takes a million-to-one gamble which brings him face to face with disgrace and death!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #36: The Coming of the Terror 
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Stripped of his wealth, cut off from his faithful helpers, Richard Wentworth, known and feared throughout the Underworld as the avenging Spider, struggles with his most powerful and wily foe—the Man who came out of the East! With Wentworth’s best friend, Police Commissioner Kirkpatrick framed for murder; with the entire city capitulating before that new and cruelly cunning menace from the Orient, the Spider himself seems doomed to die on the torture racks of the Far East!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

The Western Raider #1: Guns of the Damned
By Stone Cody, Tom Mount

Terror had claimed the bitter ranges below the Rio and death was stalking its towns, when Silver Trent and his raiders left their mountain hideout to save a doomed cowboy and a hapless girl…. For through these two, Silver hoped to break the power of the cunning range-devil who had spread this net of violence and blood. Butan army was pledged to hang Silver’s bullet-shattered body from thewasteland’s highest tree!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #35: Satan’s Sightless Legion
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

It is Wentworth himself—the Spider—who is firstto feel the dread hand of that Master of Darkness—The Blind Man, and his satanic weapon. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, Commissioner of Police, is strangely attacked by the forces of evil; his beloved Nita van Sloan spirited away into a fearsome fate… And the Spider himself destined to a horrible life of pain and misery. Caught between the forces of evil, the Spider at last seems doomed to die in ignominy!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

Operator 5 #19: Attack of the Blizzard Men 
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

As suddenly as Death, the bitter cold came, andwith it, the armored tanks, sleek submarines and mailed warriorsof the invading legions! An international syndicate, fearing America’s greatness and strength in war, had unleashed savage war-dogs to win the conflict before it fairly began… The greatest military genius of modern times commanded the enemy, and Operator 5 of the United States Secret Service—known to his dearest friends as Jimmy Christopher—was America’s choice to oppose him… But with the Intelligence slaughtered, with Diane in the camp of the enemy, the federal government in hiding, Operator 5 faced the stiffest battle of his career, and the Gods tossed dice to determine the victory!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #34: Laboratory of the Damned  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Richard Wentworth—whose grim, anti-crime crusades as the Spider have made him world-famous—was the first objective in the Poison Master’s murder campaign. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, lay in a death-like stupor. His beloved, Nita van Sloan, was stricken with the horrible living death! And at the same time, countlessthousands were felled by the same fatal venom… Caught in the crossfire between the Law and the Underworld, the Spider must battle the blindapathy of a nation ensnared in a subtle death-trap—must overcomethe despair in his own brave heart…!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

The Secret 6 #4: The Golden Alligator
 John Newton Howitt, Robert J. Hogan

When King found a man buried alive he knew he was on the trail of his strangest case. But it wasn’t until the second murder had been committed before his very eyes that he realized he was pitted against a clever enemy—a master criminal who was gambling for fabulous stakes in a game of golden death!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #33: Legions of Madness  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Never had Richard Wentworth—he who is the scourge of the Underworld in his guise of the Spider—faced such tremendous odds or been so alone in the strife! Nita, his beloved, had tried to kill him,was hopelessly insane. His faithful servant had been tortured beyond human endurance. And the Master of Madness, chief of a powerful, fiendish syndicate, was spreading his germs of mania unchecked. Who could rescue America from screaming, murderous frenzy whenthe Spider, harried by Law and lawless, himself half-doubted hisown skill and bravery?

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

Operator 5 #18: Invasion of the Crimson Death Cult 
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

Mysterious happenings—cloudbursts in the arid desert, churches and skyscrapers horribly destroyed, priests and pastors oddly maddened, Intelligence agents craftily slaughtered—all these heralded the attack on America by the Son of Kasma—spokesman for a vicious, Oriental cult. The populace flocked to the new religion in self-defense. Our country seemed helplessly doomed… And Operator 5, charged with treason by a power-drunk authority; his best friend’s honor, and his own, held forfeit; hisbeloved Diane captive to the yellow Messiah, must battle alone againsta more cunning invader than ever menaced America before!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #32: Slaves of the Dragon
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

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?

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

Operator 5 #17:  Hosts of the Flaming Death
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

Gold—the mineral which fosters war!—threatened to plunge America into a chaos of revolt, misery and death. In Washington, the fortified vaults of the nation’s Treasury lay empty—stripped of wealth. A madman, obscured in mystery, his face concealed by a mask of the precious metal, had allied himself with powerful foreign magnates to deliver the United States into misery and bondage. Robbed of her riches, her plans for military security disrupted, her strategic stores destroyed and her armament factories wrecked, the most powerful nation in the world seemed inevitably doomed. One man, Jimmy Christopher, ace of the Intelligence, had a feasible plan for wresting victory from the cunning clutches of the greedy syndicate… And that man, known to a few as Operator 5, under grave suspicion of treachery, spied upon and hampered by a stubborn superior, must sacrifice his father, his beloved, and his honor to save his native land from a cruel invader’s debauchery and butchery…!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95


The Spider #31: The Cholera King  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

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!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Secret 6 #3: The Monster Murders  
 John Newton Howitt, Robert J. Hogan

“Giant dogs at large! Kill several in Manhattan…” The nation read this story with horror, Dogs as big as horses—dogs that mutilated and destroyed. What were these beasts? What fiendish hand directed them? Only the Secret 6 guessed the real menace, dared follow the crimson tracks of a monster killer!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95





















 
    

American Mythology Productions 
Coming in October!

American Mythology has announced the new crossover limited series Zorro in the Land That Time Forgot.
“The world’s greatest swashbuckling hero in fantasy’s most astounding prehistoric world!”

Sword fights come up against the savage, prehistoric world in thisfull color three-issue monthly miniseries.
It is written by Mike Wolfer with art by Alessandro Ranaldi, featuring a cover by Roy Allan Martinez, Miriana Puglia, and Ranaldi.




Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books

Get them while they last!

These reprints may still be available from:
Adventure House, Radio Archives, Bud PlantMike Chomko, Vintage Library, Curious Book ShopRadio Spirits
After 2020, these titles can no longer be sold.


Bud's Art Books

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!

THE SHADOW Volume 151: “Alibi Trail," "The Golden Doom," "The Television Murders" & "The Whispering Eyes”
FOUR-NOVEL FINAL ISSUE SPECTACULAR! 

The Knight of Darkness proves that crime does not pay in thrilling pulp tales by Walter B. Gibson, Theodore Tinsley and Bruce Elliott writing as “Maxwell Grant." First, murder suspects all have iron-clad defenses, leading The Shadow to investigate an “Alibi Trail.” Then "TheGolden Doom” menaces a great hospital and threatens the life of The Shadow himself! Next, a victim is killed during a live video drama, and only Lamont Cranston can unmask the perpetrator of “The Television Murders." Finally, “The Whispering Eyes” are all victims recall of a sinister master of hypnotism in Walter Gibson’s final Shadow pulp novel! This instant collectors item showcases the original cover art by George Rozen and Modest Stein and interior illustrations by Paul Orban and Edd Cartier, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-270-4 Softcover, 7x10, 208 pages, B&W, $19.95


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 Classpostpaid
Six issues for $84(firstclass) 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:
Who's Whoin New Pulp - with Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
The Way They Were: Essays on Adventure Stories
WAR! : The ancient gods do battle! Heritage Universe
"Duck, Duck, Goose" by Jeff Deischer
Tarzan: Conqueror of Mars by Will Murray
Portrait of a Snow Queen by Micah Harris : EPIC FANTASY AT ITS BEST!
"My Life in Comics" by Ron Fortier
Fred Adams Jr.: Pulp Writer.
"Tag, You Are It" - Jeff Deischer's new Heritage Universe adventure
Death In the Dune by John Molino
"Gabriel's Trumpet"by Jon Black

Beb Books
Now available!

For the past several years I was converting pulp stories into etext to sent to Pulpgen for reprinting. And then one day -- poof! --Pulpgen was gone.
So I've decided to fill in the void, sort of, by preparing --at irregular intervals -- ePub anthologies I'm calling "The Baker's Dozen.

Thirteen stories of a particular genre trying for as much variety as possible. The first Baker's Dozen is
Baker's Dozen-Detective 01. Thirteen mystery, detective, and crime stories from thriteen different writers appearing in twelve different magazines.
There are stories by Arthur Leo Zaget, Paul Ernest, Bruno Fisher, Richard Sale, Robert Leslie Bellem, Frank Gruber, and six more. Alll for free, inePub format, and available for download at: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

Also uploaded this week are a number of dime novels and penny dreadfuls.Claude Duval was a charismatic English highwayman, active during the British Civil War.
A dashing and gentlemanly rogue along the linesof Robin Hood. We present two of his many adventures.

Claude Duval #2, a medley of adventures of him as warrior, romantic, highwayman and leader of the downtrodden masses in London.
Claude Duval #10 involves a plot to assassinate  King Charles I but quickly turns into a tale of a man huntednot merely by Claude Daval but by his guilty conscious as well.The writing of these stories is surprisingly literate for cheapentertainment.

Here on the other side of the Pond we present two dime novels of Nick Carter, the world's greatest Detective.
Nick Carter - The House of Secret is a amusing gothic thriller as unseen forces terrorize a young woman in her own house.Nick Carter - Gideon Drexel's Millions Man comes to Carter thinkingsomeone in his household is trying to killer him. Carter comes toinvestigates and finds that everyone is plotting against the name.Two entertaining stories to amusing through these long summer days.And free for download at http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

Finally, for the SF fan we post three differentdime novels about steam engines shaped like men.
The first is The Steam Man of the Prairie by Edward S. Ellis (1869) Young,
Hunchback Jonny Brainard builds his steam man  and hired to rescue the partner of a mountain man who were prospector for gold and now are menaced by indians.

This proved so popular that publisher Frank Tousay hired Harry Enton to create his oown steam man.
This became the Steam Man of the Plains, published in Boys of New York in 1876 and reprinted in the Frank Reade Library #12 in 1892.
A dispute over ownership of the title lead to the creation of Frank Reade, Jr. by "nonname" (Lu Senarias) This time titled, Frank Reade Jr and his New Steam Man.
Each of these is a completely different and unique story.

The Frank Reade Library appeared weekly.  The fifth issue featured "Frank Reade Jr. with his Steam Man in Mexico. This has also been included as an ePub. These, too, can be found at http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

All these books are available in print editions
Contact me at beb01@sprynet.com for pricing.



       

The Best of Jules de Grandin
20 Classic Occult Detective Stories
By Seabury Quinn
Coming June 30!

A collection of the 20 greatest tales of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales.

Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, arerecognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. Andyet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era ofgenre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have falleninto obscurity: Seabury Quinn.

Quinn’s short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character,the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigatedcases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spiritsfrom beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville,New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur ConanDoyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongsidehis assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries—andhis outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)—captivated readersfor nearly three decades.

The Best of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh,presents twenty of the greatest published works featuring the supernaturaldetective.
Presented in chronological order with stories from the 1920s through the 1940s, this collection contains the most incredible of Julesde Grandin's many awe-inspiring adventures.


Publisher: Night Shade
Length: 560 pages
LIST PRICE $24.99





Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2
Now available!

The second issue of the revived Blood 'n' Thunder opens with a special section devoted to Jimmie Dale, alias the Gray Seal, Frank L. Packard's World War I-vintage protagonist whose adventures inStreet & Smith's People's Magazine presaged the Depression-era hero-pulp phenomenon. Award-winning writer, editor, documentarian, and pop-culture historian Don Hutchison makes his first appearance in BnT with "Death to the Gray Seal!", an overview of the legendary character. Then editor Ed Hulseoffers "The Celluloid 'Seal'," which recounts Jimmie Dale's brief but tumultuous history on film.

Novelist andpulp historian Will Murray is back with "The Spicy Mrs. Schwartz," another of his fascinating examples of literary detective work. This time Will trains his attention on one ofSpicy Detective's most unlikely contributors.

BnT presentsa long-forgotten short story by Richard Sale, prolific fictioneer who eventually became a Hollywood hyphenate (writer-producer-director) but is best known for his detective yarns in the Munsey pulps. Sale's 1935 "Mellow Drama" is a clever send-up of rough-paper magazines in general and hero pulps in particular.

The making of Republic Pictures' episodic epic Spy Smasher (1942), based on the popular Fawcett Publication comic book and still considered one of the finest chapter plays ever, is fully documented in Ed Hulse's "Anatomy of a Serial," which presents material gleaned from Republic studio files and first-hand interviews withselected cast and crew members. This 8000-word essay chronicles production from the 1941 licensing of screen rights to the efforts of exhibitors to promote the serial while it was in release. Nothing like ithas ever been written by the form's historians.

That relentless researcher of all things Old Time Radio, Karl Schadow, contributes "Avenger Addendum," a brief article that supplements last issue's piece on the 1941 series that adapted Street & Smith's character The Avenger.

The latest BnT also includes reviews and reference material sure to be of interest to pulp-fiction aficionados. And, asalways, the magazine is profusely illustrated.

First copiesship from the plant late next week. Order yours today at Murania Press » Blood ‘n’ Thunder, Second Series, Number Two.


#2, Second Series
92 pages, paperback, 7x10
Price: $9.95


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO U.S. BUYERS. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.

Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press

 

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

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Holiday Season Bargains Now Available!  

Bold Venture Press
Now available!

Larry Kent: Curves Can Kill & Go-Go for Broke
By Don Haring


Curves Can Kill
A newly-discovered virus—and the deadliest threat to Mankind—had gone missing, and whoever had it figured to sell it to the highest bidder. That was where Z Detail—a clandestine security agency whose very existence was a closely-kept secret—came into it.

But why did they want Larry Kent to handle their dirty business for them?

Oh, sure, they gave him the chance to refuse the assignment. But he knew only too well that a refusal meant he would suffer an ‘unfortunate’ but fatal ‘accident’. So Larry played along with them.

His job was to expose the traitor who planned to sell the virus to a foreign power, and stop the exchange at all costs. Trouble was, there were no shortage of suspects — and one by one, they were all being ruthlessly wiped out.

Go-Go for Broke
The San Rameo Cross was an artifact of enormous religious significance … and a not-so-small fortune in cold, hard cash. When he decided to investigate the murder of a fellow private eye, Larry Kent found himself caught up in a web of intrigue as greedy men and women vied to own the near-priceless relic.

First to come forward was Emanuel Constantine, a fussy little man who hated violence and yet was prepared to kill to get what hewanted. Then there was Alice Gordon, a seductive woman for certain,but also one of many secrets. The same could be said for the scheming,sable-haired Marina Koch. But most deadly of them all was the skeletalHendrick Fluger, a man described as the devil himself, and whose namewas only spoken in terrified whispers!


Pages: 234
Format: Paperback 6" x 9"
$12.95


The Legend of Robin Hood: Outlaw
By John E. Petty


When Robert of Locksley returns home from the Crusades after fighting alongside King Richard, he finds his home and its people crushed under the fist of the Sheriff of Nottingham and the despotic Prince John. After a personal tragedyin which he loses his home, his family, and his title, Rob escapes intothe deep vastness of Sherwood Forest, a foreboding place, known to behaunted. But instead of ghosts and goblins, Rob finds a community oppressedby cruelty, one that he vows to lead towards a better life.

Originally conceived centuries ago, the Legend of Robin Hood is as timeless and as powerful now as it was during the Middle Ages. In a time when the world suffers from dwindling resources, income inequality, the tyranny of the rich, and forces far beyond the control of commonpeople, Robin Hood is a lasting symbol in these dark and frightening times.Based on the original ballads and tales, The Legend of Robin Hood: Outlawspeaks today with a rich and powerful voice, one that urges everyone tostand up and fight oppression, bigotry, and fear.

Cover art by Clayton Hinkle


Pages: 342
Format: Paperback 6" x 9"
$14.95

eBook: $3.99


Bold Venture Press
PULP ADVENTURES #35
Now available!


CLASSIC PULP FICTION
•  Home for Killers! Charles BoeckmaN
   A man can run just so far before facing the devil in pursuit.
•  Thubway Tham’s Baggage Check Johnston McCulleY
   Detective Craddock tags along to the pickpocket’s hometown.
•  Space Burial Lew Merrill
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail
•  The Robbers E.C. Tubb
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  The Colour Out of Space H.P. Lovecraft
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  Theft of the Crown Jewels John Clemons
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!

NEW PULP FICTION
•  Sniffing Out the Rain Shadow Robert W. Walker
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the
•  Give ’Em Hell, Helen Adam Beau McFarlane
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  The Occurrence of the Kali CurseLogan Robichaud
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  Great Caesar’s Ghost Jack Halliday

DEPARTMENTS
•  Editorial Rich Harvey
•  “Remembering E.C. (‘Ted’) Tubb”Philip Harbottle
•  Retro Review: The Big Fix by Ed Lacy Rich Harvey

Editor: Audrey Parente
Pages: 134
Format: 7" x 10" softcover
$9.95





THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #85 is now available and recommended!
To subscribe for #86 & #87, click on the link below!
 
Front Cover: Mark Wheatley
"Fighting Tears" by Chuck Welch
"Boris and the Vallejo of Gold" by Bobb Cotter
"The Absolute Worst" by Tim Handley
"Savage Syncronicities" by Will Murray
"Back Cover Blurbs from Novels You'll Never Read" by The Flearunners
"The Last Doc Savage Chronology" by Chuck Welch
"The Source of Myths by Mark Wheatley
"The Magic Decal" by Courtney Rogers
"Tales: The Ultimate Forbidden Doc Savage" by Malcolm Deeley & Jason Robert Bell
"Doc Savage's Birthday - Again" by Michael Spitzer

Back Cover: Tim Faurote

Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
You can order available single issues at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/back-issues/


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Dare Devlin: Stormbirds
by Dafyyd Neal Dyar


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Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Sensor Sweep: Kyrik, Earl Norem, Stormbringer RPG, Denny O’Neill - New!
Sensor Sweep: Year’s Best Horror, Blood Sundown, Al Williamson, Northworld  
Sensor Sweep: Beast Master, Time Travel, Grey Hawk
Sensor Sweep: Battle Tech, Manly Wade Wellman, Savage Heroes, Space Force
Sensor Sweep: Schuyler Hernstom, Ken Kelly, Gardner Fox, August Derleth
Swordsmen from the Stars
Sensor Sweep: Legion of Time, Creepy Asimov, Fletcher Pratt, Lost Worlds
Sensor Sweep: Pulp on Pulp, Sabatini, Jirel, Weird Westerns



CONAN
Latest schedule updates!

Ablaze Publishing
THE CIMMERIAN: RED NAILS #2  - July 8

Marvel Comics

06/17/2020
CONAN: THE BOOK OF THOTH AND OTHER STORIES TPB

07/08/2020
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 3

07/15/2020
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #3 (OF 5)
CONAN: SERPENT WAR TPB


07/29/2020
EMPYRE: SAVAGE AVENGERS #1
(FEATURING CONAN) 

08/05/2020
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS  EPIC COLLECTION - THE COMING OF CONAN TPB
SAVAGE AVENGERS VOL. 2: TO DINE WITH DOOM TPB
(FEATURING CONAN) 
SOLOMON KANE: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS HC

08/19/2020
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #4 (OF 5)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL.4 HC

09/16/2020
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #5 (OF 5)

09/30/2020
SAVAGE AVENGERS #12 (FEATURING CONAN) 

10/2020
CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: HORRORS BENEATH THE STONES TPB  

10/21/2020
THE MARVEL ART OF SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN HC

11/18/2020
CONAN THE BARBARIAN BY KURT BUSIEK OMNIBUS

12/2020 (Likely to be rescheduled to 2021)
KULL: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 1


Thefollowing previously solicited comics and collections are stillto be scheduled.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #15
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #16
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #17

DARK AGNES #3 (OF 5)
DARK AGNES #4 (OF 5)
DARK AGNES #5 (OF 5)

SAVAGE AVENGERS #13 (Likely late October)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #14  (Likely late November)




Darkworlds Quarterly - Now online!

The Robots of Thrilling Mystery  - New!
Frank Belknap Long – Part One: 1920-1939  - New!
Giant Spiders in Weird Tales  - New!
Introducing…For the First Time…Robots  - New!
Edmond Hamilton’s Interstellar Patrol
Look Who’s in Thrilling Mystery  
The Casebook of Lucius Leffing (1973)
The Lion’s Way by C. T. Stoneham
Kings of the Sci-Fi Pseudonyms
Mythos Sites: Nan-Matol
The Strangest Northerns: Quest of Qui  
Weird Westerns and Lee Winters



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

Pulp Gallery: CAPTAIN FUTURE
- New!
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip: The SIXTH Sunday Adventure (1957) - New!
Basil Wolverton's SPACEHAWK Rides Again! (1940)
Pulp Gallery: WEIRD TALES 98, 99, 100, 101 & 102 (1932)  
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 56 & 57 - Another Case Solved! (1957-58)
SHADOW COMICS 93, 94, 95 & 96 (1948-49)
SAMAR the Tarzan Wannabe by Rafael Astarita (1942)
Pulp Gallery: PLANET STORIES  
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 54 & 55 (1957)
Pulp Gallery: THE AVENGER
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 52 & 53 (1957)  

The Digest Enthusiast #12
Now in full color!!!!!
Now available!


Explore the World of Digest Magazines

Interviews
• Tony Gleeson (Fantastic, Amazing Science Fiction, Mike Shayne, Personal Crimes).
• John Shirley (Weirdbook, Fantastic, The Crow, Constantine,Wetbones).

Articles
• Lester del Rey’s Five Ages of Science Fiction by Vince Nowell, Sr.
• Born of Other Worlds, it’s Science Stories, a digest Ray Palmer “tossed in your lap with little or no ceremony.”
• News and dozens of cover previews from around the world ofdigests, direct from the magazines’ editors, publishers, and writers.
• Mike Chomko and William Lampkin untangle the fate of PulpFest 2020 and The Pulpster.
• Richard Krauss exhumes the true crime sensation: Fotocrime.
• Steve Carper rediscovers the remarkable Photoplay Editions.
• Ward Smith spotlights Digest Science Fiction Novels.

Reviews
• Amazing Selects
• bare•bones No. 1
• EconoClash Review No. 5
• Guns + Tacos Season One
• Lake County Incidents
• Paperback Fanatic No. 43

Fiction
• Stories by Michael Bracken, Rick Ollerman, and Joe Wehrle,Jr. with artwork by Rick McCollum, Marc Myers, and Michael Neno.

Plus
• Over 100 digest magazine cover images, cartoons by Bob Vojtko, first issue factoids, and more.
• Cover by Tony Gleeson, 160 pages, published in full color by Larque Press.




Includes over 100 digest magazine cover images
160 pages, Full color, 5.5" x 8.5" digest

Print version, $18.99
Kindle version, $4.99


    

 

The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

NEWS DIGEST JUNETEENTH 2020 - New!
NEWS DIGEST JUNE 12, 2020
NEWS DIGEST JUNE 5, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 29, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 22, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 15, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 8, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 1, 2020
NEWS DIGEST APRIL 24, 2020


DMR Books: A Million Years in the Future by Thomas P. Kelley - Coming in July!

For countless millennia, Earth has been ravaged by the Black Raiders from the distant planet Capara. The last surviving Earthman, Prince Jan, is captured by the Raiders and taken to their home planet. The immortal and lascivious ruler of Capara, Queen Tara, decrees that Jan will fight for his life as a gladiator in the Great Games.

Jan’s only desire is to avenge his decimated planet, and a path tothis goal lies on the forbidden Moon of Madness. It is said that a godlies dormant in the Black Tower, guarded by Vampire-Women. This god knowsQueen Tara’s secret weakness, which, if exploited, will bring about thecomplete annihilation of Capara!

Will Jan overcome the Vampire-Women and learn the secret to destroy Capara? Will he perish in the Great Games? Or will he succumb to Queen Tara’swiles? Anything can happen… a million years in the future!

A Million Years in the Future is a fantastic science fiction adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
It was originally serialized in Weird Tales in 1940, and has neverbeen published in book form before.
It will be released July 1st in paperback and digital formats.





DMR Books Blog - Now online!

DMR Books to Reprint Cahena, Manly Wade Wellman's Final Novel - New!
The DMRtian Chronicles, 6/21/2020 - New!
Coming in July from DMR Books: A Million Years in the Future by Thomas P. Kelley
The DMRtian Chronicles, 6/14/2020  
Kaor! Mars Day 2020
The Lemurian Chronicler
The DMRtian Chronicles, 6/7/2020  
The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/31/2020
The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/24/2020  
Frazetta: The Lost "Castaways" Cover


Edgar Rice Burroughs Books
Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds
Now available on eBook format!

Science fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, wrote four novels and a novella about former stuntman Carson Napier and his wayward adventures on the planet Venus (or Amtor, as it is known to its inhabitants). Now get ready to transport yourself into theEdgar Rice Burroughs Universe with the first new Carson of Venus novelto be published in more than fifty years: Carson of Venus: The Edgeof All Worlds by Matt Betts.

The Edge of All Worlds releases Spring 2020 from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and launches the canonical ERB Universe series of interconnected novels.

Stranded on the planet Amtor for nearly two decades, Earthman Carson Napier returns from his latest adventure to discover a mysterious enemy has struck his adopted nation of Korva and reduced one of its cities to ash and cinders. The trail of the mysterious threat leadsCarson and his love Duare through dark cyclopean corridors deep beneathAmtor to a distant land, where they must confront both a powerful newalienspecies and the shadows of Carson’s past.

Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds, featuring the artwork of the amazing Chris Peuler.


Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds is available in softcover and hardcover editions, as well as a hardcover Collector’s Edition with a signed bookplate.*

BONUS TRADING CARD WITH PREORDER
All Preorders of Carson of Venus: The Edge of AllWorlds placed directly from our online store will come with a special collectible ERB Universe Victory Harben trading card!** Collect all of the trading cards by preordering each ERB Universe novel directly from ERBurroughs.com!

HARDCOVER COLLECTOR’S EDITION
The hardcover Collector’s Edition features a special ERB Universe bookplate signed by authors Matt Betts and Christopher Paul Carey, as well as an ERB Universe Carson of Venus trading card produced exclusively for the Collector’s Edition, and is limited to only 200 copies.


ERB Books   Kindle  Hardcover  Softcover  



The Illustrated Press
MEAD SCHAEFFER

Now available!

MEAD SCHAEFFER was one of the foremost illustrators of the romantic era of American fiction. He worked fordecades producing atmospheric and evocative illustrations for the top books and magazines of the day, and his romantic, swashbuckling, and theatrical paintings ultimately earned him a spot in the Society of Illustrators Hallof Fame. This new book presents a stunning overview of Schaeffer's long and illustrious career, featuring scores of illustrations reproduced directly from original paintings as well asrare tear sheets and photographs. 


Standard Edition
224 pages, 9"x12", full color, hardbound with dust jacket, $44.95.

Deluxe Edition
-Sold Out!
224 pages, 9"x12", full color, hardbound with dust jacket, shipped in a blue slipcase with white printing. Bookplate insert signed and numbered by publisher Daniel Zimmer. Limited to just100 copies!

To see a preview of the book, follow this link:
 https://issuu.com/illomag/docs/meltzoff


 
The Illustrated Press   Order: Standard Edition  Order: Deluxe Edition   Preview



ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #29 - Now available and coming soonto comic shops!
(Writer) Diego Cordoba (Art)  Various

Featuring Charles Addams: Chuckles in store from the master of macabre humor; Lawson Wood: Monkey Business from the man who drew monkeys in all humouros walks of life; Roy Wilson: One of the greatest names in slapstick British comics from theGolden Age; Ersin Karabulut: the bleak universe ofthis Turkish cartoonist; and JJ Grandville: The French caricaturist who broughtillustration (and weird worlds) to the forefront.

Softcover, 96 pages, Full Color, $24.99




ILLUSTRATORS SPECIAL #7: PIRATES - Now available and coming soonto comic shops!
(Writer) Peter Richardson (Art) Various

Avast, me hearties! Hoist high the Jolly Roger for a perilous voyage through 100 yearsof piracy illustrations from comics, magazines and books!

Divided into 5 sections: "Underthe Black Flag", "Sweep the Spanish Main", "Swashbucklersof the Seven Seas", "Four Fabled Sea Raiders", and "The Sea-Faring Man with One Leg", along with special sections on Howard Pyle and Norman Mills Price.

Featured artists include Ron Embleton, NC Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Cecil Glossop, Graham Coton, James McConnell, DC Eyles, Sep Scott, Fortunino Matania, Will Eisner, Edward Mortelmans, Peter Jackson, Alex Nino, Jose Salinas, Reed Crandall, Wally Wood and many more! A showcase some of the greatest pirate art ever published in comics, books, magazines, posters, including many versions of Treasure Island.


Magazine, 128 pages, Full Color, $34.99





Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

MAGAZINE OF HORROR #28

FICTION CONTENTS
THE NAMELESS MUMMY by Arlton Eadie
RAYMOND THE GOLDEN by David H. Keller M.D.
THE PHANTOM DRUG by A. W. Kapfer
THE ROPE by Robert Greth
A REVOLT OF THE GODS by Ambrose Bierce
THE DEVIL'S BRIDE by Seabury Quinn
NOT ONLY IN DEATH THEY DIE by Robert E. Howard

Digest,5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$12.95



STARTLING MYSTERY STORIES #7

Fiction Contents
THE BRIDE OF THE PEACOCK by E. Hoffmann Price
NICE OLD HOUSE by Dona Tolson
THOSE WHO SEEK by August Derleth
JOHN BARTINE'S WATCH by Ambrose Bierce
THE PET OF MRS. LILITH by Robert Barbour Johnson
THE MAN WHO CHAINED THE LIGHTNING by Paul Ernst

Digest,5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$12.95



MAGAZINE OF HORROR #35

Fiction Contents
THE ALTAR OF MELEK TAOS by G. G. Pendarves
THE CHENOO by Stephen Goldin
OLD CITY OF JADE by Thomas H. Knight
A RENDEZVOUS IN AVEROIGNE by Clark Ashton Smith
THE MYSTERY IN ACATLAN by Rachael Marshall & Maverick Terrell
IN THE LAIR OF THE SPACE MONSTERS by Frank Belknap Long

Digest,5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$12.95





 
Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Lone Ranger Alumni R.I.P.

James "Buddy" Edgerton: The Unknown Lone Ranger  
The Suspense Collectors Companion  
The Return of the Green Hornet
Handsome heroes and Vicious Villains

The Inner Sanctum Sterling Silver Pendant




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.

Now featuring:

Links to Robert E. Howard Days 2019 Panel Discussions  


The Art of Robert E. Howard: Peter Andrew Jones

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Virgil Finlay

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Michael William Kaluta:  Part 1   Part 2   Part 3  

Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie

Accepting new articles for posting.
Contact me at bthom1@cox.net





Meteor House
Up from the Bottomless Pit
First Trade Edition!
Now available for pre-order!
Shipping begins August 2020 after FarmerCon XV!


Philip José Farmer’s Up from the Bottomless Pit, originally written in the late 1970s with the working title The Dragon’s Breath, is a near-mainstream novel about the ultimate ecological nightmare. Set inan alternate/near future 1970s, Up from the Bottomless Pit tells of a world so ravenous in its desire for oilthat it has thrown caution to the wind. Using an experimental deep-water laser drill off the California coast, humankind burns a hole through the ocean floor only to unleash a deadly torrent that initially threatens the greater Los Angeles area,but quickly escalates to a catastrophe of worldwide proportions with the potential to wipe out all life on the planet.

The novel wasn’t quite what Del Rey was looking for at the time, so Phil instead turned in Dark is the Sun (set fifteen billion years in the future). Fast forward to 2005 and the team here at Meteor House was launching the fanzine Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer. We serialized the novel over the first 10 quarterly issues between 2005 and 2007. At $11 per issue, it cost over $100 to read the novel. In 2007, Subterranean Press published Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories, collecting all of Phil’s material from Farmerphile in a deluxe limited edition of only 250 copies. But, at $125, it again cost over $100 to read this book.

This is the Farmer novel you’ve heard about but never got to read! Now, available for the first time ever in a trade paperback edition, you can get Up from the Bottomless Pit for only $20 (+shipping).

Featuring cover art by Keith Howell, a foreword by Farmerphile editor Christopher Paul Carey, and an introduction by award winning environmental writer Sharman Apt Russell!

Be sure to select the correct shipping option below. Books will be shipped to you in August 2020 right after FarmerCon XV!

Trade paperback, 5.5 × 8.5 inches, 250 pages

U.S.:  $24.00
Canada:  $36.00
Elsewhere: $43.00

Meteor House
A Rough Knight for the Queen
by Philip José Farmer

FirstStand Alone Edition!
Now available for pre-order!
Shipping begins August 2020 after FarmerCon XV!


Philip José Farmer fans know that he was fascinated with 19th century explorerand author Sir Richard Francis Burton. Farmer made Burton theprotagonist of the Hugo winning novel, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, the first book in the Riverworld series. In Gods of Riverworld, the final book in the series, Peter Jairus Frigate (Farmer’s fictional stand in) said that he had written a biography of Richard Burton butthat Fawn Brodie’s biography of Burton came out before Frigate couldget his published. When asked about this in the early 2000s, Phil said,“I was going to write a biography of Burton but Fawn’s biography cameout. It seemed to be pretty definitive so I decided not to write more.”

The biography Farmer did write about Burton starts in 1855, when Burton was thirty-four years old and on an expedition to find the source of the Nile. As for its origin, Phil explained, “This was written for what was called a ‘Men’s Magazine.’ I think the magazine was titled Gonads, but I am probably wrong. Anyway, for reasons unknown, the article was rejected and so went into the proverbial trunk.”

A Rough Knight for the Queenstayed in that trunk for decades until Farmer sold theoriginal unpublished manuscript and it eventually wound up in the hands of collector Craig Kimber. When Paul Spiteri and Michael Croteau were putting together Pearls from Peoria, a massive compilation of Farmer rarities published by Subterranean Press in 2006, Craig sent them a copy of the manuscript to include in the collection.

Now Meteor House brings you Farmer’s 26,000 word biography of Burton in both an affordabletrade paperback and in a signed limited hardcover.
Both editions feature introductory material by Mick Walton (author of Sir Richard Burtonand His Circle), Mark Hodder (author of the Burton and Swinburne novels) and Paul Spiteri (editor of Pearls from Peoria).
The hardcover limited edition will be signed by Walton, Hodder, Spiteri, and cover artist Charles Berlin.


US $15 tpb / $40 hc
5.5 × 8.5 inches, 102 pages
Trade Paperback Edition
Signed Limited Edition Hardcover


Two important things to note about preordering this book

First,the print run of the hardcover limited edition (which will feature a leatherette cover with custom gold foil stamping) will be determined by thenumber of preorders, meaning the majority of hardcovers will be sold before the book is even printed!

Second, there are discounts if you buy both the trade paperback and hardcover editions.
And discounts if you preorder Up from the Bottomless Pit AND A Rough Knight for the Queen (if you already preordered Bottomless Pit we will issue you a partial refund).

These package discounts willonly be available until just before the books are printed in July.
The hardcover print run willbe set on June 1st, so please preorder, before you missout!




Mystery*File - Now online!

Pulp PI Stories I’m Reading: ROBERT WALLACE “The Mark of the Beast.”
 
Pulp PI Stories I’m Reading: TALMAGE POWELL “Her Dagger Before Me.”
Old Time Radio Review: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM DRAKE “The Invisible Thief.”
Locked Room PulpPI Stories I’m Reading: RICHARD DEMING “The Juarez Knife.”  

Pulp Stories I’m Reading: JOHN S. ENDICOTT “Double Murder.”  


Peek-a-Boo (Heritage) - Now available!
by Jeff Deischer


In a mind-bending tale of time and space, the Earth is threatened by an ancient evil so powerful it takes two groups of Sentinels to stop it!
And it involves the origin of the sacred Sapphire Scarab.


Series: Heritage (Book 2000)
Paperback: 242 pages
Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches

$16.00


 
 Cancelled due to COVID-19 threat!

PULPFEST 2020 cancelled!
PULPFEST RETURNS August 19-22, 2021 in Pittsburgh PA!





The PulpFest Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that fourteen individuals have been nominated by their peers for the 2020 Munsey Award. The honor is named after Frank A. Munsey — the man who published the first pulp magazine. This annual award recognizes an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community, be it through disseminating knowledge about the pulps or through publishing or other efforts to preserve and foster interest in the pulp magazines we all love and enjoy. Congratulations to all of the nominees for this prestigious award, presented annually at PulpFest.

