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| The
Black Coast Press - Coming June 8th! Debuting at the centennial celebration at this year's Howard Days in Cross Plains Texas is a very special publication from The Black Coast Press. This publication will be the biggest and best yet from Black Coast. Full details will be available on June 6th and I will have them here on June 9th. | |||
| Black Dog Books -
The two new titles are now available from Adventure House! Black Dog Books had two new chapbooks available at the Windy City show. THE QUIRES MATTER - a short private-eye novel written by Roger Torrey for SUPER DETECTIVE. MURDER BY MUSIC: THE COLLECTED CASES OF JARNEGAN - detective stories by Cary Moran taken from the pages of SPICY DETECTIVE. The cost of these chapbooks is $10 each. You can order them from Mike Chomko. Mike expects to have copies in stock for sale shortly. Contact Mike by email at chomko@enter.net. Checkout Mike's monthly email newsletter. You can order them from Adventure House. You can also order direct from Black Dog Books. Each
chapbook is 5x8 in size, and staple bound. Tom Roberts 1115 Pine Meadows Court Normal, IL 61761 blackdogbooks_tomroberts@yahoo.com | |||
| BOOK
OF THE DEAD - New book by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
due May 30th! The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back...ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. To quell the PR nightmare of the gem fiasco, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef. An astounding Egyptian temple, it was a popular museum exhibit until the 1930s, when it was quietly closed. But when the tomb is unsealed in preparation for its gala reopening, the killings--and whispers of an ancient curse--begin again. And the catastrophic opening itself sets the stage for the final battle between the two brothers: an epic clash from which only one will emerge alive. Warner Books 464 pages $25.95 Visit Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's website at http://www.prestonchild.com/default.htm |  | ||
| Darkside
Press - The Cthulhuian Singularity Coming from Darkside Press later this year is a new signed limited edition anthology, THE CTHULHUIAN SINGULARITY. This book features new tales by Gary Braunbeck, Michael Reaves, Michael Shea, Stephen Mark Rainey, David Niall Wilson, John Pelan, Marc Laidlaw, Ramsey Campbell, and more. More details are not available at this time, but Darkside Press is taking preorders on the regular signed limited edition and the deluxe lettered edition. Contents: The Vorkuta Event by Ken MacLeod The Vicar of R'lyeh by Marc Laidlaw The Dagoniad by Michael Shea A Colder War by Charles Stross The Music of Bleak Entrainment by Gary A. Braunbeck Siren Call by Joe Nassisse My Fingers are Eating Me by Eddy C. Bertin Natural Selection by Hank Schwable Manifest Destiny by Michael Reaves Anomaly by David Niall Wilson Contact by John Pelan and Stephen Mark Rainey The Tugging by Ramsey Campbell Pre-orders may be placed now on the Darkside Press website. Regular signed limited edition: $75.00 (Limited to 500 signed copies) Deluxe lettered edition: $150 (Limited to 52 deluxe lettered hardcovers signed by all contributors) | |||
| E-texts on the net this week The Shadow in Review: There is no new review this week. Next week you can read the review for "Legacy of Death" from August 1, 1942. "The Noose of Death." by Jarret W. Buse is this week's Two-Minute Shadow Mystery. Shadows of the Pulps: Nothing new this week. Larry Estep-Online Pulps: Now with over 650 stories online! "The Thirteenth Boat" by George J. Rawlins from STRANGE STORIES, April 1940 "Murder Buys a Hat" by Edward Ronns from THRILLING DETECTIVE, July 1942 | |||
| The
Great Pulp Heroes - Coming in August! Here is an affectionate look back at the outsized heroes who once occupied the imagination of millions of loyal readers-The Shadow, Tarzan, Doc Savage, Captain Future, The Spider, Zorro. They were the original super guys, godfathers and inspiration to the likes of Superman, Batman and James Bond. Fascinating and informative, THE GREAT PULP HEROES is a lively and entertaining history of those fabulous characters, of the gaudy, glorious magazines that spawned them, and of the amazing wordsmiths who churned out their monthly adventures Publisher: Book Republic Press, 288 pages, ISBN: 1580421849, $12.95 |  | ||
| H.
P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural : Classic Tales of the Macabre - Coming in August! Written by one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, Lovecraft's 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" traces the evolution of the genre from the early Gothic novels through to the work of contemporary American and British authors. Throughout Lovecraft acknowledges those writers and stories that are the very finest that the horror field has to offer: Edgar Allen Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, and Arthur Conan Doyle, among others. This chilling new collection also contains Henry James' wonderfully atmospheric short novel The Turn of the Screw. Edited by Stephen Jones. Pegasus Books, 432 pages, ISBN: 1933648015, $15.95 |  | ||
| Harryhausen Develops New Projects Effects guru Ray Harryhausen has joined with Mindfire Entertainment on a series of new movies, telefilms, video games and merchandising under the "Ray Harryhausen Presents" banner reports Reuters. Based on unproduced material by Harryhausen, the hope is to release one movie in the $15 million range and three telefilms in the $4 million range every year. Harryhausen will be involved in the development of the projects and will oversee all visual effects which will be done in CGI but in the spirit of the stop-motion special effects he pioneered in films like "Jason and the Argonauts" and "Clash of the Titans". Source: Dark Horizons | |||
| The Incredible Pulps: A
Gallery of Fiction Magazine Art - Now available! Venture through the vibrant world of pulp imagery in true Collectors Press fashion with The Incredible Pulps: A Gallery of Fiction Magazine Art. Packing the pages of this swashbuckling book are phantom creatures, alien encounters, and grizzled heroes. These full color images, divided into four categories — science fiction, mystery, horror, and adventure and western — have provided inspiration and escape into bizarre and mythical realms since the late 19th century. This compact and portable collection is essential whether you are a pulp enthusiast or just fancy a nostalgic caper to the era of the adventure story. Introduction by Frank M. Robinson. A preview is available on the Collectors Press website. Collectors Press, trade paperback, 5 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches, 176 pages, full color, $14.95 You can pre-order this book now from Collectors Press. |  | ||
| MYSTERY*FILE ONLINE - Recommended! If mystery and detective fiction is your thing, you owe it to youself to bookmark the MYSTERY*FICTION ONLINE website. The website is updated regularly and contains Authors Interviews and Profiles, articles about Fictional Detectives, General Articles and Checklists, Regular Columns including Book Review Columns. Just this month alone, 23 new articles have been uploaded! MYSTERY*FILE ONLINE is brought to you by Editor/Publisher Steve Lewis; Associate Editor: Allen J. Hubin; and Contributing editors Bill Pronzini, Ed Lynskey, and Marvin Lachman. Checkout the MYSTERY*FILE ONLINE website at http://www.mysteryfile.com/ | |||
| The Nostalgia League The Nostalgia League has a large number of stories online of interest to those interested in the Pulps. In the Library section of the site, you will find links to Edmond Hamilton's first story, the original version of "The Zayat Kiss," a complete reprinting of the first Hopalong Cassidy novel and a PDF reprinting of "Molemen Want your Eyes." In addition, most all the stories have introductory material that covers either the story or the author. The Gallery sections are also be of interest, since there are lots of covers displayed there. Here's how to get there: http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/index_olm.htm The Nostalgia League has been around since 1999 and does not have any plans to leave soon. The current schedule calls for a new story to go up about every other month, with "The Frontier Guard" by H. Russell Wakefield set to appear at the end of June. | |||
| Pulpville Press - Now available! TARZAN OF THE APES: A COMPARISON OF THE BOOK vs. THE MAGAZINE This book shows in detail all of the differences between the original ALL STORY MAGAZINE text and the first hardcover text. See Tarzan fighting tigers in the original and lions in the latter. Illustrated. Sold at cost. Hardcover $24.95 Trade Paperback $14.95 |  | ||
| ReelArt
