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
Premiering
at PulpFest!
The Crime
Master: The Complete Battles of Gordon Manning & The Griffin, Volume
1
by J. Allan Dunn
Introduction by Sai Shankar
Running for 31 installments, this is one of the classic sagas from
the pages of Detective Fiction Weekly featuring master criminal The
Griffin and his war on America.
Written by one of the most colorful authors of pulpdom, Volume 1 contains
the first 11 stories of the series, uncut, and with all the original
images.
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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Altus
Press
Premiering
at PulpFest!
Tomorrow: The Complete
Saga, Volume 1
by Arthur Leo Zagat
The complete saga of Dikar and The Bunch
is collected for the first time.
Set in a decimated post-invasion United States, Volume 1 contains the
following stories:
“Tomorrow”
What will they be like—those Lost Children of Tomorrow, the survivors
of Armageddon?
How will they live, and who will lead them? Here is a vivd visualization
of their fight back to Civilization.
“Children of Tomorrow”
They are the hope and promise of America—these Lost Children who by a
miracle survived the destruction of their generation.
But before their Tomorrow can come they shall destroy the Barbarians
who ravage their country’s green fields and rolling hills—for the night
cannot last forever.
“Bright Flag of Tomorrow”
On their wilderness Mountain was safety from the dreaded hordes;
but below them America lay waiting for deliverance, praying for the
hope that only these Wild Boys could bring them….
“Thunder Tomorrow”
It is the voice of America, this thunder, lifted against an alien
and savage tyranny.
For tonight Dikar leads his army-with-banners into battle, and the hope
of Tomorrow shall be proclaimed with guns.
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Altus
Press
Premiering
at PulpFest!
Hell’s-a-Poppin’
on Halfaday Creek
by James B. Hendryx
Altus Press is proud to present another
new Halfaday Creek collection, containing eight previously-uncollected
Black John & Halfaday Creek novelettes.
Part of the matching Halfaday Creek Library.
Contains the following stories:
“Black John Declines a Reward”
“Constable Buck Counts Heads”
“Left Handed Justice”
“Poison on Halfaday”
“The Gambler”
“Halfaday Evidence, Package Style”
“Target Practice on Halfaday”
“Trial and Error”
580 pages / $29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover
/ $5.99 ebook
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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Anthony
Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!
THE SHADOW
Volume 85: "Masters of Death," "Voodoo Death" and "The Shadow Challenged"
The Knight of Darkness battles murderous supervillains
in two thrilling pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell
Grant." First, The Shadow wages a final battle against
his greatest enemy, Shiwan Khan, in "Masters of Death." Then,
savage drums promise eerie menace when Professor MacAbre attempts
to bring "Voodoo Death" to The Shadow and Margo Lane! BONUS:
A murderous Shadow uses the power of invisibility for evil and sets
a deadly trap for Lamont Cranston in "The Shadow Challenged." Which
Shadow will have the last laugh? This deluxe pulp reprint showcases
the original color pulp covers by Graves Gladney and Modest Stein and
the classic interior illustrations by Edd Cartier and Paul Orban with
historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum
Books) 978-1-60877-146-2 Softcover, 7x10. 112 pages, B&W, $14.95
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class)
or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First
Class postpaid
Twelve
issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail)
[postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal
(orders@shadowsanctum.com)
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Anthony
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Now available!
THE SHADOW
"FORESHADOWING THE BATMAN" superpack with THE SHADOW ANNUAL #1 and
bonus art prints!
THE SHADOW "Foreshadowing the Batman" super-packCommemorating
the 75th anniversary of Batman's 1939 debut, Sanctum Books collects
the groundbreaking pulp novels that inspired the Caped Crusader's
Golden Age in a 544-page multipack, with a new foreword by legendary
Batman scripter Dennis O'Neil, exclusive bonus 7"x10" art prints and
the brand-new THE SHADOW ANNUAL #1. This instant collector's item leads
off with "Partners of Peril," the legendary 1936 thriller that was
adapted as the debut Batman story in Detective Comics #27, and "Lingo"
which introduced The Shadow's yellow boomerang, the forerunner of the
Bat-a-rang! The Shadow combats a malevolent clown in "Death's Harlequin,"
a predecessor of The Joker's venom in "The Laughing Corpse," and in
"Voodoo Trail" wages a battle to the death with Dr. Mocquino, who inspired
Batman's first archfoe, Doctor Death! "The Devil Master" foreshadows
Bill Finger and Bob Kane's use of giant props, while "The Shadow's Rival"
was echoed in the 1953 Batman classic, "The Crime Predictor." PLUS:
The Shadow Annual #1 reprinting for the first time "The Crime Crypt"
and "The Green Terror," foreshadowing 1948's "The Thousand and One Trophies
of Batman" and the major Bat-villain, the Scarecrow! SPECIAL BONUS COLLECTOR'S
ITEMS include high-quality art prints of George Rozen's knockout "Voodoo
Trail" painting, Jerome Rozen's rendition of "Partners of Peril,"
Grave Gladney's "The Green Terror" and the legendary Tom Lovell art
that was "swiped" by Bob Kane in Detective Comics #27. This instant collector's
item showcases all eight color pulp covers and the original interior illustrations
by Tom Lovell, Edd Cartier and Paul Orban, with historical commentary
by popular culture historians Anthony Tollin and Will Murray. (Sanctum
Books) 978-1-60877-140-0 Softcover, 7x10. 544 pages, B&W, $39.95
"With this astonishing discovery,
Anthony Tollin and Will Murray have rewritten the history of Batman. We
always knew that Batman was inspired by The Shadow—we just didn't know
how much he was inspired by The Shadow!" —ALTER EGO editor Roy Thomas
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
$39.95
Check, Money Order, or Paypal
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Anthony
Tollin's Sanctum Books
At the printer and coming soon!
NICK
CARTER Volume 3: "The Return of Doctor Quartz," "The War-Makers" and "The
Case of the Chinese Motto Murder"
Thrilling mysteries by the creators
of Zorro and Batman!
America's premier detective hero returns in
action-packed pulp thrillers by ZORRO-creator Johnston McCulley
and John Chambliss plus a classic Nick Carter radio script
by BATMAN co-creator Bill Finger! First, the Master Detective's
arch-nemesis (who predates Professor Moriarty) comes back to
wage a battle to the death with Nick Carter in "Dr. Quartz Returns,"
"Nick Carter Corners Dr. Quartz" and "Nick Carter's Danger Trail,"
three classic 1926 adventures from the pages of Street & Smith's
Detective Story Magazine by Johnston McCulley! Then, "The War-Makers"
bring America to the brink of world war, and only Nick Carter can
save his beloved nation! BONUS: Nick Carter solves a Chinatown murder
in "The Case of the Chinese Motto Murder" by BATMAN co-creator Bill
Finger. This special edition showcases the original color pulp covers
by Jerome G. Rozen and John A. Coughlin, and also includes the original
pulp interior art by Harry T, Fisk plus historical commentary by Will
Murray, J. Randolph Cox and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-147-9
Softcover, 7x10, 144 pages, B&W, $14.95
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class)
or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First
Class postpaid
Twelve
issues for $167 (first class) or $155 (media mail) [postpaid]
(includes bonus variant and ring premium)
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail)
[postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal
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Black Coat Press
Now available!
