This issue is another thrill-packed romp through the pulp jungle! Your guides ... Brother Bones in "Then and Now" by Ron Fortier Professor Moriarty in "The Picture of Oscar Wilde" by Michael Kurland "Black Mastiff" by Stanley C. Sargent "Lillian" by John E. Petty "The Doting Burglar" by Ben Hecht "Murder Is Fascinating" by Benton Brader "Birthday Bullets" by Richard Brister "The People of the Pit" by A. Merritt "Monster in the Maze" by Adam Beau McFarland "Despair" by H.P. Lovecraft "The Terrible Old Man" by H.P. Lovecraft
Judge these books by their covers! Get immersed in the definitive visual history of pulp fiction paperbacks from 1940 to 1970. The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks chronicles the history of pocket-sized paperbound books designed for mass-market consumption, specifically concentrating on the period from 1940 to 1970. These three decades saw paperbacks eclipse cheap pulp magazines and expensive clothbound books as the most popular delivery vehicle for escapist fiction. To catch the eyes of potential buyers they were adorned with covers that were invariably vibrant, frequently garish, and occasionally lurid. Today the early paperbacks--like the earlier pulps, inexpensively produced and considered disposable by casual readers--are treasured collector's items. Award-winning editor Ed Hulse (The Art of the Pulps and The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction) comprehensively covers the pulp-fiction paperback's heyday. Hulse writes the individual chapter introductions and the captions, while a team of genre specialists and art aficionados contribute the special features included in each chapter. These focus on particularly important authors, artists, publishers, and sub-genres. Illustrated with more than 500 memorable covers and original cover paintings. Hulse's extensive captions, meanwhile, offer a running commentary on this significant genre, and also contain many obscure but entertaining factoids. Images used in The Art of Pulp Fiction have been sourced from the largest American paperback collections in private hands, and have been curated with rarity in mind, as well as graphic appeal. Consequently, many covers are reproduced here for the first time since the books were first issued. With an overall Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, novelist, essayist, pop-culture historian, and author of The Great American Paperback (2001).
Pulp Adventures for Today! is a high-speed, low-drag Role-playing game based on the science fiction stories of yesteryear, such as Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars, etc These rules are designed to be used with any sort of campaign which doesn't rely too much on realism The only things required to play Pulp Adventures for Today! are a group of friends, a handful of standard six-sided dice, a pencil, and your imagination So strap on your blaster, sharpen your saber, climb aboard your war zeppelin and look for adventure Included in this rulebook are: * Rules for character creation, * Skills and how to use them, * Equipment from the past through the future, * A small number of vehicles, * A sampling of critters, * And two sample campaign settings: Terra Reich, in which a horde of evil aliens invade Earth while WW2 is underway and The Atlantean Age, a more typical swords & sorcery setting.
Pulp Adventures continues its quarterly journey across the landscape of pulp fiction. This issue travels from the South Seas to London back alleys, and stops in smoky firehouses in the Windy City! The highlight of this issue is "The Daughter of Huang Chow" by Sax Rohmer, a classic thriller by the creator of Fu Manchu! When Inspector Kerry investigates murder and opium smuggling, he stumbles across a woman whose feminine charms render him powerless-but he doesn't seem to mind! Also in this issue: A show business detective finds himself working for an actor who loses track of his women in "Road Show" by Roger Torrey; "A Pinch of Powder" by Karl Detzer chronicles the plight of heroic firefighters who need rescuing from the new firehouse cook!; Richard A. Lupoff continues the exploits of Splash Shanahan, in "Tangaroa's Eye," as he transports a lovely passenger to a secret paradise; In a Railroad Stories' short by Dave Martin, "Boxcar Mary" is a tomboy who rides the rails to trouble; And a German spy master meets his equal in Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's "Treason For Glory." In the nonfiction category, Pulp Adventures #19 features "Searching for a Hero: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson" by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson. The pulp author turned comic book publisher, who paved the way to success for Superman, also lived the adventures he wrote. "Liner notes" on authors Karl Detzer (by Detzer, himself) and Sax Rohmer (by William Patrick Maynard) accompany their stories. This issue sports a slam-bang action cover by Norman A. Saunders, courtesy of the illustrator's estate, and a dramatic "Daughter of Huang-Chow" back-cover by John A. Coughlin.
"Angels and Animals" by Adam McFarlane Ship building in a bottle. "Jack Grey, Second Mate" by William Hope Hodgson Jack Grey keeps adversaries at bay, and quells a mutiny. "The Green Mask" by Dana Edward Johnson A masked crimefighter's first case could be his toughest. "Not What I Ordered" by Howard Hammerman Shrimp salad ... red wine ... revenge ... "A Case at Law" by William Dudley Pelley Someone needed killing ... and they got it. "Hole-in-the-Wall Barrett" by Max Brand A villain, a hero, and a damsel ... an old formula with a twist. "A Repeating Romeo" by May Belleville Brown Some loves never end, they just pause ... "My Sister's Husband" by Michael Bracken Rekindled romance or necrophilia? "Sneak Thief" by Richard Brister The kid chose the wrong alley to look down. "Thirty Days on the Island" by Raymond J. Brown Did Manhattan have enough hiding places for his little game? "Irregular Brethern" by H. Bedford-Jones A sermon of a different sort. "Gary Bullock, Journeyman Actor" Interview by Audrey Parente From science, to acting, to authoring a new SF fantasy novel.