Studios and Dark Horse Comics Ink Sales Agreement Dark Horse Comics and ReelArt Studios have announced an agreement for Dark Horse to act as exclusive sales agent for Reel Arts upcoming program of licensed, limited-edition statues, busts and wall plaques. We are very excited to be associated with ReelArt Studios in putting this sales program together, Dark Horse Vice President Product Development David Scroggy stated, and are confident that they will help us make the release of these highly collectable, top quality limited editions a key component of both Dark Horse's and Reel Art's collector program. "Mike Richardson is one of my business heroes." ReelArt Studios President Michael Hudson remarked, "and Dark Horse is an amazing company, well managed and staffed with people who love what they do. The company has stood the test of time and has never forgotten it's roots. With a sales and marketing staff that is second to none, unparalleled product quality, like minded business principles and a matching love for pop culture, I couldn't imagine a better union for ReelArt Studios. I anticipate great things to come from this exciting venture with Dark Horse." I echo Michael's excitement, Dark Horse President Mike Richardson responded. Ever since I looked over their product line, I knew that our two companies would be a great fit. Many of my favorite artists and characters are represented, such as Frank Frazetta, Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Frank Cho and William Stout, to name just a few. The initial offerings handled by Dark Horse will be: Going Ape, based on work by Neal and Jason Adams; Dino Girl ,based on work by William Stout; Number One, also inspired by Stout; The Blue Bulleteer from AC Comics; The Three Stooges wall plaque; Suzanne, inspired by Gil Elvgren and Attack of the Brain Monster, inspired by Brett Blevins. There is a full schedule of upcoming projects, which can be viewed at reelartstudios.com. Of special note is a series of four large statues that capture the most famous paintings of legendary artist Frank Frazetta in three dimensions. The first of these, Snow Giants, is slated for display at both ReelArt Studios and Dark Horse Comics booths at Comic-Con International in San Diego July 20-23. Sculpted by Tony Cipriano, this oversize masterpiece is one of the most eagerly-anticipated pieces in years. The creation of these sculptures begins with the design. Some of the field's top sculptors are contracted, and at this point traditional sculpting and painting takes place, arriving at a finished piece that is remarkably true to the look and style of the original subject matter. Edition sizes are carefully considered, resulting in a track record of quick sell-outs that enhances each pieces investment potential. Since 1986, Dark Horse Comics has published original comic books, graphic novels and collectable merchandise items. In recent years, it has selectively added distributed items to its own product line, under the direction of Rachelle Callaway, Director of Distributed Products. | |||
| RED SONJA #10
- Available in comic shops May 31st! by Michael Avon Oeming, Mel Rubi, & Pablo Marcos The "Arrowsmith" story arc continues from the team of Oeming, Rubi, Marcos, backed by an an all-star gathering of cover artists including: Billy Tan, Mel Rubi, Pablo Marcos and Joe Benitez! Covers ship in an equal ratio. 32 pages, Full Color, SRP: $2.99 |  | ||
| RED
SONJA VS. THULSA DOOM #4 - Available
in comic shops May 31st! by Peter David, Luke Lieberman, & Will Conrad The Climactic battle between Sonja and Thulsa Doom! Thulsa Doom unmasks himself and reveals his true intentions, catching Sonja off guard. To save her kingdom, she must help the prince become a King. The stunning conclusion to one of the most exciting battles in the Hyborian Age comes to you courtesy of writers Peter David and Luke Lieberman, artist Will Conrad, and cover artists Gabriele Dell'Otto and Will Conrad! 32 pages, Full Color, SRP: $3.50 |  | ||
| Retro
Pulp Tales - Now available! Edited by Joe R. Lansdale These stories are all pulp-inspired, hoping to capture the story-telling ability and fast pace of tales from 30, 40, 50 years ago and more. In Retro Pulp Tales, the hunt for a serial killer plays out in a pulp-magazine letters column (Chet Williamson), mishaps haunt a helicopter crash simulator (Stephen Gallagher), and a real-life "Gidget" sees things in space alien terms (Melissa Mia Hall). Other contributors include Norman Partridge, Tim Lebbon, Kim Newman, F. Paul Wilson, Alex Irvine, Bill Crider, Gary Phillips, and James Reasoner. Available only from Subterranean Press. Trade: Sewn hardcover bound in full-cloth: $40 Limited: 250 numbered copies, signed by all contributors: $65 Lettered: 26 signed copies, bound in full leather, housed in a handcrafted traycase: $150 |  | ||
| SAVAGE
PULP #3 - Now available! SAVAGE PULP #3 featuring the Shadow in "Atoms of Death" is now available from Incarna Publishing on Lulu.com. It is available in print and as a PDF download. 182 pages, 8.50" x 11.00", perfect binding, black and white interior ink, $14.43 PDF (639 kb) - $6.25 |  | ||
| THE
SCIENCE OF JAMES BOND -
Updated format information! by Lois H. Gresh & Robert Weinberg While many people dream about James Bond's sartorial, gambling, and sexual skills, they also dream about Agent 007's vast array of super-science gadgets issued by Q Division. How realistic are James Bond's equipment, and is he rooted in science, or are his adventures and the technology that fills them science fiction? Whether Bond's adventures are in the air or undersea, the authors reveal the fact behind the fiction. Robert Weinberg has informed me that plans have slightly changed regarding this title and that it will now be published only as a trade paperback for $14.95 despite what you may see elsewhere to the contrary. Trade Paperback, 6x9, 224 pages, $14.95 Publisher: Wiley (August 25, 2006) ISBN: 0471661953 |  | ||
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Thriller - Now available! Featuring North America's foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify. Lock the doors, draw the shades, pull up the covers and be prepared for Thriller to keep you up all night. Mira Books, Hardcover, 576 pages, $24.95 This title is available from Shocklines whose copies are autographed by contributor David Morrell! All contributors to Thriller are members of the newly formed international Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW). In the short time of its existence, its roster reads like a who's who of thriller writing. Headed by copresidents David Morrell and Gayle Lynds, the board of directors consists of Lee Child, David Dun, Tess Gerritsen and M.J. Rose. Information is available on the ITW Web site, InternationalThrillerWriters.com. Contents:
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| ThrillerUK - Issue #26 is now available! A new issue of ThrillerUK (#26) is now available. This issue features: The Poetry of Violence Gary Dobbs travels the mean streets in search of the real Raymond Chandler Dai Bando Code Part one of a new Nick Williams mystery serial For My Sins Tough choices for a bodyguard in this story by Joe Stein (Cold Fire, Calm Rage) Always the Bad Guy What happened to Mickey "The Magician" Garrison's diamonds? The Saint and the Art of the Long Con Hustle with Simon Templar Rightous Justice PI's Honesty and Justice Wesson foil a terrorist plan Boyfriend in a Body Bag A PI, a lovely dame and trouble in this homage to Raymond Chandler Price: £3.95 + 0.55p P&P (overseas shipping + £1.55) Subscriptions: £15.00 (overseas £20.00) Please order via the website: http://www.thrilleruk.fsnet.co.uk/latest.htm ThrillerUK now accepts credit cards via Paypal. Visit the ThrillerUK website at http://www.thrilleruk.fsnet.co.uk |  | ||
| Ultima
Thule by Glenn Lord - Now available! A collection of Robert E. Howard ephemera, including a couple of Howard's letters to a publisher, rejection letters, the first attempt at listing the Howard books that were donated to Howard Payne University after his death, and more, this facsimile reprint of Glenn Lord's Ultima Thule was originally published by Joe Marek in 2000. This volume collects all of Glenn Lord's submissions to The Hyperborian League, an amatuer press association dedicated to weird fiction. 52 pages. 52 pages, 8.50" x 11.00", saddle-stitch binding, $9 Publisher: Rob Roehm Order from Lulu.com |  | ||
| 19 May 2006 | |
| THE
ART OF H.P. LOVECRAFT'S CTHULHU MYTHOS - Coming in October! This full-color tome collects the best art from Fantasy Flight's acclaimed Call of Cthulhu CCG, as well as from 25-years of Chaosium's legendary line of Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game products, and features art from fan favorites including Patrick McEvoy, Michael Komarck, Jean Tay, Thomas Denmark, John Gravato, Aaron Acevedo, James Ryman, Felicia Cano, and Linda Bergkvist. But, once you see these blasphemous visions, you will never forget them! Fantasy Flight Games, 192 pages, Full Color, $29.95 THE ART OF H.P. LOVECRAFT'S CTHULHU MYTHOS is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN063601. | |
| ATHENA VOLTAIRE: FLIGHT
OF THE FALCON #1- Coming in August! by Paul Daly & Steve Bryant As world powers escalate to the invevitabilty of World War II, anotherwar is being fought between the forces of white and black magic. Nazi occultists raceto unlock the secrets of the hollow Earth and a lost race of super-mortals. Canglobetrotting aviatrix Athena foil the Third Reich and their insidious plan to conquer the freeworld? Collecting Speakeasy's first book, and a never-released second issue! This is a four issue monthly mini-series. 48 pages, Full Color, $4.50 APE ENTERTAINMENT FLIGHT OF THE FALCON #1 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN062854. |  |
| Black
Dog Books - Now available! Black Dog Books had two new chapbooks available at the Windy City show. THE QUIRES MATTER - a short private-eye novel written by Roger Torrey for SUPER DETECTIVE. MURDER BY MUSIC: THE COLLECTED CASES OF JARNEGAN - detective stories by Cary Moran taken from the pages of SPICY DETECTIVE. At this time, I do not know the cost of these chapbooks, but it is probably around $10 each. If you are interested in these chapbooks, you can order them from Mike Chomko. Mike expects to have copies for sale later this month or early June. Contact Mike by email at chomko@enter.net. Checkout Mike's monthly email newsletter. You can also contact Black Dog Books to inquire. Black Dog Books Tom Roberts 1115 Pine Meadows Court Normal, IL 61761 blackdogbooks_tomroberts@yahoo.com | |
| Blue
Velvet Cthulhu Plush - Coming in September! Disturbed, homicidal, psychotic, moody, peckish — all these terms could apply to the infamous 15" tall Blue Velvet Cthulho. He has a little bit of a temperamental disposition! The plush measures 16 1/2-inches tall x 12 1/2-inches wide x 17-inches long. Scheduled to ship in September 2006. SRP: $19.99 The Blue Velvet Cthulhu Plush will also be available from Entertainment Earth and other retailers. BLUE VELVET CTHULHU PLUSH is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN063959. |  |
| BUCKAROO
