Once again join us on a journey back
to an “Age of Aces” as “Battling” Mord Grogan burns through
the tortured skies of pre-WWII China.
Grogan, an American pilot, commands the
all-Chinese “Dragon Squadron” in their battle against
the invading Japanese along with his three
valiant flight commanders: Monty St. John, the lanky Limey;
slender Hank Goyen, the dapper Frog; and last but
not least, the imperturbable Ah Im, Grogan’s boyhood
chum of old Nanking days, now premier olive-toned
ace of the Dragon clan. Never before has the struggle been
so fierce or the danger of Oriental treachery so great!
WWI pilot Robert M. Burtt wrote
the fourteen Battling Grogan stories in the
early 1930’s for Flying Aces Magazine before
becoming well known as the co-creator and writer
of aviation-themed radio serials like The Air Adventures
of Jimmy Allen, Captain Midnight, Hop Harrigan and
Sky King.
Stories include:
“Against The Rising Sun” –
Flying Aces, May 1932
“The Squadron of Skeletons” – Flying
Aces, June 1932
“The Tartar Thunderbolt” – Flying Aces,
October 1932
“The Dragon’s Brood” – Flying Aces,
February 1933
“Shanghai Hawks” – Flying Aces, March 1933
“Minions of the Mikado” – Flying Aces,
June 1933
“Eagles of the East” – Flying Aces, July
1933
“The Dragon’s Decoy” – Flying Aces,
September 1933
“Ming Menace” – Flying Aces, November 1933
“Death from The Rising Sun” – Flying
Aces, December 1933
“The Bat Brood” – Flying Aces, January 1934
“Traitor Truce” – Flying Aces, February
1934
“Hawks of Nippon” – Flying Aces, May
1934
“Mace of The Mikado” – Flying Aces,
September 1934
$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 470pp
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Altus Press
Now available!
The Dime Detective
Library
The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Volume 1
by Carroll John Daly
Introduction by Ed Hulse
Vivian “Vee” Brown leads two lives. Delicate-looking
and small in stature, he lacks physical strength and endurance. But that
doesn’t prevent him from being an effective special operative to the Manhattan
District Attorney. In this capacity he often ignores the legal niceties of
due process, shooting first and asking questions later. Many citizens view
him as a hair-trigger gunman whose promiscuous killings make him little better
than the vicious criminals he hunts. In his other life, Brown lives in a
luxurious Park Avenue penthouse, paid for not with his modest civil-servant
salary, but with the royalties he earns as a phenomenally successful composer
of sentimental songs—a sideline he keeps secret. Both the police and the
underworld refer to him as a “Killer of Men.” But the denizens of Tin Pan
Alley know him as “Master of Melodies,” the prince of pop music.
The creation of Carroll John Daly, father of the hard-boiled
private eye, Vee Brown plied his trade in the page of Dime Detective,
the classic crime pulp that was second only to the legendary Black
Mask in its impact on the genre.
Contains the following stories:
“The Crime Machine”
“The Sixth Bullet”
“The Curtain of Frost”
“The Call to Kill”
“The Death Master”
“Murder at Midnight”
“As Midnight Strikes”
“The Red Death”
“The Price of Silence”
Hardcover
- $39.95
Softcover - Sale Price: $26.96 (Regular Price: $29.95)
Ebook - $5.99
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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Altus Press
Now available!
The Dime Detective
Library
The Complete Cases of The Marquis
of Broadway, Volume 1
by John Lawrence
Introduction by Ed Hulse
NYPD Lieutenant Martin Marquis and the
officers of his hand-picked Broadway Squad are the toughest, most vicious
cops in pulp-fiction history. “The Marquis,” as he is called along
Manhattan’s Main Stem, is trim and dapper, with a weathered face
and deep-set blue eyes. In marked contrast to the average plainclothes
officer, he dresses like one of New York’s “swells,” generally showing
up at crime scenes clad in smartly angled derby hat, black silk scarf,
black kid gloves and shoes, dark suit, and ankle-length black Chesterfield
coat. His appearance notwithstanding, the Marquis is practically a
gangster with a badge, only marginally less corrupt than the underworld
figures he pursues. Members of the Broadway Squad share his casual
morality and frequently abuse their authority not only for financial
gain but personal satisfaction as well.
One of the most unusual collection of stories published
in any crime pulp, the Marquis of Broadway series was written by
John Lawrence, a former stockbroker whose literary career, while relatively
brief, deserves more recognition than it has received to date. Most
of Lawrence’s best yarns, including those featuring the Marquis and
his Broadway Squad, first appeared in the pages of Dime Detective, the
prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its
impact on the genre.
Contains the following stories:
“Broadway Malady”
“Live Man’s Shoes”
“Escape Mechanism”
“Natural Killer”
“Boomerang Blastout”
“Body About Town”
“Witness! Witness!”
“Twelve Morticians Named Green”
“Death in Round Numbers”
Hardcover
- $39.95
Softcover - Sale Price: $26.96 (Regular Price: $29.95)
Ebook - $5.99
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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Altus Press
Coming
soon!
The most
anticipated Frederick Nebel collection....
Defiance Valley: The Complete Northwoods Stories of Frederick
Nebel, Volume 1
Tales of the Northwest may have been Frederick Nebel's forte,
but sadly these ultra-rare magazines don't turn up often and as a
result,
few readers have been able to enjoy these classics.
With this series, Altus Press brings these stories to modern readers,
complete, uncut, and in order.
Volume 1 contains Nebel's first 16 stories of this genre, taken from
North*West Stories and Action Stories.
Look for it soon!
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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American Fantasy
Press
THE COLLECTORS BOOK OF VIRGIL
FINLAY
Coming in October - Now accepting
pre-orders!
Coming this October in collaboration with
Tattered Pages Press, a beautiful art book featuring Virgil Finlay art from
the collections of Robert Weinberg, Doug Ellis and Glynn Crain.
THE COLLECTORS BOOK OF VIRGIL FINLAY will premier at the World
Fantasy Convention in Virginia in conjunction with the Centenary
celebration of Finlay's birth. This book will have pages and pages
of Finlay's exquisite detailed art.
Commentary on Virgil Finlay by two of
the field's foremost pulp art collectors: Robert Weinberg and Doug Ellis.
Bob Weinberg's been scanning original artwork since November of
last year.
It looks now to have over 40 pages of color and over 150 pages
pages of text and Black & White work.
B&W Artwork includes: Virgil Finlay’s famous H.P. Lovecraft
portrait, the illustrations for The Ship of Ishtar and A Midsummer's
Night Dream, at least one American Weekly piece, illustrations for
Pegasus, Citadel of Fear, Manikins of Horror, The Colour out of Space,
The Face in Abyss, The People of the Pit, Anthem, The Hairy Ones Shall
Dance, and many more.
Color Artwork includes: Covers for A Brave New World; Famous Fantastic
Mysteries: Minimum Man, Polaris of the Snows, The Metal
Monster; Galaxy: Captain Ahab
9" x 12" book, 208 pages, thick boards.
A Buckram cloth bound trade edition. 500 copies.
A bonded leather-bound edition with signed
cancelled checks by Virgil Finlay. 26 copies.
American
Fantasy Press
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THE BLACK BAT #10 - Arriving in comic shops May 7!
Written by Brian Buccellato, art by Ronan Cliquet,
cover by Jae Lee
The Black Bat is forced to deal with the idea of betrayal
in his own inner circle. Also, the blowback from his prison
break-in escalates as he is declared public enemy number one;
and the war against him is brought right to his doorstep.
Full color, 32
pages, $3.99
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Black Coat Press
Now available!
The
Works of André Couvreur
adapted by Brian Stableford
André Couvreur (1865-1944) was
a medical doctor who penned several medical treatises, and was also the
author of eight romans scientifiques dealing with "medical concepts"
featuring the mad scientists Doctor Caresco, then Professor Tornada.
These are collected in a series of five volumes, translated and annotated
by Brian Stableford, presenting for the first time the ground-breaking
works of this pioneer of French science fiction.
Climbing on to a heap of rubble, I saw them in the distance,
coming out one by one from the vast hall, which they had doubtless
adopted as a lair, where they must have been lurking like dogs in
a kennel after breaking down the doors. They were coming, crawling,
raising their tentacles, roaring, their frightful gray mass scarcely impeded
by the border of rubble.
In An Invasion of Macrobes (1909), Professor Tornada, unhinged by
the death of his wife and daughter, and unable to withstand the blow
of having been rejected by the French Academy, unleashes giant, flesh-eating
bacteria, immune to the assaults of artillery and high explosives,
on Paris, intent on smashing it flat. In the ground-breaking The
Androgyne (1922), Tornada turns a man into a woman.
US $22.95 / GBP £12.99
5x8 trade paperback, 320 pages
I recognized a few animals, but for the most part, they
were incomplete; sometimes tumors replaced organs; a small elephant
had a trunk that terminated in a bird's head; a pig had a horse's
leg grafted on to its abdomen; a monkey had a child's hand superimposed
on its shoulder; a veritable teratological museum...
In The Phosphorescent Waltzer(1923), Professor Tornada creates
an android and in Memoirs Of An Immortal(1924), he tackles the concept
of suspended animation.
US $22.95 / GBP £12.99
5x8 trade paperback, 300 pages
Tornada pushed the needle into the heart of the man of
whom he had operated. He withdrew it swiftly, turned the mummy over,
and repeated the installation in the spinal column. Then, the prodigy
accomplished. Already, the tissues of the reanimated individual were
regenerating. Already, his face was flushed, his breast was rising,
his muscles quivering and his hair prickling. Everything, in that cadaver
of sorts, was resuming the tranquil appearance of a man asleep.
In The Biocole (1927), Professor Tornada conquers death itself and
becomes the creator and virtual god of a utopian enclave called
Biocolia. In The Case of Baroness Sasoitsu (1939), the eccentric scientist
solves a baffling murder case by using his psychovisor which translates
thoughts into images. The book also includes the novella In the Afterlife
(1936), a story in a lighter comic vein.
US $22.95 / GBP £12.99
5x8 trade paperback, 308 pages
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Black Coat Press
Coming in July!
THE TRIUMPH
OF FU MANCHU by William Patrick Maynard
Collectors Edition
US$39.95/ GBP28.99
6x9 Hardcover with dust jacket
212 pages
Cover by Christine Clavel
Interior Illustrations
are by French artist Michel Borderie
Foreword:
Rick Lai
Introduction: William Patrick Maynard
Epilogue: A short story titled
"Aria" by William Patrick
Maynard
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Black Dog Books - Now available!
"The best writer by a million miles
is Fred Nebel, who . . . uses the Dashiell Hammett style, but does
Hammett one better. . . . brutality of treatment, bluntness, and vivid
character portrayal."
Hugh Cave, Lifetime Achievement recipient, Horror Writers
Association and World Fantasy
Malayan Peril
Following a trail of clues, what secrets does Steele uncover in
the remote jungle temple when he encounters the Hidden Council,
a mysterious black-robed secret society?
The Darjeeling Diamond
Callahan agrees to transport the fabled Darjeeling Diamond from Calcutta
to Penang. While en route, the jewel goes missing and suddenly
every person onboard becomes a suspect.
Isle of Lost Men
The basis for the films Isle of Lost Men and Ships of the Night,
this action-packed novella sends Dan Meloy searching for a missing
heir given up for dead on the doomed Isle of Lost Men—from where
no one returns!
Follow the excitement in these and eleven other thrilling tales
of adventure including:
• The Coast of Hate (novelette)
• Doom Lagon
• Typhoon McQuade
• Flame Island (novel)
• Some Grudge
• The Devil's Souvenir (novelette)
• Sunken Sovereigns
• The Bluff That Worked
• Captain Fortune
• Claws of the Jungle (novelette)
• No Law Beyond Khyber (novelette)
With an introduction
by Tom Roberts.
Cover art by John Newton
Howitt.
Trade paperback / 368 pages
/ Price: $19.95 US
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Black Dog Books - Now available!
For two and a half decades Carroll John Daly was a driving
force in crime fiction, inventing the hard-boiled school of
detection. Stories of his character Race Williams are unrivaled
in their headlong pace and breathtaking action. Finally, nine
of the best stories by one of the most influential detective writers
of all time are collected in this volume showcasing his storytelling
ability at its peak.
Included are:
• This Corpse on Me
• Avenging Angel
• Race Williams' Double Date
• Murder Yet To Come
• This Corpse Is Free!
• Gas
• Manhunter
• You'll Remember Me
• I'll Feel Better When You're Dead
• Appendix A—The Ambulating Lady (nonfiction)
Race
Williams' Double Date is the first major anthology of Carroll John Daly's
work.
Selected and with a foreword
by Stephen Mertz.
Introduction by Evan Lewis.
Cover design by Tom Roberts.
Trade paperback / 257
pages / Price: $19.95 US
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Black Dog Books - Now available!
Singapore Sammy returns for another set of rough-and-tumble
thrilling adventures through the Straits Settlements continuing
his pursuit of his elusive father and the will to his grandfather's
estate in these four thrilling novel-length works.
Sapphires and Suckers
Buying a sapphire mine proves more of a nuisance than it is worth
for Singapore Sammy Shay and Lucky Jones. When they uncover
a new deposit of the precious stone, the pair are suddenly up
to their elbows in blue clay and trouble!
The Python Pit
"Never trust a woman." Sammy quickly forgets that adage when he
and Lucky Jones are enticed to transport Sally Lavender on the
Blue Goose to somewhere east of the Celebs, to the shunned isle
of Konga, shunned because it is inhabited with headhunters-and
ghosts!
