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Altus Press
Premiering at PulpFest!
The Complete Cases of Keyhole Kerry, Volume
1
by Frederick C. Davis, Introduction by Ed Hulse
Big-city residents
on both sides of the law regard him with equal measures of fear and reticence.
They know that whatever they’re doing, right or wrong, will sooner or later
come to the attention of Guy “Keyhole” Kerry, a wise-cracking, hard-charging
journalist who knows all and tells most of it. Kerry’s profession brings
him into contact with all kinds of people, and the law of averages guarantees
that some of them are better left alone. But Keyhole Kerry will risk
anything for a scoop, even if it means becoming embroiled in murder
mysteries and making himself a target.
This relatively brief series (eight late Thirties entries) was
written for Dime Detective by Frederick C. Davis, a tireless pulp scribe
who sold more yarns to the magazine—73 in all—than any other contributor
save T.T. Flynn. With a half-dozen recurring characters in this one
rough-paper periodical, Davis was one of the many talented contributors
who made Dime Detective a prestigious crime pulp second only to the
legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre.
234 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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Altus Press
Premiering at PulpFest!
Grey Maiden: The Story
of a Sword Through the Ages, The Complete Saga
by Arthur D. Howden Smith, Introduction by Sai Shankar
The Grey Maiden is a sword of legend. Forged
by the pharaohs of Egypt and carried by great warriors from ancient
Greece to the Middle East, the man who wields the Grey Maiden can never
die by the blade of another sword. But that doesn’t make him immortal.
First appearing as a series in the pages of Popular Publications’ Adventure
Magazine, Arthur D. Howden Smith’s epic traces the story of the sword
as it shapes the destiny of the world. Collected together here are all
nine tales of the Grey Maiden.
Smith was an American journalist, novelist and historian who wrote a
number of popular series and stories for the pulps ranging from swashbuckling
tales of the sea to yarns set in the American frontier.
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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Altus Press
Premiering at PulpFest!
Buccaneer Blood: The Adventures
of Denis Burke
by H. Bedford-Jones
Fate leads Denis
Burke, buccaneer-turned Irish soldier-of-fortune, from the intrigues of the
Sun King’s Court to the distant shores of the Caribbean. Dramatic sea
battles with crashing broadsides, exciting swordfights with traitorous
villains, the hunt for treasure ships and lovely ladies are just some of
the ingredients of this classic pulp era swashbuckler series.
247 pages / $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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Altus Press
Premiering at PulpFest!
Long Road to Tomorrow:
The Complete Saga, Volume 2
by Arthur Leo Zagat
The complete
saga of Dikar and The Bunch concludes here. Volume 2 contains the following
stories:
“Sunrise Tomorrow”:
The road to liberty is long and perilous, but Dikar must lead his warrior
Bunch down it swiftly—if America is to see again the bright sunrise
of her matchless heritage.
“Long Road to Tomorrow”:
Follow this road by night, Dikar, with your knife always ready. For a
man must proceed stealthily and with iron courage if his destination is
a brave new world.
194 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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Altus Press
Premiering at PulpFest!
Badmen on Halfaday Creek
by James B. Hendryx, Introduction by Garyn Roberts, Ph.D.
Continuing the
complete reprinting of the classic Halfaday Creek series by master Northwest
author James B. Hendryx. Originally published in book form in 1950, this
edition has gone back to utilize the original magazine text versions (dating
from 1947 and 1948), including all of the original illustrations.
Black John Smith awakens to find himself upside down in a mine
shaft—and the latest series of Halfaday Creek adventures is in full
swing. Needless to say, he is speedily rescued, for only Black John
can keep the peace in his famous colony on the Yukon-Alaska border.
Breaking the law in the interests of justice is his favorite pastime:
this time his unconventional methods help him to solve the Case of
the Chocolate-Covered Cartridges, the Case of the Poisoned Moose Meat,
and the Case of the Other Black John. As usual, his ardent pursuit of
justice add a few headstones to the Halfaday Creek cemetery, where the
Hs (Hung) and the Ms (Murdered) outnumber the Ds (Died Natural).
Contains the following stories:
“Black John Pays a Debt”
“Justice–and the Law”
“Profit on Halfaday”
“The Partnership Business”
“Slight Misunderstanding on Halfaday”
“Conspiracy on Halfaday”
263 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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Altus Press
Premiering at PulpFest!
The Lost End of Nowhere: The Complete
Tales of Kingi Bwana, Volume 1
by Gordon MacCreagh, Introduction by Sai Shankar
“Anything can
happen in Africa!”—that’s the credo of big game hunter, trader and safari
guide King, known all over the Dark Continent as Kingi Bwana. Together with
his two loyal companions, the deadly Masai warrior Barounggo and the
wizened, cunning Hottentot Kaffa, the stoic American battles slave
traders, ivory poachers, gold smugglers, arms traffickers, evil witch
doctors and secret societies in the savanna and jungle of Central East
Africa.
Contains the following stories:
“The Slave Runner”
“The Ebony Juju”
“The Lost End of Nowhere”
294 pages / $24.95 softcover / $34.95 hardcover
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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Altus Press
Premiering at PulpFest!
Unprofitable Ivory: The Complete Tales of Kingi Bwana, Volume 2
by Gordon MacCreagh
“Anything can
happen in Africa!”—that’s the credo of big game hunter, trader and safari
guide King, known all over the Dark Continent as Kingi Bwana. Together with
his two loyal companions, the deadly Masai warrior Barounggo and the
wizened, cunning Hottentot Kaffa, the stoic American battles slave
traders, ivory poachers, gold smugglers, arms traffickers, evil witch
doctors and secret societies in the savanna and jungle of Central East
Africa.
Contains the
next five stories in the series:
“Quill Gold”
“Unprofitable Ivory”
“The Witch Casting”
“Strangers of the Amulet”
“The Ivory Killers”
$19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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Altus Press
Premiering at PulpFest!
Street
Wolf: The Black Mask Stories of Frederick Nebel
by Frederick Nebel
Introduction by Rob Preston
Petty
crooks, gangsters, rum runners, hijackers, jewel smugglers, Chinatown tongs,
hard-boiled cops, tramp gunmen, a prize fighter, and a private dick. These
are just a few of the characters found within the pages of this collection
from master crime fiction writer Frederick Nebel. This book, the tenth
volume in The Nebel Library, collects for the first time, the last sixteen
remaining tales he wrote for Black Mask. Complete with their original
illustrations.
Contains the following stories:
“The Breaks of the Game”
“Grain to Grain”
“Dumb Luck”
“China Silk”
“Hounds of Darkness”
“A Man With Sand”
“Emeralds of Shade”
“A Grudge is a Grudge”
“With Benefit of Law”
“The Penalty of the Code”
“A Gun in the Dark”
“Hell to Pay”
“Street Wolf”
“The Kill”
“The Spot and the Lady”
“It’s the Live Ones That Talk”
484 pages / $29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover
FREE SHIPPING ON SOFTCOVER EDITIONS!
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American Fantasy Press
THE COLLECTORS' BOOK OF
VIRGIL FINLAY
Coming in November - Now
accepting pre-orders!
Eye popping preview of The Collectors' Book of Virgil Finlay!
- New!
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 Centeary 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.
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.
THE EDITIONS AVAILABLE
A Buckram cloth-bound Trade Edition
with thick boards, acid-free paper and smythe-sewn. 400 copies
available.
Signed by Robert Weinberg and Doug Ellis.
A Bonded leather-bound edition with a signed, cancelled
publishers' payment check to Virgil Finlay. 26 copies.
This edition is also signed by Lail Finlay (Virgil Finlay's daughter),
in addition to Bob Weinberg and Doug Ellis.
Shipped by Insured Priority Mail. 10 copies available through
this Kickstarter.
A Special Kickstarter Version of the Trade Edition.
90 copies of the Trade also signed by Lail Finlay as well as
Bob W. and Doug.
Pre-order and pledge your support at
the Kickstarter link below!
American Fantasy Press
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The
Kickstarter campaign is now over and fully funded!
The first new Virgil Finlay art book in twenty years will
feature the collections of Robert Weinberg, Doug Ellis, Glynn Crain
and Robert K. Wiener.
Beginning today, a Kickstarter Campaign has been launched to help
defray costs in publishing THE COLLECTORS' BOOK OF VIRGIL
FINLAY an art book featuring Virgil Finlay pieces from the
collections of Robert Weinberg, Doug Ellis, Glynn Crain, and Robert
K. Wiener.
Virgil Finlay was the most accomplished and outstanding line
artist in American SF-Fantasy history. From 1936-1971 he illustrated
an astounding amount of pulp fiction. Beginning at WEIRD
TALES, his interior art appeared in 62 WT issues and he painted
19 covers. His run only ended when the magazine did in 1954. He didn't
stop there. For years afterward his illustrations appeared in almost
every genre magazine: AMAZING, STRANGE STORIES, FAMOUS FANTASTIC
MYSTERIES, FANTASTIC NOVELS, FANTASTIC UNIVERSE, IF, GALAXY and more.
Through A. Merritt, he was hired as a staff artist for THE AMERICAN
WEEKLY magazine and eventually worked for astrology magazines in the
1950s and 1960s. In 1953, he won the Hugo Award for Best Interior
Illustrator. He did the dust jacket art for Arkham House Publishers
THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS and ROADS. He also illustrated the hardcover of
A. Merritt's THE SHIP OF ISHTAR, worked for comics, and so much more.
About 2500 pieces have been catalogued. He passed away in 1971 after a
harsh bout with cancer. In 1996, he was awarded the Retro Hugo as Best
Professional Artist of 1945. In 2012, Virgil Finlay was also posthumously
inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Slated for release at the World Fantasy Convention's Virgil Finlay
Centenary celebration on November 6-9, 2014, THE COLLECTORS' BOOK
OF VIRGIL FINLAY stands to be a milestone in the history of sf-fantasy
art publishing. It will be the first to have Finlay art scanned
in high resolution directly from originals. It will contain 35 full
color paintings by the artist, the largest collection of Finlay's
color work ever assembled in print. It will also contain another
13 pages of additional color work, ranging from 2-color art pieces done
for the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Clubs' solicitations to full-color
cover roughs.
The Kickstarter campaign is schedule to end on Virgil Finlay's
actual Centenary Birthday: July 23, 2014. The American Fantasy Press,
Bob Garcia, and Bob Weinberg Facebook pages will hold a virtual
birthday party for the artist with give-a-ways and more to celebrate.
The link for the Kickstarter is: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/565278014/the-collectors-book-of-virgil-finlay
The book will be released under Bob Garcia's American Fantasy
Press imprint. For more information or to set up interviews with
any of the principals, please contact Bob at garpubserv@aol.com
There are
exciting Kickstarter add-on incentives such as the Atlantis print shown
below.
Check them all out at the Kickstarter website link above and
below.
Book Specifications:
9" x 12" Hardcover, 208 pages
Commentary on Virgil Finlay by two of the field?s foremost pulp
art collectors: Robert Weinberg and Doug Ellis.
Over 40 pages of color artwork and over 150 pages of black and
white artwork.
A clothbound HC (signed by Weinberg and Ellis) & a leatherbound
HC (signed by Weinberg, Ellis and Virgil Finlay's daughter,
Lail) / ISBNs: TBA
ROBERT WEINBERG
Bob Weinberg as a noted author, editor and collector in the science
fiction field. Over the years, Bob has written sixteen novels,
sixteen non-fiction books, edited over a hundred anthologies
and has written a number of comic books. He's also a collector of
rare pulp magazines and original science fiction art. His original art
collection contains hundreds of pieces from various artists and includes
almost 100 Finlay pieces all of which appear in THE COLLECTORS' BOOK OF
VIRGIL FINLAY.
