Dark Horse Comics has also announced plans to advertise its best-selling Conan comic books via approximately 200,000 advertising inserts in Todd McFarlane Productions' Conan Action Figure Assortment, further increasing consumer demand for the series!

Pre-orders are now being accepted at Shocklines.

THE MAKER OF GARGOYLES AND OTHER STORIES is scheduled to ship this fall.

Cthulhu the King plush can be pre-ordered from the July PREVIEWS (now available). 
The Diamond Item Code is JUL043995.

Click here to preview the cover and here for the complete contents and ordering information.

ShadowPDF:   Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 400 stories online!
Missed in Missouri by Thomas Thursday from TOP-NOTCH MAGAZINE [May 15, 1920]
The Move-a-Long Side Show sets up in a strange town where no one seems to care.
Typhoon Seas by Edgar Anthony Manley from WAR STORIES [September 26, 1929]
An old rivalry is rekindled in Sailor Jack's Retreat, a dangerous dive on the Hongkong waterfront.
When Doubles Cross by George V. Miller from SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES [November 1935]
Hollywood stars and their doubles get all tangled up in a snatch scheme.

Long before he became the author of polished romances for the slick magazines, of best-seller novels and firsthand-researched travel books—Hugh B. Cave wrote some of the most grisly and chilling horror stories ever to appear in the pulps. Crawling forth from the Depression years—from the haunted pages of STRANGE TALES, WEIRD TALES, GHOST STORIES, SPICY MYSTERY STORIES, BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE MAGAZINE, THRILLING MYSTERY, and elsewhere—Wildside presents an omnibus of vintage nightmare, twenty-six of the best horror tales of Hugh B. Cave—gruesomely illustrated with over thirty-five drawings by Lee Brown Coye. 

MURGUNSTRUMM AND OTHERS abounds with haunted houses, ravenous vampires, slobbering monsters, fiends human and inhuman, nights dark and stormy, corpses fresh and rotting. These stories exemplify the gothic horror thrillers of the 1930s—no-holds-barred lurid chillers of violent action and scream-in-the-night terror. Like a vintage horror movie, MURGUNSTRUMM AND OTHERS is an experience to be savoured best on a stormy, lonely night.

The retail price for the hardcover edition is $49.95.
The retail price for the trade paperback edition is $24.95.

An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum -- a devastating blast that sets off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world, as the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means. Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. And her search for answers is about to lead Kara and her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's brilliant and beautiful curator, into a world they never dreamed actually existed. For new evidence exposed by the tragedy suggests that Ubar, a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert, is more than mere legend ... and that something astonishing is waiting there. 

Two extraordinary women and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, are not the only ones being drawn to the desert. Former U.S. Navy SEAL Painter Crowe, a covert government operative and head of an elite counterespionage team, is hunting down a dangerous turncoat, Crowe's onetime partner, to retrieve the vital information she has stolen. And the trail is pointing him toward Ubar. 

But the many perils inherent in a death-defying trek deep into the savage heart of the Arabian Peninsula pale before the nightmarish secrets to be unearthed at journey's end. What is hidden below the sand is more than a valuable relic of ancient history. It is an ageless power that lives and breathes -- an awesome force that could create a utopia or tear down everything humankind has built during millennia of civilization. Many lives have already been destroyed by ruthless agencies dedicated to guarding its mysteries and harnessing its might. And now the end may be at hand for Safia, for Kara, for Crowe, and for all the interlopers who wish to expose its mysteries, as it prepares to unleash the most terrible storm of all ... 

William Morrow, $24.95, ISBN: 0060580666 

Reportedly, John Milius would love nothing more than to get his good friend back as CONAN and is warming up to the idea of ditching HHH (who was going to star in Milius' other action film) and waiting for Arnold to come back to films in a couple of short years." 

The screenplay by Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens is based on the original story by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace. Jackson will employ the latest motion picture technology to cinematically portray the timeless tale of the beast and his beauty. He will expand on the chapters of the tale that take place in the mysterious and dangerous jungles of Skull Island, and his Kong promises to be a unique and breathtaking creation. 

Source: Moviehole

The second confirmed Guest is Don Hutchison who began having articles about pulps and pulp heroes published more than 40 years ago. Since then he has become a leading anthologist, writer, editor and publisher about pulps.

Watch the PULPCON website for the latest information as it becomes available.

Enjoy! And thanks again for your patronage.
Duane Spurlock, proprietor, The Pulp Rack

Collected in this volume, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gary Gianni, are all of the stories and poems that make up the thrilling saga of the dour and deadly Puritan, Solomon Kane. Together they constitute a sprawling epic of weird fantasy adventure that stretches from sixteenth-century England to remote African jungles where no white man has set foot. Here are shudder-inducing tales of vengeful ghosts and bloodthirsty demons, of dark sorceries wielded by evil men and women, all opposed by a grim avenger armed with a fanatic's faith and a warrior's savage heart.

Famous scientists around the world have mysteriously disappeared and Chronicle reporter Polly Perkins (Paltrow) along with ace aviator Sky Captain (Law) are on the investigation. Risking their lives as they travel to exotic places around world, can the fearless duo stop Dr. Totenkopf, the evil mastermind behind a plot to destroy the earth? Aided by Franky Cook (Jolie), commander of an all-female amphibious squadron, and technical genius Dex, Polly and Sky Captain may be our planet’s only hope.

Visit http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/skycaptainandtheworldoftomorrow.html

On June 25th, contestants can register on the movie site SkyCaptain.com to download the "Air Combat Challenge." Pilots will have five weeks to perfect their skills and on August 2nd the "Air Combat Challenge" tournament begins. The three week contest will pit contestants against one another for a chance to win an all inclusive trip to the London premiere of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow this September and achieve the ultimate Sky Captain accolade.

Tarzan's Revenge: (1938) A young girl named Eleanor (Eleanor Holm) is with her parents (George Barbier, Hedda Hopper) and fiance Nevin (George Meeker) on a hunting excursion. She is spotted by evil sheik Ben Alleu Be (C. Henry Gordon), who wants to add her to his harem. Alleu Bey kidnaps her and now it is up to Tarzan to return her to her parents!

Retail Price: $14.95

Episodes include "The New Original Wonder Woman" (with audio commentary). "Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther," "Fausta: The Nazi Wonder Woman," "Beauty on Parade," "The Feminum Mystique," parts 1 and 2; "Wonder Woman vs. Gargantua!," "The Pluto File." "Last of the Two Dollar Bills," "Judgement from Outer Space," parts 1 and 2, "Formula 407," "The Bushwackers," and "Wonder Woman in Hollywood." 

Special features include audio commentary and the featurette, "Beauty, Brawn and Bulletproof Braclets: A Wonder Woman Restrospective." 

The three-disc set will retail for $39.98.

Retail Price: $14.95

This book can be pre-ordered from the July PREVIEWS (available June 23rd). 
The Diamond Item Code is JUL043520.

This book can be pre-ordered from the July PREVIEWS (available June 23rd). 
The Diamond Item Code is JUL043463.