The Isle of the Meteor
A forgotten chart provides Sammy a clue to the location of an island
in the South Seas that centuries ago was struck by an enormous
meteorite of solid gold. Cooking up a scheme to acquire these
untold riches, Sammy embarks to locate the island-only to discover
that the gold is not simply for the taking.
A Whisker of Buddha
Singapore Sammy and Lucky Jones are hired to steal a revered whisker
of the Buddha himself from a well-guarded temple in the Cambodian
interior. Word of their quest gets out; quickly a race is on to
see which pursuing party will acquire the sacred object first.
FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION
With an introduction by Rick Lai.
Trade paperback / 199 pages / Price: $19.95 US
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Black Dog Books - Now available!
Return to a time when the world was not fully mapped,
the lure of adventure was strong and Africa was still the Dark Continent.
Journey to the far corners of the globe as Matthew Quin, big game
hunter extraordinaire, seeks to capture wildlife for Hamrach
& Co. Along the way Quin discovers that vipers, scorpions,
tigers and all manner of beasts often walk on Earth in the two-legged
variety.
This massive volume, culled from a variety of resources and international
library archival collections, marks a major achievement in research
in assembling forty-seven works—the complete known stories of
Matthew Quin, pulled from book, magazine and newspaper appearances.
Also included is the novel, In Wildest Africa, in which Quin encounters
Teddy Roosevelt on an African Safari!
Contents:
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• How I Lost My Elephant
• The Shelter-House of the Sunderbunds
• The Borneo Orang-Outang
• The Adventure of the Australian Bushrangers
• The Black Panther From Hamburg
• The Adventure of the Lost Caravan
• The Adventure of the Stolen Lions
• Bin Mahommed's Cunning
• The Johannesburg Conspiracy
• The Nawab of Jubbulpore's Diamond
• Prince Wong's Lioness
• The Mystery of Ranjeet Singh's Death
• The Adventure of the Star of Dehli
• The Mystery of the Oudh Jungle
• The Mystery of the Wrecked Circus Train
• The Strange Case of the Montana Grizzly
• The Affair of the Singapore Bungalow
• Tharadeen, the Dacoit
• The Two-Horned Rhinoceros
• Count Sandoff's Wife
• The Man Tiger of the Ussuri Valley
• The Pearl of the Philippines
• The Adventure of the Achinese Pirates
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• A Treacherous Rival
• The Ringed Jaguar of Amazonas
• The Affair of the Python
• The Wonderful Adventure of the Yukon Tributary
• On the Trail of the Totem Bear
• The Quest of the White Panther
• The Quest of the Bull Moose
• The Rajah of Vancore's Menagerie
• The International Episode of the Niger Swamp
• In Solomon's Tank
• The Sultan of Muscat's Cheetah
• The Adventure of the Harkaway Hall Preserves
• The Silent Man of the Polar Star
• A Terrible Night
• The Mad Elephant of Coorg
• Night In the Forests of India
• The Adventure of the Assam Shooting-Box
• The Rajah of Kolat's Trainer
• The Adventure of the Rio Gila Ford
• Baffled by a Puma
• The Hermit of Kootenay Pass
• The Contents of a Tiger Trap
• The Shooting Cage
• In Wildest Africa (novel) |
Assembled and with
an introduction by Graydon scholar, Georges T. Dodds, Ph.D.
Trade paperback / 473 pages / Price:
$19.95 US
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Black Dog Books - Now available!
A collection of articles and studies relating to the detecitve
pulps and the Western pulps.
A must have for anyone interested in the history of the pulp magazine
field!
Included are:
Dashiell Hammett and the Detective Pulps
• House Burglary Poor Trade (An interview with Dashiell
Hammett) by Helen Herbert Foster
• Sex, Deftly Handled by H. Bedford-Jones
• Shall We Write Sex Stories? (A reply to "Sex, Deftly Handled")
by Dashiell Hammett and H. Bedford-Jones
• How Philo Vance, Clubfoot and Charlie Chan Were Born by
H.F. Manchester
• Do You Want to Become A Writer? Or Do You Want to Make
Money? by Joseph T. Shaw
• Dialogue by Joseph T. Shaw
• Cleve F. Adams: Black Knight, Cannibal and Forgotten Man
by Evan Lewis
• The Maltese Falcon on Film: A Photo Gallery
Special Fiction Section
• The Road Home as by Peter Collinson (Dashiell Hammett)
The Western Pulps
• Western Fiction Discussed by Eugene Manlove Rhodes by William
McLeod Raine
• To the Prolific Belong the Spoils by George C. Henderson
• Get Your Villainy First by W.D. Hoffman
• Write 'em, Cowboy! (An interview with William McLeod Raine)
by Herbert Cerwin
• The Western Story Lives (1931) by J.R. Johnston
• Clarence E. Mulford Lets His Stories "Grow" by Harold L.
Cail
• The Western Story Today (1934) by Edmund Collier
• Mean Pete Growls! (An interview with Western author Peter
Brandvold) by Tom Roberts
• My Favorite Western Pulps and Authors by James Reasoner
Art Focus
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Births of Virgil Finlay,
Hannes Bok and Edd Cartier
• Autobiography and art gallery by Virgil Finlay
• Hannes Bok biography and art gallery by Robert Weinberg
• My Glazing Technique (1945) by Hannes Bok
• Edd Cartier biography and art gallery by Robert Weinberg
Film Focus
• From Pulp to the Silver Screen, 2014 Ed Hulse 145
Trade
paperback / 152 pages / Price: $14.95 US
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Black Dog Books - Coming soon!
BULLETS IN THE
BLACK by Walt Coburn
"Walt Coburn has produced some of the best
Western fiction of our time. He has been read and appreciated
because of the authentic ring to his plots and the quality of humanness
in his characters. Like a classic design, Coburn has endured." -
Arizona Republic
From Walt Coburn, the "Cowboy Author," come these five previously
uncollected novellas and the shorter title story, each from
the pages of Western Story Magazine.
Bullets in the
Black
An aging sheriff and a pink-faced recruit face brutal ruffians
along the border.
Out of the Dark
A primal fear of what emerges from the night provides the
foundation to this story of anxiety and psychological
drama when ancient deeds resurface for Pete Gillis.
Range Robbers
Plans are set into motion for an Eastern Syndicate to acquire,
through any means possible, the one parcel of land
that prevents them from controlling the entire section.
Gun-lords of Tortilla Range
Looking to avenge an old wrong, Cabe McCall rides to Arizona
hoping to tracking down the shadowy killers of his
brother only to find himself thrust into an even deeper and deadlier
mystery.
Killers of Coyote Pass
Tom Gaines learns that driving cattle though the only mountain
pass for a hundred miles is treacherous enough without
rustlers' gunfire raining down on you.
Riders of the Ghost Trail
Just when he thought all was dead and buried, Slim Fergus
is suddenly confronted with ghosts from
his past.
With an introduction by James Reasoner.
Cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer.
FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION
Trade
paperback / 174 pages / Price: $15.95 US
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The silent-era movie serial——routinely dismissed, overlooked
or undervalued by film historians——finally gets the attention it
deserves in this meticulously researched, lovingly written book.
Drawing on the well-established conventions of pulp fiction and
blood-and-thunder stage melodrama, the motion-picture chapter
play thrilled viewers of all ages and, more importantly, made
weekly moviegoing a habit for millions of Americans during the Teens
and Twenties.
Ed Hulse, editor and publisher of Blood ‘n’ Thunder magazine,
opens this deluxe trade paperback with a 25,000-word overview
on the silent serial’s development, debunking old myths and putting
the chapter play in its proper historical context. The bulk of
the book is devoted to the output of Pathé Exchange, the production/distribution
entity that employed the most popular stars (including serial queens
Pearl White, Ruth Roland, and Allene Ray) and released the most successful
and influential serials (The Perils of Pauline, The Exploits of Elaine,
The Lightning Raider, The Timber Queen, and The Green Archer, to name
a few). This company history has been impeccably sourced and even
features first-hand recollections from people who were part of serial-making
in those halcyon days.
Distressed Damsels and Masked Marauders has more than 200 illustrations:
rare stills, posters, advertisements, lobby cards, candid on-set
photos, even frame captures from the film themselves. Most of these
have never been published.
Hulse has recaptured this remarkable period in film history in
painstaking detail, and even those film buffs or pulp fans with limited
interest in serials will be fascinated by this evocative chronicle
of the early chapter plays.
PURCHASE PRICE
INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING
ORDER.
290 pages,
8x10, trade paperback
Price: $29.95
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Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania
Press
Blood 'N' Thunder Special Edition
(#38-#40)
Now available!
The largest
single issue of a fanzine ever published!
This Special Edition has three times the pages of a normal Blood
'n' Thunder
(less those that would go toward duplicating ads and front matter,
of course).
Among the departments you'll find a preview of PulpFest 2014; coverage
of a 1936 movie adapting Fred MacIssac's Dime Detective character
The Rambler; an essay on the first serial adapted from a comic strip,
1934's Tailspin Tommy; and advice from noted SF editor Robert "Doc"
Lowndes on cracking the pulp-magazine market.
Feature articles cover a number of favorite characters, including
Doc Savage and G-8. Scholar Nathan Madison is on hand with a
fascinating treatise on "Yellow Peril" pulp fiction. Larry
Latham joins BnT's Writers Brigade with a survey of dime novels
and nickel weeklies that became full-fledged pulp magazines. Film
historian Richard W. Bann returns with a behind-the-scenes look at the
production of 1941's The Maltese Falcon, and BnT editor Ed Hulse revisits
the Thirties film appearances of The Shadow with newly uncovered
information on the 1931-32 Universal featurettes that introduced the
character to moviegoers. There are facsimile reprints of short stories
from rare early issues of Adventure and The Popular Magazine.
Finally, as a bonus, this issue includes an entire book-length
novel (85,000 words) first published in 1918 issues of All-Story
Weekly: Randall Parrish's eerie adventure The Strange Case of
Cavendish, which was made into a 1919 cliffhanger serial titled
The Lion Man.
Nearly 300
pages, 8x10, trade paperback
Price: $29.95
The Special Edition counts as issues 38
through 40 for subscribers and includes all the material previously
announced for #38.
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Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania
Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!
Windy City, Here I Come!
Pulp Pinup Queen Mala Mastroberte Joins Murania Press At
Windy City Con!
Call Me Ish…er, Lazarus.
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The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 280: Doc Savage
Art talks with Will Murray and Joe Devito about the newest Doc
Savage novel.
Episode
279: Dragging the wives into the hobby
Episode 278: Betrayal on Monster Earth
Episode 277: Van Plexico's
Shattering
Episode 276: Soulquest
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Clive Cussler: GHOST SHIP (The Numa
Files) - Coming May 27!
by Clive Cussler & Graham Brown
When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to
rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he
wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see
an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned
when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt
doesn’t trust either version of his recollection.
Determined to know the truth, he begins to search
for answers, and soon finds himself descending into
a shadowy world of state-sponsored cybercrime, and uncovering
a pattern of vanishing scientists, suspicious accidents,
and a web of human trafficking. With the help of Joe Zavala,
he takes on the sinister organization at the heart of this web,
facing off with them in locations ranging from Monaco to North
Korea to the rugged coasts of Madagascar. But where he will ultimately
end up¾even he could not begin to guess.
Series: The Numa Files (Book 10)
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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CONAN AND THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK
CIRCLE HC - Arriving in comic shops
May 7!
Fred Van Lente (Writer) and Ariel Olivetti (Art/Cover)
After an agent of the dreaded Black Seers of Yimsha
assassinates the king of Vendhya, his sister Yasmina—now
a queen—vows revenge! But her plans are derailed when
Conan kidnaps her, and soon the Cimmerian has ruthless
mercenaries, vengeance-crazed tribesmen, sinister sorcerers,
and an entire army hard on his heels! Collects the four-issue
miniseries.
Hardcover, 7” x 10”, Full Color, 96 pages, $19.99,
in stores on May 7.
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CONAN: THE SACRIFICE 1/4-SCALE STATUE - Coming in August!
Standing atop a ruined floor base, the mighty barbarian
warrior brandishes his massive battle axe to strike down his most fiercest
of enemies. Conan: The Sacrifice is a must for any Cimmerian collector.
ARH EX includes head and sword found nowhere else. Note: the snake and
salve girl sold separately. Scheduled to ship in August 2014.
CONAN: THE SACRIFICE is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Now available).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY142491.
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Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery,
Adventure, and the Wild West
- Now online!
Forgotten Stories: SMART GUY by Cleve F. Adams (Read it Here!)
- New!
Comic Gallery: BUCK ROGERS 4, 5 & 6 (1942-43)
- New!
Overlooked Films: Mike Hammer in MY GUN IS QUICK (Watch it
here!) - New!
Forgotten Books: DANGER ZONE by Raoul Whitfield (1931)
Baumhofer Gallery: PETE RICE Magazine (1933-34)
SHADOW COMICS 28, 29 & 30 (1943)
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective comics: "The Devil's Ballet"
Forgotten Books: THE GLASS KEY by Dashiell Hammett
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Dieselpunk ePulp Showcase - Now available!
This sci-fi smorgasbord serves up 9 retro tales inspired
by the pulp magazines of the 1920s - 1940s, but adds a jolt of diesel.
It drops you into the deco chiseled cities of alternate Americana,
then blasts you off to the farthest reaches of yesterday’s tomorrows.
Get ready to explore outerspace, uncover forgotten pasts, delve into
parallel histories, and futures that never were. Prepare to encounter
a cardre of eclectic chracters walking the crooked line between right
and wrong!