DOUG
ELLIS
Doug is a collector of pulp, science fiction and fantasy art,
and he and his wife, Deb, have one of the largest collections
of pulp art in North America. He co-founded and co-organizes the
Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, whose art show has displayed
thousands of vintage illustrations. His Tattered Pages Press published
the acclaimed pulp fanzine PULP VAULT, as well as other books
on the pulps. He was one of the authors of THE ADVENTURE HOUSE GUIDE
TO PULPS, and has edited several pulp anthologies, including the acclaimed
Best of Adventure series. His book, UNCOVERED: THE HIDDEN ART OF THE
GIRLIE PULPS, an in-depth study of the spicy pulps and their art,
was named ForeWord Magazine's 2003 Popular Culture Book of the Year.
For the Comic & Fantasy Art Amateur Press Association, he produced
VIRGIL FINLAY: THE ART OF THINGS TO COME, a very limited print run
booklet reproducing much of Finlay's art from the Science Fiction Book
Club's "Things to Come" bulletin. His collection of Finlay art will
also appear in THE COLLECTORS' BOOK OF VIRGIL FINLAY.
ROBERT
GARCIA & AMERICAN FANTASY PRESS
Bob and his wife Nancy are the publishers of American Fantasy Press,
which specializes in producing fantasy and horror limited editions,
hardcovers and chapbooks. AF has presented the work of authors
Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman & Gene Wolfe, Mike Resnick, Dennis
Etchison, Steve Rasnic & Melanie Tem and Mary Frances Zambreno.
"The Man on the Ceiling" (published as a chapbook) by the Tems won
the World Fantasy, IHG and Stoker Awards. The original American
Fantasy magazine brought Bob and Nancy a World Fantasy Award years ago.
Since 1983, Bob has designed dozens of books and magazines for other
specialty press companies.
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ASTONISHING HEROES: Shades of Justiceby Gary Phillips - Now available!
iPulpFiction.com presents Astonishing Heroes: Shades of Justice
by Gary Phillips in ebook and trade paperback.
Louis Trent is a high-rolling hit-man plucked from Hell only if he
kills for Heaven.
An anonymous city bureaucrat, The Reclaimer, senses what evil lurks
via emanations from tenement walls.
In the 1970s, Onyx Adams, a tough, kung fu’ing, Afro-wearing female private
eye teams with a so-called b’wana devil, the Ghost Wolf, to thwart
one of history’s greatest villains who’s come back from the dead.
The Silencer is a Vietnam vet who returns home—but the war goes on
when a bomb injures him and kills the woman he loves.
A seeming sellout Uncle Tom agent provocateur, American Black, reveals
other plans.
A weed smoking, easygoing inner-city teen working in an old folks home
inherits amazing powers and responsibilities from WWII-era heroine Victory
Angel as Kidd Vee and several of the heroes team up in the past
and present to prevent a climate calamity plotted by a fanatical billionaire.
In this anthology of 10 action-packed prose stories, veteran crime and
mystery fictioneer and graphic novelist Gary Phillips (author
of Big Water, Warlord of Willow Ridge, and co-editor of the acclaimed
Black Pulp anthology) offers his rip-roaring revisionist take on the
superhero genre—The Watchman meets Manchild in the Promised Land. As
a special to this collection, Phillips has written an original outing
bringing together several of these characters in one adventure for the
first time ever.
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Andy McDermott: The Valhalla Prophecy (Nina Wilde
and Eddie Chase) - Coming September 30!
In a Stockholm museum, thieves steal an enormous Norse runestone,
but not before killing a security guard. When Nina Wilde, head of the
International Heritage Agency (IHA), and her husband, ex-mercenary Eddie
Chase, arrive to investigate, they are told a chilling story: A scholar
has discovered that the stone may be one of two keys to finding the mythological
site of Valhalla, where the Vikings predicted the world’s final battle
would begin. The second stone lies at the bottom of a Norwegian lake. But
when Nina and Eddie race to the scene, they’re hit with a shocking surprise.
Covert agents from around the world, including a ruthless mole
in the IHA, are drawn into a lethal game, . Then a disturbing secret surfaces
from Eddie’s past, involving a mission in Vietnam and a woman he tried
to save. Suddenly suspicious of her own husband, Nina cannot afford
to stop the perilous search for the artifact. For somewhere in a remote
wilderness, two forces are about to converge: one that could save the
world . . . and one that could destroy it.
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Dell
List Price: $9.99
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Beb Books - Now available!
Countdown to Pulpfest!
Presenting the final issue of Secret Agent X!
Yoke of the Crimson Coterie (Secret
Agent "X" #41, March, 1939)
Out of a grim medieval castle they brought
her—Madam Death, the beautiful one, whose touch meant destruction.
And when the Crimson Coterie sought to erect the yoke of world empire
upon her hell-brought bondage, Secret Agent X found himself manacled to
the pyre of her lethal flesh.
Bonus Story - also from the March
1939 issue: Program for Plunder by Robert Leslie Bellem
Yoke of the Crimson Coterie, last of the Secret Agent X novels. is $6.00
plus postage
Our second novel release for this week is:
The Haunted Legacy by Perley Poore
Sheehan (writing as “Paul Regard”)
Count Carlos Turga has lived a life of
privilege and easy as befitting a wealthy young man living in America. Then
on his twenty-first birthday he is summoned to a underground meeting where
he is told that he is the instrument of destiny, the harbinger of doom to
the family Frelinghuysen, a noble house in Bohemia, cursed by the gypsies
for some horrendous crime committed centuries ago. The Frelinghusen’s have
fled to America and changed their name to Frail in an effort to avoid the
curse. But the gypsies have followed just as fast. Turga has no interested
in interrupting his indolent life for some meaningless revenge, but
fate seems to bring him back again and again to the fated family. Will
he at last be able to escape Destiny or will he be destroyed by it? 80
pages for $6.00 plus postage
And don’t forget
these other great reprints from BeB Books:
Secret Agent X #40 (December,
1938): CORPSE CONTRABAND
Ten thousand years ago it had been written in brass that
the Yezidee would overrun the world with blood. And now Erlika, the
daughter of Satan, had smuggled in the Yezidee to form an unholy alliance
with the American underworld. And Secret Agent X—man of a thousand
faces—found himself stalemated by ageless magic and barbaric cruelty.
Bonus Story: Homicide Master by Norman A. Daniels (from the same issue)
A CAREFUL MURDERER can arrange his alibi, pick his victim and the
most opportune place for the killing. But no murderer, regardless of
his sagacity, can foresee the tricks of fate.
($6.00 plus postage).
Secret Agent X #39 (out
of 41): CURSE OF THE CRIMSON HORDE
In May, 1938 Ace Magazines launched a
imitation Doc Savage magazine, Captain Hazzard, which was promptly cancelled.
The story for what would be it’s second issue was quickly revised into
a Secret Agent X yarn and published in the September 1938 issue of that
magazine. The result is a bit of an unusual tale that takes the
Agent from the pearl markets of New York, across country and across
the seas to Singapore and the Malay islands. He is in pursuit of a rare
blood-red pearl called the “Red Maggot” thought to be sacred to the
Malaysians. The possessor of the Red Maggot could launch a war driving
white men out of the south seas. The story leads to a mysterious
“Lost Island” and a horrific “Coral Death.” Is the Man of a Thousand
Faces up to the Challenge of a Thousand Perils? Read and see.
($6.00 plus postage).
Bonus Feature: From the same issue “The Sinister Curtain by Kenneth
Keith. A Private Detective tries to lure a confession of murder
by creating his own radio boradcast.
THE WAR CLOTH by J. Allen
Dunn
World War I comes to the South Pacific
when a boat-load of Germans land up on the island of Talofah. All goes well
until the Talofahians bring out their most sacred object, an old American
flag, what they call the War-Cloth since their language has no word for
“flag.” The German leader spits on the flag which starts a riot, leaving
many people dead and begins a war with the Germans and the Polynesians.
Queen Kalani leads her people in retreat to a mountain summit, an old volcano’s
crater and with them protected there from the guns of the Germans goes
on a desperate quest to a distant island in hopes of aid from the “Merikani”
whose flag they worship. An exciting tale of violence, treachery, love
and endurance. ($6.00 plus postage).
THE TREASURE OF VANISHED MEN by James
Francis Dwyer
Thurland Spillaine and his brother Flane,
are hard bite by the Treasure bug. A chance meeting with a Russian Count
at a Paris café sends them on a thrill packed adventure
across the world to Angkor Wat, and up the Mekong River to
where the people of Angkor Wat fled when plague struck the
city. There the Count promises them a vast treasure. And in
return a Monk who claims to have been there at the time will teach
the Count his secret of immortality. Pursued by a gang hoping
to steal the treasure ahead of them and a short-tempered monk who
can cast death into another with a flick of his fingers theirs is
a thrilling adventure into deepest unknown southeast Asia. ($6.00 plus
postage).
THE LADY
FULVIA STORIES
The year is 1148 and Sicily is the crossroads
of the known world and one of the bedrocks of the Kingdom is Sicily is
the fief of Rocca Forte, the stone fort, ruled over by Count Arnulfo
and his young daughter, the Lady Fulvia. Born of mixed Norman
and Italy blood, Fulvia is as clever and strong-willed as she is
beautiful. Men come to claim her as her father, well into his
sixties is less able to protect her, forcing Fulvia to match brawn with
brains, and wins every time.
Farnham Bishop and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur were frequent contributors
to Adventure during the teens and twenties, often of historical adventures
like these. These five stories are marvels of compression,
character, drama and inventive solutions to difficult problems.
They are a joy to read. $6.00 (plus postage)
SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURES by J.
Allan Dunn.
To save a friend a doctor must create a greater magic than
that possessed by the tribes Witch Doctor.
A fight over a woman leads to a fight over a priceless pear.
A well-intending Captain’s wife starts the first sexual revolution
on a remote Pacific island.
To research/steal a priceless and historically important
jade mask an Anthropologist treks into the heart of New Zealand’s
cannibalistic country.
These are only some of the stories in this collection of
thrills from Adventure. Six great short stories and a
long novelette for only $9.00 (plus postage)
ERIC OF THE STRONG HEART
by Victor Rousseau
Beb Books are started with the intention
of reprinting the many excellent fantasy and science fiction stories in
the early pulps. Many we have. But it’s been a while since we’ve
found a fantasy as good as this. First published in Railroad
Man’s Magazine in 1919, reprinted once in London in 1925, Beb
Books is excited to bring to light for the first time in over
85 years, Victor Rousseau’s wonderful Lost Race novel, Eric
of the Strong Heart.
Eric Silverstein considers himself a coward but a chance meeting
with a beautiful woman who speaks the language of a thousand years
before intrigues him and when she disappears Eric puts
his fears aside, buys a yacht and goes after her into the far,
far north. There he find a magical land of Trolls, tyrants, a
magnificent palace called Rangarok and a prophecy that an outside
would bring destruction to the palace and free the princesses
people. Share Eric's thrilling adventures in Eric
of the Strong Heart. 92 pages for $9 (plus postage)
THE REDHEADS by Captain A. E. Dingle
“Red” Saunders, a hot-tempered, two-fisted
trader, finds himself blacklisted by the Dutch merchants around Borneo.
With no one willing to ship with him Saunders takes up with another
red head, Englishman by the name of Beauchamp, who bought
title to a tract of land rich in gold and oil. But someone
wants Beauchamp to give up on his claim and riches therein. Saunders,
loving nothing better than a fight offers to take his crew and help
secure his claim. Thus begins a rumble-tumble tale
of brisk action, devious villains and a pair of women who have no
intention of leave the men they love alone. 80 pages of South Seas
excitement for on $6.00 (plus postage)
JANIE PASY A DEBT OF HONOR
Slice of life adventure drifting down the Mississippi. $6.00,
plus postage
MISS SMYTHE OF THE SAHARA by Achmed Abdullah
Challenges of being a trader in the North African desert.
From Collier’s magazine. $6.00 plus postage.
DANGEROUS MEN by Gordon Young
A gambler with a heart of gold...and fists of iron. Proto-hard
boiled fiction. 104 pages, $9.00 plus postage.
In case you missed
them, here is a list of other of our recent offerings.