Also coming soon:
HIGH ADVENTURE #77 features the Green Ghost in The Case of the Clumsy Cat.  (July 2004)
HIGH ADVENTURE #78 features high seas adventures!  (September 2004)
HIGH ADVENTURE #79 features the Phantom Detective in The Crime of Fu Kee Wong.  (November 2004)
HIGH ADVENTURE #80 features the Green Lama in Babies for Sale.  (January 2005)

G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #13 featuring The Spider Staffel.  (July 2004)
G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES #14 featuring The Mad Dog Squadron.   (October 2004)

This book can be pre-ordered from the July PREVIEWS (available June 23rd). 
The Diamond Item Code is JUL043505.

The initial launch features three associated trilogies, each set in a different Hyborian realm. “There are so many untold stories in Hyboria, not just about Conan,” notes Theodore Berquist, CEO of Conan Properties, who is overseeing the series. “These books feature new adventures and characters, set during the time when Conan is king of Aquilonia, a period in Conan’s life taken from Robert E. Howard’s sole Conan novel, The Hour of the Dragon. This is generally accepted as the last true Conan tale if one were constructing a timeline, and puts the Cimmerian’s age at about forty-five. We felt that putting the Age of Conan stories in this era was the best way to explore other areas of Hyboria without disturbing already established continuity.”

The three Young Adult novels are stand-alone tales, separate from the core trilogies, with their own storylines and continuing characters (though they will conform to overall Conan history). 

Currently in production, the writers for the series are Loren L. Coleman, J. Steven York, Richard A. Knaak and Jeff Mariotte. Cover paintings for the entire series are being done by Justin Sweet. The first trilogy is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2005.

Visit The Official Conan website for full details.

In another article, novelist/pulp scholar Will Murray debunks the assertion by Tod Browning biographer David J. Skal that the famed director wrote pulp mysteries under the pen name Charles R. Allen.

Earl Derr Biggers' Charlie Chan made his first film appearance in a 1926 serial, THE HOUSE WITHOUT A KEY, which BnT editor Ed Hulse covers at length in this issue's installment of "Cliffhanger Classics." (The film itself is lost, but Hulse reconstructs it from the sole surviving copy of the original shooting script, which he compares to the Biggers novel.) Old-Time Radio historian Martin Grams, Jr. writes about the "I Love a Mystery" series—a perennial favorite of OTR buffs—and the 1945 Columbia film adapted from one of its best-remembered continuities: "The Decapitation of Jefferson Monk."

BnT Associate Publisher Mark Trost reviews the 1935 first issue of Popular Publications' long-running pulp, DETECTIVE TALES, and, in an article reprinted from a 1941 issue of WRITER'S DIGEST, veteran pulpster Henry Kuttner writes about his efforts to master the mystery-story formula.

As usual, the issue is copiously illustrated with artwork, photographs and cover reproductions.
Click here or on the image at the right for a larger cover image.

Single copy price is $6.00. Subscribers copies will be mailed out over the next few days. 
Copies are now available from: Ed Hulse, 2467 Rt. 10 East, Bldg 15, Apt 4B, Morris Plains, NJ 07950.
The BLOOD 'N' THUNDER website is at http://www.geocities.com/poppub/

Lovecraft was right, though he only glimpsed a tiny sliver of the true horror that governs the secret history of the world. The truth is much, much worse as several young people are about to discover. The miracle drug "Essence" opens doors of perception hithereo undreamed of, but there's a heavy price to paid. The price is to belong body and soul to nameless horrors that were old when the earth was young. Nobody rides for free, and damn few get out alive…

Limited Edition: $30 
Lettered Edition: $125

Conan’s first Hyperborean adventure reveals the secrets of immortality, and the peaceful northern paradise is shown for the nightmare it really is. Conan breaks from those who’ve enslaved him, but is unable to save the lives of the prisoners he leads, or the woman he’s fallen in love with.  Robert E. Howard hinted at the terrors that his character Conan suffered in Hyperborea, but Busiek and company reveal the adventure here for the first time in livid detail.
 

Next issue Cary Nord returns with the second major story arc, as Conan discovers the wonders and horrors of the civilized world—with covers by Leinil Francis Yu!

This book can be pre-ordered from the July PREVIEWS (available June 23rd). 
The Diamond Item Code is JUL040020.

ShadowPDF:   Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: 
Doc Savage in Terror And The Lonely Widow
Doc Savage in Three Times a Corpse
Doc Savage in The Death Lady
Doc Savage in Danger Lies East
The Flying Legion by George Allan England
This Island Earth by Raymond F. Jones
Renaissance by Raymond F. Jones
The Toymaker by Raymond F. Jones

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 400 stories online!
Nothing new this week.

The adventure begins as young Elric literally "dreams" of a life of adventure. His first dream quest takes him from the Dragon Caves of Imrryr to confrontations with temperamental giants in journeys through strange kingdoms! 

Don¹t miss this previously untold installment in Elric's storied history, mixing the sword and sorcery of the Lord of the Rings saga with Moorcock's unique brand of storytelling and Simonson's unmistakable artistic styling. 
48 pages, $5.95, in stores on September 22. 

This book can be pre-ordered from the July PREVIEWS (available June 23rd). 
The Diamond Item Code is JUL040664.

Published by TOR Books
Soft Cover, 6x9, 512 pages, $16.95
 

Each painting is accompanied by character/story first publication bibliographies and relevant excepts of REH's correspondence compiled by Rusty Burke. There are also many (I think there's about 15) rare photographs of Howard himself reproduced directly from the originals.

The book is oversized and measures 9.25" X 13.5". It's full color throughout. 32 pages printed on very heavy stock, and spiral bound across the top -- kinda like a calendar. It retails for $24.95 and will be shrink-wrapped.

The breakdown of subjects/characters and artists is as follows:

Cover: by Gary Gianni
ALMURIC: by Mark Schultz
BRAN MAK MORN: by Gary Gianni
BRECKINRIDGE ELKINS: by Scott Gustafson
BOXING STORIES: by Gary Gianni
CONAN: by Greg Manchess
CRUSADES STORIES: by Tom Kidd
EL BORAK: by Jim & Ruth Keegan
HORROR STORIES (The Thing on the Roof): by Mike Mignola
JAMES ALLISON (Marchers of Valhalla): by Scott Caple
KULL: by Justin Sweet
RED SONYA: by Jim Silke
SKULLFACE: by Glen Orbik
SOLOMON KANE: by Gary Gianni
SWORD WOMAN: by Mark Schultz

Wandering Star will have its usual booth at the San Diego Con in July and will have copies there (as well as the new CONAN VOLUME 2 hardback, of course).  Jim Keegan, Gary Gianni, Mark Schultz, Mike Mignola, Jim Silke, and Justin Sweet will be in attendance.

Also, because some WS collectors requested it, there's also going to be a very limited number of copies signed by all of the artists involved (probably 100 or less. We haven't decided on a price for that yet. It'll depend on how much it costs to ship 100 books around the US for the artists that aren't local to sign).

The book will be available through Diamond (in August/September) and Bud Plant. 
They'll be ready to ship just before San Diego Comic Con in the middle of July.