* Witness the otherworldly genesis of Wild Marjoram in a Chicagoland
speakeasy as the violence of the all-female Killdeer Gang reaches
vigilante-inspired fever pitch in "The Birth" by N.R. Grabe.
* Flying taxis fight for space over New York as Johnny Grant, Private
Eye, sifts streets rife with murder and corruption in "The Maltese
Spectrum" by Rick “Paladin” Pratt.
* It's class-warfare in Citadel City as Pandora Driver and her Car
of Tomorrow cruise the shadowy streets in search of one good cop
in "Ready Fire Aim" by John Picha.
* Resources dwindle as aqua farming Region 5 Spaceport Terminus pushes
maximum population density, and the balance between man and machine
collapses in "Bloom" by Anita Dime.
* The fractured politics of the fractured 1920s Aether Age leaves
a sheriff struggling to find the truth in "The More Things Change"
by Grant Gardiner.
* Would Ace Rango rather be locked in battle with snarling space
lizards or a temperamental, little girl when "Bedtime Stories are
Boring?" by Jose Cepeda.
* World War II drags on into 1958 as one Australian airship officer
seeks safe harbor before the lights go out during "Darkness Eternal:
Over the South China Sea" by Russell Secord.
* In Fascist ruled skies over prohibition era America, a rogue pilot
risks all to bring down a gang of rocket pack raiders with "The Rocket
Molly Syndicate" by John Taylor.
* Captain Tony Lagarto's flying boat is hijacked by a lunatic Vinlander
demanding transport to a place that doesn't exist in "Storming Shangri-La”
by Jack Philpott.
Whether you’re a dieselpunk, nostalgian, ray-gun gothic, pulp fan,
sci-fi aficionado, or ebook explorer, there is an adventure in this
collection waiting for you to dive in!
The “Dieselpunk ePulp Showcase 2” is currently available on your favorite
eBookstores. Download your free copy before it’s too late!
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Doc Con XVII Dates Set - October 17, 18 & 19, 2014!
The dates are finally set! Doc Con 17 will be held
- October 17, 18 & 19, 2014 This year's theme will be the 50th
anniversary of Bantam's Doc Savage paperbacks.
Plans are underway for this to be the best Doc Con ever!
Later this summer as details are finalized, we will post about the
event on our Facebook page.
You can follow along here even if you don't have a facebook account. Please
feel free to contribute your ideas, questions and comments. Doc Con
may appear to be about Doc Savage but it is really about the fans of Doc
and our attempt to meet people who share our same interests. The video
announcing the dates of Doc Con 17 can be found on our facebook page as well
as on Youtube.
Mark your calendars and reserve your room early. We have
a block of King Bed suites set aside in our name. Just mention
Doc Savage or Doc Con when calling the Comfort Suites in Glendale,
Arizona to get the special rate of $80.00 per night. It was
$79.00 last year. The rooms are first come first serve this
year as the Chicago White Sox will be staying in the hotel this year
with us.
The weekend is expected to be quiet around the hotel but the team
took quite a few rooms and Comfort Suites expects to sell out.
Even if you reserve a room and are unable to attend, you can cancel
up to 24 hours ahead of time so you have nothing to lose.
Call (623) 271-9005 to reserve your room I look forward to
seeing you this October!
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Comics
All New Comic Strips created exclusively
for ERB, Inc.
You
can subscribe for only $1.99 / month
"Korak the Killer" by Ron Marz and Rick Leonardi
Carrying on in the family business
of jungle adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Korak – the son of Tarzan
– swings into action beginning Saturday, April 12, 2014, in an all-new
digital adventure strip written by Ron Marz and drawn by Rick Leonardi.
This strip
will join nine others currently available on the Edgar Rice Burroughs
comics website:
"Tarzan of the Apes" by Roy Thomas and Pablo Marcos,
adapting the original Tarzan novels.
"Tarzan" by Roy Thomas and Tom Grindberg, featuring new
Tarzan adventures.
"Carson of Venus" by Martin Powell and Tom Floyd.
"The Eternal Savage" by Martin Powell and Steven E. Gordon.
"The War Chief" by Martin Powell and Nik Poliwko.
"The Cave Girl" by Martin Powell and Diana Leto.
"Pellucidar" by Chuck Dixon and Tom Lyle.
"The Land That Time Forgot" by Martin Powell and Pablo
Marcos.
"The Mucker" by Ron Marz and Lee Moder
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E-texts on the net this
week
The Shadow in Review:
This weeks new Shadow review is "Mansion of
Crime" from the March 1, 1941 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
Pulpgen-Online Pulps: Now with over 1000
stories online!
"S.O.S. Stake-Out" by Arthur W. Phillps
from SECRET AGENT "X", December, 1937
When G-man Gil Bentley answered the hurry call from Ex-Fed Sam Harper,
he never figured that he would have to run the deadly gauntlet of
an ... S.O.S. Stake-out
"Jewel of Jeopardy" by Margaret Rice
from 10-STORY DETECTIVE, April, 1948
"I want a detective," the kid said, blowing his bubble gum. And
the private eye thought it was a huge joke - until he found himself
gummed up in a sinister mess of murder.
"The Fourth Corpse" by Norman A. Daniels
from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, March, 1949
Three names had been crossed off that crimson-smeared memo. And now
a fourth man was about to die. But just when reporter Ted Sullivan
neared the mystery solution, he discovered a new name on the death
list . . . His own!
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Facebook - Now online!
There are numberous groups on Facebook that are of
potential intrest to pulp fans.
The Shadow Knows
Agents of The Shadow
Flearun - A Doc Savage Group
Fans
of Bronze
G-8
and Operator #5
The Spider - Master of Men
Flash Gordon
The
Others [The Gray Seal, Nick Carter, Fantomas, Arsene Lupin, The Saint]
Professor
Jameson alias 21MM392
The Pulp Heroes
Pulp, Pulp Everywhere and Lots and Lots to Read
Pulp Talk
Pulp Magazine Authors and Literature Fans
The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Serial Archive
ERBzine
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Facebook Forum
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Worlds of Adventure
PulpFest
Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention
Pulp Coming Attractions
Robert E. Howard Comics Group
The Robert E. Howard Foundation
Robert E. Howard Readers
Two Gun Bob--The Worlds of Robert E. Howard
The International Robert E. Howard Fan Association
Conan the Cimmerian
REH: Two-Gun Raconteur
Altus Press
Weird Tales Magazine
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Now online!
New on Famous (and
forgotten) Fiction!
April 2014
- New!
In Writings
How Kid Brady Fought For His Eyes by P. G. Wodehouse
How Kid Brady Fought for his Eyes as it appeared in Pearson's
Magazine in July of 1906, including the original illustrations.
Introduction by Dan Neyer.
March 2014
In Writings
Beginning the reprinting of the first 6 adventures of
the brigand chief of the Andalusian highlands, Don Q., by Kate
and Hesketh Prichard as they appeared in Pearson's Magazine,
including the original illustrations and biographical/background
information by Dan Neyer.
The Chronicles of Don Q.
How he Treated the Parole of Gevil-Hay
February 2014
In Writings
The Crystal Trench by A. E. W. Mason
A tale as chilling as the Polar Vortex, The Crystal
Trench by A. E. W. Mason, including the original illustrations
from The Strand Magazine and an introduction by Dan Neyer.
December 2013
In Writings
The Flying Stars by G. K. Chesterton
A Christmas-themed story starring Father Brown from
the May 20th, 1911 issue of The Saturday Evening
Post including the original illustrations and an
introduction by Dan Neyer.
November 2013
In Writings
Valentin Follows a Curious Trail (The Blue Cross) by G. K.
Chesterton.
The first appearance of Father Brown as presented in
the July 23, 1910 issue of The Saturday Evening
Post with the original illustrations and an introduction
by Dan Neyer.
July - October 2013
In Writings
Just in time (sort of) for Halloween, The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson
- New!
Also, after a great deal of behind-the-scenes work,
the our "instant translation" version of The Murders in the Rue Morgue should now work in mobile
devices!
- New!
Baroness Orczy's armchair
sleuth, the Old Man in the Corner, is featured
in the twelve stories from the 1908 collection,
The Old Man in the Corner, and the rarely reprinted
tale, "The Glasgow Mystery," in weekly installments.
Story introductions, and an overview of
the Old Man, are by Dan Neyer, and Illustrations
are included where they were available.
The Glasgow Mystery
The Mysterious Death In Percy Street
The Birmingham Mystery
The Regent's Park Murder
The Brighton Mystery
The Dublin Mystery
The Theft at the English Provident Bank
The Edinburgh Mystery
The Liverpool Mystery
The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad
The York Mystery
The Robbery In Phillimore Terrace
The Fenchurch Street Mystery
Also, don't forget to take a look at the
short biography of the Baroness that appeared in the
April, 1902 issue of The Royal Magazine.
June 2013
In Writings
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The seminal detective tale that introduced
Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin and ushered in the
"modern" detective story. Also included:
all foreign and archaic words and phrases can be
viewed in translation by running your cursor over
the words; a biographical introduction by
Dan Neyer and Bob Gay; and the first illustrations
for the tale from an 1852 book collection.
May 2013
In Writings
No Man's Land
The long short story of Picts and the
Scottish moors that may have had
an influence on Robert E. Howard written
by John Buchan. Introduction by Dan Neyer.
The Death's Head Meteor
The first published story by Neil R.
Jones (of Professor Jameson fame) from the
January, 1930 issue of Air Wonder Stories
including the original illustrations
and an introduction by Bob Gay.
April 2013
In Writings
The Good Angel
A reprinting of the 1910 story by P.
G. Wodehouse featuring Keggs, a butler who
predates Wodehouse's Jeeves, with an introduction
by Dan Neyer and the original
Strand illustrations by Chas. Crombie.
Climax for a Ghost Story
The famous short-short story with an exhaustive
exploration into the history of the elusive
I. A. Ireland by Bob Gay.
March 2013
In Writings
The Adventure of The Dying Detective by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle
A complete reprinting of the Holmes
tale that includes the Walter Paget illustrations
and an introduction by Dan Neyer
that discusses the story, its publication
history and Walter Paget
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The complete novel from the 1917 edition
that includes the Schoonover illustrations
placed with their respective chapters
and an introduction by Bob Gay that explores
the creation of the novel and its importance
in the history of science fiction.
In Pictures
Images of John Carter
A sizable collection of images, with
background commentary, that show how
various artists have envisioned John Carter
over the years: in books, comics
and film.
February 2013
In Writings
The Ginger King
A rare tale of Inspector Hanaud from
the pages of Strand Magazine.
In Pictures
Two new annotated collections
of Bob's Stuff
Famous (and forgotten) Fiction is a new
site featuring familiar and obscure fiction along with
articles, pictures and essays. In the Writings
section, we have fiction by H. C. Bailey (the
first Reggie Fortune story), Carl
Stephenson, Sinclair Lewis and a large
selection of Kipling, including the complete Mowgli
stories and "The Man Who Would Be King."
We've also added an article about Sleeman's
An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children
in Their Dens, that includes a complete reprinting
of the work.
In Comics, there is an overview
of Superman #205 ("The Man Who Destroyed
Krypton!") and a look at a Steve
Ditko illustrated story that bears a strong
resemblance to a well-known story by Carl
Stephenson.The Pictures section starts
with a group of collectible (and some not so) items
and is the first of 24 collections.
The site is hoping for subscribers
to keep it going and future plans
call for more stories, more articles and there
are a number of novels we also intend
to add to the mix.
New material will be appearing
on the last Friday of each month
(which means we'll have more new stuff
at the end of February).
In a few months, we will also
be offering ebooks: on the site (in PDF)
and at Amazon and B&N in their proprietary
formats.
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First Realm Publishing
Coming
June 18!
Seven astronauts en route to Mars encounter a time warp
in space that disables their ship. Crash landing on Earth, they discover
an alien planet sixty million years before the dinosaurs. Pangaea,
the super continent, is filled with danger and terror, as they must
survive against fierce reptiles that ruled the Earth 250 million years
in the past!
EXCERPT:
Just as they thought they had reached the safety of the desert a
giant Gorgon, fully twelve feet in length came out of nowhere, its
long saber tooth-like tusks reaching for them. The colonel and Cooper
had already holstered their guns in order to run unhampered, and
the creature was upon them before either could draw their weapon.
Manning smiled. “Everyone has a purpose.”
Without hesitation, he stepped between the monster and his shipmates
…
About the Author:
As a twenty-year military veteran, I served on the Korean
DMZ under fire, as well as in Vietnam. I have a law enforcement background.
My studies of paleontology and entomology have been an influence in
many of my novels. My wife and I started the publishing imprint of FADING
SHADOWS in 1982, and published a hobby magazine and several genre
magazines for 22 years, before I settled into writing my own novels.
I have now been published in over 80 books, which include fiction
novels and short stories, as well as nonfiction books. I write SF,
YA, Western, and Action novels.
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Gabriel Hunt - Coming May 27!
HUNT AT WORLD'S END by Nicholas
Kaufmann
In pursuit of three lost gems that could
unleash an ancient power, Gabriel Hunt travels to
Borneo, Turkey, and the Kalahari Desert
with the deadly Cult of Anatolia hot on his trail.
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Girasol Collectables
- May Pulp
Replicas!
Girasol Collectables
is pleased to announce three more issues in its ongoing
series of Pulp Replicas.
Terror Tales and Operator
5 are now at six (6) issues
per year,
so that those two titles and the Spider
will be completed around the same
time in late 2015.
Girasol will also be tackling the complete
1926 year of Weird Tales over
the next 2 or 3 years, as well as other
1930s issues of interest.
