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2016 Pulp Shows

The Pulp Coming Attractions Pulp Shows page has been updated with available information on the presently known pulp & paperback shows scheduled for 2016!
Click on the PULP SHOWS link below or the icon at the top of the page and start making your reservations!


Adventure House
Special Adventure House Excess Inventory Sale


We just finished our inventory for taxes, and we realized we have a great opportunity to offer some of our products at special Wholesale Reduced prices.
How much of a discount?  How about 80%. 


Before you tear your pockets trying to get your money out, please note that the discount is only available on certain items found in the Wholesale category on our new website.
We've listed several items below and a link directly to the site.

All prices listed are the retail price, simply type in the word— wholesale — into the Coupon box when you view your cart to receive your 80% off. 
Please note that if you do purchase other items not from the wholesale section, it will only give you the discount on  those items that apply. Our loss is your gain.  

Adventure House Guide to the Pulps: Retail - $29.95 - Special - $5.99

Walter M. Baumhofer: Pulp Art Masters: Retail - $20.00 - Special - $4.00

High Adventure #95 - Captain Zero - "The Golden Murder Syndicate": Retail - $7.95 - Special - $1.59

High Adventure #90 - "Brand of the Black Bat": Retail - $7.95 - Special - $1.59

G-8 and His Battle Aces #14 - "The Mad Dog Squadron": Retail - $9.95 - Special - $1.99

Those Macabre Pulps - Full Color Book: Retail - $22.00 - Special - $4.40

It's Raining More Corpses In Chinatown: Retail - $16.95 - Special - $3.39

Pulp Fictioneers - Edited by John Locke: Retail - $20.00 - Special - $4.00


Adventure House

Adventure House
Now available!

G-8 and his Battle Aces #49 - October 1937

"The Hand of Steel" by Robert J. Hogan

 
Out of the fires of war, fed by the blood and hatred of destruction, comes the Cripple of Harstburg!
What is the curse he has placed on the head of the Allies?—what mad vengeance is sought by his disorted brain?
Only G-8 can learn the answer, and to find it he must search the hungry jaws of death!
 
 Cover Artist: Frederick Blakeslee

 
 7x10, 110 pages, $9.95


Adventure House
Now available!

The Phantom Detective - November 1937

"Minions of Murder" by Robert Wallace
 Wild. laughing maniacs, recruited to further the heinous plans of an arch-fiend, terrorize a great city as crime follows crime follows crime in a blood-curdling procession of horror!

 "Hot Gold" by Lloyd Llewell
 "The Case of the Silver Mountain" by William Degenhard
 "Death For a Mixing Spoon" by Paul Ernst

  
 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95


Adventure House
Now available!

Jungle Stories - Winter 1952/53

"Caravan of Terror" by John Peter Drummond

 The jungle seethed with terror. 
Devilish rumors flew the vine-route: Ki-Gor was doomed! 
The vile Wandarobo, hordes of stunted beast-men, had trapped the blond stalker…
And copper-haired Helene, the tree-telegraph whispered, would die beneath the cannibal moon.

 "Jailer of Souls" by Hamilton Craig
 "Juju Justice" by Richard Stockton Ullery
 "Diamonds Are Death" by J.C. Hudson
 "Amazon Queen of Ophir" by E. Rickard Zoar
 "The Seven From Zanzibar" by J.G. Wilson
 
 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95


Adventure House
Now available!

Double Action Gang Magazine - April 1938

"Hot Wires" by Pierson Bryan

 Dough and dames and an itchy finger are his weaknesses, but it took only the dames to topple Jake Krantz from the racket throne that a ruthless gun and greedy brain had hammered out for him.
 
"Duke Casts the Racket Dice" by Margie Harris
 Muscling into the numbers racket isn’t such a hanger when a man like Duke Mellon doesn’t feel like splitting his swag.
 
"The Truth About the Dalton Gang" by Mrs. Emmett Dalton
 "Fanny’s Fillies" by “Undercover” Dix
 "This Is A Ride!" by Bertrand L. Shurtleff
 "Break For A Chink" by Charles M. Brown
 "Midnight Call" by Robert Martin
 "Jail Fellow—Well Met" by Tom Thursday
 "Carnival Killer" by Mat Rand


  7x10, 128 pages, $14.95



Altus Press
The Complete Adventures of Richard Knight Volume 2
by Donald E. Keyhoe

Coming soon!

Best known for writing the adventures of Philip Strange, UFO legend Donald E. Keyhoe
also wrote another long-running aerial hero for the pages of Flying Aces: Richard Knight.
These wild adventures also mix in elements of lost races, dinosaurs and more!

Volume 2 collects the next four stories from 1937–38:
 “Masks Over Madrid”
“Wings of the Emerald”
“Hell Over China”
“Aces of Death”

266 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover


Altus Press
The Complete Adventures of The Griffon Volume 3
by Arch Whitehouse

Coming soon!

Fighting the aerial forces of evil for nearly ten years in the pages of Flying Aces,
Kerry Keen aka The Griffon finally returns to print!
This edition continues the complete reprinting of the series.

Volume 3 contains the next six stories:
“Riddle of the Rocket”
“Cavalry of the Clouds”
“Twin-Engine Treachery”
“Test Pilot Terror”
“The Carrier Coup”
“Scourge of the Sky Brood”

275 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover



Altus Press
Hazzard: The Complete Series
by Frederick C. Davis

Coming soon!

The Fight Against the Lawless!
Featuring all six of Mark Hazzard’s adventures in one volume!

Contains the following stories:
“Coffins for Two”
“Juggernaut Justice”
“Corpses’ Court”
“The Murder Crypt”
“Terror Tribunal”
“The Death-Chair Challenge”

296 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover


Altus Press
A Matter of Range: The Complete Adventures of the Major, Volume 2
by L. Patrick Greene

Coming soon!

The long-running and much-beloved series from the pages of Short Stories is finally collected in order and with a plethora of bonus material.

Join Aubrey St. John Major—AKA the Major—and his faithful companion, Jim the Hottentot, on their adventures across the diamond country of Africa.
This collection includes the next nine stories, along with another rare, never-before reprinted story by Greene.

279 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Ki-Gor: The Complete Series Volume 3
by John Peter Drummond
Introduction by Howard Andrew Jones

Coming soon!

For the first time, the Ki-Gor series from the pages of Jungle Stories is collected, complete, uncut and in order!

Volume 3 includes the next four stories:
“Tigress of T’wanbi” (Winter 1941-42)
“Slaves for the Renegade Sultan” (Spring 1942)
“Blood Priestess of Vig’Na” (Summer 1942)
“The Cannibal Horde” (Fall 1942)


318 pages / $24.95 softcover / $34.95 hardcover


Altus Press
The Complete Casebook of Sgt. Brinkhaus
by Frederick Nebel
Introduction by Will Murray

Coming soon!
 
Following Donahue and Cardigan, Frederick Nebel’s longest-running detective series featured the hard-boiled exploits of Sgt. Otto Herman “Brinky” Brinkhaus and Inspector Peter Larsen of the Portsend Detective Bureau as chronicled in the pages of Detective Action Stories, Dime Detective Magazine, and Detective Fiction Weekly.

389 pages / $29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Will o’ the Wisp
by H. Bedford-Jones

Coming soon!

To horse, ye English captains! In the king’s name, ride! For Brian Desmond, spy for France, takes the Dover road tonight!
A superb novel of spies and swords and one of H. Bedford-Jones’ best historicals, as it originally appeared in Argosy Magazine.

241 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover


Altus Press
Ghost Hills
by H. Bedford-Jones

Coming soon!
 
Up in the frozen north of Canada … an old secret and a lovely woman … and three men:
Barr Radison, an American adventurer, searching for the mysterious source of black and silver fox pelts,
Macferris Montenay, a ruthless giant of a man, trying to carve out his own kingdom in the wilderness, and
Jean Nichemus, a halfbreed and Montenay’s henchman, harboring his own sinister plans.

185 pages / $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
The Crimson Mask Omnibus Volume 2
by Norman A. Daniels

Coming soon!
 
Part of the early 1940s pulp hero revival, pharmacist Bob Clarke takes on the underworld as The Crimson Mask!
Volume 2 contains the next five adventures:
“The Crimson Mask and the Vanishing Men”
“The Crimson Mask's Ghost Trail”
“The Diamond Death Trail”
“The Money Trail”
“Murders of the Black Rose”
All stories are uncut and contain all of the original illustrations.

280 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover


Altus Press
George Chance: The Ghost Omnibus, Volume 1
by G.T. Fleming-Roberts

Coming soon!
 
Magician George Chance, AKA the crime-fighter known as The Ghost,
who has done more in the service of the Law than any other man of his generation.

Master of the science of criminology, remorseless crime-tracker and criminal catcher!
When The Ghost walks, the underworld stirs into deadly life to combat him.

This omnibus contains the first two adventures of The Ghost, uncut, and with the original illustrations.

264 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover






Altus Press
Super-Detective Jim Anthony: The Complete Series Volume 3
by Victor Rousseau

Coming soon!
 
The complete reprinting of the greatest of the Doc Savage pastiches continues!
Volume Three of contains the next three adventures of Jim Anthony:
“Murder Syndicate”
“The Horrible Marionettes”
“Border Napoleon”

This volume also includes editor notes and correspondence.
353 pages / $29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover




Altus Press
The Brazen Peacock
by H. Bedford-Jones

Coming soon!

H. Bedford-Jones pens this thrilling tale of adventure in the Middle East.

Fraser, his whereabouts unknown to his father following the Great War,
finds himself in the middle of a battle over a lost idol and on the road to Baghdad.
And just what does Fraser have to do with the treasured Brazen Peacock?

It’s another volume in the H. Bedford-Jones Library.

171 pages / $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover



Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
DOC SAVAGE ANNIVERSARY INSTANT COLLECTION SALE!
Now available!

February 17 marked the  83rd anniversary of the debut of DOC SAVAGE MAGAZINE. 
On that day, Sanctum Books received their first advance copies of Sanctum Books' DOC SAVAGE #87, which completes the reprinting of ALL 182 Doc Savage pulp novels!

In commemoration of this event, for the next two months Sanctum Books is offering a 30% discount off list price to anyone who wants to purchase a complete set of all 87 DOC SAVAGE classic volumes (plus replicas of the two 1930s Doc Savage giveaway premium prints) ... or the first 100 Sanctum Books SHADOW volumes plus SHADOW ANNUAL #1.

With insured postage, the 87 DOC SAVAGE volumes (plus premium replicas) can be purchased for just $900.00.
The first 101 SHADOW volumes (plus a complete set of Shadow art prints and premium photo replicas) can be purchased for just $1,050.00 postpaid.

Some of these volumes are already sold out (except in superpacks) so this could be your last chance to obtain a COMPLETE collection of these Sanctum Books series!

Mail checks or money orders to:
Sanctum Books; P.O. Box 761474; San Antonio, TX 78245
or
Paypal to: orders@shadowsanctum.com.

This offer expires at midnight, April 17, 2016.


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available and arriving in comic shops March 2!

DOC SAVAGE Volume 39:  "Poison Island" & "They Died Twice"
JAMES BAMA VARIANT EDITION
The Man of Bronze returns in two action-packed novels by Lester Dent. First, Patricia Savage's disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle lures the Man of Bronze to "Poison Island" to rescue his beautiful cousin and recover stolen gold. Then, Doc Savage returns to Hidalgo's Valley of the Vanished, the locale of his first adventure, to help Princess Monja defeat a criminal cabal attempting to loot Mayan treasure. This classic pulp reprint showcases a haunting cover by legendary paperback artist James Bama and both original color pulp covers by Emery Clarke, Paul Orban's classic interior illustrations, and historical commentary by Will Murray.. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-032-8 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, b&w, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

 

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available and arriving in comic shops March 2!

DOC SAVAGE Volume 87: "The Devil’s Black Rock," "The Pure Evil" & "Up from Earth's Center"
Sanctum Books completes its reprinting of all 182 original Doc Savage pulp novels with three hellish thrillers by Lester Dent. The Man of Bronze struggles to prevent the Nazis from obtaining "The Devil's Black Rock," a mysterious force that could change the course of the war, and teams with three ghost hunters to destroy "The Pure Evil." Finally, Doc journeys to the gates of Hell and must battle demon-like creatures to return "Up from Earth's Center" in his legendary final pulp odyssey! 978-1-60877-200-1 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available and arriving in comic shops March 2!

THE SHADOW Volume 104: "Double Death" & "The Robot Master"—astounding science fiction special

The Knight of Darkness proves that "crime does not pay" in startling pulp novels by Theodore Tinsley and Walter B. Gibson writing as "Maxwell Grant." First, disguised as both Lamont Cranston and Kent Allard, The Shadow investigates "Double Death" when a corpse is murdered—a full day after its actual death! Then, the Dark Avenger battles an eight-foot man of steel in "The Robot Master," a change-of-pace super-science thriller. BONUS: a rare Iron Munro illustrated adventure by science fiction great Theodore Sturgeon and Golden Age of Comics legend Jack Farr! This groundbreaking collector's edition showcases the classic color pulp covers by George Rozen (reproduced directly from the original oil painting) and Graves Gladney plus the original interior illustrations by Edd Cartier and Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-202-5  Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95


Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available and arriving in comic shops March 2!

THE SPIDER Volume 8: "Empire of Doom" & "The Spider and the Faceless One"

The pulp era's most lethal crimebuster wages his deadly war on crime in two violent thrillers by Norvell Page. The White House itself hangs in the balance as Richard Wentworth attempts to prevent a power-mad dictator from turning our nation into an "Empire of Doom." Then, the city burns as The Spider seeks to unmask the mysterious Munro, a murderous master of disguise who could be anyone in "The Spider and the Faceless One." This double novel pulp reprint showcases the original color covers by Rafael De Soto and John Newton Howitt, John Fleming Gould's classic interior illustrations and historical commentary by Will Murray. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-199-8 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95


Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)


Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!


Nikki Nelson-Hicks: Sherlock Holmes and the Shrieking Pits
Author Nikki Nelson-Hicks discusses her award winning story "Sherlock Holmes and the Shrieking Pits" and her many other works.  Nikki is an eclectic and passionate writer who has written books and stories in several genres.  We had a lively free-wheeling discussion that covered many topics.  I even found the expurgated version of her short piece "Coonhunt" online.  I thinks the fans will really enjoy this one.

Past episodes:
Tommy Hancock talks about Pro-Se Production!
Flinch Books with Jim Beard and John Bruening
Legends of New Pulp Fiction: Ron Fortier and Rob Davis

Ellen and David Walters discuss the adventures of Wire Dog!
Jean-Marc Lofficier and Black Coat Press
The Grim Spectre by Ralph Angelo Jr.
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
Lost Treasures from the Pulps #50
THE LADY FROM HELL by Eugene Thomas

Now available!


Red-headed Vivian Legrand was an exotic and breath-taking beauty. She fascinated men, and when they babbled their secrets she bled them of their wealth. The rich and influential of three continents were her victims.

She operated a school that trained blackmailers in the art of extortion. Her agents numbered hundreds, for she forced her victims to ferret out the secrets of their friends, and to pay her in information as well as money. Anybody in contact with the rich might be in Vi Legrand’s pay, and the agents she recruited by blackmail included social leaders and public officials and royalty whom the world believed above suspicion!

Herein you will find a series of stories about the exploits of this siren who came from Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, and flamed across three continents.


Contents
The Lady from Hell (nv) (Detective Fiction Weekly January 19, 1935).
Bait for Men (ss) (Detective Fiction Weekly January 26, 1935).
The Episode of the Secret Service Blackmail (Detective Fiction Weekly February 9, 1935).
The Episode of the Forty Murderers (Detective Fiction Weekly February 16, 1935).
The Episode of the Grave Robbers (Detective Fiction Weekly March 2, 1935).
The Episode of the Levantine Monster (Detective Fiction Weekly March 9, 1935).
The Episode of the League of Death (Detective Fiction Weekly March 16, 1935).
The Episode of the Sensational Orient Express Robbery (Detective Fiction Weekly April 20, 1935)
The Strange Episode of the House of Secrets (Detective Fiction Weekly May 4, 1935)
The Episode of the Pounce of Death (Detective Fiction Weekly May 11, 1935)
The Adventure of the King of Diamonds (Detective Fiction Weekly September 21, 1935)
The Adventure of the Maharaja’s Wife (Detective Fiction Weekly September 28, 1935)
The Episode of the London Queen of Crime (Detective Fiction Weekly October 12, 1935)
The Adventure of the Dragon Claws (Detective Fiction Weekly October 19, 1935)
The Adventure of the Headless Statue (Detective Fiction Weekly January 25, 1936)
The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon (Detective Fiction Weekly February 1, 1936)
The Adventure of the Cayenne Fugitives (Detective Fiction Weekly February 15, 1936)
The Adventure of the Dying Dictator (Detective Fiction Weekly February 22, 1936)
Lady from Hell (Detective Fiction Weekly May 2, 1936)
A Fortune in Flight (Detective Fiction Weekly June 20, 1936)
Money-Bed and the Money-Belt (Detective Fiction Weekly July 11, 1936)
Spanish Prisoner (Detective Fiction Weekly August 22, 1936)
Treasure of the Bandit Village (Detective Fiction Weekly August 29, 1936)
Cross Killer and the Golden Bier (Detective Fiction Weekly September 5, 1936)
The Lady from Hell Returns (Popular Detective April 1938)


Hard Cover, 558 pages, $60.00

Mike Chomko is the only known U.S. dealer for this title.
Contact Mike at
mikechomko@gmail.com
if you are interested in procuring this title.

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Lost Treasures from the Pulps #64
THE MARQUIS OF BROADWAY by John Lawrence
Introduction by Mike Nevins

Now available!

The Marquis of Broadway series is Lawrence’s chief claim to a place in crime fiction history. Lieutenant Martin Marquis and the men of his Broadway Squad are not only the most vicious group of cops in the literature but support a system in their own image, ruthless and tyrannical almost beyond imagining. With 22 legalized murderers under his control, Marquis’s job is "to rule half the city’s thieves" or, more precisely, the other half of the city’s thieves. Marty is trimly built, dapper, deceptively slight, with a round and weathered face and small deep-set blue eyes. Like his creator, he prefers to be seen in fancy clothes. His habitual attire includes an imported derby, a tight black silk scarf, black kid gloves and shoes, a dark suit, an ankle-length black Chesterfield. Sound like a gangster? Marquis’s behavior does nothing to change that perception. He thinks of himself as a polished and quiet man of culture but his immaculate appearance and good taste are a veneer, poorly concealing the brutal and insecure mugg from Avenue A who worships power with the intensity of a fanatic. He enjoys being mistaken for a vice-president, supports a widowed mother and two sisters in Brooklyn and visits them once a month, has had his Central Park West apartment redecorated "in proper old oak and leather" like an English gentleman’s den, but he’s just a gangster with a badge.

Contents
In Re: John Lawrence by Mike Nevins
John Lawrence: A Checklist

Volume One
1. Broadway Malady (Dime Detective Magazine, February 1937)
2. Live Man’s Shoes (Dime Detective Magazine, August 1937)
3. Escape Mechanism (Dime Detective Magazine, October 1937)
4. Natural Killer (Dime Detective Magazine, December 1937)
5. Boomerang Blastout (Dime Detective Magazine, February 1938)
6. Body About Town (Dime Detective Magazine, April 1938)
7. Witness! Witness! (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1938)
8. Twelve Morticians Named Green (Dime Detective Mag., August 1938)
9. Death in Round Numbers (Dime Detective Magazine, November 1938)
10. The Stars Said Murder (Dime Detective Magazine, March 1939)
11. Old Wives’ Tale (Dime Detective Magazine, April 1939)
12. Death for Twelve Months (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1939)
13. Man Hunt (Dime Detective Magazine, October 1939)
14. Albino Alibi (Dime Detective Magazine, December 1939)

Volume Two
15. Death in the Side Pocket (Dime Detective Magazine, Jan. 1940)
16. Inspector’s Funeral (Dime Detective Magazine, March 1940)
17. Murder Must Go On! (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1940)
18. The Death of the Party (Dime Detective Magazine, August 1940)
19. Gallows 9 (Dime Detective Magazine, October 1940)
20. Nothing for Christmas (Dime Detective Magazine, December 1940)
21. Floater (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1941)
22. Murder Come Back to Me (Dime Detective Magazine, January 1942)
23. Murder in the Family (Dime Detective Magazine, May 1942)
24. Death of a Dog (Dime Detective Magazine, July 1942)
25. Military Secret (Dime Detective Magazine, October 1942)
26. A Frame for the Marquis (Dime Detective Magazine, June 1948)


Hard Cover, 2 volumes, 485 pages and 512 pages,
$130 for the two-volume set


Mike Chomko is the only known U.S. dealer for this title.
Contact Mike at
mikechomko@gmail.com
if you are interested in procuring this title.

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Beb Books
TIDES OF HATE & THE SCIENCE FICTION OF EARL REPP
Now available!


Tides of Hate a novel of buccaneers, gold and revenge by Captain A. E. Dingle
Ed Davies, Swan and the Frenchman L’Escuyler, pirates all, captured a fortune in Spanish gold only to see it vanish one night. All three blame the other for the theft and all three plan to return to the Isthmus of Panama to reclaim their gold. To get there Davies must partner with another pirate, John Cook, a man who no more trusts Davies than he does Swan or L’Escuyler. But twenty ass’s load of gold is too great a lure to ignore.

A thrilling tale of treachery on the high seas. Print editon $6.00 plus postage.

Also new this week:

The Science Fiction of Ed Earl Repp - Book 2 - The Invisible Raider and other Air Wonder Stories
Table of Contents
The Invisible Raider - Air Wonder Stories, October 1929
Beyond The Aurora - Air Wonder Stories November 1929
The Storm Buster -     Air Wonder Stories January 1930
The Sky Ruler - Air Wonder Stories May 1930

and

The Science Fiction of Ed Earl Repp - Book 3 - The Stellar Missile and Other Stories
Table of Contents
The Stellar Missile - Science Wonder Stories, November, 1929.
The Second Missile - (sequel to The Stellar Missile) - Amazing Stories, December, 1930
The Synthetic Man - Wonder Stories, December 1930

Other recent releases  include:

MEN AND WOMEN WITH WINGS
Leslie F. Stone was one of the  earliest women writers of Science Fiction, beginning in 1929. She never hide her sex by using initials and didn’t try to write like “one of the boys.”

“Men With Wings” is her first published story, a short novella about the evolution of a species of flying humans and the utopian society  they form. Its sequel, “Women With Wings” is set centuries later then winged humanity has come to replace Homo Sapiens. But tragedy stalks the flying species as the women  are increasingly dying in childbirth. Unless something drastic is done the species will go extinct.

From the pages of Air Wonder Stories, Beb Books presents Men and Women with Wings.
Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition $1.99

GULF STREAM GOLD

Ed Earl Repp was a prolific writer from 1929 to 1933 before switching to Westerns where he was  equally prolific. He returned to science fiction around 1938. “Gulf Stream Gold” collects four of his novelets from 1929-1932. Modern day fortune hunters search for underwater gold in “Gulf Stream Gold.”  Submarine pirates stumbles into an air-filled cavern inhabited by monsters from ages past. Monsters from deep within the earth declare war on the surface in “The Metal World.” and a desert-rat his weird experience in Death Valley with a mother dragon in “From Out of the Earth.

From the pages of Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories Quarterly.  Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition $1.99.


Beb Books has big plans when it comes to reprinting early science fiction.
Here’s a list of forthcoming titles:


Beb Books’ Library of Early Science Fiction

Ed Earl Repp
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Beyond Gravity - a collection of Air Wonder Stories
(Now available) Book 2 - The Invisible Raider - a second collection of his Air Wonder Stories
(Now available) Book 3 - The Stellar Missile and other stories
(Now available) Book 4 - Gulf Stream Gold - Undersea and under the earth stories
(Now available)  Book 5 - The Radium Pool and other stories

A. Hyatt Verrill
(Now available)  Book 1 - Beyond the Pole and Inside The Crater’s Rim
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - King of the Monkey Man and Dirigibles of Death
(forthcoming)    Book 3 - The Man Who Could Vanish and other stories

Harl Vincent
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Subterrania, The Menace From Below
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - Air-War - a collection
(forthcoming)    Book 3 - Before The Asteroids - 3 space opera novelets.
(forthcoming)    Book 4 - Vagabonds of Spaces - 4 space opera novelets
(forthcoming)    Book 5 - Wander of Infinity - 5 Thrilling Adventures

Henrik Dahl Juve
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - The Silent Destroyers - 4 Air-War thrillers
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - The Monsters of Neptune - 4 stories on other worlds

Bob Olsen
(Now available) Book 1 - The Four Dimensional World of Bob Olsen - explorations into higher physics

Earl L. Bell
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Moon of Doom - The end of the world.

Nat Schnacher and Arthur Leo Zaget
(Now available) Book 1 - The Tower of Evil - 4 weird adventures on the earth, in the future and beyond.

Laurence Manning
(Now available) Book 1 - Voyage of the Asteroid
(forthcoming) Book 2 - The Wreck of The Asteroid


Pay by either check or money order to:
Brian Brown
11675 Beaconsfield
Detroit, MI 48224

or via Paypal to beb01@sprynet.com


Print editions are printed on 8.5x11 paper and stapled on the side. Postage is $3.00 for one to three books. Add 25 cents extra for each copy over three.


Check out the rest of Beb Books many titles.
Ask for a catalog at beb01@sprynet.com


Ask for a list of everything  in stock. It’s free.







Bold Venture Press
AWESOME TALES #3
Winter 2016

Now available!

Fantomas! His name sends icy shivers down the stalwart spines of French authorities. Fantomas! He deals in death and mayhem for high stakes profit! No stakes are higher than world freedom, so the shadowy criminal offers to combat the German war machine. When Fantomas makes an offer, the contract is signed in blood!

Plus: "Taxi to Hell" by Lee Richards -- Step on it! How often do cab drivers hear that snarled command? This cabbie steps on it, alright — steps on love and hate, stomps on heart and lungs, and grinds out the last spark of life! ALSO In "The Emerald Eye" by KT Pinto, you'll meet Raphael Jones, a new hardboiled P.I.! He rolls his eyes over a new client and heeds her bidding, for three times his normal rate — until he’s dealing with forces beyond mortal comprehension!

New illustrations by Ed Coutts.
Cover design by Rich Harvey.

54 pages
$6.00




Bold Venture Press
PULP ADVENTURES #20
Winter 2016

Now available!

Pulp Adventures -- a quarterly safari through the pulp fiction jungle!
This issue is filled with iconic characters and authors.


CONTENTS
"Zorro Serenades a Siren" by Johnston McCulley
"The Lacquer Box" by Judson P. Philips, author of the Park Avenue Hunt Club series
"The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry, the story that introduced the Cisco Kid to pop culture
"Death in Harbor City" by John L. French, a new thriller with Midnight and The Domino Lady
"The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, the story that inspired Diary of a Madman starring Vincent Price
"Cry Mommie" by Audrey Parente
"Robot Graveyard" by Adam Beau McFarlane
"Fighting Chance" by Cliff Campbell, a gridiron story about a linebacker in desperate need of GPS.

Fantastic cover by Norman A. Saunders, courtesy of the artist's estate!
Original pulp illustrations.
130 pages
$12.95

Kinde edition: On sale February 15th - $2.99
Due to licensing arrangements, "Zorro Serenades a Siren" and "The Lacquer Box" are not included in the Kindle / eBook edition.



Bold Venture Press
Now available!

Cancelled in Red
by Hugh Pentecost
An Inspector Luke Bradley mystery

When it debuted in 1939, Cancelled in Red was the $1,000 Red Badge Prize Mystery winner. It also walked away with the $10,000 prize for the 1939 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest. Dodd, Mead & Company issued the story in paperback and hardcover that same year. The novel also launched the "Hugh Pentecost" penname, which began to overshadow Judson P. Philips, who continued writing pulp magazine stories and serials while "Pentecost" reached the slick-paper publications and the burgeoning paperback market. (More about that in Audrey Parente's book Once a Pulp Man, the Secret Life of Judson Philips as Hugh Pentecost).

Max Adrian was the rare stamp broker everyone in the know avoided — and those unfortunate enough to do business with him harbored grudges. It never mattered to the shifty broker, until someone demanded a refund at the point of a gun. Soon, Adrian’s rival Larry Storm plays amateur detective for the benefit of a dishy dame, searching for a hidden cache of priceless stamps. Storm is one step ahead of the tenacious Inspector Luke Bradley, who’s one step behind a cold-blooded killer — and Storm had better start running....





Judson P. Philips rubbed elbows with movie stars and directors. He owned a newspaper and scratched out columns in others. He penned hundreds of stories in pulp magazines, digests and slick magazines, under a trio of pen names. His words flooded radio, television and film. He faced down Newsweek editors, owned an equity summer stock theater and boosted many ingénues to fame.

He filled pulp magazines like Argosy with stories about tough detectives, smooth-talking criminals, and down-and-out athletes who make Rocky-like comebacks. As "Hugh Pentecost," he graduated into the lucrative slick-paper magazines and burgeoning paperback mystery field.

Despite awards and financial gain, he deemed himself a failure—His famous “Hugh Pentecost” penname came at a price, and five marriages cost him more in emotional capital. Once a Pulp Man: The Secret Life of Judson Philips as Hugh Pentecost unveils the man who sneered at Yul Brynner, ignored McCarthyism, proposed to dozens of women, and created a lasting legacy of entertainment.

Audrey Parente established her street cred with author biographies like Pulpmaster: The Theodore Roscoe Story and Pulp Man's Odyessey: The Hugh B. Cave Story. A retired reporter for the Ormond Beach New Journal, she spents years preparing this volume, researching Philip's background, compiling a complete bibliography, and transcribing hours of interviews she conducted with Philips in the late 1980s.






The Bronze Gazette #75 (January 2016)
Now available!

This issue features:
Editorial
by Howard Wright
“Lester Dent's Last Doc Savage Story” by Will Murray
"The Mystery of the Coastal Yacht Club" by Julian Puga
"Doc Savage: Man of Stone" by John L. Vellutini
"Casting The Mind Assassins" by Howard Wright
"A New Beginning" by Terry Allen

Front Cover: Tim Faurote
Interior illustrations: Edd Cartier, Frank Hamilton, Alvaro Fernandois, David Burton, Ron Wilber, and Kevin Duncan.


Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 76, Spring 2016, and No. 77, Fall 2016.

$20.00 U.S.A
$30.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$35.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)

Click HERE to subscribe!
 

THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscriptions for 2016 are now available!


Earlier this summer, Howard Wright announced that issue 75 would be the final number of his Doc Savage-oriented fanzine, The Bronze Gazette.
 
Howard began the zine in 1990 as The Doc Savage Gazette. (The name was quickly changed after four issues because of trademark problems.)
It’s clearly been a labor of love for Howard, who has regularly put out three issues a year for 25 years now.
But Howard decided it was time to move on.
 
However, The Bronze Gazette will continue!
PULPlications — run by Terry Allen of Fantom Press and Keith Wilson of Doc Savage Fantasy Covers — will be the publisher, while Chuck Welch of Flearun will be the editor.
The Bronze Gazette’s 76th issue will debut in Spring 2016.
Terry says the zine will keep its digest size, and will run about 48 pages.
There will be a slate of regular contributors, but article submissions will be welcomed.


Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 76, Spring 2016, and No. 77, Fall 2016.

$20.00 U.S.A
$30.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$35.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)

Click HERE to subscribe!
 



Castalia House Blog - Now online!

RETROSPECTIVE: “The People of the Pit” by A. Merritt - New!
RETROSPECTIVE: “Through the Dragon Glass” by A. Merritt - New!
Book Review: Louis L’Amour Adventure Stories: Part 1 - New!
Short Reviews – Red Witch of Mercury by Emmett McDowell
Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft on Immigration
A Beautiful Friendship: Lovecraft’s Induction into the WEIRD TALES Roster
RETROSPECTIVE: Behind the Curtain by Francis Stevens
RETROSPECTIVE: Part Two of “The Citadel of Fear” by Francis Stevens

Clive Cussler: THE GANGSTER (Isaac Bell) - Arriving in book stores March 1!
by Clive Cussler & Justin Scott


It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special “Black Hand Squad,” but the gangsters appear to be everywhere—so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and as Bell discovers, to his dismay, the ultimate target may be the most powerful man of all.

Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399175954
ISBN-13: 978-0399175954
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
List Price: $28.95
Pre-order  $21.11


CONAN VOLUME 19: XUTHAL OF THE DUSK HC - Arriving in comic shops March 2!
Fred Van Lente (Writer), Brian Ching (Art), Guiu Vilanova (Art), Michael Atiyeh (Color), and Eric Powell (Cover)

Conan and the former slave girl Natala dare to enter the city of Xuthal, where a mysterious horror waits in the shadows! Then, Conan fights a deadly duel as Janissa the Widowmaker makes her triumphant return! This enthralling volume collects issues #13-19 of the Conan the Avenger series.

Hardcover, 176 pages, $24.99





CONAN Role Playing Game
Cover by world-renowned fantasy artist BROM!


Modiphius is proud to unveil the brand new cover for Robert E. Howard’s CONAN Roleplaying game - Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of.

Modiphius is proud to announce a licensing deal with Conan Properties to publish Robert E. Howard’s CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of. This is CONAN roleplaying as Robert E. Howard wrote it – savage pulp adventure battling ancient horrors in the Hyborian Age! We plan to bring the game right back to its roots, focusing on the original stories by Robert E. Howard.

Modiphius is proud to unveil the brand new cover for Robert E Howard’s CONAN Roleplaying game - Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of

​The core rulebook for Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of contains everything you’ll need to adventure in the world of Robert E. Howard’s hero, Conan. It is based entirely on the canonical Conan stories, and uses the 2D20 system developed by Modiphius and used in Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition, Infinity, John Carter, and other fine games. This tome presents character generation, the game’s rules , and a wealth of source material, including cultures, geography, religions, magic, gods, monsters, gamemastering advice, adventure seeds, and much more. This work has been developed by an all-star writing team, with close involvement by respected Robert E. Howard authorities, and is illustrated by world-renowned Conan artists. Full-color hardcover, 368 pages.