THE WORKS OF HENRI AUSTRUY
Henri Austry, born in 1871, was
a Parisian attorney, a writer and the editor of La Nouvelle Revue from 1913
until his unrecorded death during the Nazi occupation of France. Virtually
forgotten today, he was the author of several remarkable, humorous and
imaginative works of science fiction in the vein of Robert Sheckley and
R. A. Lafferty. His stories possess an idiosyncratic eccentricity that
makes them highly unusual -- a quality worthy of interest and high praise
in the field of imaginative literature. There is literally nothing else
quite like them.
THE EUPANTOPHONE
by Henri Austruy; adapted by Brian Stableford
What do eyes matter, when one has spectacles
-- my spectacles, of course!"
The Eupantophone (1904) is about a machine for reading text
aloud that is a pun off into a device transforming light into sound that
enables a blind man to see.
This collection features three other stories by Austruy, all
set in fantasy worlds, where supernatural elements tend to be surreal
rather than magical, and deployed in the interests of allegory and satire.
US $22.95 / GBP £14.99
5x8 trade paperback, 328 pages
THE PETITPAON
ERA
by Henri Austruy; adapted by Brian Stableford
On that radiant spring morning, the
African army, miraculously extracted from its slumber, emerged from the Grand
Palais under the guidance of Abbé Mortol and Hermann Coffre in order
to reestablish order in Paris and put an end to the regime that had permitted
itself to raise its voice, in the name of wicked liberty.
Austruy could already have considered himself akin to Cassandra, having
seen his awful warnings of The Petitpaon Era (1906), a scathing pacifistic
anticipation, put so comprehensively in the shade by the actual world
war that followed it within a decade of its representation of his fictitious
one.
This collection features three other fantasy stories from remote epochs,
abolished from human memory, including tales of the bizarre city of
Miellune and the fantastic land of Humania, as well as a dire prediction
of a global ecocatastrophe caused by soil erosion.
US $22.95 / GBP
£14.99
5x8 trade paperback, 292 pages
THE OLOTELEPAN
by Henri Austruy; adapted by Brian Stableford
The olotelepan is content to extend
our senses, to prolong our perception to the limit of our finity. But to
perceive something it is necessary that it exists, and for it to exist, it
must be created...
The Olotelepan (1925) is set in an alternative history—a
world like our own, but which has diverged as a result of the invention
and widespread marketing of the eponymous device, a wireless apparatus
that instantaneously transports the senses to indefinite distances.
This collection features two other stories, including the ground-breaking
A Samsara (1932) in which a scientist devises a new technology that enables
the regeneration of souls.
US $24.95 / GBP £16.99
5x8 trade paperback, 360
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 Cheet ah
• 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!
Collectibles Section Being Restocked
- New!
2014 Memorial Day Weekend Sale Begins Friday Morning!
Windy City, Here I Come!
Now Available: BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER 2013-2014 SPECIAL EDITION
Pulp Pinup Queen Mala Mastroberte Joins Murania Press At
Windy City Con!
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The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 285: Glynn Owen Barrass
While Ric's wife is helping Ric celebrate his birthday and recent
graduation, Art is minding the Cave. This week Art interviews Glynn
Owen Barrass.
Episode
284: Young Dillion
Episode 283: C.E. Martin
Episode 282: Holmes and Cinderella
Episode 281: Jeff Diescher
Episode 280: Doc Savage
Episode 279: Dragging the wives into
the hobby
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The Bronze Gazette #70
(March 2014)
Now available!
This issue features:
Editorial
"Expanding the Bronze Age" by John L. Vellutini
Doc Savage comicbook story: "Castle's in the Air" from SHADOW COMICS,
February 1945
Front Cover: Tim Faurote
Interior illustrations: Edd Cartier, David
Burton and Kevin Duncan
Now accepting subscriptions for The Bronze Gazette issues #71, 72,
73.
Prices are as follows:
Cost is $15.00/3 Issues US
Cost is $16.00/3 Issues Canada
Cost is $20.00/3 Issues Overseas
For those that
have stuck with TBG all of these years, thanks
for your continued support.
Send
orders and back issue inquiries to:
Green Eagle Publications
2900 Standiford Ave 16B
PMB #136
Modesto, Ca 95350
Checks and money orders
should be payable to: Green Eagle Publications
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Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery,
Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!
Forgotten Books: ADVENTURE HEROES by Jeff Rovin (1994)
- New!
WEIRD TALES 40, 41 & 42 (1927)
- New!
Norman Saunders Comic Gallery: WILD BOY (1951)
- New!
Forgotten Stories: "The House of the Seven Dragons"
- a SPICY ADVENTURE by Robert Leslie Bellem
Pulp Gallery: THE SHADOW (1932)
Pulp Gallery: SUPER-DETECTIVE (1941)
Forgotten Books: DEALING OUT DEATH by W.T.Ballard (1948)
Comic Gallery: KERRY DRAKE (1944)
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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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The Domino Lady 12 inch
Action Figure
Now available!
Executive
Replicas and Phicen are proud to present the first ever 1:6 scale
figure of this sultry siren known as ... The Domino Lady.
Created by "Lars Anderson", The Domino Lady is a
masked pulp heroine first appearing in a 1936 issue of
Saucy Romantic Adventures. The Domino Lady is really University
of California, Berkeley-educated socialite Ellen
Patrick. When her father, District Attorney Owen Patrick,
is murdered, she puts on a domino mask to avenge him. She is
armed with two .45 pistols and her beauty. The Domino Lady charms,
outwits, and allures her adversaries. She is known for stealing
from her targets and donating the profits to charity, after
a modest cut for herself), and leaving a calling card that reads
- "Compliments of the Domino Lady"
- Product Height: 29.5cm
- Product Scale: 1:6
- Inner box Size: L34.8cm X W14.8cm X H9.7cm
- Carton Size: L32.0cm X W29.8cm X H36.5cm
- SRP - $149.99
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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
Coming
soon!
"John Carter: Warlord of Mars"
by Roy Thomas and Rodolfo Perez Garcia
John Carter: Warlord of Mars will make its
online debut in early summer. Written by Roy Thomas with art by Rodolfo
Perez Garcia of Mexico City, this series will follow John Carter and
his friends on exciting adventures that delve into the rich history
of Barsoom. As with the other ten series featured on the site,
the first four episodes of John Carter Warlord of Mars will be viewable
at no charge.