COMING IN ISSUE NUMBER ELEVEN:
The Art of Robert Bonfils; An Excerpt from Men's Adventure Magazines—the new book from Taschen; The Art of R.G. Harris, and much more!  Expected Release Date: September 2004

ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE, 3640 Russell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110
48 pages in black and white and full color for $9.
Four issue subscriptions are available for $36.

This book can be pre-ordered from the July PREVIEWS (available June 23rd). 
Caution: Copies ordered from comic shops will not be available in July.
               They should be available sometime in August or September.
The Diamond Item Code for the hard cover edition is JUL043525.
The Diamond Item Code for the soft cover edition is JUL043526.

40 pages, $3.50, in stores on September 15. 

This book can be pre-ordered from the July PREVIEWS (available June 23rd). 
The Diamond Item Code is JUL040634.

In 1933, American showman Carl Denham returned from a mysterious, hidden island with a priceless treasure. A treasure not gold or jewels, but the island’s barbaric god, a monstrous anthropoid called “Kong.” The savage giant escaped and wreaked havoc among the man-made canyons of Manhattan, but within hours of the giant ape’s death plummet from the peak of the Empire State Building, his body—and Carl Denham—disappeared. Twenty-five years later, the son of Carl Denham makes a shocking discovery that leads him back to the site of his father’s greatest adventure and to the answers that will unlock the century's greatest mystery and history’s greatest miracle.

Authorized by the Cooper Estate and based on the original novel that inspired the all-time classic film, KONG: KING OF SKULL ISLAND is a lavishly illustrated, all-new novel that acts as both prequel and sequel to the classic fantasy tale, King Kong. Acclaimed fantasy artist Joe DeVito and top fantasy and science-fiction writer Brad Strickland join forces via innovative layout and design to make for an interactive visual-narrative storytelling experience unlike any other, remaining true to the classic Kong legend while illuminating new discoveries and additional layers of characterization that will deepen the resonance of the original story for readers young and old. Introduction by film special-effects master Ray Harryhausen (Mighty Joe Young, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad).

This book can be pre-ordered from the July PREVIEWS (available June 23rd). 
The Diamond Item Code is JUL040031.

The second confirmed Guest is Don Hutchison who began having articles about pulps and pulp heroes published more than 40 years ago. Since then he has become a leading anthologist, writer, editor and publisher about pulps.

Watch the PULPCON website for the latest information as it becomes available.

My thanks to Juri for this article. I'll be adding some cover scans to accompany his essay in the next few days. And we'll have another article from Juri soon. You can find Juri's current essay at this URL:
http://pulprack.com/index2.html

Next up is Part One of a "lost" novel by H. Bedford-Jones: THE CROWN OF COYOPAN. This was originally published in THE AMERICAN WEEKLY, the Hearst Newspaper Sunday Supplement, in six installments, starting on April 23, 1939, and ending on May 28, 1939. This is its first appearance since that time. It was discovered by Victor A. Berch and transcribed by Peter Ruber. My thanks to both of these guys for their work. 

The Pulp Rack will be serializing this novel in six parts. Part One comprises Chapters 1 and 2. It's a fun and exciting story in the best pulp fiction fashion.  You can start reading THE CROWN OF COYOPAN at this URL: http://pulprack.com/index5.html

Enjoy! And thanks again for your patronage.
Duane Spurlock, proprietor, The Pulp Rack

Nemesis #5: Featuring Gun Moll in "Angel with No Hands"
Nemesis, the contemporary pulp magazine, continues with another book-length Gun Moll novel, featuring America's Undercover Nemesis of Crime against The Angel with No Hands, plus new and classic mystery short stories It's the 1920s and Giselle, a beautiful, but treacherous French double-agent, is captured by her vengeful countrymen and sentenced to one of history's grimmest fates. Soon she earns a new and deadlier name – Giselle ssans Mains ("without hands") – that strikes terror in to the hearts of all who hear it. For no one is more ruthless in their pursuit of crime, and her lust for mass descrution leaves a trail of slaughter where ever she goes. The police of Europe are helpless to stop her, and now sans Mains imported her genius for evil to America with plans that will wreck the nation's economy and spread death throughout its cities. As bombs explode and buildings burn, only Gun Moll, America's Undercover Nemesis of Crime, the woman with ice in her veins, stand between Giselle sans Mains and the helpless population of New York. Never has Gun Moll encountered a foe so treacherous and wantonly cruel. But can Gun Moll's cool, calculating brain find a way to defeat such a pitiless foe, especially when all New York's gangsters are lined up behind her? Fighting virtually alone, assisted only by her blazing tommy-guns, Jingles, her trusted driver, and her cantankerous maid, Daisy, Gun Moll soon discovers that her one hope of winning will force her to rely on the help of Martin Tolliver, the young F.B.I. agent who is sworn to arrest her on sight! A violent brew of corrupt F. B. I. agents, grasping financiers, ruthless criminals, and a rabid madwoman, Stephen Adam's Angel with No Hands is a non-stop roller coaster of action and suspense that carries Gun Moll straight into the torture's den where the price of victory may be her own death!
Cover: Stephen Adams 
133 pages for $1.99

The Alien: The Science Fiction Classic by Ramond F.Jones
Here is another masterwork of science fiction by Raymond F. Jones' author of This Island Earth and 1967 Hugo Award finalist, Best Short Story of the Year, for "Rat Race." In a novel that rivals his classic Renaissance, a team of scientists, exploring g the ruins of an ancient civilization in the asteroid belt discover a strange artifact containing a giant humanoid alien. Resurrected from the dead after 500,000 years, the alien presents himself to humanity as a savior, whose advanced knowledge can create heaven on Earth - if he is made ruler of the solar system. His powers and offer set planet against planet, ideology against ideology, and life against death. For some see him as a Messiah offering humanity its last hope, and others as an alien madman out to enslave the world. What type of mentality would attempt to preserve itself through a planetary catastrophe that destroyed its entire race? One man and one woman, a physicist and a surgeon, determine to find out - even though it means half of humankind and the awesome secrets of superscience locked in the alien brain will be against them. This controversial and startling book is regarded as a classic achievement of science fiction. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction praises Jones' work for its "exciting narrative and lively variations on science fiction themes." 
400 pages for $4

 For instance: Where did Magnus really come from? What was the ultimate agenda of 1-A, the robot who raised him? Why a North Am society structured like that one was? How did it come to be that way? What of the present scientific advances that seems to be steering technology in different directions than those shown in Magnus?

Especially, the question of how man lives with the increasing intelligent machines he's begun to create is even more relevant now than it was when Magnus was originally created.

An artist has yet to be named for the project, however Jim Steranko is the production designer, and may also provide the covers. Current plans call for three 48-page full color graphic novels, with the first to be released in 2005.

This book can be pre-ordered from the July PREVIEWS (available June 23rd). 
The Diamond Item Code is JUL040682.

This book can be pre-ordered from the July PREVIEWS (available June 23rd). 
The Diamond Item Code is JUL040683.