Monthly
Special: All three for $95 ($10
off)
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THE
SPIDER #104
from May 1942 - $35
Featuring "The Spider and the Death Piper"
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OPERATOR 5 #41
from Sept/Oct 1938 - $35
Featuring
"The Day of the Damned"
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WEIRD
TALES #111 from March 1933 -
$35
Featuring
"The Tower of the Elephant" by Robert E. Howard
"The Isle of the Torturers"
by Clark Ashton Smith
"Buccaneers of Venus"
(Part 5 of 6) by Otis Adelbert Kline
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Click here for covers of previous months Pulp Replicas
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Girasol accepts checks, International
money orders, and Paypal as methods of payment.
Other than Replicas, please confirm
availability first before ordering items
such as pulp magazines or other books.
Paypal payments can be made
to our regular info@girasolcollectables.com
email address.
As always, these reprints are
exact copies including the illustrations,
ads, and back-up stories and have been printed
on off-white paper, staple-bound and finished
off with a high quality reproduction
of the original cover.
The only thing missing is
the smell (alas) and the flaking newsprint.
Email Girasol Collectables at:
info@girasolcollectables.com.
A complete listing, along with
other items such as books, fanzines
and of course pulps, can be found on
the Girasol Collectables website
at http://www.girasolcollectables.com/
All payments
must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables
and mailed to:
Neil Mechem
c/o Girasol Collectables
3501 GlenErin Drive,
Apt. 1409,
Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L
2E9
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ALL DETECTIVE MAGAZINE
($25 each postpaid)
#27 January 1935
BLACK MASK MAGAZINE
($35 each postpaid)
April 1920 -
First issue!
June 1,1923 - The rare KKK issue
CIVIL
WAR STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
Spring 1940
DAN
TURNER ($25 each postpaid)
Dan
Turner Hollywood DetectiveNo. 1 (January
1942)
Dan Turner Hollywood Detective
No. 2 (April 1942)
DIME MYSTERY
BOOK ($35 each postpaid)
#1 December
1932
DOCTOR DEATH ($25
each postpaid)
#1 February 1935
#2 March 1935
#3 April 1935
DR. YEN SIN ($35
each postpaid)
#1 May/June 1936
#2 July/August 1936
#3 September/October 1936
EERIE
TALES ($20 eachpostpaid)
#1 July 1941
GOLDEN FLEECE ($25 each postpaid)
#1 October
1938
#2 November 1938
#3 December 1938
#4 January 1939
#5 February 1939
#6 March 1939
#7 April 1939
#8 May 1939
#9 June 1939
HORROR STORIES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 January 1935
#2 February 1935
#5 July 1935
MAGIC CARPET ($25 each postpaid)
#1 January 1933
#2 April 1933
#3 July 1933
#4 October 1933
#5 January 1934
THE MYSTERIOUS WU FANG ($35 each postpaid)
#1 September 1935
#2 October 1935
#3 November 1935
#4 December 1935
#5 January 1936
#6 February 1936
#7 March 1936
MYSTERY ADVENTURE MAGAZINE ($25 each
postpaid)
November 1936 with a rare Domino Lady
cover appearance
THE OCTOPUS ($35 each postpaid)
February/March 1939
OPERATOR
5 ($35 each postpaid)
#1 The Masked Invasion (April 1934)
#2 The Invisible Empire (May 1934)
#3 The Yellow Scourge (June 1934)
#4 The Melting
Death (July 1934)
#5 Cavern of the Damned (August 1934)
#6 Master
of Broken Men (September 1934)
#7 Invasion
of the Dark Legions (October 1934)
#8 The
Green Death Mists (November 1934)
#9 Legions of Starvation (December 1934)
#10 The Red Invader (January 1935)
#11 The League of War Monsters
(February
1935)
#12 The Army of the Dead (March
1935)
#13 March of the
Flame Marauders (April 1935)
#14 Blood Reign of
the Dictator (May 1935)
#15 Invasion of the Yellow Warlords
(June 1935)
#16 Legions of the Death Master
(July 1935)
#17 Hosts of the Flaming
Death (August 1935)
#18 Invasion of
the Crimson Death Cult
(September 1935)
#19 Attack of the
Blizzard Men (October 1935)
#20 Scourge of the
Invisible Death (November 1935)
#21 Raiders of the
Red Death (December 1935)
#22 War-Dogs of the Green Destroyer
(January 1936)
#23 Rockets From Hell (February
1936)
#24 War Masters from the Orient
(March 1936)
#25 Crimes Reign of Terror (April
1936)
#26 Death's Ragged
Army (June-July 1936)
#27 Patriot's Death Battalion
(August-Sept. 1936)
#28 The Bloody Forty-Five Days (Oct.-Nov.
1936)
#29 America's Plague
Battalions (December 1936)
#30 Liberties Suicide Legion (January
1937)
#31 Seige of the Thousand Patriots (February
1937)
#32 Patriot's Death March (March-April
1937)
#33 Revolt of the Lost Legions
(May-June 1937)
#34 Drums of Destruction (July-August
1937)
#35 The Army Without a Country
(Sept-Oct 1937)
#36 The Bloody Frontier (Nov-Dec
1937)
#37 The Coming of the Mongol Hordes
(Jan-Feb 1938)
#38 The Seige that
Brought the Black Death (Mar-Apr 1938)
#39 Revolt of the Devil
Men (May-June 1938)
#40 The Suicide Battalion
(July-Aug 1938)
#41 The Day of the Damned
(Sept-Oct 1938)
ORIENTAL STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 October
/ November 1930
#2
December 1930 / January 1931
#3 February
/ March 1931
#4 Spring
1931
#5 Summer 1931
#6 Autumn
1931
#7 Winter 1932
#8 Spring
1932
#9 Summer 1932
PIRATE STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 November 1934
THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February
1933
SAUCY MOVIE TALES ($25 each
postpaid)
#3 December
1935 (#1 after a title change)
#4 January
1936 (#2 after a title change)
#5
March 1936
#9 July 1936
#11 September 1936
#17 March
1937
THE SCORPION ($35 each postpaid)
April/May 1939
SOLDIER
OF FORTUNE ($25 each postpaid)
October 1931
SPICY-ADVENTURE
STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#2 November
1934 [#1 after the ashcan]
#3 December 1934
#4 January 1935
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1935
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1935
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1936
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1936
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1936
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#39 December 1937
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STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
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#27 July 1936
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#30 October 1936
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#42 October 1937
#76 August 1940
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STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#2 June
1935
#3 July
1935
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1936
#10 February 1936
#11 March 1936
#12 April 1936
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1936
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1936
#15
July 1936
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1936
#18 October 1936
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#20 December 1936
#21 January 1937
#22
February 1937
#23 March 1937
#26 June 1937
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SPICY WESTERN STORIES ($25 each
postpaid)
#1 November 1936
#2 December 1936
#3 January 1937
#4 February 1937
#14 December 1937
THE
SPIDER ($35 each postpaid)
#1 The Spider Strikes!
(October 1933)
#2 The Wheel of
Death (November 1933)
#3 Wings
of the Black Death (December 1933)
#4 City of
Flaming Shadows (January 1934)
#5 Empire
of Doom (February 1934)
#6 Citadel of Hell (March 1934)
#7 Serpent of Destruction (April 1934)
#8 The Mad Horde (May 1934)
#9 Satan's
Death Blast (June 1934)
#10 The
Corpse Cargo (July 1934)
#11 Prince of
the Red Looters (August
1934)
#12 Reign of
the Silver Terror (September
1934)
#13 Builders
of the Black Empire (October 1934)
#14 Death's
Crimson Juggernaut (November 1934)
#15 The
Red Death Rain (December 1934)
#16 The City Destroyer (January 1935)
#17 The Pain Emperor (February 1935)
#18 The
Flame Master (March 1935)
#19 Slaves of the Crime Master
(April
1935)
#20 Reign of the Death Fiddler
(May
1935)
#21 Hordes of
the Red Butcher (June 1935)
#22 Dragon Lord of the Underworld
(July 1935)
#23 Master of the Death Madness
(August 1935)
#24 King of the Red
Killers (September
1935)
#25 Overlord of the Damned (October 1935)
#26 Death Reign
of the Vampire King (November 1935)
#27
Emperor
of the Yellow Death (December 1935)
#28 The Mayor of Hell (January 1936)
#29 Slaves of the Murder
Syndicate (February 1936)
#30 Green Globes
of Death (March 1936)
#31 The Cholera King (April 1936)
#32 Slaves of the
Dragon (May 1936)
#33 Legions of Madness
(June 1936)
#34 Laboratory of the Damned
(July 1936)
#35 Satan's Sightless
Legion (August 1936)
#36 The Coming
of the Terror (September 1936)
#37 The Devil's Death Dwarfs (October
1936)
#38 City of Dreadful
Night (November 1936)
#39 Reign of the
Snake Men (December 1936)
#40 Dictator of the Damned (January
1937)
#41 The Mill-Town
Massacres (February 1937)
#42 Satan's Workshop
(March 1937)
#43 Scourge of the Yellow
Fangs (April 1937)
#44 The Devil's
Pawnbroker (May 1937)
#45 Voyage of the Coffin
Ship (June 1937)
#46 The Man Who
Ruled in Hell (July 1937)
#47 Slaves of the
Black Monarch (August 1937)
#48 Machine Guns
Over the White House (Sept 1937)
#49 The City
That Dared Not Eat (October 1937)
#50 Master of the
Flaming Horde (November 1937)
#51 Satan's Switchboard
(December 1937)
#52 Legion of the
Accursed Light (January 1938)
#53 The City of
Lost Men (February 1938)
#54 The Grey
Horde Creeps (March 1938)
#55 City of Whispering
Death (April 1938)
#56 When Thousands Slept in Hell (May
1938)
#57 Satan's Shackles (June 1938)
#58 The Emperor from
Hell (July 1938)
#59 The Devil's Candlesticks
(August 1938)
#60 The City That Paid
to Die (September 1938)
#61 The Spider at Bay
(October 1938)
#62 Scourge of the Black
Legions (November 1938)
#63 The Withering Death
(December 1938)
#64 Claws of the Golden
Dragon (January 1939)
#65 The Song of Death
(February 1939)
#66 The Silver Death Rain
(March 1939)
#67 Blight of the Blazing
Eye (April 1939)
#68 King of the Fleshless
Legion (May 1939)
#69 Rule of the
Monster Men (June 1939)
#70 The Spider and
the Slaves of Hell (July 1939)
#71 The Spider and the
Fire God (August 1939)
#72 The Corpse Broker (September
1939)
#73 The Spider and
the Eyeless Legion (Oct. 1939)
#74 The Spider and
the Faceless One (Nov. 1939)
#75 Satan's Murder Machines
(December 1939)
#76 The Spider
and the Pain Master (January
1940)
#77 Hell's Sales Manager
(February 1940)
#78 Slaves of the Laughing Death (March
1940)
#79 The
Man From Hell (April 1940)
#80 The Spider and the War Emperor
(May 1940)
#81 Judgement of the Damned (June 1940)
#82 Dictator's Death Merchants
(July 1940)
#83 Pirates From
Hell (August 1940)
#84 Master of the Night-Demons
(Sept. 1940)
#85 The
Council of Evil (October 1940)
#86 The
Spider and his Hobo Army
(November 1940)
#87 The
Spider and the Jewels of Hell
(Dec. 1940)
#88 Harbor
of Nameless Dead (January 1941)
#89 The
Spider and the Slave Doctor
(February 1941)
#90 The
Spider and the Sons of Satan
(March 1941)
#91 Slaves of the Burning Blade (April 1941)
#92 The Devil's Paymaster (May 1941)
#93 The
Benevolent Order of Death (June
1941)
#94 Murder's Black Prince (July
1941)
#95 The
Spider and the Scarlet Surgeon
(August 1941)
#96 The
Spider and the Deathless One
(September1941)
#97 The
Satan's Seven Swordsmen
(October1941)
#98 Volunteer
Corpse Brigade (November1941)
#99 The Crime Laboratory (December 1941)
#100 Death and The Spider (January 1942)
#101 Murder's Legionaires (February 1942)
#102 The
Gentleman from Hell (March 1942)
#103 Slaves of
the Ring (April 1942)
#104 The Spider and
the Death Piper (May 1942)
STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES ($25 each
postpaid)
#2 December 1933
STRANGE
STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February 1939
STRANGE TALES ($25 each postpaid)
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#2 November 1931
#3 January 1932
#4 March
1932
#5 June
1932
#6 October 1932
#7 January 1933
TERROR
TALES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 September
1934
#2 October
1934
#3 November
1934
#4 December
1934
#5 January
1935
#6
February 1935
#7 March1935
#8 April 1935
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1935
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#25 Nov-Dec 1936
#26 Jan-Feb 1937
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#29 July-August 1937
#30 September-October 1937
#31 November-December
1937
#32 January-February 1938
#33 March-April 1938
#34 May-June 1938
#35 July-August
1938
#36 September-October 1938
#37 November-December 1938
#38 January-February 1939
#39 March-April
1939
#40 May-June 1939
#41 July-August 1939
#42 September-October 1939
THRILLING MYSTERY
($25 each postpaid)
#1 October
1935
WEIRD
TALES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 March 1923
#2 April 1923
#3 May1923
#4 June 1923
#5 July/August
1923
#6 September 1923
#7 October
1923
#8 November 1923
#9 December
1923/January 1924
#10 February
1924
#11 March
1924
#12 April
1924
#13
Anniversary Issue May/June/July/24 ($50)
#14 November
1924 - One of the rarest WT's
#15 December 1924
#16 January 1925
#17 February 1925
#18 March 1925
#19 April 1925
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July
1925
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1926
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#53 February 1928
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1928
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1931
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1934
#128 August
1934
#132 December 1934
#135 March 1935
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#151 July 1936
#152 August 1936
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#173 June 1938
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Girasol Collectables
Now
available and highly recommended!
