Blood 'N' Thunder #2 is a Halloween horror issue. Pulp Page to Silver Screen takes a look at the 1939 movie RETURN OF DR. X, which was adapted from a short novel that appeared in DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY. From the Top Shelf examines a 1942 issue of G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES in which the Flying Spy tangles with a zombie master. Tricks of the Trade reprints a 1931 WRITER'S DIGEST article dispensing tips for selling horror stories to WEIRD TALES, STRANGE TALES, MIND MAGIC, GHOST STORIES, et al. 

The feature article, Unholy Jitters, explores the sexy and sadistic weird-menace pulps published by Martin Goodman's Red Circle group. To accompany this study—which includes extensive excerpts from the most twisted stories—we've reprinted the covers of all 17 weird-menace issues (nine MYSTERY TALES, five UNCANNY TALES, two REAL MYSTERY, and two MARVEL TALES), five of them in color. There's also a one-page montage of Red Circle interior illustrations. Staying on topic, the Blood 'n' Thunder Reprint revisits Arthur J. Burks' Mates for the Morgue Master, a 1939 MYSTERY TALES yarn that deals with necrophilia.

This issue contains 40 pages, with front and back covers printed in full color on card stock. 
Single copies are $6.00 postpaid. 
Four issue subscriptions are available for $20.
Send a check (payable to Ed Hulse) to the Mountain Club, Bldg 15, Apt 4B, Morris Plains, NJ 07950. 
More copies of #1 were sold than anticipated, but some copies are still available. 
If you missed out, order one now; supplies are limited. 

Click here or on the image to the right for a larger picture of the front cover and the back cover.

Blood 'N' Thunder #3 will also reprint most if not all of the covers of the original French-language first editions of the "Fantomas" novels. They are beautifully garish paintings, very much like American pulp covers. All 32 books in the original series are available for scanning purposes, and most of the covers are in excellent shape. 

The Blood 'N' Thunder reprint will be a 1936 WRITER'S DIGEST piece—not a how-to article, mind you, but a satirical short story by Richard Sale about writing a mystery-man pulp a la The Spider. It has lots of "inside" references.

Finally, Blood 'N' Thunder #3 will debut a regular department devoted to serials. The department will cover silent and 
early sound serials that haven't been done to death. The initial installment will focus on the serial screen's first mystery-man hero, "The Laughing Mask," who appeared in the 1916 Pearl White chapterplay, THE IRON CLAW. 
Only a portion of the serial itself survives.  However, a complete copy of the novelization, which ran episodically in newspapers but was never released in hardcover has survived. It was credited to Arthur Stringer, whose fiction appeared in early pulps like THE POPULAR MAGAZINE. You can expect some excerpts and some of the illustrations in addition to original ads for the serial and possibly some stills.

Issue #4 is already in the works and will be available in April at the Windy City Show. 

Contact Ed Hulse (bloodnthunder@hotmail.com) if you're interested in advertising. 
Ads of all sizes, including classifieds, are being accepted.  Subscribers get free classifieds of up to 40 words.

Subscriptions are $28 for four quarterly issues from: 
The Burroughs Bibliophiles,  University of Louisville Library, Louisville, KY 40292. 
Single issues are available from Weinberg Books (847-570-5919) for $7 each plus shipping.

Conan of Cimmeria Volume 1 contains the following stories: The Phoenix and the Sword, The Frost Giant’s Daughter, The God in the Bowl, The Tower of the Elephant, The Scarlet Citadel, Black Colossus, Xuthal of the Dusk, The Pool of the Black One, Rogues in the House, The Vale of Lost Women, Iron Shadows of the Moon, Queen of the Black Coast, and The Devil in Iron.

Conan of Cimmeria Volume 1 is available in three editions:
Signed and Numbered Slipcased Limited Edition of 1950 - $195
Artists Edition limited to 100 copies - $270
     The Artist's Edition includes additional preliminary drawings
Ultra limited deluxe edition limited to 100 copies - $390
     The Ultra limited deluxe edition is leatherbound and comes with an extra colour plate and additional preliminary drawings.