This strip will join ten 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.
"Korak the Killer" by
Ron Marz and Rick Leonardi.
"Carson of Venus" by Martin Powell and Tom Floyd.
"The Eternal Savage" by Martin Powell and Steven E. Gordon.
"The War Chief" by Martin Powell and Nik Poliwko.
"The Cave Girl" by Martin Powell and Diana Leto.
"Pellucidar" by Chuck Dixon and Gary Kwapsiz.
"The Land That Time Forgot" by Martin Powell and Pablo
Marcos.
"The Mucker" by Ron Marz and Lee Moder
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Art by Joe Jusko
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E-texts on the net this
week
The Shadow in Review:
There is no new Shadow review this week.
Pulpgen-Online Pulps: Now with over 1000
stories online!
"Dead Men's Music" by Norman A.
Daniels from 10-STORY DETECTIVE, July, 1943
There were tons of ore that the government needed in the mine - but
a legend kept it idle. And Steve Banning had come to a death grip with
a ghostly horde before he could start it working.
"Short-Wave Murder" by James Perley Hughes
from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, February, 1937
A radio expert was Detective Danny Phelan. But he wanted an expert movie
fadeout with lovely Peggy Concannon. And his megacycle chase after
Peggy led him straight into the jaws of . . . Short-Wave Murder
"Death Dummy" by Belton O. Buck from SECRET
AGENT "X", June, 1937
It was a strange means by which killer and victim seemed to disappear
into thin air.
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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!
May 2014
- New!
In Writings
Another tale from the Chronicles of Don Q., "How Don Q. Outwitted Don Luis," including the Stanley
Wood illustrations and an introduction by Dan Neyer.
Plus!
A short biography of Hesketh Prichard, "To Introduce Mr. Hesketh Prichard," that only appeared
in the UK edition of Pearson's Magazine.
April 2014
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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Fu-Manchu: THE DRUMS OF
FU-MANCHU - Now available!
by Sax Rohmer
Immediately before World War II, Fu-Manchu decides to
kill or control the world’s war-mongering dictators, to pave
the way for his own plans. The rapid-fire action moves
from London to Venice to Paris, and involves various
arcane and scientific forms of torture and death.
BONUS FEATURE: The Blue Monkey”, the second of three “lost
adventures of Nayland Smith.” It appeared in Collier’s
in 1931, then in the short story collection Tales of East
and West.
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
Amazon.com Titan Books
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Earth does not exist. . . . Or so they want you to believe.
Who are they? What do they want? And who do they think they are? They
are the Voltarians of Voltar—an empire 110 planets strong. They are
already among us. And the invasion is about to begin . . . in a hundred
years or so. Or is it? The truth is far more sinister. Undercover, underground
and out of sight, the invaders plan what may in fact be a massive diversion.
In the darkest recesses of Voltar’s Coordinated Information Apparatus
(otherwise known as the CIA), a tyrant of terror sets out to exploit
the invasion in order to seize power. All that stands in his way is a
planet that doesn’t exist.
Discover a world where corporations rule and political corruption is rife.
Where governments are driven by oil and controlled by drugs. Where global
warming is getting hotter by the minute . . . and a scorching love affair
could determine the fate of millions. Where a cosmic conspiracy is about
to hit home and the intergalactic intrigue knows no bounds. They call
it Blito-P3. We call it Earth.
You can’t afford to look the other way. It’s the end of the world as
you know it . . . and the beginning of one of the most spectacular, thought-provoking,
and wildly inventive works of science fiction and espionage of our time.
Retail price: $229.50
Save $34.50
Package price: $195.00
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Girasol
Collectables - June 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 $85
($10 off) |
THE
SPIDER #105
from June 1942 - $35
Featuring "Revolt of the Underworld"
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TERROR TALES #43
from Nov/Dec 1939 - $35
Featuring "The Damned May Dance with
Satan"
by Ray Cummings
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WEIRD
TALES #35 from August 1926 -
$35
Featuring
"The Woman of the Wood" by A. Merritt
"The Terrible Old Man"
by H.P. Lovecraft
"The Monster-God of Mamurth"
by Edmond Hamilton
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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
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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)
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/ November 1930
#2
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#4 Spring
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#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
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#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
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#76 August 1940
SPICY-MYSTERY
STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#2
June 1935
#3
July 1935
#4
August 1935
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1935
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1935
#7 November 1935
#8
December 1935
#9 January
1936
#10 February
1936
#11 March 1936
#12 April 1936
#13 May 1936
#14
June 1936
#15
July 1936
#16 August 1936
#17
September 1936
#18 October 1936
#19 November 1936
#20 December 1936
#21 January 1937
#22 February
1937
#23 March 1937
#26 June 1937
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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)
#105 Revolt of the Underworld (June1942)
STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES ($25 each
postpaid)
#2 December 1933
STRANGE
STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February 1939
STRANGE TALES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 September
1931
#2 November
1931
#3 January 1932
#4
March 1932
#5 June
1932
#6 October 1932
#7 January 1933
TERROR
TALES ($35 each postpaid)
#1
September 1934
#2 October
1934
#3 November
1934
#4 December
1934
#5 January
1935
#6
February 1935
#7 March1935
#8 April 1935
#9 May 1935
#10
June
1935
#11 July 1935
#12 August 1935
#13 September 1935
#14 October 1935
#15 November 1935
#16 December 1935
#17 January 1936
#18 February 1936
#19 March 1936
#20 April 1936
#21 May 1936
#22 June 1936
#23 July/Aug 1936
#24 Sept-Oct 1936
#25 Nov-Dec 1936
#26 Jan-Feb 1937
#27 March-April 1937
#28 May-June 1937
#29 July-August 1937
#30 September-October 1937
#31 November-December 1937
#32 January-February 1938
#33 March-April 1938
#34 May-June 1938
#35 July-August 1938
#36 September-October 1938
#37 November-December 1938
#38 January-February 1939
#39 March-April 1939
#40 May-June 1939
#41 July-August 1939
#42 September-October 1939
#43 November-December 1939
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 1924 ($50)
#14
November 1924 - One of the rarest WT's
#15 December 1924
#16 January 1925
#17 February 1925
#18 March 1925
#19 April 1925
#20 May 1925
#21 June 1925
#22
July 1925
#23 August 1925
#24 September 1925
#25 October 1925
#26 November 1925
#27 December 1925
#28 January 1926
#29 February 1926
#30 March 1926
#31 April
1926
#32 May 1926
#33 June 1926
#34 July 1926
#35 August
1926
#40
January 1927
#53 February 1928
#59
August 1928
#96 December 1931
#107 November 1932
#108 December 1932
#111 March 1933
#114 June 1933
#117 September 1933
#118 October 1933
#125 May
1934
#128
August 1934
#132 December 1934
#135 March 1935
#143 November 1935
#151 July 1936
#152 August 1936
#153 October 1936
#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!