Silver Spring, MD, June 8, 2004 – In a ceremony held June 4, 2004 at BookExpo America, the industry’s tradeshow, Uncovered: The Hidden Art Of The Girlie Pulps by Douglas Ellis was awarded the Gold Medal for Popular Culture Book of the Year by ForeWord Magazine.

Uncovered reproduces in full color more than 400 stunning “girlie” pulp magazine covers – tame by today’s standards – from the 1920s and ‘30s.  In addition, Uncovered examines the efforts of blue-nose groups to ban the magazines from the newsstands or have them declared indecent, seized and burned. Sold “under the counter” when first published, their “pin-up” art and the struggles of their publishers with the censors has remained hidden until now.

Of its prestigious Book of the Year awards – which are determined by a jury of librarians, booksellers and reviewers – ForeWord has said that they were “…established in 1998 to focus librarian and bookseller attention on the literary achievements of independent publishers and their authors...[The awards] take into consideration editorial excellence, professional production, narrative originality, author credentials and the value the title adds to the category.”

Uncovered has been called “the best book ever done on the subject” (Bud Plant, Bud Plant Comic Art), “an enthusiastically recommended addition to personal and academic American Popular History reference collections” (Midwest Book Review) and “a wonderful pictorial chronicle of the magazines of yesterday” (Frank M. Robinson, editor of Pulp Culture).

Adventure House is a leading publisher of pulp art and reference books and pulp fiction reprints.
For more information or to request a review copy contact:
John Gunnison • 301-754-1589
gunnison@adventurehouse.com

“Born on the Battlefield” begins here!
KURT BUSIEK (W) and GREG RUTH (A)
On sale September 22, Full Color, 32 pages, $2.99

The legend of Conan begins in the middle of a Cimmerian war—his incredible strength and skill, evidenced in his youth, was always credited to the bloody circumstances of his birth. This special fill-in issue brings Greg Ruth, acclaimed artist of Freaks of the Heartland, into the Conan fold. “Born on the Battlefield,” by Busiek and Ruth, will be spread over the next two years of the Conan monthly, in six stand-alone chapters, leading up to the epic Battle at Venarium! 

Next issue Cary Nord returns with the second major story arc, as Conan discovers the wonders and horrors of the civilized world—with covers by Leinil Francis Yu!

ShadowPDF:   Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 400 stories online!
Hell's Siphon by George Harmon Coxe from HEADQUARTERS DETECTIVE [September 1936]
When a cop is found dead in front of a cracked safe, with jewels in his pocket, and a watchman's bullet in his back--it looks bad for headquarters. A nice hardboiled tale from the police perspective.

Make-Up for Murder by Thomas King from SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES [November 1935]

Crook 'Em Cowboy by McCormick, Wilfred & Barker, S. Omar from WILD WEST STORIES and COMPLETE NOVEL MAGAZINE [March 1932]  Our first baseball western, courtesy of reader, Mark Stratton. Thanks, Mark!

Hi Li -- Hi Low! by Tom Thursday from SUPER SPORTS [January 1950]
Thursday on Jai Alai--and dog racing--and a jewelry scam.

The price: $40 postpaid in the United States, $44 postpaid in Canada and $55 postpaid for the rest of the world.
The pre-publication order deadline is July 30, 2004. 
The publication date is August 31, 2004. 
You can order online at the ERBville Press website at http://www.angelfire.com/film/locationbooks/aug.htm

The price: $40 postpaid in the United States, $44 postpaid in Canada and $55 postpaid for the rest of the world. 
The pre-publication order deadline is August 30, 2004. 
The publication date is September 31, 2004. 
You can order online at the ERBville Press website at http://www.angelfire.com/film/locationbooks/sept.htm

Request Diamond Item Code FEB042623
This title is also available from Amazon.com.

"I expect this time round will be a very different experience for both Andy and myself as we'll actually get to shoot extended drama sequences together," says Peter Jackson. "It will be a little weird seeing Andy out of his Gollum gimp suit -- and I hope we can both make the adjustment!"

Jackson also adds, "While Andy will provide very valuable onset reference, this doesn't mean we will be softening Kong by attempting to humanize him. The power of the story lies in the fact that this is a savage beast from a hostile environment, and we don't intend to compromise that." 

Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody round out the cast. 

In 1933, American showman Carl Denham returned from a mysterious, hidden island with a priceless treasure. A treasure not gold or jewels, but the island’s barbaric god, a monstrous anthropoid called “Kong.” The savage giant escaped and wreaked havoc among the man-made canyons of Manhattan, but within hours of the giant ape’s death plummet from the peak of the Empire State Building, his body—and Carl Denham—disappeared. Twenty-five years later, the son of Carl Denham makes a shocking discovery that leads him back to the site of his father’s greatest adventure and to the answers that will unlock the century's greatest mystery and history’s greatest miracle.

Authorized by the Cooper Estate and based on the original novel that inspired the all-time classic film, KONG: KING OF SKULL ISLAND is a lavishly illustrated, all-new novel that acts as both prequel and sequel to the classic fantasy tale, King Kong. Acclaimed fantasy artist Joe DeVito and top fantasy and science-fiction writer Brad Strickland join forces via innovative layout and design to make for an interactive visual-narrative storytelling experience unlike any other, remaining true to the classic Kong legend while illuminating new discoveries and additional layers of characterization that will deepen the resonance of the original story for readers young and old. Introduction by film special-effects master Ray Harryhausen (Mighty Joe Young, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad).

Joe DeVito's Official Website is at http://www.jdevito.com/

The shoot is expected to last until the spring and then the sets will be kept up at CMPP for pick-up shots and re-shoots once the CGI work is nearing completion. They also hear that they'll be using other studio space around town to supplement their needs; Mammoth Studios has been mentioned on a few occasions.

The Toymaker: The Classic SF Collection by Ramond F. Jones
SF CLASSIC OUT OF PRINT FOR OVER 50 YEARS!
Here is the legendary first collection of stories by Hugo Award nominee Raymond F. Jones. Selling for over $100 in the only other edition, this stunning book contains what critic Mike Ashley hails as the author's "best and most original work … competence and originality." When Analog, then called Astounding, reviewed "The Toymaker, here is what they had to say: "'The Children's Room, the author's favorite, is a highly human document of mutants, and of a momentous decision affecting the future welfare of mankind. Technologists go nuts in 'The Model Shop,' when a chronportation company makes a misshipment to our antiquarian age. In 'The Deadly Host,' Earth is menaced by mechanical parasites from the planet Sian. Humor is the mood of 'Utility,' a tale of interplanetary trading. 'Forecast is the stormy saga of Weather Central. And, who can forget the Imaginos, those uncanny peace-guarding puppets who protect the galaxy in the title story. Jones' first volume is a joymaker." We are certain you will agree. 
400 pages, $4

The Heads of Cerberus: The First Alternate Universe Novel by Francis Stevens 
Published only once in book form a half-century ago in a collector's edition of 1500 copies, this great science-fantasy sells for more than $100 today. Written by the woman whose pseudonym was Francis Stevens, it has been hailed as the first alternate history novel. . Fantasy master H. P. Lovecraft hailed Francis Stevens as among "the top grade of writers." "The Heads of Cerberus" tells of "an alternate-world Philadelphia, reached by a handful of this-world people. This Philadelphia is one in which the political corruptors have become ruthless autocrats, ruling through phony "civic service" competitions which result in cynically brutal enslavement of the people. The name of William Penn has become, under the organizational label of "Penn Service," the very fountainhead of viciously depraved, doctorial government. Definitely a classic and fun to read." (Galaxy) 
350 pages, $4

TREASURE OF TARTARY can be pre-ordered from Mike Chomko for $35.
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid. 
For shipments to Canada, please add $4 to your order.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $3 ($5 for Canada) for shipping and handling.
Mike accepts cash payments (but not credit card payments) through Paypal at chomko@enter.net.
Checks and money orders can be sent to Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 
Contact Mike by email at chomko@enter.net.