Although the 2020 PulpFest has been canceled due to thecoronavirus pandemic, the convention’s organizing committee feltit was important to continue the tradition of honoring the serviceof such individuals as the winner of our 2019 Munsey Award, George Vanderburgh.

Therefore, the convention will honor one of the nominees listed below as the recipient of this year’s Munsey. Each received multiple nominations.
The winner of the recipient of the 2020 Munsey Award  will be announced on Monday, August 3, at the start of the week that PulpFest 2020  was scheduled to take place.


2020 Munsey Award Nominees
MIKE ASHLEY
RICHARD BLEILER
JASON RAY CARNEY
CAMILLE CAZEDESSUS
WILLIAM CONTENTO
GENE CHRISTIE
STEPHEN HAFFNER

RICH HARVEY
CHRIS KALB
RICK LAI
DAVID PHIPPS
SHEILA VANDERBEEK
HOWARD WRIGHT
DAN ZIMMER
Click here for more info on the nominees!



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

Nothing New!



The Pulp Archivist - Now online!

The Avenger, The Lady, and The Wheel  - New!
Manly Wade Wellman: A View From 1940
Short Story Club: Mortu and Kyrus
The Call of Adventure
The King in Yellow: The Mask  



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

Three interviews with pulpsters - Richard Matheson, Leigh Brackett and Curt Siodmak
Pulp Round-Up May 2020 (Coronavirus edition 1)  
Photos of Walt Coburn's house in Tucson, Arizona
What is a pulp?
Rafael DeSoto covers on my new illustrator spotlight blog
The Shadow, The Spider and Doc Savage in a title match  
Rothvin Wallace - Editor, Author



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.

Pulp Super-Fan blog by Michael R. Brown

Black Bat & Purple Scar: ‘Faces of Fear’
- New!
Publishers: Airship 27 Productions  
Sherlock Holmes & Green Lama: ‘The Heir Apparent’
‘City of Wonder’: a lost-world classic  
‘Beginner’s Guide to Pulp Fiction, Vol. 2’  
A look at ‘Adventure’  
‘Broken Empire: Adventure Unlimited: The Silver Age’
Dime-novel reprint: ‘The House of Mystery’
That's Pulp! by John Olsen

Going on hiatus
Perry Mason novels: #49 and #50
TMM #11: Death in the Blue Room
Advertising The Shadow

Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin




Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages a one-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering his own justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!

Cloaked in impenetrable mystery, masked marauders strike — and leave a blood trail! The Phantom tackles one of the most difficult cases in his career.



Legendary for the fact that so many authors contributed to his legacy, The Phantom Detective’s stories have been described by some as inconsistent, shifting from one style of storytelling to another tale to tale. Although this obviously can be contributed to the ever-changing authors, it also bears to realize that this may have been somewhat intentional on the parts of the editors. Even though he was the second Pulp Hero to debut after The Shadow started the trend, it did indeed become commonplace for other Pulp publishers to follow with their own version of Hero Pulps. Many of these, such as Doc Savage and the Spider, settled into a routine, a basic story structure that, while readers returned issue after issue for some of the characters, never changed from the start to the ending of the series. This was the standard pattern for most Hero Pulps and likely a reason that many such magazines only lasted a handful of issues.

The Phantom Detective stories, however, brought in new writers after the twelfth issue, writers allowed to basically write in their own styles. Over its twenty-year run, the series saw The Phantom Detective take on street levelcrime and also tackle monstrous, seemingly supernatural evils. The fact thatthe magazine ran two decades shows that readers responded to the shiftingtone of storytelling that was standard for the series, always returning neverknowing if their hero would be facing a man with a gun…or a monster witha death ray!

‘Double-Stamped Doom’ was originally published in the October 1937 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.


Discounted  the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $14.99

Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives
G-8 and His Battle Aces #55 Audiobook
The Black Aces of Doom
by Robert J. Hogan
Read by Nick Santa Maria

  Now available!

They called G-8 the Flying Spy. History never recorded his exploits—and for good reason! No one would ever believe World War I was that wild!
 
Born of the dank and lecherous swamp, with a thirst for the blood of their fellow men, the Black Aces of Doom flew the night skies of war! They flung their hideous challenge to G-8, and the Master Spy accepted, knowing that his life was the prize of the game, that failure would mean only — Death! Like vultures of the night, with their claws made sharper on the grindstone of hate, slaves they were to a greater mind and fierce was their swift attack. One man stood like immovable rock before their bloody goal — that man was G-8, the Master Spy.


 
Robert J. Hogan penned 110 tales of G-8 and His Battle Aces. With each one, he not only established a fantastical World War, he also created stories thatin many ways were the precursors of thriller novels to come decades afterthe end of the series. With each tale, Hogan crafted monsters and enemies for G-8 and his men to battle that boggled the mind and threatened the world itself with death and destruction, more so with each issue. Hogan also paid attention to the tension and the very threat that G-8 himself was placed inin each novel length adventure. Instead of an unflappable, indestructible hero with all of the answers for any situation, G-8 proved to be, even with his skills and talents, a man who not only failed on occasion before being finally successful, but also risked his own life over and over. Hogan’s stories were fierce and aggressive, allowing readers to truly worry each issue if G-8 would be alive for the next one.
 
Nick Santa Maria brings G-8, Nippy and Bull to thrilling life in their desperate struggle to defeat a deadly nemesis unlike anything they have ever before encountered in ‘The Black Aces of Doom’. Originally published in the April 1938 issue of G-8 and His Battle Aces magazine.
 
Nick DeGregorio composed the music for the G-8 and His Battle Aces series of audiobooks.



Discounted  the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $14.99

Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Phantom Detective #56 eBook
Double-Stamped Doom - October 1937

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.

The Phantom Detective! The name alone conjures up action and adventure. From the same publisher that brought you The Black Bat, Captain Danger, The Crimson Mask and The Green Ghost came one of pulpdom’s best-known detectives. Scourge of the underworld, The Phantom, ashe was called, aided the Law with his sweetheart Muriel Havens. His first adventure was published in February 1933 and they continued for 170 thrilling exploits until the Summer 1953 issue. The Phantom Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:
A Full Book-length Novel
Double-Stamped Doom
by Robert Wallace
Taken From The Case-Book Of Richard Curtis Van Loan
Cloaked in impenetrable mystery, masked marauders strike — and leave a blood trail! The Phantom tackles one of the most difficult cases in his career.
 
Wings For A Monster — Gripping Short Story
by Carl Jacobi
Nash’s murder trail crosses the track of a gorilla
 
Prize Title Contest Story — Gripping Short Story
by Edmond Hamilton
Name This Story — And Win A Cash Prize
 
Blood Stains The Lily — Gripping Short Story
by Don Cameron
Wan-da-lo guides the police in a Chinatown murder maze
 
The Phantom Speaks — A Department


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. Ifyou have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.

Regular price:  $3.99
Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99


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.

G-8 and his Battle Aces rode the nostalgia boom ten years after World War I ended. These high-flying exploits were tall tales of a World War that might have been, featuring monster bats, German zombies, wolf-men, harpies, Martians, and even tentacled floating monsters. Most of these monstrosities were the work of Germany’s seemingly endless supply of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8’s recurring Nemesis, Herr Doktor Krueger. G-8 battled Germany’s Halloween shock troops for over a decade, not ceasing until the magazine folded in themiddle of World War II. G-8 and his Battle Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

 
Table of Contents:
Smashing Novel Of The Sky
The Black Aces Of Doom
As told by G-8 to Robert J. Hogan
Born of the dank and lecherous swamp, with a thirst for the blood of their fellow men, the Black Aces of Doom flew the night skies of war! They flung their hideous challenge to G-8, and the Master Spy accepted, knowing that his life was the prize of the game, that failure would mean only — Death!
 
The Skyman From Hell — Gripping Short Feature
A man’s face may change, but never his soul, though he walks the paths of the dead!
 
The Mad Dog Patrol — Gripping Short Feature
by Greaseball Joe
Sausage was one hell of a dog — and that’s no baloney!
 
Aces High — Gripping Short Feature
A man must leave his heart on the ground when he rides on the wings of war!
 
G-8 Speaks
Where the Master Spy gets together with the gang.


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. Ifyou have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.

Regular price:  $3.99
Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Marvel Stories eBook
December 1939

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.

Marvel Tales came from a science fiction background, but a change in editorial policy turned it into a "weird menace" pulp. There was still a slight carry-over from its science fiction days, but most of the stories leaned toward the shudder-pulp fare typically found in Terror Tales, Horror Stories and Dime Mystery Magazine. Western FictionPublishing Co. gave this new direction a test with the first issue in December1939. But it quickly saw the error in its ways, and made changes after onlytwo issues. In November of 1940, the magazine name was changed to MarvelStories and it returned to its science fiction roots. Marvel Tales remains,then, as a short-lived experiment in the shudder pulp genre. Marvel Talesreturns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronicformat.
 
Table of Contents:
 
Astonishing Book-Length Novel
The Angel From Hell
by Nils O. Sonderlund
Could this hell-spawned golden bird-girl dispel at last the shadow of ageless tragedy from Carter Boyd’s earth-man heart? And had his passionate love for her made civilization’s doom a horrible certainty, and delivered ten million mortals into the hands of the Alexander’s Gray Minions and their ghastly G-Ray!
 
Love’s Lethal Ingredient — Gripping Novelette
by Allan K. Echols
Here, then, in this half-world I would be eternally trapped, living only to witness forever a fiend from hell caress my lovely fiancee!
 
Perfectionist Perdition — Gripping Novelette
by John Wallace
This was the year 2002, and you didn’t rejoice when a beautiful girl said she’d be your bride!
 
Lust Rides the Roller Coaster — Breath-Taking Short Story
by Ray King
Fear of the Unknown was not so great in George Trant as foreboding thatbeyond the Border lust would be his mate!
 
My Bride Belongs to the Ages — Breath-Taking Short Story
by Arthur J. Burks
No, Greta Stard was no soulless scientist — she’d never have brought those lust-crazed aborigines back from the grave to woo me had she been that, she’d never have staked her greatest experiment on life!
 
Girls for Satan’s Utopia — Breath-Taking Short Story
by Brent North
Girls! — Beware the man who is at once sub-ordinary lover and extraordinary scientist!

  
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.

 
Regular price:  $3.99
Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99



The Serial Squadron
New DailySERIALS AT 7
 & Weekly SATURDAY NIGHT SERIALFEST


Visit the Squadron Facebook Group to watch entire Squadron-restored serials free every night at 7:00 pm US EST and to see chapters of new restorations in progress one chapter a week in live "watch parties" Saturdays 7pm-9pm EST.
Youcan watch and chat in real-time during these viewings with your Squadron friends.


NOW PLAYING
Daily 7:00 pm US EST

KING OF THE MOUNTIES
Featuring Allan Lane

Saturday Night Serial
NOWPLAYING
Saturdays 7:00 pm US EST

GOVT AGENTS VS PHANTOM LEGION
THE GALLOPING GHOST
THE PHANTOM EMPIRE
THE DESERT HAWK
THE GREAT ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN KIDD


Facebook: The Serial Squadron

The Serial Squadron

GOVERNMENT AGENTS VS. PHANTOM LEGION
Featuring Walter Reed, John Pickard, Dick Curtis, and Tom Steele
Blu-Ray/DVD

Now available!

Responding to a wave of disastersand thefts befalling trucks carrying critical materials for the government'sstockpile, agents Hal Duncan and Sam Bradley cooperate with the InterstateTruck Owners Association to try to stop the mysterious "Voice" and his henchmenfrom carrying out their acts of sabotage and thievery. Features plenty ofstunt fighting, miniature effects by the Lydecker brothers and stock cliffhangersfrom previous serials seamlessly integrated with new footage.

Excellent quality transfer, stable, formatted the same way as the Squadron's Crimson Ghost Blu-ray (1440 x 1080 with pillar-boxing) and should play in virtually all Blu-Ray players.

BLU-RAY 1440 x 1080 $14.95


SONOF THE GUARDSMAN
THE MOVIE SERIAL
DL-DVD Upgrade

Now available!

FEATURING BOB SHAW, DAUN KENNEDY, BUZZ HENRY, CHARLES KING and WHEELER OAKMAN


THE CRIMSON GHOST
THE MOVIE SERIAL
BLU-RAY Upgrade or DL-DVD

Now available!

FEATURING CHARLES QUIGLEY, LINDA STIRLING, CLAYTON MOORE, KENNEDUNCAN and ? as THE CRIMSON GHOST (Voice by I. Stanford Jolley)



THE HOUSE OF HATE
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD

Coming soon!

New upgraded transfer of the amazing, massively influential Pearl White mystery serial, with solid leading man Antonio Moreno,
and, introducing The Hooded Terror, most fearsome and deadly of the early serial villains.











Sexton BlakeVersus the Master Crooks (Sexton Blake Library Book 2) - Coming October 6!
by Mark Hodder (Editor)


As brilliant as Sherlock Holmes. As daring as James Bond. Sexton Blake, the adventuring detective, is back! This second volume of a new series reinstates oneof literatures greatest detectives - back in print for the first time in decades!

For nearly a century, Sexton Blake was the most written about character in British fiction. He starred in approximately four thousand stories by nearly two hundred authors. A cross between Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones, he was a publishing phenomenon, read by young and old alike.


Paperback: 430 pages
Publisher: Rebellion
Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches
List Price: $11.99


Rebellion will be publishing further landmark volumes, each witha fantastic art deco style cover, including:
Sexton Blake’s Allies (December 2020)
Sexton Blake on the Home Front (February 2021)



The Shadowcast  - Now online!

Season 1, Episode 6 - 'THE SHADOW' (DC Comics, 1973) & Could Shadow Be Headed to TV?  
Season 1, Episode 5 - 'THE VOODOO MASTER'
The Shadowcast: Season 1, Episode 4 - 'THE SHADOW STRIKES' and 'DEATH HOUSE RESCUE'  
The Shadowcast: Season 1, Episode 3 - 'LINGO' and 'DEATH TO THE SHADOW'
Season 1, Episode 2 - 'THE SHADOW/GREEN HORNET: Dark Nights'
Season 1, Episode 1 - The Living Shadow





SPECTRE LIBRARY: THE PULP AND PAPERBACK FICTION READER - Now online!

Love Traffic by Gaston Lamond
“Murder Mayhem” by Ray Stahl (aka: Bart Carson)
Murder Gets Around by Robert Sidney Bowen
Spider Pete by Claude Stewart
The Finger of Death by Henry Keyworth



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.

Cozy Dystopia  
Stars Upon Thars  
Earl Peirce, Jr.-Aside No. 1
Earl Peirce, Jr. (1917-1983)-Part One
Patterns of Force  
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Five
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Four
Katherine MacLean (1925-2019)
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Three and a Half
 

TERROR OF THE CRIMSON TALONS - Now available!
by Fred Blosser


Weird mystery and bone-crushing action in the Robert E. Howard tradition as Detective Kirby Brill pursues a demonic treasure and a beautiful, exotic villainess.
Blades flash and guns roar in the shadows of a dark city, asinfernal cultists and vengeful gangsters alike seek Kirby's blood.
Meanwhile, a young woman's innocent life hangs in the balance!

Plus two articles on the fantasy-tinged Howard stories that inspired TERROR OF THE CRIMSON TALONS.

Fred Blosser is the author of four studies of Howard's fiction and recipient of a Cimmerian Award presented by The Robert E. Howard Foundation.


Kindle: $0.99



Kindle  



WEIRDBOOK #42
Softcover edition now available at Amazon!

This special John Shirley issue of WEIRDBOOK presents a complete, original novel plus a selection of poems, short stories, and more by one of the most acclaimed figures in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction fields.

Novel
Swords of Atlantis, by John Shirley

Short Stories
Anvil Rock, by John Shirley
Broken on the Wheel of Time, by John Shirley
Nodding Angel, by John Shirley
Calaphais and the Demon Malchance, by John Shirley
That Ambulance Again, by John Shirley

Poetry
Secret Tree, by John Shirley
A Tourist in Hell, by John Shirley
The Egregious Error of Werner Witherbye, by John Shirley
You See Me as You See Me, by John Shirley
And I’ll Burn Like a Vampire in the Sun, by John Shirley

Paperback: 157 pages
Publisher: Wildside Press
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
$12.00

Amazon.com   Kindle   Wildside Press: Softcover   Wildside Press: eBook







19 June 2020  


Many eventsare being cancelled due to the COVID-19 threat,
so please verify your event is still happening before traveling.



2020 Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention
Celebrating the 90th anniversary of ASTOUNDING
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of BLACK MASK
 Rescheduled due to COVID-19 threat!
  September 11-13, 2020

 



Ablaze Publishing
Coming in September!

THE CIMMERIAN: PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE #2
(Writer) Robert E. Howard, Sylvain Runberg (Art) Jae Kwang Park
Cover A:
Ejikure
Cover B: Jae Kwang Park
Cover C: Miki Montllo
Cover D: Fritz Casas

Robert E. Howard's Conan is brought to life UNCENSORED! Discover the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual. Read the story ashe intended!

Conan is forced to take Princess Yasminacaptive in order to save his own life and the lives of his seven captivetribe headsmen.
Meanwhile, Khemsa, in league and in love with Gitara, Yasmina's maid, devise their own plot involving the princess.
Khemsa taps into the dark magical arts he's learned, with gruesome and effective results. And the Black Seers of Mount Yimsha make their presence felt by all…


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 23!

THE CIMMERIAN: PEOPLE OF THEBLACK CIRCLE #2 issolicited in the JulyPREVIEWS (Available June 24).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200939 (Ejikure cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200940 (Park cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200941 (Montllo cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200942 (Casas cover).




 

Adventure House

Adventure House is pleased to announce that Adventure House has acquired a number of the Girasol Collectables reprint files.
They will be releasing on a monthly basis a number of their public domain titles as part of our monthly offerings.

June 2020
Spicy Mystery Stories – 11/35  Now available!
Spicy Detective Stories – 09/34 Now available!

May 2020
GOLDEN FLEECE – 01/39  - Coming soon!
SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES – 08/34  - Coming soon!

April 2020
MAGIC CARPET – 07/33 - Now available!
SPICY MYSTERY STORIES – 10/35 Now available!

March 2020
Spicy-Adventure Stories – 04/35 - Now available!
Strange Tales – 01/32 - Now available!

February 2020
Golden Fleece – 12/38 - Now available!
Spicy Mystery Stories – 09/35 - Now available!

January 2020
Spicy-Adventure Stories – 03/35  - Now available!
Spicy Detective Stories – 07/34  - Now available!


Adventure House
Now available!

High Adventure #172

Warren Hastings Miller Foreign Legion Stories
The Hell’s Angels Squad
Five Men of the Legion
Hell’s Angels Rebel
Hell’s Angels Set A Trap Discreet Rescue
The Desperation of Mr. Dee
The Color-Guard
The Honor of the Legion
It Takes the Legion


Cover Artist: Unknown

7x10, 110 pages
$12.95







Adventure House
Now available!

G-8 and His Battle Aces #59

Aces of the Damned by Robert J. Hogan
With the silence of a ghost but with the frightening forces of anavalanche, the curse of blindness descended upon Paris!
And in the empty sky where fighting men tripped their guns at theWar Gods, the dice of death were stacked against the dying Yanks.
There is only one way for the Master Spy—and he takes this last chance of wings of flaming disaster!

Two Strikes on Death by Greaseball Joe

7×10, 110 pages
$12.95




Adventures in Bronze
The Wild Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1
Now available insoftcover!


Now ready for immediate order in trade paperback format.
Early orders will ship in the first week of June. $19.95 plus postage.
Wraparound cover by Joe DeVito.

Ten traditional tales of Victorian London’s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he investigates some of his most baffling mysteries.

* Is a blue-skinned dinosaur tearing up the Essex countryside? “The Wild Adventure of the Indigo Impossibility” provides the astonishing answer.
* Holmes and Watson plunge into the darkest dens of Limehouse in search of “The Mystery of the Elusive Li Shen.” Is heman, myth, or monster?
* What is the secret of the uncatchable Thames footpad chronicled in “The Adventure of Old Black Duffel?”
* A famous American soldier of fortune asks Sherlock Holmes to locate a Russian adventuress long believed dead in “The Adventure of the Nebulous Nihilist.”
* Did fairies lure a young Manchester boy to his doom? “The Misadventure of the Bonny boy” tells the chilling tale.
* A wealthy art collector challenges Sherlock Holmes with an unsolvable riddle. Or is it a riddle? What is “The Enigma of Neptune’s Quandary?”
* Is a dead man haunting his own office––or might an even stranger explanation exist for why his frightened face isimprinted on a windowpane? “The Adventure of the Glassy Ghost”reveals all.
* A fiendish murderer strikes down victim after victim in “The Problem of the Bruised Tongues.” The only clue: the discolored tips of their tongues.
* “The Adventure of the Throne of Gilt.” What could it be, and why should Dr. John Watson fear it so?
* A revengeful enemy plots a gruesome end for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in “The Unsettling Matter of the Graveyard Ghoul.”




Adventures in Bronze

Age of Aces
Now available!

Through the dark night sky, streaking swiftly with their Hisso engines thundering, is the greatest trio of aces on the Western Front—the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes,” the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! At point was Captain Kirby, impetuous young leader of the great trio; on his right was little Lieutenant “Shorty” Carn, the mild-eyed, corpulent little Mosquito and lanky Lieutenant Travis, eldest and wisest ofthe Mosquitoes on his left! Flying in a V formation through four exciting hell-bent tales from the pages of Popular Publication’s Battle Aces.

Stories Include: The X-Gun Flight (Jan 32), The Iron Ace (Feb 32), The Flying Dreadnought (Jun 32), The 20-Ace Patrol (Jul 32). All illustrated by John Fleming Gould





Captain Philip Strange is back in eight more weird WWI stories spanning the run of theseries in the penultimate volume of this series. 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 and the verdamntBrain-Devil by the Boche. Just when you thought there were no more ways to die in war, the Germans come up with some even more gruesome ways! if you’re not just being incinerated by the sun’s ray focused through enormous lenses, you’re being gassed with a horribly disfiguring plague; drowned in a sea of blood or injected with a serum that turns you into a hyped up fighting hellion until you keel over dead; maybe you’ll be lucky and just haveyour own munitions blow up your entire outfit, or simply have your head chopped off and mounted on some psychotic ace’swings. Thankfully, we have have Captain Philip Strange onour side to stop them in eight of his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!

Stories Include: The Code of K-14 (Feb 32), The Masked Marauders (Mar 33), The Sky Torch (Apr 33), Marauders Without Mercy (Oct 33), Legion of theLost (Aug 34), Valley of Vengeance (Jun 35), Fokkers of the Red Fog (Aug 37), Headsman Strafe (Feb 38).


Age of Aces







Airship 27 Productions
THE BAY PHANTOM – Volume 3
Midnight in Hell’s Cathedral

Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to announce the release of the third action packed Bay Phantom adventure by stellar New Pulp writer, Chuck Miller.

Once again Mobile, Alabama’s mysterious crime-fighter, the Bay Phantom, finds himself battling another criminal mastermind. This one is know only as the Kraken and has the power to turn people into mindless puppets and have them do his bidding; leaving chaos and destruction in their path. As if that wasn’t enough for the Phantom to deal with, his friend, Tom Dart, is about to be executed in state prison for crimes he did not commit. Can Maribelle Darcy devise a plan to rescue Dart before the fatal hour arrives?

And then a certain Federal Agent named Elliot Ness arrives in townwith the goal of capturing the Bay Phantom.

“Nobody writes like Chuck, Miller,” insist Airship 27 Production’sManaging Editor Ron Fortier. “Chuck has a truly unique style that blendsboth black comedy with off-the-wall pulp action. You can say what youwill about this series, but it is never boring.” Returning to the seriesto handle interior illustrations is artist Kevin Paul Shaw Broden andChris Rawding provides the cover all under the helm of Art Director RobDavis.

Once again pulp scribe Chuck Miller weaves a zany, madcap pulp thriller like no one else can. This is action-adventure with a Southern Twist not to be missed.


  Available from Amazon and on Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Airship 27 Productions
AIRSHIP 27 & RADIO ARCHIVES TEAM UP

We’re thrilled to announce the newest promotional event orchestrated between Radio Archives and Airship 27 Production.

For a very limited time, Radio Archives will be selling their Doc Savage and The Shadow Bargain Pack, containing 14 Double Novel Pulp reprintsthat feature 7 classic Shadow pulp books and 7 classic Doc Savage books.
This is 28 pulp novels for the low sale price of $56.
Here is the Cool Part. Along with this purchase, customers will receive 25 Audible.com codes redeemable for 25 Airship 27 audiobooks at no extra cost.
Postage is $4.00 and Radio Archives will select the 25 audiobooks you will receive.
Don’t worry, there will be opportunities for buyers of the BargainPack to get codes for all 147 Airship 27 audiobooks on Audible/Amazon.

Podcast listeners can go to:
https://www.radioarchives.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=5999
or go to RadioArchives.com and type Bargain in the search box.

This is a “last call” bargain event as Radio Archives has a limited number of this Bargain Pack remaining.
As each purchased if finalized, you will receive 25 promo codes and a url link to redeem them at Audible.com.
There is no cost to redeem the codes at Audible.
You will have a library of 25 audiobooks of the best New Pulp adventure titles from Airship 27.
You’ll be able to stream or download the audiobook to your smart phone, tablet or computer. You own the audiobooks for your lifetime.

This is a fantastic deal not to be missed.
Pulp fans get 14 mint classic pulp reprint books plus 25 exciting Airship 27 audio experiences. Airship 27 is one of the leading pioneers of theNew Pulp movement and Audible contains 147 of their titles.
Something for any pulp fan’s taste. Don't waste another second. Again, once the audiobooks are gone, the event ends.


Altus Press / Steeger Books: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Milo March Returns to Print in May

The Black Mask Library Headlines the New Book Releases at the Windy City Pulp Convention
Save 30% This Weekend: The Steeger Books Black Friday–Cyber Monday Weekend Sale Is On
Farewell Altus Press, Hello Steeger Books
Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at Pulpfest 2019
Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Show


Altus Press / Steeger Books
Wave 2 is now available!

Milo March #4: As Old As Cain
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

Insurance investigator Milo March is under pressure to solve a classic whodunit in a small town. Athens, Ohio, is a place full of historic monuments, many of them still walking the streets. But now the excitement of Hollywood has burst on the scene, with a studio shooting a biopic about a rugged pioneer who played a role in the founding of Athens County. Descendants of the story’s hero still live in Athens, and are the owners of valuable antiques, books, and other heirlooms passed down to them from the early 1800s. The studio has arranged to use these gems of Americana as props, insuring them with a million-dollar policy. With such a large sum at stake, the insurance company sends Milo to check on the security measures at the little museum where the items are housed under guard.

The job seems like a snap—until a bludgeoned body and alot of smashed-open cases send everyone into a panic. Among the stolen items is a personal diary written by Hanna’s wife, which appears tobe an object of intense interest, or even obsession. Milo can’t imagine why a diary from the early 1800s should be so dangerous as to leadto murder, but he’ll have to find out. Was it a matter of greed, professional ambition, or something bizarre like a delusional fixation on the long-dead pioneer woman who penned the diary? If being unpleasant or eccentric made someone a murderer, then there was full cast of characters to choose from, including a pedantic historian, a shiftless ex-cop, and a couple of snooping old biddies, not to mention a scheming scriptwriter, a genius director, and a man-eating blonde starlet.

Murder wasn’t supposed to happen in Athens, Ohio, and the cops want these crimes to be solved fast. The pressure is on Miloto identify the killer before he strikes again—and to recover the heirlooms before anyone cashes in the million-dollar policy.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook

Milo March #5: The Splintered Man
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

It’s been two years since Milo March sneaked into East Germany to capture a valuable Western deserter. Now, as a major in the Army Reserves, he is recalled to tackle a much weirder case. No one knows why Hermann Gruss, head of the counterespionage police in West Germany, disappeared behind the Iron Curtain. Did he defect voluntarily, or was he taken by force? Either way, Milo hasto get him back before he reveals secrets that the U.S. shared withhim.

Some say Gruss suffers from a dread disease and is being treated in East Berlin with the latest wonder drug by his friend Dr. Oderbruch. Milo suspects that Oderbruch, a former Nazi, is experimenting on Gruss, bouncing him in and out of insanity like a yo-yo by dosing him with LSD, then healing his “schizophrenia” with an antidote. Withholding the antidote is a handy way to squeeze information out of Gruss, and the drug experiments are part of a larger, fiendish project involving mind control of the military.

In his effort to gain access to Oderbruch and find Gruss, Milo ends up in the arms of the lustful Frau Beate, who plies himwith Soviet champagne and vodka. Milo is reasonably safe if hangoversare the only menace. But when his disguise as a Russian secret-policeagent is blown, he is packed off to a mental hospital. There he joinsGruss as the doctor’s latest guinea pig.

Milo survived a marathon interrogation by the Communists during his last mission. But this is different—the hallucinogenic effectsof LSD threaten to splinter his mind into pieces. How will he escapethe closely guarded hospital, bringing both Gruss and the evil Oderbruchback with him to the West? Milo’s quick-witted action and sheer nerve,not to mention his irreverence toward authority figures on both sides,make for the wildest trip of all—an insane car chase back to the FreeWorld.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook

Milo March #6: A Lonely Walk
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

Milo March, Madison Avenue insurance detective, is sent to Rome to investigate the double-indemnity claim on the policy of a young woman who may have been murdered. Anna Maria went walking on a beach, allegedly to bathe in the healing seawater. A few hours later she was found lying nude on the sand, with no apparent signs of violence to the body. An accidental drowning, says the medical report, and the family puts in a claim for the large benefit. The insurance company, understandably, would like to confirm that the death was indeed an accident.

Although the case is quickly closed by the police, the whispers of Rome will not be silenced. They insist that the girl was murdered, that she’d been consorting with VIPs at a wild drug party, that shewas pregnant and the guilty man did not want any trouble. It is rumoredthat politicians made the police hush up the truth, lest a scandaltopple the Christian-Democrat government, allowing the Communists totake over.

Milo is warned to leave the case alone. If he persists,he may find himself arrested, he may get orders from his own American Embassy, or he may even be killed by someone… or some thing. All of thismay happen if he says out loud that a girl of no importance died becausesomeone wanted her dead. But the question—and the shocking surprise—is who actually killed her?

A Lonely Walk was inspired by the true story of Wilma Montesi, whose death in 1953 led to a scandal that rocked Italy with revelations of corruption in high places. The real-life case remains unsolved death to this day. Not so Milo’s investigation of the girl who took a lonely walk—until Death came to keep her company.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook







Altus Press / Steeger Books
Coming soon!

Steeger Books will be premiering ten new titles at the Windy CityPulp & Paper Convention in April. Headlining these are the first six books in the Black Mask Library, with each featuring a novel or series character which is rare or never-before reprinted. The releases also featuring Volume 4 of the Super Detective Jim Anthony series, as well as three more installments in the H. Bedford-Jones Library, including the long-awaited novel, The Seal of John Solomon.

If you are attending the convention, these releases (and more) can be purchased as the Mike Chomko, Books booth.

Here are the details on all of these releases:


Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith
By Robert Reeves, introduction by Kenneth S. White, cover by Rafael DeSoto


Long considered one of the best of the Black Mask authors, author Robert Reeves’s longest-running detective character actually first appeared in the 1939 novel, Dead and Done For. Cellini Smith, accountant for a New York City pinball gangster, must clear his boss’s name after being accused of murder. Featuring an introduction by BlackMask editor Kenneth S. White, and a cover illustration by the great Rafael de Soto.

$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Rex Sackler
By D.L. Champion, introduction by Ed Hulse, illustrated by Peter Kuhlhoff, cover by Rafael DeSoto


Author D.L. Champion’s knack for penning quirky series characters reached a new height with his stories of skinflint shamus Rex Sackler, one of Black Mask’s longest-running and most beloved series. Already a reader favorite for his Inspector Allhoff stories in Black Mask’s companion title, Dime Detective, Champion chronicled the offbeat cases of Rex Sackler, the greedy gumshoe who “could squeeze a nickel till the buffalo cried uncle.”

The Rex Sackler series allowed Champion to display his talent for sardonic wit and humor inmore than two dozen frequently hilarious novelettes published in Black Mask during the 1940s. This volume collects the first eight stories. With an all-new introduction by Ed Hulse.


$24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover


Let the Dead Alone: The Complete Black Mask Cases ofLuther McGavock
By Merle Constiner, introduction by Evan Lewis, illustrated by Peter Kuhlhoff, cover by Rafael DeSoto


The Luther McGavock stories are not your garden variety hardboiled detective yarns. These Black Mask stories are so rich in place and detail that they almost seem a travelogue of small-town life in the Deep South.

Having bounced around to just about every major agency in the country, Luther McGavock finally settled in the Atherton Browne Agency in Memphis, and his cases take him to small towns in the Tennessee hill-country. As an outsider, McGavock is our tour guide to this odd world of the Deep South.

Written by one of the most polished writers to see print in Black Mask, author Merle Constiner’s writing is vivid, his characters complex, and his mysteries deep. This edition collects the first four stories in the series. Includes an all-new introduction by Evan Lewis.


$24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover


Dead Evidence: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Harrigan
By Ed Lybeck, introduction by Will Murray, illustrated by Arthur Rodman Bowker, cover by Jes Schlaikjer


Quite likely one of the most hyped—and most mysterious—Black Mask authors to ever appear in its pages, Ed Lybeck made his debut as one of editor Joesph Shaw’s new faces in the wake of Dashiell Hammett’s departure. For Black Mask, Lybeck penned the hard-boiled stories of Francis St. Xavier Harrigan, a former gunman-turned-reporter for the New York Leader.

Though his duration as a Black Mask author was brief, his status as one of its greatest alums was certified by his inclusion in the historic retrospective of Black Mask, The Hard-boiled Omnibus. This edition collects—for the first time—the entirety of Lybeck’s Black Mask output. Includes an all-new introduction by pulp historian Will Murray.


$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Boomerang Dice: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Johnny Hi Gear
By Stewart Sterling, introduction by Will Murray, illustrated by Arthur Rodman Bowker, cover by Jes Schlaikjer


One of the most talented authors to be recruited to write for Black Mask Magazine following the departure of Dashiell Hammett, Stewart Sterling made a lasting impression on readers with his initial series character, Johnny Hi Gear: undercover police agent K-Five who battled gambling rackets during the Great Depression.

Never before reprinted, this popular series jump-started Sterling’s writing career which covered spans of time in radio, TV, and hardcovers, along with writing some of pulpdom’s most popular heroes, the Black Bat and The Spider. Collecting all 8 stories, along with an all-new introduction by Will Murray.


$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Blood on the Curb
By Joseph T. Shaw, cover by Stockton Mulford


Joseph T. Shaw, the editor of Black Mask Magazine, has written one of the most exciting adventure mysteries of 1936.

Blood on the Curb is the dramatic story of the New York Police Department’s bloody battle to wipe out the famous “Black Hand” gang which terrorized the Lower East Side.

Newly-recruited Paul Cardine is placed in charge of a special squad of officers—all of Italian decent—to find the man at the top of what appears to be a consolidated conglomerate of crime families.

Never before reprinted, Blood on the Curb is one of Shaw’s rarest hardcovers, and it contains all the hallmarks of his hard-boiled novels that saw publication in Black Mask Magazine.


$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Super-Detective Jim Anthony: The Complete Series, Volume 4
By Victor Rousseau and Edwin Truett Long, illustrated by Joseph Szokoli, cover by H.J. Ward


The complete reprinting of the greatest of the Doc Savage pastiches continues! Volume Four contains the next five adventures of Jim Anthony: “Spies of Destiny,” “I.O.U. Murder,” “Cold Turkey,” “Mrs. Big,” and “Needle’s Eye.”

$29.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover


The Seal of John Solomon: The Adventures of John Solomon, Volume 4 (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, cover by Modest Stein


John Solomon returns! In this classic thriller from the pages of Argosy Magazine, the mysterious ship’s chandler encounters a lost race of Crusaders deep in the Sahara. Continue the story of John Solomon, author H. Bedford-Jones’ longest-running series character, with this next book in the series.