The exact release date has not yet been announced.
The Book Palace is now accepting advance orders for Conan of Cimmeria Volume 1.
Visit their website at http://www.bookpalace.com/.

Conan of Cimmeria Volume 1 will be available from Bud Plant and Diamond Comic Distributors in the U.S.

Robert E. Howard's Horror - $5.95
Robert E. Howard's Myth Maker - $6.95
Robert E. Howard's Biography - $14.95
Robert E. Howard's Wolfshead - $6.95
Worms of the Earth - $9.95

Visit Bud Plant Comic Art to order these titles.

The site is also going to be offering two new anthologies THE GHOSTBREAKERS: DARK BEGINNINGS (public domain stories from 1841 to 1917) and THE GHOSTBREAKERS: NEW HORRORS, an e-anthology edited by G. W. Thomas & Danielle Naibert

Wanted: stories in the ghostbreaker tradition (John Silence, Jules DeGrandin, X-Files,  Kolchak the Nightstalker, Ghostbusters) – we’re not looking for pastiches but new and creative cases from today’s brightest writers. Setting does not have to be modern. Stories should be between 2000-10,000 wrds. (5000-6000 preferred).  There will be 10 spots in this anthology. Deadline: January 31, 2003. All writers receive an equal 10% of royalities. 
E-rights only – free to publish in print elsewhere. No reprints without permission. No copyrighted characters. 
E-Subs only. Send to: genrenews@hotmail.com. No attachments, embedded in an email. 

This anthology will appear along side THE GHOSTBREAKERS: DARK BEGINNINGS (1841-1913) and possible sequel anthologies. 

Peter the Brazen first appeared as a continuing character in ARGOSY in 1918-1919 in a series of novelets and one novel as a dashing radio operator working on ships on the China run.  In these adventures, Peter Moore fights a powerful Chinese warlord known as the Gray Mandarin.  The series was published in an edited-down version as a
book in 1922 called PETER THE BRAZEN, the nickname given to Peter for his heroic acts performed with no fear. 
At the end of the novel, Peter returns to the USA and a peaceful life.

Then, ten years later, in 1930, Peter returns to the orient.  He's now a lot smarter and much more of a soldier of fortune working for the big power companies of the time.  Peter's in search of the Holy Grail of the 1920's and 1930's - the secret of wireless transmission of energy - and he's convinced some Chinese super scientist has the answer.  Right away, Peter meets Susan, a madcap heiress looking for excitement in her life.  Peter loves Susan and she loves him, but she's more concerned about having a wild time then settling down.  Peter and Susan appear in 13 stories from 1930 - 1935.

More recent Peter the Brazen reprints are:
Cave of the Blue Scorpion wasreprinted in Famous Pulp Classics #1 from FAX Collectors Editionsin 1975.
The Sapphire Death wasreprinted in Pulp Vault #1 and #2 from Tattered Pages Press in 1988.
The Octopus of Hong Kong was reprinted in It's Raining Corpses in Chinatown from Starmont House in 1991.
That Cargo of Opium was reprinted in Behind the Mask #21 from Fading Shadows in 1993.

Possible candidates for future reprint collections are:
Singapore Sammy by George F. Worts
The Minions series by William Gray Beyer
The entire Dean detective series 
The entire Green Lama series
Otis Adelbert Kline's Mars and Venus novels at their full length, double the size they ever appeared in paperback.

Order from Fading Shadows for $15.95 postpaid. 
All orders to Fading Shadows will be autographed by Tom Johnson. 
Contact Fading Shadows Inc., 504 East Morris Street, Seymour, Texas 76380-2212, email: fadingshadows@juno.com

Tarzan's son Jack (Korak to the apes) is kidnapped from England by Tarzan's old enemy Paulovich. He escapes into the African jungle with the help of Paulovich's trained ape Akut. There he meets Meriem, a white girl held by Arabs. He frees her and falls in love. Meriem (who is really an heiress) is sought by Paulovich. Tarzan arrives with Jane at his African estate and intervenes. 
The serial was edited by Edgar Rice Burroughs himself in 1920.