New York City, 1939. Crack investigative reporter Polly Perkins unearths plans to create a violent new World of Tomorrow. Soon after, a gigantic mechanical robots are unleashed upon New York and other major cities of the world, melting out death and destruction in their wake. The call goes out to Joe Sullivan, leader of the heroic Flying Legion, to save the day. As Joe and Polly circle the globe, encountering mutant creatures, monstrous mechanical machines, and dangerous tentacles robots, they are drawn even close to the lair of the evil genius George Totenkopf. Together, they must battle the forces of the World of Tomorrow in order to save the world of today.  264 pages, ISBN: 0451411633,  $6.99.  The publisher is Onyx Books. 

SKY CAPTAIN had been set to open a week before SPIDER-MAN 2, but Sony recently announced that it was moving the web-slinging sequel up to June 29, leaving SKY CAPTAIN just four days in the spotlight.  Paramount vice chairman Rob Friedman said, "To have a window of a mere four days seemed to be wrong.  We have a great movie that the public is excited about and the media is excited about. With think it's a bigger opportunity in what is right now an extraordinarily crowded summer to put (the movie) in a less competitive situation where we will have a greater opportunity."  Friedman added that the visuals weren't a holdup.  "It would definitely have made it," he says.  But with the new date, the studio will be able to conduct extensive screenings and promote the film heavily for several months at events like Comic-Con International. SKY CAPTAIN debuts September 17th.

DOMINO LADY is about to leave for the printer.  The printer promises a two-to-three week turnaround. 
BVP had to make certain everything was in place, because those new Steranko illustrations have MANY fine screens that could fill in and turn black if not handled properly.

Subscriptions are $28 for four quarterly issues from: 
The Burroughs Bibliophiles, University of Louisville Library, Louisville, KY 40292. 

WHITE DEATH by Clive Cussler & Paul Kemprecos is now available as a mass market paperback. Kurt Austin and his partner, Joe Zavala, of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, receive a frantic call about a crew trapped inside a sunken ship off the Faroe Islands. Using cutting-edge technology, they pull off the rescue with a new submersible, only to find themselves involved with members of an environmental group and, at the same time, up against the mysterious Oceanus Corporation. 368 pages, $7.99, ISBN: 0425195457 

CONAN OF CIMMERIA Volume 2 Limited Edition By Robert E. Howard and Gary Gianni can now be pre-ordered from Bud Plant.  Visit Bud Plant's website to preview some of the Gary Gianni art from this volume and to place your order.

All three editions will be available in June/July and can be pre-ordered from The Book Palace.
Limited Edition - $221
This Edition is limited to just 1950 copies worldwide.
Artists Edition - $391
The Artists Edition is limited to just 50 copies worldwide and comes with extra preliminary drawings.
Leather Ultra Edition - $552.50
The Ultra Edition is limited to only 100 copies worldwide and is leatherbound and comes with a leather slipcase and extra preliminary drawings. 

The Limited Edition can also be pre-ordered through your local comic shop.
The Diamond Item Code is APR043231.

The mayor is going to declare Saturday, June 26, as Glenn Morris Day in Fort Collins," said Mike. "He has pledged to help support the weekend event in any way he can. And so has the director of the convention and visitors bureau. They are really excited about this event coming to Fort Collins. 

The Dum Dum will be held at the Ramada Inn, which sits just 100 yards off of Interstate 25, the busiest freeway in the entire state. It connects Fort Collins (a city of 150,000) to Denver (50 miles south) and Cheyenne, Wyoming (35 miles north). The basic rate is $59 a night for Dum Dum attendees. You can call 970-484-4660 to make your reservation. Mike also met with officials from Colorado State University, where Morris was a standout athlete in both football and track. The college officials are also excited about the event coming to Fort Collins. "Colorado State University athletic people think this is wonderful." said Mike. "They are going to promote the event on their
web site and in press releases."

The Dum Dum weekend will include showing of Glenn's Tarzan film, Tarzan's Revenge, and two other films he appeared in.  Decathlon Champion is a ten-minute short produced shortly after his gold-medal performance in the Berlin Olympics. Hold That Co-Ed is a campus comedy starring George Murphy, Joan Davis and John Barrymore. Morris plays a college football star and is seen throughout the film.

A local running club is hosting a Glenn Morris 5K run on Friday, June 25. It will begin at 6 p.m. at the South College Fieldhouse — the very spot where Glenn Morris trained for the Olympics in 1936. Dum Dum attendees will be able to walk on the indoor track where Glenn trained and see the brand new "Glenn Morris-CSU Track Hall of Fame" that has been established in the South College Fieldhouse.

The gold medal that Glenn won in '1936 in Berlin in the decathlon will be on display during the DUM DUM.  Morris Ververs, a former high school principal in Glenn's hometown of Simla, Colorado, is the custodian of the gold medal. He and Jim Larson, who served with Glenn Morris in the Navy during World War II, will both attend the convention.

Denny Miller, who played Tarzan in 1959 and starred on the TV hit series Wagon Train, will be one of the special guests in Fort Collins. He has just written his autobiography and it will be available at the DUM DUM.

A panel discussion is being planned to discuss the careers of the four Olympic athletes who played Tarzan: Johnny Weissmuller, Herman Brix, Buster Crabbe and Glenn Morris. Mike says he is working on several other major guests.  More details will be forthcoming soon. 

Schedule:
Friday June 25th: Huckster room opens at 10:00 AM, Glenn Morris 5k Run at 6:00 PM, Showing of three Morris films at 8:00PM
Saturday, June 26th: Huckster room opens at 9:00 AM, panel discussion on Olympic Tarzans, Showing of three Morris films throughout the day.
Sunday, June 27th: Farewell breakfast brunch at 8:00AM

Denny Miller

ShadowPDF:   Nothing new this week.

Blackmask Online: Nothing new this week.