The Thrill Book Library - Cobra Girl and other Eastern Adventures
Down the Coast of Shadows (Perley Poore Sheehan and other authors)
Wolves of the Steppe (Greye LaSpina an other authors)
Guilt! - Tales of Remorse
Juju by Murray Leinster and other tales of Africa
The Opium Ship & Mr. Shen of Shensi by H. Bedford-Jones
The Red Lure by Frank L. Packard and other stories
The Stone Image by Seabury Quinn and other weird tales
The Jeweled Ibis and other stories of Africa
The Street Without a Name more strange tales and
The Man From Thebes - a humorous tale of a mummy in modern day
America by W. W. Cook
Secret Agent “X” #34 (October, 1937)
Secret Agent “X” #37 (April, 1938)
Secret Agent “X” #38 (June, 1938)
Each book only $6.00 (plus postage.)
The first eight issues of Secret Agent “X” collecting all
the stories, feature and art in each issue.
Each book only $9.00 (plus postage)
Beb Books
are always set in new, readable type and printed on 8.5 by 11 inch paper
and side stapled.
All the original art, when it exists, is included. Postage
is just $3.00 for the first three books and 25 cents more
per additional book
To order, send check or money order (sorry,
no Paypal) made payable to Brian Earl Brown to:
Brian Earl
Brown
11675 Beaconsfield
Detroit, MI 48224
Have a question? Would like to see our complete list of
titles? Write to beb01@sprynet.com.
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Black Coat Press
Now available!
Han Ryner (1861-1938) was a French anarchist, a philosopher and
a startlingly original science fiction writer in pre-Wellsian, French
scientific romance; he was once voted the Prince of Storytellers by a
popular magazine.
In The Human Ant (1901), a man is miraculously transformed into an ant
by a fairy. Trapped into the universe of the ants for a year, he discovers
the beauty, intelligence and heroism of this tiny species which, in
turn, forces him to reflect upon the sad world of men.
In The Pacifists (1914), a small band of men shipwrecked in the Sargasso
Sea encounter a peaceful utopian Atlantean civilization who have domesticated
a universal form of energy.
The Human Ant is a relatively mild admonition to humans to broaden their
minds and become more sensitively aware of their limitations; The
Pacifists is a full-frontal assault on human vanity and so-called civilization.
US $22.95 / GBP £14.99
5x8 trade paperback, 332 pages
THE SILENT
BOMB
by Charles Dodeman, adapted by Brian Stableford
War-anticipation stories began to published just
before World War I, reflecting the mood of the times. During the war itself,
the archetypal thriller was likely to be a covert spy story featuring
new, game-changing technologies and embryonic superweapons.
Once the subgenre was established, it was maintained even in
peacetime by its inherent melodramatic potential-it is still thriving today-but
its difficult birth took place in France and Charles Dodeman's The Silent
Bomb (1916) was one of its pioneers. It is one of the earliest thrillers
to be set during a war that was actually going on at the time of its publication,
without the benefit of hindsight.
In it, Dodeman imagines a new, revolutionary type of bomb that,
one that today, we would call a "dirty bomb" capable of spreading radioactive
particles, delivered through radio-controlled miniature aircrafts, i.e.:
"drones."
US $20.95 / GBP £10.99
5x8 trade paperback, 236 pages
When inhuman monsters walk the Earth, threatening the good and the helpless,
Justice has no stronger defenders than Harry Dickson and his assistant
Tom Wills, who fight the forces of evil and cast them back into the
Darkness from whence they came.
Harry Dickson began as an unauthorized Sherlock Holmes pulp series in
Germany in 1907, before changing its name and morphing into a hugely popular
saga in Holland, Belgium and France, with 178 issues published between
1927 and 1938, especially after it was entrusted to the editorship of
Belgian horrormeister Jean Ray.
This volume includes two original episodes plus 16 short stories paying
homage of the greatest Holmesian pastiche of all times.
In Harry Dickson Vs. The Spider, Dickson meets his greatest foe, the
cunning and merciless Georgette Cuvelier, a.k.a. Madame Spider, daughter
of the detective's earlier nemesis, the monstrous Professor Flax.
In The Phantom Executioners, the diabolical Georgette has sworn to revenge
herself upon Harry Dickson, but can she do so if she's also fallen
in love with her enemy?
US $29.95 / GBP £19.99
5x8 trade paperback, 404 pages
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The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries
- Coming October 21!
The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever
Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett,
Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P.
G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more
THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert,
a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevator car—nowhere is
a crime completely impossible.
Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of
the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years
of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form—a
case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved
by a brilliant sleuth—this collection expands the definition of the locked
room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances.
Among these pages you’ll find stories with evocative titles like “The Flying
Death”, “The Man From Nowhere”, “A Terribly Strange Bed”, and “The Theft
of the Bermuda Penny”, not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest
characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes,
Georges Simenon’s Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, Dashiell
Hammett’s Continental Op, and many more.
Trade Paperback: 960 pages
Publisher: Vintage
List Price: $25.00
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Black Mask / MysteriousPress.com
/ Open Road Media
Coming
August 12!
When a dangerous criminal breaks out of jail, the Island detective is
on the case
Palerdo should have been executed for the murder of Carlos Mantiro. Granted
clemency, he is sent to prison instead. Palerdo vows to kill Señora
Mantiro, whom he hates with a passion. To detective Jo Gar, something
about the story doesn't add up-men kill the husbands of women they love,
not women they hate. When Palerdo breaks out of prison and the Filipino
police find the señora's strangled body, nearly everyone is
positive Palerdo has struck again.
But Gar isn't so sure. If the señora had been the target, Palerdo
wouldn't have bothered to bump off her driver too. And a seasoned
criminal would have waited for cover of darkness to exact his revenge.
Convinced that the real murderer is trying to frame Palerdo, Gar
begins his investigation. Will Palerdo be the next victim?
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Blood 'N' Thunder
/ Murania Press
HANDSOME
HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
Coming soon!
The second in a two-volume history of silent-era movie
serials. It has been designed to resemble its predecessor, DISTRESSED
DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS, so that anybody familiar with the
earlier book will recognize the new one as a companion volume. The
spine design is also the same, so the two tomes will look fine when
shelved side by side.
The 100,000 words of DISTRESSED DAMSELS included an overview of
the silent serial and a lengthy narrative history of Pathé Exchange,
the company responsible for most of the period’s classic chapter
plays. HANDSOME HEROES offers a similar
treatment of Carl Laemmle’s Universal Pictures, Pathé’s
leading competitor, along with an extensive survey of serials made and
distributed by the field’s other major players: Vitagraph, Arrow, Rayart,
Mascot, and more.
Anyone who’s read DISTRESSED DAMSELS knows that it was exhaustively
researched, and the same goes for HANDSOME HEROES
— the text of which, after all, was intended for inclusion in the first
book. There was no way Murania Press could feasibly publish a single
volume with so much wordage and so many illustrations. Like DISTRESSED
DAMSELS, the upcoming tome tops 100,000 words and reproduces
more than 250 rare photos, posters, ad mats, lobby cards, and frame
blow-ups.
Layout is well underway and the book is expected to be finished before
summer’s end. However, a publication date will NOT be announced
until an approved proof copy is in hand. HANDSOME HEROES will
carry a suggested retail price of $29.95, which includes shipping
if you buy from Murania Press.
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Blood 'N' Thunder
/ Murania Press
THE
PERILS OF PAULINE: CENTENNIAL EDITION
Now available!
During the summer of 1914 America’s moviegoers were enthralled
by the daring feats of heiress Pauline Marvin, a high-spirited young
woman with an insatiable hunger for adventure. Her dangerous exploits
were dramatized by playwright Charles W. Goddard in half-hour installments
released to theaters at two-week intervals. The episodes were connected
by a single premise: Pauline’s guardian, Raymond Owen, was an unscrupulous
rotter constantly scheming to do away with the girl and thus gain control
of her fortune, as stipulated in the will of her late father. Owen and his
henchmen routinely tried to snare Pauline in death traps and often came
close to succeeding.
Popular screen actress Pearl White, a 24-year-old native of Missouri
with extensive experience in stage melodrama, was chosen to play the
plucky heroine. Charles W. Goddard, whose hit plays included The Ghost
Breaker (1909) and The Misleading Lady (1913), whipped up a series
of perils for Pauline and wrote the prose versions of each episode
for Hearst’s papers. At a total of 77,500 words, they were long enough
to warrant publication in a novel-length hardcover edition, which
was issued later in 1914. But the book was not a big seller: most people
interested in the story had already read it in the Hearst papers purchased
for pennies. The Perils of Pauline hardcover never saw a second printing,
and first-edition copies are rarely seen. Goddard’s novel is historically
important because the celluloid Perils of Pauline no longer exists in
its original form. Therefore, the book version is the closest that anybody
will ever come to enjoying and appreciating the cinematic Perils.
This Centennial Edition of The Perils of Pauline also comes
with a 4800-word essay on the serial’s making by Ed Hulse, editor of
Blood ‘n’ Thunder and author of Distressed Damsels and Masked Marauders,
a history of silent-era chapter plays.
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Blood 'N' Thunder
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Blood
'N' Thunder #41
Premiering at PulpFest!
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Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania
Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!
PulpFest: Just One Week Away! - New!
Coming Soon: HANDSOME HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
Preview Of BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER #41 (Summer 2014 Issue)
Items Added To Collectibles Section
Note To BNT Subscribers
Collectibles Section Being Restocked
2014 Memorial Day Weekend Sale Begins Friday Morning!
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The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 292: Auralee Wallace
I want to apologize for the lateness of the show. I was out
of state with very limited internet and also technical difficulties
erase the first few minutes of the show and I have been uable to replace
it. Hopefully the rest of the show will givee you an idea of how enjoyable
the book is and how talented a writer Auralee is. I look forward to reading
more of her Sidekick series. If you are a Tom Johnson fan (who isn't?)
you get to hear about a possible story with him. Although if you read any
stories with him the chances of him surviving are slim. Sorry about that
Tom.
Episode 293: Bad Moon Rising
Jeff Deischer joins Art to talk about his newest very enjoyable
book Bad Moon Rising starring Major Wonder. Ric is out of state visiting
family and will be back next week.
Jeffdeischer.blogspot.com
Episode
291: Ed Hulse and PulpFest 2014
Episode 290: Clayton Moore Lone
Ranger
Episode 289: Ghost Gal
Episode 288: Jeff's Book of Short
Stories
Episode 287: Pangaea Eden's Planet
Episode 286: Nick Ahlhelm
Episode 285: Glynn Owen Barrass
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Clive Cussler: The Eye of Heaven (A Fargo Adventure) - Coming September 2!
With Russell Blake
Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are
on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment
they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved—and filled
with pre–Columbian artifacts from Mexico.
How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing
clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered
serpent god Quetzalcoatl—and a fabled object known as the Eye of Heaven—begin
to emerge. But so do many dangerous people. Soon the Fargos find themselves
on the run through jungles, temples, and secret tombs, caught between treasure
hunters, crime cartels, and those with a far more personal motivation for
stopping them. At the end of the road will be the solution to a thousand-year-old
mystery—or death.
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
List Price: $28.95
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Clive Cussler: The Eye of Heaven (A Fargo Adventure) - Coming October 28!
With Dirk Cussler
While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that
may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved
in something even more dangerous—a post-Castro power struggle for the
control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt’s children, marine engineer Dirk and
oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an
Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec
treasure. The problem is, that stone was believed to have been destroyed
on the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898, which brings them both
to Cuba as well—and squarely into harm’s way. The three of them have
been in desperate situations before . . . but perhaps never quite as
dire as the one facing them now.
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult
List Price: $28.95
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Davy Crockett's Almanak of
Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!
Pulp Gallery: Walter Baumhofer on DIME DETECTIVE
- New!
Comic Gallery: Joe Lansdale's LONE RANGER and TONTO as portrayed
by Tim Truman (1994)
- New!
Pulp Gallery: TERROR TALES (1934-35)
Comic Gallery: NORMAN SAUNDERS does G.I. JOE (1952)
Pulp Gallery: SPICY MYSTERY (1937)
Comic Gallery: THE LONE RANGER (1954)
Forgotten Femme Fatales: Cleve F. Adams' VIOLET McDADE in
"The Voice" (Read it Here!)