BANZAI #1 - Available in comic shops May 24th! by Rauch, Thompson, Williams, Calero, Haley, & Stribling RETURN OF THE SCREW: Part 1-Everyone's favorite adventurer/surgeon/rock star is back, just in time to save the world one more time! Along with his Hong Kong Cavaliers, Banzai must battle more than one surprise arch enemy, each with their own motives, but all acting in concert to bring Banzai (and the universe as we know it) to his knees! All this action comes sandwiched between a couple of great rock and roll guitar solos, a few surgical procedures, a crazy gun battle on land and air, Buck's one chance for the ultimate revenge, his soul in turmoil, all the chicks digging him, engineering synchronicity, pretty toilets, a human pickle, and a giant sombrero! It just doesn't get more fun than this! 32 pages, Full Color, SRP: $3.50 Moonstone Books | |
| THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD
PERIL - Now available! Paul Malmont's upcoming novel THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERIL is "a modern take on the pulp novel, concerning the rivalry and friendship between the leading pulp writers of the thirties: Walter Gibson, creator of The Shadow, and Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage". Set in 1937, when America has turned to the pulps for relief from the Depression, it is at once a valentine to an old-fashioned genre as well as a modern meta-literary examination of the classic hero pulp. The death of H.P. Lovecraft propels the pulp era's greatest writers and rivals Walter (The Shadow) Gibson and Lester (Doc Savage) Dent into a real-life adventure even greater than the ones they imagine. Among the characters appearing in the book are L. Ron Hubbard, Robert Heinlein, Orson Welles, and (probably of particular interest to you as a Western writer!) a young sea-faring cowboy by the name of Lew Moore. THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERIL is a swash-buckling romantic tale of writers and writing, magic and love, marriage and fatherhood, ambition and loss that weaves the true lives of its real-life characters into a fictional epic. A sneak peek of the novel is now online on the Chinatown Death Cloud Peril website. The website should whet your appetites and give you an indication of what is to come. http://www.chinatowndeathcloudperil.com Simon & Schuster, hardcover, 384 pages, ISBN: 0743287851 |  |
| CONAN
#31 - Coming in August! Written by Mike Mignola, art by Cary Nord, colored by Dave Stewart, cover by Tony Harris. Mike Mignola and Cary Nord conclude their bone-crunching adaptation of Robert E. Howard's "The Hall of the Dead" with an epic battle that allies Conan with a former enemy against slithering shadows and a veritable onslaught of undead warriors! Retainers to a lord long forgotten awaken to protect a treasure so sizable even the dead bemoan to see it stolen. Can a cunning Cimmerian and a foe-turned-friend withstand the power of such dark sorceries long enough to escape with both the loot and their lives? 32 pages, $2.99, in stores on August 16. Dark Horse Comics CONAN #31 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN060038. |  |
| CONAN
AND THE SONGS OF THE DEAD #2 - Coming in August! Written by Joe R. Lansdale, art by Timothy Truman, colored by Dave Stewart. A twisted wizard brews a strange adversary for Conan from blood and the dust of the Stygian wastes. In this forsaken desert, the Cimmerian travels in search of an ancient and glorious prize. Yet its secret must be won from the grip of a conniving spirit and loyal zombie guard. Heat, grit, and evil are relentless in this wretched land, but no more so than Conan, a force of will born from sinew and steel, determined to claim his treasure and see it spent most mirthfully. 32 pages, $2.99, in stores on August 9. Dark Horse Comics CONAN AND THE SONGS OF THE DEAD #2 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN060037. |  |
| CONAN:
BOOK OF THOTH #3 - Available in comic shops May 24th! Written by Kurt Busiek and Len Wein, art and cover by Kelley Jones, colored by Michelle Madsen. The dread power of Thoth-amon achieves devastating new heights as the young sorcerer sets in motion a plan to place the kingdom of Stygia within his serpentine grip. Having ingratiated himself to a weak-willed heir to the crown, Thoth undertakes the systematic elimination of any who would stand in the way of the fool's assent to the throne. Yet, there is one in the Order of Ibis who grows suspicious of Thoth's solicitous relations with the prince and the increasing amount of royal blood mysteriously spilt. Will this young priest discover the truth about Thoth in time to save the King, or will the snake-god Set sink its fangs into the last, best hope for peace in a war-torn land? Conan's greatest adversary matures into a mighty doer of evil in this penultimate issue of the series chronicling Thoth's origins for the first time! Dark Horse Comics 48 pages, $4.99, in stores on May 24. |  |
| THE
DAUGHTER OF FANTOMAS -
Coming in August! by M. Allain & P. Souvestre; adapted by Marc P. Steele Fantômas rises from the grave (literally), having just escaped from the clutches of the Hangman of London, and leads his two nemeses, Policeman Juve and Journalist Fandor, on a wild chase that takes them from a plague-infested ocean liner to the deadly wastes of the South African Transvaal. Their goal: to rescue the only person the Lord of Terror truly loves: his daughter, the beautiful Hélène! Soft Cover, 5x8, 280 pages, B&W, $20.95 Black Coat Press THE DAUGHTER OF FANTOMAS is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN063658. |  |
| Dennis
McHaney: THE MAN FROM CROSS PLAINS - Now available! THE MAN FROM CROSS PLAINS: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, is a collection of essays by some of the top Howard scholars in the field today. The book is being published as a benefit for The City of Cross Plains Fire Relief Fund, and all profits will be donated to the fund to benefit the victims of the terrible wild fire that destroyed much of the town in December, 2005. The book also contains the first U. S. publication of "The Ghost with the Silk Hat," a nine chapter novella by Robert E. Howard. "The Ghost with the Silk Hat" was previously published in WRITER OF THE DARK by Dark Carneval Press (Switzerland) in 1986. This was a limited edition of 500 and, according to Dennis McHaney, about 40 changes were made to the text, including at one point, changing the identity of the characters speaking. McHaney used Howard's typescript for the version in THE MAN FROM CROSS PLAINS. 328 pages, 6.00" x 9.00", perfect binding, black and white interior ink There is a preview available for viewing on the Lulu.com website that includes the complete contents of this book. Please check this benefit book out and lend your support to this worthwhile cause. This book will only be available until May, 2007. The hardcover edition is not yet available, but will be soon. Hardcover $24.95 Trade Paperback $19.95 |  |
| E-texts
on the net this week The Shadow in Review: This weeks review is "Road of Crime" from October 1, 1933. "Thief Of Legends" by J. Christopher Greulich is this week's Two-Minute Shadow Mystery. Shadows of the Pulps: Nothing new this week. Larry Estep-Online Pulps: Now with over 650 stories online! "The Invisible Ray" by Arthur B. Reeve from COSMOPOLITAN, October 1912 Featuring: Craig Kennedy "Murder Makes a Splash" by Norman Daniels from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, March 1945 | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs’
A Princess of Mars #1 - Coming in August! Dan Taylor (writer); Ted McKeever (art & cover) Presenting the very first tale of pulp hero John Carter's adventures on the Red Planet. A Princess of Mars represents the beginning of the very prolific career of legendary author Edgar Rice Burroughs. The first issue of this five-issue series opens with Civil War veteran John Carter finding himself mysteriously and unexpectedly transported to the planet Mars, where he is captured by the Thark–a horde of Green Martian warriors. Carter is forced to adapt to this strange and fantastic new world while trying to remain alive amidst its many dangers. Adapted by Dan Taylor (Hero Happy Hour) with out-of-this-world art by Ted McKeever (Little Book of Horror: War of the Worlds). Ask your retailer how to get a special Frank Cho Variant Cover! The publisher is IDW Publishing. Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99 A Princess of Mars #1 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN063201. |  |
| Fantomas
- Now available! FANTOMAS by Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre, Robin Walz (Introduction), Cranstoun Metcalfe A noblewoman is hacked to death in her chateau, a Russian princess is boldly robbed at a posh hotel, and a lord's lifeless body is found stuffed into a trunk. Everyone recognizes the deeds of Fantômas, a master of disguise whose daring and diabolical crimes paralyze Parisians with terror. One man has sworn to bring the phantom killer to justice: Inspector Juve, who ventures from dark alleys to brilliant salons in his relentless pursuit of the evil genius. The first volume in a series of wildly popular French thrillers, Fantômas created a sensation in pre-WWI Europe. The original pulp fiction, it continues to inspire latter-day artists, writers, and musicians. Dover Publications, 320 pages, $9.95 Thanks to Chris Yates for the update. |  |
| Howard
Days - June 8-10, 2006 If you are planning on attending the historic centennial edition of Robert E. Howard Days, you should start planning now. This year will be the biggest Howard Days ever, and rooms for miles around will likely fill up fast. Howard Days will run three days this year: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, June 8, 9, and 10. Confirmed Guests of Honor are Glenn Lord and Roy Thomas, both of whom will be sitting on panels, signing autographs for attendees, etc. Other Guests of Honor may be announced in the coming months. Pre-registration for the event costs $20/person, which gets you a complimentary Thursday afternoon luncheon, a fully catered Saturday evening Caddo Peak BBQ, and entrance into the Friday Night Radio Show and Silent Auction. Complete information is available online at http://www.rehupa.com/reh_days_2006.htm. | |
| H.P.