This early work by Abraham Grace Merritt was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The People of the Pit' is a fantasy adventure of two gold prospectors who discover mysterious people who live down a mine. It tells the tale of adventurous explorers who discover an unknown world. Abraham Grace Merritt - also known by his byline, A. Merritt - was born on the 20th January, 1884 in New Jersey, America. Merritt's stories typically revolved around conventional pulp magazine themes. His heroes are gallant Irishmen or Scandinavians, his villains treacherous Germans or Russians and his heroines often virginal, mysterious and scantily clad. Merritt married twice, once in the 1910s to Eleanore Ratcliffe, with whom he raised an adopted daughter, and again in the thirties to Eleanor H. Johnson.
“Suspenseful parallel lesbian love stories deftly illuminate important events in LGBTQ history” in the New York Times–bestselling author’s YA novel (Kirkus Reviews). In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It’s not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound ambition to write and publish her own story, she risks exposing herself—and Marie—to a danger all too real. Sixty-two years later, Abby Zimet can’t stop thinking about her senior project and its subject—classic 1950s lesbian pulp fiction. Between the pages of her favorite book, the stresses of Abby’s own life are lost to the fictional hopes, desires, and tragedies of the characters she’s reading about. She feels especially connected to one author, a woman who wrote under the pseudonym “Marian Love,” and becomes determined to track her down and discover her true identity. In this novel told in dual narratives, New York Times–bestselling author Robin Talley weaves together the lives of two young women connected across generations through the power of words. A stunning story of bravery, love, how far we’ve come and how much farther we have to go.
Nine stories of mystery, science fiction, horror - new and classic pulp fiction!Audrey Parente, editorClassic Pulp Fiction - "The Death Dancer" by Charles Boeckman: The "Atomic Goddess of Beauty" sees a strange case of murder explode!; "Roman Holiday" by Talbot Mundy: A tale of Christians and Romans - and Lions - in the reign of mad Caligula; "The Pigtail of Hi Wing Ho" by Sax Rohmer: Mystery in Chinatown ...New Pulp Fiction - The Mystery of Island X! by Bobby Nash: Lance Starr and his scrappy crew investigate mysterious goings-on on an island - only to discover the island IS the mystery!; "The Spawn of Lilthu" by William M. Hope: The "Welcome" mat was Thurl's invitation to a hellish fate; "The Wicked Big 'Monstah Ovah Bawstin'" by David Bernard: An FBI agent generates buzz with his biggest case; "Time and Tide" by Adam Beau McFarlane: The Black Island Tavern plays host to a sailor like no other; "Stranded At Saturn" by Jack Halliday: He dreamt of reaching the stars ... until he crash-landed ...; "A Snitch in Time" by Robert W. Walker: First-class seats for murder ...
A visual treasury of the iconic Street & Smith pulp novel covers of the 1930s and 1940s Pulp Power: The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Art of the Street & Smith Universe gives fans a rare glimpse into the pre-war pulp novel decade of the 1930s, a period of bold action and adventure storytelling that ultimately led to the creation of the comic book and the superheroes we know and love today. This period, a pre-Batman, pre-Superman golden era of American creativity and artistic excellence, starred two main characters in leading roles: The Shadow and Doc Savage. In more than 500 novels written between 1930 and 1940, The Shadow, Doc Savage, and the Street & Smith universe of characters captivated a generation of Americans with their heroic exploits and inspired a new generation of writers to create a pantheon of comic book superheroes in their mold. Street & Smith, the renowned publisher of these novels, commissioned leading artists to provide bold and original cover artwork for their publications, and in Pulp Power, hundreds of these eye-catching covers are reproduced as a collection for the first time. Comics legend Dan DiDio provides context for the cover illustrations alongside a narrative discussion of the influence of the Street & Smith superhero universe on legendary creators such as Orson Welles, Truman Capote, Michael Chabon, George Lucas, Agnes Moorehead, James Patterson, Walter Mosley, Dwayne Johnson, Frank Miller, James Bama, Jim Steranko, Jim Lee, Gail Simone, and many more. The book also includes original line art illustrations from the volumes along with unique reproductions of Shadow ephemera. Pulp Power is the ultimate coffee table collectible book for all who love the world of superheroes.
A rookie detective investigates the murder of a bestselling mystery writer. Two shots on a snowy Seattle street, and a bestselling writer lies dead. When Brick Ransom is assigned to the case, the trail quickly leads to an up-and-coming hard-boiled mystery writer, his publisher, and one of Seattle's most powerful companies. But who did it? And why? And with the murders still happening, who will be next? Bloody Pulp is bloody good fun, with all of the mystery, suspense, humor, and over-the-top action Brick Ransom fans crave!