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Doc Con XVII - October 17, 18 & 19, 2014!
Special Guest of
Honor - Bob Larkin!
This
year's theme will be the 50th anniversary of
Bantam's Doc Savage paperbacks.
Comfort Suites University of Phoenix Stadium Area
9824 W Camelback Rd, Glendale, Arizona 85305
Get special room rates by mentioning the Doc Savage Convention.
Call 623 271-9005 for reservations.
Visit the Doc Con 2014 Facebook Event Page
for all the latest news and schedule announcements.
Registration is now open.
Lock in your spot at Doc Con XVII!
$30 pre-register price includes admission
to Doc Con 17,
Personalized Doc Con 17 Commemorative name badge,
Doc Con swag bag, five raffle tickets and lunch.
Register by October 1st 2014 and you'll
also receive a special
Bob Larkin / Doc Con gift that won't be available at the door!
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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
"The Lost Continent" by Martin
Powell and Oscar González premieres in August!
This
strip will join eleven others currently available on the Burroughs
comics website:
"Tarzan of the Apes" by Roy Thomas and Pablo Marcos,
adapting the original Tarzan novels.
"Tarzan" by Roy Thomas and Tom Grindberg, featuring new
Tarzan adventures.
John carter: Warlord of Mars by Roy Thomas and Rodolfo Pérez
Garcia.
"Korak the Killer"
by Ron Marz and Rick Leonardi.
"Carson of Venus" by Martin Powell and Tom Floyd.
"The Eternal Savage" by Martin Powell and Steven E. Gordon.
"The War Chief" by Martin Powell and Nik Poliwko.
"The Cave Girl" by Martin Powell and Diana Leto.
"Pellucidar" by Chuck Dixon and Gary Kwapsiz.
"The Land That Time Forgot" by Martin Powell and Pablo
Marcos.
"The Mucker" by Ron Marz and Lee Moder
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Comics
featuring art from your favorite ERB comic strips!
Now available!
The Land that
Time Forgot Comic Tee
The Mucker Comic Tee
The War Chief Comic Tee
Carson of Venus Comic Tee
Pellucidar Comic Tee
John Carter Comic Tee
Eternal Savage Comic Tee
Korak the Killer Comic Logo Tee
Tarzan Comic Tee
Cave Girl Comic Tee
Tarzan of the Apes Comic Tee
Mens and Womens sizes
Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, XXL (+$2), XXXL (+$2)
$ 24.99 each
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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!
"Short-Cut to Justice" by Ralph Franklin
from SECRET AGENT "X", June, 1937
A duck drowned in the water of the moat. A man died there - unmarked.
And yet pure water filled this ditch of death encircling the killer's castle.
"Final Exam for a Death Degree" by Lawrence
De Foy from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, July, 1944
Of the thirty private sleuths that went to college to learn to be masterminds
at crime-detecting, clumsy Mooshkin was the dumbest. Yet when murder
was committed right before their eyes, only one was able to spot it
- Mooshkin, the class dunce!
"The Too Perfect Alibi" by Robert C. Dennis
from 10-STORY DETECTIVE, December, 1947
Several people had a motive to kill the attractive redheaded widow. But
it took the young doctor to analyze the ingredients that went into that
rowboat rub-out.
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Facebook - Now online!
There are numerous groups on Facebook that are
of potential interest to pulp fans.
The Shadow Knows
Agents of The Shadow
Flearun - A Doc Savage Group
Fans
of Bronze
G-8
and Operator #5
The Spider - Master of Men
Flash Gordon
The
Others [The Gray Seal, Nick Carter, Fantomas, Arsene Lupin, The Saint]
Professor
Jameson alias 21MM392
The Pulp Heroes
Pulp, Pulp Everywhere and Lots and Lots to Read
Pulp Talk
Pulp Magazine Authors and Literature Fans
The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Serial Archive
ERBzine
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Facebook Forum
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Worlds of Adventure
PulpFest
Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention
Pulp Coming Attractions
Robert E. Howard Comics Group
The Robert E. Howard Foundation
Robert E. Howard Readers
Two Gun Bob--The Worlds of Robert E. Howard
The International Robert E. Howard Fan Association
Conan the Cimmerian
REH: Two-Gun Raconteur
Altus Press
Weird Tales Magazine
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Now online!
New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!
July 2014
- New!
The third chronicle of Don Q., "The Ears of the Governor of Castelleno," as it appeared
in the September, 1903 issue of Pearson's Magazine, including the Stanley
Wood illustrations. As an added bonus, an
introduction by Dan Neyer and all foreign or archaic words are instantly
translated with a mouseover.
June 2014
In Writings
We once again turn our attention to Baroness Orczy and her
first published story, "The Red Carnation" as it appeared in Everybody's Magazine
in June of 1900.
Instant translations, an introduction by Dan Neyer and the
original illustrations are also included.
May 2014
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 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 month s, 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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Fight Card Presents: Battling Mahoney & Other Stories is
the second in a series of charity anthologies from the Fight Card authors’
cooperative – a writers’ community featuring many of today’s finest
fictioneers, including James Reasoner, Loren D. Estleman, Len Levinson,
James Hopwood, Mark Finn, Jeremy L. C. Jones, Michael Zimmer, Marc Cameron,
Nik Morton, Marsha Ward, Clay More, Chuck Tyrell, Bowie V. Ibarra,
Art Bowshire, and featuring an extensive essay, On Boxing, by Willis
Gordon.
Compiled by Paul Bishop and Jeremy L. C. Jones, 100% of the proceeds
from these anthologies go directly to an author-in-need or a literacy
charity. Words on paper are the life blood of a writer. The writers
in this volume were willing to bleed in order to give a transfusion
to one of their own – and then continue to bleed to give a transfusion
to literacy charities in support of that most precious of commodities...readers.
They are true fighters, every one...
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FLASH GORDON #4 - Arriving
in comic shops August 6!
Writer: Jeff Parker, Art: Evan Shaner, Cover: Marc Laming
JEFF PARKER (Batman ’66, Aquaman), EVAN SHANER (Adventures
Of Superman) & JORDIE BELLAIRE (Moon Knight) bring the thrilling
first Flash arc to a stunning conclusion! Can Flash Gordon
harness the awesome antigravity ore in Prince Barin’s Arboria, and
lead the masses against Ming The Merciless?
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
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Gabriel Hunt - Coming August 24!
HUNT THROUGH NAPOLEON'S WEB by Raymond
Benson
Of all the priceless treasures Gabriel Hunt has sought,
none means more to him than the one drawing him to
the rugged terrain of Corsica and the exotic streets of
Marrakesh: his own sister’s life. To save her, Hunt will
have to challenge the mind of a tyrant two centuries dead—the
calculating, ingenious Napoleon Bonaparte...
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Girasol Collectables
- August 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.
Click here for covers of previous months Pulp Replicas
Girasol accepts checks, International
money orders, and Paypal as methods of payment.
Other than Replicas, please confirm availability
first before ordering items such as pulp magazines or other
books.
Paypal payments can be made to our regular
info@girasolcollectables.com
email address.
As always, these reprints are exact copies
including the illustrations, ads, and back-up stories
and have been printed on off-white paper, staple-bound and
finished off with a high quality reproduction
of the original cover.
The only thing missing is the smell (alas)
and the flaking newsprint.
Email Girasol Collectables at: info@girasolcollectables.com.
A complete listing, along with other items
such as books, fanzines and of course pulps, can be
found on
the Girasol Collectables website at http://www.girasolcollectables.com/
All payments
must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables and mailed
to:
Neil Mechem c/o Girasol
Collectables
3501 GlenErin Drive, Apt.
1409,
Mississauga, ON, Canada
L5L 2E9
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Back
issues - Still available!
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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)
#42 The Dawn that Shook the World
(Nov-Dect 1938)
ORIENTAL STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 October / November
1930
#2 December
1930 / January 1931
#3 February
/ March 1931
#4 Spring 1931
#5 Summer 1931
#6 Autumn 1931
#7 Winter 1932
#8 Spring 1932
#9 Summer 1932
PIRATE STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 November 1934
THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February
1933
SAUCY MOVIE TALES ($25 each
postpaid)
#3 December
1935 (#1 after a title change)
#4 January
1936 (#2 after a title change)
#5
March 1936
#9 July 1936
#11 September 1936
#17 March 1937
THE SCORPION ($35 each postpaid)
April/May 1939
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ($25 each postpaid)
October 1931
SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES ($25
each postpaid)
#2 November
1934 [#1 after the ashcan]
#3 December 1934
#4 January 1935
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1935
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1935
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1936
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1936
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#36 September 1937
#39 December 1937
SPICY-DETECTIVE STORIES ($25
each postpaid)
#1 May 1934
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#42 October 1937
#76 August 1940
SPICY-MYSTERY STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#2 June 1935
#3 July 1935
#4 August 1935
#5 September
1935
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#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 (June 1942)
#106 Return of the Racket Kings (July 1942)
#107 Fangs of the Dragon (August 1942)
STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#2 December 1933
STRANGE STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February 1939
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#1 September 1931
#2 November 1931
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#6 October 1932
#7 January 1933
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#12 August 1935
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#14 October 1935
#15 November 1935
#16 December 1935
#17 January 1936
#18 February 1936
#19 March 1936
#20 April 1936
#21 May 1936
#22 June 1936
#23 July/Aug 1936
#24 Sept-Oct 1936
#25 Nov-Dec 1936
#26 Jan-Feb 1937
#27 March-April 1937
#28 May-June 1937
#29 July-August 1937
#30 September-October 1937
#31 November-December 1937
#32 January-February 1938
#33 March-April 1938
#34 May-June 1938
#35 July-August 1938
#36 September-October 1938
#37 November-December 1938
#38 January-February 1939
#39 March-April 1939
#40 May-June 1939
#41 July-August 1939
#42 September-October 1939
#43 November/December 1939
#44 January/February 1940
THRILLING MYSTERY ($25 each
postpaid)
#1 October 1935
WEIRD TALES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 March 1923
#2 April 1923
#3 May1923
#4 June 1923
#5 July/August
1923
#6 September 1923
#7 October 1923
#8 November 1923
#9 December
1923/January 1924
#10 February 1924
#11 March 1924
#12 April 1924
#13 Anniversary
Issue May/June/July/24 ($50)
#14 November
1924 - One of the rarest WT's
#15 December 1924
#16 January 1925
#17 February 1925
#18 March 1925
#19 April 1925
#20 May 1925
#21 June 1925
#22
July 1925
#23 August 1925
#24 September 1925
#25 October
1925
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#27 December 1925
#28 January 1926
#29 February 1926
#30 March 1926
#31 April 1926
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#34 July 1926
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#53 February 1928
#59 August
1928
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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
Coming
October 31st!
Pre-release Special: Only $115!
Order before August 31st and save $19 off the regular $134 price.
Girasol Collectables
is pleased to announce Volume 3
in its new series of Pulp Cover Gallery
Editions.
DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE / 15 MYSTERY STORIES / TERROR
TALES
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.
A combo volume of full sets of scans
of the 3 titles, all 210 issues in total.
This edition will be the same format as our first 2 volumes, 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! Dime Mystery touted itself as the Weirdest
Stories Ever Told, and certainly the cover art was true to the claim!
Pre-release Special: Only $115! Order
before August 31st and save $19 off the regular $134 price.
(prices include s&h within North America - overseas add $25)
Visit our ebay store to order, or email us for more information to
acquire your copy.
Paypal payments to: info@girasolcollectables.com
Please note that this is
not a comprehensive book about the pulp itself, but
rather, a visual reference of the covers.
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The Golden Age
- Now online!
Jeff Jones ~ 1944-2011 ~ art for the science fiction digesta
1960's-70's - New!
Edd Cartier ~ interior illustrations from Astounding
- New!
Gray Morrow ~ 1934-2001 ~ science fiction digest art from
the 1960's - New!
Wally Wood ~ 1927-1981 ~ artwork for Galaxy 1957-59
- New!
Edd Cartier ~ 1914-2008 - New!