Al Williamson & Roy Krenkel - New!
The Fleagles at EC ~ Al Williamson, Roy Krenkel &Frank
Frazetta - New!
The Steranko Comic Art Calendar ~ Sept/1972-Aug/1973
- New!
Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ The Westerns
Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ The Venus Series
Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ The Pellucidar Series
Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ The Martian Series
Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ The Tarzan Series
Marvel Science Stories 1938-1941 ~ Norman Saunders, Wesso,
Jack Kirby, Frank R. Paul, Alex Schomburg
J. Allen St John 1875-1957 ~ The Face In The Pool ~ 1905
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Gotham
Pulp Collectors Club - June 14, 2014!
Gotham Pulp
Collectors Club is a club for pulp
collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area.
We are meeting in June, at the Jefferson Market
Library on Sixth Avenue near 8th Street. Meeting in the third floor
room from 2:30 to 5 PM, 2nd Saturday of the month (June 14).
In July at Jeffereson Market Library from 1 to 4 PM in the 1st floor
room and August back at Jefferson Market in the third floor room from
2:30 to 5.
Contact: Mark
Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com
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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!
September 2014
BRAINQUAKE by Samuel Fuller , Cover art
by Glen Orbik
The bagmen who transport money for organized crime live by a
special set of rules: no relationships, no ties...no alcohol, no women...no
talking...and never, ever look inside the bag you’re carrying.
For more than ten years, despite suffering from a rare brain disorder,
Paul Page was the perfect bagman. But that ended the day he say a beautiful
Mob wife become a Mob widow. Now Paul is going to break every one
of the rules he’s lived by to protect the woman he loves—even if it
means he might be left holding the bag...
"Personal, hard-hitting, idiosyncratic...Everything was about storytelling,
the great yarn."
— Quentin Tarantino
"One of the great movie directors of the 20th century...most certainly
its greatest storyteller."
— Wim Wenders
In a career that spanned half a century, Samuel Fuller wrote and directed
classic movies that inspired filmmakers as varied as Steven Spielberg,
Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Jim Jarmusch,
Wim Wenders, and Quentin Tarantino. He also wrote unforgettable novels
such as the noir classic THE DARK PAGE—and this book, his last, which
has never previously been published in the English language.
First publication ever in the English language!
Author was not only a legendary movie director, he was a decorated
combat veteran whose WWII experiences included landing on Omaha Beach
on D-Day and participating in the liberation of the Falkenau concentration
camp
Fuller wrote BRAINQUAKE while in self-imposed exile in France toward
the end of his life, following a bitter dispute with Paramount Pictures
over his last American movie, WHITE DOG.
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THE HYBORIAN HERESIES - Now available
in Kindle format!
by Dale E. Rippke
Back in 2004, "THE HYBORIAN HERESIES" by Dale E. Rippke was
first published in print format...
Now, to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of this Critically-acclaimed and
Award-winning book, it is being published in Kindle Format for the first
time!
This "Special Edition" includes the entire contents of the original
printing, plus 2 Features that have never before been seen in a collected
edition: "The Art of Red Nails" by Ver Curtiss, and "The Tao of Conan"
by Dale Rippke...
Other essays in this edition include:
ROBERT E. HOWARD’S CONAN SERIES CHECKLIST
THE DARK STORM CONAN CHRONOLOGY
MYSTERIES OF THE PRE-CATACLYSMIC AGE
THE MYSTERY OF THE GREAT CATACLYSM
MYSTERIES OF THE CATACLYSMIC AGE
THE MYSTERY OF PRE-HUMAN STYGIA
THE FIRST GREAT MIGRATION
THE COMING OF THE HYBORIANS
THE AGE OF ACHERON
THE MYSTERY OF THE GREEN-STONE CITIES
THE HYBORIAN DAWN
THE UNKNOWN WEST
OMEGA HYBORIA
THE AGE OF FIRE AND ICE
THE MYSTERY OF BELIT
CHILDREN OF THE FALLEN
AFTERWORD by Benjamin Szumskyj
Plus the CREDITS from the Original Sources... and the extra SPECIAL
FEATURES: "THE ART OF “RED NAILS”... and THE TAO OF CONAN
Original Cover Art by David Burton
This is a book that belongs on every serious collector's shelf, and we
are sure that it will always have a place in History
THIS IS THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CONAN THE BARBARIAN
Don't pass this up... It is, simply, the most Definitive Collection of
"The Hyborian Age" that you could ever hope to find.
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CRIME FICTION STORIES, December
1950
Contents:
PARTING GIFT by Frank Ward
HATE CALLS THE TUNE by Clive Criswell
GEMS GLOW WITH BLOOD by Joseph Commings
ICE FROM A CORPSE by Ed Barcelo
HOW DEAD CAN YOU GET? by Charles Beckman, Jr.
AH, SWEET MYSTERY OF DEATH by Bryce Walton
MURDER COMES CALLING by Logan Logare
ODDS ARE ON DEATH by Ashley Calhoun
THE CASE BOOK by Steve R. Bonner
6 x 9 inch, 100 pages
Retail Price $15.00
ERBville Press Jerry Schneider Enterprises Pulpville Press
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Laurie's Wild West
- Now online!
The Reason for the LOVE STORY Ban May Have Been More Exciting
Than We Thought - New!
EXTRA! EXTRA! LOVE STORY MAGAZINE mystery solved!
An Appreciation of WILD WEST WEEKLY....in the New
York Times??
If You're Tired of the eBay Rat Race
PULP NEWS: May 11, 2014
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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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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/
Major celebrity announcement!
The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention is around the corner.
If you have not yet booked your hotel room, we suggest you do so
today. Remember, every year the hotel rooms sell out in advance
and people are unable to get a room. To get the special discounted
convention rate you need to call the hotel directly at 410-785-3904.
(If the phone rep cannot help, ask for Sharon Shapiro.)
Here's a quick announcement of three celebrities confirmed for this
year's event, September 18, 19 and 20, 2014.
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT
We are pleased to announce that Angela Cartwright will be among the
many guests at this year's MANC. Angela was one of the Von Trapp
kids in The Sound of Music. She played the Danny Thomas' daughter
on Make Room for Daddy. She played the youngest sister in Lost in Space.
Her resume is so extensive we cannot list them all! Click on her picture
to learn more!
CONNIE STEVENS
It is rare that an actress can successfully transcend the entertainment
gamut from Motion Picture and Television Star, Broadway, Recording
Artist and concert stage. Fans of Hawaiian Eye remember her best as
Cricket. She appeared in many classics such as Dragstrip Riot (1958)
and The Party Crashers (1958). She performed with Bob Hope in U.S.O.
tours. And she will be among the guests at this year's MANC Convention.