$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Pirates Ain’t All Dead Yet: The Complete Adventures of Captain Struthers (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Roger B. Morrison, cover by Modest Stein


A story of modern-day seafaring by the “King of the Pulps”—H. Bedford-Jones—the whimsical Captain Struthers series is reminiscent of his popular Pinky Jenkins adventures. Never before reprinted, this edition also includes another of Bedford-Jones’ sea stories as a bonus.

$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


The Jewels of Ling Ti (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Charles L. Wrenn


Captain Jim Hanecy, agent and dealer in antiques, was no stranger to intrigue, but he and his partner, Toptit, soon found more than they bargained for in the ancient city of Cheng-tu. Never before reprinted in its entirely, The Jewels of Ling Ti is a classic adventure of the Orient by the “King of the Pulps”—H. Bedford-Jones— written at the height of his popularity.

$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Steeger Books












Altus Press / Steeger Books
Now available!

The Spider #38: City of Dreadful Night  - New!
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Looting, murdering bands of desperadoes roamed the streets of New York like wanton jackals who destroyed what they could not devour. An underworld Juggernaut had been unleashed upon Manhattan, turning it into a placeof desolation and terror. The Thuggees of the East, those masters of murder, the cruel minions of Tang-akhmut, held the city in a state of siege. One man could save New York—Richard Wentworth, the avenging Spider, and Richard Wentworth, hunted by the police, hated by the underworld he fought, hadbeen ordered shot on sight!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

The Western Raider #2: The Hawk Rides Back From Death - New!
By Stone Cody, Tom Mount

Out of disaster, Silver Trent rallied the shattered remnants of his once-proud crew… for El Diablo’s new and bloody terror decreed dishonor for the girl Silver loved and tortured death for every honest rider in thestricken borderlands. Yet what hope had the Rio Robin Hood’s tattered ghostsof men—if El Diablo could send a hundred flashing, well-trained killersagainst every loyal man they mustered?

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #37: The Devil’s Death-Dwarfs 
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

The most diabolical criminal ever to menace America, Tang-akhmut, the Egyptian, had descended like a blighting plague on Cincinnati. Tang-akhmut, leading a new and terrible army of dwarfed monsters—scourging helpless women with poisoned and barbed whips; who set about systematically to wreck the water supply of the city and then set uncontrollable conflagrations to cover his looting. Richard Wentworth, the Spider, penniless, a man outside the law, once more faces him in single-handed battle!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

Operator 5 #20: Scourge of the Invisible Death 
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

No man could explain that death which struck from the stratosphere, turning men into statues, stripping the United States of defenses. Operator 5—Ace of the American Secret Service—uncovered an espionage organization which was working against our country when Washington recaptured Yorktown, in 1781!… But now, a madman with limitless ambition headed the Secret Loyalists, determined to make himself Emperor of America, and Operator 5 takes a million-to-one gamble which brings him face to face with disgrace and death!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #36: The Coming of the Terror 
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Stripped of his wealth, cut off from his faithful helpers, Richard Wentworth, known and feared throughout the Underworld as the avenging Spider, struggles with his most powerful and wily foe—the Man who came out of the East! With Wentworth’s best friend, Police Commissioner Kirkpatrick framed for murder; with the entire city capitulating before that new and cruelly cunning menace from the Orient, the Spider himself seems doomed to die on the torture racks of the Far East!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

The Western Raider #1: Guns of the Damned
By Stone Cody, Tom Mount

Terror had claimed the bitter ranges below the Rio and death was stalking its towns, when Silver Trent and his raiders left their mountain hideout to save a doomed cowboy and a hapless girl…. For through these two, Silver hoped to break the power of the cunning range-devil who had spread this net of violence and blood. Butan army was pledged to hang Silver’s bullet-shattered body from thewasteland’s highest tree!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #35: Satan’s Sightless Legion
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

It is Wentworth himself—the Spider—who is firstto feel the dread hand of that Master of Darkness—The Blind Man, and his satanic weapon. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, Commissioner of Police, is strangely attacked by the forces of evil; his beloved Nita van Sloan spirited away into a fearsome fate… And the Spider himself destined to a horrible life of pain and misery. Caught between the forces of evil, the Spider at last seems doomed to die in ignominy!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

Operator 5 #19: Attack of the Blizzard Men 
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

As suddenly as Death, the bitter cold came, andwith it, the armored tanks, sleek submarines and mailed warriorsof the invading legions! An international syndicate, fearing America’s greatness and strength in war, had unleashed savage war-dogs to win the conflict before it fairly began… The greatest military genius of modern times commanded the enemy, and Operator 5 of the United States Secret Service—known to his dearest friends as Jimmy Christopher—was America’s choice to oppose him… But with the Intelligence slaughtered, with Diane in the camp of the enemy, the federal government in hiding, Operator 5 faced the stiffest battle of his career, and the Gods tossed dice to determine the victory!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #34: Laboratory of the Damned  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Richard Wentworth—whose grim, anti-crime crusades as the Spider have made him world-famous—was the first objective in the Poison Master’s murder campaign. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, lay in a death-like stupor. His beloved, Nita van Sloan, was stricken with the horrible living death! And at the same time, countlessthousands were felled by the same fatal venom… Caught in the crossfire between the Law and the Underworld, the Spider must battle the blindapathy of a nation ensnared in a subtle death-trap—must overcomethe despair in his own brave heart…!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

The Secret 6 #4: The Golden Alligator
 John Newton Howitt, Robert J. Hogan

When King found a man buried alive he knew he was on the trail of his strangest case. But it wasn’t until the second murder had been committed before his very eyes that he realized he was pitted against a clever enemy—a master criminal who was gambling for fabulous stakes in a game of golden death!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #33: Legions of Madness  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Never had Richard Wentworth—he who is the scourge of the Underworld in his guise of the Spider—faced such tremendous odds or been so alone in the strife! Nita, his beloved, had tried to kill him,was hopelessly insane. His faithful servant had been tortured beyond human endurance. And the Master of Madness, chief of a powerful, fiendish syndicate, was spreading his germs of mania unchecked. Who could rescue America from screaming, murderous frenzy whenthe Spider, harried by Law and lawless, himself half-doubted hisown skill and bravery?

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

Operator 5 #18: Invasion of the Crimson Death Cult 
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

Mysterious happenings—cloudbursts in the arid desert, churches and skyscrapers horribly destroyed, priests and pastors oddly maddened, Intelligence agents craftily slaughtered—all these heralded the attack on America by the Son of Kasma—spokesman for a vicious, Oriental cult. The populace flocked to the new religion in self-defense. Our country seemed helplessly doomed… And Operator 5, charged with treason by a power-drunk authority; his best friend’s honor, and his own, held forfeit; hisbeloved Diane captive to the yellow Messiah, must battle alone againsta more cunning invader than ever menaced America before!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #32: Slaves of the Dragon
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

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?

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

Operator 5 #17:  Hosts of the Flaming Death
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

Gold—the mineral which fosters war!—threatened to plunge America into a chaos of revolt, misery and death. In Washington, the fortified vaults of the nation’s Treasury lay empty—stripped of wealth. A madman, obscured in mystery, his face concealed by a mask of the precious metal, had allied himself with powerful foreign magnates to deliver the United States into misery and bondage. Robbed of her riches, her plans for military security disrupted, her strategic stores destroyed and her armament factories wrecked, the most powerful nation in the world seemed inevitably doomed. One man, Jimmy Christopher, ace of the Intelligence, had a feasible plan for wresting victory from the cunning clutches of the greedy syndicate… And that man, known to a few as Operator 5, under grave suspicion of treachery, spied upon and hampered by a stubborn superior, must sacrifice his father, his beloved, and his honor to save his native land from a cruel invader’s debauchery and butchery…!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95


The Spider #31: The Cholera King  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

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!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Secret 6 #3: The Monster Murders  
 John Newton Howitt, Robert J. Hogan

“Giant dogs at large! Kill several in Manhattan…” The nation read this story with horror, Dogs as big as horses—dogs that mutilated and destroyed. What were these beasts? What fiendish hand directed them? Only the Secret 6 guessed the real menace, dared follow the crimson tracks of a monster killer!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95





















 
    

American Mythology Productions 
Coming in September!

ZORRO: GALLEON OF DEAD #1
(Writer) Mike Wolfer (Art) Alex Miracolo (Covers) Roy Allen Martinez & Mike Wolfer


The most shocking, mind-bending Zorro tale yet in American Mythology's line of all-new supernatural adventures of the world-renowned, swashbuckling hero! Cueva del Mar is haunted by a curse that prowls the fog-shrouded cost of the seaside fishing village; whose residents have no choice but to offer human sacrifices to the unknown evil that appears on nights of the full moon aboard the Galleon of the Dead! But one man is determined to end the reign of terror, even if it costshim his own soul, and Zorro will stop at nothing to achieve his goal, evenfacing his most incredible foe yet- El Hijo del Muerte! Old-fashioned, hauntedhouse terror meets lucha libre action and sword-swinging thrills in a Zorrotale you will never forget!

Available with three covers - Main by Roy Allen Martinez, Variant by Mike Wolfer, and a limited edition 1 in 350 Pulp cover, also by Martinez.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99 (Martinez & Wolfer covers), On sale September 9!
Full Color, 32 pages, $9.99 (Pulp Limited Edition), On sale September 9!

ZORRO: GALLEON OF THE DEAD #1 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 24).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL201028 (Martinez cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL201029 (Wolfer cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL201030 (Limited Edition Pulp cover).

THIS IS A RESOLICITATION!
PREVIOUS ORDERS ARE CANCELLED!



   
American Mythology Productions 
Coming in October!

American Mythology has announced the new crossover limited series Zorro in the Land That Time Forgot.
“The world’s greatest swashbuckling hero in fantasy’s most astounding prehistoric world!”

Sword fights come up against the savage, prehistoric world in thisfull color three-issue monthly miniseries.
It is written by Mike Wolfer with art by Alessandro Ranaldi, featuring a cover by Roy Allan Martinez, Miriana Puglia, and Ranaldi.




Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books

Get them while they last!

These reprints may still be available from:
Adventure House, Radio Archives, Bud PlantMike Chomko, Vintage Library, Curious Book ShopRadio Spirits
After 2020, these titles can no longer be sold.


Bud's Art Books

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!

THE SHADOW Volume 151: “Alibi Trail," "The Golden Doom," "The Television Murders" & "The Whispering Eyes”
FOUR-NOVEL FINAL ISSUE SPECTACULAR! 

The Knight of Darkness proves that crime does not pay in thrilling pulp tales by Walter B. Gibson, Theodore Tinsley and Bruce Elliott writing as “Maxwell Grant." First, murder suspects all have iron-clad defenses, leading The Shadow to investigate an “Alibi Trail.” Then "TheGolden Doom” menaces a great hospital and threatens the life of The Shadow himself! Next, a victim is killed during a live video drama, and only Lamont Cranston can unmask the perpetrator of “The Television Murders." Finally, “The Whispering Eyes” are all victims recall of a sinister master of hypnotism in Walter Gibson’s final Shadow pulp novel! This instant collectors item showcases the original cover art by George Rozen and Modest Stein and interior illustrations by Paul Orban and Edd Cartier, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-270-4 Softcover, 7x10, 208 pages, B&W, $19.95


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 Classpostpaid
Six issues for $84(firstclass) 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:
Who's Whoin New Pulp - with Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
The Way They Were: Essays on Adventure Stories
WAR! : The ancient gods do battle! Heritage Universe
"Duck, Duck, Goose" by Jeff Deischer
Tarzan: Conqueror of Mars by Will Murray
Portrait of a Snow Queen by Micah Harris : EPIC FANTASY AT ITS BEST!
"My Life in Comics" by Ron Fortier
Fred Adams Jr.: Pulp Writer.
"Tag, You Are It" - Jeff Deischer's new Heritage Universe adventure
Death In the Dune by John Molino
"Gabriel's Trumpet"by Jon Black

Beb Books
Now available!

For the past several years I was converting pulp stories into etext to sent to Pulpgen for reprinting. And then one day -- poof! --Pulpgen was gone.
So I've decided to fill in the void, sort of, by preparing --at irregular intervals -- ePub anthologies I'm calling "The Baker's Dozen.

Thirteen stories of a particular genre trying for as much variety as possible. The first Baker's Dozen is
Baker's Dozen-Detective 01. Thirteen mystery, detective, and crime stories from thriteen different writers appearing in twelve different magazines.
There are stories by Arthur Leo Zaget, Paul Ernest, Bruno Fisher, Richard Sale, Robert Leslie Bellem, Frank Gruber, and six more. Alll for free, inePub format, and available for download at: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

Also uploaded this week are a number of dime novels and penny dreadfuls.Claude Duval was a charismatic English highwayman, active during the British Civil War.
A dashing and gentlemanly rogue along the linesof Robin Hood. We present two of his many adventures.

Claude Duval #2, a medley of adventures of him as warrior, romantic, highwayman and leader of the downtrodden masses in London.
Claude Duval #10 involves a plot to assassinate  King Charles I but quickly turns into a tale of a man huntednot merely by Claude Daval but by his guilty conscious as well.The writing of these stories is surprisingly literate for cheapentertainment.

Here on the other side of the Pond we present two dime novels of Nick Carter, the world's greatest Detective.
Nick Carter - The House of Secret is a amusing gothic thriller as unseen forces terrorize a young woman in her own house.Nick Carter - Gideon Drexel's Millions Man comes to Carter thinkingsomeone in his household is trying to killer him. Carter comes toinvestigates and finds that everyone is plotting against the name.Two entertaining stories to amusing through these long summer days.And free for download at http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

Finally, for the SF fan we post three differentdime novels about steam engines shaped like men.
The first is The Steam Man of the Prairie by Edward S. Ellis (1869) Young,
Hunchback Jonny Brainard builds his steam man  and hired to rescue the partner of a mountain man who were prospector for gold and now are menaced by indians.

This proved so popular that publisher Frank Tousay hired Harry Enton to create his oown steam man.
This became the Steam Man of the Plains, published in Boys of New York in 1876 and reprinted in the Frank Reade Library #12 in 1892.
A dispute over ownership of the title lead to the creation of Frank Reade, Jr. by "nonname" (Lu Senarias) This time titled, Frank Reade Jr and his New Steam Man.
Each of these is a completely different and unique story.

The Frank Reade Library appeared weekly.  The fifth issue featured "Frank Reade Jr. with his Steam Man in Mexico. This has also been included as an ePub. These, too, can be found at http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

All these books are available in print editions
Contact me at beb01@sprynet.com for pricing.



       

The Best of Jules de Grandin
20 Classic Occult Detective Stories
By Seabury Quinn
Coming June 30!

A collection of the 20 greatest tales of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales.

Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, arerecognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. Andyet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era ofgenre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have falleninto obscurity: Seabury Quinn.

Quinn’s short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character,the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigatedcases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spiritsfrom beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville,New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur ConanDoyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongsidehis assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries—andhis outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)—captivated readersfor nearly three decades.

The Best of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh,presents twenty of the greatest published works featuring the supernaturaldetective.
Presented in chronological order with stories from the 1920s through the 1940s, this collection contains the most incredible of Julesde Grandin's many awe-inspiring adventures.


Publisher: Night Shade
Length: 560 pages
LIST PRICE $24.99





Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2
Now available!

The second issue of the revived Blood 'n' Thunder opens with a special section devoted to Jimmie Dale, alias the Gray Seal, Frank L. Packard's World War I-vintage protagonist whose adventures inStreet & Smith's People's Magazine presaged the Depression-era hero-pulp phenomenon. Award-winning writer, editor, documentarian, and pop-culture historian Don Hutchison makes his first appearance in BnT with "Death to the Gray Seal!", an overview of the legendary character. Then editor Ed Hulseoffers "The Celluloid 'Seal'," which recounts Jimmie Dale's brief but tumultuous history on film.

Novelist andpulp historian Will Murray is back with "The Spicy Mrs. Schwartz," another of his fascinating examples of literary detective work. This time Will trains his attention on one ofSpicy Detective's most unlikely contributors.

BnT presentsa long-forgotten short story by Richard Sale, prolific fictioneer who eventually became a Hollywood hyphenate (writer-producer-director) but is best known for his detective yarns in the Munsey pulps. Sale's 1935 "Mellow Drama" is a clever send-up of rough-paper magazines in general and hero pulps in particular.

The making of Republic Pictures' episodic epic Spy Smasher (1942), based on the popular Fawcett Publication comic book and still considered one of the finest chapter plays ever, is fully documented in Ed Hulse's "Anatomy of a Serial," which presents material gleaned from Republic studio files and first-hand interviews withselected cast and crew members. This 8000-word essay chronicles production from the 1941 licensing of screen rights to the efforts of exhibitors to promote the serial while it was in release. Nothing like ithas ever been written by the form's historians.

That relentless researcher of all things Old Time Radio, Karl Schadow, contributes "Avenger Addendum," a brief article that supplements last issue's piece on the 1941 series that adapted Street & Smith's character The Avenger.

The latest BnT also includes reviews and reference material sure to be of interest to pulp-fiction aficionados. And, asalways, the magazine is profusely illustrated.

First copiesship from the plant late next week. Order yours today at Murania Press » Blood ‘n’ Thunder, Second Series, Number Two.


#2, Second Series
92 pages, paperback, 7x10
Price: $9.95


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO U.S. BUYERS. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.

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Bold Venture Press
Now available!

Larry Kent: Curves Can Kill & Go-Go for Broke
By Don Haring


Curves Can Kill
A newly-discovered virus—and the deadliest threat to Mankind—had gone missing, and whoever had it figured to sell it to the highest bidder. That was where Z Detail—a clandestine security agency whose very existence was a closely-kept secret—came into it.

But why did they want Larry Kent to handle their dirty business for them?

Oh, sure, they gave him the chance to refuse the assignment. But he knew only too well that a refusal meant he would suffer an ‘unfortunate’ but fatal ‘accident’. So Larry played along with them.

His job was to expose the traitor who planned to sell the virus to a foreign power, and stop the exchange at all costs. Trouble was, there were no shortage of suspects — and one by one, they were all being ruthlessly wiped out.

Go-Go for Broke
The San Rameo Cross was an artifact of enormous religious significance … and a not-so-small fortune in cold, hard cash. When he decided to investigate the murder of a fellow private eye, Larry Kent found himself caught up in a web of intrigue as greedy men and women vied to own the near-priceless relic.

First to come forward was Emanuel Constantine, a fussy little man who hated violence and yet was prepared to kill to get what hewanted. Then there was Alice Gordon, a seductive woman for certain,but also one of many secrets. The same could be said for the scheming,sable-haired Marina Koch. But most deadly of them all was the skeletalHendrick Fluger, a man described as the devil himself, and whose namewas only spoken in terrified whispers!


Pages: 234
Format: Paperback 6" x 9"
$12.95


The Legend of Robin Hood: Outlaw
By John E. Petty


When Robert of Locksley returns home from the Crusades after fighting alongside King Richard, he finds his home and its people crushed under the fist of the Sheriff of Nottingham and the despotic Prince John. After a personal tragedyin which he loses his home, his family, and his title, Rob escapes intothe deep vastness of Sherwood Forest, a foreboding place, known to behaunted. But instead of ghosts and goblins, Rob finds a community oppressedby cruelty, one that he vows to lead towards a better life.

Originally conceived centuries ago, the Legend of Robin Hood is as timeless and as powerful now as it was during the Middle Ages. In a time when the world suffers from dwindling resources, income inequality, the tyranny of the rich, and forces far beyond the control of commonpeople, Robin Hood is a lasting symbol in these dark and frightening times.Based on the original ballads and tales, The Legend of Robin Hood: Outlawspeaks today with a rich and powerful voice, one that urges everyone tostand up and fight oppression, bigotry, and fear.

Cover art by Clayton Hinkle


Pages: 342
Format: Paperback 6" x 9"
$14.95

eBook: $3.99


Bold Venture Press
PULP ADVENTURES #35
Now available!


CLASSIC PULP FICTION
•  Home for Killers! Charles BoeckmaN
   A man can run just so far before facing the devil in pursuit.
•  Thubway Tham’s Baggage Check Johnston McCulleY
   Detective Craddock tags along to the pickpocket’s hometown.
•  Space Burial Lew Merrill
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail
•  The Robbers E.C. Tubb
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  The Colour Out of Space H.P. Lovecraft
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  Theft of the Crown Jewels John Clemons
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!

NEW PULP FICTION
•  Sniffing Out the Rain Shadow Robert W. Walker
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the
•  Give ’Em Hell, Helen Adam Beau McFarlane
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  The Occurrence of the Kali CurseLogan Robichaud
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  Great Caesar’s Ghost Jack Halliday

DEPARTMENTS
•  Editorial Rich Harvey
•  “Remembering E.C. (‘Ted’) Tubb”Philip Harbottle
•  Retro Review: The Big Fix by Ed Lacy Rich Harvey

Editor: Audrey Parente
Pages: 134
Format: 7" x 10" softcover
$9.95





Brick Pickle Media
Now available!



Thrilling Detective Pulp Tales Volume 4

For more than 20 years, detectives and criminals found a home in the pages of Thrilling Detective.

This edition collects eight vintage pulp novels and stories from the tattered pages of the classic detective pulp from RobertLeslie Bellem, Paul Ernst, G. Wayman Jones, Norman A. Daniels, HenryKuttner and more .

Reset in an easy-to-read font, with new introductions, and including the original illustrations!


Paperback: 235 pages
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
List price: $14.99



THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #85 is now available and recommended!
To subscribe for #86 & #87, click on the link below!
 
Front Cover: Mark Wheatley
"Fighting Tears" by Chuck Welch
"Boris and the Vallejo of Gold" by Bobb Cotter
"The Absolute Worst" by Tim Handley
"Savage Syncronicities" by Will Murray
"Back Cover Blurbs from Novels You'll Never Read" by The Flearunners
"The Last Doc Savage Chronology" by Chuck Welch
"The Source of Myths by Mark Wheatley
"The Magic Decal" by Courtney Rogers
"Tales: The Ultimate Forbidden Doc Savage" by Malcolm Deeley & Jason Robert Bell
"Doc Savage's Birthday - Again" by Michael Spitzer

Back Cover: Tim Faurote

Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
You can order available single issues at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/back-issues/


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Dare Devlin: Stormbirds
by Dafyyd Neal Dyar


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Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Sensor Sweep: Year’s Best Horror, Blood Sundown, Al Williamson, Northworld  - New!
Sensor Sweep: Beast Master, Time Travel, Grey Hawk
Sensor Sweep: Battle Tech, Manly Wade Wellman, Savage Heroes, Space Force
Sensor Sweep: Schuyler Hernstom, Ken Kelly, Gardner Fox, August Derleth
Swordsmen from the Stars
Sensor Sweep: Legion of Time, Creepy Asimov, Fletcher Pratt, Lost Worlds
Sensor Sweep: Pulp on Pulp, Sabatini, Jirel, Weird Westerns



CONAN
Latest schedule updates!

Ablaze Publishing
THE CIMMERIAN: RED NAILS #2  - July 8

Marvel Comics

06/17/2020
CONAN: THE BOOK OF THOTH AND OTHER STORIES TPB

07/08/2020
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 3

07/15/2020
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #3 (OF 5)
CONAN: SERPENT WAR TPB


07/29/2020
EMPYRE: SAVAGE AVENGERS #1
(FEATURING CONAN) 

08/05/2020
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS  EPIC COLLECTION - THE COMING OF CONAN TPB
SAVAGE AVENGERS VOL. 2: TO DINE WITH DOOM TPB
(FEATURING CONAN) 
SOLOMON KANE: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS HC

08/19/2020
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #4 (OF 5)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL.4 HC

09/16/2020
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #5 (OF 5)

09/30/2020
SAVAGE AVENGERS #12 (FEATURING CONAN) 

10/21/2020
THE MARVEL ART OF SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN HC

11/18/2020
CONAN THE BARBARIAN BY KURT BUSIEK OMNIBUS

12/2020 (Likely to be rescheduled to 2021)
KULL: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 1


Thefollowing previously solicited comics and collections are stillto be scheduled.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #15
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #16
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #17

DARK AGNES #3 (OF 5)
DARK AGNES #4 (OF 5)
DARK AGNES #5 (OF 5)

SAVAGE AVENGERS #13 (Likely late October)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #14  (Likely late November)

CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: HORRORS BENEATH THE STONES TPB  (Originally scheduled for June 3)

THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 4  - Coming in January!
(Writer) Roy Thomas, Don Glut (Art) John Buscema, More (Cover) Adi Granov & Earl Norem


Conan returns for another massive Omnibus collection! The barbarian wields his savage sword against a massive winged monster that guards a tower holding a weather-controlling gem – then finds himself surrounded by an army of Picts with their own witch doctor protector! In "The Treasure of Tranicos," Conan matches wits with a band of pirates who'd rather kill one another than share any of the loot – all while the wicked Thoth-Amon stalks them from the shadows. And the four-part epic "Conan the Liberator" sees Conan realize his destiny as he raises an army to overthrow the mad King Numedides! Featuring stories by Roy Thomas with stunning art by John Buscema, Gil Kane and more!

Collecting SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN (1974) #45-60.

Hardcover, B&W & Full Color, 976 pages, $125.00, On sale January 6, 2021.

THESAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN ONMIBUS VOLUME 4 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 24).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200679 (Granov cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200680 (Norem Direct Market Only cover).





Darkworlds Quarterly - Now online!

Edmond Hamilton’s Interstellar Patrol  - New!
Look Who’s in Thrilling Mystery  - New!
The Casebook of Lucius Leffing (1973)
The Lion’s Way by C. T. Stoneham
Kings of the Sci-Fi Pseudonyms
Mythos Sites: Nan-Matol
The Strangest Northerns: Quest of Qui  
Weird Westerns and Lee Winters



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

Basil Wolverton's SPACEHAWK Rides Again! (1940)
- New!
Pulp Gallery: WEIRD TALES 98, 99, 100, 101 & 102 (1932)   - New!
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 56 & 57 - Another Case Solved! (1957-58)  - New!
SHADOW COMICS 93, 94, 95 & 96 (1948-49)
SAMAR the Tarzan Wannabe by Rafael Astarita (1942)
Pulp Gallery: PLANET STORIES  
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 54 & 55 (1957)
Pulp Gallery: THE AVENGER
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 52 & 53 (1957)  

DEJAH THORIS #8 - Coming in September!
(Writer) Dan Abnett (Art) Vasco Georgiev
Cover A: Lucio Parrillo
Cover B: Vasco Georgiev
Cover C: Joseph Michael Linsner
Cover D: Brent Peeples
Cover E: Cosplay

"A Princess Of Earth, Part 2"
Dejah's Earth adventures continue! She's a stranger in a strange land, surrounded by stubborn aliens ("Humans," they're called) that do not believe her.
But if they do not heed her warnings, the awful catastrophes besetting Mars will overtake a second world…

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 9.

DEJAH THORIS #8 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (AvailableJune 24).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200809 (Parrillo cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200810 (Georgiev cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200811 (Linsner cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200812 (Peeples cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200813 (Cosplay cover).

      
         
               
            




The Digest Enthusiast #12
Now in full color!!!!!
Now available!


Explore the World of Digest Magazines

Interviews
• Tony Gleeson (Fantastic, Amazing Science Fiction, Mike Shayne, Personal Crimes).
• John Shirley (Weirdbook, Fantastic, The Crow, Constantine,Wetbones).

Articles
• Lester del Rey’s Five Ages of Science Fiction by Vince Nowell, Sr.
• Born of Other Worlds, it’s Science Stories, a digest Ray Palmer “tossed in your lap with little or no ceremony.”
• News and dozens of cover previews from around the world ofdigests, direct from the magazines’ editors, publishers, and writers.
• Mike Chomko and William Lampkin untangle the fate of PulpFest 2020 and The Pulpster.
• Richard Krauss exhumes the true crime sensation: Fotocrime.
• Steve Carper rediscovers the remarkable Photoplay Editions.
• Ward Smith spotlights Digest Science Fiction Novels.

Reviews
• Amazing Selects
• bare•bones No. 1
• EconoClash Review No. 5
• Guns + Tacos Season One
• Lake County Incidents
• Paperback Fanatic No. 43

Fiction
• Stories by Michael Bracken, Rick Ollerman, and Joe Wehrle,Jr. with artwork by Rick McCollum, Marc Myers, and Michael Neno.

Plus
• Over 100 digest magazine cover images, cartoons by Bob Vojtko, first issue factoids, and more.
• Cover by Tony Gleeson, 160 pages, published in full color by Larque Press.




Includes over 100 digest magazine cover images
160 pages, Full color, 5.5" x 8.5" digest

Print version, $18.99
Kindle version, $4.99


    

 

The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

NEWS DIGEST JUNE 12, 2020 - New!
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DMR Books: A Million Years in the Future by Thomas P. Kelley - Coming in July!

For countless millennia, Earth has been ravaged by the Black Raiders from the distant planet Capara. The last surviving Earthman, Prince Jan, is captured by the Raiders and taken to their home planet. The immortal and lascivious ruler of Capara, Queen Tara, decrees that Jan will fight for his life as a gladiator in the Great Games.

Jan’s only desire is to avenge his decimated planet, and a path tothis goal lies on the forbidden Moon of Madness. It is said that a godlies dormant in the Black Tower, guarded by Vampire-Women. This god knowsQueen Tara’s secret weakness, which, if exploited, will bring about thecomplete annihilation of Capara!

Will Jan overcome the Vampire-Women and learn the secret to destroy Capara? Will he perish in the Great Games? Or will he succumb to Queen Tara’swiles? Anything can happen… a million years in the future!

A Million Years in the Future is a fantastic science fiction adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
It was originally serialized in Weird Tales in 1940, and has neverbeen published in book form before.
It will be released July 1st in paperback and digital formats.





DMR Books Blog - Now online!

Coming in July from DMR Books: A Million Years in the Future by Thomas P. Kelley
- New!
The DMRtian Chronicles, 6/14/2020  - New!
Kaor! Mars Day 2020
The Lemurian Chronicler
The DMRtian Chronicles, 6/7/2020  
The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/31/2020
The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/24/2020  
Frazetta: The Lost "Castaways" Cover
The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/17/2020
H. Rider Haggard -- 95 Years Gone
Glen Orbik -- Five Years Gone
Frazetta and the Canaveral "Castaways"  



Edgar Rice Burroughs Books
Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds
Now available on eBook format!

Science fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, wrote four novels and a novella about former stuntman Carson Napier and his wayward adventures on the planet Venus (or Amtor, as it is known to its inhabitants). Now get ready to transport yourself into theEdgar Rice Burroughs Universe with the first new Carson of Venus novelto be published in more than fifty years: Carson of Venus: The Edgeof All Worlds by Matt Betts.

The Edge of All Worlds releases Spring 2020 from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and launches the canonical ERB Universe series of interconnected novels.

Stranded on the planet Amtor for nearly two decades, Earthman Carson Napier returns from his latest adventure to discover a mysterious enemy has struck his adopted nation of Korva and reduced one of its cities to ash and cinders. The trail of the mysterious threat leadsCarson and his love Duare through dark cyclopean corridors deep beneathAmtor to a distant land, where they must confront both a powerful newalienspecies and the shadows of Carson’s past.

Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds, featuring the artwork of the amazing Chris Peuler.


Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds is available in softcover and hardcover editions, as well as a hardcover Collector’s Edition with a signed bookplate.*

BONUS TRADING CARD WITH PREORDER
All Preorders of Carson of Venus: The Edge of AllWorlds placed directly from our online store will come with a special collectible ERB Universe Victory Harben trading card!** Collect all of the trading cards by preordering each ERB Universe novel directly from ERBurroughs.com!

HARDCOVER COLLECTOR’S EDITION
The hardcover Collector’s Edition features a special ERB Universe bookplate signed by authors Matt Betts and Christopher Paul Carey, as well as an ERB Universe Carson of Venus trading card produced exclusively for the Collector’s Edition, and is limited to only 200 copies.


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GREEN HORNET #3 - Coming in September!
(Writer) Scott Lobdell (Art) Anthony Marques
Cover A: Lee Weeks
Cover B: Anthony Marques

With the presence of the star child the rules of the game have changed forever.
Green Hornet and Kato find themselves up against adversaries unlikeany they have ever faced before.
After battling the Astronaut to near exhaustion, can Green Hornet and Kato save their city, and the child, from the clutches of their next super powered and deadly foe?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 9.

GREEN HORNET #3 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 24).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200776 (Weeks cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200777 (Marques cover).




 
 

Hermes Press:  JOHNNY HAZARD DAILIES HC VOLUME 8 1956-1957
(Writer) Frank Robbins (Art/Cover) Frank Robbins

Frank Robbins' masterpiece, one of the all-time greatest action/adventure newspaper comic strips, Johnny Hazard, returns! Volume Eight continuesthe adventures of Johnny Hazard. See more trend-setting artwork by comicslegend Frank Robbins in one of the most important adventure strips everto grace newspapers. Includes the following stories: "Project Heat-Barrier,""Hazard vs Hawkes," "The Most Dangerous Man in the World," "Project Globe,""The Grand Gizmo," and "It's Kismet." Reproduced entirely from originalKing Features press proofs.

Hardcover, 10x7, 288 pages, B&W, $50.00, On sale September 30.


JOHNNY HAZARD DAILIES VOLUME 8 issolicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 24).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL201235.



Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM COMPLETE DAILIES HC VOLUME 19 1964 -1966
(Writer) Lee Falk (Art/Cover) Seymour Sy Barry

The critically acclaimed, best selling complete reprint of The Phantom continues!
This exciting volume continues the Sy Barry Years! Reprinted in allits black and white glory, journey with Hermes Press as we bring you fourcomplete continuities drawn by Sy himself: "The Bad Ones," "The Hanta Witch,""Prince Hali and the White Stallion," "Bullet's Town," and "The Killer."Strips from this issue are taken directly from King Feature's proofs. Includedin the volume is a comprehensive essay and documentary materials.


Hardcover, 13x9, 272 pages, B&W, $60.00, On sale September 30.

THE PHANTOMCOMPLETE DAILIES VOLUME 19 issolicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 24).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL201236.

Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM COMPLETE SUNDAYS HC VOLUME 8 1962 -1964
(Writer) Lee Falk (Art/Cover) Seymour Sy Barry


The critically acclaimed, best selling complete reprint of The Phantom continues!
The long anticipated eighth volume of the reprint of the entire runof Lee Falk's full color Phantom Sundays continues! This volume continues the long awaited Sy Barry years of the Sunday stripes! Presented in Volume Eight are six storylines which encompass, "Old Baldy" (19 May 1963 - 15 Dec 1963) to "The Veiled Lady" (31 Oct 1965 - 8 May 1966). In addition tothe strips this volume contains documentary materials and a detailed essay.


Hardcover, 256 pages, Full Color, $70.00, On sale September 30.

THE PHANTOMCOMPLETE SUNDAYS VOLUME 8 issolicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 24).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL201237.




The Illustrated Press
MEAD SCHAEFFER

Shipping in July!

MEAD SCHAEFFER was one of the foremost illustrators of the romantic era of American fiction. He worked fordecades producing atmospheric and evocative illustrations for the top books and magazines of the day, and his romantic, swashbuckling, and theatrical paintings ultimately earned him a spot in the Society of Illustrators Hallof Fame. This new book presents a stunning overview of Schaeffer's long and illustrious career, featuring scores of illustrations reproduced directly from original paintings as well asrare tear sheets and photographs. 


Standard Edition
224 pages, 9"x12", full color, hardbound with dust jacket, $44.95.

Deluxe Edition
-Sold Out!
224 pages, 9"x12", full color, hardbound with dust jacket, shipped in a blue slipcase with white printing. Bookplate insert signed and numbered by publisher Daniel Zimmer. Limited to just100 copies!

To see a preview of the book, follow this link:
 https://issuu.com/illomag/docs/meltzoff


 
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ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #29 - Now available and coming soonto comic shops!
(Writer) Diego Cordoba (Art)  Various

Featuring Charles Addams: Chuckles in store from the master of macabre humor; Lawson Wood: Monkey Business from the man who drew monkeys in all humouros walks of life; Roy Wilson: One of the greatest names in slapstick British comics from theGolden Age; Ersin Karabulut: the bleak universe ofthis Turkish cartoonist; and JJ Grandville: The French caricaturist who broughtillustration (and weird worlds) to the forefront.