All the supplements for the Robert E. Howard's Conan Roleplaying Game will be in beautiful full colour hardbacks using the Arctic White paper used in the Mutant: Year Zero RPG.


The Kickstarter campaign is now active!
The Kickstarter will help fund one of the biggest line ups of major artists ever for a roleplaying game.
Each book is a beautiful high quality hard cover book featuring a major commissioned cover art by one of the legendary names
we have assembled along with truly authentic and evocative content by industry veterans and newcomers

THE ART OF ROBERT E. HOWARD's CONAN: ADVENTURES IN AN AGE UNDREAMED OF.
A 112 page full-colour hardback (& PDF) containing the art of the incredible line-up of Conan artists
assembled for the roleplaying game annotated by Conan scholar Jeffrey Shanks:
Brom, Sanjulian, Carl Critchlow, Simon Bisley, Paolo Parente, Aleksi Briclot, Val Mayerik, Daren Bader,
Liam Sharp, Mark Schultz, Tim Truman, Phroilan Gardner, Alex Horley, Tomas Giorello,
Esteban Maroto, Tom Grindberg, Jose Villarrubia, Giogio Baroni, Jorge Barrero, Josh Hass & Michael Syrigos.




Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!

Braggin' Time: BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2016
- New!
Overlooked Films: THE SPIDER'S WEB (serial)
Forgotten Books: CONAN THE DEFENDER by Robert Jordan (1982)  
Overlooked Films: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WYATT EARP (Episode 1)
Overlooked Films: THE ADVENTURES OF KIT CARSON (TV episode)
Overlooked Films: CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT TV Episode (1955)


DEJAH THORIS #2 - Arriving in comic shops March 2!
Writer: Frank J. Barbiere
Art: Francesco Manna

Cover: NEN

Exiled from the kingdom of Helium and on the run, Dejah Thoris turns to the Army of Barsoom. Will she be able to survive long enough to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance? Plus: John Carter explores the conspiracy at home in Helium! Frank J. Barbiere and Francesco Manna continue an all-new story with Dejah as you’ve never seen her before!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99







The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Cyril Hume: From Mysterious Traveler to Forbidden Planet
 - New!
Mike Chomko, Rob Lopresti and Gary Lovisi  - New!
The strange, fantasy, horror of The Mysterious Traveler Magazine  - New!
A Blonde for Murder by Walter B. Gibson
Mysterious Traveler Magazine: The Lonely World  
Joe Wehrle Jr. Covers The Digest Enthusiast  



  Now online!

New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

February 2016
All is revealed to the members of The Grill Club in the third (and final) part of In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis, The Solicitor's Story, just as it appeared in the May, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.

January 2016
The second part of "In The Fog" by Richard Harding Davis: "The Story of the Queen’s Messenger," just as it appeared in the April, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.

December 2015
Direct from the March, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, we present the first portion of the three-part short story "In The Fog" by Richard Harding Davis, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.
Introduction by Dan Neyer.

Also, to wrap up our reprinting of the Harvard work of George Allan England, we offer to you "Reginald Pym's Class Day" as it appeared in the June, 1903 issue of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine. Introduction and Afterword by Bob Gay.


November 2015
The only Christmas themed Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," as it appeared in the January, 1892 number of The Strand Magazine, is presented and includes an introduction by Dan Neyer and all the Sydney Paget illustrations.

Also, the penultimate Harvard Illustrated story by George Allan England, "Bench Carvings at Harvard," which we strongly believe to be England's first attempt at science fiction.


October 2015
Just in time for Halloween, we are pleased to present "In Amundsen's Tent" by John Martin Leahy, a classic horror story from the pages of Weird Tales.  We've also discovered some interesting connections between this story and Leahy's other work, which you will find documented in an Afterword to the story.
 
Also, in a continuation of our reprinting of the Harvard work of George Allan England we present "Sciurus Carolinensis, Esq." and article about the squirrels that, in England's day, inhabited the Harvard Yard and environs.


September 2015
Another story from the Harvard years of George Allan England, "The Divided Letter," a romance that originally appeared in the October, 1902 issue of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine.
Also, The first Sherlock Holmes short story (and the only appearance of Irene Adler) from the July, 1891 issue of The Strand, "A Scandal in Bohemia," including all the Sidney Paget illustrations and an introduction by Dan Neyer.



Famous (and forgotten) Fiction is a new site featuring familiar and obscure fiction along with articles, pictures and essays.  In the Writings section, we have fiction by H. C. Bailey (the first Reggie Fortune story), Carl Stephenson, Sinclair Lewis and a large selection of Kipling, including the complete Mowgli stories and "The Man Who Would Be King."  We've also added an article about Sleeman's An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, that includes a complete reprinting of the work.

In Comics, there is an overview of Superman #205 ("The Man Who Destroyed Krypton!") and a look at a Steve Ditko illustrated story that bears a strong resemblance to a well-known story by Carl Stephenson.The Pictures section starts with a group of collectible (and some not so) items and is the first of 24 collections.

The site is hoping for subscribers to keep it going and future plans call for more stories, more articles and there are a number of novels  we also intend to add to the mix.
New material will be appearing on the last Friday of each month (which means we'll have more new stuff at the end of February). 
In a few month  s, we will also be offering ebooks: on the site (in PDF) and at Amazon and B&N in their proprietary formats.


Fu-Manchu: THE WRATH OF FU-MANCHU - Arriving in book stores March 1!
by Sax Rohmer

This final volume in the Fu-Manchu collection brings together some unpublished manuscripts, and stories which have previously appeared only in magazine form, by the late Sax Rohmer.

The long title novella and three others feature the dastardly Dr. Fu-Manchu - and, of course, his unremitting opponent, Sir Denis Nayland Smith.

There are eight more stories in this book, no less characteristic of Sax Rohmer's art.


Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
List Price: $9.95








Girasol Collectables
Pulp Cover Gallery Edition Volume 5
The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5

Now available for pre-order; Release in mid-May!
Pre-release Special: $130 including shipping & handling* (*within North America, for overseas orders add $10.)

Volume 5 of our Pulp Cover Gallery series is in the works, scheduled for a mid-May release.
This edition will be the same overall format as our other volumes, featuring sets of cover scans of The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5.
One difference this time out is that the images are square-cut, they do not show the rough pulp edges.
The same bonded leather hardcover exterior, 8.5" x 11" interior pages, 130+ pages, full color throughout,
with a brief introduction and checklist with cover artist credit where known.
As before, this is not a book about the pulp titles featured, it is a visual reference of the covers. Lots of great viewing!

Order before April 01, 2016 and save $10!
Pre-release Special: $130 including shipping & handling* (*within North America, for overseas orders add $10.)





Previous volumes are still available!

Pulp Cover Gallery Volume 1 – WEIRD TALES  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery Volume 2 – THRILING WONDER STORIES / STARTLING STORIES / CAPTAIN FUTURE  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery 3  DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE / 15 MYSTERY STORIES / TERROR TALES  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery 4 FANTASTIC ADVENTURES / PLANET STORIES   - $130

Please note that the cover inset may not be the one shown in the image.


The Golden Age - Now online!

Popular Library ~ covers 1944-1950's ~ art by Hoffman, Belarski, Bergey and others...   - New!
Astounding Stories 1931-1941 ~ Art by Howard V. Brown, Wesso, Graves Gladney & Hubert Rogers
Startling Stories ~ 1939-1955 ~ Cover art by Howard V. Brown, Earle Bergey, Rudolph Belarski, Alex Schomburg, Ed Emsh, Jack Coggins, Walter Popp & Ed Valigursky
Alex Schomburg
Fighting Yank #28 ~ 1949 ~ Cover by Alex Schomburg, interior art by Mort Meskin, Jerry Robinson & Al Williamson
The Fighting Yank #29 August/1949 ~ Cover by Alex Schomburg ~ Interior art by Mort Meskin and Jerry Robinson  


Go Hero
Coming soon!




A Handful of Hell: Classic War and Adventure Stories - Now available!

Aviator, diplomat, and historian, Robert F. Dorr was uniquely qualified to write for men’s adventure magazines, bringing sweat-and-blood, nuts-and-bolts authenticity to his stories of risk, combat, and sacrifice. Best known today for his highly regarded historical works, Dorr’s stories for the men’s pulps also drew from jaw-dropping true accounts,  as action-packed as any imagined by his hard-boiled peers.

In this tense, gritty collection, the master storyteller drops readers squarely into the action’s fiery crucible, both in the cockpit and on the front lines. Each story includes full-color reproductions of the explosive vintage art from the stories’ original publication by some of the greatest names in illustration.
A singular collection in the author’s vast bibliography, A Handful of Hell highlights the best of Robert F. Dorr’s vivid, gripping tales of aerial conflict, battlefield heroism and action—some fact, some fiction, all adrenaline-fueled, white-knuckle adventure.


The hardcover limited edition includes an additional 40 pages of material exclusive to the hardcover edition.

Hardcover: 348 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
List Price: $34.95

Amazon Price: $31.20

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

List Price: $24.95




Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Conan RPG
Rare Treasures
Conan Re-Read: Conclusion
The Illustrated Press
THE ART OF DEAN CORNWALL

Now available!
Extremely limited supply!


This spectacular new book explores the life and work of the "Dean of Illustrators" — Dean Cornwell. Unlike previous books published on the artist, this volume is FULL COLOR throughout. The book is 224 pages long (the same size as the Golden Age series of books) and is filled to the brim with scores of beautiful illustrations reproduced almost exclusively from the original paintings and drawings

This book is limited to 1000 copies total. It is 224 pages, 9”x12”, full-color on premium glossy stock, hardbound with dust jacket.

By ordering today, you will receive a copy of the book for only $44.95 plus postage.

NOTE: This book will not be offered through Amazon at a discounted price (unless you can find a "used" copy.) If you want this book new, you will have to buy it directly from The Illustrated Press. In other words, don't worry about pre-ordering the book and then turning around and seeing it listed on Amazon later for $26. That is not going to happen.

A Special Edition version of the book was available, limited to 100 copies.
These are presented in red slipcase with white stamped lettering, signed and numbered by Daniel Zimmer, with a bookplate affixed to the front endpaper.



Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION #7


Contents
THE ELIXIR by Laurence Manning
MEN OF THE DARK COMET by Festus Pragnell
AWAY FROM THE DAILY GRIND by Gerald W. Page
THE FIRES DIE DOWN by Robert Silverberg
NOT BY ITS COVER by Philip K. Dick


Digest Magazine, 130 pages
$8.95


SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS #12
This issue reprints the complete interior contents of Amazing Stories from February 1942.


Contents
KIDNAPED INTO THE FUTURE by William P. McGivern
THE RETURN TO PELLUCIDAR by Edgar Rice Burroughs
THE MAN WHO CHANGED HISTORY by John York Cabot
VOYAGE INTO THE LIGHTNING by Robert Moore Williams
THE RETURN OF MAN by Leo A. Schmidt
THE IMMORTALITY OF ALAN WHIDDEN by Ralph Milne Farley
THE COSMIC PUNCH OF LEFTY O'ROURKE by P. F. Costello
SUICIDE SHIP TO EARTH by Duncan Farnsworth
THE FIEND OF NEW LONDON by Don Wilcox
MR. WISEL'S SECRET by Eric Frank Russell
ROBOT AL 76 GOES ASTRAY by Isaac Asimov

7 x 10 inch, Magazine, 244 pages
$12.95



SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS #13
This issue reprints the complete interior contents of Amazing Stories from March 1942.


Contents
DISCIPLES OF DESTINY by Don Wilcox
SUICIDE ROCKET by Manly Wade Wellman
MEN OF THE BRONZE AGE by Edgar Rice Burroughs
SARKER'S JOKE BOX by Raymond Z. Gallun
PLANET OF GHOSTS by David V. Reed
WACKY WORLD by Edmond Hamilton
THE PLANET OF LOVE by Jep Powell


7 x 10 inch, Magazine, 244 pages
$12.95

SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS #14
This issue reprints the complete interior contents of Amazing Stories from April 1942.


Contents
ADAM LINK SAVES THE WORLD by Eando Binder
TIGER GIRL by Edgar Rice Burroughs
THE PERFECT TRAP by Miles Shelton
THE SECRET OF LUCKY LOGAN by Nelson S Bond
DISCIPLES OF DESTINY by Don Wilcox
DEVIL BIRDS OF DEIMOS by Festus Pragnell
TREASURE ON THUNDER MOON by Edmond Hamilton


7 x 10 inch, Magazine, 276 pages
$12.95





JOE GOLEM: OCCULT DETECTIVE #5 (of 5) - Arriving in comic shops March 2!
Mike Mignola (Writer), Christopher Golden (Writer), Patric Reynolds (Art), Dave Stewart (Color), and Dave Palumbo (Cover)

When a Drowning City millionaire’s plan to reunite with his dead family goes terribly wrong, Joe Golem and Simon Church rush to reverse his spell before the city is taken over by drowning victims come back to life.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50





MANDRAKE MAGICIAN HC - Arriving in comic shops March 2!
(Writer) Lee Falk; (Art) Phil Davis

Introducing the world's first comic book super-hero, predating Superman by almost four years! Created by the legendary Lee Falk, the creator of The Phantom, and drawn by Phil Davis, Mandrake the Magician and his ever-trusty manservant, Lothar, first appeared to battle crime in 1934. This collection reprints the first 2 and a half years of full-color Sunday newspaper strips that debuted in 1934.


Hardcover, $39.99


Mike Chomko -  February/March 2016 newsletter is now available!

Mike has released a list of pulp-related books and periodicals available from Mike Chomko for February/March 2016

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, 2217W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542

Send Mike an email at mikechomko@gmail.com to subscribe to his catalogue.

Mike has established a website where you can download his current and past newsletters.
The website is located at http://sites.google.com/site/mikechomkobooks/



The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!
Tom Johnson has started a new Blog for authors who have created new pulp heroes.

The Apparition
 - New!
Snake
The Challenger
Turquoise
The Interceptor

PAPERBACK FANATIC #34 & PULP HORROR #2
To the printer at the end of February!
Pre-order now to avoid missing an issue!

The Paperback Fanatic 34
150 pages, all colour. 
A Visual Guide to Monarch Books,
cult movie tie-ins
The Warriors
Manly Wade Wellman
James Blish
Daniel Galouye
Charles Finney
Margaret St Clair
Mike Heslop
letters
Paperback Fair report and more. 

Improved format following feedback on issue 33 - reduced page count and thicker cover lamination as well as better quality envelopes to help protect the mag in transit.  

UK post:  £11.50
Europe and US/Canada:  £13.50
Australia and Japan:  £14.50



Pulp Horror 2
68 pages, all colour, also with a book spine. 
Horror in SF special. 
House on the Borderland
Satanic SF
the  books that Alien ripped off
a guide to SF/Horror cross-overs
Frank Belknap Long
Bug Eyed Monsters and more.


UK post:  £7.50
Europe and US/Canada:  £8.50
Australia and Japan:  £9.50





Paperback Perils - Now online!

Doc Ardan: The City of Gold and Lepers (Guy D'Armen, 1928/Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, 2004) - New!

The Warlord of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914)
The Gods of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1913)  

Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Jinx Jet" by Robert Sidney Bowen from G-MEN DETECTIVE, Spring, 1951
Three planes and three pilots were lost - and it was up to undercover man Barney Rosen to find out just why and how!

"Mind Over Muscle" by Jack Kofoed from THRILLING SPORTS, Spring (May), 1946
Featuring: Baldy Simmons
A gold-digging girl and an unscrupulous rival put Baldy Simmons and his Yogi golfer, Francois Dupont, on a spot!

"It's Time to Go Home" by William G. Bogart from MAMMOTH MYSTERY, March, 1946
A broken clock couldn't tell Sandy Swim the time. But he wasn't interested in the clock's hands; its eyes were what he needed.




Pulp Crazy - Now online!

Weird Detective: The Stars Are Wrong  - New!
Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham
The Hound
The Freshman by Philip José Farmer
The Man-Eaters of Zamboula (Starring Conan the Cimmerian) by Robert E. Howard


Pulp Den - Now online!

Author Interview With Darcy Leech  - New!
The Apparition  - New!
Tom's Den  - New!
Trespassers
The Secret Cabal

         Pulp Den  

PULP FACTORY AWARDS
THE BALLOT FOR THE PULP FACTORY AWARDS HAS BBEEN OFFICIALLY RELEASED
VOTING IS NOW OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15, 2016
THE AWARDS WILL BE GIVEN OUT AT THE WINDY CITY PULP & PAPER SHOW


With April’s Windy City Pulp and Paper approaching fast, the ballot for the 2016 Pulp Factory Awards – to be handed out at the conference – has just opened up for voting by the reading public.
The ballot can be found online at http://bit.ly/2016PFAwardBallot.

Voters have until Tuesday, March 15th to select one nominee in several categories. (We are limiting voting to the electronic ballot via Google forms to simplify the process).
Nominees in each category are as follows:

BEST PULP NOVEL
LIE CATCHERS (Paul Bishop; Pro Se Productions)
THE CAGLIOSTRO CHRONICLES III: INTO THE HEART OF EVIL (Ralph Angelo, Jr; Cosmic Comet)
JEZEBEL JOHNSON: DEVIL'S HANDMAIDEN (Nancy Hansen; Airship 27)
VINNIE DE SOTH, JOBBING OCCULTIST (I.A. Watson; Chillwater Press)
LADY ACTION: THE SANDS OF FOREVER (Ron Fortier; Airship 27)
THE GRIM SPECTRE (Ralph Angelo, Jr; Cosmic Comet)
BAD TIMES FOUR: HELLDORADO (Chuck Dixon; Bruno Books)
MANHATTAN CONFIDENTIAL: MALLOY AND RUSSELL, BOOK 2 (Elizabeth K Wadsworth; Elizabeth K Wadsworth)

BEST PULP COVER
LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION (Douglas Klauba; Airship 27)
BASS REEVES, FRONTIER MARSHAL, VOL 1 (Marco Turini; Airship 27)
BARANAK: STORMING THE GATES (Mark Williams; White Rocket Books)
DOMINO LADY: VOL 1 (Ted Hammond; Airship 27)
THE LEMON HERBERTS (Michael Hegedus; Pro Se Productions)
NIGHT HAWK: BURNING SKIES (Douglas Klauba; Airship 27)
SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE VOL 7 (Michael Youngblood; Airship 27)

BEST PULP SHORT STORY
A Different Kind of People (Chuck Miller; LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION; Airship 27)
Nature of the Beast (BC Bell; LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION; Airship 27)
Spring-Heeled Jack (I.A. Watson; SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE, VOL 7; Airship 27)
Voodah of the Mountain (Derrick Ferguson; LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION; Airship 27)
When Angels Fall (Gordon Dymowski; DREAMERS SYNDROME: NEW WORLD NAVIGATION; Space Buggy Press)

BEST PULP INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS
BASS REEVES, FRONTIER MARSHAL, VOL 1 (Rob Davis; Airship 27)
SHERLOCK HOLMES, CONSULTING DETECTIVE, VOL 7 (Rob Davis; Airship 27)
SIX GUN TERRORS, VOL 2 (Zachary Brunner; Airship 27)
BEST PULP ANTHOLOGY
LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION (Airship 27)
BASS REEVES, FRONTIER MARSHAL, VOL 1 (Airship 27)
SHERLOCK HOLMES, CONSULTING DETECTIVE, VOL 7 (Airship 27)
THE LEMON HERBERTS (Pro Se Productions)

After March 15th, the committee will tally all of the electronic votes via http://bit.ly/2016PFAwardBallot, and the winners will be announced at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention from April 22 – April 24th, 2016.
Questions and concerns should be directed to PulpAwards@gmail.com. This will insure a more prompt response than reaching out to individual committee members.
Thank you for your interest, and looking forward to your votes!



The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features two ongoing blogs!

Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.

Pulp Super-Fan blog by Michael R. Brown

Con report: Pulp AdventureCon 2016 Florida - New!
Dr. Mabuse, pulp villain - New!
A look at ‘Awesome Tales’
Fanzine Focus: ‘Pulp Adventures’ #19
A closer look at The Moon Man
Doc Ardan returns
Meet Rouletabille
That's Pulp! by John Olsen

The Spider, #72: ‘The Corpse Broker’ - New!
Perry Mason: novels #5 and #6
‘Haunted Harbor’: a serial in 15 chapters
The Shadow’s mail-away rings
‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’

Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Pulp AdventureCon 2016 report
- New!
A rundown of pulp shows for 2016
Genesis of the lightsaber?
Take a sf journey back to 1941
Farewell 2015; welcome 2016


Radio Archives
James Christopher, Operator #5 Audiobook
#11 The League of War Monsters

by Frederick C. Davis writing as Curtis Steele
Read by Milton Bagby

Now available!

A group of bitter men — a secret League of War — was ready to plunge the world into a new, earth-wide conflict. They issued orders, and bloody organized murder was loosed in the heart of Europe! And behind this carnage, a single man was scheming to make himself the Dictator of the World! Never before had a single person conceived such a colossal plan for profiting from the slaughter of humans. He had overcome all obstacles — except one lone avenger, Operator #5, America’s secret service ace. Can Jimmy Christopher, keep the nations of the world from hurling themselves into a war which can bring nothing but universal defeat, misery, and slavery?

 
Originally written by master pulpsmith Frederick C. Davis, the Operator #5 series was a clear forerunner of the spy and espionage genre, which exploded in the 1960s when President John F. Kennedy happened to remark that he enjoyed reading Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. Soon, America was surrounded by spies. Jimmy Christopher was on the job a generation before them all, blazing the espionage trail, and keeping America safe from fascism and other wicked isms.
 
Frederick C. Davis began pitting James Christopher—otherwise Operator #5 of the United States Intelligence Service—against the Yellow Empire, variously thinly-disguised European dictators, and other torn-from-the-headlines global actors. The more Operator #5 exploits Davis wrote, the wilder and more horrific the threats to national security became: Wicked would-be conquerors, creepy cults, weird weather-controllers and famine-creating menaces to our mid-western breadbasket. Davis’ tales were disciplined, yet apocalyptic—a difficult accomplishment when you are tasked to turn out a 50,000-word novel every 30 days.
 
Into this unprecedented crisis plunged Jimmy Christopher. Only one man, but a man who embodied the American spirit — and stands prepared to perish to protect his country.
 
The League of War Monsters is read with stirring intensity by Milton Bagby. Originally published in the February, 1935 issue of Operator #5 magazine.
 
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives
G-8 and His Battle Aces #58 Audiobook
Fangs of the Serpent

by Robert J. Hogan
Read by Nick Santa Maria

50% Discount on the Audio CD version - 5 hours - $9.99 Audio CDs 

G-8 and His Battle Aces ran for 10 wild years. And every single G-8 sky saga was written by Robert J. Hogan. This was a rare thing back in the pulp magazine days, where the authors often wrote under house names and sometimes shared those bylines with other contributors. Naturally, telling the exploits of a high-flying hero such as the Master Spy every month without fail was a relentless and demanding gig. So it stands to reason that G-8 had his highs and his lows.

One of the highs was the series' premiere novel, The Bat Staffel. In an effort to hold the readers’ interest and keep from going stale, Hogan wrote dramatic G-8s such as The Blizzard Staffel, weird G-8s—Squadron of the Scorpion and The Death Monsters come to mind—and one-of-a-kind G-8 novels that fit into no convenient category.
 
Fangs of the Serpent introduced the villain of the title, the serpentine war cripple with the power of super hypnosis. This was no ordinary antagonist—not that any foe of G-8 was particularly ordinary—but the combination of this strange mesmerizing enemy agent, and the change-of-pace story, makes this one of the standout G-8 novels of the entire 1930s.
 
In this uncanny epic, the Flying Spy faces a challenge that tests his courage to the utmost. For his opponent this time is not a rival ace, nor a mad scientist, but an occult entity able to bend others to his malign will, one who twists and poisons both sides of the global conflict. Once the Serpent has G-8 in his power, escape seems impossible, victory remote and unattainable.
 
Strangely, Hogan never brought the Serpent back for an encore bout. Perhaps he was just too creepy even for G-8 and His Battle Aces magazine.
 
Once again, Nick Santa Maria brings G-8, Nippy and Bull to thrilling life in their desperate struggle to defeat a reptilian nemesis unlike anything they have ever before encountered. Originally published in the July, 1938 issue of G-8 and His Battle Aces magazine.
 
50% Discount on the Audio CD version - 5 hours - $9.99 Audio CDs

The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Archive
TARZAN THE FEARLESS SERIAL
Now available!

DVD Set, 12 Episodes + Memorabilia Slideshow
2 hours 26 minutes
$ 21.95

Chapter Titles
1 THE DIVE OF DEATH 16:56
2 THE STORM GOD STRIKES! 18:11
3 THUNDERING DEATH 12:42
4 THE PIT OF PERIL 15:23
5 BLOOD MONEY 6:54
6 VOODOO VENGEANCE 11:21
7 CAUGHT BY CANNIBALS 8:10
8 THE CREEPING TERROR 7:05
9 EYES OF EVIL 13:53
10 THE DEATH PLUNGE 5:49
11 HARVEST OF HATE 9:14
12 JUNGLE JUSTICE 15:10
SLIDESHOW


Click on the link above for complete details on this production, a preview from Chapter 1, and the ordering link.

 
THE RESTORATION
The existing feature version of TARZAN THE FEARLESS is a hastily-assembled condensation of the original material which presents a good deal of it out of order and some scenes without proper setup or explanation.

Additional footage not seen since the serial's original release has been made available to the Squadron which will be incorporated into this DVD restoration of the serial that will be presented in original single-chapter form, with opening and closing titles and cliffhanger endings intact.

Existing content here is presented in its original cliffhanger format, and every chapter is represented in the DVD. Stil-missing sections have been reconstructed and summarized according to the available information in the existing original script draft, the Big Little Book text, and published descriptions of chapters as released.

The content which remains missing from the serial involved a capture of the explorers by the Koso tribe and their escape from execution, and a sequence in which Tarzan rescues Mary from capture by the soldiers of Zar but is knocked from a high rock by a thrown bolo, then rescued by his friend Taug the gorilla. Photos from both sequences are included in the DVD.

Light toning effects are used mostly on the early episodes to help bring out the clarity of the image and define action locations.




The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

Temple of Crime
- New!
Realm of Doom
The North Woods Mystery
The Death Sleep
The Yellow Door

STARFALL: Stan Wade LA PI ~ Book 2 - Now available for download!
by John Hegenberger

After rescuing Annette Funicello’s stand-in from the amorous clutches of Guy Williams, Stan Wade, young, LA-based PI, gets a new, but secret, assignment from his number-one client, Walt Disney. The elder cartoonist and filmmaker wants Stan to investigate a death at Edwards Air Force Base. The victim, who drowned while testing an outer-space uniform, was the eighth astronaut candidate for America’s new space agency, NASA. Working out of his cramped office in the back of the Brown Derby restaurant where he’s employed as a part-time “bouncer,” Stan uncovers much more than a suspicious death…putting his own life—and the lives of those closest to him—in danger.

Release date: February 20
Pre-order Price:    $3.99


The author will be doing a reading at PulpFest.


TARZAN ON FILM  - Coming July 5, 2016!
by Scott Tracy Griffin

In this authoritative volume, writer and historian Scott Tracy Griffin traces the development of the history-making Tarzan franchise, from the motion-picture industry’s early silents and serials, through the high point of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer era featuring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, to modern worldwide hits like Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and Walt Disney Studios’ animated Tarzan.

Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Titan Books

Amazon Pre-order  $39.95

This book will also be available in comic shops.
It will likely be solicited in the April issue of Diamond PREVIEWS.



Amazon.com      Titan Books



Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Eight - New!
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Seven - New!
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Six
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Five
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Four 
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Three
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Two
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part One


William Patrick Maynard - Now online!
Blogging The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer – Part Two: “The Zayat Kiss”

It has often been noted that Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie are cut from the same cloth as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and yet they display as many differences as they do similarities to their more famous progenitors. When Sax Rohmer incorporated “The Zayat Kiss” into the first three chapters of his first novel, British readers had a distinct advantage over their American counterparts in that the UK edition, The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu contains chapter titles that The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu is lacking. The first chapter is titled, in a direct reference to the opening chapter of the first Holmes novel, “Mr. Nayland Smith of Burma.”

Read the rest at the link below.
   The Zayat Kiss    





19 February 2016

2016 Pulp Shows

The Pulp Coming Attractions Pulp Shows page has been updated with available information on the presently known pulp & paperback shows scheduled for 2016!
Click on the PULP SHOWS link below or the icon at the top of the page and start making your reservations!


Adventure House
Now available!

G-8 and his Battle Aces #49 - October 1937

"The Hand of Steel" by Robert J. Hogan

 
Out of the fires of war, fed by the blood and hatred of destruction, comes the Cripple of Harstburg!
What is the curse he has placed on the head of the Allies?—what mad vengeance is sought by his disorted brain?
Only G-8 can learn the answer, and to find it he must search the hungry jaws of death!
 
 Cover Artist: Frederick Blakeslee

 
 7x10, 110 pages, $9.95


Adventure House
Now available!

The Phantom Detective - November 1937

"Minions of Murder" by Robert Wallace
 Wild. laughing maniacs, recruited to further the heinous plans of an arch-fiend, terrorize a great city as crime follows crime follows crime in a blood-curdling procession of horror!

 "Hot Gold" by Lloyd Llewell
 "The Case of the Silver Mountain" by William Degenhard
 "Death For a Mixing Spoon" by Paul Ernst

  
 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95


Adventure House
Now available!

Jungle Stories - Winter 1952/53

"Caravan of Terror" by John Peter Drummond

 The jungle seethed with terror. 
Devilish rumors flew the vine-route: Ki-Gor was doomed! 
The vile Wandarobo, hordes of stunted beast-men, had trapped the blond stalker…
And copper-haired Helene, the tree-telegraph whispered, would die beneath the cannibal moon.

 "Jailer of Souls" by Hamilton Craig
 "Juju Justice" by Richard Stockton Ullery
 "Diamonds Are Death" by J.C. Hudson
 "Amazon Queen of Ophir" by E. Rickard Zoar
 "The Seven From Zanzibar" by J.G. Wilson
 
 7x10, 128 pages, $14.95


Adventure House
Now available!

Double Action Gang Magazine - April 1938

"Hot Wires" by Pierson Bryan

 Dough and dames and an itchy finger are his weaknesses, but it took only the dames to topple Jake Krantz from the racket throne that a ruthless gun and greedy brain had hammered out for him.
 
"Duke Casts the Racket Dice" by Margie Harris
 Muscling into the numbers racket isn’t such a hanger when a man like Duke Mellon doesn’t feel like splitting his swag.
 
"The Truth About the Dalton Gang" by Mrs. Emmett Dalton
 "Fanny’s Fillies" by “Undercover” Dix
 "This Is A Ride!" by Bertrand L. Shurtleff
 "Break For A Chink" by Charles M. Brown
 "Midnight Call" by Robert Martin
 "Jail Fellow—Well Met" by Tom Thursday
 "Carnival Killer" by Mat Rand


  7x10, 128 pages, $14.95



Airship 27 Productions
Four new audio releases!
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions, in partnership with Radio Archives, is proud to announce the release of four of their titles to the world of audiobooks.

JAGGER – TIME SERVED by Jared l. Cantin is a modern day thriller in the vein of the Jack Reacher novels and is read by Jamison R. Ross.

Whereas SINBAD – THE NEW VOYAGES is our unabashed tribute to the Sinbad movies of Ray Harryhausen and features stories by Derrick Ferguson, Nancy Hansen and I.A. Watson as read by Jem Matzan.  This is high seas adventure like you’ve never heard it before.

Then we go undercover with one of the first classic pulp super-spires, SECRET AGENT X VOLUME 1. These fast paced stories are by Mark Justice, Brian Meredith, Kevin Noel Olson and Andrew Salmon and read by Scott Carrico.

Finally we are proud to bring to the audio world the first in our best selling series; SHERLOCK HOLMES – CONSULTING DETECTIVE VOLUME 1. This award winning first collection features wonderful mysteries by Aaron Smith, Andrew Salmon, Van Allen Plexico and I.A. Watson all inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and read by George Kuch.

“Audio books add a whole new experience to the fun of these amazing tales and we trust all our Loyal Airmen will have a blast listening to them.”  Ron Fortier – Managing Editor Airship 27 Productions.



Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!




Altus Press
Ki-Gor: The Complete Series Volume 3
by John Peter Drummond
Introduction by Howard Andrew Jones

Coming soon!

For the first time, the Ki-Gor series from the pages of Jungle Stories is collected, complete, uncut and in order!

Volume 3 includes the next four stories:
“Tigress of T’wanbi” (Winter 1941-42)
“Slaves for the Renegade Sultan” (Spring 1942)
“Blood Priestess of Vig’Na” (Summer 1942)
“The Cannibal Horde” (Fall 1942)


318 pages / $24.95 softcover / $34.95 hardcover


Altus Press
The Complete Casebook of Sgt. Brinkhaus
by Frederick Nebel
Introduction by Will Murray

Coming soon!
 
Following Donahue and Cardigan, Frederick Nebel’s longest-running detective series featured the hard-boiled exploits of Sgt. Otto Herman “Brinky” Brinkhaus and Inspector Peter Larsen of the Portsend Detective Bureau as chronicled in the pages of Detective Action Stories, Dime Detective Magazine, and Detective Fiction Weekly.

389 pages / $29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover




Altus Press
Will o’ the Wisp
by H. Bedford-Jones

Coming soon!

To horse, ye English captains! In the king’s name, ride! For Brian Desmond, spy for France, takes the Dover road tonight!
A superb novel of spies and swords and one of H. Bedford-Jones’ best historicals, as it originally appeared in Argosy Magazine.

241 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover


Altus Press
Ghost Hills
by H. Bedford-Jones

Coming soon!
 
Up in the frozen north of Canada … an old secret and a lovely woman … and three men:
Barr Radison, an American adventurer, searching for the mysterious source of black and silver fox pelts,
Macferris Montenay, a ruthless giant of a man, trying to carve out his own kingdom in the wilderness, and
Jean Nichemus, a halfbreed and Montenay’s henchman, harboring his own sinister plans.

185 pages / $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover




Altus Press
The Crimson Mask Omnibus Volume 2
by Norman A. Daniels

Coming soon!
 