Jim Steranko ~ misc paperback book covers
CONAN ~ The Lancer & Sphere Paperback Book Covers by
Frank Frazetta & John Duillo
The Avenger Paperback Book Covers by Peter Caras & George
Gross
Doc Savage Paperback Book Covers by James Bama
The Shadow Paperback Book Covers by Jim Steranko
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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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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 Illustrated Press
Walter Baumhofer by David Saunders
The Kickstarter
campaign is now over and fully funded!
Pulp art
historian David Saunders returns with a lavish new hardcover art book chronicling
the life and work of Walter Baumhofer.
In the world of the pulp magazines, the name of Walter Baumhofer
has always resonated with a solemn and respectful gravitas.
His masterful cover paintings from the golden era of Dime Detective,
Dime Mystery, Dime Western, Adventure, Pete Rice, Doc Savage,
and The Spider were among the most iconic images in pulp art history.
The design and execution of his work combined an impressive combination
of sensational brushwork with a theatrical flair for composing striking
scenes of intriguing villains, rugged heroes, and steadfast women.
His creative ambitions elevated him from the low-paying field of the
pulp magazines into the respectable and higher-paying realm of the
slick magazine industry. When he quit the pulps, he left behind a legacy
of innovative design and high standards that the next generation would
struggle in his wake to attain. Although he is renowned for his paintings
of pulp magazine covers, the actual number of years he worked in the field
is but one chapter in a lifelong history of creative accomplishments. That
full story has never been told—until now.
Pulp and illustration art historian David Saunders has written
an insightful biography, chronicling the life and work of this influential
artist.
This is the consummate reference book on the artist, filled with
over 300 reproductions of original art, rare proof sheets, working
drawings, reference photos, as well as historic family photos.
This book will be limited to 1000 copies. It is 224 pages, 9”x12”,
full-color on premium glossy stock, hardbound with dust jacket.
Every copy pre-ordered through Kickstarter will include
a signed and numbered bookplate affixed to the endpapers.
By pledging through Kickstarter you will receive
a signed and numbered copy of the book for only $40 postpaid, delivered anywhere
in the U.S. (Early Birds can get the book for only $35, if you
act fast!)
The regular unsigned edition, available after this Kickstarter campaign
ends, will retail for $44.95 plus U.S. postage.
This book will not exist without your support, so I'm hoping that
everyone who loves pulp art and who enjoyed our previous books
on NORMAN SAUNDERS and H.J. WARD will support our Kickstarter
campaign.
Your enthusiasm will enable more such art books in the future
(I have two more up my sleeve right now, and I can't wait to start
working on them!) Thanks for your support!
A signed and numbered Special Edition of the book (limited to
100 copies) is offered for $75.
The book includes a red slipcase, a copy of Illustration #44
signed by David Saunders, and an original 8x10 black and white
reference photograph shot and developed by Walter Baumhofer.
Unlike previous
titles from The Illustrated Press, this book will not be offered through
Amazon, so it will never be offered at a discounted price (unless
you can find a "used" copy.)
If you want this book new, you will
have to buy it directly from The Illustrated Press.
In other words, don't worry about funding
the book for $40 and then turning around and seeing it listed
on Amazon later for $26.
That is not going to happen!
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James Rollins: The Sixth Extinction (Sigma Force) - Coming August 12!
A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress
call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all!
Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead-and
not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is
annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria.
The land is entirely sterile-and the blight is spreading.
To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel
a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica
was green and all life on Earth balanced upon the blade of a knife.
Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of
Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an ancient continent,
about a new form of death buried under miles of ice.
From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried
deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge
to date: stopping the coming extinction of mankind.
But is it already too late?
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: William Morrow
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
List Price: $27.99
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Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Pulp and Digest Replicas Pulp Tales Presents
Comics ERB
Now available!
FANTASTIC ADVENTURES, February 1942
Contents:
DOORWAY TO HELL (part 1) by Frank Patton
THE LADY AND THE VAMPIRE by P. F. Costello
HOWIE LEMP MEETS AN ENCHANTRESS by William P. McGivern
THE LIVING MANIKINS by David Wright O'Brien
THE OUTSIDERS by Duncan Farnsworth
HENRY HORN'S RACING RAY by Dwight V. Swain
THE TENANT ON THE 13TH FLOOR by John York Cabot
FATE AND THE FLY by Robert Moore Williams
7 x 10 inch, 148 pages
Retail Price $15.00
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King Kong Movie ‘Skull Island’ - Coming in 2016!
Legendary Entertainment is developing a movie based on
Skull Island, better known as the home of King Kong. The pic is scheduled
to be released on November 4, 2016.
While the film isn’t expected to be a sequel or reboot to the 2005 movie
Peter Jackson directed for Universal, Legendary’s pic will likely feature
the big ape in some form, given that he was shown roaring at the end
of a clip shown at its panel at Comic-Con on Saturday.
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Laurie's Wild West - Now online!
RIDING THE PULP TRAIL is now an AUDIOBOOK!
Dime Novel Roundup Reviews HIDDEN GHOSTS
Rest in Peace, Frank Robinson
Pulp News: June 16, 2014
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LEGION III: KINGS OF OBLIVION - Now available!
LEGION III: KINGS OF OBLIVION
sets the galaxy aflame!
The “Shattering” Pulp Space Opera
Trilogy Reaches Epic Climax with Paperback and Kindle editions!
White Rocket Books proudly announces the release in trade paperback and
Kindle editions of the third volume in Van Allen Plexico’s epic THE SHATTERING
series with LEGION III: KINGS OF OBLIVION!
In the spirit of Warhammer 40,000 and the Horus Heresy! Three mighty
legions of super-soldiers converge upon Sacred Terra as demons, aliens,
gods and men clash and the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance!
Hordes of aliens under the dark lord Goraddon's diabolical control have
swept across the worlds of Man, leaving only death and destruction in
their wake. Humanity's greatest champions are striking back, hurling giant
mechs, hovertanks, starfleets and legions of super-soldiers at the
foe. But not all allies are what they seem to be, and treachery awaits at
the most critical moment. Now the fate of all existence rests on the will,
the judgment--and the strong sword-arm--of General Arnem Agrippa and the
unmatched fury of his III Legion, the legendary KINGS OF OBLIVION!
“Not since Frank Herbert’s DUNE books has there been such an intricately
plotted space saga that echoes all the action of the early days of science
fiction yet is tempered with the talented sensibilities of a modern
day pulp adventure. Plexico is the master of Space Opera.” --Pulp Fiction
Reviews
LEGION III: SONS OF TERRA brings to a mighty climax the galaxy-shattering
Gothic SF adventure that began with the 2014 Novel of the Year Finalist,
LEGION I: LORDS OF FIRE and continued with the critically acclaimed LEGION
II: SONS OF TERRA. Here we see the fallout from the war of the gods
in LUCIAN, and the growing crisis that will lead to the creation of HAWK
and the other Hands of the Machine. Futuristic armies clash, godlike
beings manipulate empires, and the gateway to the Underverse is reopened,
unleashing slavering demonic hordes upon an unsuspecting galaxy!
“Intrigue, betrayal, and plenty of action and adventure!” –Doug Dandridge,
author of the Exodus: Empires at War series.
“Most know me for my Sentinels superhero novels,” says Plexico, “but
there’s nothing I love better than galaxy-spanning cosmic conflict with
vast starfleets, planetary invasions, hordes of horrific aliens,
high-tech armies and even gods and demons thrown in. And if you’ve
read my LUCIAN or HAWK novels, you’ll find a whole lot of secrets
revealed and many mysteries resolved in these pages. It also doesn’t
hurt,” he adds, “that this book focuses mainly on the very popular General
Agrippa, who seems to be everyone’s favorite after the first two volumes.”
As always, the book features gorgeous cover art by series artist Mark
Williams.
White Rocket Books is a leader in the New Pulp movement, publishing exciting
action and adventure novels and anthologies since 2005, in both traditional
and electronic formats. White Rocket books have hit the Amazon.com
Top 10-by-Genre and reached #1 on the New Pulp Best-Sellers List, and
have garnered praise from everyone from Marvel Comics Vice-President Tom
Brevoort to Kirkus Reviews.
THE SHATTERING, LEGION III: KINGS OF OBLIVION is a $15.95, 5.25 x 8”
394-page trade paperback from White Rocket Books as well as a $3.99 Kindle
ebook. Those who purchase the paperback can download a Kindle
copy for free!
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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!
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The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention is a three-day
festival held inside the Hunt Valley Wyndham. Here, you can
watch dozens of screenings of vintage movies, world
premiere documentaries, Hollywood celebrities posing for
photos and signing autographs for fans, slide show seminars
from authors and historians, over 200 vendor tables with
retro merchandise, antiques and collectibles and... well, it is
a lot of fun.Whether you have been to other conventions in
the past or never attended a convention before, we recommend you
give it a try. You'll discover what people keep returning year after
year. Attendees come from California, Canada, Seattle, England,
Belgium, Florida, Maine... and statistically the size of the attendance
has grown every year. MANC didn’t attract such a faithful following
by accident. Nearing our 10th anniversary, MANC has offered
fans a chance to meet Hollywood actors, visit a drive-in movie theater,
watch old fifties films like Creature from the Black Lagoon in
3-D, have their picture next to The Blob silicone, watch Abbott
and Costello impersonators perform on stage, and have a great time. Many
of the seminars will be broadcast live from Radio Once More and you
can tune into the station for free at http://radiooncemore.com/
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Modern Knights Press
THE
VOICE
Now available!
Modern Knights Press wants you
to catch up on The VOICE: the Man With Anybody's Face
Plus: Save Money
That's right, Modern Knights is having a Hot August Reading
Sale.
Get Plutonium Nightmare, a regular $9.95 value, plus
Casebook of the Voice which sells for $12.95.
For a limited time get both for only $20.00.
But wait, there's more!
The $20.00 price includes Media Mail shipping in the Continental
United States.
Over 100,000 words of pulse-pounding adventure at a gaspingly
low price.
But wait, there's still more! Throw in another five dollars
and Erwin will include a copy of Pro Se's anthology The Pulptress, where
the Voice also appears.
Pay with PayPal, money order, or held 'til cleared check.
Write to:
erwin.k.roberts@gmail.com
Offer ends August 15th, 2014
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Moonstone Books
DOC SAVAGE: THE FRIGHTENED FISH
by Will Murray
Coming in December!
Previews Exclusive!
Never published in hardcover before, and the paperback has been out of
print for over 20 years!
This tale takes place near the end of Doc Savage's amazing
career. The tone of the story and the characterization of the characters
are consistent with the later work of Lester Dent. In "The Frightened Fish",
working from story notes by Lester Dent, Will Murray presents us with
a story of the early Cold War, and a sequel to Lester?s 1948 masterpiece,
The Red Spider, in which a more mature and emotionally sophisticated
Man of Bronze tackles an international threat which resonates with today's
ecologically-challenged headlines. Characters from his past reappear,
and Doc Savage is tested in ways never before imagined. In the fifteen
year span of Doc's career, he grew as an individual. Everyone changes
and grows over time and so did Doc Savage. The plot in "The Frightened
Fish" deals with no less that the possible start of World War III!
An amazing villain returns to again warp the course of history! D oc
pulls the Helldiver out of mothballs for a trip across the Pacific to
occupied Japan! This edition has a new introduction by the author as
well!
Doc Savage: The Frightened Fish HC novel
Author: Will Murray
Cover: Doug Klauba
Hardcover, 6" x 9", 160 pages, $19.99
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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.
The Kid Turns 74 - New!
Kim Oh
More Pulp Heroes
A Couple Pulp Ladies
More Pulp Heroes
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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
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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Peril Press - Now
available!
PERIL
PRESS presents: Blue Book, January 1924
The Plymouth Express Affair by Agatha Christie
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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 Burroughs
and Alex Raymond traditions, revived for a new millennium!
The adventure begins today at the link below!
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Schedule of Events
- New!
PulpFest 2014 will start on Thursday, August
7th.
The dealers’ room will be open to registered sellers to set up their
displays from 4 to 11 PM. Ohio State’s Thompson Library will also offer
a free lecture at 4:30 PM.