Softcover, 96 pages, Full Color, $24.99




ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #31 - Coming in September!
(Art) Jason Edmiston & Various

Jason Edmiston is well known amonga younger generation and among horror movie fans. He is one of the artists from Mondo, a company that specializes in movie posters re-designed byyounger illustrators that is extremely popular in the US and gaining fansaround the world Hannes Bok and his weird world. Rowena, one of the mostpopular female fantasy artists of the 20th century. Cornillon was fromthe French group of Chaland and Serge Clerc who were the newer generationof artists from Métal Hurlant that were very popular in the 1980s.Mel Crawford illustrated countless children's books of popular animatedcartoons and TV shows, but never worked in animation.

Softcover, 96 pages, Full Color, $24.99, On sale September 30.


ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #31 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 24).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL201106.


 



ILLUSTRATORS SPECIAL #7: PIRATES - Now available and coming soonto comic shops!
(Writer) Peter Richardson (Art) Various

Avast, me hearties! Hoist high the Jolly Roger for a perilous voyage through 100 yearsof piracy illustrations from comics, magazines and books!

Divided into 5 sections: "Underthe Black Flag", "Sweep the Spanish Main", "Swashbucklersof the Seven Seas", "Four Fabled Sea Raiders", and "The Sea-Faring Man with One Leg", along with special sections on Howard Pyle and Norman Mills Price.

Featured artists include Ron Embleton, NC Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Cecil Glossop, Graham Coton, James McConnell, DC Eyles, Sep Scott, Fortunino Matania, Will Eisner, Edward Mortelmans, Peter Jackson, Alex Nino, Jose Salinas, Reed Crandall, Wally Wood and many more! A showcase some of the greatest pirate art ever published in comics, books, magazines, posters, including many versions of Treasure Island.


Magazine, 128 pages, Full Color, $34.99





Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

THE SECOND MATE

Peril and mutiny on the ChinaSeas. When every scupper was running red, and with two white women at themercy of a villainous crew composed of the sweepings of the outer-most islands, Jim Barnes, realized the gage of desperate battle he had accepted whenhe signed on as second mate of the SULU QUEEN.

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 130 pages
$12.95



TEXAS RANGERS, July 1950

Fiction Contents
MOON VALLEY TRAIL (Jim Hatfield) by Jackson Cole
THE ROPE RIVER RUCKUS by J. D. Lucey
RELIC REAPER by Cliff Walters
FRUIT OF THE COTTONWOOD by Raley Brien
NO PLACE FOR STRANGERS by Monte Long
THE GUN by William O'Sullivan

Pulp-Sized Magazine, 7 x 10 inch,100 pages
$12.95



HASHKNIFE OF THE DOUBLE BAR 8

The receipt of a mysterious letter causes Jimmy Legg to throw up his job in San Francisco and to seek adventure and ro-mance in Blue Wells, Arizona. Here he meets our old friends, “Hashknife” Hart-ley and “Sleepy” Stevens, who set about making a cowboy of him. Aseries of mys-terious robberies engages the attention of the three friends,and many exciting ad-ventures and hairbreadth escapes befall them beforethey finally triumph in the cause of Justice.

Again this popular author sets forth withremarkable fidelity the rollicking, rough humor of the cowboys and thehuman qualities of the men and women of the far Southwest.

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 254 pages
$14.95





 
Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Lone Ranger Alumni R.I.P.

James "Buddy" Edgerton: The Unknown Lone Ranger  
The Suspense Collectors Companion  
The Return of the Green Hornet
Handsome heroes and Vicious Villains

The Inner Sanctum Sterling Silver Pendant




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.

Now featuring:

Links to Robert E. Howard Days 2019 Panel Discussions  


The Art of Robert E. Howard: Peter Andrew Jones

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Virgil Finlay

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Michael William Kaluta:  Part 1   Part 2   Part 3  

Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie

Accepting new articles for posting.
Contact me at bthom1@cox.net





Meteor House
Up from the Bottomless Pit
First Trade Edition!
Now available for pre-order!
Shipping begins August 2020 after FarmerCon XV!


Philip José Farmer’s Up from the Bottomless Pit, originally written in the late 1970s with the working title The Dragon’s Breath, is a near-mainstream novel about the ultimate ecological nightmare. Set inan alternate/near future 1970s, Up from the Bottomless Pit tells of a world so ravenous in its desire for oilthat it has thrown caution to the wind. Using an experimental deep-water laser drill off the California coast, humankind burns a hole through the ocean floor only to unleash a deadly torrent that initially threatens the greater Los Angeles area,but quickly escalates to a catastrophe of worldwide proportions with the potential to wipe out all life on the planet.

The novel wasn’t quite what Del Rey was looking for at the time, so Phil instead turned in Dark is the Sun (set fifteen billion years in the future). Fast forward to 2005 and the team here at Meteor House was launching the fanzine Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer. We serialized the novel over the first 10 quarterly issues between 2005 and 2007. At $11 per issue, it cost over $100 to read the novel. In 2007, Subterranean Press published Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories, collecting all of Phil’s material from Farmerphile in a deluxe limited edition of only 250 copies. But, at $125, it again cost over $100 to read this book.

This is the Farmer novel you’ve heard about but never got to read! Now, available for the first time ever in a trade paperback edition, you can get Up from the Bottomless Pit for only $20 (+shipping).

Featuring cover art by Keith Howell, a foreword by Farmerphile editor Christopher Paul Carey, and an introduction by award winning environmental writer Sharman Apt Russell!

Be sure to select the correct shipping option below. Books will be shipped to you in August 2020 right after FarmerCon XV!

Trade paperback, 5.5 × 8.5 inches, 250 pages

U.S.:  $24.00
Canada:  $36.00
Elsewhere: $43.00

Meteor House
A Rough Knight for the Queen
by Philip José Farmer

FirstStand Alone Edition!
Now available for pre-order!
Shipping begins August 2020 after FarmerCon XV!


Philip José Farmer fans know that he was fascinated with 19th century explorerand author Sir Richard Francis Burton. Farmer made Burton theprotagonist of the Hugo winning novel, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, the first book in the Riverworld series. In Gods of Riverworld, the final book in the series, Peter Jairus Frigate (Farmer’s fictional stand in) said that he had written a biography of Richard Burton butthat Fawn Brodie’s biography of Burton came out before Frigate couldget his published. When asked about this in the early 2000s, Phil said,“I was going to write a biography of Burton but Fawn’s biography cameout. It seemed to be pretty definitive so I decided not to write more.”

The biography Farmer did write about Burton starts in 1855, when Burton was thirty-four years old and on an expedition to find the source of the Nile. As for its origin, Phil explained, “This was written for what was called a ‘Men’s Magazine.’ I think the magazine was titled Gonads, but I am probably wrong. Anyway, for reasons unknown, the article was rejected and so went into the proverbial trunk.”

A Rough Knight for the Queenstayed in that trunk for decades until Farmer sold theoriginal unpublished manuscript and it eventually wound up in the hands of collector Craig Kimber. When Paul Spiteri and Michael Croteau were putting together Pearls from Peoria, a massive compilation of Farmer rarities published by Subterranean Press in 2006, Craig sent them a copy of the manuscript to include in the collection.

Now Meteor House brings you Farmer’s 26,000 word biography of Burton in both an affordabletrade paperback and in a signed limited hardcover.
Both editions feature introductory material by Mick Walton (author of Sir Richard Burtonand His Circle), Mark Hodder (author of the Burton and Swinburne novels) and Paul Spiteri (editor of Pearls from Peoria).
The hardcover limited edition will be signed by Walton, Hodder, Spiteri, and cover artist Charles Berlin.


US $15 tpb / $40 hc
5.5 × 8.5 inches, 102 pages
Trade Paperback Edition
Signed Limited Edition Hardcover


Two important things to note about preordering this book

First,the print run of the hardcover limited edition (which will feature a leatherette cover with custom gold foil stamping) will be determined by thenumber of preorders, meaning the majority of hardcovers will be sold before the book is even printed!

Second, there are discounts if you buy both the trade paperback and hardcover editions.
And discounts if you preorder Up from the Bottomless Pit AND A Rough Knight for the Queen (if you already preordered Bottomless Pit we will issue you a partial refund).

These package discounts willonly be available until just before the books are printed in July.
The hardcover print run willbe set on June 1st, so please preorder, before you missout!




Mike Chomko - May/June 2020 newsletter is now available!

Mike has released a list of pulp-related booksand periodicals available from Mike Chomko for May/June 2020.

Orders over $20 are discounted approximately 10%.
Shipping is between $2-6, depending on the weight of your order (media mailor bound printed matter). 
Michael Chomko, 2217W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542

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

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


Mystery*File - Now online!

Pulp PI Stories I’m Reading: ROBERT WALLACE “The Mark of the Beast.”
 
Pulp PI Stories I’m Reading: TALMAGE POWELL “Her Dagger Before Me.”
Old Time Radio Review: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM DRAKE “The Invisible Thief.”
Locked Room PulpPI Stories I’m Reading: RICHARD DEMING “The Juarez Knife.”  

Pulp Stories I’m Reading: JOHN S. ENDICOTT “Double Murder.”  


Peek-a-Boo (Heritage) - Now available!
by Jeff Deischer


In a mind-bending tale of time and space, the Earth is threatened by an ancient evil so powerful it takes two groups of Sentinels to stop it!
And it involves the origin of the sacred Sapphire Scarab.


Series: Heritage (Book 2000)
Paperback: 242 pages
Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches

$16.00


 
 Cancelled due to COVID-19 threat!

PULPFEST 2020 cancelled!
PULPFEST RETURNS August 19-22, 2021 in Pittsburgh PA!





The PulpFest Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that fourteen individuals have been nominated by their peers for the 2020 Munsey Award. The honor is named after Frank A. Munsey — the man who published the first pulp magazine. This annual award recognizes an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community, be it through disseminating knowledge about the pulps or through publishing or other efforts to preserve and foster interest in the pulp magazines we all love and enjoy. Congratulations to all of the nominees for this prestigious award, presented annually at PulpFest.

Although the 2020 PulpFest has been canceled due to thecoronavirus pandemic, the convention’s organizing committee feltit was important to continue the tradition of honoring the serviceof such individuals as the winner of our 2019 Munsey Award, George Vanderburgh.

Therefore, the convention will honor one of the nominees listed below as the recipient of this year’s Munsey. Each received multiple nominations.
The winner of the recipient of the 2020 Munsey Award  will be announced on Monday, August 3, at the start of the week that PulpFest 2020  was scheduled to take place.


2020 Munsey Award Nominees
MIKE ASHLEY
RICHARD BLEILER
JASON RAY CARNEY
CAMILLE CAZEDESSUS
WILLIAM CONTENTO
GENE CHRISTIE
STEPHEN HAFFNER

RICH HARVEY
CHRIS KALB
RICK LAI
DAVID PHIPPS
SHEILA VANDERBEEK
HOWARD WRIGHT
DAN ZIMMER
Click here for more info on the nominees!



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

Nothing New!



The Pulp Archivist - Now online!

The Avenger, The Lady, and The Wheel  - New!
Manly Wade Wellman: A View From 1940
Short Story Club: Mortu and Kyrus
The Call of Adventure
The King in Yellow: The Mask  



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

Three interviews with pulpsters - Richard Matheson, Leigh Brackett and Curt Siodmak
Pulp Round-Up May 2020 (Coronavirus edition 1)  
Photos of Walt Coburn's house in Tucson, Arizona
What is a pulp?
Rafael DeSoto covers on my new illustrator spotlight blog
The Shadow, The Spider and Doc Savage in a title match  
Rothvin Wallace - Editor, Author



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.



Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages aone-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering hisown justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!
 
Corpses hung aloft on the steel skeletons of skyscrapers serve as gruesome symbols of a gigantic plot of death and destruction menacing the progress of America and The Phantom Detective!
 


Although The Phantom Detective often faced the same sort of evil that other Pulp heroes came into contact with, there was something different about the adventures of Richard Curtis Van Loan. Multiple similarities can be drawn between The Phantom and his pulpish peers, including being a veteran of the Great War, being wealthy, and an unerring need to help others. Even with all of that, however, the concept of the masked man with the platinum domino mask as his personal badge had something others of its type did not - a certain simplicity. Van Loan, even with his unerring mission of justice, actually returned from the war as so many veterans do, looking for what was next, unsure of how to continue his life. This unsure direction surely spoke to many readers of the Detective’s stories, a lot of them either veterans themselves or, more likely, victims of the insecurity the Great Depression caused. In The Phantom Detective, however, fans found a man who not only, like them, had lost his way, but also rediscovered it and took to a new path with dedication and ferocity.
 
Knowing that crime was a universal concern, The Phantom Detective’sstories often led with brief passages, editorials in a way, pointing outallegedly real criminals and actual criminal actions. Each of these blurbswere essentially calls to action, summoning the reader to, like The PhantomDetective, take up the fight against crime, in completely legal ways, ofcourse.
 
‘Hammers of Doom’ was originally published in the September 1937 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.


Discounted  the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $14.99

Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives
G-8 and His Battle Aces #54 Audiobook
Patrol of the Phantom
by Robert J. Hogan
Read by Nick Santa Maria

  Now available!

They called G-8 the Flying Spy. History never recorded his exploits—and for good reason! No one would ever believe World War I was that wild!
 
The Gray Ghosts of the Sky have bony hands and do the killing of the Phantom! Herr Geist they called him, and his hands were quicker than the eye, his methods even swifter than the guns of the Master Spy! It was Herr Geist who did the bidding of Koln, the Butcher, and lived to regret theservice that he gave! A battle with Hell and Destruction above the earth,and a thousand chances for a fighting man to die!
 
Out of war-torn skies soars…G-8 and His Battles Aces! The greatestcombat pilot of the War to End All Wars, G-8’s true name was strickenfrom all official records. Flying a supercharged warplane, backed by hiswild wingmen, Bull Martin and Nippy Weston, G-8 fought the most horrificfoes the Kaiser could throw at him.


Author Robert J. Hogan dished up German Zombies, Wolf-men, Harpies, Martians,and even tentacled floating monsters seemingly inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.Once, Hogan throttled his imagination back to normal speed. The result wasthat hapless Allied warplanes found themselves ensnared in the sky-highweb of a Zeppelin-sized tarantula. He called that one ‘The Spider Staffel’.Most of these monstrosities were the work of Germany’s seemingly endlesssupply of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8’s recurring Nemesis, HerrDoktor Krueger. It was a wonder that the Kaiser lost the war.
 
It was a war that finally ended G-8’s adventures. A shortage of pulp paper during World War II led to the Master Spy’s last flight with the cancellation of the series in 1944.
 
Nick Santa Maria brings G-8, Nippy and Bull to thrilling life in their desperate struggle to defeat a deadly nemesis unlike anything they have ever before encountered in ‘Patrol of the Phantom’. Originally published in the March 1938 issue of G-8 and His Battle Aces magazine.
 
Nick DeGregorio composed the music for the G-8 and His Battle Aces series of audiobooks.



Discounted  the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $14.99

Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Phantom Detective #55 eBook
Hammers of Doom - September 1937

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.

The Phantom Detective! The name alone conjures up action and adventure. From the same publisher that brought you The Black Bat, Captain Danger, The Crimson Mask and The Green Ghost came one of pulpdom’s best-known detectives. Scourge of the underworld, The Phantom, ashe was called, aided the Law with his sweetheart Muriel Havens. His first adventure was published in February 1933 and they continued for 170 thrilling exploits until the Summer 1953 issue. The Phantom Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:
A Full Book-length Novel
Hammers Of Doom
by Robert Wallace
Taken From The Case-Book Of Richard Curtis Van Loan
Corpses hung aloft on the steel skeletons of skyscrapers serve as gruesome symbols of a gigantic plot of death and destruction menacing the commercial progress of America!
 
Gunsmoke Derby — Gripping Short Story
by Westmoreland Gray
Treasury agents crack down on a bond racketeer
 
Washed Up — Gripping Short Story
by Robert Higgins
Dink Morrison tangles with waterfront crooks!
 
The Phantom Speaks — A Department


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. Ifyou have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.

Regular price:  $3.99
Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99


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.

G-8 and his Battle Aces rode the nostalgia boom ten years after World War I ended. These high-flying exploits were tall tales of a World War that might have been, featuring monster bats, German zombies, wolf-men, harpies, Martians, and even tentacled floating monsters. Most of these monstrosities were the work of Germany’s seemingly endless supply of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8’s recurring Nemesis, Herr Doktor Krueger. G-8 battled Germany’s Halloween shock troops for over a decade, not ceasing until the magazine folded in themiddle of World War II. G-8 and his Battle Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

 
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Will Murray

Thrilling Novel Of The Air
Patrol Of The Phantom
As told by G-8 to Robert J. Hogan
A battle with Hell and Destruction above the earth, and a thousand chances for a fighting man to die! Here is adventure that carries you high to the bloody thrills that have painted the skies!
 
The Ace And The Elephant
This Elephant won’t forget what happened at the old 69th!
 
Fighting Man
A dramatic story of bravery and honor!
 
The Way Of An Ace
A short short story.
 
G-8 Speaks
Where the Master Spy speaks to the Buzzards.


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. Ifyou have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.

Regular price:  $3.99
Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Marvel Stories eBook
April 1941

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.

Marvel Stories was a two-issue series that was part of a larger trend. Western Fiction Publishing Co.started their foray into science fiction with Marvel Science Stories in1938, it then changed to Marvel Tales in 1939 and finally became MarvelStories in late 1940. After the final issue in April of 1941, the magazineleft newsstands for nearly a decade. It returned in November 1950 underthe old title of Marvel Science Stories and continued until 1952. AlthoughMarvel Stories only lasted two issues, both magazines were filled with topquality science fiction thrills. Writers who would go on to make a name forthemselves in the genre appeared in those two issues, making them highly-soughtafter among collectors. Marvel Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales,reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
Table of Contents:
 
Thrilling Book-Length Novel
The Last Secret Weapon
by Polton Cross
The simplest and yet the most brilliant invention of all time, the secret weapon to end all secret weapons — this was the diabolic device that Val Turner knew foreign dictators would finally use to wipe out his beloved America, this was the fiendish instrument that only a new super-science could smash!
 
Girl from Venus — Unusual Novelette
by D.D. Sharp
The girl from Venus was the only girl in the world for me, and atomic disintegration and argonite would give us health, wealth and complete happiness — until that inevitable day, alas, when Leatha must no longer be distinguishable from any other girl on the planet!
 
The Iron God — Unusual Novelette
by Jack Williamson
A dive-bomber weighing sixty tons, ten of them the highest explosives known, hurtling four hundred miles an hour at the giant’s head!... Lundoon knew that if this attack did not stop the 2,000-foot-tall mad colossus,nothing ever would!
 
The Thought Machine — Gripping Short Story
by Ray Cummings
To Dr. Jenks the Thought-Machine was the transmutation of human body atoms into matter with the same vibration-rate — to Butch and Red and Willie it was a way to make a million-bucks!
 
We — The Other People — Gripping Short Story
by Bruce Manchester
You remember how those creatures looked, and the way they acted, the crew of the first spaceship to reach the Earth, and how you called them the Other-People... I wonder, though, if you guessed then that they’d turn out as they have...
 
The World of Tomorrow — Marvel’s Special Feature
by Ray Cummings
Proof that the basic ultimate substance is — nothing!... Mechanicalinvisibility is coming... Have you tried to kill yourself recently?...Do you see things as they really are?

  
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.

 
Regular price:  $3.99
Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99


RED SONJA #19  - Coming in September!
(Writer) Mark Russell (Art) Bob Q
Cover A: Jae Lee
Cover B: Joseph Michael Linsner
Cover C: Erica Henderson
Cover D: Alessandro Miracolo
Cover E: Cosplay

JUMPING-ON POINT FOR NEW READERS.
Sonja The Red, victorious. But ruling is impossible. And a young, old foe returns with a plan, to Kill Red Sonja…

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale September 2.

RED SONJA #19 is solicited in the July PREVIEWS (Available June 24).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200781 (Lee cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200782 (Linsner cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200783 (Henderson cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200784 (Miracolo cover).
The Diamond Item Code is JUL200785 (Cosplay cover).

     
   
     
   
      




The Serial Squadron
New DailySERIALS AT 7
 & Weekly SATURDAY NIGHT SERIALFEST


Visit the Squadron Facebook Group to watch entire Squadron-restored serials free every night at 7:00 pm US EST and to see chapters of new restorations in progress one chapter a week in live "watch parties" Saturdays 7pm-9pm EST.
Youcan watch and chat in real-time during these viewings with your Squadron friends.


NOW PLAYING
Daily 7:00 pm US EST

KING OF THE MOUNTIES
Featuring Allan Lane

Saturday Night Serial
NOWPLAYING
Saturdays 7:00 pm US EST

GOVT AGENTS VS PHANTOM LEGION
THE GALLOPING GHOST
THE PHANTOM EMPIRE
THE DESERT HAWK
THE GREAT ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN KIDD

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SONOF THE GUARDSMAN
THE MOVIE SERIAL
DL-DVD Upgrade

Now available!

FEATURING BOB SHAW, DAUN KENNEDY, BUZZ HENRY, CHARLES KING and WHEELER OAKMAN


THE CRIMSON GHOST
THE MOVIE SERIAL
BLU-RAY Upgrade or DL-DVD

Now available!

FEATURING CHARLES QUIGLEY, LINDA STIRLING, CLAYTON MOORE, KENNEDUNCAN and ? as THE CRIMSON GHOST (Voice by I. Stanford Jolley)



THE HOUSE OF HATE
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD

Coming soon!

New upgraded transfer of the amazing, massively influential Pearl White mystery serial, with solid leading man Antonio Moreno,
and, introducing The Hooded Terror, most fearsome and deadly of the early serial villains.










Sexton BlakeVersus the Master Crooks (Sexton Blake Library Book 2) - Coming October 6!
by Mark Hodder (Editor)


As brilliant as Sherlock Holmes. As daring as James Bond. Sexton Blake, the adventuring detective, is back! This second volume of a new series reinstates oneof literatures greatest detectives - back in print for the first time in decades!

For nearly a century, Sexton Blake was the most written about character in British fiction. He starred in approximately four thousand stories by nearly two hundred authors. A cross between Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones, he was a publishing phenomenon, read by young and old alike.


Paperback: 430 pages
Publisher: Rebellion
Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches
List Price: $11.99


Rebellion will be publishing further landmark volumes, each witha fantastic art deco style cover, including:
Sexton Blake’s Allies (December 2020)
Sexton Blake on the Home Front (February 2021)



The Shadowcast  - Now online!

Season 1, Episode 6 - 'THE SHADOW' (DC Comics, 1973) & Could Shadow Be Headed to TV?  
Season 1, Episode 5 - 'THE VOODOO MASTER'
The Shadowcast: Season 1, Episode 4 - 'THE SHADOW STRIKES' and 'DEATH HOUSE RESCUE'  
The Shadowcast: Season 1, Episode 3 - 'LINGO' and 'DEATH TO THE SHADOW'
Season 1, Episode 2 - 'THE SHADOW/GREEN HORNET: Dark Nights'
Season 1, Episode 1 - The Living Shadow





SPECTRE LIBRARY: THE PULP AND PAPERBACK FICTION READER - Now online!

Love Traffic by Gaston Lamond
“Murder Mayhem” by Ray Stahl (aka: Bart Carson)
Murder Gets Around by Robert Sidney Bowen
Spider Pete by Claude Stewart
The Finger of Death by Henry Keyworth



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.

Cozy Dystopia  
Stars Upon Thars  
Earl Peirce, Jr.-Aside No. 1
Earl Peirce, Jr. (1917-1983)-Part One
Patterns of Force  
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Five
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Four
Katherine MacLean (1925-2019)
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Three and a Half
 

TERROR OF THE CRIMSON TALONS - Now available!
by Fred Blosser


Weird mystery and bone-crushing action in the Robert E. Howard tradition as Detective Kirby Brill pursues a demonic treasure and a beautiful, exotic villainess.
Blades flash and guns roar in the shadows of a dark city, asinfernal cultists and vengeful gangsters alike seek Kirby's blood.
Meanwhile, a young woman's innocent life hangs in the balance!

Plus two articles on the fantasy-tinged Howard stories that inspired TERROR OF THE CRIMSON TALONS.

Fred Blosser is the author of four studies of Howard's fiction and recipient of a Cimmerian Award presented by The Robert E. Howard Foundation.


Kindle: $0.99



Kindle  



WEIRDBOOK #42
Softcover edition now available at Amazon!

This special John Shirley issue of WEIRDBOOK presents a complete, original novel plus a selection of poems, short stories, and more by one of the most acclaimed figures in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction fields.

Novel
Swords of Atlantis, by John Shirley

Short Stories
Anvil Rock, by John Shirley
Broken on the Wheel of Time, by John Shirley
Nodding Angel, by John Shirley
Calaphais and the Demon Malchance, by John Shirley
That Ambulance Again, by John Shirley

Poetry
Secret Tree, by John Shirley
A Tourist in Hell, by John Shirley
The Egregious Error of Werner Witherbye, by John Shirley
You See Me as You See Me, by John Shirley
And I’ll Burn Like a Vampire in the Sun, by John Shirley

Paperback: 157 pages
Publisher: Wildside Press
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
$12.00

Amazon.com   Kindle   Wildside Press: Softcover   Wildside Press: eBook







12 June 2020  


Many eventsare being cancelled due to the COVID-19 threat,
so please verify your event is still happening before traveling.



2020 Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention
Celebrating the 90th anniversary of ASTOUNDING
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of BLACK MASK
 Rescheduled due to COVID-19 threat!
  September 11-13, 2020

 



2020 Pulp Fiction Convention
Doubletree by Hilton Cleveland-Westlake

Westlake, Ohio
Cancelled due to COVID-19 threat!
 
Date: 
June 14, 2020
Location:
Doubletree by Hilton Cleveland-Westlake   
Hours: 
10 am to 4 PM
Admission:   
$5.00
Table Information:   
6 foot Tables @$50 each
Number of Dealer Tables: 
40 Tables
Average Attendance:
Unknown, 1st show
Guests:
TBA

Jeff Harper Productions


2020 Dum-Dum
“The Terrible Tenderfoot”
San Antonio, Texas

Cancelled due to COVID-19 threat!

Place: Embassy Suites by Hilton San Antonio NW I-10, 7750 Briaridge Dr, San Antonio,TX 78230.
You can also call the hotel for reservations at (210) 340-5421.

Rate: $129 plus taxes per night. Free breakfast buffet. Complimentary airport shuttle; shuttle is also available to locations within a three-mile radius of the hotel. Lunch can also be purchased at the hotel.

Registration cost: $140.
This includes a first edition of “The Terrible Tenderfoot” with illustrations by Doug Klauba, Saturday banquet on the River Walk, group River Barge cruise, and other goodies.

Events: Thursday afternoon tour of The Alamo and the Buckhorn Hall of Horns. Saturday evening banquet on the San Antonio Riverwalk including a River Barge tour.
Plenty of restaurants and shopping nearby, with a hotel shuttle running to nearby malls. Guest of Honor is artist Doug Klauba.


Schedule (tentative)

Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Arrive; meet and greet; complimentary snacks and cocktails

Thursday, June 25, 2020
9 AM: Huckster room opens
11 AM: Speaker or Panel
Noon: Lunch on your own
1 PM: Huckster room closes; Leave for The Alamo–Hall of Horns tours (pay entrance fee of $15.00 on your own), Alamo admission free Dinner: On your own. However, you are welcome to join Dum-Dum hosts Roger and Sheila Herzog at their favorite restaurant, Sea Island. They will have the party room reserved for private dining for those who care to join them. The restaurant also serves reasonable priced steaks and burgers. It is within three miles of the hotel, so the shuttle should provide transportation for those who need it.

Friday, June 26, 2020
9 AM: Huckster room opens
11 AM: Speaker or Panel
Noon: Lunch on your own
2 PM: Speaker or Panel
5 PM: Huckster room closes
Dinner: On your own. There are many restaurants to choose from within shuttle range where we can also go as a group.
Evening: The Burroughs Bibliophiles Board of Directors meeting

Saturday, June 27, 2020
9 AM: Huckster room opens
11 AM: Speaker or Panel
Noon: Lunch on your own
1 PM: Huckster room shuts down
1 PM: Auction starts
4 PM: Auction ends
After 4 PM: Shuttle leaves for the banquet and the River Walk

Sunday, June 28, 2020
Breakfast and say good-byes


Registration form is available at the link below.


Ablaze Publishing
Now available!

THE CIMMERIAN: RED NAILS #1
(Writer) Regis Hautiere (Art)Olivier Vatine, Didier Cassegrain
Cover A: Didier Cassegrain
Cover B: Steve Morris
Cover C: Viktor Kalvachev
Cover D: Didier Cassegrain wrap around
Cover E: Fritz Casas


Robert E. Howard's Conan is brought to life uncensored! 
Discover the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual. 
Read the story as he intended!

In Red Nails, Conan finds himself inthe Darfar region, whose territory is almost entirely covered by a huge forest.  Here he pledges himself a mercenary, promising his sword to the highest bidder, fighting alongside fellow mercenary and fierce female warrior Valeria.  After aclash against a terrible dragon, the two go to a strange fortified city, apparently deserted… but the duo will quickly discover thata civilization lives hidden inside, and that the citadel hides a heavysecret.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99










Adventure House

Adventure House is pleased to announce that Adventure House has acquired a number of the Girasol Collectables reprint files.
They will be releasing on a monthly basis a number of their public domain titles as part of our monthly offerings.

May 2020
GOLDEN FLEECE – 01/39 - Comingsoon!
SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES – 08/34- Coming soon!

April 2020
MAGIC CARPET – 07/33 - Now available!
SPICY MYSTERY STORIES – 10/35 Now available!

March 2020
Spicy-Adventure Stories – 04/35 - Now available!
Strange Tales – 01/32 - Now available!

February 2020
Golden Fleece – 12/38 - Now available!
Spicy Mystery Stories – 09/35 - Now available!

January 2020
Spicy-Adventure Stories – 03/35  - Now available!
Spicy Detective Stories – 07/34  - Now available!


Adventure House
Coming soon!

High Adventure #172

Warren Hastings Miller Foreign Legion Stories
The Hell’s Angels Squad
Five Men of the Legion
Hell’s Angels Rebel
Hell’s Angels Set A Trap Discreet Rescue
The Desperation of Mr. Dee
The Color-Guard
The Honor of the Legion
It Takes the Legion


Cover Artist: Unknown
7x10, 110 pages, $12.95







Adventures in Bronze
The Wild Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1
Now available insoftcover!


Now ready for immediate order in trade paperback format.
Early orders will ship in the first week of June. $19.95 plus postage.
Wraparound cover by Joe DeVito.

Ten traditional tales of Victorian London’s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he investigates some of his most baffling mysteries.

* Is a blue-skinned dinosaur tearing up the Essex countryside? “The Wild Adventure of the Indigo Impossibility” provides the astonishing answer.
* Holmes and Watson plunge into the darkest dens of Limehouse in search of “The Mystery of the Elusive Li Shen.” Is heman, myth, or monster?
* What is the secret of the uncatchable Thames footpad chronicled in “The Adventure of Old Black Duffel?”
* A famous American soldier of fortune asks Sherlock Holmes to locate a Russian adventuress long believed dead in “The Adventure of the Nebulous Nihilist.”
* Did fairies lure a young Manchester boy to his doom? “The Misadventure of the Bonny boy” tells the chilling tale.
* A wealthy art collector challenges Sherlock Holmes with an unsolvable riddle. Or is it a riddle? What is “The Enigma of Neptune’s Quandary?”
* Is a dead man haunting his own office––or might an even stranger explanation exist for why his frightened face isimprinted on a windowpane? “The Adventure of the Glassy Ghost”reveals all.
* A fiendish murderer strikes down victim after victim in “The Problem of the Bruised Tongues.” The only clue: the discolored tips of their tongues.
* “The Adventure of the Throne of Gilt.” What could it be, and why should Dr. John Watson fear it so?
* A revengeful enemy plots a gruesome end for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in “The Unsettling Matter of the Graveyard Ghoul.”




Adventures in Bronze

Age of Aces
Now available!

Through the dark night sky, streaking swiftly with their Hisso engines thundering, is the greatest trio of aces on the Western Front—the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes,” the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! At point was Captain Kirby, impetuous young leader of the great trio; on his right was little Lieutenant “Shorty” Carn, the mild-eyed, corpulent little Mosquito and lanky Lieutenant Travis, eldest and wisest ofthe Mosquitoes on his left! Flying in a V formation through four exciting hell-bent tales from the pages of Popular Publication’s Battle Aces.

Stories Include: The X-Gun Flight (Jan 32), The Iron Ace (Feb 32), The Flying Dreadnought (Jun 32), The 20-Ace Patrol (Jul 32). All illustrated by John Fleming Gould





Captain Philip Strange is back in eight more weird WWI stories spanning the run of theseries in the penultimate volume of this series. 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 and the verdamntBrain-Devil by the Boche. Just when you thought there were no more ways to die in war, the Germans come up with some even more gruesome ways! if you’re not just being incinerated by the sun’s ray focused through enormous lenses, you’re being gassed with a horribly disfiguring plague; drowned in a sea of blood or injected with a serum that turns you into a hyped up fighting hellion until you keel over dead; maybe you’ll be lucky and just haveyour own munitions blow up your entire outfit, or simply have your head chopped off and mounted on some psychotic ace’swings. Thankfully, we have have Captain Philip Strange onour side to stop them in eight of his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!

Stories Include: The Code of K-14 (Feb 32), The Masked Marauders (Mar 33), The Sky Torch (Apr 33), Marauders Without Mercy (Oct 33), Legion of theLost (Aug 34), Valley of Vengeance (Jun 35), Fokkers of the Red Fog (Aug 37), Headsman Strafe (Feb 38).


Age of Aces








Altus Press / Steeger Books: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Milo March Returns to Print in May

The Black Mask Library Headlines the New Book Releases at the Windy City Pulp Convention
Save 30% This Weekend: The Steeger Books Black Friday–Cyber Monday Weekend Sale Is On
Farewell Altus Press, Hello Steeger Books
Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at Pulpfest 2019
Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Show



Altus Press / Steeger Books
Wave 2 is now available!

Milo March #4: As Old As Cain
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

Insurance investigator Milo March is under pressure to solve a classic whodunit in a small town. Athens, Ohio, is a place full of historic monuments, many of them still walking the streets. But now the excitement of Hollywood has burst on the scene, with a studio shooting a biopic about a rugged pioneer who played a role in the founding of Athens County. Descendants of the story’s hero still live in Athens, and are the owners of valuable antiques, books, and other heirlooms passed down to them from the early 1800s. The studio has arranged to use these gems of Americana as props, insuring them with a million-dollar policy. With such a large sum at stake, the insurance company sends Milo to check on the security measures at the little museum where the items are housed under guard.

The job seems like a snap—until a bludgeoned body and alot of smashed-open cases send everyone into a panic. Among the stolen items is a personal diary written by Hanna’s wife, which appears tobe an object of intense interest, or even obsession. Milo can’t imagine why a diary from the early 1800s should be so dangerous as to leadto murder, but he’ll have to find out. Was it a matter of greed, professional ambition, or something bizarre like a delusional fixation on the long-dead pioneer woman who penned the diary? If being unpleasant or eccentric made someone a murderer, then there was full cast of characters to choose from, including a pedantic historian, a shiftless ex-cop, and a couple of snooping old biddies, not to mention a scheming scriptwriter, a genius director, and a man-eating blonde starlet.

Murder wasn’t supposed to happen in Athens, Ohio, and the cops want these crimes to be solved fast. The pressure is on Miloto identify the killer before he strikes again—and to recover the heirlooms before anyone cashes in the million-dollar policy.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook

Milo March #5: The Splintered Man
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

It’s been two years since Milo March sneaked into East Germany to capture a valuable Western deserter. Now, as a major in the Army Reserves, he is recalled to tackle a much weirder case. No one knows why Hermann Gruss, head of the counterespionage police in West Germany, disappeared behind the Iron Curtain. Did he defect voluntarily, or was he taken by force? Either way, Milo hasto get him back before he reveals secrets that the U.S. shared withhim.