Part of the early 1940s pulp hero revival, pharmacist Bob Clarke takes on the underworld as The Crimson Mask!
Volume 2 contains the next five adventures:
“The Crimson Mask and the Vanishing Men”
“The Crimson Mask's Ghost Trail”
“The Diamond Death Trail”
“The Money Trail”
“Murders of the Black Rose”
All stories are uncut and contain all of the original illustrations.

280 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover


Altus Press
George Chance: The Ghost Omnibus, Volume 1
by G.T. Fleming-Roberts

Coming soon!
 
Magician George Chance, AKA the crime-fighter known as The Ghost,
who has done more in the service of the Law than any other man of his generation.

Master of the science of criminology, remorseless crime-tracker and criminal catcher!
When The Ghost walks, the underworld stirs into deadly life to combat him.

This omnibus contains the first two adventures of The Ghost, uncut, and with the original illustrations.

264 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover






Altus Press
Super-Detective Jim Anthony: The Complete Series Volume 3
by Victor Rousseau

Coming soon!
 
The complete reprinting of the greatest of the Doc Savage pastiches continues!
Volume Three of contains the next three adventures of Jim Anthony:
“Murder Syndicate”
“The Horrible Marionettes”
“Border Napoleon”

This volume also includes editor notes and correspondence.
353 pages / $29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover




Altus Press
The Brazen Peacock
by H. Bedford-Jones

Coming soon!

H. Bedford-Jones pens this thrilling tale of adventure in the Middle East.

Fraser, his whereabouts unknown to his father following the Great War,
finds himself in the middle of a battle over a lost idol and on the road to Baghdad.
And just what does Fraser have to do with the treasured Brazen Peacock?

It’s another volume in the H. Bedford-Jones Library.

171 pages / $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover


Altus Press
Now available in eBook editions!

Altus Press has added a trio of ebooks to its library of pulp fiction.
Each is only $4.99


Meet the five Mavericks—Lance Clayton, Doc Grimson, Charlie Parr, Lockjaw Johnson, and Flint Maddox…
They were wanted men, those five hard-riding travelers of the still night trails… Mavericks all, they had entered outlawry for five different reasons, drawn irresistibly down the Owlhoot Trail from five different walks of rangeland life.
They became one living inseparable unit of grim, uncompromising justice, united as one man by their friendship, their burning championship of the underdog—and the high, white flame of their courage….

Collecting final three stories: “Bait for the Lobo Pack,” “Doc Grimson’s Outlaw Posse” and “Charlie Parr’s Gunsmoke Cure.”

385 pages | $28.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover | $4.99 eBook


Denis Burke returns in this far-spanning, 12-part World War II epic, as espionage knows no borders.
Full of secret agents and locales such as Casablanca, Iceland, the Solomon Islands, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Malta, the Red Sea, and Trinidad.
One of the longest serials he wrote for Short Stories magazine—and never before reprinted—it’s a lost classic by H. Bedford-Jones.

295 pages | $18.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover | $4.99 eBook


Master Pirate of the Eastern Seas: Captain Cairn—a man from Hell—heads the Ta Ming for an island of brooding trouble!
Never before reprinted, it’s a lost classic from the pen of H. Bedford-Jones, the King of the Pulps.

188 pages | $18.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover | $4.99 eBook





American Mythology Productions - New licensed ERB title in the works!

Mike Wolfer announced that he has been named the writer of an upcoming, full color comic series officially licensed by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., to be published this summer by American Mythology Productions.

Mike is a professional comic book writer and artist as well as a huge fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs works.

The title of the new series has not been formally announced, but Mike has been authorized to share a cover illustration that he drew, which was colored by Ceci de la Cruz.

It is fairly obvious what this new comic book title is from the cover illustration







Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
DOC SAVAGE ANNIVERSARY INSTANT COLLECTION SALE!
Now available!

February 17 marked the  83rd anniversary of the debut of DOC SAVAGE MAGAZINE. 
On that day, Sanctum Books received their first advance copies of Sanctum Books' DOC SAVAGE #87, which completes the reprinting of ALL 182 Doc Savage pulp novels!

In commemoration of this event, for the next two months Sanctum Books is offering a 30% discount off list price to anyone who wants to purchase a complete set of all 87 DOC SAVAGE classic volumes (plus replicas of the two 1930s Doc Savage giveaway premium prints) ... or the first 100 Sanctum Books SHADOW volumes plus SHADOW ANNUAL #1.

With insured postage, the 87 DOC SAVAGE volumes (plus premium replicas) can be purchased for just $900.00.
The first 101 SHADOW volumes (plus a complete set of Shadow art prints and premium photo replicas) can be purchased for just $1,050.00 postpaid.

Some of these volumes are already sold out (except in superpacks) so this could be your last chance to obtain a COMPLETE collection of these Sanctum Books series!

Mail checks or money orders to:
Sanctum Books; P.O. Box 761474; San Antonio, TX 78245
or
Paypal to: orders@shadowsanctum.com.

This offer expires at midnight, April 17, 2016.


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming to online retailers in late April/early May!
Coming to comic shops May 25!

THE BLACK BAT VOLUME 4: "Black Bat's Crusade" & "The Black Bat's Flame Trail"
The Nemesis of Crime returns in classic pulp novels by Norman A. Daniels and The Spider's Norvell Page. First, voodoo drums sound in cities across the nation as a wave of mysterious murders fueled by ancient magic takes a terrifying toll in "The Black Bat's Crusade," edited by future Batman editors Mort Weisinger and Jack Schiff! Then, "The Black Bat's Flame Trail" leads to a sinister arsonist who wields a deadly torch of terror as New York tenements burn. Plus, The Mask returns in an illustrated adventure from Nedor's Exciting Comics #4. Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W    $14.95

THE BLACK BAT VOLUME 4 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR162008.


Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming to online retailers in late April/early May!
Coming to comic shops May 25!

THE SHADOW VOLUME 107: "The Killer" & "The Museum Murders"
The Master of Darkness proves that "the weed of crime bears bitter fruit" in chilling pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson! First, "The Killer" launches a campaign of serial murder until he makes an appointment with death with The Shadow! Then, priceless treasures are moved to secret strongholds for wartime safekeeping, leading to vicious robbery attempts from two gangs of murderous cutthroats. This collector's classic features the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Graves Gladney plus interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Paul Orban, with historical commentary by Will Murray. Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, $14.95

THE SHADOW VOLUME 107 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR162009.


Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

 

Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Tommy Hancock talks about Pro-Se Production!
Author and publisher Tommy Hancock talks about Pro Se productions and its expanding line of products.  We discuss new series, old series, up coming works and the market for audiobooks.  Also as an exclusive, Tommy talks about a major publishing project that Pro Se will be launching very shortly.  There are lots of new books coming out in just the next few weeks that fans will want to know about.  Don't miss this one!

Past episodes:
Flinch Books with Jim Beard and John Bruening
Legends of New Pulp Fiction: Ron Fortier and Rob Davis

Ellen and David Walters discuss the adventures of Wire Dog!
Jean-Marc Lofficier and Black Coat Press
The Grim Spectre by Ralph Angelo Jr.
BACK ISSUE! #89 - Coming in June!

BACK ISSUE #89 spotlights BRONZE AGE ADAPTATIONS!

The Shadow, Korak: Son of Tarzan, Battlestar Galactica, The Black Hole, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Worlds Unknown, and Marvel’s 1980s movie adaptations.
Plus: PAUL KUPPERBERG surveys prose adaptations of comics!
Featuring the work of MICHAEL W. KALUTA, JACK KIRBY, DENNY O’NEIL, FRANK ROBBINS, FRANK THORNE, MICHAEL USLAN, and many more.
Featuing an alternate cover produced for DC’s Shadow series by Kaluta!

Edited by MICHAEL EURY.


Magazine, 84 pages, Full Color, $8.95, On sale June 15.


BACK ISSUE #89 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161773.





Beb Books
TIDES OF HATE & THE SCIENCE FICTION OF EARL REPP
Now available!


Tides of Hate a novel of buccaneers, gold and revenge by Captain A. E. Dingle
Ed Davies, Swan and the Frenchman L’Escuyler, pirates all, captured a fortune in Spanish gold only to see it vanish one night. All three blame the other for the theft and all three plan to return to the Isthmus of Panama to reclaim their gold. To get there Davies must partner with another pirate, John Cook, a man who no more trusts Davies than he does Swan or L’Escuyler. But twenty ass’s load of gold is too great a lure to ignore.

A thrilling tale of treachery on the high seas. Print editon $6.00 plus postage.

Also new this week:

The Science Fiction of Ed Earl Repp - Book 2 - The Invisible Raider and other Air Wonder Stories
Table of Contents
The Invisible Raider - Air Wonder Stories, October 1929
Beyond The Aurora - Air Wonder Stories November 1929
The Storm Buster -     Air Wonder Stories January 1930
The Sky Ruler - Air Wonder Stories May 1930

and

The Science Fiction of Ed Earl Repp - Book 3 - The Stellar Missile and Other Stories
Table of Contents
The Stellar Missile - Science Wonder Stories, November, 1929.
The Second Missile - (sequel to The Stellar Missile) - Amazing Stories, December, 1930
The Synthetic Man - Wonder Stories, December 1930

Other recent releases  include:

MEN AND WOMEN WITH WINGS
Leslie F. Stone was one of the  earliest women writers of Science Fiction, beginning in 1929. She never hide her sex by using initials and didn’t try to write like “one of the boys.”

“Men With Wings” is her first published story, a short novella about the evolution of a species of flying humans and the utopian society  they form. Its sequel, “Women With Wings” is set centuries later then winged humanity has come to replace Homo Sapiens. But tragedy stalks the flying species as the women  are increasingly dying in childbirth. Unless something drastic is done the species will go extinct.

From the pages of Air Wonder Stories, Beb Books presents Men and Women with Wings.
Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition $1.99

GULF STREAM GOLD

Ed Earl Repp was a prolific writer from 1929 to 1933 before switching to Westerns where he was  equally prolific. He returned to science fiction around 1938. “Gulf Stream Gold” collects four of his novelets from 1929-1932. Modern day fortune hunters search for underwater gold in “Gulf Stream Gold.”  Submarine pirates stumbles into an air-filled cavern inhabited by monsters from ages past. Monsters from deep within the earth declare war on the surface in “The Metal World.” and a desert-rat his weird experience in Death Valley with a mother dragon in “From Out of the Earth.

From the pages of Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories Quarterly.  Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition $1.99.


Beb Books has big plans when it comes to reprinting early science fiction.
Here’s a list of forthcoming titles:


Beb Books’ Library of Early Science Fiction

Ed Earl Repp
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Beyond Gravity - a collection of Air Wonder Stories
(Now available) Book 2 - The Invisible Raider - a second collection of his Air Wonder Stories
(Now available) Book 3 - The Stellar Missile and other stories
(Now available) Book 4 - Gulf Stream Gold - Undersea and under the earth stories
(Now available)  Book 5 - The Radium Pool and other stories

A. Hyatt Verrill
(Now available)  Book 1 - Beyond the Pole and Inside The Crater’s Rim
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - King of the Monkey Man and Dirigibles of Death
(forthcoming)    Book 3 - The Man Who Could Vanish and other stories

Harl Vincent
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Subterrania, The Menace From Below
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - Air-War - a collection
(forthcoming)    Book 3 - Before The Asteroids - 3 space opera novelets.
(forthcoming)    Book 4 - Vagabonds of Spaces - 4 space opera novelets
(forthcoming)    Book 5 - Wander of Infinity - 5 Thrilling Adventures

Henrik Dahl Juve
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - The Silent Destroyers - 4 Air-War thrillers
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - The Monsters of Neptune - 4 stories on other worlds

Bob Olsen
(Now available) Book 1 - The Four Dimensional World of Bob Olsen - explorations into higher physics

Earl L. Bell
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Moon of Doom - The end of the world.

Nat Schnacher and Arthur Leo Zaget
(Now available) Book 1 - The Tower of Evil - 4 weird adventures on the earth, in the future and beyond.

Laurence Manning
(Now available) Book 1 - Voyage of the Asteroid
(forthcoming) Book 2 - The Wreck of The Asteroid


Pay by either check or money order to:
Brian Brown
11675 Beaconsfield
Detroit, MI 48224

or via Paypal to beb01@sprynet.com


Print editions are printed on 8.5x11 paper and stapled on the side. Postage is $3.00 for one to three books. Add 25 cents extra for each copy over three.


Check out the rest of Beb Books many titles.
Ask for a catalog at beb01@sprynet.com


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Bold Venture Press
AWESOME TALES #3
Winter 2016

Now available!

Fantomas! His name sends icy shivers down the stalwart spines of French authorities. Fantomas! He deals in death and mayhem for high stakes profit! No stakes are higher than world freedom, so the shadowy criminal offers to combat the German war machine. When Fantomas makes an offer, the contract is signed in blood!

Plus: "Taxi to Hell" by Lee Richards -- Step on it! How often do cab drivers hear that snarled command? This cabbie steps on it, alright — steps on love and hate, stomps on heart and lungs, and grinds out the last spark of life! ALSO In "The Emerald Eye" by KT Pinto, you'll meet Raphael Jones, a new hardboiled P.I.! He rolls his eyes over a new client and heeds her bidding, for three times his normal rate — until he’s dealing with forces beyond mortal comprehension!

New illustrations by Ed Coutts.
Cover design by Rich Harvey.

54 pages
$6.00




Bold Venture Press
PULP ADVENTURES #20
Winter 2016

Now available!

Pulp Adventures -- a quarterly safari through the pulp fiction jungle!
This issue is filled with iconic characters and authors.


CONTENTS
"Zorro Serenades a Siren" by Johnston McCulley
"The Lacquer Box" by Judson P. Philips, author of the Park Avenue Hunt Club series
"The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry, the story that introduced the Cisco Kid to pop culture
"Death in Harbor City" by John L. French, a new thriller with Midnight and The Domino Lady
"The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, the story that inspired Diary of a Madman starring Vincent Price
"Cry Mommie" by Audrey Parente
"Robot Graveyard" by Adam Beau McFarlane
"Fighting Chance" by Cliff Campbell, a gridiron story about a linebacker in desperate need of GPS.

Fantastic cover by Norman A. Saunders, courtesy of the artist's estate!
Original pulp illustrations.
130 pages
$12.95

Kinde edition: On sale February 15th - $2.99
Due to licensing arrangements, "Zorro Serenades a Siren" and "The Lacquer Box" are not included in the Kindle / eBook edition.



Bold Venture Press
Now available!

Cancelled in Red
by Hugh Pentecost
An Inspector Luke Bradley mystery

When it debuted in 1939, Cancelled in Red was the $1,000 Red Badge Prize Mystery winner. It also walked away with the $10,000 prize for the 1939 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest. Dodd, Mead & Company issued the story in paperback and hardcover that same year. The novel also launched the "Hugh Pentecost" penname, which began to overshadow Judson P. Philips, who continued writing pulp magazine stories and serials while "Pentecost" reached the slick-paper publications and the burgeoning paperback market. (More about that in Audrey Parente's book Once a Pulp Man, the Secret Life of Judson Philips as Hugh Pentecost).

Max Adrian was the rare stamp broker everyone in the know avoided — and those unfortunate enough to do business with him harbored grudges. It never mattered to the shifty broker, until someone demanded a refund at the point of a gun. Soon, Adrian’s rival Larry Storm plays amateur detective for the benefit of a dishy dame, searching for a hidden cache of priceless stamps. Storm is one step ahead of the tenacious Inspector Luke Bradley, who’s one step behind a cold-blooded killer — and Storm had better start running....





Judson P. Philips rubbed elbows with movie stars and directors. He owned a newspaper and scratched out columns in others. He penned hundreds of stories in pulp magazines, digests and slick magazines, under a trio of pen names. His words flooded radio, television and film. He faced down Newsweek editors, owned an equity summer stock theater and boosted many ingénues to fame.

He filled pulp magazines like Argosy with stories about tough detectives, smooth-talking criminals, and down-and-out athletes who make Rocky-like comebacks. As "Hugh Pentecost," he graduated into the lucrative slick-paper magazines and burgeoning paperback mystery field.

Despite awards and financial gain, he deemed himself a failure—His famous “Hugh Pentecost” penname came at a price, and five marriages cost him more in emotional capital. Once a Pulp Man: The Secret Life of Judson Philips as Hugh Pentecost unveils the man who sneered at Yul Brynner, ignored McCarthyism, proposed to dozens of women, and created a lasting legacy of entertainment.

Audrey Parente established her street cred with author biographies like Pulpmaster: The Theodore Roscoe Story and Pulp Man's Odyessey: The Hugh B. Cave Story. A retired reporter for the Ormond Beach New Journal, she spents years preparing this volume, researching Philip's background, compiling a complete bibliography, and transcribing hours of interviews she conducted with Philips in the late 1980s.






THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscriptions for 2016 are now available!


Earlier this summer, Howard Wright announced that issue 75 would be the final number of his Doc Savage-oriented fanzine, The Bronze Gazette.
 
Howard began the zine in 1990 as The Doc Savage Gazette. (The name was quickly changed after four issues because of trademark problems.)
It’s clearly been a labor of love for Howard, who has regularly put out three issues a year for 25 years now.
But Howard decided it was time to move on.
 
However, The Bronze Gazette will continue!
PULPlications — run by Terry Allen of Fantom Press and Keith Wilson of Doc Savage Fantasy Covers — will be the publisher, while Chuck Welch of Flearun will be the editor.
The Bronze Gazette’s 76th issue will debut in Spring 2016.
Terry says the zine will keep its digest size, and will run about 48 pages.
There will be a slate of regular contributors, but article submissions will be welcomed.


Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 76, Spring 2016, and No. 77, Fall 2016.

$20.00 U.S.A
$30.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$35.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)

Click HERE to subscribe!
 



BUNDUKI by J.T. Edson - Now available!

SACRIFICE FOR THE QUAGGA GOD

When Dawn Drummond-Clayton is carried off by the servants of the Mun-Gatah's High Priest and promised as a sacrifice to the Quagga God, Bunduki is hot on her trail. His hunt is interrupted, though, when a massive snake drops out of a tree and traps him in its thick coils. The constricting pressure is too much for him and he loses consciousness. Bunduki is rescued by a band of Amazons led by Beryl Snowhill, an Earth girl of his acquaintance who, previously unknown to him, was also transported to Zillikian.

The Amazons and Bunduki join forces and the chase after Dawn's abductors continues. Meanwhile, the political in-fighting increases. Dryaka and Charole have the upper hand and Dawn is soon their prisoner once again.
Bunduki's party allies itself with the Elders and heads towards Bon-Gatah, the main Mun-Gatah city. Bunduki and the Amazons fight their way into the city while the Mun-Gatahs descend into civil warfare. They arrive at the arena just in time. Dawn is desperately trying to fend off the Quagga God, a massive and extremely wild zebra. She will need all her survival skills to survive. As does Bunduki to prevent the curse of the 'Thunder Powder' from descending upon the planet of Zillikian.
Betrayals, plots and counter-plots are exposed, 'terrifiers' explode and the supporters of the Elders do battle with the rebels.
    
Recommended Price: $1.99 / £1.23



CASEFILE: ARKHAM - Now available!
by Josh Finney (Author), Kat Rocha (Editor), Patrick McEvoy (Illustrator)

What if Raymond Chandler wrote Lovecraft stories?

Set in the mid-1940s, Casefile: ARKHAM follows Hank Flynn, a down on his luck private eye who is back from the war and now working the mean streets of the most cursed city on Earth Arkham, Massachusetts. And things only get worse for Flynn when a wealthy uptown socialite hires him to track down an artist by the name of Pickman. What begins as a simple missing persons case leads Flynn down a dark path of flesh eating ghouls, vengeful witches, and the notorious Innsmouth mafia.

Softcover, 7 x 9 inches, 128 pages, $14.99

Kindle: $9.99

Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Short Reviews – Red Witch of Mercury by Emmett McDowell - New!
Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft on Immigration - New!
A Beautiful Friendship: Lovecraft’s Induction into the WEIRD TALES Roster - New!
RETROSPECTIVE: Behind the Curtain by Francis Stevens
RETROSPECTIVE: Part Two of “The Citadel of Fear” by Francis Stevens

CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 32: The Second Coming of Shuma-Gorath and Other Stories TP - Coming in July!
by Roy Thomas (Author), Sandy Plunket (Author), Mike Docherty (Illustrator), Dave Hoover (Pencils), Ernie Chan (Inks), Alfredo Alcala (Inks), Dell Barras (Inks), Ricardo Villagrán (Inks), Nel Yomtov (Color), Dave Samson (Color), and Steve Lightle (Cover)

Plagued by nightmares of his homeland consumed by fire and death, Conan is compelled to set out for distant Cimmeria to see if his tribe still lives. But the barbarian warrior's path is unexpectedly fraught with legions of the undead under the unholy thrall of the Hyperborean witch Vammatar, who once held Conan's own chains!
 

Collects Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian #250–#258.


Softcover, Full Color, 240 pages, $19.99, On sale July 20.

CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 32 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR160096.




CONAN THE AVENGER #23 - Arriving in comic shops February 24!
Fred Van Lente (Writer), Brian Ching (Art), Michael Atiyeh (Color), and Paul Renaud (Cover)

A depraved witch rules Khauran in place of her twin sister, plunging the city into debauchery and committing unspeakable atrocities—including blasphemous rites to the malevolent entity Thaug! Can Conan rally an army and prove that the queen is an impostor before it's too late?


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50





CONAN THE SLAYER #1 - Coming in July!
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Sergio Dávila
Cover: Lee Bermejo
Variant Cover: Mark Schultz (30th Anniversary Variant)

Alone, battle weary, and with nothing but his sword, Conan of Cimmeria faces his inevitable death in the arid wastes . . . but instead stumbles into a camp of Kozaki raiders. With a knife at his throat and a band of Turanian hunters at his back, will the half-dead barbarian find a new ally in the Kozaki chief?

Kicking off a brand new story arc, penned by superstar writer Cullen Bunn (Harrow County) and with art by Sergio Davila (Red Sonja)!

On Sale: July 13, 2016





CONAN Role Playing Game
Cover by world-renowned fantasy artist BROM!


Modiphius is proud to unveil the brand new cover for Robert E. Howard’s CONAN Roleplaying game - Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of.

Modiphius is proud to announce a licensing deal with Conan Properties to publish Robert E. Howard’s CONAN Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of. This is CONAN roleplaying as Robert E. Howard wrote it – savage pulp adventure battling ancient horrors in the Hyborian Age! We plan to bring the game right back to its roots, focusing on the original stories by Robert E. Howard.

Modiphius is proud to unveil the brand new cover for Robert E Howard’s CONAN Roleplaying game - Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of

​The core rulebook for Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of contains everything you’ll need to adventure in the world of Robert E. Howard’s hero, Conan. It is based entirely on the canonical Conan stories, and uses the 2D20 system developed by Modiphius and used in Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition, Infinity, John Carter, and other fine games. This tome presents character generation, the game’s rules , and a wealth of source material, including cultures, geography, religions, magic, gods, monsters, gamemastering advice, adventure seeds, and much more. This work has been developed by an all-star writing team, with close involvement by respected Robert E. Howard authorities, and is illustrated by world-renowned Conan artists. Full-color hardcover, 368 pages.

All the supplements for the Robert E. Howard's Conan Roleplaying Game will be in beautiful full colour hardbacks using the Arctic White paper used in the Mutant: Year Zero RPG.


The Kickstarter campaign is now active!
The Kickstarter will help fund one of the biggest line ups of major artists ever for a roleplaying game.
Each book is a beautiful high quality hard cover book featuring a major commissioned cover art by one of the legendary names
we have assembled along with truly authentic and evocative content by industry veterans and newcomers

THE ART OF ROBERT E. HOWARD's CONAN: ADVENTURES IN AN AGE UNDREAMED OF.
A 112 page full-colour hardback (& PDF) containing the art of the incredible line-up of Conan artists
assembled for the roleplaying game annotated by Conan scholar Jeffrey Shanks:
Brom, Sanjulian, Carl Critchlow, Simon Bisley, Paolo Parente, Aleksi Briclot, Val Mayerik, Daren Bader,
Liam Sharp, Mark Schultz, Tim Truman, Phroilan Gardner, Alex Horley, Tomas Giorello,
Esteban Maroto, Tom Grindberg, Jose Villarrubia, Giogio Baroni, Jorge Barrero, Josh Hass & Michael Syrigos.




THE CTHULHU WARS: THE UNITED STATES' BATTLES AGAINST THE MYTHOS SC - Coming May 24!
(Writer) Kenneth Hite, Kennon Bauman; (Art) Darren Tan & Imaginary Friends Studios

From the Patriots' raid on the necromancer Joseph Curwen, to the Special Forces' assault on Leng in 2007, this history reveals the secret and terrible struggle between the United States and the supernatural forces of Cthulhu. In this war, immortal cultists worship other-dimensional entities, and plot to raise an army of the dead. Incomprehensible undersea intelligences infiltrate and colonize American seaports, and alien races lurk beneath the ice of Antarctica and high in the mountains of Afghanistan. It is only through constant vigilance and violence that the earth has survived. Strange times are upon us, the world is changing, and even death may die — but, until then, the war continues.

Softcover, 7x10, 80 pages, Full Color, $19.00


THE CTHULHU WARS is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161998.



DARK HORSE PRESENTS #22 - Coming in May!
Alan Gordon (Writer), Carla Speed McNeil (Writer/Art), Dennis Calero (Writer/Art), Paul Levitz (Writer), Michael T. Gilbert (Writer/Art), Jeff Lemire (Writer/Art/Cover), Bo Hampton (Art), and Tim Hamilton (Art)

This issue features a Tarzan story: 
The Once and Future Tarzan, by Alan Gordon and Bo Hampton

In this issue, Jeff Lemire introduces readers to the last surviving coven of extraterrestrial witches in the heartbreakingly magical story The Witches of Mars! Swing alongside the King of the Jungle in the modern tale The Once and Future Tarzan, by Alan Gordon and Bo Hampton! And Michael T. Gilbert returns to DHP with a new installment of Mr. Monster! This issue also features the continuations of Carla Speed McNeil's Finder: Chase the Lady, Paul Levitz and Tim Hamilton's Brooklyn Blood, and Dennis Calero's The Suit!

Full Color, 48 pages, $4.99, in stores on May 18.


DARK HORSE PRESENTS #22 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR160064.




The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Fiction Studies (Volume 8) - Now available!
Authored by Mark E Hall

An annual academic journal dedicated to the study of the writer Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, Solomon Kane, Kull, and author of numerous pulp stories.
Starting in 2016, the journal will also run other articles on other pulp fiction writers.


Contents

Editorials:
“Twenty Five Years Young!” by Mark E. Hall
Reflections by Rusty Burke
“On Editing Robert E. Howard” by Chris Gruber
“My Robert E. Howard PhD Adventure” by Patrick Burger

Letters:
“Comments on Finn’s ‘Less an Archive, More an Agenda’” by Todd Vick

Abstract:
“On the Precipice of Fascism:The Mythic and the Political in the Work of Robert E. Howard and Ernst Jünger” by Patrick Burger

Articles:
“The Influence of Joseph A. Altsheler’s Apache Gold on Howard’s ‘The Haunted Mountain’” by Robert McIlvaine
“Literary Gothicism in Robert E. Howard’s ‘Red Nails’” by Matthew Cirilli
“Bersker Synecdoche: Howard’s Aesthetic of Violence” by Philip Emery
“The Outsider Scholar: Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and Scholarly Identity” by Karen Kohoutek
“Disintegrating Verse: The Poetry of the Shadow Modernists and the Ephemerality of the Ordinary” by Jason Carney


Softcover, 5.5" x 8.5", 132 pages, $10



Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!

Overlooked Films: THE SPIDER'S WEB (serial) - New!
Forgotten Books: CONAN THE DEFENDER by Robert Jordan (1982)  
Overlooked Films: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WYATT EARP (Episode 1)
Overlooked Films: THE ADVENTURES OF KIT CARSON (TV episode)
Overlooked Films: CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT TV Episode (1955)


DEJAH THORIS #4 - Coming in May!
Writer: Frank J. Barbiere
Art: Francesco Manna

Cover: NEN

Having taken command of an elite unit in the People’s Army of Barsoom, Dejah ventures into the badlands to search for secrets of her past. But when her unit is captured by powerful enemies, she must truly learn what it means to be a leader or suffer the consequences! An all-new chapter in the life of Dejah Thoris continues from the creative team of Frank J. Barbiere and Francesco Manna.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale May 4.

DEJAH THORIS #4 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161336.









The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

A Blonde for Murder by Walter B. Gibson  - New!
Mysterious Traveler Magazine: The Lonely World  - New!
Joe Wehrle Jr. Covers The Digest Enthusiast  - New!
Robert Lopresti Recalls Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine
Frank M. Robinson in Beyond Science Fiction
Robert Arthur’s The Mysterious Traveler Magazine
Shadow Digests


Girasol Collectables
Pulp Cover Gallery Edition Volume 5
The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5

Now available for pre-order; Release in mid-May!
Pre-release Special: $130 including shipping & handling* (*within North America, for overseas orders add $10.)

Volume 5 of our Pulp Cover Gallery series is in the works, scheduled for a mid-May release.
This edition will be the same overall format as our other volumes, featuring sets of cover scans of The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5.
One difference this time out is that the images are square-cut, they do not show the rough pulp edges.
The same bonded leather hardcover exterior, 8.5" x 11" interior pages, 130+ pages, full color throughout,
with a brief introduction and checklist with cover artist credit where known.
As before, this is not a book about the pulp titles featured, it is a visual reference of the covers. Lots of great viewing!

Order before April 01, 2016 and save $10!
Pre-release Special: $130 including shipping & handling* (*within North America, for overseas orders add $10.)





Previous volumes are still available!

Pulp Cover Gallery Volume 1 – WEIRD TALES  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery Volume 2 – THRILING WONDER STORIES / STARTLING STORIES / CAPTAIN FUTURE  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery 3  DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE / 15 MYSTERY STORIES / TERROR TALES  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery 4 FANTASTIC ADVENTURES / PLANET STORIES   - $130

Please note that the cover inset may not be the one shown in the image.


The Golden Age - Now online!

Astounding Stories 1931-1941 ~ Art by Howard V. Brown, Wesso, Graves Gladney & Hubert Rogers - New!
Startling Stories ~ 1939-1955 ~ Cover art by Howard V. Brown, Earle Bergey, Rudolph Belarski, Alex Schomburg, Ed Emsh, Jack Coggins, Walter Popp & Ed Valigursky - New!
Alex Schomburg
Fighting Yank #28 ~ 1949 ~ Cover by Alex Schomburg, interior art by Mort Meskin, Jerry Robinson & Al Williamson
The Fighting Yank #29 August/1949 ~ Cover by Alex Schomburg ~ Interior art by Mort Meskin and Jerry Robinson  
The Black Terror 1948 &1949 ~ Cover art by Alex Schomburg ~ Interior art by Frank Frazetta, Mort Meskin, Ruben Moreira & Al Williamson
Startling Comics 1940-1948 ~ Art by Alex Schomburg, Graham Ingels and others!  
Thrilling Comics 1940-1950 ~ Art by Alex Schomburg and others!



A Handful of Hell: Classic War and Adventure Stories - Now available!

Aviator, diplomat, and historian, Robert F. Dorr was uniquely qualified to write for men’s adventure magazines, bringing sweat-and-blood, nuts-and-bolts authenticity to his stories of risk, combat, and sacrifice. Best known today for his highly regarded historical works, Dorr’s stories for the men’s pulps also drew from jaw-dropping true accounts,  as action-packed as any imagined by his hard-boiled peers.

In this tense, gritty collection, the master storyteller drops readers squarely into the action’s fiery crucible, both in the cockpit and on the front lines. Each story includes full-color reproductions of the explosive vintage art from the stories’ original publication by some of the greatest names in illustration.
A singular collection in the author’s vast bibliography, A Handful of Hell highlights the best of Robert F. Dorr’s vivid, gripping tales of aerial conflict, battlefield heroism and action—some fact, some fiction, all adrenaline-fueled, white-knuckle adventure.


The hardcover limited edition includes an additional 40 pages of material exclusive to the hardcover edition.

Hardcover: 348 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
List Price: $34.95

Amazon Price: $31.20

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: New Texture
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

List Price: $24.95




Hermes Press: TERRY AND THE PIRATES: THE GEORGE WUNDER YEARS VOLUME 3: 1949-1950 HC - Coming in May!
(A/CA) George Wunder

Milton Caniff's masterpiece, Terry and the Pirates, perhaps the most influential action/adventure comic strip every created returns! After Caniff left the strip in 1946 to create Steve Canyon he was succeeded by George Wunder. Under Wunder's stewardship the strip continued for almost another 27 years. Volume Three picks up with the story "Dame in Distress." The dailies and Sundays run in continuity and as with Volumes One and Two and all of the Sundays are printed in spectacular color. As with other volumes of Terry, this book features an historical essay, examples of original art and other supplemental material.

Hardcover, 10x14, 224 pages, Partial Color, $65.00, On sale May 25.

TERRY AND THE PIRATES: THE GEORGE WUNDER YEARS VOLUME 3 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161523.






Hermes Press to Reprint Avon Novels of The Phantom

Released originally by Avon Publications in the US, the series of 15 novels retold some of Lee Falk’s most famous stories.
Of the novels five were written by Falk himself with other writers filling in on the other ten.
Of these, Ron Goulart, using the pseudonym of Frank S. Shawn, wrote six.

Hermes Press also announced that Ron Goulart will be the writer for the second series of Hermes’on-going Phantom comic book series.





Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Conan RPG - New!
Rare Treasures
Conan Re-Read: Conclusion
JOE GOLEM: OCCULT DETECTIVE Hardcover - Coming in July!
Mike Mignola (Writer), Christopher Golden (Writer), Patric Reynolds (Art), Dave Stewart (Color)

Forty years after disaster left Lower Manhattan submerged in thirty feet of water, the Drowning City has taken a turn for the weird and Joe Golem is there to investigate.
A mysterious and terrifying creature has been snatching children and pulling them into the depths of the canals, and the those that drowned in the floods are coming back to the surface--alive.