GEORGE LAZENBY
What else can we say about one of the six men to officially play the
role of James Bond? Perhaps we should introduce him as, "Bond, James
Bond." Fans of the 007 franchise consider On Her Majesty's Secret
Service (1967) as one of the best films in the series. And to have
James Bond himself at the convention? What a real treat this will
be!
And no, in real life he does not have a license to kill...
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Moonstone Books
SHEENA #2
Arriving in comic shops June 11!
DIE HARD screenwriter Steven E. de Souza’s critically acclaimed
reboot of Will Eisner’s SHEENA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE comes
to Moonstone in this action packed series! A man-eater is on
the loose, the government bounty is in the thousands, and
trigger happy hunters are descending on Sheena’s private jungle
like shark fisherman pursuing “Jaws”. As the mutilated
victims pile up, Sheena knows her jaguar companion is innocent…
but can she prove her theory that the killer is neither man or
beast before the intruders end up killing an innocent… or stumble
upon her own secret role as the leader of Val Verde’s spreading
revolution?
Story: David de Souza, Steven E. de Souza, Paul
D. Storrie
Art: Shawn McCauley
Colors: James Brown
Covers: Jake Minor, Jim Silke
32 pages, color, $3.99
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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.
These Alien Skies - New!
The New Pulp Heroes
Fanzines
Triple Detective
Worlds of Tomorrow
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Coming
in July and now accepting pre-orders!
Sexton Blake Library #6.1
Philip K. Dick Award winner Mark Hodder re-introduces Sexton Blake’s
old enemies, the Three Musketeers. Commissioned by rogue antiquarian
Mathew Cardolak, the criminal trio sets out to steal a valuable artefact
from the most secure vault in the British Empire, a chamber hidden deep
beneath an Army base inside the Rock of Gibraltar.
Also, THE WIRELESS TELEPHONE CLUE by G. H. Teed: the tale, dating from
1922, that first introduced the Three Musketeers. At face value,
they appear to be vacuous “Bertie Wooster” types, but the facade hides
the ruthless cunning of three master crooks!
Sexton Blake: the deductive intellect of Sherlock Holmes; the gung ho
action of Indiana Jones!
Regular price: £19.95
Now on sale for: £16.95
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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 Aristocrats of the Pulps - New!
In a letter published in “The Readers’ Viewpoint”
column in its June 1948 issue,
Robert Boyer labeled FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES as “. . . the Aristocrat
of the Pulps, the acme of stf perfection,”
a title that can likewise be conferred upon the magazine’s later
companions, FANTASTIC NOVLES and A. MERRITT'S FANTASY MAGAZINE.
Ray Palmer's Fantastic Adventure
Check out "Ray Palmer's Fantastic Adventure"
at 7 PM eastern time on Friday May 30,
courtesy of www.pulpfest.com, our latest addition to "The History of
Magazine Science Fiction." We'll be looking at the Ziff-Davis pulp,
FANTASTIC ADVENTURES.
Science Fiction and Archie Comics
Before he helped found MLJ Comics–later Archie
Comics–Louis Silberkleit published pulp magazines.
The mentor of Martin Goodman, Silberkleit was a follower of trends,
hoping to obtain a quick profit through the magazines he published.
Noting the growing science-fiction market in 1939, Silberkleit issued
a pair of magazines.
Unknown Worlds of John Campbell
In the February 1939 ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-FICTION,
John W. Campbell announced,
“. . . the second Friday of every month, a new magazine will appear.
UNKNOWN will be to fantasy what ASTOUNDING has made itself represent
to science fiction.
It will offer fantasy of a quality so far different from that
which has appeared in the past as to change your entire understanding of
the term.”
Thrilling Science Fiction & Fantasy
Standard Magazines entered the science-fiction market
in 1936 when they bought Hugo Gernsback's WONDER STORIES.
Around the start of 1939, with interest growing in the genre, they
added a couple of companions to the rechristened THRILLING WONDER
STORIES.
The science-fiction title was STARTLING STORIES, while STRANGE STORIES
delved into fantasy and the supernatural.
A year later, CAPTAIN FUTURE was added to the mix (we'll have more on
that one at a later date).
Science Fiction, the Marvel Way
Before attaining financial success as the publisher
of Marvel Comics, Martin Goodman was pretty much a fly-by-night publisher
of pulps, true crime magazines, and anything else on which he could
turn a fast profit.
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!
Doc Ardan: City of Gold - New!
The Cairn on
the Headland by Robert E. Howard
A Night
in Malneant by Clark Ashton Smith
The Evil Clergyman
by H.P. Lovecraft
Savage
Shadow by Philip Jose Farmer
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Pulp Den - Now online!
Savage Summer
- New!
Sidekick by Auralee Wallace
- New!
These Alien Skies
- New!
Bewitching Blog Tours & The Book Cave
The Green Ghost Volume One
Voodoo Ridge
The Bronze Gazette #70
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Pulp Flakes
- Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines,
authors and their stories,
adventure and detective pulps.
Pulp Art - Drawings and Paintings from Windy City 2014
Arthur S. Hoffman's departure from Adventure magazine
- an update
Attended Windy City Pulp and Paper 2014
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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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3 pulp questions: Rob Smalley
‘Amazing Stories’ (September 1928)
Bits of pulp: Ahnold is back as Conan
3 pulp questions: Robert Weinberg
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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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In the post World War II era, Popular Publications was slow to
launch new magazines built around a single character. But when they did,
they went completely out of the box. Captain Zero was one of those.
In 1950, with the pulp era dwindling, Popular put out The Pecos Kid
Western. He was, in the words of editor Mike Tilden, “hardly a regulation
Western character.”
What did Tilden mean by that? Simply that here was a hero who
was neither a steely-eyed pulp stalwart, nor a rodeo-shirted Hollywood
trick-shooter — both infallible crusaders for justice, but about as realistic
as the Lone Ranger.
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The Pecos Kid was really William Calhoun Warren, late of Texas and the
Confederate Army. After the Civil War, he set out to make an honest
living, assisted by his saddle mates, Big Jim Swing and Hernandez Pedro
Gonzales y Fuente Jesus Maria Flanagan. The series was created to reflect
the shift toward more mature Western films, which had been growing on
Hollywood over much of the 1940s. It would reach its zenith with such
cinematic classics as Howard Hawks’ 1948 epic Red River, along with High
Noon, Shane, and The Searchers, all just around the corner from 1950.
According to author Dan Cushman, The Pecos Kid was actually inspired
by The Cisco Kid. “The editors at Popular asked me to write a series on
a character they devised called the Pecos Kid, a sort of a spinoff on
Leo Carillo, and I wrote several lead novels, but it came during the
twilight of the pulps.”