Video Specialists International hopes to make available a commercial version of the serial.
If you can help, contact Video Specialists International at 182-V Jackson Street, Dallas, PA, 717-675-0227.

Three Swords of Zorro (1963, 92 min.) - The great masked sword fighter returns in this period adventure drama. In 1830, Zorro (Guy Stockwell) decides that he needs a bit of help in battling no-goodnicks in Old California, so he begins teaching the fine art of swordsmanship to his son and daughter. When Zorro is thrown into jail by a crooked governor, it's up to his children to free Zorro from bondage and show the bad guys the error of their ways. The Three Swords of Zorro also starred Gloria Milland and Franco Fantasia. 

The Limited Edition is still available and has 16 additional pages of full-color paintings, several previously unpublished, a signature plate and slipcase, none of which are in the $35 trade edition. The Limited Edition is already close to being out of print.  Hardcover, 9X12, 191 pages for $100. 

The Art of Jeffrey Jones is published by Underwood Books.
The limited and trade editions can be purchased from Bud Plant Comic Art.

"The Courtyard was my attempt to write a story within the mythology of H.P. Lovecraft that did not try to regurgitate Lovecraft's style," says creator Alan Moore. "It was an attempt to write a Lovecraftian story that was set in what was then the near future rather than in a Lovecraftian Era.  As such, I thought it was a very successful story and it has always been a little favorite of mine in terms of my horror output.  I am looking forward a great deal to seeing what Jacen does with the Avatar version."

Comic Book Marketplace is available in comic shops and from Bud Plant Comic Art.
Bud Plant has not listed this issue as being in stock as of this date.
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This collection reprints eight adventures including Legions of the Dead, Shadows in the Dark, The Ivory Goddess, and Moon of Blood. There is also a map of Conan's world and an essay on the character by L. Sprague De Camp.

Patrick appeared on dozens of shows spanning four decades of television, ranging from Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and Kojak to All in the Family, Eight is Enough and Coach.  Patrick also played businessman Vaughn Lelend, a competitor of the Ewing family and a suspect in the famed "Who Shot J.R.?" episode, on the CBS drama Dallas and appeared in two different roles on the gothic daytime serial Dark Shadows.

According to career background posted by the Internet Movie Database, Patrick also had a notable role as television's first vampire in a 1951 episode of the short-lived mystery and suspense anthology series, Stage 13.

THE PHANTOM: THE HUNT
Written by Ben Raab, art by Lou Manna, colored by Matt Webb, cover by Joel Naprstek. 
The Phantom follows the trail of jewel-thieving pirates into a most dangerous adventure. An old foe comes forth to put every skill The Phantom has to the test. Trapped on a Madman's island, the chance of his survival looks as slim as Satan's smile. He must fight sharks with his hands and feet- he must gain the trust of a beautiful woman- and he must prevail through all of this to an explosion conclusion. 

48 pages, full color, $6.95

Moonstone continues its new line of crime books. Moonstone shines it's dark glow on the old time radio drama "the Mysterious Traveler", and offers up a new "phase" on a creepy classic. On a midnight train to nowhere, a man needs
to hear your story. He's a mysterious traveler and where you're headed is the mystery he's destined to solve. On this ride, sit with a man who burned with an intense desire for a beautiful woman, and was willing to do whatever it took to fulfill that need. Like putting out a fire with gasoline, it just makes things worse. Listen to his mad tale, as he rides the rails to his final destination. One way ticket...to nowhere. 

48 pages, black and white, $5.50. 

In the second mystery, A Case of Blind Fear, strange occurrences are plaguing 1895 London. A fruit vender sees an apple suspended in mid-air like a balloon, a clerk encounters a ghostly apparition, only its skeleton and internal organs visible, and a large quality of obscure drugs has been stolen from several London chemists. Then there began the murders. Murders that no one seemed to commit. Was it a plague of hallucinations or was London truly haunted by a monstrous unseen evil? The Great Detective is called into the case by Scotland Yard itself to uncover the horror and mystery of the Invisible Man. 