Hardcover, 7” x 10”, Full Color, 144 pages, $24.99, On sale July 20.

JOE GOLEM: OCCULT DETECTIVE is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR160029.



JOHN CARTER: WARLORD OF MARS VOLUME 2: MAN-MADE MONSTER TP - Coming in May!
(W) Ron Marz, Ian Edgington (A) Ariel Medel (CA) Abhishek Malsuni

John Carter, a hero of the American Civil War now at home on Mars, has survived the Kahori invasion alongside his beloved princess, Dejah Thoris. As the capital city of Helium rebuilds, the loving couple leave for the outlands to recuperate... but rest and relaxation are not in their future. All across Barsoom, sinister forces conspire against them. From savage Warhoon raiding parties to the artificial (and lovelorn) beast known as the Hormad, from the god-like sand spirit Jartak to the last of the world-conquering White Martians, the most evil creatures to ever walk the Red Planet stalk forth from the shadows to challenge the Warlord of Mars!

Trade paperback, 7x10, 224 pages, Full Color, $19.99
, On sale May 18.


JOHN CARTER: WARLORD OF MARS VOLUME 2 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161338.



THE KING COLLECTION - Coming in May!

When Ming the Merciless launched an all-out assault on planet Earth, the colorful band of heroes known as Kings Watch led the resistance… and triumphed! Now, across the cosmos, in the dark corners of our very planet, and even throughout time, Earth's defenders continue the mission, separate and yet together in spirit! Flash Gordon, Dale Arden, Dr. Zarkov, Mandrake the Magician, Jungle Jim, Lothar (in his identity as the new Phantom), and Prince Valiant join friends new and old to face the combined forces of Ming and the all-new, all-deadly Cobra!

Trade paperback, 7x10, Full Color, 496 pages, $49.99, On sale May 18.

THE KING COLLECTION is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161319.



KING CONAN: WOLVES BEYOND THE BORDER #3 - Arriving in comic shops February 24!
Timothy Truman (Writer), Tomás Giorello (Art/Cover), and Jose Villarrubia (Color)

Returning a cursed Pictish crown to its true tribe, King Conan leaves the protection of his court in Aquilonia to prevent an invasion! In this expansion on Robert E. Howard's unfinished "Wolves beyond the Border" tale, Conan joins forces with an old lover and her group of renegade Picts.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99




KING CONAN: WOLVES BEYOND THE BORDER - Coming in July!
by Robert E. Howard (Author), Timothy Truman (Author), Tomas Giorello (Art/Cover), Jose Villarrubia (Color)

King Conan grows weary of the crown, and when an old soldier visits him with talk of a cursed relic and rumors of Pictish tribes preparing a full-scale invasion on Aquilonia’s borders, Conan eagerly embarks on what could be his final adventure! Timothy Truman and Tomás Giorello expand on Robert E. Howard’s unfinished “Wolves Beyond the Border” tale! Collects issues #1–#4 of the miniseries.

Softcover, 7” x 10”, Full Color, 120 pages, $17.99, On sale July 27.

KING CONAN: WOLVES BEYOND THE BORDER is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR160095.





KING'S QUEST #1  - Coming in May!
Ben Acker, Heath Corson (Writers); Dan McDaid (Art); Mark Laming, Dan McDaid, Jonathon Lau, Chris Eliopoulos, Colton Worley (Covers)

Join Flash Gordon, TWO Phantoms, Mandrake the Magician, and Prince Valiant on a disastrous intergalactic rescue mission!
All they have to do is defeat a limitless alien armada and NOT get eaten by a space jungle.
Brought to you by the innumerable talents of Ben Acker (The Thrilling Adventure Hour), Heath Corson (Bizarro), and Dan McDaid (Judge Dredd)!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale May 4.


KING'S QUEST #1 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161311 (Laming cover).

The Diamond Item Code is MAR161312 (McDaid cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161313 (Lau cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161314 (Eliopoulos cover, not shown).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161315 (Worley cover).







Lobster Johnson: METAL MONSTERS OF MIDTOWN #1 (of 3) - Coming in May!
John Arcudi (Writer), Tonci Zonjic (Art/Cover), and Dave Stewart (Color)

A trio of skyscraping robots crash into a Manhattan bank and leave Lobster Johnson with two mysteries to solve: what is behind the massive machines, and why would the robots pull a heist without taking a penny?


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50, On sale May 25.

METAL MONSTERS OF MIDTOWN #1 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR160016.




LORDS OF THE JUNGLE #3 (of 6) - Coming in May!
(Writer) Corinna Bechko (Art) Roberto Castro
(Covers) Felipe Massafera, Roberto Castro


London of 1937 doesn't feel much like home to Sheena, but that doesn't stop her from bringing a bit of the wild with her into the city. Meanwhile, Tarzan has problems of his own, and the chaos that Sheena seems to attract just might get Jane killed! These two forces of nature have learned to respect each other, but can they join forces for long enough to accomplish each of their goals… or will the course of history be altered forever?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale May 18.

LORDS OF THE JUNGLE #3 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161346
(Massafera cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161347 (Castro cover).





LOST IN SPACE #3 (of 6) - Coming in May!
(Writer) Carey Wilber, Holly Interlandi
(Art) Kostas Pantoulas (Cover) 
Patrick McEvoy, Photo

The “Curious Galactics” storyline concludes! In an alien desert maze, Will and John Robinson trek on, now chariotless; fighting off strange creatures and rationing water and food the best they can. The situation seems hopeless, but it may be something entirely different from courage that gets the Galactics’ attention. Adapted from the original unfilmed teleplay!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
On sale May 11 (photo cover).
On sale May 25 (McEvoy cover).

LOST IN SPACE #3 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161033
(McEvoy cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161034 (Photo cover).
   

 
   

THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF CTHULHU: NEW LOVECRAFTIAN FICTION SC - Coming May 24!
(Writers) Laird Barron & Various

A new terrifying collection inspired by the master of horror H.P. Lovecraft, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu brings some of the best established and upcoming writers sharing their best Lovecraftian horror.

For the lover of Lovecraft or newcomer to the Cthulhu mythos, this anthology provides an excellent foray into Lovecraft's world of weird fiction.

Softcover, 5x8, 512 pages, B&W    $14.95


THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF CTHULHU: NEW LOVECRAFTIAN FICTION is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR16
1999.



MASKS 2 TPB - Coming in May!
(Writer) Cullen Bunn (Art) Eman Casallos (Cover) Butch Guice

The Shadow. The Green Hornet and Kato. Black Terror. The Spider. Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt. Miss Fury. These are just a few of the masked vigilantes drawn into a mystery that spans the decades. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's infamous short story and able to kill thousands of people in mere seconds, the Red Death hosts a bizarre masquerade across the 1930s, 1970s, modern day, and beyond, exposing her hapless victims to plague and threatening a legacy of costumed heroes. Over a dozen crime-fighters must risk their lives, hurling themselves into the time stream, to halt the madwoman's bloodbath!

Trade paperback, 7x10, 232 pages, Full Color, $24.99
, On sale May 11.

MASKS 2 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161349
.



Moonstone Books
DOMINO LADY: THREESOME #1
Coming in May!

Domino Lady, The Golden Amazon & The Veil
NY Times best-selling author NANCY HOLDER brings us a new series of wild adventures of Domino Lady with two friends!


Trouble Times Three!

It's Coast to Coast action, adventure, romance, and intrigue as Pulp's #1 Adventuress, Domino Lady teams up with the Golden Amazon and The Veil to thwart a killer, stop a nefarious Nazi plot, and uncover mysterious happenings on big Hollywood movie set. When just one hero isn't enough, Domino Lady and her companions come together to get the job done.


Story: Nancy Holder, Bobby Nash
Art: Marco Santiago
Cover: Glen Fernandez
32 pages, 7” x 10”, GRAYSCALE, $3.50

On sale May 25.

The variant cover is available only to retailers who purchase 4 or more copies of Domino Lady Threesome #1.

DOMINO LADY: THREESOME #1 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161573
.





Mystery*File - Now online!

A Movie Review by Jonathan Lewis: THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (1932).
- New!
Reviewed by Walter Albert: MICHAEL REAVES & JOHN PELAN, Editors – Shadows Over Baker Street.
Reviewed by Walter Albert: RAOUL WHITFIELD – Jo Gar’s Casebook.
JONATHAN LEWIS: Stories I’m Reading — W. H. HODGSON “The Thing Invisible.”
CONVENTION REPORT: PulpFest 2015  by Richard Moore


PAPERBACK FANATIC #34 & PULP HORROR #2
To the printer at the end of February!
Pre-order now to avoid missing an issue!

The Paperback Fanatic 34
150 pages, all colour. 
A Visual Guide to Monarch Books,
cult movie tie-ins
The Warriors
Manly Wade Wellman
James Blish
Daniel Galouye
Charles Finney
Margaret St Clair
Mike Heslop
letters
Paperback Fair report and more. 

Improved format following feedback on issue 33 - reduced page count and thicker cover lamination as well as better quality envelopes to help protect the mag in transit.  

UK post:  £11.50
Europe and US/Canada:  £13.50
Australia and Japan:  £14.50



Pulp Horror 2
68 pages, all colour, also with a book spine. 
Horror in SF special. 
House on the Borderland
Satanic SF
the  books that Alien ripped off
a guide to SF/Horror cross-overs
Frank Belknap Long
Bug Eyed Monsters and more.


UK post:  £7.50
Europe and US/Canada:  £8.50
Australia and Japan:  £9.50





Paperback Perils - Now online!

Doc Ardan: The City of Gold and Lepers (Guy D'Armen, 1928/Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, 2004) - New!

The Warlord of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914)
The Gods of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1913)  
A Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912)
The Scarlet Jaguar (Win Scott Eckert, Meteor House, 2015)  
Swords Against Cthulhu (Ed. Gavin Chappell, Rogue Planet Press/Horrified Press, 2015)

Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"The Magnetic Storm" by Hugo Gernsback from AMAZING STORIES, July 1926
A science fiction story using electricity set in World War I.

"By Hook - One Crook" by Joe Archibald from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, October, 1943
Featuring: Dizzy Duo
Snooty Piper, that city slicker, went to the country for a holiday from homicide. But with the farm aid shortage, Snooty found himself helping to bring in the cadaver crop on the Grim Reaper's plantation.

"Long Sam Fights for Nesters" by Lee Bond from TEXAS RANGERS, August, 1938
Featuring: Long Sam Littlejohn
An Owl-Hooter Deals Out His Own Brand of Justice to a Brutal Gang of Homesteader-Baiters!




Pulpwood Adventure Series - Now available!

The following issues of ADVENTURE are now available in Kindle editions for $3.99 each.

Adventure, September 18,1918

Adventure, December 3, 1919

Adventure, June 20,1925

Adventure, June 30, 1925

Adventure, July 20, 1925

Adventure, August 10, 1925




Pulp Adventurecon
Saturday, February 20, 2016
10 am - 5 pm


FORT LAUDERDALE, FL
Universal Palms Hotel
 
The Pulp Adventurecon has been taking place annually in Bordentown, New Jersey for a long, long time -- but now we're branching out and attempting to conquer the south!
The second annual Pulp Adventurecon South is Saturday, February 20th, 2016 at the Universal Palms Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The Universal Palms Hotel is offering a special rate for attendees of the show.
Book your room for Friday, February 19th or February, October 20th (or both) and give the promotional code "Venture" and lock in your room for $89.00 per night.
That's a spectacular rate for Florida, especially in February!


Admission will be $5 at the door, and tables are $55 each.


And don't forget the show this Fall!
BORDENTOWN, NJ

Ramada Inn of Bordentown
Date to be announced.


 

Pulp Crazy - Now online!

Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham  - New!
The Hound
The Freshman by Philip José Farmer
The Man-Eaters of Zamboula (Starring Conan the Cimmerian) by Robert E. Howard


Pulp Den - Now online!

Trespassers  - New!
The Secret Cabal
Pacific Burn  
Tom Mix Rides Again
Cold War Heroes  
         Pulp Den  

The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features two ongoing blogs!

Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.

Pulp Super-Fan blog by Michael R. Brown

A look at ‘Awesome Tales’ - New!
Fanzine Focus: ‘Pulp Adventures’ #19
A closer look at The Moon Man
Doc Ardan returns
Meet Rouletabille
That's Pulp! by John Olsen

Perry Mason: novels #5 and #6 - New!
‘Haunted Harbor’: a serial in 15 chapters
The Shadow’s mail-away rings
‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’

Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

A rundown of pulp shows for 2016

Genesis of the lightsaber?
Take a sf journey back to 1941
Farewell 2015; welcome 2016


RED SONJA VOLUME 3 #5 - Coming in May!
Writer: Marguerite Bennett
Art: Aneke
Cover: Marguerite Sauvage

Hyrkania explodes into civil war – with Sonja leading the rebellion against the king she once loved! King Savas imprisons Midyan in his lair as the desperate rebels hunt for a creature out of legend to come to their aid...

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale May 18.

RED SONJA VOLUME 3 #5 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161354.









The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

Realm of Doom
- New!
The North Woods Mystery - New!
The Death Sleep
The Yellow Door
Death In The Crystal
Ten Glass Eyes
Room 1313

SHANG-CHI: MASTER OF KUNG FU OMNIBUS VOLUME 2 HC - Coming in September!
Written by Doug Moench, Paul Gulacy, Archie Goodwin & Scott Edelman
Penciled by Paul Gulacy, Sal Buscema, Jim Craig, Keith Pollard, Mike Zeck, Pat Broderick & Keith Pollard
Covers by John Cassaday, Paul Gulacy


Continuing the complete collection of one of comics’ most sought-after classic series! It’s martial-arts madness in the Mighty Marvel Manner, as Shang-Chi — a secret agent for British intelligence — pits his deadly hands against the claws of the Cat! The Master of Kung-Fu wrestles with the unstoppable Sumo, has his world rocked by Shockwave, and goes into aerial combat with the Red Baron! You’ll feel for him when he faces the demon warrior Shaka Kharn, but what good will furious fists and flying feet be against…Doctor Doom?!

Plus: In the ultimate martial-arts team-up, Shang-Chi will fight alongside Iron Fist. But his fiercest battle will come against his most bitter foe: his own father!

Collecting MASTER OF KUNG FU (1974) #38-70 and ANNUAL #1.


Full color, 664 pages, $125, On sale September 7.

SHANG-CHI: MASTER OF KUNG FU OMNIBUS VOLUME 2 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR160923 (Cassaday cover).

The Diamond Item Code is MAR160924 (Gulacy cover).








STARFALL: Stan Wade LA PI ~ Book 2 - Available for download February 20!
by John Hegenberger

After rescuing Annette Funicello’s stand-in from the amorous clutches of Guy Williams, Stan Wade, young, LA-based PI, gets a new, but secret, assignment from his number-one client, Walt Disney. The elder cartoonist and filmmaker wants Stan to investigate a death at Edwards Air Force Base. The victim, who drowned while testing an outer-space uniform, was the eighth astronaut candidate for America’s new space agency, NASA. Working out of his cramped office in the back of the Brown Derby restaurant where he’s employed as a part-time “bouncer,” Stan uncovers much more than a suspicious death…putting his own life—and the lives of those closest to him—in danger.

Release date: February 20
Pre-order Price:    $3.99


The author will be doing a reading at PulpFest.


STARSHIPS AND TRANSHUMANS
5 Classic Pulp Science Fiction Novels Megabundle

Now available!


Ships that take us on journeys to other solar systems and people who develop powers and abilities beyond the normal have been inseparable in science fiction since its dawn as a literary genre. The most mind-bending of early space operas, the Lensmen series by the Homer of the spaceways, Edward E. Smith Ph.D., combined both ships that galloped up parsecs by the second with extraordinary scenes of transcendence. In this megapack you will find five early pulp science fiction novels that focus on either starships or the transhuman and in a few cases, both.

Dwight V. Swain (1915 – 1992) was one of the most popular of the new post-war crop of science fiction writers in the pulps during the early fifties. Fans of the Star Wars movie series will thrill to The Weapon from Eternity, his offering here, which can best be described as a ring-a-ding space opera with style.

Chester S. Geier (1921-1990) was one of the Chicago writers who began writing science fiction for Ray Palmer when he became editor Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures for the Ziff-Davis (located in the Windy City) chain of pulp magazines. at the time of the first publication of Forever is Too Long, then fan Robert Silverberg, now a multi-winning Hugo and Nebula author, hailed it as “a wonderful story” and said, “almost any other immortality story would be inferior.”

Berkeley Livingston (1909-1975) was another of Palmer’s circle of writers who contributed much to the shaping of Amazing and Fantastic during their 1940s heyday. According to Richard Simms, who made a close study of Livingston’s work, he was “a talented and versatile writer” whose work was “action-packed,” “fast-moving,” “colorful” and “thought-provoking.” Dimensions Unlimited displays all those literary virtues, as well as taking place, in part, in the universe of the famed and controversial Shaver Mystery.

Geoff St. Reynard was a pseudonym of historical novelist Robert W. Krepps (1919-1980) famed outside the science fiction world for such bestsellers as The Court of the Lion, Baboon Rock and Tell It on the Drums. As a science fiction novelist, he is best known as the author a number of fine alien invasion tales written in the midst of the Cold War wave of flying saucer sightings. The Deadly Saucers (also published as Don’t Panic) is one of the best of these.

Don Wilcox (1905-2000), according to Fancyclopedia 3, was one of Amazing Stories’ “most prolific and popular contributors.” The young Terry Carr, who would become one of the field’s ablest critics and editors, once wrote to Amazing begging, ”Give us more Wilcox, please!” We think that after reading the extraordinarily imaginative Desert of the Damned, written during the World War II era, you, too, will be begging, “Give us more Wilcox, please.”


Kindle Price:    $0.99

Kindle  


Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Six - New!
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Five - New!
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Four  - New!
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Three
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Two
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part One


THE TWILIGHT ZONE / THE SHADOW #2 (OF 4) - Coming in May!
(Writer) David Avallone (Art) Dave Acosta (Cover) Francesco Francavilla

Picture if you will: in your own world, you’re a fearsome crime fighter who stalks the night. But you wake up today in another world, where the fearsome crime fighter is just a character you play in a radio show that bears his name. You are no longer a man with a mission, just a 22 year old prodigy with an impressive voice, and a lot of questions… an honored guest who has been invited into… the Twilight Zone.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale May 18.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE / THE SHADOW #2 is solicited in the March PREVIEWS (Available February 24).
The Diamond Item Code is MAR161358.




William Patrick Maynard - Now online!


Blogging The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer – Part One: “The Zayat Kiss”

Arthur Henry Ward was born in England in 1883. His father hoped his son would make his way through life as a respectable businessman, but young Arthur was determined to make a name for himself as an author.

Read the rest at the link below.

On the Trail of the Octopus

Eric Stedman of The Serial Squadron has a well-deserved reputation for restoring vintage serials (in many cases salvaging otherwise lost serials) and preserving them for posterity. As Sax Rohmer’s 133rd birthday is rapidly approaching, I thought I would turn our attention to a vintage 1919 serial that borrowed quite a few elements from Rohmer’s work, The Trail of the Octopus. The Serial Squadron released their restored version of this forgotten gem in 2012.

Read the rest at the link below.






12 February 2016

2016 Pulp Shows

The Pulp Coming Attractions Pulp Shows page has been updated with available information on the presently known pulp & paperback shows scheduled for 2016!
Click on the PULP SHOWS link below or the icon at the top of the page and start making your reservations!


20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - New feature film adaptation in the works!

Director Bryan Singer has closed a deal with 20th Century Fox to make 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea his next picture.
20th Century Fox
is moving toward a fall production start, and Singer will begin casting, full speed ahead.
The adaptation of the Jules Verne novel has a script by Rick Sordelet & Dan Studney, based on a story by Singer and those writers.
Singer will produce with Jason Taylor, who heads the director’s Bad Hat Harry Productions.



Airship 27 Productions
Four new audio releases!
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions, in partnership with Radio Archives, is proud to announce the release of four of their titles to the world of audiobooks.

JAGGER – TIME SERVED by Jared l. Cantin is a modern day thriller in the vein of the Jack Reacher novels and is read by Jamison R. Ross.

Whereas SINBAD – THE NEW VOYAGES is our unabashed tribute to the Sinbad movies of Ray Harryhausen and features stories by Derrick Ferguson, Nancy Hansen and I.A. Watson as read by Jem Matzan.  This is high seas adventure like you’ve never heard it before.

Then we go undercover with one of the first classic pulp super-spires, SECRET AGENT X VOLUME 1. These fast paced stories are by Mark Justice, Brian Meredith, Kevin Noel Olson and Andrew Salmon and read by Scott Carrico.

Finally we are proud to bring to the audio world the first in our best selling series; SHERLOCK HOLMES – CONSULTING DETECTIVE VOLUME 1. This award winning first collection features wonderful mysteries by Aaron Smith, Andrew Salmon, Van Allen Plexico and I.A. Watson all inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and read by George Kuch.

“Audio books add a whole new experience to the fun of these amazing tales and we trust all our Loyal Airmen will have a blast listening to them.”  Ron Fortier – Managing Editor Airship 27 Productions.



Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!




Altus Press
The Crimson Mask Omnibus Volume 2
by Norman A. Daniels

Coming soon!
 
Part of the early 1940s pulp hero revival, pharmacist Bob Clarke takes on the underworld as The Crimson Mask!
Volume 2 contains the next five adventures:
“The Crimson Mask and the Vanishing Men”
“The Crimson Mask's Ghost Trail”
“The Diamond Death Trail”
“The Money Trail”
“Murders of the Black Rose”
All stories are uncut and contain all of the original illustrations.

280 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover


Altus Press
George Chance: The Ghost Omnibus, Volume 1
by G.T. Fleming-Roberts

Coming soon!
 
Magician George Chance, AKA the crime-fighter known as The Ghost,
who has done more in the service of the Law than any other man of his generation.

Master of the science of criminology, remorseless crime-tracker and criminal catcher!
When The Ghost walks, the underworld stirs into deadly life to combat him.

This omnibus contains the first two adventures of The Ghost, uncut, and with the original illustrations.

264 pages / $19.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover






Altus Press
Super-Detective Jim Anthony: The Complete Series Volume 3
by Victor Rousseau

Coming soon!
 
The complete reprinting of the greatest of the Doc Savage pastiches continues!
Volume Three of contains the next three adventures of Jim Anthony:
“Murder Syndicate”
“The Horrible Marionettes”
“Border Napoleon”

This volume also includes editor notes and correspondence.
353 pages / $29.95 softcover / $39.95 hardcover




Altus Press
The Brazen Peacock
by H. Bedford-Jones

Coming soon!

H. Bedford-Jones pens this thrilling tale of adventure in the Middle East.

Fraser, his whereabouts unknown to his father following the Great War,
finds himself in the middle of a battle over a lost idol and on the road to Baghdad.
And just what does Fraser have to do with the treasured Brazen Peacock?

It’s another volume in the H. Bedford-Jones Library.

171 pages / $14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover


Altus Press
Now available in eBook editions!

Altus Press has added a trio of ebooks to its library of pulp fiction.
Each is only $4.99


Meet the five Mavericks—Lance Clayton, Doc Grimson, Charlie Parr, Lockjaw Johnson, and Flint Maddox…
They were wanted men, those five hard-riding travelers of the still night trails… Mavericks all, they had entered outlawry for five different reasons, drawn irresistibly down the Owlhoot Trail from five different walks of rangeland life.
They became one living inseparable unit of grim, uncompromising justice, united as one man by their friendship, their burning championship of the underdog—and the high, white flame of their courage….

Collecting final three stories: “Bait for the Lobo Pack,” “Doc Grimson’s Outlaw Posse” and “Charlie Parr’s Gunsmoke Cure.”

385 pages | $28.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover | $4.99 eBook


Denis Burke returns in this far-spanning, 12-part World War II epic, as espionage knows no borders.
Full of secret agents and locales such as Casablanca, Iceland, the Solomon Islands, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Malta, the Red Sea, and Trinidad.
One of the longest serials he wrote for Short Stories magazine—and never before reprinted—it’s a lost classic by H. Bedford-Jones.

295 pages | $18.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover | $4.99 eBook


Master Pirate of the Eastern Seas: Captain Cairn—a man from Hell—heads the Ta Ming for an island of brooding trouble!
Never before reprinted, it’s a lost classic from the pen of H. Bedford-Jones, the King of the Pulps.

188 pages | $18.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover | $4.99 eBook





Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.

Past episodes:
Flinch Books with Jim Beard and John Bruening
Legends of New Pulp Fiction: Ron Fortier and Rob Davis

Ellen and David Walters discuss the adventures of Wire Dog!
Jean-Marc Lofficier and Black Coat Press
The Grim Spectre by Ralph Angelo Jr.

Dafydd Neal Dyar discusses the new "Dare Devlin" Series
Will Murray on " Doc Savage: The Secret of Satan's Spine"
Diana Rubino

The Superhero Universes of Jeff Deischer
Pulpfest: The Development of Lovecraft's Mythos
Beb Books
TIDES OF HATE & THE SCIENCE FICTION OF EARL REPP
Now available!


Tides of Hate a novel of buccaneers, gold and revenge by Captain A. E. Dingle
Ed Davies, Swan and the Frenchman L’Escuyler, pirates all, captured a fortune in Spanish gold only to see it vanish one night. All three blame the other for the theft and all three plan to return to the Isthmus of Panama to reclaim their gold. To get there Davies must partner with another pirate, John Cook, a man who no more trusts Davies than he does Swan or L’Escuyler. But twenty ass’s load of gold is too great a lure to ignore.

A thrilling tale of treachery on the high seas. Print editon $6.00 plus postage.

Also new this week:

The Science Fiction of Ed Earl Repp - Book 2 - The Invisible Raider and other Air Wonder Stories
Table of Contents
The Invisible Raider - Air Wonder Stories, October 1929
Beyond The Aurora - Air Wonder Stories November 1929
The Storm Buster -     Air Wonder Stories January 1930
The Sky Ruler - Air Wonder Stories May 1930

and

The Science Fiction of Ed Earl Repp - Book 3 - The Stellar Missile and Other Stories
Table of Contents
The Stellar Missile - Science Wonder Stories, November, 1929.
The Second Missile - (sequel to The Stellar Missile) - Amazing Stories, December, 1930
The Synthetic Man - Wonder Stories, December 1930

Other recent releases  include:

MEN AND WOMEN WITH WINGS
Leslie F. Stone was one of the  earliest women writers of Science Fiction, beginning in 1929. She never hide her sex by using initials and didn’t try to write like “one of the boys.”

“Men With Wings” is her first published story, a short novella about the evolution of a species of flying humans and the utopian society  they form. Its sequel, “Women With Wings” is set centuries later then winged humanity has come to replace Homo Sapiens. But tragedy stalks the flying species as the women  are increasingly dying in childbirth. Unless something drastic is done the species will go extinct.

From the pages of Air Wonder Stories, Beb Books presents Men and Women with Wings.
Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition $1.99

GULF STREAM GOLD

Ed Earl Repp was a prolific writer from 1929 to 1933 before switching to Westerns where he was  equally prolific. He returned to science fiction around 1938. “Gulf Stream Gold” collects four of his novelets from 1929-1932. Modern day fortune hunters search for underwater gold in “Gulf Stream Gold.”  Submarine pirates stumbles into an air-filled cavern inhabited by monsters from ages past. Monsters from deep within the earth declare war on the surface in “The Metal World.” and a desert-rat his weird experience in Death Valley with a mother dragon in “From Out of the Earth.

From the pages of Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories Quarterly.  Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition $1.99.


Beb Books has big plans when it comes to reprinting early science fiction.
Here’s a list of forthcoming titles:


Beb Books’ Library of Early Science Fiction

Ed Earl Repp
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Beyond Gravity - a collection of Air Wonder Stories
(Now available) Book 2 - The Invisible Raider - a second collection of his Air Wonder Stories
(Now available) Book 3 - The Stellar Missile and other stories
(Now available) Book 4 - Gulf Stream Gold - Undersea and under the earth stories
(Now available)  Book 5 - The Radium Pool and other stories

A. Hyatt Verrill
(Now available)  Book 1 - Beyond the Pole and Inside The Crater’s Rim
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - King of the Monkey Man and Dirigibles of Death
(forthcoming)    Book 3 - The Man Who Could Vanish and other stories

Harl Vincent
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Subterrania, The Menace From Below
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - Air-War - a collection
(forthcoming)    Book 3 - Before The Asteroids - 3 space opera novelets.
(forthcoming)    Book 4 - Vagabonds of Spaces - 4 space opera novelets
(forthcoming)    Book 5 - Wander of Infinity - 5 Thrilling Adventures

Henrik Dahl Juve
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - The Silent Destroyers - 4 Air-War thrillers
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - The Monsters of Neptune - 4 stories on other worlds

Bob Olsen
(Now available) Book 1 - The Four Dimensional World of Bob Olsen - explorations into higher physics

Earl L. Bell
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Moon of Doom - The end of the world.

Nat Schnacher and Arthur Leo Zaget
(Now available) Book 1 - The Tower of Evil - 4 weird adventures on the earth, in the future and beyond.

Laurence Manning
(Now available) Book 1 - Voyage of the Asteroid
(forthcoming) Book 2 - The Wreck of The Asteroid


Pay by either check or money order to:
Brian Brown
11675 Beaconsfield
Detroit, MI 48224

or via Paypal to beb01@sprynet.com


Print editions are printed on 8.5x11 paper and stapled on the side. Postage is $3.00 for one to three books. Add 25 cents extra for each copy over three.


Check out the rest of Beb Books many titles.
Ask for a catalog at beb01@sprynet.com


Ask for a list of everything  in stock. It’s free.







Bold Venture Press
AWESOME TALES #3
Winter 2016

Now available!

Fantomas! His name sends icy shivers down the stalwart spines of French authorities. Fantomas! He deals in death and mayhem for high stakes profit! No stakes are higher than world freedom, so the shadowy criminal offers to combat the German war machine. When Fantomas makes an offer, the contract is signed in blood!

Plus: "Taxi to Hell" by Lee Richards -- Step on it! How often do cab drivers hear that snarled command? This cabbie steps on it, alright — steps on love and hate, stomps on heart and lungs, and grinds out the last spark of life! ALSO In "The Emerald Eye" by KT Pinto, you'll meet Raphael Jones, a new hardboiled P.I.! He rolls his eyes over a new client and heeds her bidding, for three times his normal rate — until he’s dealing with forces beyond mortal comprehension!

New illustrations by Ed Coutts.
Cover design by Rich Harvey.

54 pages
$6.00




Bold Venture Press
PULP ADVENTURES #20
Winter 2016

Now available!

Pulp Adventures -- a quarterly safari through the pulp fiction jungle!
This issue is filled with iconic characters and authors.


CONTENTS
"Zorro Serenades a Siren" by Johnston McCulley
"The Lacquer Box" by Judson P. Philips, author of the Park Avenue Hunt Club series
"The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry, the story that introduced the Cisco Kid to pop culture
"Death in Harbor City" by John L. French, a new thriller with Midnight and The Domino Lady
"The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, the story that inspired Diary of a Madman starring Vincent Price
"Cry Mommie" by Audrey Parente
"Robot Graveyard" by Adam Beau McFarlane
"Fighting Chance" by Cliff Campbell, a gridiron story about a linebacker in desperate need of GPS.

Fantastic cover by Norman A. Saunders, courtesy of the artist's estate!
Original pulp illustrations.
130 pages
$12.95

Kinde edition: On sale February 15th - $2.99
Due to licensing arrangements, "Zorro Serenades a Siren" and "The Lacquer Box" are not included in the Kindle / eBook edition.



Bold Venture Press
Coming this month!

Cancelled in Red
by Hugh Pentecost
An Inspector Luke Bradley mystery

When it debuted in 1939, Cancelled in Red was the $1,000 Red Badge Prize Mystery winner. It also walked away with the $10,000 prize for the 1939 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest. Dodd, Mead & Company issued the story in paperback and hardcover that same year. The novel also launched the "Hugh Pentecost" penname, which began to overshadow Judson P. Philips, who continued writing pulp magazine stories and serials while "Pentecost" reached the slick-paper publications and the burgeoning paperback market. (More about that in Audrey Parente's book Once a Pulp Man, the Secret Life of Judson Philips as Hugh Pentecost).

Max Adrian was the rare stamp broker everyone in the know avoided — and those unfortunate enough to do business with him harbored grudges. It never mattered to the shifty broker, until someone demanded a refund at the point of a gun. Soon, Adrian’s rival Larry Storm plays amateur detective for the benefit of a dishy dame, searching for a hidden cache of priceless stamps. Storm is one step ahead of the tenacious Inspector Luke Bradley, who’s one step behind a cold-blooded killer — and Storm had better start running....



Judson P. Philips rubbed elbows with movie stars and directors. He owned a newspaper and scratched out columns in others. He penned hundreds of stories in pulp magazines, digests and slick magazines, under a trio of pen names. His words flooded radio, television and film. He faced down Newsweek editors, owned an equity summer stock theater and boosted many ingénues to fame.

He filled pulp magazines like Argosy with stories about tough detectives, smooth-talking criminals, and down-and-out athletes who make Rocky-like comebacks. As "Hugh Pentecost," he graduated into the lucrative slick-paper magazines and burgeoning paperback mystery field.

Despite awards and financial gain, he deemed himself a failure—His famous “Hugh Pentecost” penname came at a price, and five marriages cost him more in emotional capital. Once a Pulp Man: The Secret Life of Judson Philips as Hugh Pentecost unveils the man who sneered at Yul Brynner, ignored McCarthyism, proposed to dozens of women, and created a lasting legacy of entertainment.

Audrey Parente established her street cred with author biographies like Pulpmaster: The Theodore Roscoe Story and Pulp Man's Odyessey: The Hugh B. Cave Story. A retired reporter for the Ormond Beach New Journal, she spents years preparing this volume, researching Philip's background, compiling a complete bibliography, and transcribing hours of interviews she conducted with Philips in the late 1980s.







THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscriptions for 2016 are now available!


Earlier this summer, Howard Wright announced that issue 75 would be the final number of his Doc Savage-oriented fanzine, The Bronze Gazette.
 