Some say Gruss suffers from a dread disease and is being treated in East Berlin with the latest wonder drug by his friend Dr. Oderbruch. Milo suspects that Oderbruch, a former Nazi, is experimenting on Gruss, bouncing him in and out of insanity like a yo-yo by dosing him with LSD, then healing his “schizophrenia” with an antidote. Withholding the antidote is a handy way to squeeze information out of Gruss, and the drug experiments are part of a larger, fiendish project involving mind control of the military.

In his effort to gain access to Oderbruch and find Gruss, Milo ends up in the arms of the lustful Frau Beate, who plies himwith Soviet champagne and vodka. Milo is reasonably safe if hangoversare the only menace. But when his disguise as a Russian secret-policeagent is blown, he is packed off to a mental hospital. There he joinsGruss as the doctor’s latest guinea pig.

Milo survived a marathon interrogation by the Communists during his last mission. But this is different—the hallucinogenic effectsof LSD threaten to splinter his mind into pieces. How will he escapethe closely guarded hospital, bringing both Gruss and the evil Oderbruchback with him to the West? Milo’s quick-witted action and sheer nerve,not to mention his irreverence toward authority figures on both sides,make for the wildest trip of all—an insane car chase back to the FreeWorld.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook

Milo March #6: A Lonely Walk
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

Milo March, Madison Avenue insurance detective, is sent to Rome to investigate the double-indemnity claim on the policy of a young woman who may have been murdered. Anna Maria went walking on a beach, allegedly to bathe in the healing seawater. A few hours later she was found lying nude on the sand, with no apparent signs of violence to the body. An accidental drowning, says the medical report, and the family puts in a claim for the large benefit. The insurance company, understandably, would like to confirm that the death was indeed an accident.

Although the case is quickly closed by the police, the whispers of Rome will not be silenced. They insist that the girl was murdered, that she’d been consorting with VIPs at a wild drug party, that shewas pregnant and the guilty man did not want any trouble. It is rumoredthat politicians made the police hush up the truth, lest a scandaltopple the Christian-Democrat government, allowing the Communists totake over.

Milo is warned to leave the case alone. If he persists,he may find himself arrested, he may get orders from his own American Embassy, or he may even be killed by someone… or some thing. All of thismay happen if he says out loud that a girl of no importance died becausesomeone wanted her dead. But the question—and the shocking surprise—is who actually killed her?

A Lonely Walk was inspired by the true story of Wilma Montesi, whose death in 1953 led to a scandal that rocked Italy with revelations of corruption in high places. The real-life case remains unsolved death to this day. Not so Milo’s investigation of the girl who took a lonely walk—until Death came to keep her company.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook






Altus Press / Steeger Books
Coming soon!

Steeger Books will be premiering ten new titles at the Windy CityPulp & Paper Convention in April. Headlining these are the first six books in the Black Mask Library, with each featuring a novel or series character which is rare or never-before reprinted. The releases also featuring Volume 4 of the Super Detective Jim Anthony series, as well as three more installments in the H. Bedford-Jones Library, including the long-awaited novel, The Seal of John Solomon.

If you are attending the convention, these releases (and more) can be purchased as the Mike Chomko, Books booth.

Here are the details on all of these releases:


Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith
By Robert Reeves, introduction by Kenneth S. White, cover by Rafael DeSoto


Long considered one of the best of the Black Mask authors, author Robert Reeves’s longest-running detective character actually first appeared in the 1939 novel, Dead and Done For. Cellini Smith, accountant for a New York City pinball gangster, must clear his boss’s name after being accused of murder. Featuring an introduction by BlackMask editor Kenneth S. White, and a cover illustration by the great Rafael de Soto.

$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Rex Sackler
By D.L. Champion, introduction by Ed Hulse, illustrated by Peter Kuhlhoff, cover by Rafael DeSoto


Author D.L. Champion’s knack for penning quirky series characters reached a new height with his stories of skinflint shamus Rex Sackler, one of Black Mask’s longest-running and most beloved series. Already a reader favorite for his Inspector Allhoff stories in Black Mask’s companion title, Dime Detective, Champion chronicled the offbeat cases of Rex Sackler, the greedy gumshoe who “could squeeze a nickel till the buffalo cried uncle.”

The Rex Sackler series allowed Champion to display his talent for sardonic wit and humor inmore than two dozen frequently hilarious novelettes published in Black Mask during the 1940s. This volume collects the first eight stories. With an all-new introduction by Ed Hulse.


$24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover


Let the Dead Alone: The Complete Black Mask Cases ofLuther McGavock
By Merle Constiner, introduction by Evan Lewis, illustrated by Peter Kuhlhoff, cover by Rafael DeSoto


The Luther McGavock stories are not your garden variety hardboiled detective yarns. These Black Mask stories are so rich in place and detail that they almost seem a travelogue of small-town life in the Deep South.

Having bounced around to just about every major agency in the country, Luther McGavock finally settled in the Atherton Browne Agency in Memphis, and his cases take him to small towns in the Tennessee hill-country. As an outsider, McGavock is our tour guide to this odd world of the Deep South.

Written by one of the most polished writers to see print in Black Mask, author Merle Constiner’s writing is vivid, his characters complex, and his mysteries deep. This edition collects the first four stories in the series. Includes an all-new introduction by Evan Lewis.


$24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover


Dead Evidence: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Harrigan
By Ed Lybeck, introduction by Will Murray, illustrated by Arthur Rodman Bowker, cover by Jes Schlaikjer


Quite likely one of the most hyped—and most mysterious—Black Mask authors to ever appear in its pages, Ed Lybeck made his debut as one of editor Joesph Shaw’s new faces in the wake of Dashiell Hammett’s departure. For Black Mask, Lybeck penned the hard-boiled stories of Francis St. Xavier Harrigan, a former gunman-turned-reporter for the New York Leader.

Though his duration as a Black Mask author was brief, his status as one of its greatest alums was certified by his inclusion in the historic retrospective of Black Mask, The Hard-boiled Omnibus. This edition collects—for the first time—the entirety of Lybeck’s Black Mask output. Includes an all-new introduction by pulp historian Will Murray.


$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Boomerang Dice: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Johnny Hi Gear
By Stewart Sterling, introduction by Will Murray, illustrated by Arthur Rodman Bowker, cover by Jes Schlaikjer


One of the most talented authors to be recruited to write for Black Mask Magazine following the departure of Dashiell Hammett, Stewart Sterling made a lasting impression on readers with his initial series character, Johnny Hi Gear: undercover police agent K-Five who battled gambling rackets during the Great Depression.

Never before reprinted, this popular series jump-started Sterling’s writing career which covered spans of time in radio, TV, and hardcovers, along with writing some of pulpdom’s most popular heroes, the Black Bat and The Spider. Collecting all 8 stories, along with an all-new introduction by Will Murray.


$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Blood on the Curb
By Joseph T. Shaw, cover by Stockton Mulford


Joseph T. Shaw, the editor of Black Mask Magazine, has written one of the most exciting adventure mysteries of 1936.

Blood on the Curb is the dramatic story of the New York Police Department’s bloody battle to wipe out the famous “Black Hand” gang which terrorized the Lower East Side.

Newly-recruited Paul Cardine is placed in charge of a special squad of officers—all of Italian decent—to find the man at the top of what appears to be a consolidated conglomerate of crime families.

Never before reprinted, Blood on the Curb is one of Shaw’s rarest hardcovers, and it contains all the hallmarks of his hard-boiled novels that saw publication in Black Mask Magazine.


$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Super-Detective Jim Anthony: The Complete Series, Volume 4
By Victor Rousseau and Edwin Truett Long, illustrated by Joseph Szokoli, cover by H.J. Ward


The complete reprinting of the greatest of the Doc Savage pastiches continues! Volume Four contains the next five adventures of Jim Anthony: “Spies of Destiny,” “I.O.U. Murder,” “Cold Turkey,” “Mrs. Big,” and “Needle’s Eye.”

$29.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover


The Seal of John Solomon: The Adventures of John Solomon, Volume 4 (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, cover by Modest Stein


John Solomon returns! In this classic thriller from the pages of Argosy Magazine, the mysterious ship’s chandler encounters a lost race of Crusaders deep in the Sahara. Continue the story of John Solomon, author H. Bedford-Jones’ longest-running series character, with this next book in the series.


$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Pirates Ain’t All Dead Yet: The Complete Adventures of Captain Struthers (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Roger B. Morrison, cover by Modest Stein


A story of modern-day seafaring by the “King of the Pulps”—H. Bedford-Jones—the whimsical Captain Struthers series is reminiscent of his popular Pinky Jenkins adventures. Never before reprinted, this edition also includes another of Bedford-Jones’ sea stories as a bonus.

$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


The Jewels of Ling Ti (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Charles L. Wrenn


Captain Jim Hanecy, agent and dealer in antiques, was no stranger to intrigue, but he and his partner, Toptit, soon found more than they bargained for in the ancient city of Cheng-tu. Never before reprinted in its entirely, The Jewels of Ling Ti is a classic adventure of the Orient by the “King of the Pulps”—H. Bedford-Jones— written at the height of his popularity.

$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Steeger Books












Altus Press / Steeger Books
Now available!

The Spider #37: The Devil’s Death-Dwarfs  - New!
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

The most diabolical criminal ever to menace America, Tang-akhmut, the Egyptian, had descended like a blighting plague on Cincinnati. Tang-akhmut, leading a new and terrible army of dwarfed monsters—scourging helpless women with poisoned and barbed whips; who set about systematically to wreck the water supply of the city and then set uncontrollable conflagrations to cover his looting. Richard Wentworth, the Spider, penniless, a man outside the law, once more faces him in single-handed battle!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

Operator 5 #20: Scourge of the Invisible Death  - New!
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

No man could explain that death which struck from the stratosphere, turning men into statues, stripping the United States of defenses. Operator 5—Ace of the American Secret Service—uncovered an espionage organization which was working against our country when Washington recaptured Yorktown, in 1781!… But now, a madman with limitless ambition headed the Secret Loyalists, determined to make himself Emperor of America, and Operator 5 takes a million-to-one gamble which brings him face to face with disgrace and death!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #36: The Coming of the Terror 
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Stripped of his wealth, cut off from his faithful helpers, Richard Wentworth, known and feared throughout the Underworld as the avenging Spider, struggles with his most powerful and wily foe—the Man who came out of the East! With Wentworth’s best friend, Police Commissioner Kirkpatrick framed for murder; with the entire city capitulating before that new and cruelly cunning menace from the Orient, the Spider himself seems doomed to die on the torture racks of the Far East!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

The Western Raider #1: Guns of the Damned
By Stone Cody, Tom Mount

Terror had claimed the bitter ranges below the Rio and death was stalking its towns, when Silver Trent and his raiders left their mountain hideout to save a doomed cowboy and a hapless girl…. For through these two, Silver hoped to break the power of the cunning range-devil who had spread this net of violence and blood. Butan army was pledged to hang Silver’s bullet-shattered body from thewasteland’s highest tree!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #35: Satan’s Sightless Legion
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

It is Wentworth himself—the Spider—who is firstto feel the dread hand of that Master of Darkness—The Blind Man, and his satanic weapon. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, Commissioner of Police, is strangely attacked by the forces of evil; his beloved Nita van Sloan spirited away into a fearsome fate… And the Spider himself destined to a horrible life of pain and misery. Caught between the forces of evil, the Spider at last seems doomed to die in ignominy!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

Operator 5 #19: Attack of the Blizzard Men 
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

As suddenly as Death, the bitter cold came, andwith it, the armored tanks, sleek submarines and mailed warriorsof the invading legions! An international syndicate, fearing America’s greatness and strength in war, had unleashed savage war-dogs to win the conflict before it fairly began… The greatest military genius of modern times commanded the enemy, and Operator 5 of the United States Secret Service—known to his dearest friends as Jimmy Christopher—was America’s choice to oppose him… But with the Intelligence slaughtered, with Diane in the camp of the enemy, the federal government in hiding, Operator 5 faced the stiffest battle of his career, and the Gods tossed dice to determine the victory!

$13.95 softcover
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The Spider #34: Laboratory of the Damned  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Richard Wentworth—whose grim, anti-crime crusades as the Spider have made him world-famous—was the first objective in the Poison Master’s murder campaign. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, lay in a death-like stupor. His beloved, Nita van Sloan, was stricken with the horrible living death! And at the same time, countlessthousands were felled by the same fatal venom… Caught in the crossfire between the Law and the Underworld, the Spider must battle the blindapathy of a nation ensnared in a subtle death-trap—must overcomethe despair in his own brave heart…!

$12.95 softcover
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The Secret 6 #4: The Golden Alligator
 John Newton Howitt, Robert J. Hogan

When King found a man buried alive he knew he was on the trail of his strangest case. But it wasn’t until the second murder had been committed before his very eyes that he realized he was pitted against a clever enemy—a master criminal who was gambling for fabulous stakes in a game of golden death!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #33: Legions of Madness  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Never had Richard Wentworth—he who is the scourge of the Underworld in his guise of the Spider—faced such tremendous odds or been so alone in the strife! Nita, his beloved, had tried to kill him,was hopelessly insane. His faithful servant had been tortured beyond human endurance. And the Master of Madness, chief of a powerful, fiendish syndicate, was spreading his germs of mania unchecked. Who could rescue America from screaming, murderous frenzy whenthe Spider, harried by Law and lawless, himself half-doubted hisown skill and bravery?

$12.95 softcover
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Operator 5 #18: Invasion of the Crimson Death Cult 
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

Mysterious happenings—cloudbursts in the arid desert, churches and skyscrapers horribly destroyed, priests and pastors oddly maddened, Intelligence agents craftily slaughtered—all these heralded the attack on America by the Son of Kasma—spokesman for a vicious, Oriental cult. The populace flocked to the new religion in self-defense. Our country seemed helplessly doomed… And Operator 5, charged with treason by a power-drunk authority; his best friend’s honor, and his own, held forfeit; hisbeloved Diane captive to the yellow Messiah, must battle alone againsta more cunning invader than ever menaced America before!

$13.95 softcover
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The Spider #32: Slaves of the Dragon
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

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?

$13.95 softcover
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Operator 5 #17:  Hosts of the Flaming Death
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

Gold—the mineral which fosters war!—threatened to plunge America into a chaos of revolt, misery and death. In Washington, the fortified vaults of the nation’s Treasury lay empty—stripped of wealth. A madman, obscured in mystery, his face concealed by a mask of the precious metal, had allied himself with powerful foreign magnates to deliver the United States into misery and bondage. Robbed of her riches, her plans for military security disrupted, her strategic stores destroyed and her armament factories wrecked, the most powerful nation in the world seemed inevitably doomed. One man, Jimmy Christopher, ace of the Intelligence, had a feasible plan for wresting victory from the cunning clutches of the greedy syndicate… And that man, known to a few as Operator 5, under grave suspicion of treachery, spied upon and hampered by a stubborn superior, must sacrifice his father, his beloved, and his honor to save his native land from a cruel invader’s debauchery and butchery…!

$13.95 softcover
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The Spider #31: The Cholera King  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

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!

$13.95 softcover
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The Secret 6 #3: The Monster Murders  
 John Newton Howitt, Robert J. Hogan

“Giant dogs at large! Kill several in Manhattan…” The nation read this story with horror, Dogs as big as horses—dogs that mutilated and destroyed. What were these beasts? What fiendish hand directed them? Only the Secret 6 guessed the real menace, dared follow the crimson tracks of a monster killer!

$13.95 softcover
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American Mythology Productions 
Arriving in comic shops June 17!

LADY ZORRO #1
(Writer) Pat Shand (Art) Mike Wolfer (Covers) Mike Wolfer, Larry Watts

Who is Lady Zorro? Like an avenging phantom, Lady Zorro haunts the arid wastes of the southern California desert, defiantly fighting against the tyrannical forces of the Spanish Empire, but how did she come to be a revered, legendary figure in Native American folklore? In an all-new take on the Zorro mythos, we'll learn those answers and more inthis special, one-shot tale of supernatural adventure thatintroduces you to a Lady Zorro we have never before seen! A secret cabal of Spanish Army soldiers who call themselves "The Pródigo" are using stolen, Native American magic to power their reign of terror over the native inhabitants of Alta California, and no one but Lady Zorro stands in their way. But will her incredible, acrobatic and sword skills be enough to stem the slaughter, ledby the hideous, transformed Father Serra, who wields dark magicand commands an army of monstrous, demon coyotes? It's an all-new Lady Zorro for an all-new generation of readers!

Lady Zorro #1 is available with three covers - Main Cover by interior artist Mike Wolfer, Swashbuckling Cvr by Larry Watts, and a Deluxe Limited Edition 1/350 Pulp Inspired Cover also by Wolfer!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
Full Color, 32 pages, $9.99 (Limited edition)




American Mythology Productions 

 

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books

Get them while they last!

These reprints may still be available from:
Adventure House, Radio Archives, Bud PlantMike Chomko, Vintage Library, Curious Book ShopRadio Spirits
After 2020, these titles can no longer be sold.


Bud's Art Books

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!

THE SHADOW Volume 151: “Alibi Trail," "The Golden Doom," "The Television Murders" & "The Whispering Eyes”
FOUR-NOVEL FINAL ISSUE SPECTACULAR! 

The Knight of Darkness proves that crime does not pay in thrilling pulp tales by Walter B. Gibson, Theodore Tinsley and Bruce Elliott writing as “Maxwell Grant." First, murder suspects all have iron-clad defenses, leading The Shadow to investigate an “Alibi Trail.” Then "TheGolden Doom” menaces a great hospital and threatens the life of The Shadow himself! Next, a victim is killed during a live video drama, and only Lamont Cranston can unmask the perpetrator of “The Television Murders." Finally, “The Whispering Eyes” are all victims recall of a sinister master of hypnotism in Walter Gibson’s final Shadow pulp novel! This instant collectors item showcases the original cover art by George Rozen and Modest Stein and interior illustrations by Paul Orban and Edd Cartier, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-270-4 Softcover, 7x10, 208 pages, B&W, $19.95


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 Classpostpaid
Six issues for $84(firstclass) 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:
Who's Whoin New Pulp - with Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
The Way They Were: Essays on Adventure Stories
WAR! : The ancient gods do battle! Heritage Universe
"Duck, Duck, Goose" by Jeff Deischer
Tarzan: Conqueror of Mars by Will Murray
Portrait of a Snow Queen by Micah Harris : EPIC FANTASY AT ITS BEST!
"My Life in Comics" by Ron Fortier
Fred Adams Jr.: Pulp Writer.
"Tag, You Are It" - Jeff Deischer's new Heritage Universe adventure
Death In the Dune by John Molino
"Gabriel's Trumpet"by Jon Black

Beb Books
Now available!

For the past several years I was converting pulp stories into etext to sent to Pulpgen for reprinting. And then one day -- poof! --Pulpgen was gone.
So I've decided to fill in the void, sort of, by preparing --at irregular intervals -- ePub anthologies I'm calling "The Baker's Dozen.

Thirteen stories of a particular genre trying for as much variety as possible. The first Baker's Dozen is
Baker's Dozen-Detective 01. Thirteen mystery, detective, and crime stories from thriteen different writers appearing in twelve different magazines.
There are stories by Arthur Leo Zaget, Paul Ernest, Bruno Fisher, Richard Sale, Robert Leslie Bellem, Frank Gruber, and six more. Alll for free, inePub format, and available for download at: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

Also uploaded this week are a number of dime novels and penny dreadfuls.Claude Duval was a charismatic English highwayman, active during the British Civil War.
A dashing and gentlemanly rogue along the linesof Robin Hood. We present two of his many adventures.

Claude Duval #2, a medley of adventures of him as warrior, romantic, highwayman and leader of the downtrodden masses in London.
Claude Duval #10 involves a plot to assassinate  King Charles I but quickly turns into a tale of a man huntednot merely by Claude Daval but by his guilty conscious as well.The writing of these stories is surprisingly literate for cheapentertainment.

Here on the other side of the Pond we present two dime novels of Nick Carter, the world's greatest Detective.
Nick Carter - The House of Secret is a amusing gothic thriller as unseen forces terrorize a young woman in her own house.Nick Carter - Gideon Drexel's Millions Man comes to Carter thinkingsomeone in his household is trying to killer him. Carter comes toinvestigates and finds that everyone is plotting against the name.Two entertaining stories to amusing through these long summer days.And free for download at http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

Finally, for the SF fan we post three differentdime novels about steam engines shaped like men.
The first is The Steam Man of the Prairie by Edward S. Ellis (1869) Young,
Hunchback Jonny Brainard builds his steam man  and hired to rescue the partner of a mountain man who were prospector for gold and now are menaced by indians.

This proved so popular that publisher Frank Tousay hired Harry Enton to create his oown steam man.
This became the Steam Man of the Plains, published in Boys of New York in 1876 and reprinted in the Frank Reade Library #12 in 1892.
A dispute over ownership of the title lead to the creation of Frank Reade, Jr. by "nonname" (Lu Senarias) This time titled, Frank Reade Jr and his New Steam Man.
Each of these is a completely different and unique story.

The Frank Reade Library appeared weekly.  The fifth issue featured "Frank Reade Jr. with his Steam Man in Mexico. This has also been included as an ePub. These, too, can be found at http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

All these books are available in print editions
Contact me at beb01@sprynet.com for pricing.



       

The Best of Jules de Grandin
20 Classic Occult Detective Stories
By Seabury Quinn
Coming June 30!

A collection of the 20 greatest tales of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales.

Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, arerecognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. Andyet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era ofgenre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have falleninto obscurity: Seabury Quinn.

Quinn’s short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character,the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigatedcases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spiritsfrom beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville,New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur ConanDoyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongsidehis assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries—andhis outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)—captivated readersfor nearly three decades.

The Best of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh,presents twenty of the greatest published works featuring the supernaturaldetective.
Presented in chronological order with stories from the 1920s through the 1940s, this collection contains the most incredible of Julesde Grandin's many awe-inspiring adventures.


Publisher: Night Shade
Length: 560 pages
LIST PRICE $24.99





Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2
Now available!

The second issue of the revived Blood 'n' Thunder opens with a special section devoted to Jimmie Dale, alias the Gray Seal, Frank L. Packard's World War I-vintage protagonist whose adventures inStreet & Smith's People's Magazine presaged the Depression-era hero-pulp phenomenon. Award-winning writer, editor, documentarian, and pop-culture historian Don Hutchison makes his first appearance in BnT with "Death to the Gray Seal!", an overview of the legendary character. Then editor Ed Hulseoffers "The Celluloid 'Seal'," which recounts Jimmie Dale's brief but tumultuous history on film.

Novelist andpulp historian Will Murray is back with "The Spicy Mrs. Schwartz," another of his fascinating examples of literary detective work. This time Will trains his attention on one ofSpicy Detective's most unlikely contributors.

BnT presentsa long-forgotten short story by Richard Sale, prolific fictioneer who eventually became a Hollywood hyphenate (writer-producer-director) but is best known for his detective yarns in the Munsey pulps. Sale's 1935 "Mellow Drama" is a clever send-up of rough-paper magazines in general and hero pulps in particular.

The making of Republic Pictures' episodic epic Spy Smasher (1942), based on the popular Fawcett Publication comic book and still considered one of the finest chapter plays ever, is fully documented in Ed Hulse's "Anatomy of a Serial," which presents material gleaned from Republic studio files and first-hand interviews withselected cast and crew members. This 8000-word essay chronicles production from the 1941 licensing of screen rights to the efforts of exhibitors to promote the serial while it was in release. Nothing like ithas ever been written by the form's historians.

That relentless researcher of all things Old Time Radio, Karl Schadow, contributes "Avenger Addendum," a brief article that supplements last issue's piece on the 1941 series that adapted Street & Smith's character The Avenger.

The latest BnT also includes reviews and reference material sure to be of interest to pulp-fiction aficionados. And, asalways, the magazine is profusely illustrated.

First copiesship from the plant late next week. Order yours today at Murania Press » Blood ‘n’ Thunder, Second Series, Number Two.


#2, Second Series
92 pages, paperback, 7x10
Price: $9.95


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO U.S. BUYERS. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.

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Bold Venture Press
Now available!

Larry Kent: Curves Can Kill & Go-Go for Broke
By Don Haring


Curves Can Kill
A newly-discovered virus—and the deadliest threat to Mankind—had gone missing, and whoever had it figured to sell it to the highest bidder. That was where Z Detail—a clandestine security agency whose very existence was a closely-kept secret—came into it.

But why did they want Larry Kent to handle their dirty business for them?

Oh, sure, they gave him the chance to refuse the assignment. But he knew only too well that a refusal meant he would suffer an ‘unfortunate’ but fatal ‘accident’. So Larry played along with them.

His job was to expose the traitor who planned to sell the virus to a foreign power, and stop the exchange at all costs. Trouble was, there were no shortage of suspects — and one by one, they were all being ruthlessly wiped out.

Go-Go for Broke
The San Rameo Cross was an artifact of enormous religious significance … and a not-so-small fortune in cold, hard cash. When he decided to investigate the murder of a fellow private eye, Larry Kent found himself caught up in a web of intrigue as greedy men and women vied to own the near-priceless relic.

First to come forward was Emanuel Constantine, a fussy little man who hated violence and yet was prepared to kill to get what hewanted. Then there was Alice Gordon, a seductive woman for certain,but also one of many secrets. The same could be said for the scheming,sable-haired Marina Koch. But most deadly of them all was the skeletalHendrick Fluger, a man described as the devil himself, and whose namewas only spoken in terrified whispers!


Pages: 234
Format: Paperback 6" x 9"
$12.95


The Legend of Robin Hood: Outlaw
By John E. Petty


When Robert of Locksley returns home from the Crusades after fighting alongside King Richard, he finds his home and its people crushed under the fist of the Sheriff of Nottingham and the despotic Prince John. After a personal tragedyin which he loses his home, his family, and his title, Rob escapes intothe deep vastness of Sherwood Forest, a foreboding place, known to behaunted. But instead of ghosts and goblins, Rob finds a community oppressedby cruelty, one that he vows to lead towards a better life.

Originally conceived centuries ago, the Legend of Robin Hood is as timeless and as powerful now as it was during the Middle Ages. In a time when the world suffers from dwindling resources, income inequality, the tyranny of the rich, and forces far beyond the control of commonpeople, Robin Hood is a lasting symbol in these dark and frightening times.Based on the original ballads and tales, The Legend of Robin Hood: Outlawspeaks today with a rich and powerful voice, one that urges everyone tostand up and fight oppression, bigotry, and fear.

Cover art by Clayton Hinkle


Pages: 342
Format: Paperback 6" x 9"
$14.95

eBook: $3.99


Bold Venture Press
PULP ADVENTURES #35
Now available!


CLASSIC PULP FICTION
•  Home for Killers! Charles BoeckmaN
   A man can run just so far before facing the devil in pursuit.
•  Thubway Tham’s Baggage Check Johnston McCulleY
   Detective Craddock tags along to the pickpocket’s hometown.
•  Space Burial Lew Merrill
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail
•  The Robbers E.C. Tubb
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  The Colour Out of Space H.P. Lovecraft
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  Theft of the Crown Jewels John Clemons
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!

NEW PULP FICTION
•  Sniffing Out the Rain Shadow Robert W. Walker
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the
•  Give ’Em Hell, Helen Adam Beau McFarlane
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  The Occurrence of the Kali CurseLogan Robichaud
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  Great Caesar’s Ghost Jack Halliday

DEPARTMENTS
•  Editorial Rich Harvey
•  “Remembering E.C. (‘Ted’) Tubb”Philip Harbottle
•  Retro Review: The Big Fix by Ed Lacy Rich Harvey

Editor: Audrey Parente
Pages: 134
Format: 7" x 10" softcover
$9.95





Brick Pickle Media
Now available!



Thrilling Detective Pulp Tales Volume 4

For more than 20 years, detectives and criminals found a home in the pages of Thrilling Detective.

This edition collects eight vintage pulp novels and stories from the tattered pages of the classic detective pulp from RobertLeslie Bellem, Paul Ernst, G. Wayman Jones, Norman A. Daniels, HenryKuttner and more .

Reset in an easy-to-read font, with new introductions, and including the original illustrations!


Paperback: 235 pages
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
List price: $14.99



THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #85 is now available and recommended!
To subscribe for #86 & #87, click on the link below!
 
Front Cover: Mark Wheatley
"Fighting Tears" by Chuck Welch
"Boris and the Vallejo of Gold" by Bobb Cotter
"The Absolute Worst" by Tim Handley
"Savage Syncronicities" by Will Murray
"Back Cover Blurbs from Novels You'll Never Read" by The Flearunners
"The Last Doc Savage Chronology" by Chuck Welch
"The Source of Myths by Mark Wheatley
"The Magic Decal" by Courtney Rogers
"Tales: The Ultimate Forbidden Doc Savage" by Malcolm Deeley & Jason Robert Bell
"Doc Savage's Birthday - Again" by Michael Spitzer

Back Cover: Tim Faurote

Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
You can order available single issues at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/back-issues/


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Dare Devlin: Stormbirds
by Dafyyd Neal Dyar


 The Bronze Gazette  
     

Captain Future: The Guns of Pluto - Now available!
by Allen Steele 


At the edge of the Solar System, CAPTAIN FUTURE and the Futuremen discover a plot of interstellar proportions as they confront THE GUNS OF PLUTO.“Cold Hell” was what they called the Sputnik Planitia Penal Colony on Pluto: the toughest, deadliest penitentiary in all of space, a lock-up so remote and forbidding that it was built within an immense iceberg and is guarded by a race of cannibals. Considered escape-proof, Cold Hell was where the worst of the worst were sent, never to be dealt with again…until now.The mysterious Black Pirate has returned, in one swift move blowing open thecell block doors and taking hostages. He’s made demands for the liberation of his hostages, demands only one man can fulfill: Curt Newton, the adventurer known as Captain Future. Yet, as Curt and his strange crew race across the solar system, are they unwittingly entering a cunning trap laid for themby an old enemy?Strap in for the second installment of an epic space adventure by multiple Hugo Award-winning author ALLEN STEELE as he reinvents oneof the classic Golden Age heroes of science fiction, Edmond Hamilton’s CAPTAIN FUTURE.

Series: Captain Future (Book 2)
Paperback: 205 pages
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
$8.99



Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Sensor Sweep: Beast Master, Time Travel, Grey Hawk - New!
Sensor Sweep: Battle Tech, Manly Wade Wellman, Savage Heroes, Space Force
Sensor Sweep: Schuyler Hernstom, Ken Kelly, Gardner Fox, August Derleth
Swordsmen from the Stars
Sensor Sweep: Legion of Time, Creepy Asimov, Fletcher Pratt, Lost Worlds
Sensor Sweep: Pulp on Pulp, Sabatini, Jirel, Weird Westerns
Sensor Sweep: Derleth, Elemental Evil, Tarzan, Weird Tales
Sensor Sweep: Hammett, Hernstrom, Heinlein, Haggard

Clive Cussler: Wrath of Poseidon (A Samand Remi Fargo Adventure) - Nowavailable!
by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell


Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuriesin this exciting adventure in the bestselling series by the Clive Cussler, Grand Master of Adventure.

Ten years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on the adventure of a lifetime, hunting the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. But they weren't the only ones. Someone else is after the gold, and he's willing to kill anyone who gets in his way.

When Sam and Remi run afoul of a criminal drug-running operation, their hopes of finding the treasure are dashed. But with Sam's ingenuity and Remi's determination, they survive their confrontation with the drug runners, and manage to send one of the key players to prison. Though the cache of gold is never found, life goes on. Sam and Remi marry--and years later return to Greece to find the one treasure that got away.

Time becomes their enemy when thekingpin they helped send to prison over a decade ago isreleased--and he has two goals in mind. Find the legendary hoard of King Croesus, and kill Sam and Remi Fargo. The Fargos know that as long as this gold is out there, no one is safe. Theyreturn to Greece for a final showdown--and one last chance to find that elusive treasure.


Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 9.3 inches
List price: $29.00




CONAN
Latest schedule updates!

Ablaze Publishing
THE CIMMERIAN: RED NAILS #2  - July 8

Marvel Comics

06/17/2020
CONAN: THE BOOK OF THOTH AND OTHER STORIES TPB

07/08/2020
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 3

07/15/2020
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #3 (OF 5)
CONAN: SERPENT WAR TPB


07/29/2020
EMPYRE: SAVAGE AVENGERS #1

08/05/2020
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS  EPIC COLLECTION - THE COMING OF CONAN TPB
SAVAGE AVENGERS VOL. 2: TO DINE WITH DOOM TPB
SOLOMON KANE: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS HC

08/19/2020
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #4 (OF 5)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL.4 HC

09/16/2020
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #5 (OF 5)

09/30/2020
SAVAGE AVENGERS #12

10/21/2020
THE MARVEL ART OF SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN HC

11/18/2020
CONAN THE BARBARIAN BY KURT BUSIEK OMNIBUS

12/2020 (May be delayed)
KULL: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 1


Thefollowing previously solicited comics and collections are stillto be scheduled.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #15
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #16
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #17

DARK AGNES #3 (OF 5)
DARK AGNES #4 (OF 5)
DARK AGNES #5 (OF 5)

SAVAGE AVENGERS #13 (Likely late October)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #14  (Likely late November)

CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: HORRORS BENEATH THE STONES TPB  (Originally scheduled for June 3)

Darkworlds Quarterly - Now online!

The Casebook of Lucius Leffing (1973)  - New!
The Lion’s Way by C. T. Stoneham - New!
Kings of the Sci-Fi Pseudonyms - New!
Mythos Sites: Nan-Matol
The Strangest Northerns: Quest of Qui  
Weird Westerns and Lee Winters
Doc Savage: The Illustrations!  
Henry Kuttner: Mythos Mistake?



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

SHADOW COMICS 93, 94, 95 & 96 (1948-49)
- New!
SAMAR the Tarzan Wannabe by Rafael Astarita (1942) - New!
Pulp Gallery: PLANET STORIES  - New!
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 54 & 55 (1957) - New!
Pulp Gallery: THE AVENGER
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 52 & 53 (1957)  
Happy Birthday, Dash! THE MALTESE FALCON Comic Book (1946)  
Pulp Gallery: NEW SPORTS  
Cliffhanger Serial: KING OF THE WILD (1931)  
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 51 & 52 (1957)  
Pulp Gallery: WEIRD TALES 94, 95, 96 & 97 (1931-32)  
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip: Weeks 49 & 50 (1957) A New Case for Wolfe!  
Pulp Gallery: DOC SAVAGE (1936)

The Digest Enthusiast #12
Now in full color!!!!!
Now available!


Explore the World of Digest Magazines

Interviews
• Tony Gleeson (Fantastic, Amazing Science Fiction, Mike Shayne, Personal Crimes).
• John Shirley (Weirdbook, Fantastic, The Crow, Constantine,Wetbones).

Articles
• Lester del Rey’s Five Ages of Science Fiction by Vince Nowell, Sr.
• Born of Other Worlds, it’s Science Stories, a digest Ray Palmer “tossed in your lap with little or no ceremony.”
• News and dozens of cover previews from around the world ofdigests, direct from the magazines’ editors, publishers, and writers.
• Mike Chomko and William Lampkin untangle the fate of PulpFest 2020 and The Pulpster.
• Richard Krauss exhumes the true crime sensation: Fotocrime.
• Steve Carper rediscovers the remarkable Photoplay Editions.
• Ward Smith spotlights Digest Science Fiction Novels.

Reviews
• Amazing Selects
• bare•bones No. 1
• EconoClash Review No. 5
• Guns + Tacos Season One
• Lake County Incidents
• Paperback Fanatic No. 43

Fiction
• Stories by Michael Bracken, Rick Ollerman, and Joe Wehrle,Jr. with artwork by Rick McCollum, Marc Myers, and Michael Neno.

Plus
• Over 100 digest magazine cover images, cartoons by Bob Vojtko, first issue factoids, and more.
• Cover by Tony Gleeson, 160 pages, published in full color by Larque Press.




Includes over 100 digest magazine cover images
160 pages, Full color, 5.5" x 8.5" digest

Print version, $18.99
Kindle version, $4.99


    

 

The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

NEWS DIGEST JUNE 5, 2020 - New!
NEWS DIGEST MAY 29, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 22, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 15, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 8, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 1, 2020
NEWS DIGEST APRIL 24, 2020


DMR Books Blog - Now online!