Larry Estep-Online Pulps:    Now with over 400 stories online!
The Burden Paternal by Captain Dingle from ADVENTURE [March 3, 1921]
Plenty of nautical flavor in this story of a retiring sea captain and the son who seems ill-fit to succeed him.
Ropin' Genealogies by Harold Hersey from COWBOY STORIES [June 1926]
Our first poem! An east-of-the-Hudson western saga from the infamous editor/publisher of many failed pulps.
Heat From Texas by W. W. McKenna from SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES [November 1935]
A Texas badman comes to New York for a little big-city revenge (and poontang).
The Trail Trap by T.W. Ford from WESTERN ACTION [November 1943]
When the sheriff's out of towm, the deputy that no one has confidence in is called upon to investigate a murder.
Jinx Run by Scott Sumner from WINGS [Spring 1947]
The mission was plagued by bad luck until some of the crew were begging to turn back. But for one crewman, turning back was never an option. Nice story with an inspiring ending.

Unlike their previous books, these will not be "facsimile" reprints (the original books were just cheap paperbacks, after all), but all-new editions, each with new cover art by Hugo Award-winning artist Ron Miller, and a new introduction by the Author.

These books will be available individually in paperback, but available in hardcover only as a deluxe limited-edition of 250 sets, packaged in a custom slipcase, with each enclosed book individually numbered and signed by the author. Both versions will be introduced and available first at Worldcon, and author David A. Kyle will be available at our dealers' table to sign copies of the book.

Look for further details, cover art, and excerpts on the Red Jacket Press web site in the months to come.

Each title comes in three editions.
Quality Paperback: 5 by 8 inches, Perfect-Bound Binding, 
Budget Paperback:  6 by 9 inches, Perfect-bound 20-pound, cream interior paper, black and white interior ink, 
100 pound white exterior paper, full-color (CMYK) exterior 
Downloadable electronic format

Visit the ERBville Press website for more details and to place an order.

BEHIND THE MASK #68 featuring:
Candid Camera Kid in Focus on Murder by John L. Benton from THRILLING DETECTIVE [10/30]
The Black Bat in The Blue Ghost Patrol by Lester Dent from FLYING ACES [10/33]
The Griffin in The Hour Appointed by J. Allan Dunn from DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY [01/03/31]
Taxi to Trouble by George A. Starbird from DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY [12/22/34]
The Blue Ghost Patrol is reprinted through arrangement with Will Murray

DETECTIVE MYSTERY STORIES #48 featuring Poetry of Death by Tom Swoffer, This Town's for Dying by Jan Christensen, Silent Waters by David D. Jones, The Case of the Missing Poodle by Jack Cooley, The Gift Horse by Henry A. Hill, Pictures by Kenneth M. Austin, Herman Whitfield's Motive by Ricky D. Cooper, and The Range by John M. Floyd

Click here or on the images to the right for a look at larger cover images.

Each issue is 5.5 by 8.5 inches in size and runs approximately 80 pages.
One issue is $6.30 postpaid. Two or more issues are $6 each postpaid.
Not responsible for packages lost in the mail.
Insurance is $1.10 per $50.00 value and highly recommended.

Order from: 
Fading Shadows, Inc.
504 E. Morris Street
Seymour, TX 76380-2212
http://www.geocities.com/fadingshadows1/

Vintar has been hired to do the job by 20th Century Fox, who will probably make both films if the screenplays are approved. No timeline has been given for actual production yet, and no director has been named.

Girasol Collectables Inc. is pleased to announce our three new Pulp Replicas for the month of June. Anyone that purchases all three of this month's Replicas will pay a reduced price of $75 versus the actual total of $85.

We lead off the month with the next issue of TERROR TALES. The date is December 1934, issue #4.

Our second Replica this month is the April 1936 issue of SPICY ADVENTURE. This book features the Robert E. Howard (writing as Sam Walser) story She Devil.

We're also pleased to offer the scarce one-shot, CIVIL WAR STORIES. The pulp was released in the Spring of 1940, reputedly to cash in on the popularity of Gone with the Wind.

Coming Soon:  SPICY DETECTIVE #2 (First Dan Turner), SPIDER #4 and up, TERROR TALES #5 and up.

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.

Here is a complete listing of the Pulp Replicas currently available for $25 or $35 each postpaid within North America. Overseas will be a few dollars more.
CIVIL WAR STORIES ($25 each postpaid within North America)

THE OCTOPUS ($35 each postpaid within North America)
February/March 1939

ORIENTAL STORIES ($25 each postpaid within North America)
#1  (Oct./Nov. 1930) featuring the Robert E. Howard story, TheVoice of El-Lil.

THE SCORPION ($35 each postpaid within North America)
April/May 1939

SPICY ADVENTURE  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
#8   (May 1935) featuring a Great Middle Eastern motif cover
#19 (April 1936) featuring She Devil by Robert E. Howard (writing as Sam Walser) 
#22 (July 1936) featuring a Parkhurst cover
#26 (November 1936)

SPICY DETECTIVE  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
#7   (November 1934)
#10 (February 1935)
#17 (September 1935) featuring Dan Turner and a terrific HJ Ward cover
#20 (December 1935) featuring a HJ Ward cover and a Dan Turner story
#30 (October 1936) featuring an incredible, truly classic HJ Ward cover
#76 (August 1940) featuring a great HJ Ward cover, Dan Turner, Eel stories

SPICY MYSTERY  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
#2   (June 1935) featuring Fangs of the Bat
#3   (July 1935) featuring a nice Parkhurst cover
#4   (August 1935)
#8   (December 1935) featuring a nice Parkhurst cover
#10 (February 1936) featuring Batman

SPICY WESTERN  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
#14 (December 1937)  Great HJ Ward cover

THE SPIDER  ($35 each postpaid within North America)
#1  The Spider Strikes! (October 1933)
#2  The Wheel of Death (November 1933)
#3  Wings of the Black Death (December 1933)

STRANGE TALES  ($25 each postpaid within North America)
#1  (September 1931)
#2  (November 1931)
#3  (January 1932) featuring Wolves of Darkness by Jack Williamson
#4  (March 1932)
#5  (June 1932)
#6  (October 1932) Famous 'Worm Monster' cover
#7  (January 1933)

TERROR TALES  ($35 each postpaid within North America)
#1 (September 1934)
#2 (October 1934)
#3 (November 1934)
#4 (December 1934)

WEIRD TALES  ($35 each postpaid within North America)
#1   March 1923
Available in 2 cover choices: the 'regular' cover, or the recently discovered 'rarer' version. 
Exactly the same, except the black and orange of the cover illustration are switched.
#2   April 1923
#5   July/August 1923
#9   December 1923/January 1924 
#10 February 1924
#12 April 1924

Email Girasol Collectables at: girasol@interlog.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 Glen Erin Drive, Apt. 1409, Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L 2E9

Visit http://www.howardhopkins.com/page4.htm to download Golden Perils #33 today.

The SRP is $19.97.

Gryphon Books is proud to release the latest 3 books in our ongoing historic publishing program which will bring out the entire 26 book series of Golden Amazon novels by John Russell Fearn. These classic science fiction pulp adventures feature a female Doc Savage type-hero in spine-tingling sense-of-wonder pulp thrillers. 
#18: Kingpin Planet
#19: World In Reverse
#20: Dwellers In Darkness
All 3 books are available now in attractive trade paperbacks at $15 each + postage.
All 20 Golden Amazon books are currently in stock, $15 per copy + postage

Media Mail is $2.00 for 1st book and 50 cents each additional book. 
Priority Mail is $4.00 for 1st book and $1.00 each additional book.