Howard began the zine in 1990 as The Doc Savage Gazette. (The name was quickly changed after four issues because of trademark problems.)
It’s clearly been a labor of love for Howard, who has regularly put out three issues a year for 25 years now.
But Howard decided it was time to move on.
 
However, The Bronze Gazette will continue!
PULPlications — run by Terry Allen of Fantom Press and Keith Wilson of Doc Savage Fantasy Covers — will be the publisher, while Chuck Welch of Flearun will be the editor.
The Bronze Gazette’s 76th issue will debut in Spring 2016.
Terry says the zine will keep its digest size, and will run about 48 pages.
There will be a slate of regular contributors, but article submissions will be welcomed.


Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 76, Spring 2016, and No. 77, Fall 2016.

$20.00 U.S.A
$30.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$35.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)

Click HERE to subscribe!
 



BULLETS & HEELS (Alyssa Bruin Action Series Book 1) - Now available for pre-order!
by Philip Colgate


All Alyssa Bruin wants to do is become a singer in New York, but when she visits her grandfather for the holidays, she discovers he is a secret military operative and he needs her help. He is working to bring down a seedy underground human trafficking ring and he wants Alyssa to go in undercover.

Putting the weapon and survival skills she learned as a child to the test, Alyssa finds herself embroiled in a sinister plan. Who can she trust?

With bodies turning up across the country, Alyssa is in a race against time to stop the trafficking ring before anyone else dies.


Publication Date: May 10, 2016
Pre-order Price:    $2.99


Kindle  


BUNDUKI by J.T. Edson - Available for download February 15!

SACRIFICE FOR THE QUAGGA GOD

When Dawn Drummond-Clayton is carried off by the servants of the Mun-Gatah's High Priest and promised as a sacrifice to the Quagga God, Bunduki is hot on her trail. His hunt is interrupted, though, when a massive snake drops out of a tree and traps him in its thick coils. The constricting pressure is too much for him and he loses consciousness. Bunduki is rescued by a band of Amazons led by Beryl Snowhill, an Earth girl of his acquaintance who, previously unknown to him, was also transported to Zillikian.

The Amazons and Bunduki join forces and the chase after Dawn's abductors continues. Meanwhile, the political in-fighting increases. Dryaka and Charole have the upper hand and Dawn is soon their prisoner once again.
Bunduki's party allies itself with the Elders and heads towards Bon-Gatah, the main Mun-Gatah city. Bunduki and the Amazons fight their way into the city while the Mun-Gatahs descend into civil warfare. They arrive at the arena just in time. Dawn is desperately trying to fend off the Quagga God, a massive and extremely wild zebra. She will need all her survival skills to survive. As does Bunduki to prevent the curse of the 'Thunder Powder' from descending upon the planet of Zillikian.
Betrayals, plots and counter-plots are exposed, 'terrifiers' explode and the supporters of the Elders do battle with the rebels.
    
Recommended Price: $1.99 / £1.23



CARNACKI: THE GHOST-FINDER - Now available!

Coming in February 2016, a brand new series of horror readings performed by Dan Starkey...

Creeping out after our announcement of Dracula, Big Finish is pleased to be able to confirm details of a brand new range of audiobook readings for 2016. Carnacki: The Ghost-Finder brings to life the cases of the supernatural detective, created by writer William Hope Hodgson in 1910.

‘The Carnacki stories are fantastic,’ says producer Scott Handcock, ‘and Hodgson’s writing is so wonderfully rich and evocative, it made sense for us to bring them to life in a series of equally fantastic readings. The first six tales especially are incredibly atmospheric - a cross between Conan Doyle and MR James - as Carnacki finds himself investigating supernatural happenings in the early twentieth century.’

The classic tales will be performed by Dan Starkey (Doctor Who’s Strax the Sontaran) as Thomas Carnacki with support from Joseph Kloska as his associate Dodgson. The range is directed and produced by Scott Handcock, whose previous work for Big Finish includes The Confessions of Dorian Gray and Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus.

‘Strangely, I was working with Dan in Cardiff when I happened to mention I’d be tackling the Carnacki stories,’ continues Scott, ‘and he immediately started gushing about the character and the stories, so it was a delight when he agreed to bring Carnacki to life on audio. The language and writing is so rich, it’s great to let Dan’s performance take centre-stage, coupled with a lovely score from Ioan Morris and Rhys Downing.’

Carnacki: The Ghost-Finder collects together six of William Hope Hodgson’s original stories:

The Gateway of the Monster
The House Among the Laurels
The Whistling Room
The Horse of the Invisible
The Searcher of the End House
The Thing Invisible

All six stories will be included as part of a single volume which can be pre-ordered today for £18 on download ahead of its release in February 2016.

Please note that this release is download-only.



CASEFILE: ARKHAM - Coming February 16!
by Josh Finney (Author), Kat Rocha (Editor), Patrick McEvoy (Illustrator)

What if Raymond Chandler wrote Lovecraft stories?

Set in the mid-1940s, Casefile: ARKHAM follows Hank Flynn, a down on his luck private eye who is back from the war and now working the mean streets of the most cursed city on Earth Arkham, Massachusetts. And things only get worse for Flynn when a wealthy uptown socialite hires him to track down an artist by the name of Pickman. What begins as a simple missing persons case leads Flynn down a dark path of flesh eating ghouls, vengeful witches, and the notorious Innsmouth mafia.

Softcover, 7 x 9 inches, 128 pages, $14.99

Kindle: $9.99

Castalia House Blog by Morgan Holmes - Now online!

RETROSPECTIVE: Behind the Curtain by Francis Stevens - New!
RETROSPECTIVE: Part Two of “The Citadel of Fear” by Francis Stevens - New!
Short Reviews – Formula for Conquest, James R. Adams
RETROSPECTIVE: “Friend Island” by Francis Stevens
RETROSPECTIVE: Part One of “The Citadel of Fear” by Francis Stevens

CHRONICLES OF CONAN VOLUME 32: The Second Coming of Shuma-Gorath and Other Stories TP - Coming in July!
by Roy Thomas (Author), Sandy Plunket (Author), Mike Docherty (Illustrator), Dave Hoover (Pencils), Ernie Chan (Inks), Alfredo Alcala (Inks), Dell Barras (Inks), Ricardo Villagrán (Inks), Nel Yomtov (Color), Dave Samson (Color), and Steve Lightle (Cover)

Plagued by nightmares of his homeland consumed by fire and death, Conan is compelled to set out for distant Cimmeria to see if his tribe still lives. But the barbarian warrior's path is unexpectedly fraught with legions of the undead under the unholy thrall of the Hyperborean witch Vammatar, who once held Conan's own chains!
 

Collects Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian #250–#258.


Softcover, Full Color, 240 pages, $19.99, On sale July 20.



CONAN VOLUME 18: THE DAMNED HORDE TP - Now available!
Fred Van Lente (Writer), Brian Ching (Art), Michael Atiyeh (Color), and Dan Scott (Cover)

Conan and his allies are thrown into battle against an army of brigands! Conan enters into an uncertain alliance to steal a legendary treasure -- and in the shadows a great evil lurks, awaiting its chance to destroy him! Collects issues #7-12.

Full Color, 152 pages, $19.99




DARK HORSE PRESENTS #22 - Coming in May!
Alan Gordon (Writer), Carla Speed McNeil (Writer/Art), Dennis Calero (Writer/Art), Paul Levitz (Writer), Michael T. Gilbert (Writer/Art), Jeff Lemire (Writer/Art/Cover), Bo Hampton (Art), and Tim Hamilton (Art)

This issue features a Tarzan story: 
The Once and Future Tarzan, by Alan Gordon and Bo Hampton

In this issue, Jeff Lemire introduces readers to the last surviving coven of extraterrestrial witches in the heartbreakingly magical story The Witches of Mars! Swing alongside the King of the Jungle in the modern tale The Once and Future Tarzan, by Alan Gordon and Bo Hampton! And Michael T. Gilbert returns to DHP with a new installment of Mr. Monster! This issue also features the continuations of Carla Speed McNeil's Finder: Chase the Lady, Paul Levitz and Tim Hamilton's Brooklyn Blood, and Dennis Calero's The Suit!

Full Color, 48 pages, $4.99, in stores on May 18.




The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Fiction Studies (Volume 8) - Now available!
Authored by Mark E Hall

An annual academic journal dedicated to the study of the writer Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan, Solomon Kane, Kull, and author of numerous pulp stories.
Starting in 2016, the journal will also run other articles on other pulp fiction writers.


Contents

Editorials:
“Twenty Five Years Young!” by Mark E. Hall
Reflections by Rusty Burke
“On Editing Robert E. Howard” by Chris Gruber
“My Robert E. Howard PhD Adventure” by Patrick Burger

Letters:
“Comments on Finn’s ‘Less an Archive, More an Agenda’” by Todd Vick

Abstract:
“On the Precipice of Fascism:The Mythic and the Political in the Work of Robert E. Howard and Ernst Jünger” by Patrick Burger

Articles:
“The Influence of Joseph A. Altsheler’s Apache Gold on Howard’s ‘The Haunted Mountain’” by Robert McIlvaine
“Literary Gothicism in Robert E. Howard’s ‘Red Nails’” by Matthew Cirilli
“Bersker Synecdoche: Howard’s Aesthetic of Violence” by Philip Emery
“The Outsider Scholar: Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and Scholarly Identity” by Karen Kohoutek
“Disintegrating Verse: The Poetry of the Shadow Modernists and the Ephemerality of the Ordinary” by Jason Carney


Softcover, 5.5" x 8.5", 132 pages, $10



Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!

Forgotten Books: CONAN THE DEFENDER by Robert Jordan (1982)  
Overlooked Films: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WYATT EARP (Episode 1)
Overlooked Films: THE ADVENTURES OF KIT CARSON (TV episode)
Overlooked Films: CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT TV Episode (1955)


The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Robert Lopresti Recalls Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine  - New!
Frank M. Robinson in Beyond Science Fiction - New!
Robert Arthur’s The Mysterious Traveler Magazine - New!
Shadow Digests


Girasol Collectables
Pulp Cover Gallery Edition Volume 5
The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5

Now available for pre-order; Release in mid-May!
Pre-release Special: $130 including shipping & handling* (*within North America, for overseas orders add $10.)

Volume 5 of our Pulp Cover Gallery series is in the works, scheduled for a mid-May release.
This edition will be the same overall format as our other volumes, featuring sets of cover scans of The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5.
One difference this time out is that the images are square-cut, they do not show the rough pulp edges.
The same bonded leather hardcover exterior, 8.5" x 11" interior pages, 130+ pages, full color throughout,
with a brief introduction and checklist with cover artist credit where known.
As before, this is not a book about the pulp titles featured, it is a visual reference of the covers. Lots of great viewing!

Order before April 01, 2016 and save $10!
Pre-release Special: $130 including shipping & handling* (*within North America, for overseas orders add $10.)





Previous volumes are still available!

Pulp Cover Gallery Volume 1 – WEIRD TALES  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery Volume 2 – THRILING WONDER STORIES / STARTLING STORIES / CAPTAIN FUTURE  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery 3  DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE / 15 MYSTERY STORIES / TERROR TALES  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery 4 FANTASTIC ADVENTURES / PLANET STORIES   - $130

Please note that the cover inset may not be the one shown in the image.


The Golden Age - Now online!

Alex Schomburg - New!
Fighting Yank #28 ~ 1949 ~ Cover by Alex Schomburg, interior art by Mort Meskin, Jerry Robinson & Al Williamson - New!
The Fighting Yank #29 August/1949 ~ Cover by Alex Schomburg ~ Interior art by Mort Meskin and Jerry Robinson   - New!
The Black Terror 1948 &1949 ~ Cover art by Alex Schomburg ~ Interior art by Frank Frazetta, Mort Meskin, Ruben Moreira & Al Williamson
Startling Comics 1940-1948 ~ Art by Alex Schomburg, Graham Ingels and others!  
Thrilling Comics 1940-1950 ~ Art by Alex Schomburg and others!



Hermes Press: MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN: THE KING YEARS - Arriving in comic shops February 17!
(Writer) Dick Wood (Art) Don Heck & Various (Cover) Andre LeBlanc

The comic book version of the 20th Century's most famous fictional magician sees print again in Hermes Press' deluxe version of King Features comics' Mandrake the Magician! Lee Falk's newspaper strip, Mandrake the Magician, offered readers, magic, occult and the fantastic and King Feature's comic book version, which saw print during the height of the Silver Age, was a worthy entry into the world of comic books. This first volume of the complete comic book run of Mandrake the Magician presents the first five comics in the series together with all of the back-up stories printed in King Features' Flash Gordon title. These stories feature artwork by such Silver Age luminaries as Don Heck, Werner Roth, and Andre LeBlanc with scripts by Dick Wood.

Hardcover, 8x10, 176 pages, Full Color, $49.99




Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Rare Treasures - New!
Conan Re-Read: Conclusion
Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

THE SNARL OF THE BEAST
A Fiction House Press Facsimile Reprint


Race Williams, private investigator, is hired to protect a young man who may be a prison escapee, a drug addict, or the victim of an inheritance scheme.
He has a horrible battle with the powers of the New York underworld.

Trade Paperback:
320 pages, 6 x 9 inch
$15.00




JOE GOLEM: OCCULT DETECTIVE Hardcover - Coming in July!
Mike Mignola (Writer), Christopher Golden (Writer), Patric Reynolds (Art), Dave Stewart (Color)

Forty years after disaster left Lower Manhattan submerged in thirty feet of water, the Drowning City has taken a turn for the weird and Joe Golem is there to investigate. A mysterious and terrifying creature has been snatching children and pulling them into the depths of the canals, and the those that drowned in the floods are coming back to the surface--alive.

Hardcover, 7” x 10”, Full Color, 144 pages, $24.99, On sale July 20.


KING CONAN: WOLVES BEYOND THE BORDER - Coming in July!
by Robert E. Howard (Author), Timothy Truman (Author), Tomas Giorello (Art/Cover), Jose Villarrubia (Color)

King Conan grows weary of the crown, and when an old soldier visits him with talk of a cursed relic and rumors of Pictish tribes preparing a full-scale invasion on Aquilonia’s borders, Conan eagerly embarks on what could be his final adventure! Timothy Truman and Tomás Giorello expand on Robert E. Howard’s unfinished “Wolves Beyond the Border” tale! Collects issues #1–#4 of the miniseries.

Softcover, 7” x 10”, Full Color, 120 pages, $17.99, On sale July 27.




LADY RAWHIDE / LADY ZORRO: OUTLAW BLOOD Trade Paperback - Now available!
Writer: Shannon Eric Denton, Art: Rey Villegas, Cover: Mike Mayhew

Drawn together in a scheme to fake the legendary Zorro’s death, the outlaws Lady Rawhide and Lady Zorro leap to action when they discover a far-reaching plot to abduct female villagers, children and adults alike, and sell them into bondage. To emancipate the girls from a fate worse than death, these masked women would ride into Hell itself… with such fury that the Devil would fear their coming! But with gangs of evil slavers, deadly natural elements, a cold-hearted madam, and a pack of frenzied wolves to contend with, will the valiant ladies survive the very worst that the lawless Californian wilderness has to offer?

Softcover, 96 pages, $14.99

 




Lobster Johnson: METAL MONSTERS OF MIDTOWN #1 (of 3) - Coming in May!
John Arcudi (Writer), Tonci Zonjic (Art/Cover), and Dave Stewart (Color)

A trio of skyscraping robots crash into a Manhattan bank and leave Lobster Johnson with two mysteries to solve: what is behind the massive machines, and why would the robots pull a heist without taking a penny?


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.50, On sale May 25.



Moonstone Books: GUNS OF THE BLACK BAT #2 - Coming in June!
Writer: Ron Fortier
Art: Silvestre Szilagyi
Cover: Michael Stribling

Someone has poisoned Manhattan’s water supply and is turning both humans and animals in to de-evolved monsters and beasts. Only the Black Bat and his assembled team, Phantom Detective, Domino Lady, I.V. Frost and Nighthawk, can hope to stem the nightmare tide and save their city before it is too late.

32 pages, grayscale, $3.50




Moonstone Books
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STRANGLER FILES TPB
Now available from Moonstone and arriving in comic shops February 17!
Written by Richard Matheson, Chris Mills, art by Amin Amat, cover by E.M. Gist.

This collection reprints the adaptation of the TV movie "The Night Strangler" written by Richard Matheson, and the three issues of "Kolchak: The Night Stalker Files" comic by Chris Mills. Carl Kolchak doesn't have time for horror movies. His life is scary enough -- and now he's between jobs and desperate for a paycheck. But when a young actress goes missing on the set of a low-budget monster flick, he soon discovers that making it big in Hollywood can be murder!!

Softcover, 6x9, 126 pages, $15.95



Mystery*File - Now online!

Reviewed by Walter Albert: MICHAEL REAVES & JOHN PELAN, Editors – Shadows Over Baker Street.
- New!
Reviewed by Walter Albert: RAOUL WHITFIELD – Jo Gar’s Casebook.
JONATHAN LEWIS: Stories I’m Reading — W. H. HODGSON “The Thing Invisible.”
CONVENTION REPORT: PulpFest 2015  by Richard Moore
CON REPORT: PulpFest 2015, by Walker Martin
PulpFest 2015 – The People

PAPERBACK FANATIC #34 & PULP HORROR #2
To the printer at the end of February!
Pre-order now to avoid missing an issue!

The Paperback Fanatic 34
150 pages, all colour. 
A Visual Guide to Monarch Books,
cult movie tie-ins
The Warriors
Manly Wade Wellman
James Blish
Daniel Galouye
Charles Finney
Margaret St Clair
Mike Heslop
letters
Paperback Fair report and more. 

Improved format following feedback on issue 33 - reduced page count and thicker cover lamination as well as better quality envelopes to help protect the mag in transit.  

UK post:  £11.50
Europe and US/Canada:  £13.50
Australia and Japan:  £14.50



Pulp Horror 2
68 pages, all colour, also with a book spine. 
Horror in SF special. 
House on the Borderland
Satanic SF
the  books that Alien ripped off
a guide to SF/Horror cross-overs
Frank Belknap Long
Bug Eyed Monsters and more.


UK post:  £7.50
Europe and US/Canada:  £8.50
Australia and Japan:  £9.50





Pearls from Peoria (Kindle Edition)  - Now available!
by Philip José Farmer

An outstanding and unique collection from an outstanding and unique talent. Philip José Farmer, three time Hugo winner and Nebula Grand Master in 2001, has written exciting and provocative fiction since his debut, the ground breaking “The Lovers,” stunned the SF community in 1952.

Pearls from Peoria assembles over sixty previously uncollected pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and autobiography that demonstrate the extraordinary range and vitality of Philip José Farmer’s imagination.

Many of the pieces appear here for the first time anywhere, while others have previously appeared only in small run magazines that have remained elusive and avidly sought after by Farmer aficionados.

These tales and articles provide the reader with a grand tour of the literary pocket universes that make up Philip José Farmer’s private cosmos. The range is vast, from horror to pulp heroes, and autobiography with pieces on Tarzan and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Doc Savage and Sir Richard Burton, Riverworld and Oz, Sherlock Holmes and Ralph von Wau Wau.

Pearls from Peoria represents outstanding value for people who want access to this incredibly rare work without spending a fortune, and copious amounts of time and energy, tracking down the individual original publications.


Kindle Price:    $6.99
Kindle  


Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Even Up" by Dale M. Brown from ALL-STORY WEEKLY, September 27, 1919
Another tale of redemption but this is set in a circus. Flatiron Casey, a circus clown has returned after a three years absence. He's welcome back with open arms but says nothing about his time away. Back in the day he was close to Miss La Verne, an aerialist. But in the time he was away she took up with a guy named Magee, who has of late disappeared. So they are reluctant to restart their relationship, each fearing to tell the other their secrets.


"The Corpse Said "No"" by Norman A. Daniels from THRILLING DETECTIVE, June, 1948
Ordinarily Sergeant Grady doesn't work with Homicide, but when his own pal's killed, that's different!


"Two On The Mate" by Richard Howells Watkins from SHORT STORIES, October, 1949

Dignity Is Rust; It Freezes Things. Humor Is Oil; It Helps Things Move. Aboard Ship That Happens, Too.




Pulpwood Adventure Series - Now available!

The following issues of ADVENTURE are now available in Kindle editions for $3.99 each.

Adventure, September 18,1918

Adventure, December 3, 1919

Adventure, June 20,1925

Adventure, June 30, 1925

Adventure, July 20, 1925

Adventure, August 10, 1925




Pulp Adventurecon
Saturday, February 20, 2016
10 am - 5 pm


FORT LAUDERDALE, FL
Universal Palms Hotel
 
The Pulp Adventurecon has been taking place annually in Bordentown, New Jersey for a long, long time -- but now we're branching out and attempting to conquer the south!
The second annual Pulp Adventurecon South is Saturday, February 20th, 2016 at the Universal Palms Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The Universal Palms Hotel is offering a special rate for attendees of the show.
Book your room for Friday, February 19th or February, October 20th (or both) and give the promotional code "Venture" and lock in your room for $89.00 per night.
That's a spectacular rate for Florida, especially in February!


Admission will be $5 at the door, and tables are $55 each.


And don't forget the show this Fall!
BORDENTOWN, NJ

Ramada Inn of Bordentown
Date to be announced.


 

Pulp Crazy - Now online!

The Hound  - New!
The Freshman by Philip José Farmer
The Man-Eaters of Zamboula (Starring Conan the Cimmerian) by Robert E. Howard
The Dark Eidolon by Clark Ashton Smith
Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 1) by Fritz Leiber

Pulp Den - Now online!

The Secret Cabal  - New!
Pacific Burn   - New!
Tom Mix Rides Again
Cold War Heroes  
PI Day Doomsday
The King of Fear
Jasper And The Shelter of Angels
         Pulp Den  

The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features two ongoing blogs!

Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.

Pulp Super-Fan blog by Michael R. Brown

Fanzine Focus: ‘Pulp Adventures’ #19 - New!
A closer look at The Moon Man - New!
Doc Ardan returns
Meet Rouletabille
‘All-Star Pulp Comics’
‘Tales of the Shadowmen 12: Carte Blanche’
That's Pulp! by John Olsen

‘Haunted Harbor’: a serial in 15 chapters - New!
The Shadow’s mail-away rings
‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’
The Spider, # 3: ‘Wings of the Black Death’
The Shadow OTR: ‘The Ghost on the Stair’
Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

A rundown of pulp shows for 2016
- New!
Genesis of the lightsaber?
Take a sf journey back to 1941
Farewell 2015; welcome 2016
Exploring ‘This Island Earth’
Jon Arfstrom: 1928-2015

Radio Archives
The Spider #22 Audiobook
Dragon Lord of the Underworld

by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria

Now available!

In the heart of New York’s Chinatown, on his imperial throne, guarded by swordsmen and gunmen and a labyrinth of death traps, sat the Arch-Criminal of all time. Master of life and death, of disease, of horrible, crawling things — the Emperor of Vermin released destruction over city and nation. The Spider, Master of Men, champion of humanity, fought with every ounce of his cunning, against the monster who personified evil incarnate — while one faithful servant gave his life in this, the Spider’s most bitter, hopeless battle, and Nita herself was faced with a doom more ghastly than any criminal mind had conceived before!

For ten grim years, the Spider battled the underworld, imprinting his scarlet seal on the bodies of the criminals he slew. No one knew his name. His face was unknown. Pursued by the police, sought by the mob, the Master of Men crushed crime with a blazing intensity never witnessed before or since. Now he’s back with a vengeance in a new series of audiobooks retelling his pulp-pounding exploits.
 
Never before or since has there been a hero like the Spider. Driven, hunted, and violently committed to exterminating criminals of all calibers. A self-appointed savior of humanity, driven manic-depressive, and possibly undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, the Spider was known as the Master of Men.
 
“There’s a madness that gets in me when the Spider walks....” Wentworth once admitted.
 
The most compelling of the classic pulp heroes, Richard Wentworth had a fiancé, a coterie of equally committed aides, and a tense relationship with New York Police Commissioner Stanley Kirkpatrick, Wentworth’s best friend, but also a dedicated lawman sworn to send the Spider to the electric chair—no matter who he turns out to be.
 
Nick Santa Maria again takes on the dual role of Richard Wentworth, aka the Spider, Master of Men, for this powerful story. Dragon Lord of the Underworld originally published in The Spider magazine, July, 1935.
 
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives
G-8 and His Battle Aces #33 Audiobook
Patrol of the Cloud Crusher

by Robert J. Hogan
Read by Nick Santa Maria

50% Discount on the Audio CD version - 5 hours - $9.99 Audio CDs!

Out of war-torn skies soars…G-8 and His Battle Aces! The greatest combat pilot of the War to End All Wars, G-8’s true name was stricken from all official records. Flying a supercharged warplane, backed by his wild wingmen, Bull Martin and Nippy Weston, G-8 fought the most horrific foes the Kaiser could throw at him.
 

The creation of writer Robert J. Hogan, G-8 and His Battle Aces appeared in the magazine of that same name for over a decade. Envisioning the expected strain on the writer’s imagination a monthly novel would enact, Steeger and Hogan agreed that the new series would soon grow stale if they didn’t spice it up with elements of the fantastic. This recipe ranged from merely super-scientific death rays to unabashedly supernatural manifestations. Nothing was taboo in G-8. Hogan was a pioneer of over-the-top plotting generations before the term was coined.

For our newest exciting G-8 release, we have selected Patrol of the Cloud Crusher, a particularly wild tale torn from the June, 1936 issue. Hogan outdoes himself by pitting his hero against an astounding threat—titanic disembodied hands reach out of the clouds to ensnare and crush Allied aircraft! Even the Master Spy is baffled.

It begins with a ghostly hand that snatched an important clue and vanished! If that wasn't baffling enough, a patrol flying past a giant cloud encountered a monster arm whose crushing fingers destroyed their warplanes.

Taking to the skies, G-8 rushes to investigate the so-called Hand of Providence that had seemingly taken the German side in the war. But it was one thing to fly into that hell cloud. Quite another to survive the encounter!

When the Flying Spy and his Battle Aces take on the challenge of the Patrol of the Cloud Crusher, will they return––or will their own aircraft be pulverized by the seemingly supernatural power? Herr Doctor Kreuger strikes again!

Nick Santa Maria narrates this ripping yarn of World War I air-to-air combat with his usual mastery.

50% Discount on the Audio CD version - 5 hours - $9.99 Audio CDs


Ramble House
Now available!

 
PERCHANCE TO WAKE
Yet More Selected Stories from Science Fantasy

 Chosen and Introduced by
Damien Broderick and John Boston

 
Damien Broderick and John Boston are proud to announce the third installment in their series of tales taken from the pages of Science Fantasy magazine.
This volume has ten stories from some of the best writers of SF we have.
Thanks to Damien and John, this magazine that was far ahead of its time, can be enjoyed by all.

Contents
John Rackham, Bring Back a Life
Thomas Burnett Swann, Vashti
Josephine Saxton, The Wall
Brian Stableford and Craig Mackintosh, Beyond Time’s Aegis
Brian Aldiss, The Circulation of the Blood
J.G. Ballard, You and Me and the Continuum
Christopher Priest, The Run
Keith Roberts, Corfe Gate
Robert Wells, Stop Seventeen
Chris Boyce, Mantis

  
Available Editions
      $20 Trade Paperback 6" x 9"
 
This book is available at Amazon and the Create Space store but the publisher offers you a discount and free shipping if you call or e-mail him with your order.
fender@ramblehouse.com
228-826-1783



RED SONJA #2 - Arriving in comic shops February 17!
Writer: Marguerite Bennett Art: Aneke
Cover: Marguerite Sauvage

As her people turn warlike and become more vicious than even their enemies, Red Sonja battles to save Hyrkania from its own army. Racing to the throne, with a price on her head, Sonja finds herself entangled in the charms and wiles of a mysterious and beautiful performer… and when the face of the King is revealed at last, Sonja is captured in intrigues more deadly than any she has known!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99







Robert E. Howard Days
June 10 and 11, 2016!

The Robert E. Howard Foundation and Project Pride of Cross Plains, Texas are proud to announce the dates and Guest of Honor for the 2016 version of Howard Days, to be held June 10th and 11th at the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains.

This year’s Guest of Honor is Michael Scott Myers, screenwriter for the movie The Whole Wide World, the biographical film based on the book One Who Walked Alone, which recounted the relationship between Robert E. Howard and Novalyne Price. We are happy to welcome Michael as our GOH, as he is the perfect person to blend with our Howard Days theme this year, Anniversaries.

2016 finds us with a number of important Robert E. Howard Anniversaries: 110 years since his birth, 80 years since his death, 70 years since the publication of Skull Face and Others, 50 years since Conan the Adventurer from Lancer, 40 years since Glenn Lord’s The Last Celt, 30 years since Novalyne Price Ellis’ One Who Walked Alone and 20 years since the movie The Whole Wide World (which was based on Novalyne’s book).

Michael’s involvement with The Whole Wide World began with his being a student of Novalyne Price Ellis in Lafayette, LA. Having read her book about Howard, he knew what a wonderful movie it would make. So, our Guest of Honor is doubly qualified this year and we’re thrilled to have him.

There is lots more information to follow and you can read about it here and at the Howard Days blog. While the cold winds of January are blowing now, make plans to come to Texas in June where the warmth will be in both the air and in the fellowship of Robert E. Howard fans!

Panel Schedule

FRIDAY June 10. Panels to be held in the Cross Plains High School Library


11 am: 30 YEARS OF HOWARD DAYS. The origins and history of Howard Days will be discussed, along with a showing of photos from over the years. Rusty Burke, Bill Cavalier and Susan McNeel-Childers of Cross Plains will tell their tales.
1:30 pm: The Whole Wide World and One Who Walked Alone. Guest of Honor Michael Scott Myers will discuss the movie, the book and Novalyne Price Ellis, as interviewed by Mark Finn.
2:30 pm: Presentation of the Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards. Rusty Burke, Bill Cavalier and a cast of several. 30 minutes.
9:00 pm: Fists at the Ice House. Mark Finn, Chris Gruber, Jeff Shanks and Patrice Louinet will entertain you with a spirited discussion of the Pugilistic Bob Howard, complete with readings from Howard’s boxing tales. Held on the actual site of the Ice House where Howard boxed.

SATURDAY June 11. Panels to be held at the Cross Plains Senior Center


11:00 am: REH and FRAZETTA: Celebrating the Fifty Year Legacy of the Lancers. Come hear a lively discussion about this benchmark event in Howard Publishing along with the importance of Frank Frazetta’s iconic cover paintings for the series.
Panelists to include: Gary Romeo, Special Guest Val Mayerik, Jeff Shanks and Rusty Burke (with an opening monologue by Bill Cavalier).

1:30 pm: The Life of Robert E. Howard – A discussion of Howard’s life, his working habits, his mannerisms, his routines, his quirks, his interests. We’ll talk about Howard the Man as opposed to Howard the Writer and also show some rare Howard artifacts (typescripts, photos etc.). Panelists to include: Mark Finn, Patrice Louinet, Chris Gruber and Paul Herman.

2:30 pm: The First Annual Glenn Lord REH Symposium. A presentation by several REH scholars regarding Howard the Writer, with special essay readings by Daniel Look,  Jonas Pridas, Todd Vick, Dierk Guenther. Moderator: Jeff Shanks. 90 minutes.





The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

The Death Sleep
- New!
The Yellow Door - New!
Death In The Crystal
Ten Glass Eyes
Room 1313

STARFALL: Stan Wade LA PI ~ Book 2 - Now available for pre-order!
by John Hegenberger

After rescuing Annette Funicello’s stand-in from the amorous clutches of Guy Williams, Stan Wade, young, LA-based PI, gets a new, but secret, assignment from his number-one client, Walt Disney. The elder cartoonist and filmmaker wants Stan to investigate a death at Edwards Air Force Base. The victim, who drowned while testing an outer-space uniform, was the eighth astronaut candidate for America’s new space agency, NASA. Working out of his cramped office in the back of the Brown Derby restaurant where he’s employed as a part-time “bouncer,” Stan uncovers much more than a suspicious death…putting his own life—and the lives of those closest to him—in danger.

Release date: February 20
Pre-order Price:    $3.99



STARSHIPS AND TRANSHUMANS
5 Classic Pulp Science Fiction Novels Megabundle

Now available!


Ships that take us on journeys to other solar systems and people who develop powers and abilities beyond the normal have been inseparable in science fiction since its dawn as a literary genre. The most mind-bending of early space operas, the Lensmen series by the Homer of the spaceways, Edward E. Smith Ph.D., combined both ships that galloped up parsecs by the second with extraordinary scenes of transcendence. In this megapack you will find five early pulp science fiction novels that focus on either starships or the transhuman and in a few cases, both.

Dwight V. Swain (1915 – 1992) was one of the most popular of the new post-war crop of science fiction writers in the pulps during the early fifties. Fans of the Star Wars movie series will thrill to The Weapon from Eternity, his offering here, which can best be described as a ring-a-ding space opera with style.

Chester S. Geier (1921-1990) was one of the Chicago writers who began writing science fiction for Ray Palmer when he became editor Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures for the Ziff-Davis (located in the Windy City) chain of pulp magazines. at the time of the first publication of Forever is Too Long, then fan Robert Silverberg, now a multi-winning Hugo and Nebula author, hailed it as “a wonderful story” and said, “almost any other immortality story would be inferior.”

Berkeley Livingston (1909-1975) was another of Palmer’s circle of writers who contributed much to the shaping of Amazing and Fantastic during their 1940s heyday. According to Richard Simms, who made a close study of Livingston’s work, he was “a talented and versatile writer” whose work was “action-packed,” “fast-moving,” “colorful” and “thought-provoking.” Dimensions Unlimited displays all those literary virtues, as well as taking place, in part, in the universe of the famed and controversial Shaver Mystery.

Geoff St. Reynard was a pseudonym of historical novelist Robert W. Krepps (1919-1980) famed outside the science fiction world for such bestsellers as The Court of the Lion, Baboon Rock and Tell It on the Drums. As a science fiction novelist, he is best known as the author a number of fine alien invasion tales written in the midst of the Cold War wave of flying saucer sightings. The Deadly Saucers (also published as Don’t Panic) is one of the best of these.