LOVECRAFT'S CALL OF CTHULHU 2007 WALL CALENDAR - Coming in August/September! For years, H.P. Lovecraft’s horror fiction has thrilled and amazed readers. Now take a glimpse into his dark imagination with 12 sanity-shattering works of art inspired by his writings and the mythos he helped create showcased in this calendar. Full Color, $12.95 CALL OF CTHULHU 2007 WALL CALENDAR is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN063610. | |
| JAMES BOND: TROUBLE SPOT
- Coming in September! by Jim Lawrence & Yaroslav Horak Collects previously syndicated material. James Bond investigates a mysterious box, and tangles with the nefarious Baron Sharck! Also includes "Isle of Condors," "The League of Vampires" and "Die With My Boots On! Plus," it’s Bond in the bedroom with an introduction by Martine Beswicke ("From Russia With Love") and an exclusive Bond Girls feature! Soft Cover, 9x12, 128 pages, B&W, $19.95 JAMES BOND: TROUBLE SPOT is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN063372. | |
| LESTER DENT'S ZEPPELIN TALES - Now available! Lester Dent penned many pulp adventures before he created Doc Savage in 1933 under the house name Kenneth Robeson. LESTER DENT'S ZEPPELIN TALES collects five airship-themed stories published from 1930 to 1932, and includes material restored from Dent's original manuscripts! "Zeppelin Bait": Jed Day, American Great War flyer, is framed for spying for a notorious German Zeppelin Captain! Originally published in the October 1932 issue of SKY BIRDS. "Blackbeard's Spectre": Zeppelin pirates steal the passenger dirigible City of Oakland before its maiden flight to Japan! One of Dent's first published works, it originally appeared as "The Thirteen Million Dollar Robbery" in the March 1930 issue of THE POPULAR MAGAZINE. "Peril's Domain": Bill Kirgan battles a pirate band on a Zeppelin en route to the Arctic! Originally published under the title "The Frozen Flight" in the February 1931 issue of AIR STORIES. "Helene Was A Cannibal": What menaces the flight of Germany's newest Zeppelin, the Vaterland? Originally published as "Teeth of Revenge" in the May 1931 issue of SCOTLAND YARD. "A Billion Gold!": A private dick gets mixed up in a Zeppelin-sized scheme in New York City! Originally published as "One Billion-Gold!" in the June 1931 issue of SCOTLAND YARD. LESTER DENT'S ZEPPELIN TALES is nearly 100,000 words of pulpy goodness. LESTER DENT'S ZEPPELIN TALES is now available as a PDF download ($8) available from e23. LESTER DENT'S ZEPPELIN TALES will be available in June in a book edition from Amazon.com ($18.87). http://www.heliograph.com/zeppelinage/ |  |
| The
Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to Lovecraftian Cinema -
Now available! The definitive guide to the movies and television inspired by the H. P. Lovecraft. This volume catalogs over 150 feature films, short films, and television programs based upon, or inspired by the work of H. P. Lovecraft, and contains extensive stills, pre-production art, and promotional materials. Lurker... features a full index breaking down the works by story, and by production year, and also includes a 16 page full color section. Lurker... also contains over a twenty interviews with writers, directors, actors and artists, from Roger Corman, John Carpenter, Jeffrey Combs, Guillermo Del Toro Del Toro, Stuart Gordon, Bernie Wrightson, and many others. The Lurker in the Lobby is the last word on Lovecraftian Cinema. Cover and interior art by Lee Moyer. Nightshade Books, Trade Paperback, 350 pages, $19.95 | |
| Moonstone Books - BUCKAROO BANZAI #3
- Coming in August! Story by Mau Rauch and WD Richter, adaptation/new material by Joe Gentile, art by Stephen Thompson, inks by Ken Wolak, covers by Dave Aikens and Michael Stribling. "Return of the Screw," part 3 of 3. Part 3 of this rollicking saga concludes as Banzai, along with his Hong Kong Cavaliers, think outside of the box to make sure our world can safely go to sleep at night! Hearts are broken, a birth of something strange, a photo with a sad memory, a road trip with Uzi¹s, the Man in the Moon, an assault on a Lectroid stronghold, Tommy as Tarzan, unerring marksmanship, the taste of a good rope, and all that wrapped inside a riddle about an elephant! But when will they have the time to book the studio to record their next smash album? This "Mr Toad¹s Wild-Ride" adventure screams (and then jumps with the world holding hands) to a conclusion that could only happen to our one of a kind scientist/hero/rock star...Buckaroo Banzai! 32 pages, $3.50. Moonstone Books BUCKAROO BANZAI #3 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN063270. | |
| Moonstone Books - THE PHANTOM: MAN-EATERS
- Coming in August! Written by Rafael Nieves, art by Vatche Mavlian, colors by Ken Wolak. A new Moonstone Wide Vision book. Every page is a double page spread, sandwiched by prose across the top and bottom! Continuing the year-long celebration of the Phantom¹s 70-year anniversay! The Phantom, en route to his beloved Bangalla to bury the remains of his childhood friend Mente Olalla, the victim of "zombification" ("Damnation Game," The Phantom #5 & 6), receives an emergency call; a series of murders is taking place in the small village of Tsajaban, presumably the work of man-eating lions! With DEA agents Coughlin and Greaves at his side, The Phantom uncovers a deeper, more dangerous situation than even he could imagine, as he battles ancient gods and modern mercenaries to save the people of his homeland. 96 pages, $12.95. Moonstone Books THE PHANTOM: MAN-EATERS is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN063269. |  |
| PAULA
PERIL #2 - Coming in July/August! by Watson, Makinen, & Aranda Two complete ghostly adventures! Beautiful investigative reporter Paula Peril is on the trail of a notorious counterfeiter, but her arch-rival Veronica Vile isdetermined to do anything to steal the headlines, including spending the night in ahaunted museum! Before long, Paula is fighting ruthless thugs. Also in this issue is"Disappearing Act," in which Paula investigates a Magician who is being haunted by the ghost of hisdead partner, only to learn that the peril is all too real! 32 pages, B&W, $2.95 ATLANTIS STUDIOS PAULA PERIL #2 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN062897. |  |
| Pulpville
Press - Now available! THE RETURN OF SIMON BOLIVAR GRIMES by E. Hoffman Price A second collection of risque western stories starring Simon Bolivar Grimes. Included are: "Hoodoo Town", "Salt Crazy", "Forbidden Food", "She Herded Him Around", "Champion of Broken Axe", and "Drink or Draw". Fully illustrated with the original artwork which graced SPICY WESTERN and SPEED WESTERN pulp magazines. Hardcover $24.95 Trade Paperback $14.95 |  |
| RED
SONJA #14 - Coming in August! by Michael Avon Oeming, Mel Rubi with Steve Sadowski In Red Sonja #14, we see more of young Sonja’s journey and the “present day” trials of Sonja, Sumarro, and Osin as they face the manifestations of the Borat-Na Fori, little realizing that the true evil behind the curtain is Kulan Gath. And he's growing stronger by the day! Can they contain his forces and preserve the Hyborian world? This issue features covers by J.G. Jones (at a 50% ratio), Mel Rubi, and Claudio Catellini. 32 pages, Full Color, $2.99 RED SONJA #14 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN063020. | |
| RED SONJA VS THULSA DOOM
TP -
Coming in August! Writers Luke Lieberman and Peter David — along with artist Will Conrad — present this powerful four issue series that no Sonja or Conan fan can be without! Also includes the back-up story by the creative team originally published in Red Sonja #2, as well as a complete cover gallery featuring the work of Will Conrad. Will ship with two covers in an equal ratio. Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, Full Color, $14.99 RED SONJA VS THULSA DOOM TP is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN063027. | |
| THE SAVAGE RED SONJA: QUEEN OF THE FROZEN
WASTES #1 - Coming
in August! by Frank Cho, Doug Murray, & Homs The four-issue “Queen of the Frozen Wastes” mini-series features a story from Marvel Exclusive creator Frank Cho, who is joined by veteran comics writer Doug (The ‘Nam) Murray for this special series event! The two co-writers are joined by artistic sensation Homs, making his Hyborian debut! Sonja heads to the frozen north in a stunning first issue filled with action, drama and special cover artists (all three of whom will be providing covers for each issue of this mini-series event): Frank Cho (in a 50% ratio), Mark Texeira and Homs! It all starts in August! Don’t miss out — and don’t forget to ask your local retailer about special limited edition incentive covers! REGULAR: 32 pages, Full Color (1 of 4), $3.50 FOIL COVER: 32 pages, Full Color QUEEN OF THE FROZEN WASTES #1 is solicited in the June PREVIEWS (available May 24th). The Diamond Item Code is JUN063009. | |
| THE SCIENCE OF JAMES BOND
- Coming in August! by Lois H. Gresh & Robert Weinberg While many people dream about James Bond's sartorial, gambling, and sexual skills, they also dream about Agent 007's vast array of super-science gadgets issued by Q Division. How realistic are James Bond's equipment, and is he rooted in science, or are his adventures and the technology that fills them science fiction? Whether Bond's adventures are in the air or undersea, the authors reveal the fact behind the fiction. Hardcover, 6x9, 224 pages, $24.95 Publisher: Wiley (August 25, 2006) ISBN: 0471661953 | |
| SHADOWS
BEND: A NOVEL OF THE FANTASTIC AND UNSPEAKABLE - Coming August 29th! by David Barbour & Richard Raleigh This unique and original debut novel casts two real-life legends of fantasy fiction — Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, and H.P. Lovecraft, the inventor of the Necronomicon — in a nightmare of their own making! This tale begins on a dark and stormy night... a night tortured by the cries of an inhuman infant child. A child who would open the gates to the most dangerous force in the cosmos — the ancient god Cthulhu! And only two men — two eccentric writers — can stop him! Mass Market Paperback ACE Books, Soft Cover, 368 pages, B&W, $7.99 This title was previously published in a trade paperback edition. The trade paperback cover is shown at the right. |  |
| Solomon
Kane - Movie rights option acquired! Paradox Entertainment are happy to announce that Wandering Star/Davis Productions are picking up their option for the movie rights to the stories about Solomon Kane. The director of the movie, the budget and schedule is not yet decided. Wandering Star is led by Paul and Michael Berrow. Davis Production is led by Samuel Hadida, producer of movies as "Domino" (Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke) and "Silent Hill" (Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean). God's angry warrior, Solomon Kane is Robert E. Howard's most unusual creation. Black-clad and steely tempered, Kane bestrides demon-infested Africa and the war-torn Europe of Queen Elizabeth I to dispense relentless justice with the point of his sword. Pirates, vampires, mad queens, winged Furies, rapacious bandits, the berserk warriors of lost Atlantis - evil cannot escape justice from Solomon's slashing rapier. | |