Cushman actually meant Duncan Renaldo, who played The Cisco Kid in the
wildly popular 1940s film series, which debuted on TV in September,
1949. Leo Carillo played the Kid’s older sidekick, Pancho.
In his debut novel, Riders of the Gunsmoke Rim, Bill Warren and his
comrades have just finished driving a heard of cattle up from Cheyenne
to the untamed town of Miles in Montana Country when they muscle into
a hornet’s nest of hate and...but you can hear all the ruckus and ruction
for yourself as Milton Bagby narrates Dan Cushman’s bullet-torn tale
ripped from the pages of Pecos Kid Western, July, 1950.
Also included is a novelette by one of the the Pulp West’s major stars,
Harry F. Olmsted’s “Hoss Greer––The Devil’s Line-Rider.”
Backing their play are five frontier fictions by Lloyd Eric Reeve, James
Shaffer, Tom Roan, E. E. Halleran, and Giff Cheshire––all storied names
back in the heyday of the Pulp West. 8 hours $31.98 Audio CDs / $15.99
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Radio Archives
Will Murray
Has A FREE Spider Download For You!
Rule of the Monster Men!
Radio Archives has just released its 50th Will Murray Pulp Classics
audiobook! It's The Spider and the Eyeless Legion, one of the most
exciting and compelling adventures starring millionaire criminologist
Richard Wentworth. We thought it only fitting to celebrate this landmark
with the hero who kicked off the successful Will Murray Pulp Classics––The
Spider!
To help celebrate this milestone, I’m offering a free download of the
story that started the recent sequence of Spider exploits, Rule of the
Monster Men. Set in the New York World's Fair, Rule of the Monster Men
pits The Spider against one of the most most malevolent criminal masterminds
he ever encountered.
It began with the sighting of a veterinarian’s ambulance, its caged
rear crammed with helpless human beings––all victims of Manhattan’s
newest monster, the Wreck!
The Rule of the Monster Men had begun.
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Creating an army
of human cripples, the Wreck begins a looting spree that reaches from
Park Avenue to the New York World’s Fair of 1939. In answer to this awful
challenge, Richard Wentworth, alias The Spider, rushes to the defense
of his beloved city of Manhattan. When his fiancee falls victim to this
atrocious fiend, all bets are off! This is not a story with a happy
ending....
Taken from the June, 1939 issue of The Spider. Including another Arthur
Leo Zagat short story, “Doc Turner and the Winged Terror.” This
is a Total Pulp Experience audiobook.
The Spider series was one of the most popular pulp magazines of the 1930s,
and his fame has only grown in the 21st Century. Violent, realistic,
and uncompromising in his pursuit of justice, The Spider never fails
to deliver red-hot action and white-heat emotional thrills. See why he
is rightly called the Master of Men!
To obtain your free download send an email to SpiderAudio@RadioArchives.com
and you’ll receive the download link within seconds.
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Now available!
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but
with a whisper — a whisper of wings! Death has come out of Africa in
the form of swarms of vicious African flies. A living plague, these
monstrous bugs cannot be battled like some ordinary disease. Medical
science is unable to prevent the deadly autoimmune reaction caused by
the bite of these insects. Across the world, billions are dead and more
are constantly dying. Governments are falling everywhere, and civilization
is collapsing. The flies are everywhere and everywhere they swarm they
bring death.
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A few claim that the bugs are a freak mutation, while others believe
that they are a man-made plague. Still, as all hope disappears, mankind
ceases to care. The fatal flies are a plague sent by God, or so many
of those dying claim.
However, not everyone is dying. A small number of people seem immune.
They name themselves Mungus and they teach that man should accept the
judgment of the flies, allowing themselves to be bitten by the “flies
of the Lord.”
Into the land of the dead and dying, comes Nigel, an investigative reporter,
searching for a kidnapped African boy named Bandora. Nigel, who is married
to Abby, seeks redemption in a world where there is no such thing as forgiveness.
On a quest for the truth, his journey takes him down a long road of self-discovery
into the world of the head Mungu, a strange man who speaks the truth in
riddles and is not afraid of the deadly flies.
Here is a novel about the end of the world, of the apocalypse; a story
about the fragile bonds that hold not only marriages but also civilizations
together. It’s also a story about truth and how we treat it. Do we embrace
it with our soul or reject it completely. And most of all, it is about
how we face truth in ourselves.
A Necessary Evil brings together two bestselling authors from across
an ocean to combine their talents in a novel not easy to forget. Sarah
Pinborough is a critically acclaimed award-winning author of horror,
crime and YA fiction. She has also written for 'New Tricks' on the BBC,
and has a horror film and an original TV series in development. She lives
in London. F. Paul Wilson is an award-winning, NY Times bestselling
author of over 50 novels in many genres and numerous short stories translated
into twenty-four languages. He is best known as creator of the urban mercenary
Repairman Jack. 8 hours $31.98 Audio CDs / $15.99 Download
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Radio
Archives
Will Murray's Pulp Classics #20
Unabridged Audiobook
Strange Detective Mysteries When the
Death-Bat Flies
Read by Michael C. Gwynne, Roy Worley, and
Roger Price
Very Special Offer from
Will Murray’s Pulp Classics!
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Strange Detective Mysteries #1 audiobook for FREE.
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Strange
Detective Mysteries #1 is one of my favorite pulps and I am excited
to produce it as an audiobook with my good friends at Radio
Archives. It leads off with Norvell W. Page's bizarre novelette,
"When the Death-Bat Flies," and includes thrilling stories
by Norbert Davis, Paul Ernst, Arthur Leo Zagat, Wayne Rogers
and others. Popular Publications went all-out to make this
1937 debut issue a winner. And they succeeded!
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Radio Archives
Will Murray's Pulp eBook Classics
Now available!
The Spider #96: The Spider and
the Deathless One
It was inevitable that Richard Wentworth, crack amateur crime-fighter,
should one day be called upon to substitute as Police Commissioner for
his loyal friend, Kirkpatrick — who had sworn to snare the Spider!...
It was inevitable, also, that the Spider’s worst enemy — Munro, the Man
of a Thousand Faces — should return! But that these two dramatic events
should occur simultaneously... makes for one of the most urgent and exciting
of all the Spider’s adventures! Total Pulp Experience. These exciting
pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as
an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column
of the original pulp magazine. $2.99.
Dime Mystery Magazine: Dane Gregory and Wayne Robbins
In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names
— the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines
— weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Dime
Mystery Magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular
Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol
theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten years,
but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This ebook contains
a collection of stories from the pages of Dime Mystery Magazine, all written
by Dane Gregory and Wayne Robbins, reissued for today’s readers in electronic
format. $2.99.