Don Wilcox (1905-2000), according to Fancyclopedia 3, was one of Amazing Stories’ “most prolific and popular contributors.” The young Terry Carr, who would become one of the field’s ablest critics and editors, once wrote to Amazing begging, ”Give us more Wilcox, please!” We think that after reading the extraordinarily imaginative Desert of the Damned, written during the World War II era, you, too, will be begging, “Give us more Wilcox, please.”


Kindle Price:    $0.99

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Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Three - New!
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part Two  - New!
Theodore Le Berthon (1892-1960)-Part One - New!
Anthony M. Rud (1893-1942) - New!
Anthony Rud and the Tango Dancer Murder-Part Two
Anthony Rud and the Tango Dancer Murder-Part One 
Abrach (?-?)-Part Two
Abrach (?-?)-Part One


Western Heroes of Pulp Fiction: Dime Novel to Pop Culture
Pulp western art exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art

October 24, 2015 to February 14, 2016!


The Old West will meet the New West on October 24, 2015 in an art exhibition so wild and exploding with rawhide, smoking Colt 45s, and desert heat, that it took the Tucson Museum of Art to rein it in.
For the first time ever, Wild West artwork from comic books, pulp fiction novels, dime novels, and magazine and book illustrations will have its own exhibition, curated by the Tucson Museum of Art Glasser Curator of Art of the American West, Christine Brindza.

Western Heroes of Pulp Fiction: Dime Novel to Pop Culture will provide a survey of works from 1920 to Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Bill Schenck, exploring how images of the Wild West have built and reinforced American legends.

And here is the best part! You can make a lasting impact on this historic exhibition by helping us get the catalog published!

One of the most important and lasting components of any great exhibit is its catalog, so saddle up with us on our Indiegogo campaign, and take a look at the awesome rewards for donating to the publishing costs of the catalog.

You might even get your name in the book!


X-PONENT (Shadow Detachment) - Now available!
by C.E. Martin


When a rogue band of superhumans launch a series of terrorist attacks inside the United States, the military springs into action. To hunt down the paranormal perpetrators will take more than the average soldier. It will require a special person, immune to mental manipulation and invisible to psychic detection. A hardened veteran of a dark war against the supernatural and paranormal, with decades of combat experience under his belt. The only problem is, Colonel Mark Kenslir is no detective--he's a commando who's spent a lifetime working alongside psychics against the armies of darkness whenever they've shown their faces, not chasing down clues. Finding an unseen enemy hiding in plain sight may well prove beyond his incredible combat skills. Fortunately, the FBI has their top two paranormal hunters on the case as well. If they can work together, the mysterious "X-Ponent" and whoever is behind it may just be stopped before more innocents die.

Kindle Price:    $0.99


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05 February 2016

2016 Pulp Shows

The Pulp Coming Attractions Pulp Shows page has been updated with available information on the presently known pulp & paperback shows scheduled for 2016!
Click on the PULP SHOWS link below or the icon at the top of the page and start making your reservations!


2016 and 2017 Film Releases
All dates are subject to change.

March 18, 2016
March 25, 2016

THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIENT
BATMAN VS SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE
May 6, 2016
May 27, 2016
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
June 24, 2016
INDEPENDANCE DAY: RESURGEANCE
July 1, 2016
July 15, 2016
July 22, 2016
July 29, 2016
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
GHOSTBUSTERS
STAR TREK BEYOND
THE BOURNE BETRAYAL
August 5, 2016
SUICIDE SQUAD
September 2, 2016
September 30, 2016
PATIENT ZERO
DEEPWATER HORIZON
October 7, 2016
October 21, 2016

GAMBIT
JACK REACHER 2

November 4, 2016
November 18, 2016
DOCTOR STRANGE
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
December 16, 2016
December 21, 2016
December 25, 2016
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY
PASSENGERS
JUMANJI
To be announced
HOWARD LOVECRAFT AND THE FROZEN KINGDOM
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
ROBINSON CRUSOE
KING COBRA
MIDNIGHT SUN
THE VEIL


January 13, 2017
THE DARK TOWER
February 10, 2017
February 17, 2017
THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE
MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE

March 3, 2017
March 10, 2017
March 17, 2017
March 24, 2017
March 31, 2017
THE WOLVERINE 2
KONG: SKULL ISLAND
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
DARK UNIVERSE: THE MUMMY
GHOST IN THE SHELL
May 5, 2017
May 19, 2017
May 26, 2017

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2
TERMINATOR: GENISYS 2
STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII

June 9, 2017
June 23, 2017
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ASCENDANT
WONDER WOMAN
July 7, 2017
July 14, 2017
July 21, 2017
July 28, 2017
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
UNTITLED SPIDERMAN REBOOT
September 29, 2017
THE EQUALIZER 2
October 6, 2017
ALIEN: CONVERGENT
November 3, 2017
November 10, 2017
November 17, 2017

THOR: RAGNAROK
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
JUSTICE LEAGUE: PART 1

December TBA, 2017
December 22, 2017
AVATAR 2
THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN


3 THE HARD WAY - Now available!
by Gary Phillips


Three novellas by Gary Phillips in one collection.

Malcolm Cavanaugh Bleekston, MC Bleak, McBleak, enjoys hobnobbing with the one percenters and stealing from them. In The Extractors, he puts his life on the line to take a greedy man’s gain while wondering if his girlfriend sees through his façade.

Ned “Noc” Brenner is a drifter with an unusual skill set—he’s an extreme athlete good at whatever he does be it MMA fighting to riding a motorcycle off a mountaintop. After winning in an all-night poker game, this sets in motion a series of events in The Anti-Gravity Steal where Noc must use all his abilities to prevent wholesale destruction.

Part Shaft and part Batman sans the cowl, Luke Warfield, a philanthropist with a black ops background, the Essex Man, goes on the trail in 10 Seconds to Death of the villain who killed his foster father and uncovers not only ghosts from his past, but must stop a deadly plan of mass slaughter in his own backyard.

Bonus Essex Man short story, “Murder by Remote Control.”


Paperback: 310 pages
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
List price: $16.95
Kindle: $2.99


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20th Annual Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale
Saturday, May 7, 2016, 10am to 4pm!
Canada's premier pulp event!

The show is a small but pulp specific event,
with lots of great stuff for the collector and the curious alike.

From 10am to 4pm, located at the Lillian H. Smith branch of the Toronto Public Library,
239 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Lower level (just east of Spadina)


25 dealers’ tables crammed with vintage pulp, pulp reprints, vintage paperbacks and posters as well as other ephemera.
Plus a half-hour pulp magazine cover slide show. A great time for both serious pulp collectors as well as the casually interested.
Lots of great stuff to see!

Only $3! Tickets available at the door, kids under 10 admitted free with adult.

For more information, contact us at:  info@girasolcollectables.com

Girasol Collectables Inc.
3501 Glen Erin Drive, Suite 1409
Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L 2E9
905.820.7572

There are numerous hotels in the Toronto downtown, in various price ranges, and if you are an autoclub member,
pick up one of their tourbooks for Toronto, Ontario, and you will find many additional options and attractions.

We look forward to seeing you there.



37th Annual Paperback Books Show and Sale
Sunday, April 3, 2016!

45+ authors and illustrators will sign your books for FREE!

GLENDALE CIVIC AUDITORIUM
1401 North Verdugo Rd
 Gendale, CA 91208
Admission - $5
Free Parking




 
40th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship
April 5-9, 2016!

The 40th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship, with events April 5, and April 7-9, 2016, welcomes author Victor Milan, and writers, friends and fans from across the region for this annual celebration of Jack Williamson and the genre to which he contributed so significantly.

A panel of friends and colleagues will open the lectureship with a reading from the Jack’s works on Tuesday, April 5, at 6 p.m. in room 112 of the Jack Williamson Liberal Arts Building, ENMU campus in Portales, New Mexico.
The lectureship showcases readings with visiting authors and friends of the lectureship at a reading on Thursday evening, 6 p.m., in JWLA 112.
Friday morning features Guest of Honor Victor Milan reading from his work from 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. in JWLA 112.

Everyone is welcome to attend the panels at Special Collections in Golden Library from 3-6 p.m. where writers, guests and audience members will discuss and debate topics in science fiction and fantasy.

Reservations for the lectureship luncheon can be made by calling 575.562.2315 or emailing planning.analysis@enmu.edu. The price is $10, payable at the door.  Reservations must be received by Monday, April 6.

For aspiring young writers, a special workshop will be offered by authors Connie Willis and Steven Gould at the Portales Public Library on Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to noon.
Participants are encouraged to reserve a space by contacting the Portales Library, 218 S Avenue B, in Portales, at 575.356.3940.

For more information, call 575.562.2315 or contact Patrice Caldwell at patrice.caldwell@enmu.edu


SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Readings from the Words of Jack Williamson
Tuesday, April 5, 6 p.m.
ENMU, Jack Williamson Liberal Arts Building 112

Reading with Visiting Authors
Thursday, April 7, 6 p.m.
ENMU, Jack Williamson Liberal Arts Building 112

Reading by Guest of Honor, Victor Milan
Friday, April 8, 9:30 - 11 a.m.
ENMU, Jack Williamson Liberal Arts Building 112

Lectureship Luncheon
Friday, April 8, 11:45 a.m.
ENMU, Campus Union Ballroom (lunch tickets are $10)

Williamson Lectureship Panels
Friday, April 8, 3 - 6 p.m.
ENMU Golden Library Special Collections

Young Writers Workshop
Saturday, April 9, 10 a.m. Noon
Portales Public Library (reservations required)


63nd Michigan Antiquarian Book And Paper Show
Sunday April 3rd, 2016
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.


The Antiquarian Book & Paper Show is the largest book and paper show in the Midwest, averaging over 70 exhibitors and one million old, rare, and collectible book and paper items for sale.
Where you find things you always wanted but never knew existed!

Lansing Center
333 E. Michigan Ave
Lansing, Michigan

3 blocks east of Capitol


Admission $5
CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER FREE


2016 Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention




MEMBERSHIPS
Memberships are $35 for all three days, $25 for Friday only, $25 for Saturday only, and $10 for Sunday only. We are also offering Early Bird Admission for non-dealers for $60, which is a three day membership which allows entry to the dealer room on Friday at 10 a.m. (which is one hour after dealer setup begins and two hours before the con generally opens to the public). Supporting membership (not attending, but wants to receive the program book) is $15. Ages 13 & under are free. Please note that we can now accept payments online through paypal (register@windycitypulpandpaper.com).

DEALER INFO
Dealer setup begins Friday at 8:30 a.m. — the dealer room is open to the public from 11:00 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday (10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Early Bird Admission), 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. — 4 p.m. Sunday.
All dealer tables are sold out.

PROGRAM BOOK
All attendees will receive a program book, containing pulp articles and reprints. To advertise in the program book, rates are: full page ads $70 (4 1/8" x 6.75"), half page $40 (4 1/8" x 3 3/8"), business card size $25 (3.25" x 2"). The deadline for submitting and paying for ads is March 5, 2016. Please contact Tom Roberts at tom.roberts2@comcast.net for ad and other program book matters (other than payment).

ART SHOW
We will once again be hosting an art show displaying original pulp and paperback art, sponsored by Dan Zimmer and the fine folks at Illustration magazine (www.illustration-magazine.com). If you have any art you'd like to make available for display in the art show, please contact us. The art show hours will be posted to the website when they are set.

AUCTIONS
To be announced.

PULP FILM FEST
Our Pulp Film Fest shows old movies based on pulp stories. More info, including the schedule, will be posted on the website closer to the con. The Pulp Film Fest is organized by Ed Hulse and sponsored by Blood 'N' Thunder magazine (http:// muraniapress.com/blood-n-thunder/).
 
NEW PULP SUNDAY
For the fourth year in a row, the Windy City Pulp & Paper Con is hosting a five hour block devoted to the New pulp Movement to be held on Sunday April 24th from 10 a.m. to 3 p. m. A group of today's finest New Pulp writers and artists will be participating in both panels and readings.

WEBSITE
www.windycitypulpandpaper.com is the con's website. We'll be posting updates to it periodically up until the time of the con, so please check it for the most recent information. Also be sure to check out and join our Facebook page!

CON SUITE
Our con suite will operate from Thursday night from 8 p.m. tp Midnight (come pick up your badges and program materials!) until late Saturday night/early Sunday morning — stop by and grab a drink and some munchies, while chatting about our favorite hobby!

HOTEL
For our sixteenth show, for the ninth year in a row we're at the Westin Lombard, in the Western suburbs of Chicago. The Westin is located about 20 minutes SW of O'Hare Airport and about a half hour West of Midway Airport. Room rates are $117/night (to get the con rate, you must book by 5:00 p.m. Central time on April 6, 2016!). Parking is free. The hotel is in the midst of a shopping and restaurant corridor — it's adjacent (within walking distance) to Yorktown Mall and about a mile from Oak Brook Shopping Center. For those with families, it's also only 7 miles from the Brookfield Zoo, one of the nation's top zoos. Movie theaters are also a short walk away. And if you like to gamble, the Aurora River Boat is about 10 miles away. If you are flying in and not renting a car, you can contact the hotel for details on various cab companies and shuttle services that offer fixed price transportation to and from the hotel. Please mention the con when booking rooms.


20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - New feature film adaptation in the works!

Director Bryan Singer has closed a deal with 20th Century Fox to make 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea his next picture.
20th Century Fox
is moving toward a fall production start, and Singer will begin casting, full speed ahead.
The adaptation of the Jules Verne novel has a script by Rick Sordelet & Dan Studney, based on a story by Singer and those writers.
Singer will produce with Jason Taylor, who heads the director’s Bad Hat Harry Productions.


Age of Aces Latest Dispatches
Now available on line!

“Lives of the Aces in Pictures – Part 7: René Fonck” by Eugene Frandzen - New!


Age of Aces
Now available!

The Jailbird Flight
By Donald E. Keyhoe


Below the Rio Grande he had once been known as “The Killer.” Now Captain Bruce Kirby flew through hell skies, leader of the strangest squadron that ever dared face death from flaming Spandaus. Outcasts—all of them—branded with the convict’s arrow! No cowards came to the Jailbird drome—only those dishonored war eagles who chose a chance to die in action rather than rot behind prison bars. Hot tempers, liquor, and the madness of war had brought them low—but beneath it all they still were men! A former U.S. Marine pilot, author Donald E. Keyhoe was a prolific contributor to the pulp magazines, but he is perhaps best remembered for his UFO research in the Fifties and Sixties. In August of 1931, Keyhoe started three long-lived series in three different aviation magazines: Captain Philip Strange in Flying Aces; The Devil Dog Squadron in Sky Birds; and The Jailbird Flight in Battle Aces. This volume features the first seven Jailbird adventures published by Popular Publications in 1931 and ‘32: The Jailbird Flight, The Drome of Vanishing Men, The Masked Skull Squadron, The Jailbird Ace, Dead Man’s Drome, Claws of the Jailbird, and The Skeleton Ace.

$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 318 pages|

Available from:  AmazonMike Chomko Books, and Adventure House


Age of Aces
Now available!

Captain Philip Strange: Strange Staffels
By Donald E. Keyhoe


America’s enemies have assembled squadrons of flying furies, exploding skeletons, and invisible airplanes to turn the tide of the First World War. But when things get weird, we get Strange. Captain Philip Strange, that is—ace pilot and so-called “Brain-Devil” of G-2 Intelligence. His assignment? Journey from the back-alleys of Paris to the skies over Germany, taking down flying fortresses, cursed aerodromes, strafing skulls, and other wild weapons of mass destruction! This fourth volume of Philip Strange missions includes seven thrilling tales: Satan's Staffel, The Vanishing Staffel, Hoodoo Drome, The Skull Staffel, The Skeleton Barrage, Staffel of the Starved, and The Staffel Invisible.

$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 394 pages

Available from:  AmazonMike Chomko Books, and Adventure House


Airship 27 Productions
THE BAGMAN RETURNS
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions is damn happy to announce the release of writer B. Chris Bell’s newest collection of Bagman stories.  Sure to be welcome news to all our Chicago based pulp fans as that is the character’s home base in the 30s.

A new gang boss is taking over the meat-packing district of Chicago and his tools are murder and intimidation.  He calls himself the Butcher and the trail of death and destruction he leaves in his wake is a testament to that moniker. Now it will take all of the Bagman’s skills and know-how to unmask this savage foe and save the streets of the Windy City from a new and bloody gang war.

Writer B. Chris Bell unleashes a trio of brand new adventures featuring his sarcastic 1930’s hero who wears a burlap sack over his head and fights for his neighborhood streets. Added to this volume’s roster is a mystery involving the kidnapping of newsboys and in a third story, Bagman’s trusted ally and driver, Crankshaft, is featured in a solo short.
 
Canadian artist Art Cooper, joins Airship 27 Productions for the first time with his wonderful black and white illustrations.  Cooper has a Jack Kirby style of drawing that is perfectly suited to the pulps.  Art Director Rob Davis provides the cover logo and composition with final art painting by New Zealand’s own Shane Evans giving the book a truly international creative team.

Here is pulp action in a truly unique style starring one of the most original new pulp stars ever put to paper, the Bagman!



Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Airship 27 Productions
Proudly Presents
LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION
Now available!

Earlier in the year we learned that New Pulp writer/editor/publisher Tommy Hancock was suffering from congestive heart-failure.  A relatively young family man, this was a dangerous condition that threatened not only Tommy but his entire family.  Almost immediately after this news was made public, several members of the New Pulp community began putting their heads together to see if anything could be done to help the Hancocks.

“Jaime Ramos proposed the idea of doing a benefit anthology,” says Airship 27 Productions Managing Editor, Ron Fortier.  “It was such a great idea, I realized it needed to get done and we began planning such a project.” The first thing Fortier did was bring aboard his partner in Airship 27, Art Director Rob Davis. “There was no way this was going to fly without Rob handling the book’s overall artwork and design.”  Fortier then went to Hancock and informed him of their plans. With Hancock’s blessings, he then posted an ad on Facebook explaining the project and seeking submissions from both writers and artists.  “It was always our intention to do this as a traditional pulp tome and thus artwork would be a major element in the final product.”

Much to Fortier’s surprise, and delight, the first creator to volunteer his assistance was Douglas Klauba, one of the finest artists in the field.  Klauba volunteered to paint the anthology’s cover once the book was assembled.  “Honestly,” Fortier confesses, “I was in shock. Doug is an amazing artist and his offering to do the cover was very much an omen that we were about to put together something truly unique.”

Within 48 hours after posting his recruiting ad, Fortier had received 57 commitments by New Pulp writers while 36 artists in the field signed on to do the illustrations.  Amongst these creators were some of the most popular New Pulp writers and artists in the field. In fact, getting so many promised stories in just two days, Fortier begrudgingly realized he and his associates were being handed a giant book and he publicly closed the admission call.  “It was crazy,” he recalls.  “Fifty-seven stories in just two days!  Of course there were naysayers who warned me we’d never get all of them.  They were right, we got 62 instead.”

And so the project began with Fortier reading each entry and then assigning it to an artist to illustrate.  Each tale features one black and white illustration.  Ramos acted as his assistant editor proofing teach story after Fortier with them.  Then, months into the project, Ramos, who suffers from diabetes, found his own health in jeopardy and after having handled half the stories, was forced to sideline himself.  What looked to be a major set-back was averted with writer/editor Todd Jones, a protégé of Fortier’s, volunteered to take on the task of finishing the proofing.

And so, after months of ups and downs. Airship 27 Productions is extremely proudly to present LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION.  A giant treasure chest of some of the finest New Pulp fiction ever produced in an 830 page collection.  Representing the varied genres of pulp tradition, this volume features tales of horror, mystery, horror, suspense, pirates, fantasy, private eyes, crime-busting avengers and westerns to name a few.
“Rob and I kidded during the long months of production that we had everything pulp save for a romance story,” quips Fortier.  “Then in the final days of story submissions, we were sent a romance.  No lie!”

LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION is now available at Amazon.com in both hard copy and on Kindle.  All profits earned by this amazing book are going to Tommy Hancock and his family.  Sure to become a valued collector’s item, LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION is a one of a kind title pulp fans young and old, will cherish in years to come.


RADIO ARCHIVES SIGNS ON
From Airship27 Productions comes this late breaking news.   Radio Archives takes on LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION.  "We are all going to find out if the audiobook of Legends of New Pulp Fiction is the longest audiobook ever recorded. Radio Archives is proud to announce that Ken St. Denis of New York City has signed the contract to record this 40 plus hour long audiobook. I talked to Ken on Christmas Eve to make sure he knew what he was signing up for. Ken had read the Airship 27 press release and thought it was a tremendous project and was anxious to get started." Tom Brown.

"This is just pure frosting on the cake," adds Ron Fortier.  "As with the book and Kindle versions, proceeds from this gargantuan audiobook will go directly to Tommy and his family. We tip our hats to Tom Brown and Radio Archives.  Merry Christmas indeed."



Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!


Altus Press
 by James B. Hendryx
Now available!
 
In the notorious colony of outlaws on Halfaday Creek, every newcomer draws his name out of a tin can, and old Cush at the saloon keeps more money in his safe than most banks ever see. Tough, cagey Black John Smith maintains law and order in the district, and in dispensing justice he never forgets the value of money.

Continuing the complete reprinting of one of the longest-running series in all of pulp fiction.


$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover 
SALE PRICE: $18.95 softcover


Altus Press
 by James B. Hendryx
Now available!
 
 Cushing’s Fort on Halfaday Creek is conveniently located in Canadian territory close to the border of United States territory, so that men in ill repute with the Mounted Police can elude them easily. There are “outlaws” of Halfaday Creek live, a band of doughty prospectors ruled by their self-appointed czar, Black John Smith, one of many John Smiths that inhabit that notorious lair.

Continuing the complete reprinting of one of the longest-running series in all of pulp fiction.

$19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

SALE PRICE: $18.95 softcover


Altus Press
Pulp Logo T-shirts

Now available!

Dusty Ayres and his Battle Birds T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp hero’s magazine from the 1930s. This aviation hero fought the foes of America from 1934 to 1935.
Note: blue fabric only.
$19.95

Argosy Magazine T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
Note: red fabric only.
$19.95

Famous Fantastic Mysteries T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1940s.
Note: red fabric only.
$19.95

Dime Detective Magazine T-Shirt
This is the authentic logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
Note: black fabric only.
$19.95

All shirts are available in Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, and XX-Large.





Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available and arriving in comic shops Febtuary 10!

THE BLACK BAT Volume 2: "The Black Bat Strikes Again" & "The Black Bat's Challenge"
Sanctum Books presents two more 1939 novels starring the cowled crimefighter whose adventures paralleled Batman's and inspired Two-Face's origin, written by Norman A. Daniels as "G. Wayman Jones" for future BATMAN editors Mort Weisinger and Jack Schiff. First, mass murders set the Nemesis of Crime in pursuit of a ring of satanic killers as "The Black Bat Strikes Again." Then, "The Black Bat's Challenge" is to unmask the hidden leader of a vicious gang of beggars! GOLDEN AGE OF COMICS BONUS: "The Mask Returns!" in a rare 1940 Golden Age classic from Nedor's EXCITING COMICS #2, and an article on pulp cover illustrator turned comic book artist Raymond Thayer. This instant collector's item features both classic color pulp covers and the original interior illustrations by Harry Parkhurst, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-193-6  Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)

ART OF HORROR AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Edited by Stephen Jones. Foreword by Neil Gaiman.

TERRENCE McVICKER RARE BOOKS is hosting an exclusive signing of THE ART OF HORROR
at Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention from 2:00–3:00 p.m. on SATURDAY, APRIL 23rd.


You can PRE-ORDER the last-available copies of the first printing signed (and inscribed) by Stephen Jones-Editor and contributors Randy Broecker, Gary Gianni, Thomas Gianni, Scott Gustafson, Douglas Klauba, Micah Lee Mowbray and Bob Weinberg from www.batsoverbooks.com for the cover price of $40.00 plus $5.00 p&p in the United States.
For more information, contact: mcrarebooks@earthlink.net.


Amazingly, there has never been a book quite like this--a celebration of frightful images, compiled and presented by some of the genre's most respected names. Editor Stephen Jones and his stellar team of contributors have sourced visuals from archives and private collections (including their own) worldwide, ensuring an unprecedented selection that is accessible to those discovering the genre, while also including many images that will be rare and unfamiliar to even the most committed fan.

While acknowledging the beginnings of horror-related art in legends and folk tales, the focus of the book is on how the genre has presented itself to the world since the creations of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley first became part of the public consciousness in the 19th century. It's all here: from early engravings via dust jackets, book illustrations, pulp magazines, movie posters, comic books, and paintings to today's artists working entirely in the digital realm.

From the shockingly lurid to the hauntingly beautiful--including images of vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, demons, serial killers, alien invaders, and more--every aspect of the genre is represented in ten themed chapters. Quotes from artists/illustrators, and a selection from writers and filmmakers, are featured throughout.

Among those writing chapters is Lovecraft expert S.T. Joshi, artist Bob Eggleton and writer and art collector Robert Weinberg--one of the three collectors who compiled the recent Collector’s Book of Virgil Finlay. Artists are far too many to list, but they do include Finlay, Hannes Bok, J. Allen St. John, Berni Wrightson, Alan Lee, Michael Whelan, Jim Burns, John Howe, Basil Gogos, Kelly Freas, Gary Gianni, Donato Giancola, Giger, Steve Fabian, Clark Ashton Smith and so many more.


This book is packed with lots of art including pulp covers and pulp interior art.
Virgil Finlay, Hannes Bok, J. Allen St. John, Margaret Brundage, Edd Cartier, Lawrence Sterne Stevens, Rudolph Belarski, Alexander Leydenfrost,
Frank Kelly Freas, Steve Fabian, Frank R. Paul, Jon Douglas Arfstrom, Lee Brown Coye, Clark Ashton Smith, Howard V. Brown, Hugh Rankin, John Newton Howitt, Frank Utpatel,  and more!


Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.

Past episodes:
Flinch Books with Jim Beard and John Bruening
Legends of New Pulp Fiction: Ron Fortier and Rob Davis

Ellen and David Walters discuss the adventures of Wire Dog!
Jean-Marc Lofficier and Black Coat Press
The Grim Spectre by Ralph Angelo Jr.

Dafydd Neal Dyar discusses the new "Dare Devlin" Series
Will Murray on " Doc Savage: The Secret of Satan's Spine"
Diana Rubino

The Superhero Universes of Jeff Deischer
Pulpfest: The Development of Lovecraft's Mythos
Beb Books
MEN AND WOMEN WITH WINGS & GULF STREAM GOLD
Now available!


MEN AND WOMEN WITH WINGS
Leslie F. Stone was one of the  earliest women writers of Science Fiction, beginning in 1929. She never hide her sex by using initials and didn’t try to write like “one of the boys.”

“Men With Wings” is her first published story, a short novella about the evolution of a species of flying humans and the utopian society  they form. Its sequel, “Women With Wings” is set centuries later then winged humanity has come to replace Homo Sapiens. But tragedy stalks the flying species as the women  are increasingly dying in childbirth. Unless something drastic is done the species will go extinct.

From the pages of Air Wonder Stories, Beb Books presents Men and Women with Wings.
Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition $1.99

GULF STREAM GOLD

Ed Earl Repp was a prolific writer from 1929 to 1933 before switching to Westerns where he was  equally prolific. He returned to science fiction around 1938. “Gulf Stream Gold” collects four of his novelets from 1929-1932. Modern day fortune hunters search for underwater gold in “Gulf Stream Gold.”  Submarine pirates stumbles into an air-filled cavern inhabited by monsters from ages past. Monsters from deep within the earth declare war on the surface in “The Metal World.” and a desert-rat his weird experience in Death Valley with a mother dragon in “From Out of the Earth.

From the pages of Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories Quarterly.  Print edition $6.00 plus postage. Epub electronic edition $1.99.


Beb Books has big plans when it comes to reprinting early science fiction.
Here’s a list of forthcoming titles:


Beb Books’ Library of Early Science Fiction

Ed Earl Repp
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Beyond Gravity - a collection of Air Wonder Stories
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - The Invisible Raider - a second collection of his Air Wonder Stories
(forthcoming)    Book 3 - The Stellar Missile and other stories
(Available)    Book 4 - Gulf Stream Gold - Undersea and under the earth stories
(Available)    Book 5 - The Radium Pool and other stories

A. Hyatt Verrill
(Available)    Book 1 - Beyond the Pole and Inside The Crater’s Rim
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - King of the Monkey Man and Dirigibles of Death
(forthcoming)    Book 3 - The Man Who Could Vanish and other stories

Harl Vincent
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Subterrania, The Menace From Below
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - Air-War - a collection
(forthcoming)    Book 3 - Before The Asteroids - 3 space opera novelets.
(forthcoming)    Book 4 - Vagabonds of Spaces - 4 space opera novelets
(forthcoming)    Book 5 - Wander of Infinity - 5 Thrilling Adventures


Henrik Dahl Juve
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - The Silent Destroyers - 4 Air-War thrillers
(forthcoming)    Book 2 - The Monsters of Neptune - 4 stories on other worlds

Bob Olsen
(Available)    Book 1 - The Four Dimensional World of Bob Olsen - explorations into higher physics

Earl L. Bell
(forthcoming)    Book 1 - Moon of Doom - The end of the world.

Nat Schnacher and Arthur Leo Zaget
(Available)    Book 1 - The Tower of Evil - 4 weird adventures on the earth, in the future and beyond.

Laurence Manning
(Available)    Book 1 - Voyage of the Asteroid

Pay by either check or money order to:
Brian Brown
11675 Beaconsfield
Detroit, MI 48224

or via Paypal to beb01@sprynet.com


Print editions are printed on 8.5x11 paper and stapled on the side. Postage is $3.00 for one to three books. Add 25 cents extra for each copy over three.


Check out the rest of Beb Books many titles.
Ask for a catalog at beb01@sprynet.com


Ask for a list of everything  in stock. It’s free.




Black Coat Press
New titles now available!

ON THE BRINK OF THE WORLD'S END
Seven French scientific romances by Raoul Bigot, Jacques-Antoine Dulaure, Charles Epheyre, Jules Hoche, Joseph Méry and Colonel Royet
adapted by Brian Stableford


This is the thirteenth in a series of anthologies of exemplary texts in the evolution of the French genre of roman scientifique.

The seven stories collected here were published between 1784 and 1928. They include two remarkable tales about Future Paris, the first story to seize upon the potential of air balloons as imaginative devices, and an extraordinary pseudo-case study in magnetism by Nobel prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet (writing as "Charles Epheyre").

Also included are a novella about the "death" of iron and how it changed the fate of the Great War, mind-reading technology and how it can be used to solve crimes, and the eponymous 1928 novel by Colonel Royet, which explores in a colorful fashion how a mad scientist threatens the stability of the world.

US $24.95 / GBP £16.99
5x8 trade paperback, 364 pages 

THE SECOND LIFE OF DOCTOR ALBIN
by Raoul Gineste
adapted by Brian Stableford

The Second Life of Doctor Albin (1902) belongs to a set of fictions that explore the supposed psychology typical of scientists with considerable analytical intensity. One of the central tenets of these is that scientific genius is incompatible with, and perhaps antithetical to, love between the sexes. The novel provides what is perhaps the most searching analysis of that allegedly-perverse emotional involvement with science to be found in the genre.

Raoul Gineste (1852-1914) was a scientist himself as well as a poet, and his attitude is far more balanced than some, infused with a genuine puzzlement and exploratory curiosity as well as a sense of inevitable tragedy. 

US $29.95 / GBP £19.99
5x8 trade paperback, 404 pages 

PACIFICA 2
by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier

The short stories included in this collection are like bottles thrown into the vast ocean, each containing a fragment of a universe inside... Alf... The Ghostbusters... Hellraiser... Judex... The Nyctalope... Arsène Lupin... The Black Coats... From Paris in 1925 to Diaspar at the End of Time, from New York to Alphaville, the walls between the worlds of fiction crumble and fantasies become reality... These legends from Otherwhere and Elsewhen have finally come to rest on the virtual beach of that utopia that stretches from Mexico to Canada and welcomes all dreams and dreamers... PACIFICA.

Contents:
THE SHADOWMEN:
My Life as a Shadowman (2) (from TOTS 10)
Arsène Lupin: Brighter than the Sun (from The Island of the Thirty Coffins)
Arsène Lupin: 642 (from 813)
The Avenger: The Affair of the Necklace Revisited (from TOTS 8)
The Brotherhood of the Sword: The End of the Brotherhood of the Sword (from The Mistake of Mme Atomos)
Countess Cagliostro:The Death of Countess Cagliostro (from Arsene Lupin vs. Countess Cagliostro)
Doctor Omega: The Three Doctors (from Dr Omega and the Shadowmen)
Doctor Omega: Doctor Omega and the Producers (from Dr Omega and the Shadowmen)
Fantômas: The Sincerest Form of Flattery (from TOTS 7)
Jerry Cornelius: J.C. in Alphaville (from TOTS 6)
Judex: The Earth Abideth Forever (from The Shadow of Judex)
Lecoq: Christmas at Schönbrunn (from TOTS 10)
The Nyctalope: The Ides of Mars (from Night of the Nyctalope)
The Phantom Angel: The Spear of Destiny (from TOTS 6)
Robert Wolff: The Wolff that One Hears...
SCRIPTS
Alf: Alf's Halloween Adventure
The Bionic Six: The Hive
The Real Ghostbusters: The Headless Motorcyclist
COMICS
Hellraiser: Blood of a Poet
Martin Mystere: The Treasure of the Black Coats
ARTICLE
Introduction to "The Avenging Saint"


US $22.95 / GBP £14.99
5x8 trade paperback, 304 pages 
 



 
Black Dog Books
New titles now available!


Sky Blazers
By Frederick Nebel

The Scourge of the South Sea Skies
When a flying buddy goes missing, Jack Pelham is thrust into danger as the search expands from looking for his friend to seeking a lost treasure. Mystery rides high in this thrilling tale of the South Seas.
 
Wind Patrol
Black wings poise the finger of doom over the Indo-China coast. Murder and pillage paralyze the great fleet of Brackett's Airway as Bill Shade flies a shadowy sky-path to a temple of terror.
 