| Valentino Cthulhu Plush - Coming in June! Dressed in a sensational ensemble that shows off his fashionable side, Cthulhu is dressed this spring in this evocative outfit from designee Toee Vouwt. Featuring a color palette derived from the exotic cinnamons of the Orient, and ebony from the deepest Africa, Valentino, as he is known to his many admirers, is a limited edition. Stands 15-inches tall. Scheduled to ship in June 2006. SRP: $19.99 The Valentino Velvet Cthulhu Plush will be available from Entertainment Earth and other retailers. |  |
| 12 May 2006 | |
| Adventure House -
Now available! HIGH ADVENTURE #88 featuring the Green Lama in The Man Who Wasn't There is now shipping from the printer! "Man Overboard!" The dreaded cry of the sea rang out through the night and thus began a series of circumstances, and the beginning of a gigantic plot that tested to the utmost the powers of The Green Lama. Soft Cover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W SRP: $7.95 HIGH ADVENTURE #88 will probably be available in comic shops on May 24th! |  |
| Adventure House - May pulp facsimile reprints are now
available! A new series of complete pulp replica/reprints. Except these are printed on acid-free paper and guaranteed not to crumble into dust while you read them. Adventure House will bring you some of the scarcest pulps imaginable in this great new series, reprinting them as the reading public saw them on the newsstands, at a fraction of their current collectors prices. Pulp replica - full color covers, complete with all ads, illustrations and facsimile pages. Now available! SPICY MYSTERY STORIES October 1937, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SPICY MYSTERY STORIES July 1942, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 NEW MYSTERY ADVENTURES - March 1936, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 Coming in June: SAUCY DETECTIVE April 1937, 7x10, 160 pages, $14.95 SECRET SERVICE STORIES September 1928, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 MAN STORIES February 1931, 7x10, 144 pages, $14.95 Coming in July: THE UNDERWORLD August 1927, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 UNDER FIRE MAGAZINE February 1929, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 TRUE GANGSTER STORIES July 1941, 7x10, 112 pages, $14.95 Coming August 2006: SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES November 1939, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 - Just added! Coming September 2006: SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES April 1941, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 - Just added! SPICY MYSTERY STORIES October 1941, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 - Just added! SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES September 1939, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 - Just added! Coming October 2006: ADVENTURE NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES - July 1937, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 - Just scheduled! FAME AND FORTUNE MAGAZINE - February 25, 1929, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 - Just scheduled! Coming later in 2006: SPEAKEASY STORIES - Oct.-Nov. 1931, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 THE GANG MAGAZINE - May 1935, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 DANGER TRAIL - August 1928, 7x10, 160 pages, $14.95 Still available: DAN TURNER-HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE March 1943, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY - May 1937, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 EERIE MYSTERIES August 1938, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 EERIE STORIES August 1937, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 HIGH SEAS ADVENTURES February 1935, Cover Artist: Sidney Riesenberg, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 HOODED DETECTIVE January 1942, 7x10, 98 pages, $14.95 JACK DEMPSEY'S FIGHT MAGAZINE May 1934, Cover Artist: Earle Bergey, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 MYSTERY TALES December 1939, Cover Artist: J. W. Scott, , 7x10, 112 pages, $14.95 NEW MYSTERY ADVENTURES - November 1935, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 NEW MYSTERY ADVENTURES - December 1935, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 NEW MYSTERY ADVENTURES - February 1936, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 NEW MYSTERY ADVENTURES April 1936, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 RED MASK DETECTIVE STORIES March 1941, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SAUCY MOVIE TALES - June 1936, Cover Artist: Norman Saunders, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 SAUCY MOVIE TALES July 1936, Cover Artist: Norman Saunders, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 SAUCY MOVIE TALES August 1936, Cover Artist: Norman Saunders, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 SAUCY MOVIE TALES - September 1936, Cover Artist: Norman Saunders, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 SAUCY MOVIE TALES December 1936, Cover Artist: Norman Saunders, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 SAUCY ROMANTIC ADVENTURES August 1936, 7x10, 96 pages, $14.95 - featuring Domino Lady! SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES August 1936, Cover Artist: H. J. Ward, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES September 1941, Cover Artist: H. J. Ward, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES June 1938, Cover Artist: H.J. Ward, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES July 1941, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES July 1942, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SPICY MYSTERY STORIES February 1938, Cover Artist: H. L. Parkhurst, 7x10, 128pages, $14.95 SPICY MYSTERY STORIES May 1936, Cover Artist: H.J. Ward, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SPICY MYSTERY STORIES July 1941, Cover Artist: H. J. Ward, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SPICY MYSTERY STORIES April 1942, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SPICY MYSTERY STORIES May 1942, Cover Artist: H. L. Parkhurst, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 SPICY MYSTERY STORIES October 1942, Cover Artist: Allen Anderson, 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95 UNDERCOVER DETECTIVE February 1939, 7x10, 112 pages, $14.95 UNDERCOVER DETECTIVE April 1939, 7x10, 112 pages, $14.95 VARIETY DETECTIVE MAGAZINE August 1938, 7x10, 112 pages, $14.95 |    |
| The
Avenger - Movie rights sold by Conde Nast! Howard (Golden Perils) Hopkins announced this week that he had permission to let everyone know that Conde Nast sold the movie rights to The Avenger last week. Howard is not at liberty to divulge the source or studio at this time. | |
| CONAN #28 -
Available in comic shops May 17th! Written by Kurt Busiek, art by Eric Powell, colored by Dave Stewart, cover by Tony Harris. A special one-shot story in honor of Conan creator Robert E. Howard's centennial! From Eisner Award-winning creators Kurt Busiek and Eric Powell, this issue tells the story of one wild and fateful night in the life of a young storyteller in an Aquilonian farming community‹the night that Conan and his cohorts came to town, pursued by demons straight out of hell. Always a dreamer, telling tales of great deeds in faraway lands, the storyteller gets a first-hand look at all-out action, heroism, and sacrifice on the dusty streets of his hometown. Conan rallies the entire town to defend itself or be torn to shreds. Dark Horse Comics 32 pages, $2.99 |  |
| CONAN
VOLUME 3: THE TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT AND OTHER STORIES HC - Available in comic shops May 17th! Written by Kurt Busiek, penciled by Cary Nord and Michael Wm. Kaluta, colored by Dave Stewart. Continuing Dark Horse's best-selling Conan series with an adaptation of one of Robert E. Howard's greatest Conan tales, "The Tower of the Elephant." Fed up with both civilization and mysticism, Conan travels to the infamous City of Thieves to take out his frustrations. When a bar fight uncovers the legend of the impregnable Tower of the Elephant, he becomes determined to rob it, setting out on a quest unlike any he's undertaken--one that will involve new comrades, sudden death, horrifying creatures, and gruesome unsettling fates for both gods and men. Collecting Conan #0, #16-17, #19-22. Hardcover, 168 pages, $24.95 Dark Horse Comics |  |
| CONAN
#31 - Coming in August! Written by Mike Mignola, art by Cary Nord, colored by Dave Stewart, cover by Tony Harris. Mike Mignola and Cary Nord conclude their bone-crunching adaptation of Robert E. Howard's "The Hall of the Dead" with an epic battle that allies Conan with a former enemy against slithering shadows and a veritable onslaught of undead warriors! Retainers to a lord long forgotten awaken to protect a treasure so sizable even the dead bemoan to see it stolen. Can a cunning Cimmerian and a foe-turned-friend withstand the power of such dark sorceries long enough to escape with both the loot and their lives? 32 pages, $2.99, in stores on August 16. Dark Horse Comics | |
| CONAN
AND THE SONGS OF THE DEAD #2 - Coming in August! Written by Joe R. Lansdale, art by Timothy Truman, colored by Dave Stewart. A twisted wizard brews a strange adversary for Conan from blood and the dust of the Stygian wastes. In this forsaken desert, the Cimmerian travels in search of an ancient and glorious prize. Yet its secret must be won from the grip of a conniving spirit and loyal zombie guard. Heat, grit, and evil are relentless in this wretched land, but no more so than Conan, a force of will born from sinew and steel, determined to claim his treasure and see it spent most mirthfully. 32 pages, $2.99, in stores on August 9. Dark Horse Comics | |
| Dark
Horse Comics to publish Fritz
Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser! Mike Richardson, president of Dark Horse Comics, told SCI FI Wire that Dark Horse's book and entertainment divisions recently acquired the book publication and movie rights to multiple award-winning author Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser fantasy stories. "Basically we will reprint the original [novels and collections], probably at the rate of three per year," Richardson said in an interview. "Also, preceding that, we will be republishing [the 1991 Marvel Comics] comic [penciled by Mike Mignola and scripted by Howard Chaykin]. That will appear later this year, the entire series in book form." Dark Horse will also be launching a brand-new comic-book series for Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, which will feature graphic adaptations of the original Leiber stories, as well as original material. | |
| Dark Horse Comics to publish