216 pages, black and white, $18.95. 

Moonstone Books are available from Ed Bond Books after publication. 

Richard Wentworth--whose grim, anti-crime crusades as the SPIDER have made him world-famous--was the first objective in the Poison Master's murder campaign. His best friend, Kirkpatrick, lay in a death-like stupor. His beloved, Nita van Sloan, was stricken with the horrible living death! And at the same time, countless thousands were felled by the same fatal venom.... Caught in the crossfire between the Law and the Underworld, the SPIDER must battle the blind apathy of a nation ensnared in a subtle death-trap--must overcome the despair in his own brave heart!

Visit the Vintage Library website at http://www.vintagelibrary.com/ or click on the link above to go directly to the Spider page.

TARZAN OF THE APES by Edgar Rice Burroughs 
Edgar Rice Burroughs' first classic Tarzan story, in a beautifully-produced new edition, with new introduction. 
324 pages, Library (Jacketless) Hardcover,  ISBN: 1-58715-617-2, $29.95 

THE REMARKABLE EXPLOITS OF LANCELOT BIGGS: SPACEMAN by Nelson S. Bond 
He was the nicest, most helpful spaceman on the Venus cargo run and just happened to be the biggest menace 
in all of space!  A classic science fiction novel, originally published in science fiction pulp magazines in the 1950s. 
Still a lot of fun and better than much of what is being published today. 
228 pages, Trade Paperback, ISBN: 1-58715-154-5,  $15.00

"Ghosts!  Ha-ha-ha-ha -- there ain't no such thing!"  From the wreck of a crashed D.H. Came those strange words - words spoken with mad laughter by a dying Yank.  What had he seen in German skies that had turned him insane with fright?  Had a "ghost" wiped out the rest of his patrol?  Grimly G-8 and his buddies seek the answer down a haunted cloud trail.

The Skeleton Patrol was originally published in March 1934.
$9.95 plus $2.50 shipping (Media Mail)  for a single copy. 

Publication is planned for early next spring and should debut at the 3rd Windy City Pulp & Paperback Convention which runs the first weekend in April. 

This is a hardcover publication, 12" X 9", 400 plus images, 200 pages for $40.
Visit the Adventure House website for the latest information.

Since the beginning of his existence, man has used imagination to create magical worlds that would transport him beyond the borders of reality. Art of Imagination is a trilogy consisting of the award winning Illustrated History series Science Fiction of the 20th Century (Year 2000 Hugo Award Winner), Horror of the 20th Century (Bram Stoker Award nominee), Fantasy of the 20th Century (groundbreaking new look into the art of fantasy), creating the ultimate collection. 

Hardcover with jacket, 10"x 13", 768 pages, over 1300 full-color images, ISBN: 1-888054-72-7,  $99.95
Introduction by Frank M. Robinson

Duck Dodgers was created by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese in the classic 1953 Merrie Melodies short. 
The new series is created, written and directed by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone with Paul Dini (Batman the Animated Series) and Tom Minton serving as producers and writers.  In the new show, Duck Dodgers (Daffy Duck) is a hapless soul who was accidentally frozen inside a spacecraft in the 21st century and thawed out 351 years later. Through his scheming and lies, Duck has convinced the Earth's Defensive Protectorate that he is a hero from the 21st century and has been given a starship and crew - an adoring and eager young Space Cadet (Porky Pig).  Together they form a "galactic force" that must team up against Earth's major foe, Mars, and its Martian Commander X-2 (played by Marvin the Martian).  Each episode will revolve around Duck Dodgers' adventures, blundering successes and "day-saving" defeats.

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

H. P. LOVECRAFT: LETTERS TO ALFRED GALPIN  Edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
February 2003: 0-9673215-9-X: Paper, $15.00
Lovecraft's fascinating letters to his friend Alfred Galpin are collected for the first time, with introduction and footnotes by the editors. Galpin, a fellow member with Lovecraft of the United Amateur Press Association, later assisted Clark Ashton Smith with both his translations from Baudelaire and his attempts at original composition of poetry in French. A full selection of Galpin's own poetry and prose, long unavailable, is included as an appendix.