Brood of the Wind
Murder paints a crimson swath across the South Pacific sky from Noumea to Port Moresby. Pearls! . . . Jim Cole drapes the challenge around his seaplane's struts, and swoops into the red.
 
Sky Blazers
Over the frozen skies of Alaska, Jess Marlow plays a hand in the embittered battle for territorial freight rights between old Michael Harrigan and Kurt Dikeman. When the rumor of gold is spread, the battle escalates, with death in its frosty wake!
 
Fly-By-Night
Through icy air, Miller takes off with his motley passengers-only to find himself battling sky pirates seeking a $100,000 payday in bank gold!
 
With an introduction by Tom Roberts.


Trade paperback / 228 pages / Price: $19.95 US

The Juggernaut of Terror
By Carl McK. Saunders


Central City runs red from gangland war. Corruption and political graft undermine authority to the highest levels. In steps Captain John Murdock, Chief of Detectives, whose only interest is to do his job. Unpopular with both the media and with his superiors, nevertheless Murdock's methods gets results,—whether battling blackmailers, bootleggers, drug runners or organized crime!

Collected are the initial twenty stories in this long-running, reader favorite series, including:

Hard
The Murder Game
Pure Bluff
Tickets to Hell
Red Harvest
Frame-Up
The Pay-Off
The Square Seven
Wanted-One Corpse
Murder Ahead
Guests From the East
Furnace of Death
Trigger Traffic
The Key to Hell
The Wax Witness
The Murder Mill
The Dead Alibi
The Black Hood
The Juggernaut of Terror
Red Tape
 
With an introduction by Garyn G. Roberts, lecturer and award-winning popular culture historian.
Cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer.


Trade paperback / 320 pages / Price: $19.95 US





Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
THE PURPLE EYE
By William Corcoran

Now available!

This wildly melodramatic thriller, originally published in the August 1933 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine, provided the template for countless pulp-hero novels published during the Thirties. Depression-era readers craved outlandish menaces to take their minds off their troubles, and The Purple Eye was at the top of the list.
 
The Eye, maniacal criminal mastermind and leader of the ancient death cult known as the Brotherhood of Baktuun, terrorizes New York City with a series of high-profile murders accomplished by mysterious means. Seven million souls are at his mercy as his outrages mount in dizzying succession. The police, constrained by legal niceties and endless red tape, seem powerless to thwart his mad schemes. Enter Wayne Saxon, millionaire sportsman and world traveler, who devotes his life to running the Eye to earth. He works within the law when possible, but without it when necessary. Will he succeed? There’s a thrill on every page of this baffling mystery.
 
Shawn Danowski’s introduction, “The Pulp That Murder Built,” provides a history of Dime Mystery in its early, pre-weird menace phase.


Classic Pulp Reprints #6
Cover Art by H. L. Parkhurst
Introduction by Shawn Danowski
252 pages, 6x9, trade paperback
Price: $19.95





Bold Venture Press
Coming this month!

Cancelled in Red
by Hugh Pentecost
An Inspector Luke Bradley mystery

When it debuted in 1939, Cancelled in Red was the $1,000 Red Badge Prize Mystery winner. It also walked away with the $10,000 prize for the 1939 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest. Dodd, Mead & Company issued the story in paperback and hardcover that same year. The novel also launched the "Hugh Pentecost" penname, which began to overshadow Judson P. Philips, who continued writing pulp magazine stories and serials while "Pentecost" reached the slick-paper publications and the burgeoning paperback market. (More about that in Audrey Parente's book Once a Pulp Man, the Secret Life of Judson Philips as Hugh Pentecost).

Max Adrian was the rare stamp broker everyone in the know avoided — and those unfortunate enough to do business with him harbored grudges. It never mattered to the shifty broker, until someone demanded a refund at the point of a gun. Soon, Adrian’s rival Larry Storm plays amateur detective for the benefit of a dishy dame, searching for a hidden cache of priceless stamps. Storm is one step ahead of the tenacious Inspector Luke Bradley, who’s one step behind a cold-blooded killer — and Storm had better start running....



Judson P. Philips rubbed elbows with movie stars and directors. He owned a newspaper and scratched out columns in others. He penned hundreds of stories in pulp magazines, digests and slick magazines, under a trio of pen names. His words flooded radio, television and film. He faced down Newsweek editors, owned an equity summer stock theater and boosted many ingénues to fame.

He filled pulp magazines like Argosy with stories about tough detectives, smooth-talking criminals, and down-and-out athletes who make Rocky-like comebacks. As "Hugh Pentecost," he graduated into the lucrative slick-paper magazines and burgeoning paperback mystery field.

Despite awards and financial gain, he deemed himself a failure—His famous “Hugh Pentecost” penname came at a price, and five marriages cost him more in emotional capital. Once a Pulp Man: The Secret Life of Judson Philips as Hugh Pentecost unveils the man who sneered at Yul Brynner, ignored McCarthyism, proposed to dozens of women, and created a lasting legacy of entertainment.

Audrey Parente established her street cred with author biographies like Pulpmaster: The Theodore Roscoe Story and Pulp Man's Odyessey: The Hugh B. Cave Story. A retired reporter for the Ormond Beach New Journal, she spents years preparing this volume, researching Philip's background, compiling a complete bibliography, and transcribing hours of interviews she conducted with Philips in the late 1980s.







THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscriptions for 2016 are now available!


Earlier this summer, Howard Wright announced that issue 75 would be the final number of his Doc Savage-oriented fanzine, The Bronze Gazette.
 
Howard began the zine in 1990 as The Doc Savage Gazette. (The name was quickly changed after four issues because of trademark problems.)
It’s clearly been a labor of love for Howard, who has regularly put out three issues a year for 25 years now.
But Howard decided it was time to move on.
 
However, The Bronze Gazette will continue!
PULPlications — run by Terry Allen of Fantom Press and Keith Wilson of Doc Savage Fantasy Covers — will be the publisher, while Chuck Welch of Flearun will be the editor.
The Bronze Gazette’s 76th issue will debut in Spring 2016.
Terry says the zine will keep its digest size, and will run about 48 pages.
There will be a slate of regular contributors, but article submissions will be welcomed.


Subscriptions (via Paypal) are now available for No. 76, Spring 2016, and No. 77, Fall 2016.

$20.00 U.S.A
$30.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$35.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)

Click HERE to subscribe!
 



BUNDUKI by J.T. Edson   - Now available!

BUNDUKI AND DAWN
While plots and counter-plots develop among the Mun-Gatahs, Bunduki and Dawn make their way to a Telonga village. The relationship between the adoptive cousins is gradually changing: a romance is blossoming.
At the village of Jey-Mat, Bunduki proves his value to the inhabitants by diverting a herd of elephants away from the village crops; befriending Tantor just as Tarzan did when he was a youngster. Bunduki is troubled by the docility of the Telonga tribe; they don't even put up a struggle when the People-Taker steals their women and children. They quite simply don't know how to defend themselves. He vows to train them in the art of war.
Meanwhile Dryaka visits Charole to put their rivalry aside. They agree that the only way to win back their power is to capture Bunduki and Dawn and take possession of their superior weapons. They wonder whether the mysterious tribe known as 'The Apes' might, in fact, be Zillikian's 'Suppliers'.

Bunduki is called to a neighbouring village to deal with a marauding tiger. He slays it in true Tarzan style and takes the skin back to Jey-Mat, presenting it to Dawn as an engagement present. With the village celebrating, the hunters drink their wine, unaware that it has been drugged by the Elders. Later, they awaken to find themselves in a cave, its entrance sealed by bars. They have been 'put away'. Bunduki hears elephants nearby and calls to Tantor in the language of the mangani. They tear down the bars, freeing their friends.

Back in the village, the People-Taker has taken everyone apart from babies and the elderly. Hunters from neighbouring villages arrive, eager to join with Bunduki in seeking revenge. They set off on the trail of the slavers. The battle is savage but, with more than a little help from Bunduki, they win; slaughtering the People-Taker's retinue and freeing the captured villagers ... But Dawn isn't among them. She has been sent ahead to Bon-Gatah. Bunduki has a better chance than most of finding her.

    
Recommended Price: $1.99 / £1.23



BUNDUKI by J.T. Edson - Coming February 15!

SACRIFICE FOR THE QUAGGA GOD
When Dawn Drummond-Clayton is carried off by the servants of the Mun-Gatah's High Priest and promised as a sacrifice to the Quagga God, Bunduki is hot on her trail. His hunt is interrupted, though, when a massive snake drops out of a tree and traps him in its thick coils. The constricting pressure is too much for him and he loses consciousness. Bunduki is rescued by a band of Amazons led by Beryl Snowhill, an Earth girl of his acquaintance who, previously unknown to him, was also transported to Zillikian.

The Amazons and Bunduki join forces and the chase after Dawn's abductors continues. Meanwhile, the political in-fighting increases. Dryaka and Charole have the upper hand and Dawn is soon their prisoner once again.
Bunduki's party allies itself with the Elders and heads towards Bon-Gatah, the main Mun-Gatah city. Bunduki and the Amazons fight their way into the city while the Mun-Gatahs descend into civil warfare. They arrive at the arena just in time. Dawn is desperately trying to fend off the Quagga God, a massive and extremely wild zebra. She will need all her survival skills to survive. As does Bunduki to prevent the curse of the 'Thunder Powder' from descending upon the planet of Zillikian.
Betrayals, plots and counter-plots are exposed, 'terrifiers' explode and the supporters of the Elders do battle with the rebels.
    
Recommended Price: $1.99 / £1.23



CARNACKI: THE GHOST-FINDER - Coming this month!

Coming in February 2016, a brand new series of horror readings performed by Dan Starkey...

Creeping out after our announcement of Dracula, Big Finish is pleased to be able to confirm details of a brand new range of audiobook readings for 2016. Carnacki: The Ghost-Finder brings to life the cases of the supernatural detective, created by writer William Hope Hodgson in 1910.

‘The Carnacki stories are fantastic,’ says producer Scott Handcock, ‘and Hodgson’s writing is so wonderfully rich and evocative, it made sense for us to bring them to life in a series of equally fantastic readings. The first six tales especially are incredibly atmospheric - a cross between Conan Doyle and MR James - as Carnacki finds himself investigating supernatural happenings in the early twentieth century.’

The classic tales will be performed by Dan Starkey (Doctor Who’s Strax the Sontaran) as Thomas Carnacki with support from Joseph Kloska as his associate Dodgson. The range is directed and produced by Scott Handcock, whose previous work for Big Finish includes The Confessions of Dorian Gray and Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus.

‘Strangely, I was working with Dan in Cardiff when I happened to mention I’d be tackling the Carnacki stories,’ continues Scott, ‘and he immediately started gushing about the character and the stories, so it was a delight when he agreed to bring Carnacki to life on audio. The language and writing is so rich, it’s great to let Dan’s performance take centre-stage, coupled with a lovely score from Ioan Morris and Rhys Downing.’

Carnacki: The Ghost-Finder collects together six of William Hope Hodgson’s original stories:

The Gateway of the Monster
The House Among the Laurels
The Whistling Room
The Horse of the Invisible
The Searcher of the End House
The Thing Invisible

All six stories will be included as part of a single volume which can be pre-ordered today for £18 on download ahead of its release in February 2016.

Please note that this release is download-only.



Castalia House Blog by Morgan Holmes - Now online!

Short Reviews – Formula for Conquest, James R. Adams - New!
RETROSPECTIVE: “Friend Island” by Francis Stevens - New!
RETROSPECTIVE: Part One of “The Citadel of Fear” by Francis Stevens - New!
Lovecraft on Lord Dunsany and the King James Bible - New!
Short Reviews – The Bubble Dwellers by Ross Rocklynne
RETROSPECTIVE: The Nightmare by Francis Stevens
David Hartwell: The Literary and the Fantastic



Clive Cussler: THE GANGSTER (Isaac Bell) - Arriving in book stores March 1!
by Clive Cussler & Justin Scott


It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special “Black Hand Squad,” but the gangsters appear to be everywhere—so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and as Bell discovers, to his dismay, the ultimate target may be the most powerful man of all.

Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399175954
ISBN-13: 978-0399175954
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
List Price: $28.95
Pre-order  $21.11


Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith - Now available on audio!

The End of the Story: Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Book 1
by Clark Ashton Smith
Narrated By Fleet Cooper,  Allan Robertson,  Joe Knezevich,  Bernard Setaro Clark,  William Neenan,  Chris Kayser
Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
Regular Price:$24.95


The Door to Saturn: Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Book 2
by Clark Ashton Smith
Narrated By William Neenan,  Joe Knezevich,  Bernard Setaro Clark,  Allan Robertson,  Chris Kayser
Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
Regular Price:$24.95


A Vintage from Atlantis: Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Book 3
by Clark Ashton Smith
Narrated By Fleet Cooper,  Daniel May,  Joe Knezevich,  Bernard Setaro Clark,  William Neenan,  Chris Kayser
Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
Regular Price:$29.95


The Maze of the Enchanter: Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Book 4
by Clark Ashton Smith
Narrated By Gregory St. John,  Bernard Setaro Clark,  Chris Kayser,  Daniel May
Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
Regular Price:$27.99



The Last Hieroglyph: Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Book 5
by Clark Ashton Smith
Narrated By Chris Kayser,  Gregory St. John,  William Neenan,  Daniel May,  Bernard Clark,  Fleet Cooper
Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
Regular Price:$24.95




CTHULHU MONOPOLY - Now available!

Visit the locations of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos with this special Cthulhu-themed edition of the classic property game, Monopoly!


NOTE: Available only within the United States and U.S. Territories.






CTHULHU YAHTZEE - Now available!

America's favorite dice game has a Lovecraftian theme with this special Cthulhu edition of Yahtzee!






Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!

Forgotten Books: CONAN THE DEFENDER by Robert Jordan (1982)  - New!
Overlooked Films: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WYATT EARP (Episode 1)
Overlooked Films: THE ADVENTURES OF KIT CARSON (TV episode)
Overlooked Films: CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT TV Episode (1955)


THE DIGEST ENTHUSIAST #3
Now available!


Explore the world of digest magazines with the third fantastic issue of THE DIGEST ENTHUSIAST!

Click HERE for a Preview!

Contents
Interview/Profile:
Heather Jacobs (Big Fiction) by D. Blake Werts
Timothy Green Beckley (Fate, Beyond, etc.) by Tom Brinkmann

Articles
Beyond by Tom Brinkmann
Super-Science Fiction by Peter Enfantino
Diabolik by Joe Wehrle, Jr.
Dashiell Hammett digests by Steve Carper
Gunsmoke by Peter Enfantino
Dope Fiends trading cards by Richard Krauss

Fiction
"The Rail City Rolls" by Ron Fortier
"Old Aunt Sin" by Gary Lovisi, with illustrations by Michael Neno
"Planetstorm" by Joe Wehrle, Jr.

Reviews by Ron Fortier and Richard Krauss
Weasels Ripped My Flesh!
Where Stories Dwell
The Man From Mars
The Executioner: Border Offensive
A Blonde for Murder
Popular Fiction Periodicals
Betty Fedora #2
Paperback Parade #89
Manhunt Dec. 1953
Children’s Digest Spring 1972
Fate #727

Artwork
Joe Wehrle, Jr. (cover & illustrations)
Brad Foster (illustration & cartoon)
Michael Neno (illustrations)
Bob Vojtko (gag cartoons)

Also includes
Editor's Notes
Hammett digest biblio
Indexes
Social media round-up
Opening Lines


Print version, $8.99, with nearly 100 B&W cover images, 152 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest.
Kindle version, $2.99, with nearly 50 color cover images.



DOC SAVAGE: THE SPIDER’S WEB #3 - Arriving in comic shops February 10!  
Writer: Chris Roberson Art: Cezar Razek  
Cover: Wilfredo Torres

While she seems like a sweet old lady to the staff at the nursing home where she resides, only Doc Savage knows that a seemingly harmless elderly woman was once a member of a doomsday cult that threatened to kick off World War III back in the 1970s, and might well hold the key to a mystery that threatens the safety of the world in the modern day.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99






Edgar Rice Burroughs Comics
 All New Comic Strips created exclusively for ERB, Inc.
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Fifteen strips currently available on the  Burroughs comics website:
"Tarzan of the Apes" by Roy Thomas and Pablo Marcos, adapting the original Tarzan novels.
"Tarzan" by Roy Thomas and Tom Grindberg, featuring new Tarzan adventures.
John Carter: Warlord of Mars by Roy Thomas and Rodolfo Pérez Garcia.
"Korak the Killer" by Ron Marz and Rick Leonardi.
"Carson of Venus" by Martin Powell and Tom Floyd.
"The Eternal Savage" by Martin Powell and Steven E. Gordon.
"The War Chief" by Martin Powell and Nik Poliwko.
"The Cave Girl" by Martin Powell and Diana Leto.
"Pellucidar" by Chuck Dixon and Gary Kwapsiz.
"The Land That Time Forgot" by Martin Powell and Pablo Marcos.
"The Mucker" by Ron Marz and Lee Moder
"The Monster Men" by Tom Simmons, Erik Roman, L Jamal Walton, and Cristian Docolomansky
 "The Lost Continent" by Martin Powell and Oscar González 

 "The Jungle Girl" by Martin Powell and Will Meugniot
"The Outlaw of Torn" by Thomas Simmons and Jake Bilbao




Edgar Rice Burroughs Comics
 Coming 1st quarter 2016!
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Written in 1941 but not published until 1967 - and just the second historical novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs - this is a stark tale of madness as told by a slave of the decidedly insane (consensus opinion) Roman emperor Caligula. It promises to be a very different online adventure strip.

Adaptation by Tom Simmons
Art by H.P. Lovecraft Award winner Mike Dubisch
 
 






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Facebook - Now online!

There are numerous groups on Facebook that are of potential interest to pulp fans.

The Shadow Knows
Agents of The Shadow

Flearun - A Doc Savage Group
Fans of Bronze

G-8 and Operator #5
The Spider - Master of Men
Flash Gordon
The Others [The Gray Seal, Nick Carter, Fantomas, Arsene Lupin, The Saint]
Professor Jameson alias 21MM392

The Pulp Heroes
Pulp, Pulp Everywhere and Lots and Lots to Read
Pulp Talk
Pulp Magazine Authors and Literature Fans

The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Serial Archive

ERBzine
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Facebook Forum
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Worlds of Adventure

PulpFest
Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention

Pulp Coming Attractions


Robert E. Howard Comics Group
The Robert E. Howard Foundation

Robert E. Howard Readers
Two Gun Bob--The Worlds of Robert E.  Howard
The International Robert E. Howard Fan Association
Conan the Cimmerian
REH: Two-Gun Raconteur

Altus Press
Weird Tales Magazine



  Now online!

New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

January 2016
The second part of "In The Fog" by Richard Harding Davis: "The Story of the Queen’s Messenger," just as it appeared in the April, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.

December 2015
Direct from the March, 1902 issue of The Windsor Magazine, we present the first portion of the three-part short story "In The Fog" by Richard Harding Davis, including the illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen.
Introduction by Dan Neyer.

Also, to wrap up our reprinting of the Harvard work of George Allan England, we offer to you "Reginald Pym's Class Day" as it appeared in the June, 1903 issue of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine. Introduction and Afterword by Bob Gay.


November 2015
The only Christmas themed Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," as it appeared in the January, 1892 number of The Strand Magazine, is presented and includes an introduction by Dan Neyer and all the Sydney Paget illustrations.

Also, the penultimate Harvard Illustrated story by George Allan England, "Bench Carvings at Harvard," which we strongly believe to be England's first attempt at science fiction.


October 2015
Just in time for Halloween, we are pleased to present "In Amundsen's Tent" by John Martin Leahy, a classic horror story from the pages of Weird Tales.  We've also discovered some interesting connections between this story and Leahy's other work, which you will find documented in an Afterword to the story.
 
Also, in a continuation of our reprinting of the Harvard work of George Allan England we present "Sciurus Carolinensis, Esq." and article about the squirrels that, in England's day, inhabited the Harvard Yard and environs.


September 2015
Another story from the Harvard years of George Allan England, "The Divided Letter," a romance that originally appeared in the October, 1902 issue of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine.
Also, The first Sherlock Holmes short story (and the only appearance of Irene Adler) from the July, 1891 issue of The Strand, "A Scandal in Bohemia," including all the Sidney Paget illustrations and an introduction by Dan Neyer.


August 2015
A romantic adventure set in Morocco by A. J. Dawson, The Powder Play, as it appeared in the January, 1898 issue of Pearson’s Magazine (UK). 
Our presentation also includes the Warwick Goble illustrations, an introduction by Bob Gay and, as a part of the intro, a reprinting of an article that appeared in the
January, 1901 issue of The Bookman  that includes additional biographical information about Dawson not found in the usual sources.

And...

Continuing our reprinting of the Harvard work of George Allan England, we present “Two-Fifty An Hour - A Tragedy in One Act”  that originally appeared in the February, 1902 issue of The Harvard Illustrated Magazine.


July 2015
In Writings
Expanding our selection of stories by Baroness Orczy, this month we introduce The Baroness Orczy Collection, which includes a biography of the Baroness and links to her stories all in one place.
And, to kick off our new addition, we have reprinted the Baroness's third published story, The Traitor --a story which seems to have never been reprinted and has nothing to do with the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Lastly, in our continuing reprinting of George Allan England, we have put together another selection from his Harvard years, Illustrations: 3 Short Works that were originally written while he was a student and, like with the Orczy story, have never been reprinted.


June 2015
In Writings
The first, and chronologically the last, Mowgli story, "In the Rukh" by Rudyard Kipling as it appeared in the June, 1896 issue of McClure's Magazine with illustrations by W. A. C. Page and dual introductions by Bob Gay and Dan Neyer.


Famous (and forgotten) Fiction is a new site featuring familiar and obscure fiction along with articles, pictures and essays.  In the Writings section, we have fiction by H. C. Bailey (the first Reggie Fortune story), Carl Stephenson, Sinclair Lewis and a large selection of Kipling, including the complete Mowgli stories and "The Man Who Would Be King."  We've also added an article about Sleeman's An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, that includes a complete reprinting of the work.

In Comics, there is an overview of Superman #205 ("The Man Who Destroyed Krypton!") and a look at a Steve Ditko illustrated story that bears a strong resemblance to a well-known story by Carl Stephenson.The Pictures section starts with a group of collectible (and some not so) items and is the first of 24 collections.

The site is hoping for subscribers to keep it going and future plans call for more stories, more articles and there are a number of novels  we also intend to add to the mix.
New material will be appearing on the last Friday of each month (which means we'll have more new stuff at the end of February). 
In a few month  s, we will also be offering ebooks: on the site (in PDF) and at Amazon and B&N in their proprietary formats.


Fu-Manchu: THE WRATH OF FU-MANCHU - Coming March 1, 2016!
by Sax Rohmer

This final volume in the Fu-Manchu collection brings together some unpublished manuscripts, and stories which have previously appeared only in magazine form, by the late Sax Rohmer.

The long title novella and three others feature the dastardly Dr. Fu-Manchu - and, of course, his unremitting opponent, Sir Denis Nayland Smith.

There are eight more stories in this book, no less characteristic of Sax Rohmer's art.


Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
List Price: $9.95








Girasol Collectables

SPECIAL NOTICE
The Girasol Pulp Replicas project is complete.
No NEW Replicas will be added to the catalogue.
We will, for an as yet undetermined period, be keeping the existing catalogue available.

Girasol Collectables has begun retiring the less-active Replicas.
The replicas listed below will be discontinued in the next month or two.
Don't delay if there are any you're interested in!
Contact us before ordering large quantities to confirm availability.

Soon to be retired pulp replica editions!
All Detective #27
Civil War Stories
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective #1, 2
Dime Mystery Book #1
Eerie (Canadian pulp)
Mystery Adventures #7
Phantom Detective #1
Pirate Stories #1
Soldiers of Fortune #1
Strange Detective Stories #2
Strange Stories #1
Thrilling Mystery #1


All of the remaining issues shown below are available now.
We'd like to thank everybody that has supported the project over the years, and we hope that the Replicas continue to provide reading and research enjoyment for years to come.
We do not anticipate taking on any other pulp reprint projects at this time and our Pulp Cover Gallery project is our only active item at present.



Girasol accepts checks, International money orders, and Paypal as methods of payment.
Other than Replicas, please confirm availability first before ordering items such as pulp magazines or other books.
Paypal payments can be made to our regular info@girasolcollectables.com email address.

As always, these reprints are exact copies including the illustrations, ads, and back-up stories and have been printed on off-white paper, staple-bound and finished off with a high quality reproduction of the original cover.
The only thing missing is the smell (alas) and the flaking newsprint.

Email Girasol Collectables at: info@girasolcollectables.com.
A complete listing, along with other items such as books, fanzines and of course pulps, can be found on
the Girasol Collectables website at http://www.girasolcollectables.com/

All payments must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables and mailed to:
Neil Mechem c/o Girasol Collectables
3501 GlenErin Drive, Apt. 1409,
Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L 2E9

Back issues - Still available!

ALL DETECTIVE MAGAZINE  ($25 each postpaid)
#27 January 1935

BLACK MASK MAGAZINE ($35 each postpaid)
April 1920 - First issue!
June 1,1923 - The rare KKK issue


CIVIL WAR STORIES ($25 each postpaid) 
Spring 1940


DAN TURNER  ($25 each postpaid)
Dan Turner Hollywood DetectiveNo. 1 (January 1942)
Dan Turner Hollywood Detective No. 2 (April 1942)

DIME MYSTERY BOOK ($35 each postpaid)
#1 December 1932

DOCTOR DEATH  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February 1935
#2  March 1935
#3  April 1935

DR. YEN SIN  ($35 each postpaid)
#1 May/June 1936
#2 July/August 1936
#3 September/October 1936

EERIE TALES ($20 eachpostpaid)
#1 July 1941

GOLDEN FLEECE  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 October 1938
#2 November 1938
#3 December 1938
#4 January 1939
#5  February 1939
#6  March 1939
#7  April 1939
#8 May 1939
#9 June 1939


HORROR STORIES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 January 1935
#2 February 1935

#5  July 1935

MAGIC CARPET ($25 each postpaid)
#1 January 1933
#2 April 1933
#3 July 1933
#4  October 1933
#5  January 1934

THE MYSTERIOUS WU FANG ($35 each postpaid)
#1  September 1935

#2  October 1935
#3  November 1935
#4  December 1935
#5 January 1936
#6 February 1936
#7 March 1936

MYSTERY ADVENTURE MAGAZINE  ($25 each postpaid)
November 1936 with a rare Domino Lady cover appearance


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

OPERATOR 5  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  The Masked Invasion (April 1934)
#2  T
he Invisible Empire (May 1934)
#3  The Yellow Scourge (June 1934)
#4  The Melting Death (July 1934)
#5  Cavern of the Damned (August 1934)
#6  Master of Broken Men (September 1934)
#7  Invasion of the Dark Legions (October 1934)
#8  The Green Death Mists (November 1934)
#9  Legions of Starvation (December 1934)
#10 The Red Invader (January 1935)
#11 
The League of War Monsters (February 1935)
#12  The Army of the Dead (March 1935)
#13  
March of the Flame Marauders (April 1935)
#14 Blood Reign of the Dictator (May 1935)
#15 Invasion of the Yellow Warlords (June 1935)
#16 Legions of the Death Master (July 1935)
#17  Hosts of the Flaming Death (August 1935)
#18 Invasion of the Crimson Death Cult (September 1935)
#19 Attack of the Blizzard Men (October 1935)
#20 Scourge of the Invisible Death (November 1935)
#21 Raiders of the Red Death (December 1935)
#22  War-Dogs of the Green Destroyer
(January 1936)
#23 Rockets From Hell (February 1936)
#24  War Masters from the Orient (March 1936)
#25 Crimes Reign of Terror (April 1936)
#26 Death's Ragged Army (June-July 1936)
#27
Patriot's Death Battalion (August-Sept. 1936)
#28 The Bloody Forty-Five Days (Oct.-Nov. 1936)

#29 America's Plague Battalions (December 1936)
#30 Liberties Suicide Legion (January 1937)
#31 Seige of the Thousand Patriots (February 1937)

#32 Patriot's Death March (March-April 1937)
#33 Revolt of the Lost Legions (May-June 1937)
#34 Drums of Destruction (July-August 1937)
#35 The Army Without a Country (Sept-Oct 1937)
#36 The Bloody Frontier (Nov-Dec 1937)
#37 The Coming of the Mongol Hordes (Jan-Feb 1938)
#38 The Seige that Brought the Black Death (Mar-Apr 1938)
#39 Revolt of the Devil Men (May-June 1938)
#40 The Suicide Battalion (July-Aug 1938)
#41 The Day of the Damned (Sept-Oct 1938)
#42 The Dawn that Shook the World (Nov-Dec 1938)
#43 When Hell Came to America (Jan-Feb 1939)
#44 Invasion from the Sky (March-April 1939)
#45 Winged Hordes of the Yellow Vulture (May-June 1939)
#46 War Tanks of the Yellow Vulture (July-Aug 1939)
#47 Corpse Cavalry of the Yellow Vulture (Sept-Oct 1939)
#48 The Army from Underground (Nov-Dec 1939)

ORIENTAL STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1  October / November 1930                        
#2  December 1930 / January 1931
#3  February / March 1931
#4  Spring 1931
#5  Summer 1931

#6  Autumn 1931
#7  Winter 1932

#8  Spring 1932
#9  Summer 1932

PIRATE STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1  
November 1934

THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE ($25 each postpaid)
#1  
February 1933

SAUCY MOVIE TALES  ($25 each postpaid)
#3   December 1935 (#1 after a title change)
#4   January 1936  (#2 after a title change)
#5   March 1936
#9   July 1936
#11 September 1936

#17 March 1937

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

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ($25 each postpaid)
October 1931

SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#2  November 1934 [#1 after the ashcan]
#3  December 1934
#4  January 1935
#5  February 1935

#6  March 1935
#7  April 1935
#8  May 1935
#9 June 1935
#10 July 1935
#11 August 1935
#12 September 1935
#13
October 1935
#14 November 1935
#15 December 1935
#16 January 1936
#17
February 1936
#18 March 1936
#19 April 1936
#20 May 1936

#21 June 1936
#22 July 1936
#23 August 1936
#24 September 1936
#25 October 1936

#26 November 1936
#27 December 1936
#28 January 1937
#36 
September 1937
#39
December 1937

SPICY-DETECTIVE STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#1  May 1934
#3  July 1934
#4  August 1934
#5  September 1934
#6  
October 1934
#7  November 1934
#8  
December 1934
#9  January 1935
#10 February 1935
#11 March 1935
#12  April 1935
#13 May 1935
#14 June 1935
#15 July 1935
#16 August 1935
#17 September 1935
#18
October 1935
#19 November 1935
#20 December 1935

#21 January 1936
#22 February 1936
#23 March 1936

#24 April 1936
#25 May 1936
#26 June 1936
#27 July 1936
#28 August 1936
#29 September 1936              
#30 October 1936
#31 November 1936
#32 December 1936
#33 January 1937

#42 October 1937
#76 August 1940

SPICY-MYSTERY STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#2  June 1935
#3  July 1935
#4  August 1935
#5  September 1935
#6  October 1935
#7  November 1935

#8  December 1935
#9  January 1936
#10 February 1936
#11 March 1936

#12 April 1936

#13 May 1936
#14 June 1936
#15 July 1936
#16
August 1936
#17 ­ September 1936
#18 October 1936
#19 November 1936
#20 December 1936
#21
January 1937
#22 February 1937
#23 March 1937
#26 June 1937


SPICY WESTERN STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#1  November 1936
#2  
December 1936 
#3   January 1937
#4   February 1937
#14 December 1937 

THE SPIDER  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  The Spider Strikes! (October 1933)
#2  The Wheel of Death (November 1933)
#3  Wings of the Black Death (December 1933)
#4  City of Flaming Shadows (January 1934)
#5  Empire of Doom (February 1934)
#6  Citadel of Hell (March 1934)
#7  Serpent of Destruction (April 1934)
#8  The Mad Horde (May 1934)
#9  Satan's Death Blast  (June 1934)
#10 The Corpse Cargo  (July 1934)
#11 Prince of the Red Looters (August 1934)
#12 Reign of the Silver Terror (September 1934)
#13  Builders of the Black Empire (October 1934)
#14  Death's Crimson Juggernaut (November 1934)
#15
 The Red Death Rain (December 1934)
#16 The City Destroyer (
January 1935)

#17 The Pain Emperor  (
February 1935)

#18  The Flame Master (March 1935)
#19 Slaves of the Crime Master
(April 1935)
#20 Reign of the Death Fiddler (May 1935)
#21 Hordes of the Red Butcher (June 1935)
#22 Dragon Lord of the Underworld (July 1935)
#23 Master of the Death Madness (August 1935)
#24 King of the Red Killers (September 1935)
#25 Overlord of the Damned (October 1935)
#26 Death Reign of the Vampire King (November 1935)
#27 Emperor of the Yellow Death (December 1935)
#28 The Mayor of Hell (January 1936)
#29
Slaves of the Murder Syndicate (February 1936)
#30 Green Globes of Death (March 1936)
#31 The Cholera King (April 1936)