Robert E. Howard characters in addition to Conan! Mike Richardson, president of Dark Horse Comics, told SCI FI Wire that Dark Horse is working on a deal with Conan Properties, which would allow them to bring other famous Robert E. Howard characters into print in comic-book format and possibly in book format as well. "Characters like Solomon Kane and King Kull are on their way," he said. " | |
| E-texts
on the net this week The Shadow in Review: There is no new review this week. Next week you can read the review for "Road of Crime" from October 1, 1933. "The Clouded Mind of Joe Cardona" by Jonathan Blade is this week's Two-Minute Shadow Mystery. Shadows of the Pulps: Nothing new this week. Larry Estep-Online Pulps: Now with over 650 stories online! "The Atombomb Clue" by J. Harvey Haggard from 10-STORY DETECTIVE, November 1946 "Ghost Lanterns" by Alan B. LeMay from ADVENTURE, December 20, 1922 "Writing the Fantastic Story" by Otis Adelbert Kline from THE WRITER, January 1931 | |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs’
A Princess of Mars #1 - Coming in August! Dan Taylor (writer); Ted McKeever (art & cover) Presenting the very first tale of pulp hero John Carter's adventures on the Red Planet. A Princess of Mars represents the beginning of the very prolific career of legendary author Edgar Rice Burroughs. The first issue of this five-issue series opens with Civil War veteran John Carter finding himself mysteriously and unexpectedly transported to the planet Mars, where he is captured by the Thark–a horde of Green Martian warriors. Carter is forced to adapt to this strange and fantastic new world while trying to remain alive amidst its many dangers. Adapted by Dan Taylor (Hero Happy Hour) with out-of-this-world art by Ted McKeever (Little Book of Horror: War of the Worlds). Ask your retailer how to get a special Frank Cho Variant Cover! The publisher is IDW Publishing. Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99 | |
| Gotham
Pulp Collectors Club - May 13, 2006! There is a new club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area. It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month. We'll discuss the Windy City pulp show, and our meeting theme this week is Detective pulps. Some of us will bring representative samples of some detective pulps and certainly pulps to trade. Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: 1-4 PM Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (West Village) | |
| LESTER DENT'S ZEPPELIN TALES - Coming in June! Lester Dent penned many pulp adventures before he created Doc Savage in 1933 under the house name Kenneth Robeson. LESTER DENT'S ZEPPELIN TALES collects five airship-themed stories published from 1930 to 1932, and includes material restored from Dent's original manuscripts! "Zeppelin Bait": Jed Day, American Great War flyer, is framed for spying for a notorious German Zeppelin Captain! Originally published in the October 1932 issue of SKY BIRDS. "Blackbeard's Spectre": Zeppelin pirates steal the passenger dirigible City of Oakland before its maiden flight to Japan! One of Dent's first published works, it originally appeared as "The Thirteen Million Dollar Robbery" in the March 1930 issue of THE POPULAR MAGAZINE. "Peril's Domain": Bill Kirgan battles a pirate band on a Zeppelin en route to the Arctic! Originally published under the title "The Frozen Flight" in the February 1931 issue of AIR STORIES. "Helene Was A Cannibal": What menaces the flight of Germany's newest Zeppelin, the Vaterland? Originally published as "Teeth of Revenge" in the May 1931 issue of SCOTLAND YARD. "A Billion Gold!": A private dick gets mixed up in a Zeppelin-sized scheme in New York City! Originally published as "One Billion-Gold!" in the June 1931 issue of SCOTLAND YARD. LESTER DENT'S ZEPPELIN TALES is nearly 100,000 words of pulpy goodness, and will be available both as a book available from Amazon and a PDF available from e23. http://www.heliograph.com/zeppelinage/ | |
| Mike Chomko -
May 2006 newsletter is now available! Mike's May 2006 newsletter is now available. Click here to view/download it. Orders over $20 are discounted approximately 10%. Shipping is between $2-6, depending on the weight of your order (media mail or bound printed matter). Michael Chomko, 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104-6542 Contact Mike by email at chomko@enter.net | |
| PULP
ADVENTURECON #6 - November 11, 2006 Pulp Adventure Con will be November 11 at the Ramada Inn in Bordentown, New Jersey. Ramada Inn 1083 Route 206 Bordentown, NJ (Just off NJ Turnpike Exit 7) 50+ dealer tables, pulps, vintage films and more. $6.00 admission. http://www.boldventurepress.com | |
| Pulpville Press - Now available in dust jacketed hardcover! THE CAVE MAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs The absolutely primitive, utter raw, crude savagery, seems to find an echo in the hearts of practically all of us, and there are very few who can withstand Mr. Burroughs' uncompromising return to Nature in its wildest and least civilized; and that he has lost none of his ability to take you there is amply proved by this sequel to The Cave Girl. This is the original unedited and uncensored pulp magazine version. Fully illustrated. Hardcover $24.95 Trade Paperback $14.95 BARNEY CUSTER OF BEATRICE by Edgar Rice Burroughs This book tells of the fearless young American, Barney Custer, second visit to Lutha, where he squares a few accounts he was forced to overlook in his hasty retreat from the tiny kingdom after he had incurred the jealous hatred of the ingrate monarch, whose scepter he had restored. The text is the original unedited and uncensored magazine version. Fully illustrated. Hardcover $24.95 Trade Paperback $14.95 | |
| RED SONJA/CLAW THE UNCONQUERED:
THE DEVIL'S HANDS #3 - Available in comic shops May17th! Written by John Layman, art by Andy Smith, covers by Jim Lee and Lee Bermejo. For the legendary barbarian warrior Red Sonja, there's just one thing worse than her recent defeat by the minions of a malevolent sorcerer, and that's her current predicament. She's locked away in the lowest level of the wizard's dungeon, kept company only by hungry rats and old bones. And her last hope for rescue lies with the increasingly erratic swordsman known as Claw, whose cursed arm is driving him ever closer to madness! DC Comics 32 pages, $2.99, in stores on May 17. | |
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| Captain
Spectre and the Lightning Legion -
Update! The webcomic adventures of Captain Spectre will be on hiatus for a few weeks. The Lightning Legion comic production department is relocating and should be back in production very soon. Running at the site during this time will be an older, unpublished, unseen 10 page strip called "Mr. Fright - the haunted man". This is a horror/superhero type genre. The site will update with multiple pages each week, until the Captain Spectre strip is back up and in production. Please keep visiting the site for updates on the relocation and the Mr. Fright story line. For those unfamiliar with Captain Spectre, "SECRET WORLDS" Chapter 3 of Captain Spectre is in progress and pages 1 through 12 are now posted online. http://www.captainspectre.com | |||
| Centipede Press: Two-Handed
Engine by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore - Now available! TWO-HANDED ENGINE is the largest collection of science fiction and fantasy by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore ever published! It features a striking full color cover and frontispiece by Richard Powers, and an insightful introduction by the book's editor, David Curtis. The stories range from their entire career. A complete list is available on the publishers website. This is a limited edition of only 300 copies for $225 each. This cloth bound book is 7.25 by 10 inches and 928 pages. Visit the Centipede Press website for the contents list and ordering instructions. TWO-HANDED ENGINE is also now available from the Science Fiction Book Club! The price is $14.99 for members only. |  | ||
| Conan:
Free Comic Book Day Edition - May 6, 2006 Dark Horse announced its 2006 Free Comic Book Day offering will be in the form of a special split issue featuring original Star Wars and Conan material. Each story is ten pages long and the content for both is appropriate for all ages. In the Conan story "The Spear," a sorcerer receives a vision about a tremendous force washing over the world, and decides it's a prophecy ordering him to revive his sleeping god - but he should have considered it fair warning about his own run-in with Conan! "The Spear" features story by Tim Truman with art by Paul Lee and Dave Stewart. Don't forget to visit your local comic book shop and pick up this free issue. |  | ||
| CTHULHU
TALES #1 - Available in comic shops May 10th!
by Various Lovecraft lives! From the writing team behind the hit Zombie Tales series comes a collection of six different tales of dark, cosmic horror. Keith Giffen pens a tale, as his Blue Beetle co-writer, screenwriter John Rogers writes his own. Creator of Sci-Fi TV show Eureka, Andy Cosby joins Johanna Stokes, CBR columnist and TV show writer. War of the Worlds: Second Wave writer Michael Alan Nelson joins in on the fun with a constellation of the best artists. 48 pages, Full Color, BOOM! STUDIOS, SRP: $6.99 |  | ||
| Doc
Con 2006 - October 14 and 15, 2006! LaPlata Missouri, the hometown of Lester Dent, will be the location for Doc Con 2006! The date is set for October 14 and 15. There is a planning group established which anyone is welcome to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laplatadoccon. The Doc Con 2006 planning group is working with the LaPlata Historical Preservation Society to start a permanent Lester Dent/Doc Savage museum or exhibit. Donations and items are very welcome and the Mayor of LaPlata has offered a room in the town library as a place to get the exhibit started. T-shirts featuring the logo at the right are planned. |  | ||
| E-texts
on the net this week The Shadow in Review: This weeks review is "The Ghost Murders" from January 1, 1936. "Return of the Bombardier" by Jim Mennella is this week's Two-Minute Shadow Mystery. Shadows of the Pulps: Nothing new this week. Larry Estep-Online Pulps: Now with over 650 stories online! 'The Outcast" by S. M. Tenneshaw from AMAZING STORIES, June 1949 "Wanted" by O. B. Myers from G-MEN DETECTIVE, September 1947 | |||
| Girasol Collectables -
THE WEIRD WRITINGS OF ROBERT E. HOWARD Vol. 2 is now available! US orders will be shipping from the distributor starting next week. Some International orders have already been shipped and the rest will follow after the Windy City Con. The Greatest REH Collection Ever Assembled! Two massive hardcover facsimile volumes totaling more than 1200 pages with ALL of Robert E. Howard’s writings from the original run of WEIRD TALES Magazine! ALL the stories & illustrations. All the verse. Plus letters to the editor. Scanned right from the original pulp pages! No editing! No reset text!