Dare-Devil Aces #95 - February
1940
Dare-Devil Aces was another of the many pulps that rode the
wave of popularity of World War I aviation tales in the decade after the
conflict. It made its debut in February 1932 and lasted for an astounding
135 issues. It finally closed after World War II ended, with the November
1946 issue. During its run, it presented a wide assortment of high-flying
aerial series, including The Red Falcon, The Vanished Legion, The Three
Mosquitoes, Molloy and McNamara, The Black Sheep of Belogue, The Mongol
Ace, Chinese Brady, Captain Babyface, Smoke Wade and others. Strap on your
flying helmet, toss that scarf about your neck and get ready for some soaring
action in the skies over France and Germany during the Great War. Dare-Devil
Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic
format. $2.99.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #69: Flight
of the Death Battalion
They had no way of telling what lay before them; there was no
sign of murder in the day or in the night as these Battle Aces sat talking
in their Hangar. And then it came! — strange and ghastly, as though from
another earth, and G-8 had no weapon other than his courage with which
to fight! G-8 and his Battle Aces rode the nostalgia boom ten years
after World War I ended. These high-flying exploits were tall tales
of a World War that might have been, featuring monster bats, German zombies,
wolf-men, harpies, Martians, and even tentacled floating monsters. Most
of these monstrosities were the work of Germany’s seemingly endless supply
of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8’s recurring Nemesis, Herr Doktor
Krueger. G-8 battled Germany’s Halloween shock troops for over a decade,
not ceasing until the magazine folded in the middle of World War II. G-8
and his Battle Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s
readers in electronic format. $2.99.
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Ramble House
Dancing Tuatara Press - Now available!
VAMPIRE
OF THE SKIES by James Corbett
With an Introduction by John Pelan
Dancing Tuatara Press #49
We are proud to present the first of
at least three compelling novels by James Corbett this summer and to start
it off: Vampire of the Skies, a 1932 aeroplane thriller with lots of
supernatural leanings. For one thing, the villain seems to suck the
blood from his victims shortly before throwing them from the cockpit
of a high-flying aeroplane. John Pelan has much more to say in his introduction
about this yarn as well as another aviation tale, The Ghost Plane, and
a mystery, Murder Begets Murder, coming soon from Ramble House.
Available Editions
$20 Trade Paperback 6" x 9"
$35 Hardcover with dust jacket, 6" x 9" (Available in June
2014)
$45 Hardcover with dust jacket, with bookplate, signed by
John Pelan, 6" x 9" (Available in July 2014)
$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!
It's 1939 and the seaside town of Great Britain are preparing
for air attacks. But out of the blue comes an invisible silent plane
that can strafe a half dozen innocent people at a time. After the first
attacks the authorities are alerted but the deaths keep coming without
warning. It's time to bring in Scotland Yard and the Secret Service,
and there's even a civilian named Brent, but can they bring the phantom
killer to ground -- literally? In his introduction Gavin O'Keefe relates
some of the war history of the author and his books and compares The Ghost
Plane to the other two Corbetts we'll publish this summer: Vampire of the
Skies, and a mystery, Murder Begets Murder.
Available Editions
$20 Trade Paperback 6" x 9"
$35 Hardcover with dust jacket, 6" x 9" (Available in June
2014)
$45 Hardcover with dust jacket, with bookplate, signed by
John Pelan, 6" x 9" (Available in July 2014)
$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!
Russell Gray's first volume of weird menace stories, HOSTESSES
FROM HELL and Other Stories, was a big hit among those who enjoy travelling
back to the Great Depression when the pulps featured gory tales like
these. In his introduction, John Pelan tells you about the author and
his time, and then treats you to the following mesmerizing yarns:
"She-Devil of the Sea" from TERROR TALES
July/August 1938
"A Corpse Wields the Lash" from TERROR
TALES Sept/Oct 1937
"White Flesh Must Rot" from SINISTER STORIES
February 1940
"My Touch Brings Death" from HORROR STORIES
Dec/Jan 1938/1939
"I Said Yes to Satan" from REAL MYSTERY
July 1940
"The Singing Corpses" from TERROR TALES
Sept/Oct 1938
"The House that Horror Built" from TERROR
TALES Sept/Oct 1937
"Darlings of the Black Master" from TERROR
TALES Nov/Dec 1937
"The Devil is our Landlord" from TERROR
TALES Jan/Feb 1938
"Valley of the Red Death" from TERROR TALES
Jan/Feb 1938
Available Editions
$20 Trade Paperback 6" x 9"
$35 Hardcover with dust jacket, 6" x 9" (Available in June
2014)
$45 Hardcover with dust jacket, with bookplate, signed by
John Pelan, 6" x 9" (Available in June 2014)
$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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For this eleventh volume of the Howard collection, up to the
historic adventure, including the Agnes Black cycle, amazing female
hero due to the fertile imagination of the Texan, but also texts featuring
Cormac Mac Art and pirates vikings, Kirby O'Donnell, current adventure
in Afghanistan, or Terence Vulmea, Irish pirate of the Caribbean. Collision
ambushes, cursed temples and conspiracies, the creator of Conan the Cimmerian
is having a field day.
This edition, prepared by Patrice Louinet, one of the most prominent
international experts Howard and his work, has a new translation based
on the original manuscripts.
Illustrator: Stephane Collignon
Translator: Patrice Louinet
Price: 25.00 €
Number of pages: 528
Format: Large format
Edition: paperback
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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
The book is finished and turned in to Dark Horse
Comics!
The solicitation is coming soon!
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!
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!
Midnight In Moscow
The Shadow Fan returns for his 68th episode! This time around,
Barry reviews the first issue of Midnight in Moscow, as Howard Chaykin
returns to The Shadow. He also takes a look at the ninth issue of the
Year One series, as Matt Wagner's classic tale nears its end.
If you love pulp's greatest crimefighter, then this is the podcast for
you!
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The Shadow - Under
the Blue Light - Now online!
Gray Fist
- New!
Freak Show Murders - New!
Chain of Death
Cyro
King of the Black Market
Kings of Crime
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SHERLOCK HOLMES: MORIARTY LIVES #4 (OF 5)
- Arriving in comic shops
June 11!
(Writer) David Liss (Art) Carlos Furuzono (Cover) Francesco
Francavilla
The deadly game of cat-and-mouse between world’s most notorious
villain and the most dangerous man in Switzerland continues
to unfold with skull-cracking, wife-stealing, cattle-mutilating
action! Moriarty begins to move his plan into his endgame,
but he may have already been outwitted by the master alchemist
who delights in murder and atrocity. Can Moriarty be evil enough
to emerge as a hero, or will the people who have trusted him find
themselves betrayed? The game is afoot in the penultimate issue!
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale June
11
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SIDEKICK by Auralee Wallace
- Now available!
Heroes meets Bridget Jones in this brilliant, hilarious debut
novel about a girl who just wants to save the world...
Bremy St James, daughter of billionaire Atticus St James, has been cut
off from the family fortune and is struggling to survive in a world
that no longer holds its breath every time she buys a new outfit.
To make matters worse, her twin sister is keeping secrets, loan sharks
are circling, and the man of her dreams — a newspaper reporter — is
on assignment to bring down everyone with the last name St James.