Visit the Gryphon Books website at http://www.gryphonbooks.com/index.html

Joseph Clement Coll defined the look of adventure illustration. No one has ever captured the menace of the Devil Doctor or Athelstan King’s journeys into mystic lands the way Coll did. The struggle between the gallant Sir Denis Nayland Smith and his arch-nemesis the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu in Sax Rohmer’s classic sagas breathe and move on the page. Every nuance of form and fantasy one could imagine is evoked in Talbot Mundy’s incredible tale of intrigue, King of the Khyber Rifles. These epic encounters of heroes and villains locked in combat make up only a small portion of the nearly 250 illustrations in this — the largest collection of Joseph Clement Coll’s art ever produced.

This lost and forgotten art has now been collected in Flesk Publications’ 208 page, Joseph Clement Coll: A Legacy in Line. Most of the 235 black & white and 15 color pieces in this second volume on Coll have been reprinted for the first time in decades. Many of these illustrations have been shot from the original drawings — including eight sketches that have never been reproduced. Here are incredible illustrations by one of the world’s greatest artists at the pinnacle of his career. It is art so expressive, so powerful that it will grab you and drag you wholly into whatever world Coll’s imagination, and pen, chooses to go to next.

The deluxe edition is limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by the publisher, John Fleskes, and contributors Nick Meglin and Gary Gianni, on an extra bonus color plate, reproducing a previously unpublished sketch by Joseph Clement Coll.

208 pages, 8.5"x 11", 250 illustrations
192 pages in black and white, 16 pages in full color.
$19.95 softbound trade edition, ISBN 0-9723758-3-X
$39.95 hardbound edition, ISBN 0-9723758-4-8
$49.95 hardbound limited edition to 300 copies, ISBN 0-9723758-5-6

Visit the Flesk Publications website to order.

Joseph Clement Coll: A Legacy in Line is also available from Mike Chomko.
Mike Chomko ordering information:
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid. 
For shipments to Canada, please add $4 to your order.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $3 ($5 for Canada) for shipping and handling.
Mike accepts cash payments (but not credit card payments) through Paypal at chomko@enter.net.
Checks and money orders can be sent to Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 
Contact Mike by email at chomko@enter.net.

Originally released in 1952 from Gnome Press, JUDGMENT NIGHT collects five Moore novellas from the pages of editor John W. Campbell, Jr.’s ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION magazine. Chosen by the author herself as the best of her longer-form writing, these stories show a gifted wordsmith working at the height of her talents: JUDGMENT NIGHT (first published in August and September, 1943) balances a lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss; “The Code” (July, 1945) pays homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread; “Promised Land” (February, 1950) and “Heir Apparent” (July, 1950) both document the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system; and “Paradise Street” (September, 1950) shows a futuristic take on the old western conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers. Except for “Judgment Night,” all of these pieces were originally published under the pen name Lawrence O’Donnell.

JUDGMENT NIGHT is 352 pages for $39.95.
Each limited edition "facsimile" reprint volume is a complete reproduction of the original first edition, and includes a full-color dust jacket, protective slipcase, and biographical information about the author.

CHILDREN OF THE ATOM by Wilmar Shiras, also featuring material from ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION magazine, will ship at the same time. Originally published by Gnome Press in 1953, 224 Pages, $39.95. 

All Red Jacket Press titles are available from Pathway Book Service at 1-800-345-6665.

The Lone Ranger statue is produced by Electric Tiki Design.
You can order and view a much larger image on the Electric Tiki Design website.

Now available for pre-order is the Electric Tiki Design website/Comic Con exclusive Retro-Lone Ranger as he first appeared in his red shirt/black pants combo! This special edition will be limited to 200 pieces with half that amount being reserved for the San Diego Comic Con this July! Limit is 2 per customer. There is no retailer discount on this item as it is an exclusive!  Expected delivery date is  July/August 2004!
 

THE COMPLEAT MOON MAN by Frederick C. Davis 
The Moon Man was Stephen Thatcher, the son of the city police chief, Peter Thatcher. Stephen was a 25-year-old police Sergeant with what seemed to be a normal life, including a fiancee (the gutsy Sue McEwen, an amateur sleuth who often got involved in the Moon Man’s cases) and friends. But at night he put on a domed helmet (with one-way Argus glass) and a long black cloak and did the Robin Hood thing, robbing from the criminals to pay the poor.  This two volume set will include all of the Moon Man stories ever published.  The price is $175. 

Click here or on the image at the right for a larger image.

Lost Treasures from the Pulps can be ordered from: 
The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, PO Box 204, Shelburne, Ontario Canada L0N 1S0.
For inquiries and orders, contact George A. Vanderburgh, Publisher
email: gav@bmts.com     FAX: 519-925-3482

Lost Treasures from the Pulps are also available from Mike Chomko.
Mike Chomko ordering information:
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid. 
For shipments to Canada, please add $4 to your order.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $3 ($5 for Canada) for shipping and handling.
Mike accepts cash payments (but not credit card payments) through Paypal at chomko@enter.net.
Checks and money orders can be sent to Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 
Contact Mike by email at chomko@enter.net.

Click here for information on upcoming Lost Treasures from the Pulps

This highly sought after collection of horror stories has been unavailable since its first appearance in 1889. This new edition features a scholarly essay on Muddock by Bram Stoker Award-winning editor John Pelan and gathers together these outstanding stories of the macabre that have previously been found only in the original volume or in scarce anthologies. This book marked an important turning point in the development of the modern ghost story and is a must for any serious collection of weird fiction. With wenty-three chilling tales spanning over three-hundred pages, there are many hours of chilling reading ahead. Midnight House is dedicated to the preservation of classic horror and weird fiction in handsome, inexpensive editions. Printings are limited to 500 numbered casebound copies with sewn signatures. THE SHINING HAND AND OTHER TALES OF TERROR features a striking cover by noted artist Allen Koszowski.

The retail price for this hardcover edition is $40.
It can be ordered direct from the publisher, Midnight House, or from Mike Chomko.
Mike Chomko ordering information:
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid. 
For shipments to Canada, please add $4 to your order.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $3 ($5 for Canada) for shipping and handling.
Mike accepts cash payments (but not credit card payments) through Paypal at chomko@enter.net.
Checks and money orders can be sent to Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 
Contact Mike by email at chomko@enter.net.

Hounds Of Hell by Ron Fortier & Gordon Linzner with spot illustrations provided by Rob Davis, Jim Schumaker and Bradley Walton is a classic pulp tale in 29 chapters.  Chapter 25, Deadly Ivy, is now available on the Modern Pulp website. Visit the Modern Pulp website at http://www.modernpulp.com/ to read this new adventure.

Hounds Of Hell is copyright © 2003 Ron Fortier and Gordon Linzner.