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| Girasol Collectables -
NEW Robert E. Howard Book Announcement! Girasol Collectables Inc. is pleased to announce ANOTHER major Robert E. Howard facsimile project! Fall 2006 will see the release of THE EXOTIC WRITINGS OF ROBERT E. HOWARD. EXOTIC WRITINGS will be another hardcover edition of approximately 500 facsimile pages, similar in format to WEIRD WRITINGS, and will cover most of REH's exotic, historical, and detective adventure fiction. This single volume archive will include Howard's works from ORIENTAL STORIES and MAGIC CARPET, STRANGE TALES, SPICY ADVENTURE (as Sam Walser), GOLDEN FLEECE, THRILLING MYSTERY, THRILLING ADVENTURES, SUPER DETECTIVE, STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES plus a few other goodies. We will not be including any of his boxing stories, Breckenridge Elkins or other western material. Included will be his pieces written under the Patrick Ervin pseudonym. Many of these pulps are extremely difficult to come by, and we're quite excited to be able to offer this companion volume to the WEIRD WRITINGS set. Once again, these high quality facsimile pages will be scanned right from the original pulps, with all the illustrations and no edits or omissions. There will again be a small print run of a very limited, numbered edition true first printing as well as a regular volume of no fixed print run. While we're still working out some of the exact production details, we will be taking pre-release orders starting immediately and closing on May 31st, 2006. Pricing is as follows: Pre-orders: Limited Numbered Edition: $105 (save $10) Regular Edition: $85 (save $10) Shipping (either edition) +$5 (within North America, call for overseas pricing) Once the pre-order offer expires, pricing will be $115 and $95 plus $5 s&h per book. | |||
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Girasol Collectables - May Pulp Replicas! Girasol Collectables is pleased to announce three more issues in its ongoing series of Pulp Replicas. Click here or on the images to the right for a look at larger Pulp Replica cover images. The SPIDER/OPERATOR #5 rotation will continue in 2006 with eight new issues of THE SPIDER and four new issues of OPERATOR #5. Monthly Special: All three for $75 ($10 off) Our first Replica this month is "Slaves of the Crime Master" featuring The Spider from April 1935. $35 Our second Replica this month is ORIENTAL STORIES #6 (Autumn 1931). $25 This issue features "The Blood of Belshazzar" by Robert E. Howard and "The Justice of the Elephant" by Clark Ashton Smith. Our third Replica is SPICY MYSTERY STORIES #27 for October 1935. This issue completes the reprinting of SPICY MYSTERY STORIES from 1935. $25 We have also recently begun accepting
Paypal as an alternate method of payment. Other than Replicas or the upcoming
REH book, please confirm availability first before ordering items such as pulp
magazines or other books. Payments can be made to our regular info@girasolcollectables.com
email address. Any of you with the old girasol@interlog.com address please note
the new address for Paypal payments. 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. Here
is a complete listing of the Pulp Replicas currently available for $25, $35, or
$50 each postpaid within North America. Overseas will be a few dollars more. BLACK
MASK MAGAZINE ($35 each postpaid within North America) CIVIL WAR STORIES ($25 each postpaid within North America) DAN TURNER ($25 each postpaid within North America) DOCTOR DEATH ($25 each postpaid within
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EERIE TALES
($20 each postpaid within
North America) #1 July 1941 GOLDEN FLEECE ($25 each postpaid within North America) #1 (October 1938) HORROR STORIES ($35 each postpaid within North America) November 1936 with a rare Domino Lady cover appearance THE OCTOPUS ($35 each postpaid within North America) OPERATOR 5 ($35 each postpaid within North America) #1 (Oct./Nov. 1930) featuring the Robert E. Howard story, TheVoice of El-Lil. #2 (Dec. 1930/Jan. 1931) #3 (February/March 1931) featuring the Robert E. Howard story, Red Blades of Black Cathay. #4 (Spring 1931) featuring stories by Otis Adelbert Kline and Robert E. Howard (Hawks of Outremer). #5 (Summer 1931) featuring stories by Otis Adelbert Kline, E. Hoffmann Price, Paul Ernst, and more. #6 (Autumn 1931) featuring stories by Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. PIRATE STORIES ($25 each postpaid within North America) #1 (November 1934) SAUCY MOVIE TALES ($25 each postpaid within North America) #3 December 1935 (#1 after a title change) - Terrific Saunders cover, spicier than the Spicy's! #4 January 1936 (#2 after a title change) with a great Saunders 'Shark' cover! #11 September 1936 THE SCORPION ($35 each postpaid within North America) SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES ($25 each postpaid within
North America) SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES ($25 each postpaid within
North America) SPICY MYSTERY STORIES ($25 each postpaid within
North America) SPICY WESTERN STORIES ($25 each postpaid within
North America) THE SPIDER ($35 each postpaid within North America) #1 (February 1939) STRANGE TALES ($25 each postpaid within North America) TERROR TALES ($35 each postpaid within North America) WEIRD TALES ($35 each postpaid within North America) Email
Girasol Collectables at: info@girasolcollectables.com. All
payments must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables and mailed to: | Last Months Replicas   | ||
| Gotham
Pulp Collectors Club - Next meeting is May 13, 2006! There is a new club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area. It meets the 2nd Saturday of every month. Mark Halegua will be bringing some early Shadows for show and tell, as will Ed Hulse. Mark may also show some Shadow serial chapters and other items. You can talk Shadow pulps, display pulps, and maybe trade pulps. Name: Gotham Pulp Collectors Club Time: 1-4 PM Place: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy Street, Manhattan (West Village) | |||
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Case Crime - Coming in May and beyond! May 2006 BUST by Ken Bruen, Jason Starr, Cover art by Richard B. Farrell 5 IMPORTANT LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST: 1. When you hire someone to kill your wife, don’t hire a psychopath. 2. Drano if not the best tool for getting rid of a dead body. 3. Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very secure. 4. A curly blond wig isn’t much of a disguise. 5. Secrets can kill. First publication anywhere, and first collaboration between two of crime fiction’s hottest stars. June 2006 STRAIGHT CUT by Madison Smartt Bell, Cover art by Chuck Pyle A freelance film editor, Tracy Bateman goes where the work is. So when his old partner calls with an assignment, Tracy finds himself on a plane to Rome. But there are surprises waiting for him—deadly surprises that will lead him on a desperate chase across Europe, into the hands of a pair of brutal drug smugglers, and back to New York City, where the greatest betrayal of all awaits... July 2006 LEMONS NEVER LIE by Richard Stark, Cover art by Richard B. Farrell When he’s not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately—which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers’ plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York. Unfortunately, Myers’ plan is insane—so Grofield walks out on him. But Myers isn’t a man you walk out on, and his retribution culminates in an act of unforgivable brutality. |   | ||
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Days - June 8-10, 2006 If you are planning on attending the historic centennial edition of Robert E. Howard Days, you should start planning now. This year will be the biggest Howard Days ever, and rooms for miles around will likely fill up fast. Howard Days will run three days this year: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, June 8, 9, and 10. Confirmed Guests of Honor are Glenn Lord and Roy Thomas, both of whom will be sitting on panels, signing autographs for attendees, etc. Other Guests of Honor may be announced in the coming months. Pre-registration for the event costs $20/person, which gets you a complimentary Thursday afternoon luncheon, a fully catered Saturday evening Caddo Peak BBQ, and entrance into the Friday Night Radio Show and Silent Auction. Complete information is available online at http://www.rehupa.com/reh_days_2006.htm | |||
| James
Van Hise: SWORD & FANTASY #6 - Now available! The sixth issue of SWORD & FANTASY is now available. Articles include a long analysis of the Robert E. Howard story "Tower Of The Elephant" (profusely illustrated). A six page folio of illustrations from Robert E. Howard stories printed in Czechoslovakia. An interview with Ray Capella and a short sword & sorcery story by Ray titled "The Lair." A seven page folio of WEIRD TALES pulp art from Robert E. Howard stories. An article on the REH story "Lord Of The Dead." An article on Conan pastiche novels (in other words Conan books not written by REH), and more. Artwork by Rick McCollum, Eduardo Barreto, Mahlon Fawcett, and others. The front and back cover art is from foreign Robert E. Howard paperback editions. Like previous issues, it is 8 1/2 x 11, side-stapled, and 84 pages in length. The price is $12.00. Shipping is $6.00 priority mail (for one item or all of them!) or $2.00 media mail. A three issue subscription is now available for $30 ($60 outside the US includes Air mail shipping). Payment by check, money order, or Paypal. James Van Hise, 57754 Onaga Trail, Yucca Valley, CA 92284. Email and Paypal Jimvanhise@aol.com |  | ||
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Carter of Mars Film - Delayed! Director Jon Favreau has been engaged by Marvel Studios to direct a movie adaptation of Iron Man, a Marvel project based on the comics hero. The Iron Man project was set up at New Line for several years with Nick Cassavetes engaged as director and David Hayter, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar as screenwriters. Favreau intends to take up the assignment early next year and it will be his next movie. The project he has been handling -- Paramount's John Carter of Mars -- has been put on hold because of the relaunch of that studio's Star Trek franchise. Source: EarthTimes.org | |||
| Moonstone Books: THE PHANTOM: LEGACY -
Available in comic shops May 10th! by Benjamin Raab, Pat Quinn, Art Lyo The origin of the Phantom as you've never seen it before as told by the Ghost Who Walks himself! Ripped from the pages of the very first Chronicle, this original 96-page epic by Benjamin Raab (Living In Infamy, Human Race) and illustrated by Pat Quinn (The Phantom) and Art Lyon (Top 10: The Forty-Niners) reveals how a centuries-old tradition of fighting piracy, cruelty and injustice was passed down from one generation of Walker to the next. Softcover, 7x10, Full Color, SRP: $12.95 Moonstone Books | |||
| Old Tiger Press -
New J. Allen St. John book is now available! HIGH ADVENTURE: WESTERNS, NORTHERNS, AND OTHER LANDS is now available! This collection of the best of St. John's color work focuses on this westerns, the adventures he illustrated of the great northwest and Canada, and many of the fantastic other worlds tales he illustrated. The book covers St. John illustrated include Clarence Mulford, W. D. Hoffman, Oscar J. Friend, Randall Parrish, Rudyard Kipling, Bryan A. Dunn and many others. Also included are all the color plates for the only book St. John ever wrote, THE FACE IN THE POOL, and a selection of his beautiful cover work for AMAZING STORIES and FANTASTIC ADVENTURES. Edited by Darrell C. Richardson and Dennis McHaney. 100 pages, 8.50" x 11.00", perfect binding, full-color interior ink Order directly from Old Tiger Press for $29.95 plus $4.50 shipping and handling. Send cash or money order to Darrell C. Richardson, 1960 N. Parkway #406, Memphis, TN 38112 or Dennis McHaney, 4886 Winchester Rd. # 2, Memphis, TN, 38118. You can also order online from Lulu.com at http://www.lulu.com/content/228910 |  | ||
| PULPCON