Kaor! Mars Day 2020
- New!
The Lemurian Chronicler - New!
The DMRtian Chronicles, 6/7/2020  - New!
The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/31/2020
The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/24/2020  
Frazetta: The Lost "Castaways" Cover
The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/17/2020
H. Rider Haggard -- 95 Years Gone
Glen Orbik -- Five Years Gone
Frazetta and the Canaveral "Castaways"  



Edgar Rice Burroughs Books
Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds
Now available on eBook format!

Science fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, wrote four novels and a novella about former stuntman Carson Napier and his wayward adventures on the planet Venus (or Amtor, as it is known to its inhabitants). Now get ready to transport yourself into theEdgar Rice Burroughs Universe with the first new Carson of Venus novelto be published in more than fifty years: Carson of Venus: The Edgeof All Worlds by Matt Betts.

The Edge of All Worlds releases Spring 2020 from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and launches the canonical ERB Universe series of interconnected novels.

Stranded on the planet Amtor for nearly two decades, Earthman Carson Napier returns from his latest adventure to discover a mysterious enemy has struck his adopted nation of Korva and reduced one of its cities to ash and cinders. The trail of the mysterious threat leadsCarson and his love Duare through dark cyclopean corridors deep beneathAmtor to a distant land, where they must confront both a powerful newalienspecies and the shadows of Carson’s past.

Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds, featuring the artwork of the amazing Chris Peuler.


Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds is available in softcover and hardcover editions, as well as a hardcover Collector’s Edition with a signed bookplate.*

BONUS TRADING CARD WITH PREORDER
All Preorders of Carson of Venus: The Edge of AllWorlds placed directly from our online store will come with a special collectible ERB Universe Victory Harben trading card!** Collect all of the trading cards by preordering each ERB Universe novel directly from ERBurroughs.com!

HARDCOVER COLLECTOR’S EDITION
The hardcover Collector’s Edition features a special ERB Universe bookplate signed by authors Matt Betts and Christopher Paul Carey, as well as an ERB Universe Carson of Venus trading card produced exclusively for the Collector’s Edition, and is limited to only 200 copies.


ERB Books   Kindle  Hardcover  Softcover  




The Illustrated Press
MEAD SCHAEFFER

Shipping in July!

MEAD SCHAEFFER was one of the foremost illustrators of the romantic era of American fiction. He worked fordecades producing atmospheric and evocative illustrations for the top books and magazines of the day, and his romantic, swashbuckling, and theatrical paintings ultimately earned him a spot in the Society of Illustrators Hallof Fame. This new book presents a stunning overview of Schaeffer's long and illustrious career, featuring scores of illustrations reproduced directly from original paintings as well asrare tear sheets and photographs. 


Standard Edition
224 pages, 9"x12", full color, hardbound with dust jacket, $44.95.

Deluxe Edition
-Sold Out!
224 pages, 9"x12", full color, hardbound with dust jacket, shipped in a blue slipcase with white printing. Bookplate insert signed and numbered by publisher Daniel Zimmer. Limited to just100 copies!

To see a preview of the book, follow this link:
 https://issuu.com/illomag/docs/meltzoff


 
The Illustrated Press   Order: Standard Edition  Order: Deluxe Edition   Preview



ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #29 - Now available and coming soonto comic shops!
(Writer) Diego Cordoba (Art)  Various

Featuring Charles Addams: Chuckles in store from the master of macabre humor; Lawson Wood: Monkey Business from the man who drew monkeys in all humouros walks of life; Roy Wilson: One of the greatest names in slapstick British comics from theGolden Age; Ersin Karabulut: the bleak universe ofthis Turkish cartoonist; and JJ Grandville: The French caricaturist who broughtillustration (and weird worlds) to the forefront.

Softcover, 96 pages, Full Color, $24.99




Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE, June 1947

Fiction Contents
THE MURDER PROPHET (Black Bat) by G. Wayman Jones
POSTSCRIPT TO AN ELECTRIC CHAIR by Sam Merwin Jr
THE RATTLER by Edward Churchill
POST-HYPNOTIC by Samuel Mines
HOLDUP by Jack Kofoed

Pulp-Sized Magazine,7 x 10 inch, 116 pages
$12.95



5 DETECTIVE NOVELS, Winter 1952

Fiction Contents
BLOOD, SWEAT AND JEERS by Donn Mullally
THANKS FOR MURDER by Ted Stratton
ANGELS DIE HARD by Paul Chadwick
DEATH TAKES NO HOLIDAY by W. T. Ballard
COMPLIMENTS OF A FIEND by Fredric Brown
KILLER UNDER GLASS by David X. Manners
THE DAME FROM CHICAGO by Benton Braden

Pulp-Sized Magazine, 7 x 10 inch, 132 pages
$12.95



WINGS, Fall 1949

Fiction Contents

THE TEXAN FLEW FOR GOLD by Harlin Messer
CAPTAIN DEATH'S CARGO by Joel Rogers
DUEL OVER DEUTSCHLAND by John Prescott
COMMAND PERFORMANCE by Johanas L. Bouma
REBEL IN A CORSAIR by J. P. Weinel
THE NO-GLORY PATROL by Coleman Meyer
SNATCH ONE FLAT-TOP by Hank Searls

Pulp Sized Magazine, 7 x 10 inch, 116 pages
$12.95





Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Lone Ranger Alumni R.I.P.

James "Buddy" Edgerton: The Unknown Lone Ranger  
The Suspense Collectors Companion  
The Return of the Green Hornet
Handsome heroes and Vicious Villains

The Inner Sanctum Sterling Silver Pendant




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.

Now featuring:

Links to Robert E. Howard Days 2019 Panel Discussions  


The Art of Robert E. Howard: Peter Andrew Jones

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Virgil Finlay

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Michael William Kaluta:  Part 1   Part 2   Part 3  

Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie

Accepting new articles for posting.
Contact me at bthom1@cox.net





Meteor House
Up from the Bottomless Pit
First Trade Edition!
Now available for pre-order!
Shipping begins August 2020 after FarmerCon XV!


Philip José Farmer’s Up from the Bottomless Pit, originally written in the late 1970s with the working title The Dragon’s Breath, is a near-mainstream novel about the ultimate ecological nightmare. Set inan alternate/near future 1970s, Up from the Bottomless Pit tells of a world so ravenous in its desire for oilthat it has thrown caution to the wind. Using an experimental deep-water laser drill off the California coast, humankind burns a hole through the ocean floor only to unleash a deadly torrent that initially threatens the greater Los Angeles area,but quickly escalates to a catastrophe of worldwide proportions with the potential to wipe out all life on the planet.

The novel wasn’t quite what Del Rey was looking for at the time, so Phil instead turned in Dark is the Sun (set fifteen billion years in the future). Fast forward to 2005 and the team here at Meteor House was launching the fanzine Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer. We serialized the novel over the first 10 quarterly issues between 2005 and 2007. At $11 per issue, it cost over $100 to read the novel. In 2007, Subterranean Press published Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories, collecting all of Phil’s material from Farmerphile in a deluxe limited edition of only 250 copies. But, at $125, it again cost over $100 to read this book.

This is the Farmer novel you’ve heard about but never got to read! Now, available for the first time ever in a trade paperback edition, you can get Up from the Bottomless Pit for only $20 (+shipping).

Featuring cover art by Keith Howell, a foreword by Farmerphile editor Christopher Paul Carey, and an introduction by award winning environmental writer Sharman Apt Russell!

Be sure to select the correct shipping option below. Books will be shipped to you in August 2020 right after FarmerCon XV!

Trade paperback, 5.5 × 8.5 inches, 250 pages

U.S.:  $24.00
Canada:  $36.00
Elsewhere: $43.00

Meteor House
A Rough Knight for the Queen
by Philip José Farmer

FirstStand Alone Edition!
Now available for pre-order!
Shipping begins August 2020 after FarmerCon XV!


Philip José Farmer fans know that he was fascinated with 19th century explorerand author Sir Richard Francis Burton. Farmer made Burton theprotagonist of the Hugo winning novel, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, the first book in the Riverworld series. In Gods of Riverworld, the final book in the series, Peter Jairus Frigate (Farmer’s fictional stand in) said that he had written a biography of Richard Burton butthat Fawn Brodie’s biography of Burton came out before Frigate couldget his published. When asked about this in the early 2000s, Phil said,“I was going to write a biography of Burton but Fawn’s biography cameout. It seemed to be pretty definitive so I decided not to write more.”

The biography Farmer did write about Burton starts in 1855, when Burton was thirty-four years old and on an expedition to find the source of the Nile. As for its origin, Phil explained, “This was written for what was called a ‘Men’s Magazine.’ I think the magazine was titled Gonads, but I am probably wrong. Anyway, for reasons unknown, the article was rejected and so went into the proverbial trunk.”

A Rough Knight for the Queenstayed in that trunk for decades until Farmer sold theoriginal unpublished manuscript and it eventually wound up in the hands of collector Craig Kimber. When Paul Spiteri and Michael Croteau were putting together Pearls from Peoria, a massive compilation of Farmer rarities published by Subterranean Press in 2006, Craig sent them a copy of the manuscript to include in the collection.

Now Meteor House brings you Farmer’s 26,000 word biography of Burton in both an affordabletrade paperback and in a signed limited hardcover.
Both editions feature introductory material by Mick Walton (author of Sir Richard Burtonand His Circle), Mark Hodder (author of the Burton and Swinburne novels) and Paul Spiteri (editor of Pearls from Peoria).
The hardcover limited edition will be signed by Walton, Hodder, Spiteri, and cover artist Charles Berlin.


US $15 tpb / $40 hc
5.5 × 8.5 inches, 102 pages
Trade Paperback Edition
Signed Limited Edition Hardcover


Two important things to note about preordering this book

First,the print run of the hardcover limited edition (which will feature a leatherette cover with custom gold foil stamping) will be determined by thenumber of preorders, meaning the majority of hardcovers will be sold before the book is even printed!

Second, there are discounts if you buy both the trade paperback and hardcover editions.
And discounts if you preorder Up from the Bottomless Pit AND A Rough Knight for the Queen (if you already preordered Bottomless Pit we will issue you a partial refund).

These package discounts willonly be available until just before the books are printed in July.
The hardcover print run willbe set on June 1st, so please preorder, before you missout!




Mike Chomko - May/June 2020 newsletter is now available!

Mike has released a list of pulp-related booksand periodicals available from Mike Chomko for May/June 2020.

Orders over $20 are discounted approximately 10%.
Shipping is between $2-6, depending on the weight of your order (media mailor bound printed matter). 
Michael Chomko, 2217W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542

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

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


Mystery*File - Now online!

Pulp PI Stories I’m Reading: ROBERT WALLACE “The Mark of the Beast.”
 - New!
Pulp PI Stories I’m Reading: TALMAGE POWELL “Her Dagger Before Me.”
Old Time Radio Review: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM DRAKE “The Invisible Thief.”
Locked Room PulpPI Stories I’m Reading: RICHARD DEMING “The Juarez Knife.”  

Pulp Stories I’m Reading: JOHN S. ENDICOTT “Double Murder.”  


Peek-a-Boo (Heritage) - Now available!
by Jeff Deischer


In a mind-bending tale of time and space, the Earth is threatened by an ancient evil so powerful it takes two groups of Sentinels to stop it!
And it involves the origin of the sacred Sapphire Scarab.


Series: Heritage (Book 2000)
Paperback: 242 pages
Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches

$16.00


 
 Cancelled due to COVID-19 threat!

PULPFEST 2020 cancelled!
PULPFEST RETURNS August 19-22, 2021 in Pittsburgh PA!





The PulpFest Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that fourteen individuals have been nominated by their peers for the 2020 Munsey Award. The honor is named after Frank A. Munsey — the man who published the first pulp magazine. This annual award recognizes an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community, be it through disseminating knowledge about the pulps or through publishing or other efforts to preserve and foster interest in the pulp magazines we all love and enjoy. Congratulations to all of the nominees for this prestigious award, presented annually at PulpFest.

Although the 2020 PulpFest has been canceled due to thecoronavirus pandemic, the convention’s organizing committee feltit was important to continue the tradition of honoring the serviceof such individuals as the winner of our 2019 Munsey Award, George Vanderburgh.

Therefore, the convention will honor one of the nominees listed below as the recipient of this year’s Munsey. Each received multiple nominations.
The winner of the recipient of the 2020 Munsey Award  will be announced on Monday, August 3, at the start of the week that PulpFest 2020  was scheduled to take place.


2020 Munsey Award Nominees
MIKE ASHLEY
RICHARD BLEILER
JASON RAY CARNEY
CAMILLE CAZEDESSUS
WILLIAM CONTENTO
GENE CHRISTIE
STEPHEN HAFFNER

RICH HARVEY
CHRIS KALB
RICK LAI
DAVID PHIPPS
SHEILA VANDERBEEK
HOWARD WRIGHT
DAN ZIMMER
Click here for more info on the nominees!



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

Nothing New!



The Pulp Archivist - Now online!

Manly Wade Wellman: A View From 1940 - New!
Short Story Club: Mortu and Kyrus
The Call of Adventure
The King in Yellow: The Mask  
The Pineys
A Song of I.C.E. and Fire
The Pendulum
Mongoose and Meerkat Kickstarter



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

Three interviews with pulpsters - Richard Matheson, Leigh Brackett and Curt Siodmak
Pulp Round-Up May 2020 (Coronavirus edition 1)  
Photos of Walt Coburn's house in Tucson, Arizona
What is a pulp?
Rafael DeSoto covers on my new illustrator spotlight blog
The Shadow, The Spider and Doc Savage in a title match  
Rothvin Wallace - Editor, Author



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.

Pulp Super-Fan blog by Michael R. Brown


Sherlock Holmes & Green Lama: ‘The Heir Apparent’
- New!
‘City of Wonder’: a lost-world classic  - New!
‘Beginner’s Guide to Pulp Fiction, Vol. 2’  
A look at ‘Adventure’  
‘Broken Empire: Adventure Unlimited: The Silver Age’
Dime-novel reprint: ‘The House of Mystery’
‘Beginner’s Guide to Pulp Fiction, Vol. 1’  
‘Two Thousand Miles Below’ by Charles W. Diffin  
‘The Further Crossovers of Sherlock Holmes’  
That's Pulp! by John Olsen

Going on hiatus
Perry Mason novels: #49 and #50
TMM #11: Death in the Blue Room
Advertising The Shadow

Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin




Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages a one-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering his own justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!
 
The voice of a mysterious leader directs the grim criminal tasks of the Bent Car Mob — whose fiendish depredations baffle the police and public! Follow the Phantom on the trail of this vicious combine.



The release of Street and Smith’s The Shadow magazine paved the way for the Hero Pulps, those magazines featuring heroic leads who were extraordinary in some form or fashion. Not one to let the opportunity to make a dime go by, Ned Pines, the man behind Thrilling Publications, sent his own crimefighting character into the mix in February 1933, capturing the second slot of such a magazine debuting just a month prior to Street and Smith’s other juggernaut, Doc Savage. Pines’ The Phantom Detective would take on the underworld and solve the unsolvable for 170 issues,ranking third in the hero pulps for most issues published, falling rightbehind Pulp’s two leading men, The Shadow and Doc Savage. Due to inconsistencies in its publishing schedule, however, The Phantom Detective does hold the title for longest running Pulp magazine, its last issue published in 1953.
 
As with many Pulp heroes, The Phantom Detective made his wayinto comic books as that media gained more and more prominence. Published originally in his own Pulp magazine by Thrilling Publications, the character also had a life as a four-color hero. The Phantom Detective debuted in Thrilling Comics, a title published by Pines under his company’s comic line, usually referred to as Nedor Comics. His costume included the top hat that he never wore anywhere in the Pulps except on the covers!
 
‘Cavalcade of Death’ was originally published in the August 1937 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.




Discounted  the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $14.99

Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives
G-8 and His Battle Aces #53 Audiobook
Wings for the Dead
by Robert J. Hogan
Read by Nick Santa Maria

  Now available!

They called G-8 the Flying Spy. History never recorded his exploits—and for good reason! No one would ever believe World War I was that wild!
 
The skies grow red where the Eagles spread their wings and only Death has the voice of command! “Watch for the Man in Armor!” werethe dying words that G-8 heard, before he started on a hunt through theSkies of Hell where Death is the gruesome host! G-8 saw these vulturesride down the airlanes and blot out the living with their bloody hands!But it is hard to fight men who have no fears. And there is only one gravewhen there are Wings For The Dead!

 

The chief reason for G-8’s success was not simply that Robert J. Hogan was a wonderfully imaginative writer — although he was — but because author and publisher Harry Steeger realized that interest in the top aces of the Great War was a fad that could wane at any time. So they juiced up G-8’s exploits by recounting tall tales of a World War that might have been envisioned by a chronicler who was half Edgar Alan Poe and half H. G. Wells. Robert Hogan managed that juggling act with straight-faced, single-minded aplomb.
 
G-8’s weird war began with The Bat Staffel, a wild yarn pitting the Flying Spy and wing-mates Bull Martin and Nippy Weston against monstrous German-controlled bats breathing fatal fumes. It went over so well that Hogan periodically revisited the creepy concept. The Vampire Staffel. The Blood Bat Staffel. The Bloody Wings of the Vampire.
 
Graced by the garish and grisly covers of artist Frederick Blakeslee, G-8 battled Germany’s Halloween shock troops for over a decade, the magazine being cancelled in 1944.
 
Nick Santa Maria brings G-8, Nippy and Bull to thrilling life in their desperate struggle to defeat a deadly nemesis unlike anything they have ever before encountered in ‘Wings for the Dead’. Originally published in the February 1938 issue of G-8 and His Battle Aces magazine.
 
Nick DeGregorio composed the music for the G-8 and His Battle Aces series of audiobooks.


Discounted  the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $14.99

Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Phantom Detective #54 eBook
Cavalcade of Death - August 1937

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.

The Phantom Detective! The name alone conjures up action and adventure. From the same publisher that brought you The Black Bat, Captain Danger, The Crimson Mask and The Green Ghost came one of pulpdom’s best-known detectives. Scourge of the underworld, The Phantom, ashe was called, aided the Law with his sweetheart Muriel Havens. His first adventure was published in February 1933 and they continued for 170 thrilling exploits until the Summer 1953 issue. The Phantom Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:
A Full Book-length Novel
Cavalcade Of Death
by Robert Wallace
Taken From The Case-book Of Richard Curtis Van Loan
The voice of a mysterious leader directs the grim criminal tasks of the Bent Car Mob — whose fiendish depredations baffle the policeand public! Follow the Phantom on the trail of this vicious combine
 
Minus A Number — Gripping Short Story
by Milton Lowe
An odd invention serves the final measure of justice!
 
Counter Check — Gripping Short Story
by Mark Dillon
The underworld offers fish-bait to an ichthyologist
 
Reno Racket — Gripping Short Story
by Jackson Gregory, Jr.
Bart Dean suddenly collides with a blackmail deal
 
The Phantom Speaks — A Department


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. Ifyou have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.

Regular price:  $3.99
Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99


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.

G-8 and his Battle Aces rode the nostalgia boom ten years after World War I ended. These high-flying exploits were tall tales of a World War that might have been, featuring monster bats, German zombies, wolf-men, harpies, Martians, and even tentacled floating monsters. Most of these monstrosities were the work of Germany’s seemingly endless supply of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8’s recurring Nemesis, Herr Doktor Krueger. G-8 battled Germany’s Halloween shock troops for over a decade, not ceasing until the magazine folded in themiddle of World War II. G-8 and his Battle Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

 
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Will Murray

Gripping Sky Novel
Wings For The Dead
As told by G-8 to Robert J. Hogan
“Watch for the Man in Armor!” were the dying words that G-8 heard, before he started on a hunt through the Skies of Hell where Death is the gruesome host! Fly with the Master Spy to the ends of the bleeding Air Trails!
 
A Hog For Punishment — Thrilling Short Feature
by Greaseball Joe
The story of a hog named Solomon who was smarter than you think!
 
Death Flies A Fokker — Thrilling Short Feature
Across the black clouds of war to a smashing, thrilling climax!
 
G-8 Speaks
An intimate meeting with the Master Spy and News of the Club!


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. Ifyou have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.

Regular price:  $3.99
Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Ten Detective Aces eBook
August 1935

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.

Mystery and thrills... times ten! That was Ten Detective Aces. Each magazine featured ten storiesof action and adventure. The magazine got off to a shaky start in November 1928, under the title of The Dragnet Magazine. Ace Magazines publishedthis pulp containing stories of gangsters and organized crime, but itfailed to click with readers. In April 1930 the magazine was retitledto Detective-Dragnet Magazine and its new focus was on detective tales.This caught the reading public's attention, and sales surged. With theMarch 1933 issue, the title was changed to Ten Detective Aces, and thatwas the title that stuck. Authors such as Lester Dent, Novell Page, FrederickC. Davis, Norman Daniels, and Emile C. Tepperman wrote for the pagesof Ten Detective Aces. It lasted until September 1949, offering up detectiveexcitement for a total of 202 issues. Ten Detective Aces returns in thesevintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
Table of Contents:
 
“Moon Man” Novel
The Masked Scourge
by Frederick C. Davis
A blood-stained silk dress leads Lieutenant McEwen to the Moon Man’s woman accomplice. And that dress belonged to his own daughter.
 
Blueblood Hounds — “Dizzy Duo” Yarn
by Joe Archibald
Scoop and Snooty are so hard-up for news that they listen tothe raves of an old-time actor.
 
Witness To Murder
by Emile C. Tepperman
Marty Quade, private dick, barges into a murder frame-up to nominate a death-house candidate.
 
Directors Of Doom — “Capt. Murdock” Novelet
by Carl McK. Saunders
Hard-boiled John Murdock chases a name — and finds himself on trial before the sinister Directors of Doom.
 
Torture Tool — True Crime Story
by Cliff Howe
Clues That Caught Criminals, No. 21.
 
Corpse Cheaters
by Paul Chadwick
Horror stalks Wade Hammond as he delves into the grisly business of a ghoulish corporation.
 
The Phantom Shamus — “Del Sarg” Novelet
by Margie Harris
Private Detective Del Sarg was too good at nosing into the murder of a kid messenger — and a killer baits him into a double-jawed treachery trap.
 
The Lethal Letter
by J. Lane Linklater
Young Jake would do anything for his girl Ann — even take a murder rap.
 
High-speed Vengeance
by Edward C. Clayton
This killer liked sports — but he wasn’t a sportsman, for heshot from the back.
 
Powdered Clues
by Ralph Powers
An escaped maniac turns his home into a horror house.
 
The Line-Up
Meet the man who makes life miserable for detectives.

  
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.

 
Regular price:  $3.99
Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99



The Serial Squadron
New DailySERIALS AT 7
 & Weekly SATURDAY NIGHT SERIALFEST


Visit the Squadron Facebook Group to watch entire Squadron-restored serials free every night at 7:00 pm US EST and to see chapters of new restorations in progress one chapter a week in live "watch parties" Saturdays 7pm-9pm EST.
Youcan watch and chat in real-time during these viewings with your Squadron friends.


NOW PLAYING
Daily 7:00 pm US EST

DRUMS OF FU MANCHU
Featuring Henry Brandon
and Robert Kellard

Saturday Night Serial
NOWPLAYING
Saturdays 7:00 pm US EST

THE TRAIL OF THE OCTOPUS
THE SPIDER'S WEB
THE MASKED RIDER
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SONOF THE GUARDSMAN
THE MOVIE SERIAL
DL-DVD Upgrade

Now available!

FEATURING BOB SHAW, DAUN KENNEDY, BUZZ HENRY, CHARLES KING and WHEELER OAKMAN


THE CRIMSON GHOST
THE MOVIE SERIAL
BLU-RAY Upgrade or DL-DVD

Now available!

FEATURING CHARLES QUIGLEY, LINDA STIRLING, CLAYTON MOORE, KENNEDUNCAN and ? as THE CRIMSON GHOST (Voice by I. Stanford Jolley)



THE HOUSE OF HATE
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD

Coming soon!

New upgraded transfer of the amazing, massively influential Pearl White mystery serial, with solid leading man Antonio Moreno,
and, introducing The Hooded Terror, most fearsome and deadly of the early serial villains.










Sexton BlakeVersus the Master Crooks (Sexton Blake Library Book 2) - Coming October 6!
by Mark Hodder (Editor)


As brilliant as Sherlock Holmes. As daring as James Bond. Sexton Blake, the adventuring detective, is back! This second volume of a new series reinstates oneof literatures greatest detectives - back in print for the first time in decades!

For nearly a century, Sexton Blake was the most written about character in British fiction. He starred in approximately four thousand stories by nearly two hundred authors. A cross between Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones, he was a publishing phenomenon, read by young and old alike.


Paperback: 430 pages
Publisher: Rebellion
Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches
List Price: $11.99


Rebellion will be publishing further landmark volumes, each witha fantastic art deco style cover, including:
Sexton Blake’s Allies (December 2020)
Sexton Blake on the Home Front (February 2021)



The Shadowcast  - Now online!

Season 1, Episode 6 - 'THE SHADOW' (DC Comics, 1973) & Could Shadow Be Headed to TV?  
Season 1, Episode 5 - 'THE VOODOO MASTER'
The Shadowcast: Season 1, Episode 4 - 'THE SHADOW STRIKES' and 'DEATH HOUSE RESCUE'  
The Shadowcast: Season 1, Episode 3 - 'LINGO' and 'DEATH TO THE SHADOW'
Season 1, Episode 2 - 'THE SHADOW/GREEN HORNET: Dark Nights'
Season 1, Episode 1 - The Living Shadow





SPECTRE LIBRARY: THE PULP AND PAPERBACK FICTION READER - Now online!

Love Traffic by Gaston Lamond
“Murder Mayhem” by Ray Stahl (aka: Bart Carson)
Murder Gets Around by Robert Sidney Bowen
Spider Pete by Claude Stewart
The Finger of Death by Henry Keyworth



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.

Cozy Dystopia  
Stars Upon Thars  
Earl Peirce, Jr.-Aside No. 1
Earl Peirce, Jr. (1917-1983)-Part One
Patterns of Force  
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Five
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Four
Katherine MacLean (1925-2019)
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Three and a Half
 

TERROR OF THE CRIMSON TALONS - Now available!
by Fred Blosser


Weird mystery and bone-crushing action in the Robert E. Howard tradition as Detective Kirby Brill pursues a demonic treasure and a beautiful, exotic villainess.
Blades flash and guns roar in the shadows of a dark city, asinfernal cultists and vengeful gangsters alike seek Kirby's blood.
Meanwhile, a young woman's innocent life hangs in the balance!

Plus two articles on the fantasy-tinged Howard stories that inspired TERROR OF THE CRIMSON TALONS.

Fred Blosser is the author of four studies of Howard's fiction and recipient of a Cimmerian Award presented by The Robert E. Howard Foundation.


Kindle: $0.99



Kindle  



WEIRDBOOK #42
Softcover edition now available at Amazon!

This special John Shirley issue of WEIRDBOOK presents a complete, original novel plus a selection of poems, short stories, and more by one of the most acclaimed figures in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction fields.

Novel
Swords of Atlantis, by John Shirley

Short Stories
Anvil Rock, by John Shirley
Broken on the Wheel of Time, by John Shirley
Nodding Angel, by John Shirley
Calaphais and the Demon Malchance, by John Shirley
That Ambulance Again, by John Shirley

Poetry
Secret Tree, by John Shirley
A Tourist in Hell, by John Shirley
The Egregious Error of Werner Witherbye, by John Shirley
You See Me as You See Me, by John Shirley
And I’ll Burn Like a Vampire in the Sun, by John Shirley

Paperback: 157 pages
Publisher: Wildside Press
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
$12.00

Amazon.com   Kindle   Wildside Press: Softcover   Wildside Press: eBook







05 June 2020  


Many eventsare being cancelled due to the COVID-19 threat,
so please verify your event is still happening before traveling.



2020 Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention
Celebrating the 90th anniversary of ASTOUNDING
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of BLACK MASK
 Rescheduled due to COVID-19 threat!
  September 11-13, 2020

 



2020 Howard Days
Cancelled due to COVID-19 threat!

The wheels have already been turning in getting Howard Days 2020 underway. Hope you can join us on Friday and Saturday, June 12th and 13th in Cross Plains, Texas at the Robert E. Howard Museum for The Best Two Days in Howard Fandom!

The theme of this year's event is "Celebrating REH in the Comics" and we're pulling out all the stops as we honor the 50th Anniversary of Marvel Comics Conan the Barbarian comic book. Tofurther along our extravaganza, we have Roy Thomas as our Guest of Honor!

Yes, the man who started the Conan comic in 1970 will be at Howard Days! Roy has 50 years of stories about how he was the ground-breaker in getting the feisty Cimmerian into the comics and how he has continued to support our favorite barbarian.

And, that's not all. Since Marvel Comics re-acquired the Conan comic book rights earlier this year, they've been going great guns: not only are they currently producing three Conan titles, other Howard characters are making their wayinto comic book form. And we're going to have some of the Marvel creators in attendance at Howard Days 2020. You won't want to miss this one!

Details are still being hammered out, as you would expect, but we've got all kinds of surprises and special events that will happen in Cross Plains next June.

We'll get back to a more regular schedule of blogging now and keep you updated as the HD 2020 news comes down the pike. But it would probably be agood idea to think about coming down to Cross Plains next June and it's never too early to start planningfor that.

All the basic Howard Days information & logistics is available here on this blog, so click some tabs if you have any questions. And make your plans to come join us in June!


2020 Pulp Fiction Convention
Doubletree by Hilton Cleveland-Westlake

Westlake, Ohio
Cancelled due to COVID-19 threat!
 
Date: 
June 14, 2020
Location:
Doubletree by Hilton Cleveland-Westlake   
Hours: 
10 am to 4 PM
Admission:   
$5.00
Table Information:   
6 foot Tables @$50 each
Number of Dealer Tables: 
40 Tables
Average Attendance:
Unknown, 1st show
Guests:
TBA

Jeff Harper Productions


2020 Dum-Dum
“The Terrible Tenderfoot”
San Antonio, Texas

Cancelled due to COVID-19 threat!

Place: Embassy Suites by Hilton San Antonio NW I-10, 7750 Briaridge Dr, San Antonio,TX 78230.
You can also call the hotel for reservations at (210) 340-5421.

Rate: $129 plus taxes per night. Free breakfast buffet. Complimentary airport shuttle; shuttle is also available to locations within a three-mile radius of the hotel. Lunch can also be purchased at the hotel.

Registration cost: $140.
This includes a first edition of “The Terrible Tenderfoot” with illustrations by Doug Klauba, Saturday banquet on the River Walk, group River Barge cruise, and other goodies.

Events: Thursday afternoon tour of The Alamo and the Buckhorn Hall of Horns. Saturday evening banquet on the San Antonio Riverwalk including a River Barge tour.
Plenty of restaurants and shopping nearby, with a hotel shuttle running to nearby malls. Guest of Honor is artist Doug Klauba.


Schedule (tentative)

Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Arrive; meet and greet; complimentary snacks and cocktails

Thursday, June 25, 2020
9 AM: Huckster room opens
11 AM: Speaker or Panel
Noon: Lunch on your own
1 PM: Huckster room closes; Leave for The Alamo–Hall of Horns tours (pay entrance fee of $15.00 on your own), Alamo admission free Dinner: On your own. However, you are welcome to join Dum-Dum hosts Roger and Sheila Herzog at their favorite restaurant, Sea Island. They will have the party room reserved for private dining for those who care to join them. The restaurant also serves reasonable priced steaks and burgers. It is within three miles of the hotel, so the shuttle should provide transportation for those who need it.

Friday, June 26, 2020
9 AM: Huckster room opens
11 AM: Speaker or Panel
Noon: Lunch on your own
2 PM: Speaker or Panel
5 PM: Huckster room closes
Dinner: On your own. There are many restaurants to choose from within shuttle range where we can also go as a group.
Evening: The Burroughs Bibliophiles Board of Directors meeting

Saturday, June 27, 2020
9 AM: Huckster room opens
11 AM: Speaker or Panel
Noon: Lunch on your own
1 PM: Huckster room shuts down
1 PM: Auction starts
4 PM: Auction ends
After 4 PM: Shuttle leaves for the banquet and the River Walk

Sunday, June 28, 2020
Breakfast and say good-byes


Registration form is available at the link below.


Ablaze Publishing
Arriving incomic shops June 10!

THE CIMMERIAN: RED NAILS #1
(Writer) Regis Hautiere (Art)Olivier Vatine, Didier Cassegrain
Cover A: Didier Cassegrain
Cover B: Steve Morris
Cover C: Viktor Kalvachev
Cover D: Didier Cassegrain wrap around
Cover E: Fritz Casas


Robert E. Howard's Conan is brought to life uncensored! 
Discover the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual. 
Read the story as he intended!

In Red Nails, Conan finds himself inthe Darfar region, whose territory is almost entirely covered by a huge forest.  Here he pledges himself a mercenary, promising his sword to the highest bidder, fighting alongside fellow mercenary and fierce female warrior Valeria.  After aclash against a terrible dragon, the two go to a strange fortified city, apparently deserted… but the duo will quickly discover thata civilization lives hidden inside, and that the citadel hides a heavysecret.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99










Adventure House

Adventure House is pleased to announce that Adventure House has acquired a number of the Girasol Collectables reprint files.
They will be releasing on a monthly basis a number of their public domain titles as part of our monthly offerings.

May 2020
GOLDEN FLEECE – 01/39 - Comingsoon!
SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES – 08/34- Coming soon!

April 2020
MAGIC CARPET – 07/33 - Now available!
SPICY MYSTERY STORIES – 10/35 Now available!

March 2020
Spicy-Adventure Stories – 04/35 - Now available!
Strange Tales – 01/32 - Now available!

February 2020
Golden Fleece – 12/38 - Now available!
Spicy Mystery Stories – 09/35 - Now available!

January 2020
Spicy-Adventure Stories – 03/35  - Now available!
Spicy Detective Stories – 07/34  - Now available!


Adventure House
Coming soon!

High Adventure #172

Warren Hastings Miller Foreign Legion Stories
The Hell’s Angels Squad
Five Men of the Legion
Hell’s Angels Rebel
Hell’s Angels Set A Trap Discreet Rescue
The Desperation of Mr. Dee
The Color-Guard
The Honor of the Legion
It Takes the Legion


Cover Artist: Unknown
7x10, 110 pages, $12.95







Adventures in Bronze
The Wild Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1
Now available insoftcover!


Now ready for immediate order in trade paperback format.
Early orders will ship in the first week of June. $19.95 plus postage.
Wraparound cover by Joe DeVito.

Ten traditional tales of Victorian London’s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he investigates some of his most baffling mysteries.

* Is a blue-skinned dinosaur tearing up the Essex countryside? “The Wild Adventure of the Indigo Impossibility” provides the astonishing answer.
* Holmes and Watson plunge into the darkest dens of Limehouse in search of “The Mystery of the Elusive Li Shen.” Is heman, myth, or monster?
* What is the secret of the uncatchable Thames footpad chronicled in “The Adventure of Old Black Duffel?”
* A famous American soldier of fortune asks Sherlock Holmes to locate a Russian adventuress long believed dead in “The Adventure of the Nebulous Nihilist.”
* Did fairies lure a young Manchester boy to his doom? “The Misadventure of the Bonny boy” tells the chilling tale.
* A wealthy art collector challenges Sherlock Holmes with an unsolvable riddle. Or is it a riddle? What is “The Enigma of Neptune’s Quandary?”
* Is a dead man haunting his own office––or might an even stranger explanation exist for why his frightened face isimprinted on a windowpane? “The Adventure of the Glassy Ghost”reveals all.
* A fiendish murderer strikes down victim after victim in “The Problem of the Bruised Tongues.” The only clue: the discolored tips of their tongues.
* “The Adventure of the Throne of Gilt.” What could it be, and why should Dr. John Watson fear it so?
* A revengeful enemy plots a gruesome end for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in “The Unsettling Matter of the Graveyard Ghoul.”




Adventures in Bronze

Age of Aces
Now available!

Through the dark night sky, streaking swiftly with their Hisso engines thundering, is the greatest trio of aces on the Western Front—the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes,” the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! At point was Captain Kirby, impetuous young leader of the great trio; on his right was little Lieutenant “Shorty” Carn, the mild-eyed, corpulent little Mosquito and lanky Lieutenant Travis, eldest and wisest ofthe Mosquitoes on his left! Flying in a V formation through four exciting hell-bent tales from the pages of Popular Publication’s Battle Aces.