OUT OF THE ORDINARY: NOTES ON WRITING WEIRD FICITON By H. P. Lovecraft
Edited by David E. Schultz
April 2003: 0-9673215-6-5: Paper, $15.00
This annotated volume will contain all of Lovecraft's "commonplace book" plus all his other writings on the craft of weird fiction, including Lovecraft material published here for the first time. 

COLLECTED ESSAYS I: AMATEUR JOURNALISM By H. P. Lovecraft, 
Edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
June 2003: 0-9721644-1-3: Hardcover $40.00
The first volume in our massive series of Lovecraft's Collected Essays, CE1 will run approximately 400 pages, with introduction, extensive footnotes and scholarly apparatus by the editors.

THE THIRST OF SATAN: POETICAL WORKS OF GEORGE STERLING  Edited by S. T. Joshi
August 2003: 0-9721644-6-4: Paper, $15.00
Once hailed by Ambrose Bierce as the future "poet of the skies, prophet of the suns," George Sterling is best remembered today as mentor of the young Clark Ashton Smith. Sterling's best poetical work, compared to that of Spenser, Milton and Keats during his lifetime but now undeservedly forgotten, finds its renaissance in this new edition.

COLOURS OUT OF SPACE: ESSAYS ON H. P. LOVECRAFT By S. T. Joshi
October 2003: 0-9721644-0-5: Paper, $15.00
Acclaimed Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi's best pieces on H. P. Lovecraft are collected for the first time in one volume, resulting in an exciting tour-de-force for fans and scholars alike. 

Among the highlights of the issue will be a 20,000+ word history of BLUE BOOK by Mike Ashley and a previously unpublished Cyrus North novelette by Donald Wandrei.

Tentatively, the story will follow Kane to colonial America that will pull together various elements from Howard’s Kane stories. As can be expected, given the character’s creation and history, Kane will face off against both human and supernatural forces as the Puritan adventurer seeks to revenge himself upon the shapeshifting sorcerer who killed his family. 

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Visit the ThrillerUK website at http://www.thrilleruk.fsnet.co.uk/index.htm

This book contains 49 pages of Gene Colan's pencil art (un-inked) from the story The Bat Man.
Each page is a full page panel. 
The remaining pages reproduce the cover from Death Reign of the Vampire King (black & white), the contents page, four interior pages with John Fleming Gould illustrations, and one page with four reduced interior pages with John Fleming Gould illustrations.

The comic is 64 pages, black and white for $5.  Click here or on the image to the right for a preview.

Also in this issue are stories of The Durango Kid by Fred Guardineer, The Haunted Horseman by Dick Ayers, 
Tom Mix by Carl Pfeufer and Redmask of the Rio Grande by Frank Bolle.

This is a 44 page, black and white comic for $6.95. 
This item can be pre-ordered through your local comic shop. 
Request Diamond Item Code OCT022267.
It will be available from AC Comics online after publication.

EYES OF THE GOD: THE WEIRD FICTION AND POETRY OF R. H. BARLOW 
Edited by S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz and Douglas A. Anderson 
November 2002: ISBN 0-9673215-4-9: Paperback: $15.00
R. H. Barlow (1918-1951) was in every way a remarkable individual. An enthusiast of fantasy and horror fiction since childhood, he came in touch with H. P. Lovecraft when he was only 13. He was already attempting to write short fantasy tales, and Lovecraft took onsiderable pains to tutor Barlow in the principles of fiction writing. This volume, which for the first time gathers Barlow's substantial body of weird fiction and poetry, contains all six of Barlow's collaborations with Lovecraft, including such celebrated works as The Battle That Ended the Century and The Night Ocean (which new research has shown to be almost entirely Barlow's work). Barlow went on to write superb short stories without Lovecraft's assistance, including A Dim-Remembered Story, The Root-Gatherers, and Return by Sunset. In the 1940s, when Barlow moved to Mexico (where he became a noted anthropologist), he turned to poetry, producing such scintillating volumes as Poems for a Competition (1942) and View from a Hill (1947). Barlow's life was tragically cut short by suicide, but this volume shows that he had already fulfilled the promise of his early work by producing tales of a substance, maturity, and depth that few of Lovecraft's colleagues could match. The gathering together of his collected weird fiction and poetry is an event that should be welcomed by all lovers of the weird and 
fantastic.