Girasol Collectables
is pleased to announce Volume 2
in its new series of Pulp Cover Gallery
Editions.
Thrilling Wonder Stories
/ Startling Stories / Captain Future
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Girasol has launched a new series of
deluxe hardcover editions which feature full sets of top quality
cover scans of various pulp titles. These numbered
Limited Edition volumes of 300 copies each
are designed to present the cover art in all its glory.
The interior pages are 8.5"x11", full color
throughout, 130+ pages.
Each book in the series has a mix of full page
scans, size as to the original pulps, as
well as some 4 per page and 6 per page. The exterior
is made from bonded leather, with a small color
cover inset on the front of an issue-of-interest from
the interior. There is a brief introduction about the
cover art and artists, as well as a title checklist
with issue number, date, and cover artist if known.
The first volume, which was a Hallowe'en 2013
release, was... WEIRD TALES!
The second volume, which is scheduled for April
2014 is... Thrilling Wonder Stories / Startling Stories
/ Captain Future!
This edition will be the same format
as our Weird Tales Pulp Cover Gallery, 8.5" x 11" interior,
130+ pages full color throughout, bonded leather
exterior, limited to 300 numbered copies. There is
a brief introduction about the artists and issue dates/numbers
checklist... as mentioned before with this series, these
volumes are NOT comprehensive books about the pulp titles themselves,
they are visual references for the cover art. A mix of full page,
size-as covers, and 4 per page images. Top quality, hi-res images,
with the pulp edges showing on a black background. Great
stuff to look at! Space ships... weird monsters... bullet-boobed
alien princesses... it's all there!
Please note that this is not a comprehensive
book about the pulp itself, but rather, a
visual reference of the covers.
Pulp Cover Gallery Volume
1 – WEIRD TALES -
$130
Pulp Cover Gallery Volume 2 – Thrilling Wonder Stories / Startling Stories / Captain Future
- $130
Please note that the
cover inset may not be exactly as shown in the
image at the right.
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The Golden Age - Now online!
Horror and Fantasy Anthologies ~ 1946-1978
Stolen Sweets
The Shadow
Amra ~ Roy Krenkel and others ~ 1961-1982
Frank R. Paul
Frank R. Paul ~ Misc
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Edited by Stephen Haffner Introduction by Ed Gorman Cover
Art by Lawrence Noble
A massive omnibus of four novels from the late 1950s all featuring
the amateur sleuthing of San Francisco psychoanalyst Michael
Gray.
The Murder of Eleanor Pope —Psychoanalyst Michael Gray leads police
to a three-time killer!
The Murder of Ann Avery —Psychoanalyst solves brutal slaying!
Murder of a Mistress —Psychoanalyst Michael Gray solves the
killing of a girl who knew too much about too many men who had
too damned much to lose.
Murder of a Wife —Marked for Murder! No one believed her—not
even the police!
Hardcover
$40
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(Writer) Fredric Brown, Jack Seabrook (Cover) Norman Saunders
A massive fix of liquor-fueled murder, smoke-clouded mystery, and
hard-hitting revenge from the author of The Screaming Mimi and The
Fabulous Clipjoint. This archival-quality hardcover assembles 38 incredibly
rare stories from 1938-1942, with the original Pulp artwork from such
magazines as Thrilling Detective, Masked Detective, Detective Fiction
Weekly, and more. This is the book Fredric Brown fans have been waiting
for!
Hardcover, 6x9, 744 pages, B&W, $45.00
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Jumpin’ Jungle Cat of Jupiter! It’s
another mega-collection of four complete novels
of the “Man of Tomorrow,” the “Wizard of Science,”
the protector of the Solar System and a menace
to evil-doers throughout the universe: CAPTAIN
FUTURE!
Now that Captain Future (aka Dr. Curtis
Newton) and the Futuremen (Grag the robot;
Otho the Android; and Simon Wright, the
Living Brain) have traveled through time in the
final story of Volume Two (See “The Lost World
of Time”), can an adventure beyond the Solar System
be far behind? Most assuredly not! The Futuremen
board their trusty space-vessel, The Comet, and blast-off
for adventure in QUEST BEYOND THE STARS! But
that’s not all the dangers our intrepid defenders will
face in VOLUME THREE. Up next is OUTLAWS ON THE MOON!
When the peoples of the Solar System believe the Futuremen
to be dead, what better time for the emissaries of villainy
to attempt to break in to Captain Future’s Secret Moon
Base. Following that nail-biting saga, is arguably
the finest of the CAPTAIN FUTURE novels: THE COMET KINGS.
Here, author Hamilton pulls out all the stops as the Futuremen
combat forces from within Halley’s Comet!
In the final story of this volume, PLANETS IN PERIL, the
Futuremen face forces from another dimension that threaten
to enslave our entire universe!
As with the previous two volumes of THE
COLLECTED CAPTAIN FUTURE, “Under Observation,”
the CAPTAIN FUTURE letters column is
reprinted, and the original pulp covers and interior
illustrations are reproduced in a generous appendix.
ISBN-13 978-1-893887-74-9
600+ page Hardcover
$40.00
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Haffner Press
Now available!
The Reign of the Robots, The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume
Four by Edmond Hamilton
Introduction by Mike Ashley; Cover
Art by Frank R. Paul
Illustrated by Frank R. Paul, H.W.
"Wesso" Wessolowski, Hugh Rankin, Joseph
Doolin, Leo Morey
Following 2011′s THE UNIVERSE WRECKERS,
THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON, VOLUME THREE, Haffner
Press keeps pouring gasoline on the fire as
we announce the next volume(s) of collected stories
from one of the godfathers of Space Opera.
THE REIGN OF THE ROBOTS, THE COLLECTED EDMOND
HAMILTON, VOLUME FOUR is certainly
worth your coppers as herewith are contained
no fewer than 10 unreprinted stories from WEIRD
TALES and/or WONDER STORIES. Alongside these soon-to-be-presented
wonders, you’ll find some of Hamilton’s classic
works such as “The Man Who Evolved” and “A Conquest
of Two Worlds”
Noted scholar and editor, Mike Ashley handles
the introduction for this mighty tome.
As with previous volumes in this series, an
appendix showcasing the original pulp
magazine illustrations also bulks large with
obscura including reader’s letters from the vintage
magazines commenting on these stories, along
with editorial correspondence between Hamilton and his
editors.
ISBN-13 978-1-893887-65-7
600+ page Hardcover
$40.00
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Hard Case Crime - Coming soon!
May 2014
BORDERLINE by Lawrence Block
Cover art by Michael Koelsch
THE SCORCHING PULP NOVEL
BY LAWRENCE BLOCK, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
50 YEARS!
On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez,
Mexico, five lives are about to collide—with
fatal results. You'll meet
MARTY—the professional gambler who rolls the
dice on a night with...
MEG—the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and
finds...
LILY—the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a
live sex show by...
CASSIE—the redhead with her own private agenda...
and WEAVER—the madman, the killer with a straight
razor in his pocket, on the run from the
police and determined to go down swinging!
This is MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block at his
rawest and most visceral, a bloody, bawdy, brutal
story of passion and punishment—and of lines that
were never meant to be crossed.
First publication ever under the author’s real
name!
Volume includes three of Block’s rarest short
stories, from the pages of the pulp magazines of
half a century ago
Lawrence Block is one of the most acclaimed living
crime writers, having won every major award
in the genre (including 5 Edgar Awards) and been
named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America
Block’s novel A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES is coming
out as a movie with Liam Neeson starring.
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James Bond: SOLO
Arriving in U.K. book stores May 8!
It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly
motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007
is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West
African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and
hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience
which compels him to ignore M's orders in pursuit of his own brand
of justice. Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C.,
where he discovers a web of geopolitical intrigue and witnesses fresh
horrors. Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with
two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.
U.K. edition on sale May 8, 2014
U.S. Edition on sale June 3, 2014
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James Rollins: THE KILL SWITCH:
A Tucker Wayne Novel (Sigma Force Novels)
- Coming May 13!
by James Rollins & Grant Blackwood
The mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical
magnate from Russian soil, a volatile man who holds the secret to
a deadly bioweapon. But nothing is as it appears to be. A conspiracy
of world-shattering scope unravels as Tucker and Kane struggle to keep
one move ahead of their deadly enemies.
From the frozen steppes of Russia to the sun-blasted mountains of
South Africa and Namibia, a biological threat millions of years in
the making strikes out at the heart of America. All that stands in
the way from a global apocalypse: one man and his dog. But can even
Tucker and Kane thwart an ecological menace out of the ancient past
to save the world's future?
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: William Morrow
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Laurie's Wild West
- Now online!
Walker Martin's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention Report
2014 - New!
More Pulp News
Pulp and Other News, April 14, 2014
Pulp Round Up: March 31, 2014
Pulp Roundup for March 19, 2014
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THE LONE RANGER #24
- Arriving in comic shops May
7!
Written by Ande Parks, art by Esteve Polls, cover
by Francesco Francavilla
The Lone Ranger and Tonto abandon their horses to pursue
a murderous band of Old West robbers aboard a speeding
train. The thieves are led by a villain the likes of which
the West's most legendary heroes have never faced before...
a killer who seems unkillable himself. The Ranger and Tonto
will chase the robbers through a train packed with innocents, trying
desperately to avoid further bloodshed. All-out action and gunplay,
set on an iron horse that speeds toward oblivion.
Full color, 32 pages,
$3.99
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Meteor House is thrilled to announce the third in our
series of Signed Limited Edition Novellas based on the works
of Philip José Farmer.
Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows is an exciting sequel
to Farmer’s The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, which we all know
is the “true story” behind the events of Jules Verne’s novel,
Around the World in Eighty Days.
In this all-new adventure Phileas Fogg has settled into a life
of quiet sequestration in the rural idyll of his family estate
with his wife and children. The millenia-old conflict which once
threatened to consume him is over and done. Or so he thought.
But when an old foe disrupts his peaceful retirement, seeking his
aid against an enemy which threatens them both, Fogg finds himself
once more thrown into the white-hot crucible of war.
Now, with his loved ones under threat of death, and accompanied
by the unpredictable colonel who has been described as the
second most dangerous man in London, Fogg must dare the dangers
of the City of Light in order to uncover the deadly secrets hidden
beneath the streets of Paris. And as the wonders of the Exposition
Universelle unfold around him and the air quivers with the impossible
reverberation of nine great clangings, Fogg must plunge into
the shadowed depths of the Parisian catacombs on the trail of his
phantom enemy…
This is a story you don’t want to miss, but don’t just
take our word for it:
“With all the verve, sense of adventure, and sly reference
to classic literature that I’ve come to love and expect in
his work, Josh Reynolds carries forward the secret history of
Phileas Fogg in a manner both highly entertaining and true to
the spirit of Philip José Farmer.” — Christopher Paul Carey
(author of Exiles of Kho)
“The best Wold Newton stories tell a rollicking adventure
tale, first and foremost, while also subtlety advancing the
larger mythos. Josh Reynolds’ sequel to Philip Josè Farmer’s
The Other Log of Phileas Fogg delivers in spades, with tale
of high adventure that satisfies on both levels. Bravo! I eagerly
await the next chapter in Fogg’s ongoing exploits.” — Win Scott
Eckert (author of The Scarlet Jaguar)
As with our previous Signed Limited Edition Novellas, if
you pre-order—now through May 15th—your name will appear in
the book on the acknowledgments page! How cool is that? These
pre-orders also determine the print run of each edition. Since
these novella sell out in just a few months, pre-ordering is the
only way to guarantee you will get a copy.
We have one more important detail to add, and this is brand-new,
Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows will be available in
trade paperback AND hardcover!
Many of our readers said they would prefer our Signed Limited
Novellas in hardcover, and now you have a choice:
$15 for the Trade Paperback (plus shipping)
$25 for the Hardcover (plus shipping)
$35 for both! (add only the same shipping cost as the
hardcover)
Seriously, who ever heard of $15 for a signed limited edition?
Or only $25 for a signed limited edition hardcover with a
dust jacket? And you if buy the hardcover you can get the trade
paperback for only $10 more? No wonder Meteor House is your favorite
micro-publisher!
Meteor House
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When we last saw Patricia Wildman, daughter
of Doc Wildman, the bronze champion of justice, six months
had passed since the main events of The Evil in Pemberley House.
She and her associate Parker, an ex-Scotland Yard Inspector,
had set up Empire State Investigations at her Pemberley House
estate—and she just received a mysterious phone call from her
supposedly late father . . .
Several months later, Pat receives a visitor,
a young girl named Emma Ponsonby, whose father, a British
diplomat to a small Central American country, has been kidnapped
by the Scarlet Jaguar. Pat, following in her father’s footsteps
of righting wrongs and assisting those in need, agrees to help, but
before they can set off on their quest the Scarlet Jaguar sends a gruesome
warning.
Undeterred, the investigation takes Pat, Parker,
and their young charge from Pemberley House in the Derbyshire
countryside . . . To New York, where they battle agents of the
Scarlet Jaguar and meet Pat’s old friend, the icy, pale-skinned beauty
Helen Benson, who agrees to join them on their quest . . . To the
small nation of Xibum, where the Scarlet Jaguar’s reign of uncanny
assassinations threatens to expand to the rest of Central America—and
beyond!