Stories Include: The X-Gun Flight (Jan 32), The Iron Ace (Feb 32), The Flying Dreadnought (Jun 32), The 20-Ace Patrol (Jul 32). All illustrated by John Fleming Gould





Captain Philip Strange is back in eight more weird WWI stories spanning the run of theseries in the penultimate volume of this series. 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 and the verdamntBrain-Devil by the Boche. Just when you thought there were no more ways to die in war, the Germans come up with some even more gruesome ways! if you’re not just being incinerated by the sun’s ray focused through enormous lenses, you’re being gassed with a horribly disfiguring plague; drowned in a sea of blood or injected with a serum that turns you into a hyped up fighting hellion until you keel over dead; maybe you’ll be lucky and just haveyour own munitions blow up your entire outfit, or simply have your head chopped off and mounted on some psychotic ace’swings. Thankfully, we have have Captain Philip Strange onour side to stop them in eight of his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!

Stories Include: The Code of K-14 (Feb 32), The Masked Marauders (Mar 33), The Sky Torch (Apr 33), Marauders Without Mercy (Oct 33), Legion of theLost (Aug 34), Valley of Vengeance (Jun 35), Fokkers of the Red Fog (Aug 37), Headsman Strafe (Feb 38).


Age of Aces








Altus Press / Steeger Books: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Milo March Returns to Print in May

The Black Mask Library Headlines the New Book Releases at the Windy City Pulp Convention
Save 30% This Weekend: The Steeger Books Black Friday–Cyber Monday Weekend Sale Is On
Farewell Altus Press, Hello Steeger Books
Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at Pulpfest 2019
Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Show



Altus Press / Steeger Books
Wave 2 is now available!

Milo March #4: As Old As Cain
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

Insurance investigator Milo March is under pressure to solve a classic whodunit in a small town. Athens, Ohio, is a place full of historic monuments, many of them still walking the streets. But now the excitement of Hollywood has burst on the scene, with a studio shooting a biopic about a rugged pioneer who played a role in the founding of Athens County. Descendants of the story’s hero still live in Athens, and are the owners of valuable antiques, books, and other heirlooms passed down to them from the early 1800s. The studio has arranged to use these gems of Americana as props, insuring them with a million-dollar policy. With such a large sum at stake, the insurance company sends Milo to check on the security measures at the little museum where the items are housed under guard.

The job seems like a snap—until a bludgeoned body and alot of smashed-open cases send everyone into a panic. Among the stolen items is a personal diary written by Hanna’s wife, which appears tobe an object of intense interest, or even obsession. Milo can’t imagine why a diary from the early 1800s should be so dangerous as to leadto murder, but he’ll have to find out. Was it a matter of greed, professional ambition, or something bizarre like a delusional fixation on the long-dead pioneer woman who penned the diary? If being unpleasant or eccentric made someone a murderer, then there was full cast of characters to choose from, including a pedantic historian, a shiftless ex-cop, and a couple of snooping old biddies, not to mention a scheming scriptwriter, a genius director, and a man-eating blonde starlet.

Murder wasn’t supposed to happen in Athens, Ohio, and the cops want these crimes to be solved fast. The pressure is on Miloto identify the killer before he strikes again—and to recover the heirlooms before anyone cashes in the million-dollar policy.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook

Milo March #5: The Splintered Man
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

It’s been two years since Milo March sneaked into East Germany to capture a valuable Western deserter. Now, as a major in the Army Reserves, he is recalled to tackle a much weirder case. No one knows why Hermann Gruss, head of the counterespionage police in West Germany, disappeared behind the Iron Curtain. Did he defect voluntarily, or was he taken by force? Either way, Milo hasto get him back before he reveals secrets that the U.S. shared withhim.

Some say Gruss suffers from a dread disease and is being treated in East Berlin with the latest wonder drug by his friend Dr. Oderbruch. Milo suspects that Oderbruch, a former Nazi, is experimenting on Gruss, bouncing him in and out of insanity like a yo-yo by dosing him with LSD, then healing his “schizophrenia” with an antidote. Withholding the antidote is a handy way to squeeze information out of Gruss, and the drug experiments are part of a larger, fiendish project involving mind control of the military.

In his effort to gain access to Oderbruch and find Gruss, Milo ends up in the arms of the lustful Frau Beate, who plies himwith Soviet champagne and vodka. Milo is reasonably safe if hangoversare the only menace. But when his disguise as a Russian secret-policeagent is blown, he is packed off to a mental hospital. There he joinsGruss as the doctor’s latest guinea pig.

Milo survived a marathon interrogation by the Communists during his last mission. But this is different—the hallucinogenic effectsof LSD threaten to splinter his mind into pieces. How will he escapethe closely guarded hospital, bringing both Gruss and the evil Oderbruchback with him to the West? Milo’s quick-witted action and sheer nerve,not to mention his irreverence toward authority figures on both sides,make for the wildest trip of all—an insane car chase back to the FreeWorld.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook

Milo March #6: A Lonely Walk
By  Kendell Foster Crossen, M.E. Chaber

Milo March, Madison Avenue insurance detective, is sent to Rome to investigate the double-indemnity claim on the policy of a young woman who may have been murdered. Anna Maria went walking on a beach, allegedly to bathe in the healing seawater. A few hours later she was found lying nude on the sand, with no apparent signs of violence to the body. An accidental drowning, says the medical report, and the family puts in a claim for the large benefit. The insurance company, understandably, would like to confirm that the death was indeed an accident.

Although the case is quickly closed by the police, the whispers of Rome will not be silenced. They insist that the girl was murdered, that she’d been consorting with VIPs at a wild drug party, that shewas pregnant and the guilty man did not want any trouble. It is rumoredthat politicians made the police hush up the truth, lest a scandaltopple the Christian-Democrat government, allowing the Communists totake over.

Milo is warned to leave the case alone. If he persists,he may find himself arrested, he may get orders from his own American Embassy, or he may even be killed by someone… or some thing. All of thismay happen if he says out loud that a girl of no importance died becausesomeone wanted her dead. But the question—and the shocking surprise—is who actually killed her?

A Lonely Walk was inspired by the true story of Wilma Montesi, whose death in 1953 led to a scandal that rocked Italy with revelations of corruption in high places. The real-life case remains unsolved death to this day. Not so Milo’s investigation of the girl who took a lonely walk—until Death came to keep her company.


$14.95 softcover | $4.99 eBook






Altus Press / Steeger Books
Coming soon!

Steeger Books will be premiering ten new titles at the Windy CityPulp & Paper Convention in April. Headlining these are the first six books in the Black Mask Library, with each featuring a novel or series character which is rare or never-before reprinted. The releases also featuring Volume 4 of the Super Detective Jim Anthony series, as well as three more installments in the H. Bedford-Jones Library, including the long-awaited novel, The Seal ofJohn Solomon.

If you are attending the convention, these releases (and more) can be purchased as the Mike Chomko, Books booth.

Here are the details on all of these releases:


Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith
By Robert Reeves, introduction by Kenneth S. White, cover by Rafael DeSoto


Long considered one of the best of the Black Mask authors, author Robert Reeves’s longest-running detective character actually first appeared in the 1939 novel, Dead and Done For. Cellini Smith, accountant for a New York City pinball gangster, must clear his boss’s name after being accused of murder. Featuring an introduction by BlackMask editor Kenneth S. White, and a cover illustration by the great Rafael de Soto.

$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Rex Sackler
By D.L. Champion, introduction by Ed Hulse, illustrated by Peter Kuhlhoff, cover by Rafael DeSoto


Author D.L. Champion’s knack for penning quirky series characters reached a new height with his stories of skinflint shamus Rex Sackler, one of Black Mask’s longest-running and most beloved series. Already a reader favorite for his Inspector Allhoff stories in Black Mask’s companion title, Dime Detective, Champion chronicled the offbeat cases of Rex Sackler, the greedy gumshoe who “could squeeze a nickel till the buffalo cried uncle.”

The Rex Sackler series allowed Champion to display his talent for sardonic wit and humor inmore than two dozen frequently hilarious novelettes published in Black Mask during the 1940s. This volume collects the first eight stories. With an all-new introduction by Ed Hulse.


$24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover


Let the Dead Alone: The Complete Black Mask Cases ofLuther McGavock
By Merle Constiner, introduction by Evan Lewis, illustrated by Peter Kuhlhoff, cover by Rafael DeSoto


The Luther McGavock stories are not your garden variety hardboiled detective yarns. These Black Mask stories are so rich in place and detail that they almost seem a travelogue of small-town life in the Deep South.

Having bounced around to just about every major agency in the country, Luther McGavock finally settled in the Atherton Browne Agency in Memphis, and his cases take him to small towns in the Tennessee hill-country. As an outsider, McGavock is our tour guide to this odd world of the Deep South.

Written by one of the most polished writers to see print in Black Mask, author Merle Constiner’s writing is vivid, his characters complex, and his mysteries deep. This edition collects the first four stories in the series. Includes an all-new introduction by Evan Lewis.


$24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover


Dead Evidence: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Harrigan
By Ed Lybeck, introduction by Will Murray, illustrated by Arthur Rodman Bowker, cover by Jes Schlaikjer


Quite likely one of the most hyped—and most mysterious—Black Mask authors to ever appear in its pages, Ed Lybeck made his debut as one of editor Joesph Shaw’s new faces in the wake of Dashiell Hammett’s departure. For Black Mask, Lybeck penned the hard-boiled stories of Francis St. Xavier Harrigan, a former gunman-turned-reporter for the New York Leader.

Though his duration as a Black Mask author was brief, his status as one of its greatest alums was certified by his inclusion in the historic retrospective of Black Mask, The Hard-boiled Omnibus. This edition collects—for the first time—the entirety of Lybeck’s Black Mask output. Includes an all-new introduction by pulp historian Will Murray.


$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Boomerang Dice: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Johnny Hi Gear
By Stewart Sterling, introduction by Will Murray, illustrated by Arthur Rodman Bowker, cover by Jes Schlaikjer


One of the most talented authors to be recruited to write for Black Mask Magazine following the departure of Dashiell Hammett, Stewart Sterling made a lasting impression on readers with his initial series character, Johnny Hi Gear: undercover police agent K-Five who battled gambling rackets during the Great Depression.

Never before reprinted, this popular series jump-started Sterling’s writing career which covered spans of time in radio, TV, and hardcovers, along with writing some of pulpdom’s most popular heroes, the Black Bat and The Spider. Collecting all 8 stories, along with an all-new introduction by Will Murray.


$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Blood on the Curb
By Joseph T. Shaw, cover by Stockton Mulford


Joseph T. Shaw, the editor of Black Mask Magazine, has written one of the most exciting adventure mysteries of 1936.

Blood on the Curb is the dramatic story of the New York Police Department’s bloody battle to wipe out the famous “Black Hand” gang which terrorized the Lower East Side.

Newly-recruited Paul Cardine is placed in charge of a special squad of officers—all of Italian decent—to find the man at the top of what appears to be a consolidated conglomerate of crime families.

Never before reprinted, Blood on the Curb is one of Shaw’s rarest hardcovers, and it contains all the hallmarks of his hard-boiled novels that saw publication in Black Mask Magazine.


$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Super-Detective Jim Anthony: The Complete Series, Volume 4
By Victor Rousseau and Edwin Truett Long, illustrated by Joseph Szokoli, cover by H.J. Ward


The complete reprinting of the greatest of the Doc Savage pastiches continues! Volume Four contains the next five adventures of Jim Anthony: “Spies of Destiny,” “I.O.U. Murder,” “Cold Turkey,” “Mrs. Big,” and “Needle’s Eye.”

$29.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover


The Seal of John Solomon: The Adventures of John Solomon, Volume 4 (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, cover by Modest Stein


John Solomon returns! In this classic thriller from the pages of Argosy Magazine, the mysterious ship’s chandler encounters a lost race of Crusaders deep in the Sahara. Continue the story of John Solomon, author H. Bedford-Jones’ longest-running series character, with this next book in the series.


$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Pirates Ain’t All Dead Yet: The Complete Adventures of Captain Struthers (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Roger B. Morrison, cover by Modest Stein


A story of modern-day seafaring by the “King of the Pulps”—H. Bedford-Jones—the whimsical Captain Struthers series is reminiscent of his popular Pinky Jenkins adventures. Never before reprinted, this edition also includes another of Bedford-Jones’ sea stories as a bonus.

$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


The Jewels of Ling Ti (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
By H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Charles L. Wrenn


Captain Jim Hanecy, agent and dealer in antiques, was no stranger to intrigue, but he and his partner, Toptit, soon found more than they bargained for in the ancient city of Cheng-tu. Never before reprinted in its entirely, The Jewels of Ling Ti is a classic adventure of the Orient by the “King of the Pulps”—H. Bedford-Jones— written at the height of his popularity.

$16.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Steeger Books












Altus Press / Steeger Books
Now available!


The Spider #36: The Coming of the Terror  - New!
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Stripped of his wealth, cut off from his faithful helpers, Richard Wentworth, known and feared throughout the Underworld as the avenging Spider, struggles with his most powerful and wily foe—the Man who came out of the East! With Wentworth’s best friend, Police Commissioner Kirkpatrick framed for murder; with the entire city capitulating before that new and cruelly cunning menace from the Orient, the Spider himself seems doomed to die on the torture racks of the Far East!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

The Western Raider #1: Guns of the Damned - New!
By Stone Cody, Tom Mount

Terror had claimed the bitter ranges below the Rio and death was stalking its towns, when Silver Trent and his raiders left their mountain hideout to save a doomed cowboy and a hapless girl…. For through these two, Silver hoped to break the power of the cunning range-devil who had spread this net of violence and blood. Butan army was pledged to hang Silver’s bullet-shattered body from thewasteland’s highest tree!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #35: Satan’s Sightless Legion
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

It is Wentworth himself—the Spider—who is firstto feel the dread hand of that Master of Darkness—The Blind Man, and his satanic weapon. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, Commissioner of Police, is strangely attacked by the forces of evil; his beloved Nita van Sloan spirited away into a fearsome fate… And the Spider himself destined to a horrible life of pain and misery. Caught between the forces of evil, the Spider at last seems doomed to die in ignominy!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

Operator 5 #19: Attack of the Blizzard Men 
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

As suddenly as Death, the bitter cold came, andwith it, the armored tanks, sleek submarines and mailed warriorsof the invading legions! An international syndicate, fearing America’s greatness and strength in war, had unleashed savage war-dogs to win the conflict before it fairly began… The greatest military genius of modern times commanded the enemy, and Operator 5 of the United States Secret Service—known to his dearest friends as Jimmy Christopher—was America’s choice to oppose him… But with the Intelligence slaughtered, with Diane in the camp of the enemy, the federal government in hiding, Operator 5 faced the stiffest battle of his career, and the Gods tossed dice to determine the victory!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #34: Laboratory of the Damned  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Richard Wentworth—whose grim, anti-crime crusades as the Spider have made him world-famous—was the first objective in the Poison Master’s murder campaign. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, lay in a death-like stupor. His beloved, Nita van Sloan, was stricken with the horrible living death! And at the same time, countlessthousands were felled by the same fatal venom… Caught in the crossfire between the Law and the Underworld, the Spider must battle the blindapathy of a nation ensnared in a subtle death-trap—must overcomethe despair in his own brave heart…!

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

The Secret 6 #4: The Golden Alligator
 John Newton Howitt, Robert J. Hogan

When King found a man buried alive he knew he was on the trail of his strangest case. But it wasn’t until the second murder had been committed before his very eyes that he realized he was pitted against a clever enemy—a master criminal who was gambling for fabulous stakes in a game of golden death!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #33: Legions of Madness  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Never had Richard Wentworth—he who is the scourge of the Underworld in his guise of the Spider—faced such tremendous odds or been so alone in the strife! Nita, his beloved, had tried to kill him,was hopelessly insane. His faithful servant had been tortured beyond human endurance. And the Master of Madness, chief of a powerful, fiendish syndicate, was spreading his germs of mania unchecked. Who could rescue America from screaming, murderous frenzy whenthe Spider, harried by Law and lawless, himself half-doubted hisown skill and bravery?

$12.95 softcover
On sale for $11.95

Operator 5 #18: Invasion of the Crimson Death Cult 
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

Mysterious happenings—cloudbursts in the arid desert, churches and skyscrapers horribly destroyed, priests and pastors oddly maddened, Intelligence agents craftily slaughtered—all these heralded the attack on America by the Son of Kasma—spokesman for a vicious, Oriental cult. The populace flocked to the new religion in self-defense. Our country seemed helplessly doomed… And Operator 5, charged with treason by a power-drunk authority; his best friend’s honor, and his own, held forfeit; hisbeloved Diane captive to the yellow Messiah, must battle alone againsta more cunning invader than ever menaced America before!

$13.95 softcover
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The Spider #32: Slaves of the Dragon
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

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?

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

Operator 5 #17:  Hosts of the Flaming Death
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

Gold—the mineral which fosters war!—threatened to plunge America into a chaos of revolt, misery and death. In Washington, the fortified vaults of the nation’s Treasury lay empty—stripped of wealth. A madman, obscured in mystery, his face concealed by a mask of the precious metal, had allied himself with powerful foreign magnates to deliver the United States into misery and bondage. Robbed of her riches, her plans for military security disrupted, her strategic stores destroyed and her armament factories wrecked, the most powerful nation in the world seemed inevitably doomed. One man, Jimmy Christopher, ace of the Intelligence, had a feasible plan for wresting victory from the cunning clutches of the greedy syndicate… And that man, known to a few as Operator 5, under grave suspicion of treachery, spied upon and hampered by a stubborn superior, must sacrifice his father, his beloved, and his honor to save his native land from a cruel invader’s debauchery and butchery…!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95


The Spider #31: The Cholera King  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

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!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Secret 6 #3: The Monster Murders  
 John Newton Howitt, Robert J. Hogan

“Giant dogs at large! Kill several in Manhattan…” The nation read this story with horror, Dogs as big as horses—dogs that mutilated and destroyed. What were these beasts? What fiendish hand directed them? Only the Secret 6 guessed the real menace, dared follow the crimson tracks of a monster killer!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

The Spider #30: Green Globes of Death  
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Richard Wentworth—who, as the swift-killing Spider, is the scourge of the Underworld—thought the Fly was dead. But once more that most formidable enemy had arisen, pillaging, slaying wantonly, armed with a ghastly new weapon, the Green Globes of Death! Ruthless and astute, heading a gigantic criminal syndicate, the Fly was butchering innocent persons only, it seemed, to see their red blood flow. It was with flagging hope and heavy heart that the Spider took up his newest battle with the preying jackals of crime!

$13.95 softcover
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Operator 5 #16:  Legions of the Death Master
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould, John Newton Howitt

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 countryof its entire armaments; butchering, in the very capital ofthe 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 apower that scattered his own helpers, crippled the Intelligence, and threatened invasions that would have spelled utter annihilation!

$13.95 softcover
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Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books

Get them while they last!

These reprints may still be available from:
Adventure House, Radio Archives, Bud PlantMike Chomko, Vintage Library, Curious Book ShopRadio Spirits
After 2020, these titles can no longer be sold.


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Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
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THE SHADOW Volume 151: “Alibi Trail," "The Golden Doom," "The Television Murders" & "The Whispering Eyes”
FOUR-NOVEL FINAL ISSUE SPECTACULAR! 

The Knight of Darkness proves that crime does not pay in thrilling pulp tales by Walter B. Gibson, Theodore Tinsley and Bruce Elliott writing as “Maxwell Grant." First, murder suspects all have iron-clad defenses, leading The Shadow to investigate an “Alibi Trail.” Then "TheGolden Doom” menaces a great hospital and threatens the life of The Shadow himself! Next, a victim is killed during a live video drama, and only Lamont Cranston can unmask the perpetrator of “The Television Murders." Finally, “The Whispering Eyes” are all victims recall of a sinister master of hypnotism in Walter Gibson’s final Shadow pulp novel! This instant collectors item showcases the original cover art by George Rozen and Modest Stein and interior illustrations by Paul Orban and Edd Cartier, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-270-4 Softcover, 7x10, 208 pages, B&W, $19.95


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
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Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.


Past episodes:
Who's Whoin New Pulp - with Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
The Way They Were: Essays on Adventure Stories
WAR! : The ancient gods do battle! Heritage Universe
"Duck, Duck, Goose" by Jeff Deischer
Tarzan: Conqueror of Mars by Will Murray
Portrait of a Snow Queen by Micah Harris : EPIC FANTASY AT ITS BEST!
"My Life in Comics" by Ron Fortier
Fred Adams Jr.: Pulp Writer.
"Tag, You Are It" - Jeff Deischer's new Heritage Universe adventure
Death In the Dune by John Molino
"Gabriel's Trumpet"by Jon Black

Beb Books
Now available!

For the past several years I was converting pulp stories into etext to sent to Pulpgen for reprinting. And then one day -- poof! --Pulpgen was gone.
So I've decided to fill in the void, sort of, by preparing --at irregular intervals -- ePub anthologies I'm calling "The Baker's Dozen.

Thirteen stories of a particular genre trying for as much variety as possible. The first Baker's Dozen is
Baker's Dozen-Detective 01. Thirteen mystery, detective, and crime stories from thriteen different writers appearing in twelve different magazines.
There are stories by Arthur Leo Zaget, Paul Ernest, Bruno Fisher, Richard Sale, Robert Leslie Bellem, Frank Gruber, and six more. Alll for free, inePub format, and available for download at: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

Also uploaded this week are a number of dime novels and penny dreadfuls.Claude Duval was a charismatic English highwayman, active during the British Civil War.
A dashing and gentlemanly rogue along the linesof Robin Hood. We present two of his many adventures.

Claude Duval #2, a medley of adventures of him as warrior, romantic, highwayman and leader of the downtrodden masses in London.
Claude Duval #10 involves a plot to assassinate  King Charles I but quickly turns into a tale of a man huntednot merely by Claude Daval but by his guilty conscious as well.The writing of these stories is surprisingly literate for cheapentertainment.

Here on the other side of the Pond we present two dime novels of Nick Carter, the world's greatest Detective.
Nick Carter - The House of Secret is a amusing gothic thriller as unseen forces terrorize a young woman in her own house.Nick Carter - Gideon Drexel's Millions Man comes to Carter thinkingsomeone in his household is trying to killer him. Carter comes toinvestigates and finds that everyone is plotting against the name.Two entertaining stories to amusing through these long summer days.And free for download at http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

Finally, for the SF fan we post three differentdime novels about steam engines shaped like men.
The first is The Steam Man of the Prairie by Edward S. Ellis (1869) Young,
Hunchback Jonny Brainard builds his steam man  and hired to rescue the partner of a mountain man who were prospector for gold and now are menaced by indians.

This proved so popular that publisher Frank Tousay hired Harry Enton to create his oown steam man.
This became the Steam Man of the Plains, published in Boys of New York in 1876 and reprinted in the Frank Reade Library #12 in 1892.
A dispute over ownership of the title lead to the creation of Frank Reade, Jr. by "nonname" (Lu Senarias) This time titled, Frank Reade Jr and his New Steam Man.
Each of these is a completely different and unique story.

The Frank Reade Library appeared weekly.  The fifth issue featured "Frank Reade Jr. with his Steam Man in Mexico. This has also been included as an ePub. These, too, can be found at http://www.mediafire.com/folder/p56wc0bxuidzr/Documents

All these books are available in print editions
Contact me at beb01@sprynet.com for pricing.



       

Black Coat Press
New titles now available!

THE MYSTERIES OF TOMORROW (VOLUME 4): HUMANKIND ENCHAINED
By Paul Féval, fils & H.J. Magog
Translated by Brian Stableford
Cover by Mike Hoffman

Written in collaboration in 1922 by the author of Felifax, this five-volume saga (of which this is the fourth), purporting to chronicle the early years of the 21st century, takes place in a quasi-utopia-like Earth, where, thanks to the genius of master scientist Oronius, humanity has mastered natural forces.

However, Oronius’ former colleague Otto Hentzen, a madscientist who has allied himself with the beautiful, deadly PrincessYogha, has sworn revenge on the master scientist.

After the worldwide cataclysm that devastated the Earth, Oronius and his friends discover an advanced civilization of giant insects long buried in Antarctica. The Polars, aided by Hantzen and Yogha, launch an attack against Humanity, increasing the intelligence of animals, who then rebel and enslave mankind, turning the world into a “Planet of the Beasts.” Oronius eventually escape from his enemiesand enlists the help of the United States to fight the giant insects…


US $20.95 / GBP £16.99
5x8 trade paperback, 232 pages


THE LAND OF EVERLASTING GLOOM - A NAPOLEON'S VAMPIRE HUNTERS TALE
by Frank Schildiner
cover by Mariusz Gandzel

Paris 1806: The terrible Angeand Jean Tenebre are back in Paris, on a rampage of blood and terrorthrough the streets of Napoleonic France. The undead brothers, ghouland vampire, are following the commands of Strix, a Satanic witch whoseevil actions nearly brought down the Sun King, Louis XIV, decades earlier.

Pitted against these ancient monsters are swordmaster and vampire hunter, Jean-Pierre Séverin,  the Exorcist Baron Franz Karnstein, the lovely swordswoman Sylvia Dardi, and a Thugee priestess from India, who has her own, secret agenda. Together, they must stop Strix and the Tenebre Brothers before they can reach the unfathomable, terrifying land known as Selene, the Vampire City...
US $20.95 / GBP £16.99
5x8 trade paperback, 240 pages
GUN GALLON by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Alfredo Macall; cover by Alfredo Macall.

Gun Gallon was created in 1968 by the legendary Italian artist Lina Buffolente. It was one of Editions Lug’s longest-running series, lasting until 1983.
In the early 2000s Gun Gallon returned as part of the Hexagon group of heroes and, since then, has guest-starred in a recent series of Strangers.
Gun Gallon is a pure fantasy hero in the mold created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The recap episode presented here, drawn byfamed Mexican artist Alfredo Macall, was designed to reintroduce thecharacter to a new audience, as well as retell his origins...

By what miracle did he become the Champion of the world of Orios? What mysterious power drew him to this planet with two suns and three moons? And why? Who was responsible for the cruel deaths of his parents and, later, his wife? What hidden help did he receive along the way? How did he become a member of Hexagon ? Did he really fightalongside the Guardian of the Republic? And who made his companion Milordthe Supreme Sorcerer of Orios?
All these answers and more in this book, recounting the legend of Gun Gallon...

Also included here is an 11-page back up featuring DICK SPADE, REVENANT.


US $24.95 / GBP £20.99
5x8 trade paperback, 322 pages


GUN GALLON
by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Alfredo Macall; cover by Alfredo Macall


Gun Gallon was created in 1968 by the legendary Italian artist Lina Buffolente. It was one of Editions Lug’s longest-running series, lasting until 1983.
In the early 2000s Gun Gallon returned as part of the Hexagon group of heroes and, since then, has guest-starred in a recent series of Strangers.
Gun Gallon is a pure fantasy hero in the mold created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The recap episode presented here, drawn byfamed Mexican artist Alfredo Macall, was designed to reintroduce thecharacter to a new audience, as well as retell his origins...

By what miracle did he become the Champion of the world of Orios? What mysterious power drew him to this planet with two suns and three moons? And why? Who was responsible for the cruel deaths of his parents and, later, his wife? What hidden help did he receive along the way? How did he become a member of Hexagon ? Did he really fightalongside the Guardian of the Republic? And who made his companion Milordthe Supreme Sorcerer of Orios?
All these answers and more in this book, recounting the legend of Gun Gallon...

Also included here is an 11-page back up featuring DICK SPADE, REVENANT.


7x10 squarebound comic, 48 pages b&w
US$9.95







Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2
Now available!

The second issue of the revived Blood 'n' Thunder opens with a special section devoted to Jimmie Dale, alias the Gray Seal, Frank L. Packard's World War I-vintage protagonist whose adventures inStreet & Smith's People's Magazine presaged the Depression-era hero-pulp phenomenon. Award-winning writer, editor, documentarian, and pop-culture historian Don Hutchison makes his first appearance in BnT with "Death to the Gray Seal!", an overview of the legendary character. Then editor Ed Hulseoffers "The Celluloid 'Seal'," which recounts Jimmie Dale's brief but tumultuous history on film.

Novelist andpulp historian Will Murray is back with "The Spicy Mrs. Schwartz," another of his fascinating examples of literary detective work. This time Will trains his attention on one ofSpicy Detective's most unlikely contributors.

BnT presentsa long-forgotten short story by Richard Sale, prolific fictioneer who eventually became a Hollywood hyphenate (writer-producer-director) but is best known for his detective yarns in the Munsey pulps. Sale's 1935 "Mellow Drama" is a clever send-up of rough-paper magazines in general and hero pulps in particular.

The making of Republic Pictures' episodic epic Spy Smasher (1942), based on the popular Fawcett Publication comic book and still considered one of the finest chapter plays ever, is fully documented in Ed Hulse's "Anatomy of a Serial," which presents material gleaned from Republic studio files and first-hand interviews withselected cast and crew members. This 8000-word essay chronicles production from the 1941 licensing of screen rights to the efforts of exhibitors to promote the serial while it was in release. Nothing like ithas ever been written by the form's historians.

That relentless researcher of all things Old Time Radio, Karl Schadow, contributes "Avenger Addendum," a brief article that supplements last issue's piece on the 1941 series that adapted Street & Smith's character The Avenger.

The latest BnT also includes reviews and reference material sure to be of interest to pulp-fiction aficionados. And, asalways, the magazine is profusely illustrated.

First copiesship from the plant late next week. Order yours today at Murania Press » Blood ‘n’ Thunder, Second Series, Number Two.


#2, Second Series
92 pages, paperback, 7x10
Price: $9.95


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Bold Venture Press
Now available!

Finding Phyllis and Other Howard Millar Capers
By Jack Halliday

Private eye Howard Millar has seen his share of life’s darker side. After serving a 20-year tenure as a first-grade detective with the 9th Precinct, he exchanged his badge for a bond with the abused, abandoned, misused and missing in the “Queen City” of the Midwest, Cincinnati. Armed with wit and wisdom, timing and tenacity, he devotes his time to righting wrongsand helping the helpless, occasionally calling on a former colleague, and several grateful clients.

In “Finding Phyllis,” he endeavors to find a widow’s missing daughter—who happens to be his girlfriend. A bank teller has “something more” on her mind in “Don’t Bank On It.” Millar becomes judge, jury and executioner in the case of a murdered teenager. The basement of a hospital garage becomes a stranger’s refuge. Millarresorts to a supernatural solution for an insoluble case. A crazedkiller holds an unusual weapon against Millar’s throat in “No Evidence.”Then Millar is hired to protect a young archaeologist targeted bya church with something big to hide.

CONTENTS
“Finding Phyllis”
“Don't Bank On It”
“The Burning Man"
“The Woman in the Elevator"
“In the Blood”
“No Evidence”
“Cotton Candy Killer"
“Losing Laura"


Pages: 150
Format: Paperback 6" x 9"
$9.95

eBook: Coming June 1st


Black Eye by Tony Masero

Phil Black left thecruel Pacific battlefields looking to find some chill-time afterthe war. Then came a knock and a beautiful girl with a lost husbandto find. Things get a lot more complicated after that.

He calls on an old Marine buddy, Gunny LaForge, tofollow a violent path from San Francisco’s foggy streets to thesteaming jungles of Peron’s Argentina. Always ready with a quickwisecrack, fast action and straight-shooting are their only guaranteesof survival in a noir thriller involving Manchu treasure and a Nazimass murderer who will not accept defeat.

Cover art by Tony Masero


Pages: 150
Format: Paperback 6" x 9"
$9.95

eBook: $3.99


Bold Venture Press
PULP ADVENTURES #35
Now available!


CLASSIC PULP FICTION
•  Home for Killers! Charles BoeckmaN
   A man can run just so far before facing the devil in pursuit.
•  Thubway Tham’s Baggage Check Johnston McCulleY
   Detective Craddock tags along to the pickpocket’s hometown.
•  Space Burial Lew Merrill
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail
•  The Robbers E.C. Tubb
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  The Colour Out of Space H.P. Lovecraft
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  Theft of the Crown Jewels John Clemons
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!

NEW PULP FICTION
•  Sniffing Out the Rain Shadow Robert W. Walker
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the
•  Give ’Em Hell, Helen Adam Beau McFarlane
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  The Occurrence of the Kali CurseLogan Robichaud
   Description of story goes here. Give a tantalizing detail of the!
•  Great Caesar’s Ghost Jack Halliday

DEPARTMENTS
•  Editorial Rich Harvey
•  “Remembering E.C. (‘Ted’) Tubb”Philip Harbottle
•  Retro Review: The Big Fix by Ed Lacy Rich Harvey

Editor: Audrey Parente
Pages: 134
Format: 7" x 10" softcover
$9.95




Bold Venture Press
RAILROAD STORIES #8
Now available!

Six stories by Norman F. Brandhorst, originally presented in Railroad Stories Magazine between 1933-1934:

COLORADO MIDLAND
A cloud of suspicion hanging over him, Boomer Dan Hart tackles the toughest chunk of railroad in the world!

A MAN’S JOB
It takes more than a dumb cluck to keep an engine hot!

BOOMER JIM’S LAST RUN
Tomorrow he would be an old man, on the downward path; tonight he was a youth again!

RAILROAD MAN
He rode close to eternity before he cameback!

BRASS HAT
A gripping story of an official hated byall his employees.

RIGHT-OF-WAY
There was more to building this pike than blasting out the grade and laying tracks!

Cover by Aurion Proctor; Illustrated by Joseph Easley and Douglas Hilliker


Author: Norman F. Brandhorst
Format: 5.5 x 8.5 Softcover
Pages: 206
Price: $14.95



 

Brick Pickle Media
Now available!



Thrilling Detective Pulp Tales Volume 4

For more than 20 years, detectives and criminals found a home in the pages of Thrilling Detective.

This edition collects eight vintage pulp novels and stories from the tattered pages of the classic detective pulp from RobertLeslie Bellem, Paul Ernst, G. Wayman Jones, Norman A. Daniels, HenryKuttner and more .

Reset in an easy-to-read font, with new introductions, and including the original illustrations!


Paperback: 235 pages
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
List price: $14.99



THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #85 is now available and recommended!
To subscribe for #86 & #87, click on the link below!
 
Front Cover: Mark Wheatley
"Fighting Tears" by Chuck Welch
"Boris and the Vallejo of Gold" by Bobb Cotter
"The Absolute Worst" by Tim Handley
"Savage Syncronicities" by Will Murray
"Back Cover Blurbs from Novels You'll Never Read" by The Flearunners
"The Last Doc Savage Chronology" by Chuck Welch
"The Source of Myths by Mark Wheatley
"The Magic Decal" by Courtney Rogers
"Tales: The Ultimate Forbidden Doc Savage" by Malcolm Deeley & Jason Robert Bell
"Doc Savage's Birthday - Again" by Michael Spitzer

Back Cover: Tim Faurote

Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
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Captain Future: The Guns of Pluto - Now available!
by Allen Steele 


At the edge of the Solar System, CAPTAIN FUTURE and the Futuremen discover a plot of interstellar proportions as they confront THE GUNS OF PLUTO.“Cold Hell” was what they called the Sputnik Planitia Penal Colony on Pluto: the toughest, deadliest penitentiary in all of space, a lock-up so remote and forbidding that it was built within an immense iceberg and is guarded by a race of cannibals. Considered escape-proof, Cold Hell was where the worst of the worst were sent, never to be dealt with again…until now.The mysterious Black Pirate has returned, in one swift move blowing open thecell block doors and taking hostages. He’s made demands for the liberation of his hostages, demands only one man can fulfill: Curt Newton, the adventurer known as Captain Future. Yet, as Curt and his strange crew race across the solar system, are they unwittingly entering a cunning trap laid for themby an old enemy?Strap in for the second installment of an epic space adventure by multiple Hugo Award-winning author ALLEN STEELE as he reinvents oneof the classic Golden Age heroes of science fiction, Edmond Hamilton’s CAPTAIN FUTURE.

Series: Captain Future (Book 2)
Paperback: 205 pages
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
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Clive Cussler: Wrath of Poseidon (A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure) - Nowavailable!
by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell


Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuriesin this exciting adventure in the bestselling series by the Clive Cussler, Grand Master of Adventure.