The Phantom: Valley of the Golden Men 
Written by Tom DeFalco and illustrated by Art Nichols, Terry Pallot, and Lou Manna with a cover by Joel Naprstek.  An airplane crashes in Bangalla, carrying both a much needed vaccine AND Diana Walker. THE PHANTOM wastes no time making his way onto the scene, but a tribe of unusual natives find his quarry first!  The "Golden Men" of whispered legend hold both medicine and Mrs.Phantom as a prize in a bloody competition "The Ghost Who Walks" must be victorious in.  But closing in quick are the Singh pirates, hungry for the riches the vaccine will fetch on the black market!  48pgs, color, squarebound, self-contained, $6.95 

Visit Moonstone Books on the web at http://www.moonstonebooks.com/

Contents include:
•Solomon Kane cover by Charles Keegan
•Inside front and back covers by Stephen Fabian
•Back cover by Gene Day
•"Under the Baobab Tree" by Robert E. Howard, Illustration by Ken Raney
•"The Vengeance Sword of the Norman-Gael" by Damon C. Sasser, Illustration by Bill Cavalier
•"Red Nails: A Conan Portfolio" by Gene Day
•"Dreams Darker than Night: Reflections on Drugs and Writing" by Karl Edward Wagner
•"Sheathed in a Virgin's Skin or the Desires of Man?: Booking Passage on the Mythos Train of Thought" by Benjamin Szumskyj, Illustration by Bill Cavalier
•Other illustrations by Arnold Fenner and Fred Bobb

Price is $12.75 ($9.95 + 2.80 for postage and handling).

A set of preliminary sketches were done by Charles Keegan in preparation for the cover drawing Charles is doing for REH: Two-Gun Raconteur #6.  These are his first attempts at drawing Solomon Kane and he is putting a tremendous amount of work and research into the finished drawing.
Visit the Black Coast Press Yahoo Group to view the sketches. 

REH: Two-Gun Raconteur #5 is also still available for $12 postpaid.
Contents include:
Cover by Stephen Fabian
Inside Front and Back Covers by Arnold Fenner
Back Cover by Ken Raney
“A Horror in the Night” by Robert E.  Howard, illustrated by Don Herron
“The Sins of Our Tastes, the Sins of Our Trade” by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, illustrated by Jeff Easley
“El Dios Diabólico de Tlasceltec” by Damon C. Sasser, illustrated by Fred Bobb
“Almuric Folio” by Stephen Fabian
“Two Against the Post Office” by Keith Taylor
“Fists of Cross Plains” by Charles R. Saunders, illustrated by Gene Day
“Was Robert E. Howard a Hack?” by Darrell Schweitzer, illustrated by Greg Vander Leon

Order from and make checks and money orders payable to:
Damon C. Sasser
905 Littleport Lane
Channelview, Texas 77530

Payment also accepted via PayPal through dcsasser@yahoo.com

It's no secret that a hefty helping of Robert Bloch's fiction remains unreprinted or uncollected since its original publication in pulp magazines, digests and anthologies of original stories. What many readers don't know is how good much of this fiction is. These stories run the full gamut of genres for which Bloch wrote--fantasy, horror, science fiction, mystery--and all showcase Bloch's inimitable style. We can't presume to know why Bloch never collected them in his lifetime, even though he sanctioned the reprinting of some in anthologies. Possibly, he felt they didn't fit the scheme of specific books. Regardless, the stories provide interesting snapshots of Bloch's career at the time they were written, and the evolution of story markets where they appeared.

Subterranean Press's The Reader's Bloch series was conceived to give these stories a well-deserved nesting place. It is currently planned to run to two, possibly three volumes, containing approximately fifty stories spanning Bloch's career from the late 1930s to the early 1990s. The series will stand independent of The Lost Bloch series, which concentrated primarily on novella and short-novel length works, but readers who enjoyed those volumes will find the same fun and thrills in these books. Currently, we've planned a volume devoted primarily to science fiction, and another primarily to horror. When you're talking Robert Bloch, however, genre categories have little meaning. Several of the science fiction stories Bloch contributed to AMAZING, STARTLING STORIES, FANTASTIC ADVENTURES and other pulps would have fit comfortably into any of his horror collections. Likewise some of crime stories he contributed to DIME MYSTERY, DETECTIVE TALES and MAMMOTH  MYSTERY. Most of the latter were never reprinted, and more's the pity since they show Bloch mastering the hardboiled idiom and dealing with ghoulish themes that chart a line of direct descent from his early horror tales to the psychological suspense novels and stories that became his trademark in the 1950s and '60s. 

Only 750 copies of this first volume are being done, so get your reservations in now.
The limited edition retails for $40 and the lettered edition retails for $150.
Visit the Subterranean Press website for complete details and to order.

While in Cross Plains Bob will be giving the keynote address at the annual Howard Days Banquet, a 20 minute speech entitled “Sacred Ground: My Life With Robert E. Howard”. He’ll also be sitting on several panels expounding on all things Howard, and several of his Howard books will be available at the Robert E. Howard museum for you to purchase and get signed. It’s not every day that Howard fans get to meet and mingle with such a longstanding icon of Howard fandom. 2004 is shaping up to be the best Howard Days ever, with more to see and do than ever before, so be sure to make your reservations early.

In anticipation of Bob’s forthcoming appearance, Project Pride presents here a comprehensive interview conducted especially for this occasion. See y’all in June!  http://www.rehupa.com/weinberg_interview.htm

For more information, visit http://www.rehupa.com/news_2004.htm#04-03-2004

Request Diamond Item Code APR043151 at your comic shop or order online at http://spectrummagazines.bizland.com/.

The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue. The SRP is $19.97.
Bo Derek ....  Jane 
Richard Harris ....  Parker 
John Phillip Law ....  Holt 
Miles O'Keeffe ....  Tarzan 
Directed by John Derek.

Request Diamond Item Code OCT032925.

THE GRAND CHAM by Harold Lamb
THE GRAND CHAM, by Harold Lamb, originally published in ADVENTURE magazine in 1922 but never before in book form, is a real page-turner; a grand story of revenge that begins in the camp of the Turkish lord, Bayezid, but quickly moves on to Venice, the deck of a galley, an overland caravan, and the tent of Tamerlane the Great, amongst many other places. When hero Micheal Bearn is crippled by Bayezid, he vows vengeance and escapes captivity, surviving when his companions fall, which serves only to strengthen his resolve. Barefoot, injured, and peniless in the land of his enemies shortly after the story opens, he lives to see his fortunes turn, and, most importantly, his vow fulfilled. This is the first book publication of THE GRAND CHAM, with introduction by Howard Jones. Hardcover - $35.00.

ADVENTURE TALES #1 - See the cover at the right. Click here for details.

All books are available from the publisher at: http://www.wildsidepress.com/

Wildside Press titles are also available from Mike Chomko.
Mike Chomko ordering information:
Orders over $30 are discounted 10% and shipped postpaid. 
For shipments to Canada, please add $4 to your order.
Orders under $30 are no discount and add $3 ($5 for Canada) for shipping and handling.
Mike accepts cash payments (but not credit card payments) through Paypal at chomko@enter.net.
Checks and money orders can be sent to Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542 
Contact Mike by email at chomko@enter.net.