Now, it’s a race against time deep in the wilds
of the Central American jungle, as Pat Wildman and her
crew search for Emma’s father, and confront the Scarlet
Jaguar’s weird power to eliminate his enemies from afar, marked
only by a wisp of crimson smoke—smoke resembling nothing so
much as the head of a blood-red screaming jaguar. But who—or
what—is the Scarlet Jaguar? A power-mad dictator determined to
reclaim power? A revolutionary movement bent on taking over the country,
and the rest of Central America?
Or a front for something even more sinister .
. .?
Meteor House
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Out of print since 2010, Meteor House
is thrilled beyond words to be publishing The Evil in Pemberley House
in an affordable trade paperback edition—the previous editions were beautiful
collectible hardcover editions from Subterranean Press available
for $40 (for the trade edition) and $60 (for the numbered edition)—and
featuring the same stunning cover art by Glen Orbik as the original
hardcover edition.
While this trade edition is NOT a signed limited edition, if you
preorder by June 30th, you can get a signed copy!
The book will be released at FarmerCon IX in August 2014 and Win
Scott Eckert will be on hand to sign all copies ordered by the deadline.
For those not familiar with the novel:
The Evil in Pemberley House, an addition to the Wold Newton cycle,
plays with the Gothic horror tradition. Patricia Wildman, the daughter
of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and
’40s, Dr. James Clarke “Doc” Wildman, is all alone in the world when
she inherits the family estate in Derbyshire, England—old, dark, and
supposedly haunted.
But Farmer, characteristically, turns convention on its ear. Is the
ghost real, or a clever sham? In Patricia Wildman, Farmer creates
an introspective character who struggles to reconcile the supernatural
with her rational scientific upbringing, while also attempting to
work through unresolved feelings about her late parents. He sets the
action at Pemberley from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and ingrains
the various mysteries in the Canon of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
The Evil in Pemberley House is a darkly erotic novel with broad
appeal to readers of pulp and popular literature, particularly
followers of Doc Savage, Sherlockians, and fans of Farmer’s own
celebrated Wold Newton Family.
This trade edition will also include the following bonus features
not found in the hardcover trade edition:
■ Foreword to the 2014 Edition
■ A Pemberley House/Wold Newton Family graphic tree
■ An Expanded Pemberley House/Wold Newton Family graphic
tree, including SPOILERS from the novel
■ Outline for the novel by Philip José Farmer
■ A timeline of key events in the novel by Win Scott
Eckert
■ A “Creative Mythography” essay by Win Scott Eckert,
about the research and writing of the novel and ensuring it remained
in continuity with Farmer’s other Wold Newtonian works, such as Tarzan
Alive, Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, and The Adventure of the
Peerless Peer
And don’t forget
to order by June 30th to get a copy signed by Win Scott Eckert!
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The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
is a three-day festival held inside the Hunt Valley Wyndham.
Here, you can watch dozens of screenings
of vintage movies, world premiere documentaries,
Hollywood celebrities posing for photos and
signing autographs for fans, slide show seminars from
authors and historians, over 200 vendor tables with
retro merchandise, antiques and collectibles and... well, it
is a lot of fun.Whether you have been to other conventions in
the past or never attended a convention before, we recommend you
give it a try. You'll discover what people keep returning
year after year. Attendees come from California, Canada, Seattle,
England, Belgium, Florida, Maine... and statistically the size
of the attendance has grown every year. MANC didn’t attract such
a faithful following by accident. Nearing our 10th anniversary,
MANC has offered fans a chance to meet Hollywood actors, visit
a drive-in movie theater, watch old fifties films like Creature
from the Black Lagoon in 3-D, have their picture next to The
Blob silicone, watch Abbott and Costello impersonators perform on
stage, and have a great time. Many of the seminars will be broadcast
live from Radio Once More and you can tune into the station for
free at http://radiooncemore.com/
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Mike Hammer - King of the Weeds
- Arriving in book stores May 6!
by Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
Hammer finds himself up against a clever serial
killer targeting only cops. A killer his old friend Captain
Pat Chambers had put away many years ago is suddenly freed
on new, seemingly indisputable evidence, and Hammer wonders
if this seemingly placid, very odd old man might somehow
be engineering cop killings that all seem to be either accidental
or by natural causes. At the same time Hammer and Velda are dealing
with the fallout – some of it mob, some of it federal government
– over the $89 billion dollar cache the detective is (rightly)
suspected of finding not long ago.
Series: Mike Hammer
Hardcover: 272 pages
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Mystery*File -
Now online!
WINDY
CITY PULP CONVENTION 2014 REPORT, by Walker Martin - New!
Characters
from DFW #17: OLD CALAMITY — by Monte Herridge
COLLECTING
PULPS: A MEMOIR, PART TEN – What To Do With Our Collections As We Get
Older by Walker Martin
COLLECTING
PULPS: A MEMOIR, PART NINE – WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE by Walker
Martin
ADVENTURES
IN COLLECTING: PULPFEST 2013 by Walker Martin
TWELVE
ANTHOLOGIES OF HARD-BOILED & NOIR STORIES: A List
by Josef Hoffmann
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The New Pulp Heroes
- Now online!
Tom Johnson has
started a new Blog for authors who
have created new pulp heroes.
The Mind Master - New!
The Silence of Death
The Death Tower
Tom's Infamous Wall of Heroes
Tom's New Pulp Creations
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Off-Trail Publications - Now available!
Before he was a comic-book pioneer, Major Malcolm-Wheeler
Nicholson wrote adventure tales for the great pulp magazines—and
no run-of-the-mill pulp fiction was it. The Major served as
a cavalry officer on the southwest border during the
Mexican Revolution. While the First World War raged in Europe,
he fought the Moro insurgency in the southern Philippines.
Then followed his strangest assignment, conducting espionage
in legendarily hostile Siberia. After the war he was stationed
in Western Europe. These places became the settings for the majority
of his hardboiled adventure stories. His use of authentic detail,
combined with his superior storytelling ability, make his stories
difficult to put down. You read one of the Major’s entrancing
tales—and your imagination is transported back to those real places
of danger and daring!
This inaugural collection of the Major’s fiction includes
stories set in all four of his real-life arenas, originally
published in top adventure pulps: Adventure, Argosy, The
Popular Magazine. It is time for the Major to receive his
due—as one of the genuine larger-than-life men of the pulps. Included
is an in-depth introduction by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, the Major’s
granddaughter.
“Yes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
is one of the very, very few people responsible for the birth of
the comic book industry as the visionary founder
of what we today call DC Comics. And, yes, Major Malcolm
Wheeler-Nicholson is one of the very, very few people responsible
for giving the world Superman.”
Michael Uslan,
Executive Producer of all the Batman movies,
Comic book historian, and author of his memoir, The
Boy Who Loved Batman.
“Not many adventure writers can
claim to have based their stories on their own exploits. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
could—and because of it, his evocations of heroism and combat
have a believability and a personal depth unlike
anything else in pulp fiction.”
Gerard Jones,
Author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the
Birth of the Comic Book.
6x9-inch perfect bound;
264 pages, $20.00
Checkout earlier titles by clicking on the link below.
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Perils On Planet Perils
On Planet X - Now
online!
Perils On Planet X is a swashbuckling
adventure on a lost planet…
join Colonel Donovan Hawke of Terra
as he travels through time and space
to the ancient emerald world of Xylos – home
of vicious reptilian predators, ruthless
strato-pirates, beautiful princesses, and
innumerable fantastic dangers!
Perils On Planet X is high adventure on alien
worlds – classic space opera
in the Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alex
Raymond traditions, revived for a new millennium!
The adventure begins today at the link
below!
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The Unique Magazine - New!
Weird Tales was the
first periodical specifically devoted to the fantasy genre.
Premiering in early 1923, its publishers envisioned “The Unique Magazine”
as a place for a writer to be given
“free rein to express his innermost feelings in a manner befitting
great literature.”
The Munsey Magazines
"A History of Magazine Science Fiction" continues tonight
at 7 PM at www.pulpfest.com.
Be sure to stop by for "The Munsey Magazines," a look at science
fiction in the general fiction pulps of the early twentieth century.
We'll have a new post approximately every four days for the next
month or so, as we look toward our celebration of
"Science Fiction's Golden Year of 1939" and "75 Years of Fantastic
Fiction."
We hope you are enjoying the series.
Prelude to the Pulps
As we learned in our April 4th post,
“Origins of Science Fiction,” magazines began to reach a much
wider audience as Europe and America
became more industrialized. Increasingly urban and literate societies
required
cheap, entertaining, and easily accessible entertainment to escape
the drudgery of the mills and offices.
A History of Magazine Science Fiction
"A History of Magazine Science Fiction"
starts tonight at www.pulpfest.com.
It is scheduled to go online at 7 PM.
Be sure to stop by to explore, "The Origins of Science Fiction."
We'll have a new post approximately every four days for the next
six weeks or thereabouts,
as we look toward our celebration of "Science Fiction's Golden
Year of 1939" and "75 Years of Fantastic Fiction."
We hope you'll enjoy our series.
Advertise in The Pulpster
Our editor and designer Bill Lampkin
is already hard at work on the next issue of The Pulpster.
He’ll be featuring articles on science fiction’s golden year
of 1939, the shudder pulps, and other interesting topics.
So expect a slam-bang issue from the esteemed editor of our
highly popular program book.
Every member of PulpFest will receive a complimentary copy of
The Pulpster.
Dealing at PulpFest 2014
Interested in selling at PulpFest 2014?
If your specialty is pulp magazines, vintage paperbacks, first
edition hardcovers, original art, series books, dime novels,
men’s adventure,
true crime, digest, or slick magazines, Big Little Books,
B-movies, serials and related collectibles, old-time-radio
shows, or
Golden and Silver Age comic books, then PulpFest is for you.
It's also a great place to sell science-fiction books, mystery
and detective fiction, adventure or western fiction, original
artwork, and more.
And it doesn’t have to be old! Publishers and resellers
of pulp reprints as well as "new pulp" have found PulpFest
to be a great event to market their wares.
Nominate Someone for The Munsey Award
Every year, PulpFest recognizes the
efforts of those who work to keep the pulps alive for this
and future generations through its Munsey Award.
This annual award recognizes an individual who has given of
himself or herself for the betterment of the pulp community.
PulpFest and the “New Fictioneers”
It’s called new pulp–stories by modern
writers who recreate the style of fiction that appeared in
the pulp magazines of yore.
Back then, the authors who labored for the rough paper industry
liked to call themselves scribes, word-slingers, penny-a-worders,
and, perhaps the most favored term of all, fictioneers.
Join PulpFest as we celebrate today’s fictioneers—the authors
writing the new pulp fiction.
Shopping for Collectibles at PulpFest
Year after year, PulpFest is a paradise for the fan of pulp
magazines, digests, vintage paperbacks, and other collectibles.
The collector will also find first edition hardcovers, men’s
adventure and true crime magazines, series books, dime novels,
original artwork, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials and related
paper collectibles, old-time-radio shows, and Golden and Silver
Age comic books in our 15,800 square-foot dealers’ room.
Laurie Powers
Laurie Powers will be speaking at Ohio State University
on the first day of PulpFest, (Thursday afternoon).
The talk and all the details haven't been worked out yet,
but the presentation will be related to the recent donation
of the Paul Powers papers to the University.
Here in the
Northeast, the only fishing that we've been doing for the last
few months has been through a hole cut in the ice.
Thankfully, there’s a thaw
in our future and soon we’ll be digging out our tackle boxes and
our rods and heading for the “old fishing hole,” hoping to land
a big one.
Early-bird shopping
will be returning to the PulpFest dealers’ room on Thursday, August 7th,
from 6 PM until 10 PM.
For an additional $30 over
your regular membership fee, you’ll be able to purchase early-bird
privileges for an extra four hours of shopping.
But wait! There’s an even better
deal!
To reward loyal attendees who
help to defray the convention’s substantial costs by staying
three nights at our host hotel,
PulpFest is pleased to offer
free early-bird privileges. That’s a very significant savings
of $30!
Only staff, dealers, and early-bird
shoppers will be allowed into the dealers’ room during Thursday
evening, August 7th, to reward them for their terrific support.
So what are you waiting for?
Book your room at the Hyatt
Regency Columbus, save thirty bucks, and get in on the action!
Go to https://aws.passkey.com/g/20315125
and we’ll be waiting for you.
PulpFest 2014 is
organizing a group dinner on August 9th.
Eating together on Saturday
evening while batting the bull about this great hobby of ours
has been a long-standing tradition at summer pulp cons.
The Saturday night group dinner
returns to this year’s PulpFest when we’ll be dining together,
family style, at the nearby Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant, just
a few minutes walk from the Hyatt Regency Columbus.
Win a FREE membership!
PulpFest needs your help. We’re
looking for your ideas on how to improve your convention.
So we’re conducting a poll to learn more about you and
your interests and gathering opinions on some changes
we’ll be instituting in 2014 and some options that we’re exploring.
Whether or not you have attended PulpFest in the past or if
you are planning to attend in 2014, we’d love to hear from you.
Regular members, dealer members, and even people who have
never attended PulpFest can participate in our poll. As a
way to thank everyone who responds, we’ll be offering three
free memberships to PulpFest 2014, each valued at $30!
All you have to do to enter is fill out our survey and provide
your name and best contact information in the space provided on
the form. Our three winners will be selected in a random drawing
to be held on Friday, July 4th.
For your friends who don’t have Internet access, we’ll
also be providing our poll with the newsletter and registration
forms that will go out shortly to those on our mailing list.