Ten years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on the adventure of a lifetime, hunting the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. But they weren't the only ones. Someone else is after the gold, and he's willing to kill anyone who gets in his way.

When Sam and Remi run afoul of a criminal drug-running operation, their hopes of finding the treasure are dashed. But with Sam's ingenuity and Remi's determination, they survive their confrontation with the drug runners, and manage to send one of the key players to prison. Though the cache of gold is never found, life goes on. Sam and Remi marry--and years later return to Greece to find the one treasure that got away.

Time becomes their enemy when thekingpin they helped send to prison over a decade ago isreleased--and he has two goals in mind. Find the legendary hoard of King Croesus, and kill Sam and Remi Fargo. The Fargos know that as long as this gold is out there, no one is safe. Theyreturn to Greece for a final showdown--and one last chance to find that elusive treasure.


Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 9.3 inches
List price: $29.00




CONAN

Ablaze Publishing
THE CIMMERIAN: RED NAILS #1  - June 10
THE CIMMERIAN: RED NAILS #2  - July 8


Marvel Comics
CONAN: THE BOOK OF THOTH AND OTHER STORIES TPB - June 17
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVELYEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 3 - July 8

CONAN: SERPENT WAR TPB - July 15
EMPYRE: SAVAGE AVENGERS #1 - July 29


As of now, the following previously solicited comics and collections are missing in action.
They are not listed on the Marvel print schedule through July 29.
It is possible that these may turn up in Marvel Comics September 2020 solicitations


CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENTCROWN #3 (OF 5)
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #4 (OF 5)
CONAN: BATTLE FOR THE SERPENT CROWN #5 (OF 5)

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #15
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #16
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #17

DARK AGNES #3 (OF 5)
DARK AGNES #4 (OF 5)
DARK AGNES #5 (OF 5)

SAVAGE AVENGERS #12
SAVAGE AVENGERS #13
SAVAGE AVENGERS #14

CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: HORRORS BENEATH THE STONES TPB  (Originally scheduled for June 3)
SAVAGE AVENGERS VOL. 2: TO DINE WITH DOOM TPB  (Originally scheduled for June 3)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS  EPIC COLLECTION - THE COMING OF CONAN TPB  (Originally scheduled for June 10)
SOLOMON KANE: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS HC  (Originally scheduled for June 24)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 4 HC  (Originally scheduled for July 15)

The status of the following previously solicitedcollections is unknown.
They may still have their original publicationdate.

THE MARVEL ART OF SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN HC  (Originally scheduled for August 8)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN BY KURT BUSIEK OMNIBUS
 (Originally scheduled for September 23)

Darkworlds Quarterly - Now online!

Mythos Sites: Nan-Matol - New!
The Strangest Northerns: Quest of Qui  
Weird Westerns and Lee Winters
Doc Savage: The Illustrations!  
Henry Kuttner: Mythos Mistake?
Artists of Sword & Sorcery: Ken Barr (1933-2016)  
I Steal Your Blood! Doctors of Horror!
Weird Tales’ Hidden Treasure: The Night Wire


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

Pulp Gallery: THE AVENGER
- New!
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 52 & 53 (1957)  - New!
Happy Birthday, Dash! THE MALTESE FALCON Comic Book (1946)  
Pulp Gallery: NEW SPORTS  
Cliffhanger Serial: KING OF THE WILD (1931)  
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip - Weeks 51 & 52 (1957)  
Pulp Gallery: WEIRD TALES 94, 95, 96 & 97 (1931-32)  
NERO WOLFE Comic Strip: Weeks 49 & 50 (1957) A New Case for Wolfe!  
Pulp Gallery: DOC SAVAGE (1936)

The Digest Enthusiast #11
Now in full color!!!!!
Now available!


Explore the World of Digest Magazines

Interviews
Janice Law (Madame Selina series AHMM)
Paul D. Marks (Bunker Hill series EQMM)
Jeff Vorzimmer (The Best of Manhunt)


Articles
Peter Enfantino summarizes 1954’s final issues of Manhunt.

Vince Nowell, Sr. grapples with Beyond Infinity.
Richard Krauss spotlights Leo Margulies: Giant of the Digests.
Steve Carper dissects a Classic error.
Ward Smith quantifies Astounding’s formats.


Reviews
Homicide Hotel from Gary Lovisi
Tough 2
Paperback Parade No. 104


Fiction
John Kuharik “Buckthorn Justice” art by Rick McCollum
 Vince Nowell, Sr. “The Good Soldier” art by Marc Myers
 Joe Wehrle, Jr. “Zymurgy for Aliens” art by Michael Neno

Plus nearly 150 digest magazine cover images, News Digest, cartoons by Bob Vojtko, and first issue factoids. Cover “Madame Selina” by Rick McCollum, 160 pages.


Includes over 100 digest magazine cover images
160 pages, Full color, 5.5" x 8.5" digest

Print version, $18.99
Kindle version, $4.99


    



The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

NEWS DIGEST MAY 29, 2020 - New!
NEWS DIGEST MAY 22, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 15, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 8, 2020
NEWS DIGEST MAY 1, 2020
NEWS DIGEST APRIL 24, 2020
NEWS DIGEST APRIL 17, 2020
NEWS DIGEST APRIL 10, 2020
NEWS DIGEST APRIL 3, 2020

DMR Books Blog - Now online!

The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/31/2020
- New!
The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/24/2020  
Frazetta: The Lost "Castaways" Cover
The DMRtian Chronicles, 5/17/2020
H. Rider Haggard -- 95 Years Gone
Glen Orbik -- Five Years Gone
Frazetta and the Canaveral "Castaways"  



Edgar Rice Burroughs Books
Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds
Now available on eBook format!

Science fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, wrote four novels and a novella about former stuntman Carson Napier and his wayward adventures on the planet Venus (or Amtor, as it is known to its inhabitants). Now get ready to transport yourself into theEdgar Rice Burroughs Universe with the first new Carson of Venus novelto be published in more than fifty years: Carson of Venus: The Edgeof All Worlds by Matt Betts.

The Edge of All Worlds releases Spring 2020 from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and launches the canonical ERB Universe series of interconnected novels.

Stranded on the planet Amtor for nearly two decades, Earthman Carson Napier returns from his latest adventure to discover a mysterious enemy has struck his adopted nation of Korva and reduced one of its cities to ash and cinders. The trail of the mysterious threat leadsCarson and his love Duare through dark cyclopean corridors deep beneathAmtor to a distant land, where they must confront both a powerful newalienspecies and the shadows of Carson’s past.

Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds, featuring the artwork of the amazing Chris Peuler.


Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds is available in softcover and hardcover editions, as well as a hardcover Collector’s Edition with a signed bookplate.*

BONUS TRADING CARD WITH PREORDER
All Preorders of Carson of Venus: The Edge of AllWorlds placed directly from our online store will come with a special collectible ERB Universe Victory Harben trading card!** Collect all of the trading cards by preordering each ERB Universe novel directly from ERBurroughs.com!

HARDCOVER COLLECTOR’S EDITION
The hardcover Collector’s Edition features a special ERB Universe bookplate signed by authors Matt Betts and Christopher Paul Carey, as well as an ERB Universe Carson of Venus trading card produced exclusively for the Collector’s Edition, and is limited to only 200 copies.


ERB Books   Kindle  Hardcover  Softcover  




  Now online!

New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

June 2020
This month we present a ghost(?) story by Julius Long, "He Walked by Day," that originally appeared in theJune, 1934 issue of Weird Tales.

May 2020
This month we present two stories that give you a chance to compare two authors' handling of the same basic plot.
First if Edmond Hamilton's "The Man Who Returned," a long-time favorite for anthologists, since it, like all goodstories, works on more than one level.

Second, in a continuation ofour reprinting of Julius Long, is a rarely reprintedgem, "The Late Mourner."  Read this one and savor the gentle and moving nature of the last three paragraphs, as this is one of Long's best stories.

April 2020
For your end of theyear reading pleasure, we present to you "The Monster of Lake LaMetrie" by Wardon Allan Curtis, as it originally appeared in the September, 1899 issue of Pearson's Magazine (UK).
It's a fun story involvinga dinosaur, possible hollow earth and the use of amachete as a surgical tool (?).  The illustrations by Stanley L. Wood are included along with a brief introduction by Bob Gay.


December 2019
For your end of theyear reading pleasure, wepresent to you "The Monster of Lake LaMetrie" by Wardon Allan Curtis, as it originally appeared in the September, 1899 issue of Pearson's Magazine (UK). 
It's a fun story involvinga dinosaur, possible hollow earth and the use of amachete as a surgical tool (?).  Theillustrations by Stanley L. Wood are included along with a brief introductionby Bob Gay.


November 2019
Presenting another author who has been too long neglected, we have added The Julius Long Collection and it includes not only a biography of Long's life, but also his first published story, The Dead Man's Story
Although Long ended his pulp career as a writer of detective fiction, his first works were all in the horror genre and hold up quite well today.  Hope you enjoy it.


September 2019
We are happy to present a previously unreprinted story by H. F. Arnold, "The City of the Iron Cubes,"  as it apppearedin the March and April, 1929 issues of Weird Tales, including theillustrations by C. C. Senf.
Along with some additionalbiographical material about Arnold, there is also anafterword following the story, where wediscuss the end ofthe story, and why webelieve the twist at the endmay be thefirst appearance of an ending that, today, has been doneso many times, that it is considered the worst of cliches.


July 2019
Baroness Orczy wrote many different types ofstories during her career and "Young Muggins" shows yet another facet to her talents, as she weaves a tale of love, selfishness and self-sacrifice inrural England. 
Our reprinting appears just as it didin the May, 1906 issue of The Royal Magazine, including theillustrations by J. Barnard Davis.  Introduction to thestory is by Dan Neyer.


June 2019
This month we feature Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mummy tale, Lot No. 249, including the illustrations by WilliamThomas Smedley and an introduction by your humble scribes, Dan Neyer andBob Gay.
We've also done some behind the scenes work to makethe site work better...do stop byand check us out.


May 2019
Edmond Hamilton returns to ourpages with "The Man Who Evolved," direct from the pages of theApril, 1931 issue of Wonder Stories, including the Frank R. Paul illustration.  Intro by Bob Gay
Also, we found a 1953 comic book story where the plot was(*ahem*) "borrowed" from Hamilton's original and our unknownscribemanaged to condense the story down to a mere 4 pages. 
Read the original first, then "Evolution" which appears as it originally appearedin Tomb of Terror #12, with the digital restoration included at noextracost.


April 2019
We are very pleasedto present The Neil R. Jones Collection, which starts with an 11,000+ word biography of Jones that incorporates his words, newspaperarticles and our research to create a long overdue portrait of thecreator of Professor Jameson.  We have also located a nearlyall of Jones' non-fiction writings from various magazines and fanzinesand have included them, along with 5, never before reprinted, storiesthat chart hisearly years as an author.  Copiously illustratedthroughout, wehopeyou enjoy it.



F PAUL WILSON REPAIRMAN JACK SCAR LIP REDUX HC  - Now available!
(Writer) F. Paul Wilson (Art/Cover) Antonio Fuso

An original graphic novel starring RepairmanJack - written by series Creator F. Paul Wilson and illustrated by Antonio (James Bond) Fuso.

Got a problem? He can fix it. He thought he'd seen the last of the Rakoshi, but one has survived.
A particularly cunningand deadly Rakosh known to Jack as Scar-Lip.
Now, Jack faces the fights of his life as he seeks to end the creature once andfor all, before it ends him!


Hardcover, 120 pages, Full Color, $24.99





Gotham Pulp CollectorsClub
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 collectorstomeet in the NYC/Metro area.
Itmeets the 3rd Saturday of every month.
Check the website at the link below for exact time and place information.

Name:  Gotham Pulp CollectorsClub
Time: 1-5 PM
Place:  Muhlenberg Library on West 23rd Street.

Contact:

Gotham Pulp Collectors Club

Hard Case Crime
Coming soon!

June 2020


SHILLS CAN'T CASH CHIPS
Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover art by Laurel Blechman


HAS DONALD LAM GONE OVER TO THE DARK SIDE?

From the world-famous creator of PERRY MASON, Erle Stanley Gardner—at his death the best-selling American authorof all time—comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lamdetective agency. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigationinto a car accidentputs Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail ofmurder—and Donald hip-deepin danger when he poses as an ex-con to infiltratea criminal gang. It’sGardner’s twistiest caper ever, and a fittingconclusion to Hard CaseCrime’srevival of this classic (and long-unavailable)detective series.

First appearance in bookstores in 45 years!
Erle Stanley Gardner remains one of the most popularAmerican authors of all time
Kirkus Reviews on the lost Cool & Lam novel, THEKNIFE SLIPPED: "A remarkable discovery...fans will rejoiceat anotherdose of Gardner’s unexcelled mastery of pace and anunexpected newtaste of his duo’s cyanide chemistry."






The Illustrated Press
MEAD SCHAEFFER

Shipping in July!

MEAD SCHAEFFER was one of the foremost illustrators of the romantic era of American fiction. He worked fordecades producing atmospheric and evocative illustrations for the top books and magazines of the day, and his romantic, swashbuckling, and theatrical paintings ultimately earned him a spot in the Society of Illustrators Hallof Fame. This new book presents a stunning overview of Schaeffer's long and illustrious career, featuring scores of illustrations reproduced directly from original paintings as well asrare tear sheets and photographs. 


Standard Edition
224 pages, 9"x12", full color, hardbound with dust jacket, $44.95.

Deluxe Edition
-Sold Out!
224 pages, 9"x12", full color, hardbound with dust jacket, shipped in a blue slipcase with white printing. Bookplate insert signed and numbered by publisher Daniel Zimmer. Limited to just100 copies!

To see a preview of the book, follow this link:
 https://issuu.com/illomag/docs/meltzoff


 
The Illustrated Press   Order: Standard Edition  Order: Deluxe Edition   Preview



ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #29 - Now available and coming soonto comic shops!
(Writer) Diego Cordoba (Art)  Various

Featuring Charles Addams: Chuckles in store from the master of macabre humor; Lawson Wood: Monkey Business from the man who drew monkeys in all humouros walks of life; Roy Wilson: One of the greatest names in slapstick British comics from theGolden Age; Ersin Karabulut: the bleak universe ofthis Turkish cartoonist; and JJ Grandville: The French caricaturist who broughtillustration (and weird worlds) to the forefront.

Softcover, 96 pages, Full Color, $24.99




Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

UNIVERSE, January 1955

Fiction Contents
THE SHOEMAKER OF LAN by T. P. Caravan
BEFORE THE FACT by Zenna Henderson
FISSION STORY by T. P. Caravan
THE SANTA CLAUS PLANET by Frank M. Robinson
THE CLAWS IN CLAUSMAS by Richard Hodgens & John Kirwan
WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT by James McKimmey Jr


Digest Magazine, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 132 pages
$12.95



SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES, May 1954

Fiction Contents
RULE GOLDEN by Damon Knight
RAIN CHECK by Judith Merril
PINNACLE by Lee J. Fox
COLLISION ORBIT by K. MacLean
AMOEBA-HUNT by R. H. Remington


Digest Magazine, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 164 pages
$12.95


SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES, January 1958

Fiction Contents
HUNT THE SPACE-WITCH! by Ivar Jorgenson
ONE AGAINST HERCULUM by Jerry Sohl
MAN OVERBOARD by Alex Kirs
THE GIRL WAS DANGEROUS by Walter L. Kleine


Digest Magazine, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 132 pages
$12.95




 
Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Lone Ranger Alumni R.I.P.

James "Buddy" Edgerton: The Unknown Lone Ranger  
The Suspense Collectors Companion  
The Return of the Green Hornet
Handsome heroes and Vicious Villains

The Inner Sanctum Sterling Silver Pendant




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.

Now featuring:

Links to Robert E. Howard Days 2019 Panel Discussions  


The Art of Robert E. Howard: Peter Andrew Jones

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Virgil Finlay

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Michael William Kaluta:  Part 1   Part 2   Part 3  

Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie

Accepting new articles for posting.
Contact me at bthom1@cox.net





Meteor House
Up from the Bottomless Pit
First Trade Edition!
Now available for pre-order!
Shipping begins August 2020 after FarmerCon XV!


Philip José Farmer’s Up from the Bottomless Pit, originally written in the late 1970s with the working title The Dragon’s Breath, is a near-mainstream novel about the ultimate ecological nightmare. Set inan alternate/near future 1970s, Up from the Bottomless Pit tells of a world so ravenous in its desire for oilthat it has thrown caution to the wind. Using an experimental deep-water laser drill off the California coast, humankind burns a hole through the ocean floor only to unleash a deadly torrent that initially threatens the greater Los Angeles area,but quickly escalates to a catastrophe of worldwide proportions with the potential to wipe out all life on the planet.

The novel wasn’t quite what Del Rey was looking for at the time, so Phil instead turned in Dark is the Sun (set fifteen billion years in the future). Fast forward to 2005 and the team here at Meteor House was launching the fanzine Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer. We serialized the novel over the first 10 quarterly issues between 2005 and 2007. At $11 per issue, it cost over $100 to read the novel. In 2007, Subterranean Press published Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories, collecting all of Phil’s material from Farmerphile in a deluxe limited edition of only 250 copies. But, at $125, it again cost over $100 to read this book.

This is the Farmer novel you’ve heard about but never got to read! Now, available for the first time ever in a trade paperback edition, you can get Up from the Bottomless Pit for only $20 (+shipping).

Featuring cover art by Keith Howell, a foreword by Farmerphile editor Christopher Paul Carey, and an introduction by award winning environmental writer Sharman Apt Russell!

Be sure to select the correct shipping option below. Books will be shipped to you in August 2020 right after FarmerCon XV!

Trade paperback, 5.5 × 8.5 inches, 250 pages

U.S.:  $24.00
Canada:  $36.00
Elsewhere: $43.00

Meteor House
A Rough Knight for the Queen
by Philip José Farmer

FirstStand Alone Edition!
Now available for pre-order!
Shipping begins August 2020 after FarmerCon XV!


Philip José Farmer fans know that he was fascinated with 19th century explorerand author Sir Richard Francis Burton. Farmer made Burton theprotagonist of the Hugo winning novel, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, the first book in the Riverworld series. In Gods of Riverworld, the final book in the series, Peter Jairus Frigate (Farmer’s fictional stand in) said that he had written a biography of Richard Burton butthat Fawn Brodie’s biography of Burton came out before Frigate couldget his published. When asked about this in the early 2000s, Phil said,“I was going to write a biography of Burton but Fawn’s biography cameout. It seemed to be pretty definitive so I decided not to write more.”

The biography Farmer did write about Burton starts in 1855, when Burton was thirty-four years old and on an expedition to find the source of the Nile. As for its origin, Phil explained, “This was written for what was called a ‘Men’s Magazine.’ I think the magazine was titled Gonads, but I am probably wrong. Anyway, for reasons unknown, the article was rejected and so went into the proverbial trunk.”

A Rough Knight for the Queenstayed in that trunk for decades until Farmer sold theoriginal unpublished manuscript and it eventually wound up in the hands of collector Craig Kimber. When Paul Spiteri and Michael Croteau were putting together Pearls from Peoria, a massive compilation of Farmer rarities published by Subterranean Press in 2006, Craig sent them a copy of the manuscript to include in the collection.

Now Meteor House brings you Farmer’s 26,000 word biography of Burton in both an affordabletrade paperback and in a signed limited hardcover.
Both editions feature introductory material by Mick Walton (author of Sir Richard Burtonand His Circle), Mark Hodder (author of the Burton and Swinburne novels) and Paul Spiteri (editor of Pearls from Peoria).
The hardcover limited edition will be signed by Walton, Hodder, Spiteri, and cover artist Charles Berlin.


US $15 tpb / $40 hc
5.5 × 8.5 inches, 102 pages
Trade Paperback Edition
Signed Limited Edition Hardcover


Two important things to note about preordering this book

First,the print run of the hardcover limited edition (which will feature a leatherette cover with custom gold foil stamping) will be determined by thenumber of preorders, meaning the majority of hardcovers will be sold before the book is even printed!

Second, there are discounts if you buy both the trade paperback and hardcover editions.
And discounts if you preorder Up from the Bottomless Pit AND A Rough Knight for the Queen (if you already preordered Bottomless Pit we will issue you a partial refund).

These package discounts willonly be available until just before the books are printed in July.
The hardcover print run willbe set on June 1st, so please preorder, before you missout!




Moonstone Books
Coming soon!

 Giant sized pulp comicby Ron Fortier
Doug Klauba cover






Mystery*File - Now online!

Pulp PI Stories I’m Reading: TALMAGE POWELL “Her Dagger Before Me.”
 - New!
Old Time Radio Review: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM DRAKE “The Invisible Thief.”
Locked Room PulpPI Stories I’m Reading: RICHARD DEMING “The Juarez Knife.”  

Pulp Stories I’m Reading: JOHN S. ENDICOTT “Double Murder.”  



 
 Cancelled due to COVID-19 threat!

PULPFEST 2020 cancelled!
PULPFEST RETURNS August 19-22, 2021 in Pittsburgh PA!





The PulpFest Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that fourteen individuals have been nominated by their peers for the 2020 Munsey Award. The honor is named after Frank A. Munsey — the man who published the first pulp magazine. This annual award recognizes an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community, be it through disseminating knowledge about the pulps or through publishing or other efforts to preserve and foster interest in the pulp magazines we all love and enjoy. Congratulations to all of the nominees for this prestigious award, presented annually at PulpFest.

Although the 2020 PulpFest has been canceled due to thecoronavirus pandemic, the convention’s organizing committee feltit was important to continue the tradition of honoring the serviceof such individuals as the winner of our 2019 Munsey Award, George Vanderburgh.

Therefore, the convention will honor one of the nominees listed below as the recipient of this year’s Munsey. Each received multiple nominations.
The winner of the recipient of the 2020 Munsey Award  will be announced on Monday, August 3, at the start of the week that PulpFest 2020  was scheduled to take place.


2020 Munsey Award Nominees
MIKE ASHLEY
RICHARD BLEILER
JASON RAY CARNEY
CAMILLE CAZEDESSUS
WILLIAM CONTENTO
GENE CHRISTIE
STEPHEN HAFFNER

RICH HARVEY
CHRIS KALB
RICK LAI
DAVID PHIPPS
SHEILA VANDERBEEK
HOWARD WRIGHT
DAN ZIMMER



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

Nothing New!



The Pulp Archivist - Now online!

Short Story Club: Mortu and Kyrus
The Call of Adventure
The King in Yellow: The Mask  
The Pineys
A Song of I.C.E. and Fire
The Pendulum
Mongoose and Meerkat Kickstarter



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

Three interviews with pulpsters - Richard Matheson, Leigh Brackett and Curt Siodmak
Pulp Round-Up May 2020 (Coronavirus edition 1)  
Photos of Walt Coburn's house in Tucson, Arizona
What is a pulp?
Rafael DeSoto covers on my new illustrator spotlight blog
The Shadow, The Spider and Doc Savage in a title match  
Rothvin Wallace - Editor, Author



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.



Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages a one-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering his own justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!
 
The tangled trail of a fiendish killer catapults the Phantom into a maze of mystery involving the biggest financial interestsof America! Follow the world’s greatest sleuth to a midnight rendezvous with death!

  

Somewhat aimless upon his return from the war, Richard Curtis Van Loan confided often in a friend of his father’s, the rather influential Frank Havens, the publisher of the Clarion newspaper. A father figure to Van Loan in many ways since he had been orphaned as a child, Havens provided the advice to the young man that would change his life and the course of Pulp history forever. Noting a particular crime that the city’s police were having trouble solving, Havens challenged Van Loan to try his hand at solving it. Van Loan does just that and in the process discovers his purpose. Not only that, but Van Loan learns of the true level of corruption and crime riddling his city and the world at large. Determined to strike back for justice and ordinary citizens, Van Loan decides to create another identify for himself and take his fight literally to the streets.
 
Even though the actual Pulp magazine ended in 1953, multiple companies have reprinted the original stories and contributed new stories to the Phantom Detective’s legacy. Even with that, the original wild, almost madcap at times adventures of Thrilling’s one-man mystery solving army against crime capture the charm and intensity of the classic Pulp era better than anything else. Also, they stand as a testament to howa character can shift and change, develop and grow, to become one of themost recognized and longest surviving Pulp characters of the period.
 
‘The Beast-King Murders’ was originally published in the July 1937 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.



Discounted  the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $14.99

Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives
G-8 and His Battle Aces #52 Audiobook
Satan Paints the Sky
by Robert J. Hogan
Read by Nick Santa Maria

  Now available!

They called G-8 the Flying Spy. History never recorded his exploits—and for good reason! No one would ever believe World War I was that wild!
 
Here is a story of tainted wings and of the twisted soul that gave them flight! It is the story of a fiend with a knife inhis brain who lived so that others would die! G-8 walked down the roadthat leads to Death, and in the sky he flew where the Falcons waitedwith their bloody claws bared! For that is the way of War and there isno mercy — only red courage against hatred. Fly with G-8 against thisbloody madness that has descended upon the earth! — Fight side by sidewith the Master Spy while Satan Paints the Sky!

 
Ten years after World War I ended, nostalgia seized a new generation, and aflock of pulp magazines dedicated to the first air-war in human historybegan vying for reader dimes. Wings. Flying Aces. War Aces. War Birds.Sky Birds. Zoom. A new school of pulp fiction developed around thesetitles. Its practitioners called it Yammering Guns, after a phrase onepulpster coined while writing noisy battle scenes of Spad versus Fokkerwarplanes trading tracers. The prince of Yammering Guns was a minister’sson named Robert J. Hogan, himself a pilot during World War One and after.
 
At first penning pulp tales just to feed himself when the bottom fell out of the airplane industry in October 1929, Hogan found a niche fairly quickly. His first tale, an aviation story, sold toWings for $65.00. Although he would write everything from westerns tostraight war stories, Hogan’s claim to pulp fame came when G-8 and HisBattle Aces debuted in 1933.
 
Nick Santa Maria brings G-8, Nippy and Bull to thrilling life in their desperate struggle to defeat a deadly nemesis unlike anything they have ever before encountered in Satan Paints the Sky. Originally published in the January 1938 issue of G-8 and His Battle Aces magazine.


Discounted  the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $14.99

Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Phantom Detective #53 eBook
The Beast-King Murders - July 1937

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.

The Phantom Detective! The name alone conjures up action and adventure. From the same publisher that brought you The Black Bat, Captain Danger, The Crimson Mask and The Green Ghost came one of pulpdom’s best-known detectives. Scourge of the underworld, The Phantom, ashe was called, aided the Law with his sweetheart Muriel Havens. His first adventure was published in February 1933 and they continued for 170 thrilling exploits until the Summer 1953 issue. The Phantom Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:
A Full Book-length Novel
The Beast-King Murders
by Robert Wallace
Taken From The Case-Book Of Richard Curtis Van Loan
The tangled trail of a fiendish killer catapults the Phantom into a maze of mystery involving the biggest financial interests of America! Follow the world’s greatest sleuth to a midnight rendezvous with death!
 
Pay-Off Party — Gripping Short Story
by Benton Braden
Chisel Joe thinks it’s simple to hi-jack ransom!
 
Murdered In Wine — Gripping Short Story
by Lloyd Llewell
Sergeant McDonald tackles pursuit of a wily killer...
 
Pushover — Gripping Short Story
by John Mallory
Inspector Varian doesn’t like Poetry Pete’s “Pomes,” but —
 
The Phantom Speaks — A Department


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. Ifyou have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.

Regular price:  $3.99
Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99


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.

G-8 and his Battle Aces rode the nostalgia boom ten years after World War I ended. These high-flying exploits were tall tales of a World War that might have been, featuring monster bats, German zombies, wolf-men, harpies, Martians, and even tentacled floating monsters. Most of these monstrosities were the work of Germany’s seemingly endless supply of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8’s recurring Nemesis, Herr Doktor Krueger. G-8 battled Germany’s Halloween shock troops for over a decade, not ceasing until the magazine folded in themiddle of World War II. G-8 and his Battle Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

 
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Will Murray

Thrilling Air Novel
Satan Paints The Sky
As Told by G-8 to Robert J. Hogan
G-8 walked down the road that leads to Death, and in the sky he flew where the Falcons waited with their bloody claws bared! For that is the way of War and there is no mercy — only red courage against hatred as SATAN PAINTS THE SKY!
 
Death Pays Off — Smashing Short Feature
John Marsh wore the black stains of thievery, but his guns spoke louder than his words!
 
Bombs For The Bride — Smashing Short Feature
by Greaseball Joe
All about Jack Petley — one of the screwballs of the 69th!
 
Flight Of The Double Cross — Smashing Short Feature
The deeds that men do live after them!
 
G-8 Speaks
A meeting with the Master Spy and the latest news of the club.


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. Ifyou have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.

Regular price:  $3.99
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Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Masked Detective #8 eBook
Spring 1942

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.

The Masked Detective, avenger of crime, battled evil the world over. He was master of la savate, kick-boxing, in addition to being a crack shot, skilled makeup artist and ventriloquist. Beneath that mask was crime reporter Rex Parker, who worked for New York's "Comet" daily paper. With the aid of Dan Gleason of Homicide and Winnie Bligh, beauty columnist, he struck terror to every dark corner of the underworld. The magazine made its debut in the fall of 1940, at the height of the popularity of the "pulp hero" magazines. It was published for twelve issues before it was forced to close due to thepaper shortages of World War II. The final issue of The Masked Detective was Spring 1943. The Masked Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
Table of Contents:
 
Featuring Rex Parker, Mysterious Crime Avenger in
The Crimes Of Stilicho
A Complete Book-Length Novel
by Sam Merwin, Jr. writing as C.K.M. Scanlon
Death came from the sky and under the ground in Parker’s most baffling case — but the daring masked detective braved perilous risks to bring in the most dangerous killer in criminal annals!
 
Bullets Are Dynamite — Exciting Short Story
by Robert Wallace
Tom Burke’s ex-con pals wouldn’t let him go straight! Ashort short story
 
Moon Over Murder — Exciting Short Story
by Fredric Brown
Pete Holm finds a gruesome setting for his brush and palette when death stalks
 
Under The Domino — A Department
A chat with the editor

 
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.

 
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The Serial Squadron
New DailySERIALS AT 7
 & Weekly SATURDAY NIGHT SERIALFEST


Visit the Squadron Facebook Group to watch entire Squadron-restored serials free every night at 7:00 pm US EST and to see chapters of new restorations in progress one chapter a week in live "watch parties" Saturdays 7pm-9pm EST.
Youcan watch and chat in real-time during these viewings with your Squadron friends.


NOW PLAYING
Daily 7:00 pm US EST

DRUMS OF FU MANCHU
Featuring Henry Brandon
and Robert Kellard

Saturday Night Serial
NOWPLAYING
Saturdays 7:00 pm US EST

THE TRAIL OF THE OCTOPUS
THE SPIDER'S WEB
THE MASKED RIDER
THE GREAT ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN KIDD

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SONOF THE GUARDSMAN
THE MOVIE SERIAL
DL-DVD Upgrade

Now available!

FEATURING BOB SHAW, DAUN KENNEDY, BUZZ HENRY, CHARLES KING and WHEELER OAKMAN


THE CRIMSON GHOST
THE MOVIE SERIAL
BLU-RAY Upgrade or DL-DVD

Now available!

FEATURING CHARLES QUIGLEY, LINDA STIRLING, CLAYTON MOORE, KENNEDUNCAN and ? as THE CRIMSON GHOST (Voice by I. Stanford Jolley)



THE HOUSE OF HATE
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD

Coming soon!

New upgraded transfer of the amazing, massively influential Pearl White mystery serial, with solid leading man Antonio Moreno,
and, introducing The Hooded Terror, most fearsome and deadly of the early serial villains.










Sexton BlakeVersus the Master Crooks (Sexton Blake Library Book 2) - Coming October 6!
by Mark Hodder (Editor)


As brilliant as Sherlock Holmes. As daring as James Bond. Sexton Blake, the adventuring detective, is back! This second volume of a new series reinstates oneof literatures greatest detectives - back in print for the first time in decades!

For nearly a century, Sexton Blake was the most written about character in British fiction. He starred in approximately four thousand stories by nearly two hundred authors. A cross between Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones, he was a publishing phenomenon, read by young and old alike.


Paperback: 430 pages
Publisher: Rebellion
Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 inches
List Price: $11.99


Rebellion will be publishing further landmark volumes, each witha fantastic art deco style cover, including:
Sexton Blake’s Allies (December 2020)
Sexton Blake on the Home Front (February 2021)



The Shadowcast  - Now online!

Season 1, Episode 6 - 'THE SHADOW' (DC Comics, 1973) & Could Shadow Be Headed to TV?  
Season 1, Episode 5 - 'THE VOODOO MASTER'
The Shadowcast: Season 1, Episode 4 - 'THE SHADOW STRIKES' and 'DEATH HOUSE RESCUE'  
The Shadowcast: Season 1, Episode 3 - 'LINGO' and 'DEATH TO THE SHADOW'
Season 1, Episode 2 - 'THE SHADOW/GREEN HORNET: Dark Nights'
Season 1, Episode 1 - The Living Shadow





SPECTRE LIBRARY: THE PULP AND PAPERBACK FICTION READER - Now online!

Love Traffic by Gaston Lamond
“Murder Mayhem” by Ray Stahl (aka: Bart Carson)
Murder Gets Around by Robert Sidney Bowen
Spider Pete by Claude Stewart
The Finger of Death by Henry Keyworth



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.

Cozy Dystopia  
Stars Upon Thars  
Earl Peirce, Jr.-Aside No. 1
Earl Peirce, Jr. (1917-1983)-Part One
Patterns of Force  
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Five
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Four
Katherine MacLean (1925-2019)
The Mysterious Dolgov-Part Three and a Half
 

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

Now available!
Judges: Volume Two, Michael Carroll, Joseph Elliott-Coleman & Maura McHugh, Abaddon Books, $11.99

Coming soon!
The Fall of Deadworld Omnibus, Matthew Smith, Abaddon Books, $11.99, June 23, 2020
Haunted Heroine [Heroine Complex #4], Sarah Kuhn, DAW Books, $15.00, July 7, 2020

Random Sh*t Flying Through The Air, Jackson Ford, Orbit, $15.99, July 7, 2020
Wild Cards XXVII: Knaves over Queens, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $19.99, July 14, 2020
Avengers: The Extinction Key,Greg Keyes, TitanBooks, $16.00, August 4, 2020
Bystander 27, Rik Hoskin, Angry Robot, $14.99, August 11, 2020
The Somebody People [Resonants Book #2], BobProehl, DelRey, $18.00, September 1, 2020
Wild Cards XI: Dealer’s Choice, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $18.99, September 1, 2020

The Godhead [The God Wave Trilogy #3], Patrick Hemstreet, HarperCollins, $16.99, September 15, 2020
Hench: A Novel, Natalie Zina Walschots, William Morrow, $27.99, September 22, 2020
Wolverine: Weapon X Omnibus, Marc Cerasini, David Alan Mack, Hugh Matthews, TitanBooks, $14.95, October 27, 2020
Judge Fear’s Big Day Out and Other Stories, ed. Michael Carroll, Abaddon Books, $11.99, November 10, 2020
Refraction, Christopher Hinz, AngryRobot, $14.99, November 10, 2020
Wild Cards XXVIII: Joker Moon, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $29.99, December 1, 2020
Wild Cards XII: Deuces Down, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $27.99 On sale January 5, 2021
Morbius: Blood Ties, Brendan Deneen, Titan Books, $22.95, February 2, 2021




WEIRDBOOK #42
Softcover edition now available at Amazon!

This special John Shirley issue of WEIRDBOOK presents a complete, original novel plus a selection of poems, short stories, and more by one of the most acclaimed figures in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction fields.

Novel
Swords of Atlantis, by John Shirley

Short Stories
Anvil Rock, by John Shirley
Broken on the Wheel of Time, by John Shirley
Nodding Angel, by John Shirley
Calaphais and the Demon Malchance, by John Shirley
That Ambulance Again, by John Shirley

Poetry
Secret Tree, by John Shirley
A Tourist in Hell, by John Shirley
The Egregious Error of Werner Witherbye, by John Shirley
You See Me as You See Me, by John Shirley
And I’ll Burn Like a Vampire in the Sun, by John Shirley

Paperback: 157 pages
Publisher: Wildside Press
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
$12.00

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