Early registration for all convention attendees will take place outside
the dealers’ room from 5 to 9 PM.
There will be early-bird shopping available to PulpFest members who will
be staying at the Hyatt Regency Columbus from 6 to 10 PM.
Our full slate of programming will get underway at 8 PM.
Unknown: The Best in Fantasy Fiction - New!
On Saturday, August 9th, at 8 PM, celebrate the 75th anniversary of
the publication considered the best fantasy magazine of all time, Street
& Smith’s "Unknown."
Join acclaimed lecturer on the history of pulp magazines, Professor Tom
Krabacher of California State University, Sacramento;
commentator Walker Martin, who writes about pulp collecting on Pulpmags
and Mystery*File;
and Professor Garyn G. Roberts, editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology
of Science Fiction and Fantasy, as they revisit the magazine’s highlights.
Krabacher’s, Martin’s, and Robert’s presentation, “Unknown: The Best
in Fantasy Fiction,”
accompanied by selected cover art, is yet another reason to make PulpFest
your “must-see” convention of 2014!
80 Years of Terror! - New!
The so-called “shudder” or “weird-menace” titles were a blood-red splash
of color in the grey days of the Great Depression.
They announced their monthly wares with circus-poster-style covers featuring
voluptuous under-dressed beauties being pursued by hordes of leering
lunatics as bent as boomerangs.
Their promise: cheap thrills, and plenty of them.
In their nightmare universe it was always a dark and stormy night.
Tethered damsels suffered in the clutches of fiends such as hell-mad
surgeons, warped scientists,
and masked and cowled cultists, eagerly abetted by legions of demented
dwarfs and horny hunchbacks.
They stripped, whipped, and boiled their curvaceous victims with the
enthusiasm of medieval inquisitors.
Even the requisite rock-jawed heroes of these stories suffered a purgatory
of horrors in order to rescue their brutally treated fair maidens.
Join PulpFest 2014 on Friday, August 8th, at 9:30 PM as we celebrate
the eightieth anniversary of "Terror Tales," the best of the weird-menace
magazines.
Popular culture professor Garyn G. Roberts; Ed Hulse, publisher of Murania
Press books;
and Walker Martin, who writes about pulp collecting for Steve Lewis’
Mystery*File blog,
will weigh in on this Popular Publications title, as well as other shudder
pulps with "80 Years of Terror!"
The Mystery and Mastery of John Newton Howitt
- New!
Although John Newton Howitt’s iconic cover
images for "Terror Tales," "Horror Stories," "The Spider," and "Operator
#5"
are among the most disturbing in the history of pulp art, his painting
technique is among the most dignified of all the pulp artists.
On Saturday, August 9th, at 8:30 PM, please join art historian David
Saunders for an exploration of “The Mystery and Mastery of John Newton
Howitt” at PulpFest 2014.
David Saunders is the foremost scholar of American pulp illustrators.
His free public website,
Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists, has over three-hundred biographical
profiles of these creators of popular culture.
David continues to research, document, and promote a greater appreciation
of pulp artists.
Learn more about the convention and David Saunders' presentatin on John
Newton Howitt by visiting www.pulpfest.com
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Inspired by the success of its two cliffhanger
serials featuring Olympic swimming champion Larry “Buster” Crabbe
as
comic-strip hero Flash Gordon, Universal Pictures in 1938 licensed the
character of futuristic firebrand Buck Rogers.
Originally named Anthony Rogers by creator Philip Francis Nowlan, he
first appeared in “Armageddon 2419 A.D.”,
a 1928 short novel written for Hugo Gernsback’s pioneering science-fiction
pulp "Amazing Stories."
Crabbe was cast as Buck when production of a third Flash Gordon serial
was delayed. Released in April 1939,
"Buck Rogers" played in the nation’s theaters throughout the year,
as science-fiction pulp magazines were enjoying renewed popularity and
rapidly increasing in number.
As part of its celebration of “Science Fiction’s Golden Year of 1939,”
PulpFest 2014 will run four chapters of "Buck Rogers"
each night of the convention, beginning on August 7th and running through
August 9th.
Our Thursday and Friday showings will begin at 11 PM, while our Saturday
presentation will follow the conclusion of our auction.
We will preface the Thursday-night screening of the serial’s first four
chapters with the seldom-seen 1934 promotional "Buck Rogers" short
produced by John Dille.
You can learn more about "Buck Rogers" and all of the exciting programming
events at PulpFest 2014 by visiting www.pulpfest.com.
The Farmerian Vision: Pulp Meets Science Fiction
Since 2011, PulpFest has hosted FarmerCon,
a convention that began in Peoria, Illinois, the hometown of Philip José
Farmer.
Originally a gathering of Farmer fans figuratively, and literally, right
outside Phil’s back door, FarmerCon offered presentations, dinners,
and even picnics at the author’s house.
After the passing of Phil and Bette Farmer in 2009, it was decided to
take FarmerCon on the road to broaden its horizons.
By holding the convention alongside events like PulpFest, Farmer fans
get a variety of programming and a room full of pulp and book dealers
to enjoy.
As always, PulpFest is pleased to welcome FarmerCon IX members to the
Hyatt Regency Columbus.
This year FarmerCon IX, our “convention within a convention,” turns its
attention to the pulp elements found in Peoria’s Grand Master of Science
Fiction‘s canon.
In "The Farmerian Vision: Pulp Meets Science Fiction," moderator Paul
Spiteri–editor of the Farmer collection "Pearls from Peoria"–
and panelists Jason Aiken and Christopher Paul Carey will discuss the
unique way in which the Hugo award-winning author blended pulp elements
and themes with his science-fictional works.
Our annual FarmerCon panel presentation will begin at 10 PM on Thursday,
August 7th.
Remembering Frank Robinson
On June 30, 2014, the pulp community not
only lost a great collector, but even more so, a great friend. Frank
M. Robinson was 87 years old at the time of his passing.
A science-fiction and thriller writer, editor, speech writer for gay
activist Harvey Milk, and a movie actor, Frank was known in the pulp
community as the leading collector of top-grade pulp magazines.
Although he majored in physics in college, Frank Robinson always wanted
to write.
He sold his first story to "Astounding Science Fiction" in 1950.
Following the Korean War, Robinson studied journalism and soon began
a career as an editor, first with "Science Digest" and later with
"Rogue" and "Playboy."
In 1974, "The Glass Inferno" was published, a novel written by Robinson
and Thomas Scortia. Later filmed as "The Towering Inferno," Frank invested
much of the proceeds he received from the book in his pulp collection. Years
later, the sale of the Frank Robinson Pulp Collection attained almost
legendary status among the pulp community.
Winner of the 2000 Lamont Award, Frank Robinson was the author of "The
Power," "Pulp Culture," "Science Fiction of the 20th Century," and other
works.
On Thursday, August 7th, beginning at 8 PM, PulpFest will pay tribute
to this fine writer and editor, great collector, and good friend who recently
passed.
Be sure to be at the Hyatt Regency Columbus for “Remembering Frank Robinson.”
The Fun of Writing Pulp Fiction
Writing can be a lonely business, but it can also be fun. On Saturday,
August 9th, at 1 PM, writer, editor-in-chief of Airship 27, and two-time
Pulp Factory Award winner Ron Fortier and five contemporary authors
will chat about the pleasure and enjoyment they’ve experienced as writers
of the new and exciting genre known as New Pulp.
Joining Ron will be Ralph L. Angelo, Jr., Jim Beard, Wayne Reinagel,
Frank Schildiner, and Art Sippo. Meet them at PulpFest 2014, as they
discuss "The Fun of Writing Pulp Fiction."
And for those attending our Saturday afternoon programming, we’ll be
offering a chance to win a fabulous door prize donated to PulpFest
by Radio Archives — an audio-book edition of Will Murray’s Doc Savage
and King Kong adventure, Skull Island, read by Michael McConnohie.
The Adventures of Dick Enos
Author Dick Enos, creator of The Adventures of Rick Steele, learned
how to read from the man in the blue suit and the “S” on his chest.
Soon he was devouring science fiction by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke,
and “Doc” Smith and detective yarns from Lawrence Block, Ian Fleming,
and Mickey Spillane. When he discovered a writer named Lester Dent,
his love for action and adventure was cemented.
Enos was soon fashioning his own heroes and trying to write in the
manner of Spillane and Dent, creating fast, descriptive action scenes,
endless adventures, and larger than life heroes. Everything he had
learned in life and read eventually gave birth to Rick Steele, a hard-living
Korean War veteran turned test pilot who can’t seem to avoid adventures.
He is aided by his loyal war buddy, Joey Campbell; his love interest,
the very capable Dr. Kate Gallagher; and Kate’s polyglot assistant,
Thelma McCally. A character in the mold of Doc Savage and other pulp heroes,
Steele also possesses the same fears, qualities, and foibles we all face
in our lives.
Dick Enos gets our 2014 New Fictioneers readings started on Friday,
August 8th, at 1:30 PM. He’ll be sharing excerpts from Killer Kowboys
from Space,Vengeance of the Wolf, Lost City of Azgara, The Yesterday
Men, and the forthcoming Rick Steele adventure, The Monster of Chinatown.
For those attending our New Fictioneers readings on Friday afternoon,
we’ll be offering a chance to win a fabulous door prize donated to PulpFest
by Radio Archives–an audio-book edition of Will Murray’s Doc Savage
adventure, The Frightened Fish, read by Michael McConnohie.
Weird Tales Author Auction at PulpFest 2014
Another highlight of the PulpFest 2014 Saturday Night Auction, taking
place on August 9 at 9:30 PM, will be a selection of
books, fanzines, manuscripts, and ephemera from the collection of
Everil Worrell, author of nineteen stories for WEIRD TALES.
PulpFest is pleased to offer twenty-plus lots of collectibles from
the Worrell estate, left to a small church in Washington, DC after
the passing of the author’s only child, Eileen Murphy.
St. David’s parish is excited about having PulpFest handle this
portion of their former parishioner’s estate, hoping that the
items will find their w ay into the hands of those who would appreciate
them most–pulp fiction aficionados!
To take a look at the Worrell collection that PulpFest will be
selling at its Saturday Night Auction, please visit the Worrell
Auction page of our website, listed under the Auctions button of our
Programming page.
To whet your appetite, you’ll find below are a couple of the items
that we’ll be offering from the Worrell collection.
The Shudder Pulps
2014 is not only the 75th anniversary of "Science Fiction's Golden
Year of 1939," it's also the 80th anniversary of "The Shudder Pulp
Explosion."
PulpFest 2014 will be celebrating both events.
Also known as "weird-menace" magazines, the shudder pulps began
with DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE, converted to a weird-menace pulp
late in 1933.
Met with great success, its publisher, Popular Publications, decided
to launch a couple more shudder magazines in 1934:
TERROR TALES and HORROR STORIES. Culture Publications also gave the
genre a try, releasing an ashcan edition of SPICY MYSTERY STORIES.
And so, a genre was born.
Noted pulp authority Don Hutchison, author of THE GREAT PULP HEROES,
has contributed a look at the weird-menace genre,
“Pulp Horrors of the Dirty Thirties,” to this year’s issue of THE
PULPSTER, our award-winning program book.
On Sunday, July 6th, at 7 PM, we'll be offering a few of Don’s gory
details concerning the shudder pulps.
Stop by www.pulpfest.com to read an excerpt from “Pulp Horrors of
the Dirty Thirties,” a look at the weird-menace genre that we'll be
saluting at PulpFest 2014.
Free Stuff at PulpFest 2014
It’s time for PulpFest 2014 to offer our thanks for
some of the free material that our members
will receive when they join us at the Hyatt Regency in the heart
of downtown Columbus, Ohio on August 7 – 10.
Dine with PulpFest
PulpFest 2014 is organizing a group
dinner on August 9th.
Eating together on Saturday evening while talking about this great
hobby of ours has been a long-standing tradition at summer pulp
cons.
2014 Munsey Award Nominees
The PulpFest Organizing Committee is
pleased to announce that fourteen individuals have been nominated
by their peers for the 2014 Munsey Award.