To be sure to receive one, please send your name and mailing
address to Jack Cullers at 1272 Cheatham Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305
or via email at jack@pulpfest.com. Be sure to tell your friends.
Ready to start the poll? Then visit http://www.pulpfest.com/survey/
and you’re on your way. Thanks very much for your
help.
PulpFest is known
for its great programming and the line-up that we’re planning
for our 2014 convention is shaping up to be one of
our best. As mentioned previously, we’ll be celebrating
science fiction’s golden year of 1939 and seventy-five years
of fantastic fiction, as well as eighty years of the shudder
pulps, zeroing in on the weird-menace magazines of 1934.
As always, we’ll have a wide
variety of panels and presentations, including a discussion
of FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES featuring BLOOD 'N' THUNDER editor
Ed Hulse and author Nathan Madison; Meteor House publisher
Mike Croteau’s review of Philip José Farmer’s early
science fiction stories for the pulps and digests; art historian
David Saunders‘ presentation on John Newton Howitt, one of the
leading cover artists for the weird-menace pulps; and preeminent
pulp authority and author of THE WILD ADVENTURES OF DOC SAVAGE,
Will Murray’s celebration of the diamond jubilee of The Avenger,
the last of Street & Smith’s major pulp heroes to get his
own magazine.
You’ll find information on
these and much, much more by visiting http://www.pulpfest.com/programming/
for a look at the preliminary schedule for PulpFest 2014.
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Pulp Adventurecon
The next Pulp
Adventurecon is scheduled for November 1st, 2014.
That's a Saturday.
It remains a mildly magnificent show, wrapping up the Year In
Pulps
after weekend-long conventions like the Windy City show and Pulpfest,
not to mention the little satellite shows across the good old U.S.
of A.
Keep those want lists ready, 'cuz we expect to have the best show
yet.
Bordentown, New Jersey ... and specifically the Ramada Inn
...
That oasis just off Exit 7 of the New Jersey Turnpike becomes a
pulp collecting mecca every November.
Start planning to make your pilgrimage, especially if you are one
of those hold-outs yet to attend.
We'll have the usual fine display room jam-packed with all sorts
of stuff.
There's something for everyone, whether you collect H.P. Lovecraft,
Dashiell Hammett, The Shadow and Doc Savage, Argosy and Black Mask
...
the list cound quite possibly be endless ...
For more information about displaying, contact us at:
boldventurepress@aol.com.
Bold Venture Press
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Pulp Crazy - Now online!
Pulpfest
2012 – Guest of Honor, Mike Resnick - New!
The Wild Man
by Octavus Roy Cohen
Shadow
by Tom Curry
Mistress
of Snarling Death By Paul Chadwick
Pulpsters and Batman
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Pulp Den - Now online!
The War Makers
- New!
Chronicles: The Library of Illumination
- New!
Pangaea: Eden's Planet
- New!
In Velvet
- New!
Guest Post Rhoda D'Ettore
Parker Field
A City Born of Fiction by Javier Marquez Sanchez
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Pulp Flakes
- Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines,
authors and their stories,
adventure and detective pulps.
On hold for a month or so
Mystery artist revealed: Laurence Sterne Stevens
Guess the artist: illustration for Adventure magazine
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Pulp Magazines Project
- Now online!
Publishing legends The Black
Mask (1920), Weird Tales (1923),
and Amazing Stories (1926) are considered so
“extremely rare and valuable” that the U.S.
Library of Congress houses its collection
of 277 issues in Washington, D.C.’s Rare Book
and Special Collections Division—along with the personal
libraries of Presidents, medieval and Renaissance
manuscripts, and one of only three known perfect
copies of the Gutenberg Bible in existence. With
its latest addition of 4 issues of The Black
Mask (Aug. & Sept. 1920; Dec. 1921; and Apr.
1922), the Pulp Magazines Project has made all 3 classic
titles available together—for the first time—in
high-quality, cover-to-cover digital editions.
Also available at the Pulp Magazines Project,
new issues of the iconic “weird
menace” pulp, Dime Mystery Magazine (Apr.
1938 and Sept. 1946); Adventure (Jul. 1, 1928;
feat. Walt Coburn’s “The Man Who Hated Himself”);
Western Story (Jul. 27, 1940); Detective
Story (May 1938; feat. Zorro-creator Johnston
McCulley’s “Thubway Tham’s Thothial Thecurity”); and
histories of both The Black Mask (E.R. Hagemann;
UCLA) and Dime Mystery Magazine (Emily Sisler; University
of West Florida).
The Pulp Magazines Project
is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and
preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential
literary & artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine.
The Project also provides information on the history of this important
but long neglected medium, along with biographies of pulp authors,
artists, and their publishers.
At the heart of the Project's
mission is the archive itself. In
summer 2011, it began with a modest library
of five representative first-generation
pulp titles from the early twentieth century.
Over time, the archive will expand,
new magazines will be digitized, and contextual
materials added. Eventually, the archive will
feature a broad range of pre-1923 titles,
post-1923 titles where copyright has lapsed,
and full volume runs of select titles
from 1896 to 1946.
The Project is dedicated to fostering ties
between communities of collectors, fans,
and academics devoted to pulp magazines, and
will offer opportunities for research and
collaboration to both scholars and
enthusiasts alike. We will provide information on
upcoming conferences and conventions, and
promote new working relationships between academics
and the hundreds of pulp fans and collectors
beyond the college and university.
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Pulp Newsgroups
- Now online!
There are numerous pulp newsgroups
that are of potential interest to pulp fans.
Information on several of these groups
and a link to sign up is posted below.
Abraham Merritt:
This group is dedicated to
all of the fiction of ABRAHAM
MERRITT. Merritt's novels, short stories,
paperbacks, hardcovers, pulps, reprints, and any
movies based on these works can all
be discussed here. Also, any artwork from any
of the above pertaining to Merritt's
writing can be discussed and displayed.
If interested, questions and statements
about other authors that copied or
imitated Merritt's style can be posted.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ABEMERRITTFANS/
CoverUps: Sharing
and trading of Pulp Fiction covers. Discussion not
only allowed, but encouraged!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cover_Ups/
Doc Con: The
annual Doc Savage Convention
gathered together for the first time on October
24, 1998. The convention also known as
Doc Con is the brainchild of Rob Smalley
who together with Jay Ryan, Paul Cook and Courtney
Rogers have hosted the event each year in Arizona.
Traditionally held the second Saturday of each
November, Doc Con attracts residents from around the country,
for a weekend of planned Doc Savage
events as well as discussions and camaraderie. Follow
along with the planning each year by
participating in this group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Doc_Con/
Edgar Rice Burroughs Group: This
group is dedicated to the study
and appreciation of one of the greatmasters
of literary adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs
(1875-1950). Creator of numerous famous
characters, such as Tarzan, Carson Napier, and John
Carter of Mars, and exciting worlds,
such as Venus, Barsoom, and Pellucidar,
Burroughs is widely recognized as one of
the fathers of the Pulp Era and modern
heroic fiction. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edgarriceburroughs/
FictionMags: The purpose
of this mailing list is to discuss the
history of fiction magazines,
and to exchange information about magazines
which have carried fiction, past or
present. Particular emphases are on the "Gaslight"
magazines of circa 1880-1914, the
pulp magazines of the first half of the 20th
century, the "Big Slick" magazines of
the mid-20th century, the digest-sized magazines of
the 1950s and 1960s -- and any other areas of
magazine publishing which have been important
for fiction. Discussion may cover aspects of the
publishing history of the magazines concerned,
their editors and editorial policies,
the authors they published, and so on.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/fictionmags/
Flearun: This
group is for fans of all the incarnations
of Doc Savage. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flearun/
H.R. Haggard: This
group is dedicated to one of the greatest
of adventure/fantasy writers , H.R. Haggard.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/masterofadventureriderhaggard/
Justice Inc.:
This group is dedicated to the [1940's pulp
version] of Richard Benson and his
group of crime fighting adventurers , Justice Inc.
Everything about this group can be discussed
[ comics, pulps, radio shows, paperbacks,
current news]also if anyone is interested
in Paul Ernst---In the roaring heart of the
crucible...... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JUSTICEINC/
Otis Adelbert Kline:
This group is devoted
to Otis Adelbert Kline. His works
in the science fiction, weird and historical fiction
genre and his general biography can also be
discussed here.
Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OTISKLINE/
to join!
Pulp Fiction Uncensored:
is for all fans of Pulp Fiction!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pulp_Fiction_Uncensored/
PulpMags:
If you're interested in the old pulp
magazines, this forum is the place
to be. We deal with OLD pulps only!
If you're looking for something dealing
with modern "pulp fiction" style writing, you'd be
bored here.This moderated list is setup along
the lines of PEAPS, the Pulp Era Amateur
Press Society, and all pulp fans across the
world are welcome. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpMags/
Pulp Swap Group:
Place your swappable pulps and digest, plus
wants, in the file section or individual
messages. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpSwap/
REH Comics Group:
This group is dedicated to the characters created by
Robert E Howard that have appeared in comic
book form from Marvel Comics,
Dark Horse Comics, Cross Plains Comics, Dynamite Entertainment
etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheREHcomicsgroup/
Vintage Paperbacks:
A forum for readers and collectors of classic
paperback books, primarily from the
"vintage era" of 1939 to 1960 (roughly
speaking). Ace Doubles, Dell Mapbacks,
L.A. Bantams, Gold Medal, Avon, Handibooks,
and many more - we cover them all.
Discussion of all genres is welcome and we
particularly want to hear about any rare and
unusual paperbacks or stories *about* paperbacks that
you might be able to share. We discuss the
cover artists, the writers, the publishers,
and anyone and everyone connected with the great
world of vintage paperback books. Read a great
old book lately? Come on in and tell
us about it! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VintagePaperbacks/
Western Pulps:
This list is dedicated to the discussion of
Western pulp magazines -- the characters,
the authors, the stories, the paperback reprints,
and anything else connected with Western
pulps. Though the primary emphasis is
on pulps, we also discuss non-pulp
Western novels, movies, comics, etc.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WesternPulps/
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Pulp Obscura
The New Adventures of Major Lacy and Amusement,
Inc.
by Bobby Nash, Jim
Beard, David White, Andrew Salmon, R. P. Steeves, Don Thomas
Now available!
Major John Tatersall Lacy, known to his
mysterious benefactors as Mr. Sunday, returns in new adventures leading an
amazing fighting force, Amusement, Inc. in a war against the Underworld! Created
by Theodore A. Tinsley, Amusement, Inc. is a group of former Marines who
bring their considerable talents and military tactics to bear in a new battle--
the war on crime. The group is funded by six mysterious men who make up the
Emergency Council to Combat Crime and keep their identities hidden behind
codenames based on the days of the week. Taking the codename Mr. Sunday, Major
Lacy leads Amusement, Inc. in the field and is assisted by three trusted aides.
Together they lead their small army in an ongoing mission- to bring the battle
for the law and justice to those who rule the Underworld and WIN! From out
of the Past comes new tales of one of Pulp's Greatest Citizen Soldiers! Pro
Se Productions in conjunction with Altus Press presents a new volume in its
PULP OBSCURA line! THE NEW ADVENTURES OF MAJOR LACY AND AMUSEMENT, INC.!
Softcover, 210 pages, 6" x 9", $12
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Ramble House
Dancing Tuatara Press - Now available!
THE CORPSE
FACTORY and Other Stories
The Weird Tales of Arthur Leo Zagat Volume 2
With an Introduction by John Pelan
Dancing Tuatara Press #29
Arthur Leo Zagat wrote some of the goriest
stories ever written back in the 30s when times were bad for just about
everybody. They became known as "weird menace" tales which, as a
genre, reached its peak with Zagat. John Pelan tells you all about
the man and his time in his introduction. The stories in this collection
are:
The Corpse Factory, Dime Mystery Magazine, Mary 1934
A Lodging in Hell, Horror Stories, February/March 1936
Death Lands a Cargo, Dime Mystery Magazine, October 1935
Death’s Mistress, Dime Mystery Magazine, September 1934
Madman’s Bride, Dime Mystery Magazine, January 1935
Satan’s Bedchamber, Dime Mystery Magazine, August 1936
Soft Blows the Breeze from Hell, Dime Mystery Magazine, December
1937
The Little Walking Corpses, Dime Mystery Magazine, November 1934
Available Editions
$20 Trade Paperback 6" x 9"
$25 Ramble House A6 paperback with dust jacket, 4.13'
x 5.75"
$35 Hardcover with dust jacket, 6" x 9"
$6 Ebook by e-mail (epub or mobi)
This book is available at Amazon and the Create Space store
but the publisher offers you a discount and free shipping if you
call or e-mail him with your order.
fender@ramblehouse.com 228-826-1783
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Ramble House
Dancing Tuatara Press - Now available!
THE SORCERY
CLUB - THE CENTENNIAL EDITION
by Elliott O'Donnell
With an Introduction by John Pelan
Dancing Tuatara Press #36
Originally published in England in 1912,
The Sorcery Club was one of Elliott O'Donnell's relatively few fictional
works, yet it evinces the subject that was to inform his career:
the Occult. O'Donnell is best-known for his many books on ghosts and
hauntings, and he built a successful career on his parapsychological
studies.
The Sorcery Club is a brilliantly-wrought tale of three men who
are seduced by the powers of darkness, and the people who are confronted
with phenomena beyond their ken.
This special Centennial Edition has been released by Dancing Tuatara
Press to celebrate this masterful work of supernatural fiction.
John Pelan's introduction provides an authoritative background to the
author and his novel. Also included for this edition is a short
bibliographic history of the novel, and the original illustrations by
Phlllys Vere Campbell are reunited with the novel.