Things are certainly looking bleak for the down-and-out socialite until
a good deed throws her into the path of the city’s top crime-fighter,
Dark Ryder. Suddenly, Bremy has a new goal: apprentice to a superhero,
and start her own crime-fighting career.
Ryder has no need for a sidekick, but it turns out the city needs Bremy’s
help. Atticus St James is planning the crime of the century, and Bremy
may be the only one able to get close enough to her father to stop him.
Now all she needs to do is figure out this superhero thing in less than
a month, keep her identity secret from the man who could very well be
The One, and save the city from total annihilation.
Well, no one ever said being a superhero would be easy...
File Size: 591 KB
Print Length: 249 pages
Price: 4.99
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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.
A Survey of Monsters--Part One
- New!
What Is the Monster of the Twenty-First Century?--Part Eight
What Is the Monster of the Twenty-First Century?--Part Seven
What Is the Monster of the Twenty-First Century?--Part
Six
What Is the Monster of the Twenty-First Century?--Part Five
Weird Tales #362 Now Available
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Tarzan - WB feature
film casting update!
Warner Bros has set Djimon Hounsou to join Alexander Skarsgard
and Margot Robbie in the David Yates-directed Tarzan. Hounsou will
play Chief Mbonga in the action adventure.
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Tarzan - Coming soon on DVD!
Experience the legendary tale when the action-packed family
film, Tarzan, arrives on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD) and DVD (plus Digital)
exclusively at Walmart, as well as Video On Demand and Pay-Per-View
on August 5 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The film will be available
three weeks earlier on Digital HD July 15.
Kellan Lutz (The Twilight Saga franchise) headlines the newest incarnation
of the iconic tale Tarzan®, available on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD)
and DVD (plus Digital) exclusively at Walmart August 5 from Lionsgate
Home Entertainment. The film will be available on Video on Demand and
Pay-Per-View everywhere the same day. Tarzan will be available three
weeks earlier on Digital HD July 15. Based on the ‘Tarzan‘ stories created
by Edgar Rice Burroughs, one of the most classic coming of age stories
of all time is now completely re-imagined for a new generation in stunning
CGI-animation. In its initial theatrical release the film has grossed
over $35 million globally. Directed by Reinhard Klooss (Animals United)
from a screen story and screenplay by him as well, Tarzan also features
the voice talents of Spencer Locke (Resident Evil: Afterlife) and Jaime
Ray Newman (TV’s “Mind Games“).
During an expedition to a remote African jungle, the Greystoke family’s
helicopter crashes, leaving one survivor: the young boy J.J., nicknamed
Tarzan. Raised by gorillas, Tarzan lives by the laws of the jungle – until
he encounters another human being, the courageous and beautiful Jane Porter.
For Tarzan and Jane, it’s love at first sight – and the beginning of
a thrilling adventure – as Tarzan uses his instincts and intellect to
protect his jungle home and the woman he loves.
With bonus material including three behind-the-scenes featurettes, Tarzan
will be available on Blu-ray and DVD exclusively at Walmart for the
suggested retail price of $19.99 and $19.98, respectively.
BLU-RAY/DVD SPECIAL FEATURES*
· “Behind the Scenes with Kellan Lutz and Spencer Locke”
featurette
· “Becoming Gorillas” featurette
· “The Making of Tarzan” featurette
*Subject to change
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Year of Production: 2013
Title Copyright: Tarzan © 2013, Artwork & Supplementary Materials
© 2014 Constantin
Film Produktion GmbH. Trademark TARZAN owned by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS,
INC. and used by permission.
Type: Theatrical Release
Rating: PG for Action Violence, Peril/Frightening Images, Mild Language
and Thematic Elements
Genre: Family; Animation
Blu-ray Closed Captioned: English SDH
DVD Closed Captioned: English
Subtitles: English and Spanish
Run Time: 94 minutes
Blu-ray Format: 1080P High Definition16x9 Widescreen (2.40:1)
DVD Format: 16×9 Widescreen (2.40:1)
Blu-ray Audio Status: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
DVD Audio Status: 5.1 Dolby Digital
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UFOs have been an enigma to people for
centuries, but in the 20th Century they made their presence felt worldwide.
MSgt Edwards experienced them first hand in the Air Force, when lights in
the sky took control of a nuclear missile complex in North Dakota. After
retiring, he joined AIM - Alien Intelligence Monitors, and now investigates
sightings; is it possible an alien from outer space guides him with
a message for Earth?
Eddy Edwards is tough, he has to be; government agents and local toughs
often want him dead. Pulpy action combined with aliens and UFOs mix
for lots of fun.
Features a great cover by Teresa Tunaley.
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Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels
by Christopher R. Yates
(New publications to the list
are in bold)
Now available!
X-Men: Days of Future Past, Alexander Irvine,
Marvel, $24.99, May 20, 2014
Warbound [Grimnoir Chronicles, Bk. 3], Larry Correia,
Baen, $7.99, May 27, 2014
Coming soon!
Rocketeer: Jet Powered Adventures, ed. Jeff
Mariotte, IDW Publishing, $19.99, July 01, 2014
Monster Hunter Nemesis [Monster Hunters, Bk. 5], Larry Correia,
Baen, $25.00, July 01, 2014
Resistance, Samit Basu, Titan, $14.99,
July 08, 2014
Rocket Raccoon & Groot: Steal the Galaxy, Dan Abnett,
Marvel, $24.99, July 15, 2014
DREDD: The Illustrated Movie Script & Visuals, Alex
Garland & Jock, 2000AD, $35.00, July 15,2014
Turbulence, Samit Basu, Titan, $7.99, July
29, 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
Revolution: Book Three in the Secret World Chronicles,
Mercedes Lackey, et al., Baen, $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
Captain America: The Death of Captain America, Larry Hama, Marvel,
$7.99, November 18, 2014
Dreams of a Golden Age, Carrie Vaughn, Tor, $7.99,
November 25, 2014
Wild Cards III: Jokers Wild, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor,
$8.99, November 25, 2014
Collision: Book Four in the Secret World Chronicles, Mercedes Lackey,
et al., Baen, $25.00, December 02, 2014
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $15.99,
January 13, 2015
Ex-Isle, Peter Clines, Broadway Books, $14.00, July
2015
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William Patrick Maynard
- Now online!
Blogging
Sapper’s Bulldog Drummond, Part Two
The strongest scenes in Bulldog Drummond (1920) are the ones
that show off Sapper’s strengths as a humorist. While it has since become
commonplace to see Bondian heroes tossing off quips while being menaced
by an unfailingly polite villain, it hardly compares to the way Hugh Drummond
handled himself in similar scenarios. Drummond regularly displays a self-deprecating
humor when it comes to his features and his intellect, yet his ability
to needle villains by refusing to treat them as a serious threat displays
an intelligence and understanding of the criminal mind that provides
a constant source of amusement to the reader.
Read the rest at the links below.
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