In the interest of manageability, the final nominee list has been
pared down to the eight individuals who received the most nominations.
Congratulations to all fourteen nominees for this prestigious award,
presented annually at PulpFest.
Coming to PulpFest! THE PULPSTER!
Editor Bill Lampkin is hard at work
on the 23rd issue of THE PULPSTER.
A longstanding tradition cherished by attendees of summer pulp
cons,
this highly collectible and informative program book will be
released at PulpFest 2014, beginning on Thursday, August 7th.
Like the convention, the new number will focus on the 75th anniversary
of the blossoming of science fiction’s Golden Age, when
fantastic fiction “grew up.”
We’ll also be looking at the shudder pulps of 1934. Every member
of PulpFest will receive a complimentary copy of The Pulpster.
Dealers Tables Are Going Fast!
If you've been thinking about selling
at PulpFest 2014, now's the time to visit www.pulpfest.com. Dealer's
tables are selling fast!
With only six weeks remaining before the 2014 PulpFest begins,
convention chairman Jack Cullers reports that most available exhibit
space has already been booked, and that dealers who have not
yet registered for the convention should reserve their tables immediately
lest they risk being shut out.
Although our huckster room at the Hyatt is quite spacious–almost
16,000 square feet–given the many dealers who have found PulpFest
to be a great venue to sell their wares, the space fills up
fast. This is especially true given our generous offer for dealers
who stay at the Hyatt Regency Columbus during the convention. They
receive one free table for every two that they rent. So our remaining
space is shrinking fast. Wall tables are almost all gone. As of this
writing we can still accommodate more exhibitors, but the time
to book is now!
Although the focus of PulpFest 2014 will be pulp magazines and
related materials, vintage paperbacks, digests, men’s adventure
and true crime magazines, first edition hardcovers, science-fiction,
detective, Western, and other genre books and magazines, series books,
dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, B-movies and serials
and related collectibles, old-time-radio shows, and Golden and Silver
Age comic books can also be sold.
Dealers interested in selling at PulpFest 2014 should get in touch
with Jack as soon as possible. You can reach him via email by
writing to jack@pulpfest.com or by regular mail at 1272 Cheatham
Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305. Please visit our registration page at http://www.pulpfest.com/registration/
and take advantage of our downloadable registration form and, if you
like, our Paypal Order page to reserve your table space today! Please
remember to ask for your free table if you will be staying at the
Hyatt Regency Columbus and will be renting two or more tables.
Countdown to PulpFest
It’s just fifty days to PulpFest 2014!
On Thursday, August 7th, be one of hundreds of pop-culture fans
who will be arriving at the
Hyatt Regency in downtown Columbus, Ohio for the annual summertime
get-together for fans of pulp art and fiction.
Please visit our registration page to learn how to join the
convention that has become summer’s pulp-culture center of the
universe.
To Infinity and Beyond!
The final chapter of "The History
of Magazine Science Fiction," our popular series that began
on April 4, 2014 with "The Origins of Science Fiction."
On Sunday evening, 06/15, at 7 PM eastern time, we'll turn
our attention to what happened in the world of science-fiction
and fantasy publishing after the great magazine boom of 1939.
We'll be looking at 75 years of history that included notable publications
such as
NEW WORLDS, THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, GALAXY
SCIENCE FICTION, ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE, OMNI,
INTERZONE, and other titles.
Today, the main science fiction and fantasy magazines that are
still being published in the print format have seen their
circulations shrink.
Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that both contemporary science
fiction and fantasy owe a great deal to the magazines of the
past.
We've tried to demonstrate the tremendous debt that today's fantastic
fiction owes to the magazines of yesteryear:
THE STRAND, ARGOSY, THE ALL-STORY, WEIRD TALES, AMAZING STORIES,
ASTOUNDING STORIES, GALAXY, and countless other titles.
Frederik Pohl & Fictioneers, Inc.
It was ASTONISHING! It was SUPER! It was the cut-rate corporation
called Fictioneers, Inc.
Formed by Popular Publications to compete against the pulps
of Martin Goodman, Louis Silberkleit, and others,
Fictioneers, Inc. was also Frederik Pohl's employer.
In the fall of 1939, the nineteen-year-old author and literary agent
convinced Popular editor-in-chief
Rogers Terrill to let him start up a pair of science-fiction pulps
for the company's Fictioneer line of magazines.
The result was ASTONISHING STORIES and SUPER-SCIENCE STORIES,
two magazines that debuted in early 1940 and ran for about
three years each.
Captain Future, Man of Tomorrow
"Captain Future,
the Man of Tomorrow." Or at least that's what the character was called
after his first year as a "Wizard of Science."
Perhaps the new catch phrase was meant to tie in with the New
York World's Fair's "World of Tomorrow."
After all, the fair had just closed following an exciting two-year
run.
The first and only science-fictional single-character magazine,
CAPTAIN FUTURE was published by the Thrilling Group.
The stories were written by longtime pulpster Edmond Hamilton.
Space Operas in the Sky
PLANET STORIES author and one of the
screenwriters for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, Leigh Brackett, wrote:
"PLANET, unashamedly, published “space opera” . . . . a story
that has an element of adventure . . . .
of great courage and daring, of battle against the forces of
darkness and the unknown . . . The so-called space opera is the
folk-tale, the hero-tale, of our particular niche in history."
The Aristocrats of the Pulps
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.
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!
The Shadow:
Midnight in Moscow & PJF’s Wold Newton Family
- New!
Pulp Crazy –
The Shadow Over Innsmouth by Ron Marz and Ivan Rodriguez
- New!
With Dust Their Glittering Towers by Christopher Paul
Carey
Sleuth Girl
by Don George
Adept’s
Gambit the Original Version by Fritz Leiber
Ignition
City
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Pulp Den - Now
online!
Three-Card Monte - New!
Vulture Au Vin
- New!
Steve Payne Interview Part One - New!
Steve Payne Interview Part Two - New!
The Guide
My Kindle Books Part Three
My Kindle Books Part Two
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Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors
and their stories, adventure and detective
pulps.
Leonard H. Nason - Soldier, Writer
Leonard H. Nason's advice on writing adventure stories
5 most significant pulp magazines?
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Pulp Magazines Project
- Now online!
Publishing legends The Black Mask (1920),
Weird Tales (1923), and Amazing Stories (1926) are
considered so “extremely rare and valuable” that
the U.S. Library of Congress houses its collection
of 277 issues in Washington, D.C.’s Rare Book and Special Collections
Division—along with the personal libraries of Presidents,
medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and one of only
three known perfect copies of the Gutenberg Bible
in existence. With its latest addition of 4 issues of
The Black Mask (Aug. & Sept. 1920; Dec. 1921;
and Apr. 1922), the Pulp Magazines Project has
made all 3 classic titles available together—for
the first time—in high-quality, cover-to-cover digital editions.
Also available at the Pulp Magazines Project, new
issues of the iconic “weird menace” pulp, Dime Mystery
Magazine (Apr. 1938 and Sept. 1946); Adventure (Jul. 1,
1928; feat. Walt Coburn’s “The Man Who Hated Himself”);
Western Story (Jul. 27, 1940); Detective
Story (May 1938; feat. Zorro-creator Johnston McCulley’s
“Thubway Tham’s Thothial Thecurity”); and histories
of both The Black Mask (E.R. Hagemann; UCLA) and Dime Mystery
Magazine (Emily Sisler; University of West Florida).
The Pulp Magazines Project
is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation
of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary &
artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides
information on the history of this important but long neglected
medium, along with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers.
At the heart of the Project's mission is
the archive itself. In summer 2011, it began with a modest
library of five representative first-generation pulp titles
from the early twentieth century. Over time, the archive will
expand, new magazines will be digitized, and contextual materials
added. Eventually, the archive will feature a broad
range of pre-1923 titles, post-1923 titles where
copyright has lapsed, and full volume runs of select
titles from 1896 to 1946.
The Project is dedicated to fostering ties between
communities of collectors, fans, and academics devoted
to pulp magazines, and will offer opportunities for
research and collaboration to both scholars and enthusiasts
alike. We will provide information on upcoming
conferences and conventions, and promote
new working relationships between academics
and the hundreds of pulp fans and collectors
beyond the college and university.
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Pulp Newsgroups - Now online!
There are numerous pulp newsgroups that are of
potential interest to pulp fans.
Information on several of these groups and a link
to sign up is posted below.
Abraham Merritt:
This group is dedicated to all
of the fiction of ABRAHAM MERRITT.
Merritt's novels, short stories, paperbacks, hardcovers, pulps,
reprints, and any movies based on these
works can all be discussed here. Also, any artwork
from any of the above pertaining to Merritt's writing
can be discussed and displayed. If interested, questions
and statements about other authors that copied or imitated Merritt's
style can be posted.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ABEMERRITTFANS/
CoverUps: Sharing
and trading of Pulp Fiction covers. Discussion not only
allowed, but encouraged! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cover_Ups/
Doc Con: The
annual Doc Savage Convention
gathered together for the first time on October
24, 1998. The convention also known as Doc Con is the brainchild
of Rob Smalley who together with Jay Ryan, Paul Cook and Courtney
Rogers have hosted the event each year in Arizona. Traditionally
held the second Saturday of each November, Doc Con attracts
residents from around the country, for a weekend of
planned Doc Savage events as well as discussions and
camaraderie. Follow along with the planning each year by
participating in this group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Doc_Con/
Burroughs Group: This group is
dedicated to the study and appreciation of one of
the greatmasters of literary adventure, Burroughs
(1875-1950). Creator of numerous famous characters, such as
Tarzan, Carson Napier, and John Carter of Mars, and exciting
worlds, such as Venus, Barsoom, and Pellucidar,
Burroughs is widely recognized as one of the fathers of
the Pulp Era and modern heroic fiction. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edgarriceburroughs/
FictionMags: The purpose of this
mailing list is to discuss the history of fiction
magazines, and to exchange information about magazines
which have carried fiction, past or present. Particular emphases
are on the "Gaslight" magazines of circa 1880-1914,
the pulp magazines of the first half of the 20th
century, the "Big Slick" magazines of the mid-20th
century, the digest-sized magazines of the 1950s and 1960s
-- and any other areas of magazine publishing which have been
important for fiction. Discussion may cover aspects of
the publishing history of the magazines concerned, their
editors and editorial policies, the authors they published,
and so on.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/fictionmags/
Flearun: This group is for
fans of all the incarnations of Doc Savage. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flearun/
H.R. Haggard: This
group is dedicated to one of the greatest of adventure/fantasy
writers , H.R. Haggard.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/masterofadventureriderhaggard/
Justice Inc.: This group is
dedicated to the [1940's pulp version] of Richard
Benson and his group of crime fighting adventurers
, Justice Inc. Everything about this group can
be discussed [ comics, pulps, radio shows, paperbacks,
current news]also if anyone is interested in Paul
Ernst---In the roaring heart of the crucible......
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JUSTICEINC/
Otis Adelbert Kline: This
group is devoted to Otis Adelbert Kline. His works in the
science fiction, weird and historical fiction genre and his
general biography can also be discussed here.
Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OTISKLINE/
to join!
Pulp Fiction Uncensored:
is for all fans of Pulp Fiction!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pulp_Fiction_Uncensored/
PulpMags:
If you're interested in the old pulp magazines,
this forum is the place to
be. We deal with OLD pulps only! If you're
looking for something dealing with modern "pulp fiction" style
writing, you'd be bored here.This moderated list is setup
along the lines of PEAPS, the Pulp Era Amateur
Press Society, and all pulp fans across the world
are welcome. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpMags/
Pulp Swap Group: Place
your swappable pulps and digest, plus wants,
in the file section or individual messages. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpSwap/
REH Comics Group:
This group is dedicated to the characters created by Robert
E Howard that have appeared in comic book form from
Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Cross Plains Comics, Dynamite
Entertainment etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheREHcomicsgroup/
Vintage Paperbacks:
A forum for readers and collectors of classic paperback books,
primarily from the "vintage era" of 1939 to 1960 (roughly
speaking). Ace Doubles, Dell Mapbacks, L.A. Bantams,
Gold Medal, Avon, Handibooks, and many more - we
cover them all. Discussion of all genres is welcome
and we particularly want to hear about any rare and unusual
paperbacks or stories *about* paperbacks that you might be
able to share. We discuss the cover artists, the
writers, the publishers, and anyone and everyone
connected with the great world of vintage paperback
books. Read a great old book lately? Come on in
and tell us about it! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VintagePaperbacks/
Western Pulps: This list is
dedicated to the discussion of Western pulp magazines
-- the characters, the authors, the stories, the
paperback reprints, and anything else connected with Western pulps.