FROM THE PEST ZONE: THE NEW YORK STORIES, by H. P. Lovecraft
Edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz
December 2002: 0-9673215-8-1: Paperback: $15.00
This volume contains exhaustively annotated editions of The Shunned House, The Horror at Red Hook, He, In the Vault, and Cool Air. While some of these stories are available in annotated form elsewhere, the new volume will be much more thorough in its critical appraisal of the tales. It also will feature a new introduction, examining the circumstances surrounding Lovecraft's creation of each story, and featuring illuminating excerpts from Lovecraft's letters.

OUT OF THE ORDINARY: THE COMMONPLACE BOOK & OTHER WRITINGS by H. P. Lovecraft
Edited by David E. Schultz
February 2003: ISBN 0-9673215-6-5: Paperback: $15.00
This annotated volume will contain all of Lovecraft's "commonplace book" plus his other writings on the craft of weird fiction, including Lovecraft material published here for the first time. 

Contact Hippocampus Press, P.O. Box 641, New York, NY 10156, 
Phone: 212-681-9120, Fax: 212-681-9126.
Visit the Hippocampus Press website at http://www.hippocampuspress.com/

Special Features (DVD only) include Actor Bios & Filmographies, Photo Gallery, and Serial Trailers.
2 Disc Set (DVD-5 & 9), Dolby Digital Mono, Region 0, Macrovision
12 chapters, 232 minutes, B/W, 1936

Order online at the VCI Entertainment website or call 800-331-4077.
Jungle Jim is available on DVD or VHS for $29.99.

Click here or on the image to the right for a preview.

Moonstone Books can be ordered online from their website at http://www.moonstonebooks.com/.
They can also be ordered online from Ed Bond Books at http://members.aol.com/pulpadventures/home.html. 
For snail mail orders:  Ed Bond Books, PO Box 45495, Madison, WI 53744 or FAX: 608-241-3004.
Ed Bond Books shipping is $3 Media Mail for the first book. Add .50 cents for each additional book.
Ed Bond Books has offered a discounted price on previous Moonstone titles. 
Check their website to verify the price before ordering.

Moonstone Books can be ordered online from their website at http://www.moonstonebooks.com/.
They can also be ordered online from Ed Bond Books at http://members.aol.com/pulpadventures/home.html. 
For snail mail orders: Ed Bond Books, PO Box 45495, Madison, WI 53744 or FAX: 608-241-3004.
Ed Bond Books shipping is $3 Media Mail for the first book. Add .50 cents for each additional book.
Ed Bond Books has offered a discounted price on previous Moonstone titles. 
Check their website to verify the price before ordering.

Barnes & Noble reviewer Bill Sheehan had this to say about the book:
"After briefly touching on Bradbury's boyhood, formative influences, and seminal exposure to SF fandom, Wiest embarks on a profusely illustrated tour of a multifaceted career in the verbal and visual arts. In the process, he addresses Bradbury's primary vocation as a writer of fiction; his long association with the world of comics; his passionate involvement in film, theater, and television; and his lesser-known work as an enthusiastic amateur painter. Textual highlights include an illuminating exchange of letters with EC Comics founder William Gaines, and François Truffaut's log on the filming of Fahrenheit 451. But the real treasures of this volume are visual ones, among them rare private photos, film stills, and posters, excerpts from EC's comic adaptations, a retrospective of Bradbury cover art, and a portfolio of the work of the late Joseph Mugnaini, who, more than any other artist, successfully captured the spirit of Bradbury's work."

The 208 page hardcover (ISBN: 0060011823) is published by William Morrow & Co and retails for $34.95.
The book has an Introduction by Ray Bradbury.

A hardcover edition was published by William Morrow & Co. in March 2002.