Available Editions
$20 Trade Paperback 6" x 9"
$25 Ramble House A6 paperback with dust jacket, 4.13'
x 5.75"
$35 Hardcover with dust jacket, 6" x 9"
$45 Hardcover with dust jacket, with bookplate, signed by John
Pelan, 6" x 9"
$6 Ebook by e-mail (epub or mobi)
This book is available at Amazon and the Create Space store
but the publisher offers you a discount and free shipping if you
call or e-mail him with your order.
fender@ramblehouse.com 228-826-1783
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Ramble House - Now available!
ASTONISHING!
ASTOUNDING!
John Bullard Stories by Malcolm Jameson
Introduced by Richard A. Lupoff
During World War II Malcolm Jameson
wrote some tales about the fighting forces of the far future featuring
a cadet (and later commander) of the Space Patrol, John Bullard.
He also penned a novella about the later days of Bullard, Quicksands
of Youthwardness. Now Richard A. Lupoff has collected all the Bullard
stories into this one volume, named after the SF pulps where they
were first published. They are space opera and military SF at their best
and great fun to read.
Richard Lupoff's introduction tells about the author,
Malcolm Jameson, who has had two collections of his SF short stories
published by Ramble House, The Chariots of San Fernando and The Alien
Envoy, as well as a double-novel, Tarnished Bomb.
Available Editions
$18 Trade Paperback 6" x 9"
$25 Ramble House A6 paperback with dust jacket, 4.13'
x 5.75"
$32 Hardcover with dust jacket, 6" x 9"
$6 Ebook by e-mail (epub or mobi)
This book is available at Amazon and the Create Space store
but the publisher offers you a discount and free shipping if you
call or e-mail him with your order.
fender@ramblehouse.com 228-826-1783
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Ramble House - Now available!
Richard Wilson wrote these two novellas (And Then the Town
Took Off and The Girls from Planet 5) in 1955 and 1958 respectively
and they've been hard to find ever since. But when John Pelan of Dancing
Tuatara Press started reprinting Wilson in his Classics of Fantasy
and SF series, Dick Lupoff of Surinam Turtle Press decided to get into
the action with these excellent Richard Wilson tales. The full text of
each novella is featured, along with cover art by Ditmar, designed by
Gavin L. O'Keefe.
Available Editions
$18 Trade Paperback
$25 Ramble House A6 paperback with dust jacket
This book is available at Amazon and the Create Space store
but the publisher offers you a discount and free shipping if you
call or e-mail him with your order.
fender@ramblehouse.com 228-826-1783
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RED SONJA #9
- Arriving in comic shops May 7!
Written by Gail Simone, art by Walter Geovani,
covers by Jenny Frison, Stephanie Hans, Stephanie Buscema.
The She-Devil continues her quest to find and capture
the greatest artisans of the Hyborian Age, with hundreds
of lives in the balance. In this saucy issue, she is on
the trail of the land's greatest (and most dangerous)
courtesan, in a world she has never before experienced! The epic
run by Gail Simone and Walter Geovani continues!
Full color, 32
pages, $3.99, in stores on March 12.
Dynamite Entertainment
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Robert E. Howard Days
June 13 - 14, 2014!
This year’s theme
will be “Howard and History.”
REH editor and scholar Patrice
Louinet is the Guest of Honor for this year’s Howard Days.
HOWARD DAYS PRE-REGISTRATION
You do not have to pre-register to partake
of the weekend’s festivities. All are welcome to attend, visit the
House and enjoy all of the activities free of charge. Project
Pride likes to pre-register folks primarily to get a head count
of how many will be attending the Banquet on Friday night and the
BBQ on Saturday night. All the panels, tours, Swap Meet, Pavilion
activities etc. are presented at no cost. Your registration
fee covers coffee & donuts Friday morning, lunch at the Pavilion
Friday noon, the Friday Banquet and the Saturday BBQ.
The cost for pre-registration this year
is only $15 per person. Please send your name(s) & address with
a check or money order or register via PayPal: ProjPride@yahoo.com
Project Pride
Attn: REH Days 2013 Pre-registration
PO Box 534
Cross Plains, TX 76443
Please pre-register before June 6, 2014.
And for only $3.00 more per person ($5.00
per family), you can become a card-carrying Member of Project Pride.
Each membership can make a big difference for the House!
2014 HOWARD
DAYS SCHEDULE
FRIDAY JUNE 13
8:30 – 9 am: Coffee and donuts at the Pavilion, compliments
of Project Pride
9 am – 4 pm: Robert E. Howard House Museum open to the
public.
9 am – 4 pm: REH Postal Cancellation at Cross Plains Post Office
9 am – 11 am: Bus Tour of Cross Plains & Surrounding Areas
10 am – 5 pm: Cross Plains Public Library open
11:00: PANEL: In the Guise of Fiction
Noon: Lunch hosted by Project Pride. Donations welcome.
10:00 am to 4 pm: Pavilion available for REH items Swap Meet
1:30 pm: PANEL: Patrice Louinet, Guest of Honor
2:30 pm: PANEL: Presentation of the REH Foundation 2013 Awards
5:30 – 6:30: Silent Auction items available for viewing &
bidding at Banquet site
6:30: Robert E. Howard Celebration Banquet & Silent Auction
at the Cross Plains Community Center.
9:00 pm PANEL: Fists at the Ice House (behind the Texas Taxidermy
building on Main St.)
Afterward there will be some extemporaneous REH Poetry Reading
at the Pavilion.
SATURDAY JUNE 14
9 am – 4 pm: Robert E. Howard House Museum open to the public.
9 am – 4 pm: BARBARIAN FESTIVAL at Treadway Park, 3 blocks
west of REH House
10 am – 3 pm: Cross Plains Public Library open
10:30 am PANEL: The Legend Continues
10:00 a.m. to 4 pm: Pavilion available for REH items Swap
Meet
Lunch & Festival Activities at your leisure during the
day
2:00 pm PANEL: Fists of Iron
3:30 pm PANEL: What’s Up with REH? (at the Pavilion)
5 pm: Sunset BBQ at the Caddo Peak Ranch
The Robert E. Howard House Museum will be open again this year
on Thursday June 12th from 2-4 pm. No docents on duty but the
Gift Shop is open.
All panels at REH Days last about one hour and are held at
the Library unless noted.
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Sequential
Pulp To Publish
Edgar Rice Burroughs' JUNGLE TALES
OF TARZAN Graphic Novel
Sequential
Pulp Comics is proud to announce a new graphic
novel
based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic
novel, JUNGLE TALES
OF TARZAN™.
JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN™ graphic novel has been delivered
to Dark Horse Comics for edits!
Written by Martin Powell
Authorized by ERB Inc.
Illustrated by:
Artgüello Carlos, Tomás
M. Aranda, Daren Bader, Terry Beatty,
Sergio Cariello, Jamie Chase, Thomas Floyd, Steven
E Gordon,
Lowell Isaac, Diana Leto, Pablo Marcos, Will Meugniot,
Nik Poliwko, Steve Price, Mark Wheatley, and Tom
Yeates
From Sequential Pulp
Comics/Dark Horse.
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The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger
Archive
THE SPIDER'S WEB
Research copies are now available!
Archive DVD featuring Warren Hull -
15 Chapters (Complete)
One of the major original pulp heroes
comes to the screen in the greatest adaptation of pulp to film ever
created, featuring Warren Hull and Iris Meredith. Consistently
rated one of the top 5 cliffhanger serials of all time by fans,
and hugely influential. Source: new digital transfer of 16mm
original print, complete, with generally excellent sharp picture
quality, restored picture element with stabilization, exposure correction,
and noise reduced audio.
Status: Restoration
complete, archive DVD requests are shipping now.
To request a research copy, click here.
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The Serial Squadron Cinema
Cliffhanger Archive
NOW SHOWING:
A NEW CHAPTER EVERY SATURDAY!
The Squadron will now be broadcasting
a new, long-unseen rare serial chapter every week and spotlighting
restorations in progress.
So no more waiting until the whole thing
is done to be able to see those new chapters from restorations in progress
-- SerialFest will now happen all year round right on this website!
We begin with the Squadron restoration of THE MASKED
RIDER (1919), which includes lost scenes re-created according
to the original script by volunteer actors.
The presentations are viewable free of charge.
To get the complete restorations without the watermarks,
and with commentary, extras, and all that other good
stuff, order the DVD editions!
April 12-26, May 3-17
ADVENTURES OF TARZAN Episodes 1-6
Elmo Lincoln, Louise Lorraine
New transfer of complete unabridged original chapters
from the 1928 10-episode re-release
May 24-August 30
THE HOPE DIAMOND MYSTERY Episodes 1-15
Boris Karloff, Grace Darmond, George Chesebro
Unseen for over 90 years, Karloff's first major film
role in a story with elements similar to THE MUMMY.
Sept-Oct-Nov-Dec
THE MYSTERIES OF MYRA Restoration
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The Shadow Fan's Podcast
- Now online!
Michael Uslan's Justice, Inc.
Mr. Uslan stops by the Sanctum to talk about the upcoming
Justice, Inc. series that will be published by Dynamite Entertainment.
The first-ever teaming of Doc Savage, The Shadow and The Avenger,
the series is sure to appeal to fans both old and new. Be warned:
there are mild spoilers included in the podcast!
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THE SHADOW: Original First
Edition Prints
by Sandy Kossin
Now available!
Deadline for First Edition
Printing is May 15th 2014.
Editions will be limited to
orders plus five.
Numbered prints will be assigned in the numerical order
that payments are made.
Allow an additional 2 to 3 weeks for printing and shipping.
PayPal and Credit Cards accepted at the link below for
your order.
If you prefer to mail a money order or certified check,
click Mail Form at the link below.
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The Shadow - Under
the Blue Light - Now online!
The White Column - New!
Vengeance Is Mine! - New!
Castle of Doom
The Blue Sphinx
The Toll of Death
Crime's Stronghold
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Skull & Bones -
Now available!
by John Francis
Writing under the pen name "John Francis", Jeff Deischer
has produced a spy thriller in the mold of James Bond: Mysterious
Chinese coins are turning up in Hong Kong in 1952 amid ships disappearing
in the area. John Sterling, agent Keats of the British Secret Service,
is sent to find out the origin of the coins. Drawn into a web of shady
characters such as Lemuel Gaunt, Malcolm Sweet and Mei Lei, Keats must
determine where the coins are coming from and what happened to the previous
agent sent to investigate.
Paperback: 252 pages
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
List price: $16.00
Amazon price: $14.40
Amazon.com
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SOFT FLESH AND ORGIES OF DEATH: FICTION,
FEATURES, AND ART FROM MEN'S ADVENTURE MAGAZINES - Now available!
This new anthology collects prime, lurid examples of text
and artwork from pulp men’s adventure maga zines published during
the golden age of the genre, the 1950s- 1960s.
The book includes over 30 features and stories, and over 100
illustrations, with 32 pages in full color.
Softcover, 8x11, 224 pages, Partial Color, $34.95
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Tellers of Weird
Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog
in which he researches and writes about the
contributors to Weird Tales magazine and
its companion titles, Oriental Stories
and The Magic Carpet Magazine.
What Is the Monster of the Twenty-First Century?--Part Four
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New!
What Is the Monster of the Twenty-First Century?--Part Three
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New!
What Is the Monster of the Twenty-First Century?--Part Two
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New!
What Is the Monster of the Twenty-First Century?--Part One
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New!
Whence R'lyeh?-Part Two
Johanson and the Monster
Reaching Hands
John Giunta Update
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Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels
by Christopher
R. Yates
(New publications to the list
are in bold)
Now available!
Rocketeer: Jet Powered Adventures, ed. Jeff Mariotte,
IDW Publishing, $19.99, May 13, 2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past, Alexander Irvine,
Marvel, $24.99, May 20, 2014
Warbound [Grimnoir Chronicles, Bk. 3], Larry Correia,
Baen, $7.99, May 27, 2014
Resistance, Samit Basu, Titan, $14.99,
July 08, 2014
Turbulence, Samit Basu, Titan, $7.99, July 29,
2014
Rocket Raccoon & Groot: Steal the Galaxy, Dan Abnett,
Marvel, $24.99, July 15, 2014
S.C.P.D.: Avenging Amethyst, Keith
R.A. DeCandido, Crossroad Press,
$12.99, September 2014
Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt, Neil Kleid,
Marvel, $24.99, October 14, 2014
Judge Dredd Year One: Omnibus, Michael Carroll,
Al Ewing & Matthew Smith, Abbadon, $7.99, October 28, 2014
Wild Cards XXII: Lowball, ed.
George R.R. Martin, Tor, $25.99,
November 01, 2014
The Black Stiletto: Endings & Beginnings,
Raymond Benson, Oceanview Publishing, $26.95,
November 15, 2014
Dreams of a Golden Age, Carrie Vaughn, Tor, $7.99, November
25, 2014
Ex-Isle, Peter Clines, Broadway Books, $14.00,
July 2015
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William Patrick Maynard
- Now online!
Blogging Dan Barry’s
Flash Gordon, Part Fourteen
“The Swamp Girl” by Dan Barry was serialized
by King Features Syndicate from October 31 to December 31, 1955. Just
as Dan Barry guided the strip closer to its origins, he took two sidesteps
in introducing a back-story for Dr. Zarkov that Alex Raymond never
intended. “The Swamp Girl” introduces us to a hot-tempered, beautiful
young woman called Zara whose mother was the sole survivor when her
rocket crashed on the swamp world of Malagua twenty years before.
Read the rest at the links below.
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