Though the primary emphasis is on pulps, we also
discuss non-pulp Western novels, movies, comics, etc.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WesternPulps/
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Pulp Swashbucklers by
Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!
The pulp era began around the turn of the 20th century, in the
days before radio and television. Magazines on all sorts of diverting
topics were found on the newstands, printed on cheap, pulpy paper, hence
the term “pulps.” There was something aimed at almost every reader, rather
like all the television shows on cable channels today. And like television
today, at least 90% of it was bad. That’s why “pulp fiction” has certain
connotations-—cheap, sensationalist, and over-the-top being among
them — not to mention “dated” and frequently sexist and politically
incorrect. But not everything from this time period should be dismissed
casually — there are treasures there, hidden among all those decades
of magazines. The trick is knowing how to find the good stuff, and where
to look, and today I thought I’d do my best to guide you to it.
Read the rest at the link below.
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Radio Archives
Will Murray's Pulp Classics #55
The Spider #6 Audiobook
Citadel of Hell
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria. Liner Notes by Will Murray
Now available!
Back in 2011 when Tom Brown asked
me to pick the series that would best launch the Will Murray Pulp Classics
line of audiobooks, that was an easy one: The Spider! Nothing screamed pulp
action like the Master of Men.
Picking the kickoff story was not so easy, because there were so many
great ones. We decided to start with Prince of the Red Looters, in which
the Spider first battled the Fly. Our customers loved it and begged
for more. So we recorded Norvell W. Page’s debut tale, Wings of the Black
Death. Eventually, we felt the pressure to release the inaugural story,
The Spider Strikes, which we did with hesitation since this it was written
by R.T.M. Scott, not Page in full cry. Customer comments applauded our
decision. But that one was not an origin story, merely a first adventure.
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Since then, we’ve released stories from different years. With 13 exciting
Spider audiobooks now in print, a new question has been raised: Where
does an interested customer start if he or she is new to the Spider?
That was a puzzler. So we recorded a new release––the perfect entry point
for old and new Spider fans alike.
Ripped from the March, 1934 issue of the magazine, Citadel of Hell was
the sixth Spider novel Novell W. Page penned, and one of his early tours
de force. It opens with a wild car chase through the canyons of Manhattan
that leads to the first of several running battles in which Richard
Wentworth, both in and out of his Spider disguise, takes on Red Mask
and his Food Destroyers as they bring New York City to its knees through
a vicious campaign of arson and starvation.
This is the novel that introduced the Depression-era character of Tito
Caliepi, the hunchbacked street-corner violinist disguise that over
the next year or so of the series metamorphosed into the twisted, fearsome
figure of the Spider who terrorized the underworld for ten unrelenting
years.
So if you’ve never listened to a Spider audiobook––even if you have––and
you’re looking to jump aboard, we highly recommend Citadel of Hell, one
of the great fast-moving Spider novels of 1934.
For this special occasion, we told voice actor Nick Santa Maria to crank
it up and give it his all. And he sure does! This exciting audiobook
also includes two short stories, “Killer’s Knout” by Anson Hatch and
G. T. Fleming Roberts’ “The Standing Corpse.”
Whether you buy physical audiobooks, or simply download them, Citadel
of Hell is an unforgettable excursion into the righteous madness that was
the Spider, Master of Men! 6 hours $23.98 Audio CDs / $11.99 Download
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Radio Archives
Will Murray's Pulp eBook Classics
Now available!
The Spider #98: Volunteer Corpse
Brigade
“Might Is Right!” — that was the war cry of the powerful Underworld
Union which Smiler Miordan led against the nation — behind a barrage
of deadly plague-germs! Could the Spider, himself infected, crush this martinet
of murder — with only a pitiful army of dying patriots? Another epic exploit
of America’s best-loved pulp-fiction character of the 1930s and 1940s:
The Spider — Master of Men! Richard Wentworth — the dread Spider, nemesis
of the Underworld, lone wolf anti-crime crusader who always fights in that
grim no-man’s land between Law and lawless — returns in vintage pulp tales
of the Spider, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.. $2.99.
Dime Mystery Magazine: Frances Bragg
Middleton and B. B. Fowler
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 Frances
Bragg Middleton and B. B. Fowler, reissued for today’s readers in electronic
format. $2.99.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #93: Death
Is My Destiny
The battle guns are silent in the grim, gray dawn of war —
and the legions of horror march unopposed over the fallen bodies of
their foe... While terror prowls the night skies, and death lurks in ambush
behind every cloud, G-8 and his Battle Aces face the wildest adventure
of their careers, as they combat the fiendish force that is wiping the
Allied forces from the face of the earth — without a shot being fired!
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.
Fighting Aces #27: Greenland Patrol
Fighting Aces was the youngest in the line of Popular Publications
aviation pulps. It was strictly a product of World War II. The inaugural
issue was published with a March 1940 date on the cover, as the world
war was raging through Europe. After D-Day and the war began winding
down, the pulp was closed down as well. After twenty-seven issues, the
July 1944 magazine was the last one published. But during those glorious
twenty-seven issues, American doughboys fought alongside the French,
English, Australian and Canadian Allies in battle after aerial battle...
pitting their skill against the Nazi scum. Fighter planes burst into flame
and spiral to earth in these WWII tales of soaring action. Fighting Aces
return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic
format. $2.99.
99 cent eBook Singles
Each 99 cent eBook Single contains a
single short story, one of the many amazing tales
selected from the pages of Terror Tales and Rangeland
Romances.
These short stories are not included in
any of our other eBooks.
Terror Tales: "The Night I Died"
by Zora Roark
They told her it was suicide, but Jael Lavendar knew that her
sister, Judith, had been murdered, for she believed that, through the
bond of twinhood, Judith spoke from the grave... 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. Terror Tales 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 classic story the pages of Terror Tales, reissued
for today’s readers in electronic format. $0.99.
Terror Tales: "The Triumphant Dead"
by William Hines
Even death did not release Bill Bolger from his life-long battle
with his uncle. In fact, the old man was a far more fearsome and powerful
antagonist — dead!. 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.
Terror Tales 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
classic story the pages of Terror Tales, reissued for today’s readers in
electronic format. $0.99.
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Ramble House
Dancing Tuatara Press - Now available!
TALES OF TERROR AND TORMENT #2
Stories from the Pulps Volume 2
Selected and Introduced by John Pelan
Dancing Tuatara Press #37
John Pelan knows his horror pulps and
personally selects and introduces all of the Dancing Tuatara books from Ramble
House. Here, in this second volume of various authors, he provides you
with samples of the finest writing of the pulp era. Whether you're looking
for pure horror or the most outrageous weird menace, let John show you
the way with these 13 representative tales:
“The Pool Where Horror Dwelt” — Dime Mystery Magazine December 1934
“The Singing Corpses” — Terror Tales September/October 1938
“The Man Who Was Dead” — Dime Mystery Magazine May 1935
“The Horror I Thought Was Love” — Dime Mystery Magazine April 1937
“Little Men from Hell” — Dime Mystery Magazine May 1940
“Swamp Wolf” — Dime Mystery Magazine June 1934
“Hell Welcomes Lonely Wives” — Terror Tales February/March 1937
“Death’s Dreadful Lover” — Dime Mystery Magazine January 1937
“The Chorus Horror Trained” — Horror Stories June/July 1939
“Terror from the Deep” — Dime Mystery Magazine December 1936
“Master of Monsters” — Horror Stories December 1935
“Spawn of the Endless Night” — Dime Mystery Magazine November 1935
“Bodies Born for Slaughter” — Terror Tales September 1940
Available Editions
$6 Ebook (EPUB or MOBI)
$20 Trade Paperback 6" x 9"
$35 Hardcover with Dustjacket 6" x 9"
$45 Hardcover with bookplate and dustjacket, signed by John
Pelan
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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Recoverings
Tarzan
of the Apes
Now available!
June, 2014, marks the Centennial of the
publication of the first hardcover edition of TARZAN OF THE APES from A.C.
McClurg & Co. of Chicago on June 17, 1914.
To honor this occasion, Recoverings is rolling back the price of the
limited edition, letterpress reproduction of the dust-jacket for this
important book to the PRE-PUBLICATION PRICES of 2004 — the jacket's
original release date.
Until July 20, 2014, all remaining copies of the regular edition will
be priced at $50.00 and the Signature edition will be priced
at $100.00.
This dust-jacket replica, is the only authentic reproduction of one
of the most sought-after dust-jackets in all book collecting.
Both George McWhorter, Curator Emeritus of the Burroughs Memorial Collection
at the University of Louisville and the late Danton Burroughs,
grandson of ERB, provided source jackets for this replica production
and both of them approved the final printing.
Not just a facsimile dust-jacket, this is a beautiful example of the
art of letterpress printing.
In addition to the letterpress bibliographic bookmark that accompanies
every jacket each order will also receive a special gold foil keepsake
card commemorating the centennial of one of the most significant
books in heroic adventure fiction.
Recoverings Replica Dust-Jackets for the Collector
Recoverings
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Sequential
Pulp To Publish
Edgar Rice Burroughs' JUNGLE TALES
OF TARZAN Graphic Novel
Coming in June 2015!
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
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 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 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: MIDNIGHT IN MOSCOW #3 (OF 10)
- Arriving in comic shops August
6!
(Writer/Art/Cover) Howard Chaykin
"The Game's afoot!" Sherlock Holmes famously said--and a half century
after the legendary sleuth pursued criminals in the foggy streets
of London, The Shadow finds himself in the footsteps of Holmes,
drawn into the hunt for a conspiracy that will, if it succeeds,
will bring the free world to its knees.
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
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The Shadow - Under
the Blue Light - Now online!
Fountain of Death
- New!
The Triple Trail
- New!
House of Shadows
Seven Deadly Arts
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Tarzan (DVD) - Coming
exclusively to Walmart August 5!
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 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
PROGRAM INFORMATION
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: 16x9 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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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 Four
A Survey of Monsters--Part Three
A Survey of Monsters--Part Two
A Survey of Monsters--Part One
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Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels
by Christopher
R. Yates
(New publications to the list
are in bold)
Now available!
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
Coming soon!
Rocketeer: Jet Powered Adventures, ed.
Jeff Mariotte, IDW Publishing, $19.99, August 12, 2014
Ghosts of Manhattan, George Mann, Titan Books, Ltd.,
$9.90, September 12, 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
04, 2014
The Black Stiletto: Endings &
Beginnings, Raymond Benson, Oceanview Publishing,
$26.95, November 04, 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
Secret Wars, author to be announced, Marvel, $24.99, January
20, 2015
Stiletto [sequel to The Rook], Daniel O’Malley, Little,
Brown & Co., $25.99, February 10, 2015
Ex-Isle, Peter Clines, Broadway Books, $14.00, July
2015
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William Patrick Maynard -
Now online!
New Pulp delivers its
own Occult Anti-Hero in Magee
I’ll
come right out and admit I have mixed feelings about ebooks. I travel
considerably for my day job and don’t mind having portable versions
of books I own for quick reference, but the idea of owning books that
cannot be found in print editions on my shelves at home irks me. That said,
I recognize the market for digital-only titles is steadily growing, particularly
among small press publishers. This, of course, is having its impact on
the “New Pulp” community. Witness Pro Se Press’s decision earlier this
year to discontinue their pulp magazine, Pro Se Presents and replace it
with their Single Shot Signatures line of short stories available exclusively
as ebooks.
Read the rest at the links
below.
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