35 - August 3-6, 2006 PULPCON 35 will be held August 3-6, 2006 at the Dayton Convention Center in Dayton, Ohio. Ernest Chiriacka and William Tenn to be Guests of Honor William Tenn was a major figure in science fiction magazines after his first SF story "Alexander the Bait" appeared in the May, 1946 Astounding until he became a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University in 1966. His satirical and ironic stories from the period which have been anthologized dozens of times were collected into two super volumes by NESFA in 2001. They have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Earlier sports, detective and western magazines sometimes had them as written by Kenneth Putnam. Tenn was an editor at Popular Publications and edited one anthology, "Children of Wonder" in 1953. He is now Professor Emeritus at Penn State and, at 87, a rabid football fan. Ernest Chiriacka, who attended Pulpcon last year, had outstanding covers on pulps in several fields. Two of his paintings appeared in an advertisement in the December 2004 issue of Illustration, supporting that magazine and the entire community of illustration fans making it a success. A later issue had a lengthy article about him which featured quite a few of his striking action cover paintings. Hal Steeger of Popular Publications rated him "one of the very best in quality and to work with". Since enjoying Pulpcon 34, Chiriacki has been guest of honor at the Windy City convention and Rich Harvey's shorter and smaller gathering in New Jersey. Pulpcon is introducing a new price structure for memberships, offering full memberships Thursday-Sunday (T-S), Friday-Sunday (F-S) and Saturday-Sunday (S-S). Dealers will be required to purchase T-S memberships. Memberships arriving at the Pulpcon mailbox on or before May 13, 2006 are $20 (T-S) and $10 (S-S). Memberships arriving in our box May 14th through July 15th are: $30 T-S, $20 F-S and $10 S-S. Those arriving July 16th or later will be held for at-the-door registration: $40 (T-S), $20 (F-S) and $10 (S-S). Watch the PULPCON website for the latest information as it becomes available. | |||
| The Pulp.Net - 10th anniversary online! ThePulp.Net is celebrating its 10th anniversary online this year. To celebrate, they have posted several nifty gifts for you. They've created a Pulp.Stuff section where you can download pulp desktop images and icons, as well as order limited-edition t-shirts, bumper stickers and other swag if you wish. So surf on over to http://thepulp.net and check out the celebration. They will be updating the Pulp.Stuff throughout the year. This month, two new pulp wallpapers were added to the Pulp.Stuff section at ThePulp.Net. Add them to your collection. ThePulp.Net will be replacing them in a month or two with two new ones. Also, May 1 means its time for a new pulp T-shirt design. This month's T-shirt is called "Dime" for reasons that will be obvious. It is available in black and white. You'll find a link to it on the Pulp.Stuff page, too. | |||
| Pulp Newsgroups
- Now online! There are numerous pulp newsgroups that are of potential interest to pulp fans. Information on several of these groups and a link to sign up is posted below. PulpMags: If you're interested in the old pulp magazines, this forum is the place to be. We deal with OLD pulps only! If you're looking for something dealing with modern "pulp fiction" style writing, you'd be bored here. This moderated list is set up along the lines of PEAPS, the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, and all pulp fans across the world are welcome. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpMags/ CoverUps: Sharing and trading of Pulp Fiction covers. Discussion not only allowed, but encouraged! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cover_Ups/ REH Comics Group: This group is dedicated to the characters created by Robert E Howard that have appeared in comic book form from Marvel Comics , Dark Horse Comics , Cross Plains Comics , Dynamite Entertainment etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheREHcomicsgroup/ Edgar Rice Burroughs Group: This group is dedicated to the study and appreciation of one of the great masters of literary adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Creator of numerous famous characters, such as Tarzan, Carson Napier, and John Carter of Mars, and exciting worlds, such as Venus, Barsoom, and Pellucidar, Burroughs is widely recognized as one of the fathers of the Pulp Era and modern heroic fiction. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edgarriceburroughs/ Pulp Swap Group: Place your swappable pulps and digest, plus wants, in the file section or individual messages. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpSwap/ | |||
| Pulpville
Press - Now available in dust jacketed hardcover! LOST ON VENUS by Edgar Rice Burroughs First Time in Hardcover and Paperback - the original complete magazine text. This book continues the Venus series from the cliffhanger ending to "Pirates of Venus". Does Carson Napier save Duare? Illustrated. Hardcover $24.95 Trade Paperback $14.95 THE CAVE GIRL by Edgar Rice Burroughs First Time in Hardcover and Paperback! Wrecked alone on an unknown shore, Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, scion of an effetely intellectual Boston family, finds himself terrified and physically unfit. A series of adventures leads him to the cave of a beautiful girl, Nadara, who is as primitive and uneducated as she is strong and self-reliant. This is the original unedited and uncensored magazine version. Fully illustrated. Hardcover $24.95 Trade Paperback $14.95 THE MAD KING by Edgar Rice Burroughs First Time in Hardcover and Paperback! All Ludstadt was in an uproar. The mad king had escaped. For ten years no man of them all had set eyes upon the face of the boy-king who had been hastened to the grim castle of Blentz upon the death of the old king, his father. Into this troubled country came Barney Custer of Beatrice, Nebraska, a virtual twin of the mad king. This is the original unedited and uncensored magazine version. Fully Illustrated. Hardcover $24.95 Trade Paperback $14.95 A MAN WITHOUT A SOUL by Edgar Rice Burroughs First Time in Hardcover and Paperback! This is the complete uncensored original text as it first appeared in print. Hardcover $24.95 Trade Paperback $14.95 | | ||
| ReelArt Studios -
New statues of Sheena, the Spider, and
Buck Rogers! ReelArt Studios has announced that they have acquired three new licenses: Sheena, the Spider, and Buck Rogers! Tim Bruckner has produced concept art for Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, and will also handle the sculpting chores. Tim is also handling the Buck Rogers sculpture. William Paquet will be sculpting the Spider. Both Tim and William are new to ReelArt Studios. Concept sketches are now available for viewing on the ReelArt Studios website. Click here to view the concept sketches. | |||
| ReelArt Studios - Frank Frazetta's Snow Giants is almost ready
for pre-ordering! Sculpted by Tony Cipriano and paintmastered by Dan Cope this is ReelArt Studios first piece based on one of the legendary Frank Frazetta's most famous works of art to be released. This statue looks absolutely fantastic and every Frazetta fan is going to want to own one. Click here for a look at the finished product. | |||
| ReelArt Studios - Frank Frazetta's Silver Warrior! ReelArt Studios is very proud to announce that our fourth piece based on legendary Frank Frazetta's paintings is going to be another of his most famous works, The Silver Warrior. For those of you unfamiliar with the piece or for those who wish another look at it, just click here and you'll see that this piece promises to be awesome and powerful. ReelArt has taken great care with making their Frazetta selections and hopes that you'll be as excited about this latest work as they are. | |||
| SerialFest 2006 -
May 18-19-20-21, 2006 The world's only all-serial film festival, and the most fun 3-day weekend a serial fan can have. Featuring special guest Adrian Booth (Star of CAPTAIN AMERICA, PERILS OF NYOKA, FEDERAL OPERATOR 99 and DAUGHTER OF DON Q) Meet her in person May 19-20. Location: The Newtown Theater (Daytime film screenings) 120 N. State Street, Newtown Bucks County, Pennsylvania 215-968-3859 http://www.serialsquadron.com/ | |||
| Upcoming Modern Hero-Pulp Novels
by Christopher R. Yates iBooks and Brian Preiss Visual Productions have shut down business and have filed for bankruptcy effective February 22. Preiss, former iBooks president, was killed in an automobile accident in New York last July. Watchers on the Walls (X-Men), Christopher L. Bennett, Pocket Star, $7.99, May 1 - Now Available! X-Men 3: The Last Stand (movie novelization), Chris Claremont, Del Rey, $6.99, May 16 City of Heroes: The Freedom Phalanx, Robin Laws, CDS Books, $6.99, June 30 Astounding Hero-Tales, James Lowder, editor, Hero Games, $15.99, June 2006 Superman Returns (movie novelization), Marv Wolfman, Warner Books, June 1 DC Universe: Inheritance, Devin Grayson, Warner Books, $6.99, June 1 Anderson PSI Division: Red Shadows, Mitchell Scanlon, Black Flame, $7.99, June 6 The Darkest Hours (Spiderman), Jim Butcher, Pocket Star, $7.99, June 27 Durham Red: Black Dawn, Peter J. Evans, Black Flame, $7.99, July 11 Batman: Dead White, John Shirley, Del Rey, $6.99, July 25 The God Machine (Hellboy), Thomas E. Sniegoski, Pocket Star, July 25 City of Heroes: The Rikti War, Shane Hensley, CDS Books, $6.99, August 6 Tomorrow Men (The Ultimates), Michael Jan Friedman, Pocket Star, $7.99, August 29 It’s Superman: A Novel, Tom De Haven, Ballantine Books, $13.95, August 29 The Wraith: Valley of Evil, Frank Dirscherl, Coscom Entertainment, $25, September Wolverine: Road of Bones, David Alan Mack, Pocket Star, $7.99, October 31 Batman: Inferno, Alex Irvine, Del Rey, $6.99, October 31 I Am The Law: The Judge Dredd Omnibus,Gordon Rennie, Black Flame, $10.99, November Subterranean (Hellblazer series), John Shirley, Pocket Star, $7.99, November 28 The Baxter Effect (Fantastic Four), Dave Stern, Pocket Star, $7.99, December 26 Batman: Fear Itself, Michael Reaves, Del Rey, $6.99, February 27, 2007 Delayed - No new publication date available. Wild Cards: Deuces Down (softcover), George R.R. Martin, ed., ibooks, $6.99 Wild Cards 4: Aces Abroad, George R.R. Martin editor, ibooks, $7.99 Rising Stars: Book 3; Change the World, Arthur Byron Cover, ibooks, $6.99 The Science of Superman, Mark Wolverton & Howard Zimmerman, ibooks, $7.99 Fathom: Book 2: Tides of Destiny, Kevin Andrew Murphy, ibooks, $6.99 Justice Society of America: Book 1, Geoff Johns & Paul Kupperberg, ibooks, $6.99 Crisis on Infinite Earths (softcover), Marv Wolfman, ibooks, $12.95 |   | ||
| Wild
Cat Books - Now available! THE HANDBOOK OF BRONZE by Jay Ryan. This is the Definitive Guide for the Doc Savage collector! This massive Index and Reference Source contains everything related to The Man Of Bronze! Sections include: The Street & Smith Era, the Bantam Book Era, the Comic Book Eras, Bronze Information Sources, the Doc Savage Film, the Modern Era, and a Collector's Check List. Each section is lavishly illustrated with memorabilia, artwork, foreign material, and much, much more! Previously available only as a small-press limited edition fanzine, this marks the First Trade Paperback Edition, and is a "must-have" book for every fan of Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze! 212 pages, 8.50" x 11.00", perfect binding, black and white interior ink $19.99 Print, $11.21 Download Visit the Wild Cat bookstore at Lulu.com to order. |  | ||
| Wildside
Press - Audio Book Division coming in October! October marks the launch of an audio book division, Wildside Audio Library, with six titles already scheduled for national distribution, in both audio and mp3 editions, which include the following: "Science Fiction: The Best of the Year" edited by Rich Horton "The Dunwich Horror / The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft "The Shadow over Innsmouth" by H.P. Lovecraft "Little Fuzzy" by H. Beam Piper "Elric of Melnibone" by Michael Moorcock "The Phoenix on the Sword" by Robert E. Howard | |||
| ZORRO by Isabel Allende
- Now available in trade paperback! The story of the childhood and adolescence of Diego de la Vega, and how he became the legendary Zorro. Harper Perennial, 416 pages, ISBN: 0060779004, $14.95 | |||
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