#32 Slaves of the Dragon (May 1936)
#33 Legions of Madness (June 1936)
#34 Laboratory of the Damned (July 1936)
#35 Satan's Sightless Legion (August 1936)
#36 The Coming of the Terror (September 1936)
#37 The Devil's Death Dwarfs (October 1936)
#38 City of Dreadful Night (November 1936)
#39 Reign of the Snake Men (December 1936)
#40 Dictator of the Damned (January 1937)
#41
The Mill-Town Massacres (February 1937)
#42 Satan's Workshop (March 1937)
#43 Scourge of the Yellow Fangs (April 1937)
#44 The Devil's Pawnbroker (May 1937)
#45
Voyage of the Coffin Ship (June 1937)
#46 The Man Who Ruled in Hell (July 1937)
#47
Slaves of the Black Monarch (August 1937)
#48
Machine Guns Over the White House (Sept 1937)
#49 The City That Dared Not Eat (October 1937)
#50 Master of the Flaming Horde (November 1937)
#51 Satan's Switchboard (December 1937)
#52 Legion of the Accursed Light (January 1938)
#53
The City of Lost Men (February 1938)
#54 The Grey Horde Creeps (March 1938)
#55
City of Whispering Death (April 1938)
#56 When Thousands Slept in Hell (May 1938)
#57 Satan's Shackles (June 1938)
#58
The Emperor from Hell (July 1938)
#59  
The Devil's Candlesticks (August 1938)
#60  
The City That Paid to Die (September 1938)
#61  The Spider at Bay (October 1938)
#62  
Scourge of the Black Legions (November 1938)
#63  
The Withering Death (December 1938)
#64  
Claws of the Golden Dragon (January 1939)
#65  
The Song of Death (February 1939)
#66  The Silver Death Rain (March 1939)
#67  
Blight of the Blazing Eye (April 1939)
#68  
King of the Fleshless Legion (May 1939)  
#69  Rule of the Monster Men (June 1939)
#70  The Spider and the Slaves of Hell (July 1939)
#71  
The Spider and the Fire God (August 1939)
#72  The Corpse Broker (September 1939)
#73  The Spider and the Eyeless Legion (Oct. 1939)
#74  The Spider and the Faceless One (Nov. 1939)
#75  
Satan's Murder Machines (December 1939)
#76  The Spider and the Pain Master (January 1940)
#77 Hell's Sales Manager (February 1940)
#78 Slaves of the Laughing Death (March 1940)

#79 The Man From Hell (April 1940)
#80 The Spider and the War Emperor (May 1940)
#81 Judgement of the Damned (June 1940)
#82
Dictator's Death Merchants
(July 1940)
#83 Pirates From Hell (August 1940)
#84 Master of the Night-Demons (Sept. 1940)
#85 The Council of Evil (October 1940)
#86 The Spider and his Hobo Army (November 1940)
#87 The Spider and the Jewels of Hell (Dec. 1940)
#88 Harbor of Nameless Dead (January 1941)
#89 The Spider and the Slave Doctor (February 1941)
#90 The Spider and the Sons of Satan (March 1941)
#91  Slaves of the Burning Blade (April 1941)
#92  The Devil's Paymaster (May 1941)
#93 The Benevolent Order of Death (June 1941)
#94 Murder's Black Prince (July 1941)
#95 The Spider and the Scarlet Surgeon (August 1941)
#96 The Spider and the Deathless One (September1941)
#97 The Satan's Seven Swordsmen (October1941)
#98 Volunteer Corpse Brigade (November1941)
#99 The Crime Laboratory (December 1941)

#100 Death and The Spider  (January 1942)
#101 Murder's Legionaires (February 1942)
#102 The Gentleman from Hell (March 1942)
#103 Slaves of the Ring (April 1942)
#104 The Spider and the Death Piper (May 1942)
#105 Revolt of the Underworld (June 1942)
#106 Return of the Racket Kings (July 1942)

#107 Fangs of the Dragon (August 1942)
#108 Hell Rolls on the Highways (September 1942)

#109 Army of the Damned (October 1942)
#110 Zara, Master of Murder (November 1942)

#111 The Spider and the Flame King (December 1942)
#112 The Howling Death (January 1943)

#113 Secret City of Crime (February 1943)
#114 Recruit for the Spider Legion (March 1943)
#115 The Spider and the Man from Hell (June1943)
#116 The Criminal Horde (August1943)
#117 The Spider and Hell's Factory (October1943)
#118 When Satan Came to Town (December1943)

STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES
($25 each postpaid)
#2 December 1933

STRANGE STORIES  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February 1939

STRANGE TALES  ($25 each postpaid)
#1 September 1931
#2 November 1931
#3 January 1932
#4  March 1932
#5 June 1932
#6 October 1932
#7 January 1933

TERROR TALES  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  September 1934
#2  October 1934
#3  November 1934
#4  December 1934
#5  January 1935
#6  February 1935
#7 March1935
#8 April 1935

#9 May 1935
#10 June 1935
#11 July 1935
#12  August 1935
#13  
September 1935
#14  October 1935
#15  November 1935
#16  December 1935
#17 January 1936
#18 February 1936
#19
March 1936
#20 April 1936
#21 May 1936
#22 June 1936
#23
July/Aug 1936
#24
Sept-Oct 1936
#25 Nov-Dec 1936

#26 Jan-Feb 1937

#27 March-April 1937
#28 May-June 1937
#29
July-August 1937
#30 September-October 1937

#31 November-December 1937
#32 January-February 1938
#33 March-April 1938
#34 May-June 1938

#35 July-August 1938
#36 September-October 1938
#37 November-December 1938
#38 January-February 1939
#39 March-April 1939
#40 May-June 1939

#41 July-August 1939
#42 September-October 1939
#43 November/December 1939

#44 January/February 1940
#45 March/ April 1940
#46 May/June 1940
#47 July 1940
#48 September 1940
#49 November 1940

#50 January 1941
#51 March 1941

THRILLING MYSTERY ($25 each postpaid)
#1 October 1935

WEIRD TALES  ($35 each postpaid)
#1  March 1923
#2  April 1923
#3
  May1923
#4  June 1923

#5  July/August 1923
#6  September 1923
#7  October 1923

#8   November 1923

#9   December 1923/January 1924 
#10  February 1924
#11  March 1924
#12  April 1924
#13  Anniversary Issue May/June/July/24 ($50)
#14  November 1924 - One of the rarest WT's
#15  December 1924

#16  January 1925
#17 February 1925
#18
March 1925
#19 April 1925
#20 May 1925
#21 June 1925
#22  July 1925
#23  August 1925
#24
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#27  
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#28 January 1926
#29 February 1926
#30 March 1926
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#37 October 1926
#38 November 1926
#39 December 1926
#40  January 1927
#53  February 1928
#59  August 1928
#96 December 1931
#107 November 1932
#108 December 1932
#111 March 1933
#114 June 1933

#115 July 1933
#117 September 1933
#118 October 1933
#121 January 1934
#124 April 1934
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#128 August 1934
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#130 October 1934
#132 December 1934
#134 February 1935
#135 March 1935
#143 November 1935
#151 July 1936
#152 August 1936
#153 October 1936
#173 June 1938


Girasol Collectables
Pulp Cover Gallery Edition Volume 5
The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5

Now available for pre-order; Release in mid-May!
Pre-release Special: $130 including shipping & handling* (*within North America, for overseas orders add $10.)

Volume 5 of our Pulp Cover Gallery series is in the works, scheduled for a mid-May release.
This edition will be the same overall format as our other volumes, featuring sets of cover scans of The Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5.
One difference this time out is that the images are square-cut, they do not show the rough pulp edges.
The same bonded leather hardcover exterior, 8.5" x 11" interior pages, 130+ pages, full color throughout,
with a brief introduction and checklist with cover artist credit where known.
As before, this is not a book about the pulp titles featured, it is a visual reference of the covers. Lots of great viewing!

Order before April 01, 2016 and save $10!
Pre-release Special: $130 including shipping & handling* (*within North America, for overseas orders add $10.)





Previous volumes are still available!

Pulp Cover Gallery Volume 1 – WEIRD TALES  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery Volume 2 – THRILING WONDER STORIES / STARTLING STORIES / CAPTAIN FUTURE  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery 3  DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE / 15 MYSTERY STORIES / TERROR TALES  - $130

Pulp Cover Gallery 4 FANTASTIC ADVENTURES / PLANET STORIES   - $130

Please note that the cover inset may not be the one shown in the image.



The Golden Age - Now online!

The Black Terror 1948 &1949 ~ Cover art by Alex Schomburg ~ Interior art by Frank Frazetta, Mort Meskin, Ruben Moreira & Al Williamson - New!
Startling Comics 1940-1948 ~ Art by Alex Schomburg, Graham Ingels and others!  - New!
Thrilling Comics 1940-1950 ~ Art by Alex Schomburg and others! - New!
Ed Emshwiller
Arthur Rackham ~ The Night Before Chrstmas
N. C. Wyeth ~ The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Arthur Rackham ~ The Ring of the Niblung by Richard Wagner


Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
3rd Saturday of every month

 Gotham Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro area.
It meets the 3rd Saturday of every month.
Check the website at the link below for exact time and place information.

Name:  Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
Time: 1-5 PM
Place:  
Muhlenberg Library on West 23rd Street.

Contact:  Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com

Gotham Pulp Collectors Club


             Now available for pre-order!  

THIS IS IT! The BIG one!
All the tales of Eric John Stark in a single volume.
The stories, the novels, and for the first time, Brackett’s working notes for the abandoned FOURTH “Stark” novel from 1977.


Contents
“Queen of the Martian Catacombs”
“Enchantress of Venus”
“Black Amazon of Mars”
“Stark and the Star Kings”
The Ginger Star
The Hounds of Skaith
The Reavers of Skaith
“1977: Notes for Stark #4″

Artwork by Raymond Swanland
Edited by Stephen Haffner
ISBN: 9781893887862
720+ pages
Smythe-sewn Hardcover
                                               
Preorder price: $45


Haffner Press
LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL
Now available for pre-order!  

Leigh Brackett (1915-1978), noted author of mystery & science fiction novels—with screenplays for THE BIG SLEEP, RIO BRAVO and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK—sees her Centennial celebrated with a previously unpublished story in the forthcoming Haffner Press collection: LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL.

Discovered by editor Stephen Haffner, Brackett’s unpublished story “They” is a mature science fiction tale of power and intrigue, of homegrown xenophobia versus stellar exploration, with an answer to the ultimate question: “Are we alone?”

“They” leads off this tribute volume collecting the majority of Brackett’s nonfiction writings, supplemented with vintage interviews and commentaries/remembrances from such luminaries as Ray Bradbury, Michael Moorcock, Richard A. Lupoff and more.

“Her dialogue crackled, the characters lived and breathed. For any burgeoning fan of film, you couldn’t ask for a better inspiration than Leigh Brackett.” —George Lucas
“She had a marvelous ability for moving a narrative along…I remember one story of mine which had me frozen…she took over and wrote the first thousand words—and it was published that way.” —Ray Bradbury

LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL covers numerous facets and events of Brackett’s life, in her own words, and in the words of those who knew her:
 - Brackett writes of bringing Philip Marlowe into the 1970s for Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye . . .
 - SF-author and NASA employee Joseph Green records the time he hosted Brackett at the launch of Apollo XII . . .
 - Bookseller Ray Walsh documents the day he escorted Brackett to view a new groundbreaking space-fantasy film in the summer 1977 . . .

Available for preorder, LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL continues the effort begun in 2002 by Haffner Press to collect, preserve, and present the works of Leigh Brackett for current and future generations.


Edited by Stephen Haffner
ISBN-13 978-1893887-84-8
500pp. Trade Paperback
$25.00


Haffner Press

Haffner Press
FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY VOLUME 1: MURDER DRAWS A CROWD
(Writer) Fredric Brown, Jack Seabrook (Cover) Norman Saunders
Still available for pre-order!


Production Update from Haffner Press!

It is with much frustration we announce that MURDER DRAWS A CROWD: THE FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY, VOLUME ONE hit another stumbling block. This was a big one. We supplied materials to the printer in August 2015 and, after several challenges (see our previous e-newsletter), we were informed in early December that the books were finally finished.      
                                                                                                       
However, the review copies sent by the printer for our final approval did not meet the standards of Haffner Press. The binding method they used to get the cloth-covered cases to fit the page-blocks matches no book we've ever seen, let alone published. This binding method also forces the spine of the dustjacket to wrap onto the back of the book. When we were informed that the balance of the inventory matched these review copies, we rejected the entire lot.

As of this writing, we are scheduling a proper run of the book, updated for 2016, bringing you the edition of MURDER DRAWS A CROWD to which you're entitled. This means an additional delay of several months. We wish there was better news. As the first book of the multi-volume series collecting the mystery fiction of Fredric Brown, we want this book to be a point of pride in your collection. Fredric Brown — and you — deserve it.


A massive fix of liquor-fueled murder, smoke-clouded mystery, and hard-hitting revenge from the author of The Screaming Mimi and The Fabulous Clipjoint. This archival-quality hardcover assembles 38 incredibly rare stories from 1938-1942, with the original Pulp artwork from such magazines as Thrilling Detective, Masked Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. This is the book Fredric Brown fans have been waiting for!

Introduction by Jack Seabrook                     
ISBN: 9781893887787                               
744 pages                                         
Over 100 illustrations                            
39 pulp magazine stories:  • Detective  • Mystery  • Horror  • Western   
100-pg appendix with the "V.O.N. Munchdriller" &  "William Z. Williams" comedies                  
Decorated endpapers                               
Smythe-sewn binding                               
Full cloth-covered binding boards              
                                               
Preorder price: $40
On publication: $45


Haffner Press
FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY VOLUME 2: DEATH IN THE DARK
(Writer) Fredric Brown, Jack Seabrook (Cover) Norman Saunders
Available for pre-order!


Production Update from Haffner Press!
While the news on the first volume of THE FREDRIC BROWN MYSTERY LIBRARY is not the greatest, we are pleased to report that work on the second volume, DEATH IN THE DARK, is in the home stretch.    
                                                                                                                   
Fredric Brown scholar Jack Seabrook is on hand again with an erudite introduction and we have been successful in securing many more of the original illustrations; not only those from the detective pulps, but also those for the rarities from the trade magazines INDEPENDENT SALESMAN, THE INVENTOR, FEEDSTUFFS, etc.


“. . . enough good people put Brown on their must-read lists and then become evangelists to keep his name alive on the same high shelf as Hammett, Thompson, Ross Macdonald and other crime icons. Somewhere up in literary heaven, I hope he’s looking down, sipping a beer, playing his flute and smiling.”—Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune

While the editor of this series only recently came upon the above quote from 2008, these eyes read no truer words. Work has been underway for nearly a year on assembling the first two volumes of a series provisionally titled LOADED: THE COLLECTED FREDRIC BROWN. Now is your chance to get in on the ground floor of what is hoped to be the definitive collection of Fredric Brown sans his science fiction works. Assembled in chronological order of publication, this set will contain all the short fiction (of all genres: mystery, horror, noir, western, detection, etc.) and all of Brown’s novels (again, excepting his sf works). You’ll be able to enjoy Fredric Brown at his longer lengths from The Fabulous Clipjoint and Night of the Jabberwock to The Lenient Beast and Mrs. Murphy’s Underpants.

Assisting with this effort have been Brown bibliographer Phil Stephensen-Payne and Brown biographer Jack Seabrook. This massive undertaking could not have been accomplished without their help.


Introduction by Jack Seabrook
744 pages                                     
Over 90 illustrations                         
32 pulp magazine stories: • Detective  • Mystery  • Horror          
80-pg appendix with the "Colonel Cluck/Kluck,"  "Barnyard Bill Says—" & "Willie Skid" bits  
Decorated endpapers                           
Smythe-sewn binding                           
Full cloth-covered binding boards   
          

Preorder price: $40



Haffner Press
The Watcher at the Door: The Early Kuttner, Volume Two
Now available for pre-order!

Edited by Stephen Haffner
Foreword by Robert A. Madle
Introduction by Dr. Garyn G. Roberts
Cover Art by Jon Arfstrom
700+ page Hardcover
$45.00

Before his marriage to (and subsequent collaborations with) Catherine L. Moore, Henry Kuttner was a frequent contributor to the pulp magazines that specialized in the weird, supernatural, horror, and science fiction genre. Beginning in 1936, with the minor classic “The Graveyard Rats,” Kuttner launched a steady stream of short stories aimed at Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Thrilling Mystery, and others.

Writing for Weird Tales brought Kuttner into direct correspondence with that magazine’s premier contributor. H. P. Lovecraft. Kuttner set several stories in Lovecraft’s “Cthulhu Mythos” and two are presented in THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR: “Hydra” and “The Hunt.”

At this point in his still-young career, Kuttner had cracked the science fiction market and was steadily publishing in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Science Fiction, and made his first sale to the new prestigious fantasy magazine, UNKNOWN.

In the course of writing the stories collected in this volume, Kuttner married Catherine Lucille Moore on June 7, 1940 (in New York with artist Virgil Finlay as Best Man).
THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR is the second volume in a three-volume “Early Kuttner” set collecting many of Kuttner’s earliest stories, most of which have never been reprinted.


For those of you that missed on getting a copy of Volume One:
For a limited time, Haffner Press is offering the out-of-print TERROR IN THE HOUSE as a combo with preorders of THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR.
Take advantage of this great offer at the link below.


You can also pre-order THE WATCHER AT THE DOOR along with THE COMPLETE IVY FROST and THE MICHAEL GRAY MYSTERIES for #125 and receive a Bonus Chapbook and free shipping. Take advantage of this offer at the Haffner Press Homepage at the link below.





Haffner Press
The Complete Ivy Frost
by Donald Wandrei

Cover Art by Raymond Swanland
Now available for pre-order!

It may come as a surprise to some that Donald Wandrei wrote more mysteries than all his horror, fantasy, and science fiction tales combined. This volume collects all eighteen adventures of Wandrei’s ratiocinative detective I.V. Frost, who is ably assisted by his beautiful and tough female assistant, Jean Moray. A scientist and inventor, Frost has his own approach to solving mysteries. Rather than following the usual hard-drinking, trench-coated style of many of his contemporaries, Frost’s strategy was to mix the logic of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes with the technology of Lester Dent’s Doc Savage. In 2000, D.H. Olson edited a volume published by Fedogan and Bremer collecting the first eight of Frost’s adventures. A second volume of the remaining 10 tales was promised but never materialized.

Hardcover
$40




Haffner Press
The Michael Gray Mysteries
C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner

Now available for pre-order!

Edited by Stephen Haffner Introduction by Ed Gorman Cover Art by Lawrence Noble
A massive omnibus of four novels from the late 1950s all featuring the amateur sleuthing of San Francisco psychoanalyst Michael Gray.

The Murder of Eleanor Pope —Psychoanalyst Michael Gray leads police to a three-time killer!
The Murder of Ann Avery —Psychoanalyst solves brutal slaying!
Murder of a Mistress —Psychoanalyst Michael Gray solves the killing of a girl who knew too much about too many men who had too damned much to lose.
Murder of a Wife —Marked for Murder! No one believed her—not even the police!


Hardcover
$40


Haffner Press Status Update:
Nearly everything is in hand to bring this 4-novel omnibus to you.
Once we have Fredric Brown's MURDER DRAWS A CROWD under our belt and out in the wild, this is the next title to go to press.
NOTE: this title is part of a 3-book combo of Horror & Detective titles that features an exclusive chapbook. See the Haffner Press homepage for details.




Hard Case Crime
Coming soon!

Coming in March!

PIMP
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
Cover art by Michael Koelsch


THERE’S NO DRUG MORE
ADDICTIVE THAN FAME.

EXCEPT, YOU KNOW, PIMP.

Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from his past is pursuing a comeback dream of her own, setting herself up in Hollywood as producer of a series based on her and Max’s life story. But even in La-La Land, happy endings are hard to come by, especially with both the cops and your enemies in the drug trade coming after you...

 - First publication ever!
 - Tenth anniversary of Bruen and Starr’s first collaboration, and first new book in the Max Fisher series since 2008
 - Two of the hottest authors in crime fiction today, Bruen and Starr have been nominated for or won almost every award in the field: the Edgar, the Shamus, the Barry, the Anthony, the Macavity, and more
 - BUST,SLIDE and THE MAX received rave reviews from Entertainment Weekly and other major publications



Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Conan Re-Read: Conclusion - New!
The Illustrated Press
THE ART OF DEAN CORNWALL

Now available for pre-order - Shipping in February 2016!

This spectacular new book explores the life and work of the "Dean of Illustrators" — Dean Cornwell. Unlike previous books published on the artist, this volume is FULL COLOR throughout. The book is 224 pages long (the same size as the Golden Age series of books) and is filled to the brim with scores of beautiful illustrations reproduced almost exclusively from the original paintings and drawings

This book is limited to 1000 copies total. It is 224 pages, 9”x12”, full-color on premium glossy stock, hardbound with dust jacket.

By ordering today, you will receive a copy of the book for only $44.95 plus postage.

NOTE: This book will not be offered through Amazon at a discounted price (unless you can find a "used" copy.) If you want this book new, you will have to buy it directly from The Illustrated Press. In other words, don't worry about pre-ordering the book and then turning around and seeing it listed on Amazon later for $26. That is not going to happen.

A Special Edition version of the book was available, limited to 100 copies.
These are presented in red slipcase with white stamped lettering, signed and numbered by Daniel Zimmer, with a bookplate affixed to the front endpaper.



JAMES BOND 007: VARGR #4 - Arriving in comic shops February 10!  
(Writer) Warren Ellis (Art) Jason Masters (Cover) Dom Reardon

James Bond is alone in Berlin, with nothing but the clothes on his back and the gun in his hand. When help is offered from an unexpected source, Bond has no choice but to accept it – even though it may guarantee that he doesn’t live through the night. Dynamite Entertainment proudly continues the first James Bond comic book series in over 20 years!

“Ian Fleming’s James Bond is an icon, and it’s a delight to tell visual narratives with the original, brutal, damaged Bond of the books.” – Warren Ellis


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99



Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

STARTLING MYSTERY STORIES #14

Contents
THE DOGS OF DOCTOR DWANN by Edmond Hamilton
THE PARASITE by Dorothy Norman Cooke
THE OUTSIDER by H. P. Lovecraft
THE CRAWLER by Robert W. Lowndes
THE WHITE DOMINO by Urann Thayer
THE CASE OF THE DOCTGOR WHO HAD NO BUSINESS by Richard Lupoff
THE FELINE PHANTOM by Gilbert Draper
THE CONSUMING FLAME by Paul Ernst

Digest, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$8.95




 
   
Jim Anthony-Super-Detective, Volume 4 Audible – Unabridged - Now available!
Joel Jenkins (Author), Frank Byrns (Author), Erwin Roberts (Author), Mark Justice (Author), Bob Kern (Narrator)

The Action Continues with the Super-Detective

He's half Comanche, half Irish, and all American! Jim Anthony the Super Detective returns in his fourth volume of brand new adventures from Airship 27 Productions.

Traveling the globe, Anthony battles all manner of twisted villainy in four new tales and his challenges are herculean. Writers Erwin K. Roberts, Joel Jenkins, Frank Byrns, and Mark Justice have whipped up a quartet of high adventure stories that are the hallmark of the Super Detective. From Mexico, where he encounters a Nazi spy ring, to the streets of Manhattan where he hunts down a brutal serial killer, Jim Anthony proves once again why he is one of the most exciting and fun heroes ever created in the golden age of American pulps.

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to continue the exploits of the one and only, Jim Anthony - Super Detective.


Produced by Radio Archives.

Airship 27 Productions - Pulp Fiction for a New Generation!



The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Season 2 - Now available!

The original 1960s series that set the stage for the major feature film this summer is back with the release of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Second Season. During its second season, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was recognized as the Golden Globe winner for Best TV Show and nominated for 10 Emmy Awards. Led by a star studded cast featuring Leo G. Carrol, David McCallum and Robert Vaughn, the twist and turns continue as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Second Season on DVD February 2, 2016. The 10 disc series includes all 30 one-hour episodes of full-color entertainment.

Top agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, played by actors Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, use their charm, wit, and assortment of gadgets to defend the world from their international syndicate T.H.R.U.S.H. The second season continues with all the excitement from season one, as the agents travel all over the world to take on T.H.R.U.S.H and its axis of evil Allies. Whether the agents are posing as prison inspectors or obtaining mind-reading devices, the adventures are sure to continue throughout the season. This exciting season also features guest appearances by Jill Ireland, Angela Lansbury, Kevin McCarthy, Vincent Price and George Sanders.

"Warner Brothers is thrilled to be releasing The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Second Season" said Rosemary Markson, WBHE Senior Vice President, Television Marketing. "The second season was an exciting and pivotal point for the series, as it made the switch from being featured in black and white to full-color, and we are pleased to bring the entire season into the homes of fans all over."

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Second Season includes 30 1-Hour Episodes in a 10-disc DVD Collection.




Mystery*File - Now online!

Reviewed by Walter Albert: RAOUL WHITFIELD – Jo Gar’s Casebook.
- New!
JONATHAN LEWIS: Stories I’m Reading — W. H. HODGSON “The Thing Invisible.”
CONVENTION REPORT: PulpFest 2015  by Richard Moore
CON REPORT: PulpFest 2015, by Walker Martin
PulpFest 2015 – The People

Off-Trail Publications - Now available!

THE TEXAS-SIBERIA TRAIL
by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Introductions by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson and John Locke

Before he was a comic-book pioneer, Major Malcolm-Wheeler Nicholson wrote adventure tales for the great pulp magazines—and no run-of-the-mill pulp fiction was it. The Major served as a cavalry officer on the southwest border during the Mexican Revolution. While the First World War raged in Europe, he fought the Moro insurgency in the southern Philippines. Then followed his strangest assignment, conducting espionage in legendarily hostile Siberia. After the war he was stationed in Western Europe. These places became the settings for the majority of his hardboiled adventure stories. His use of authentic detail, combined with his superior storytelling ability, make his stories difficult to put down. You read one of the Major’s entrancing tales—and your imagination is transported back to those real places of danger and daring!

This inaugural collection of the Major’s fiction includes stories set in all four of his real-life arenas, originally published in top adventure pulps: Adventure, Argosy, The Popular Magazine. It is time for the Major to receive his due—as one of the genuine larger-than-life men of the pulps. Included is an in-depth introduction by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, the Major’s granddaughter.

“Yes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson is one of the very, very few people responsible for the birth of the comic book industry as the visionary founder of what we today call DC Comics. And, yes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson is one of the very, very few people responsible for giving the world Superman.”

Michael Uslan,
Executive Producer of all the Batman movies,
Comic book historian, and author of his memoir, The Boy Who Loved Batman.

“Not many adventure writers can claim to have based their stories on their own exploits. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson could—and because of it, his evocations of heroism and combat have a believability and a personal depth unlike anything else in pulp fiction.”

Gerard Jones,
Author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book.

6x9-inch perfect bound; 264 pages, $20.00

Checkout  earlier titles by clicking on the link below.

 
 
 
 
 

PAPERBACK FANATIC #34 & PULP HORROR #2
To the printer at the end of February!
Pre-order now to avoid missing an issue!

The Paperback Fanatic 34
150 pages, all colour. 
A Visual Guide to Monarch Books,
cult movie tie-ins
The Warriors
Manly Wade Wellman
James Blish
Daniel Galouye
Charles Finney
Margaret St Clair
Mike Heslop
letters
Paperback Fair report and more. 

Improved format following feedback on issue 33 - reduced page count and thicker cover lamination as well as better quality envelopes to help protect the mag in transit.  

UK post:  £11.50
Europe and US/Canada:  £13.50
Australia and Japan:  £14.50



Pulp Horror 2
68 pages, all colour, also with a book spine. 
Horror in SF special. 
House on the Borderland
Satanic SF
the  books that Alien ripped off
a guide to SF/Horror cross-overs
Frank Belknap Long
Bug Eyed Monsters and more.


UK post:  £7.50
Europe and US/Canada:  £8.50
Australia and Japan:  £9.50





PAPERBACK PARADE #91 - Now available!
 
The Magazine for Paperback Readers & Collectors! Paperback Parade, if you are a book collector, reader, or just love great old books then this is the magazine for you!

Each 100 page, perfect-bound digest-size trade paperback, is in FULL COLOR loaded with articles on rare books, authors, artists, publisher runs, with dozens and dozens of gorgeous FULL COLOR covers of rare books of all kinds. Also “Paperback Talk” news, letters, show info, new books, people in the hobby.


Contents
“Paperback Talk” by Gary Lovisi
“Celebrating Frank Frazetta”  by Gary Lovisi
“Two to Keep” by Richard A. Lupoff
“The Riddle of the Barmaray Company” by Steve Carper
“Paperback Kerouac” by Tom Cantrell
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“Outrageous Covers” by Wally Pattengill

 
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Paperback Perils - Now online!

The Warlord of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914)
The Gods of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1913)  
A Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912)
The Scarlet Jaguar (Win Scott Eckert, Meteor House, 2015)  
Swords Against Cthulhu (Ed. Gavin Chappell, Rogue Planet Press/Horrified Press, 2015)

Pearls from Peoria (Kindle Edition)  - Now available!
by Philip José Farmer

An outstanding and unique collection from an outstanding and unique talent. Philip José Farmer, three time Hugo winner and Nebula Grand Master in 2001, has written exciting and provocative fiction since his debut, the ground breaking “The Lovers,” stunned the SF community in 1952.

Pearls from Peoria assembles over sixty previously uncollected pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and autobiography that demonstrate the extraordinary range and vitality of Philip José Farmer’s imagination.

Many of the pieces appear here for the first time anywhere, while others have previously appeared only in small run magazines that have remained elusive and avidly sought after by Farmer aficionados.

These tales and articles provide the reader with a grand tour of the literary pocket universes that make up Philip José Farmer’s private cosmos. The range is vast, from horror to pulp heroes, and autobiography with pieces on Tarzan and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Doc Savage and Sir Richard Burton, Riverworld and Oz, Sherlock Holmes and Ralph von Wau Wau.

Pearls from Peoria represents outstanding value for people who want access to this incredibly rare work without spending a fortune, and copious amounts of time and energy, tracking down the individual original publications.


Kindle Price:    $6.99
Kindle  


Perils On Planet Perils On Planet X - Now online!

Perils On Planet X is a swashbuckling adventure on a lost planet… join Colonel Donovan Hawke of Terra as he travels through time and space to the ancient emerald world of Xylos – home of vicious reptilian predators, ruthless strato-pirates, beautiful princesses, and innumerable fantastic dangers!
 
Perils On Planet X is high adventure on alien worlds – classic space opera in the  Burroughs and Alex Raymond traditions, revived for a new millennium!
 
The adventure begins today at the link below!


Pulp Adventurecon
Saturday, February 20, 2016
10 am - 5 pm


FORT LAUDERDALE, FL
Universal Palms Hotel
 
The Pulp Adventurecon has been taking place annually in Bordentown, New Jersey for a long, long time -- but now we're branching out and attempting to conquer the south!
The second annual Pulp Adventurecon South is Saturday, February 20th, 2016 at the Universal Palms Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The Universal Palms Hotel is offering a special rate for attendees of the show.
Book your room for Friday, February 19th or February, October 20th (or both) and give the promotional code "Venture" and lock in your room for $89.00 per night.
That's a spectacular rate for Florida, especially in February!


Admission will be $5 at the door, and tables are $55 each.


And don't forget the show this Fall!
BORDENTOWN, NJ

Ramada Inn of Bordentown
Date to be announced.


 

Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Crowbait for Killers" by Tom Gunn from TEXAS RANGERS, August, 1938
Ranger Jack Rand Rides Into a Case of Triple Slaughter That Calls for Gun Vengeance!

"Murder Junk" by Charles Molyneux Brown from SECRET AGENT "X", February, 1937
Narcotics Inspector Gil Grady followed the treacherous trail of a hated menace, dope, straight into a dead-end trap. And his only hope of life lay in the dumbest of all creatures - oysters.


"Homicide's Crimson Chariot" by Rex Whitechurch from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, September, 1945
Hurtling through the city streets, the dying girl told Ambulance Surgeon Carlton the name of her killer. But before Carlton could shriek it to the police, he had to halt the rush of justice by throwing himself into the murderer's crimson path.




Pulp Crazy - Now online!

The Freshman by Philip José Farmer
The Man-Eaters of Zamboula (Starring Conan the Cimmerian) by Robert E. Howard
The Dark Eidolon by Clark Ashton Smith
Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 1) by Fritz Leiber

Pulp Den - Now online!

Tom Mix Rides Again  - New!
Cold War Heroes  - New!
PI Day Doomsday - New!
The King of Fear
Jasper And The Shelter of Angels
         Pulp Den  

Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

New Blog about pulp magazines
Perks of being a pulp collector #42
BBC Video on the Zaporozhian Cossacks
R.W. Daly - Seeker of the Deep


Pulp Magazines Project - Now online!

Publishing legends The Black Mask (1920), Weird Tales (1923), and Amazing Stories (1926) are considered so “extremely rare and valuable” that the U.S. Library of Congress houses its collection of 277 issues in Washington, D.C.’s Rare Book and Special Collections Division—along with the personal libraries of Presidents, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and one of only three known perfect copies of the Gutenberg Bible in existence. With its latest addition of 4 issues of The Black Mask (Aug. & Sept. 1920; Dec. 1921; and Apr. 1922), the Pulp Magazines Project has made all 3 classic titles available together—for the first time—in high-quality, cover-to-cover digital editions.

Also available at the Pulp Magazines Project, new issues of the iconic “weird menace” pulp, Dime Mystery Magazine (Apr. 1938 and Sept. 1946); Adventure (Jul. 1, 1928; feat. Walt Coburn’s “The Man Who Hated Himself”); Western Story (Jul. 27, 1940); Detective Story (May 1938; feat. Zorro-creator Johnston McCulley’s “Thubway Tham’s Thothial Thecurity”); and histories of both The Black Mask (E.R. Hagemann; UCLA) and Dime Mystery Magazine (Emily Sisler; University of West Florida).



The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary & artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides information on the history of this important but long neglected medium, along with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their publishers.

At the heart of the Project's mission is the archive itself. In summer 2011, it began with a modest library of five representative first-generation pulp titles from the early twentieth century. Over time, the archive will expand, new magazines will be digitized, and contextual materials added. Eventually, the archive will feature a broad range of pre-1923 titles, post-1923 titles where copyright has lapsed, and full volume runs of select titles from 1896 to 1946.

The Project is dedicated to fostering ties between communities of collectors, fans, and academics devoted to pulp magazines, and will offer opportunities for research and collaboration to both scholars and enthusiasts alike. We will provide information on upcoming conferences and conventions, and promote new working relationships between academics and the hundreds of pulp fans and collectors beyond the college and university.


The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features two ongoing blogs!

Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.

Pulp Super-Fan blog by Michael R. Brown

Doc Ardan returns - New!
Meet Rouletabille
‘All-Star Pulp Comics’
‘Tales of the Shadowmen 12: Carte Blanche’
That's Pulp! by John Olsen

The Shadow’s mail-away rings - New!
‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’
The Spider, # 3: ‘Wings of the Black Death’
The Shadow OTR: ‘The Ghost on the Stair’
Yellowed Perils by William Lampkin

Genesis of the lightsaber?
Take a sf journey back to 1941
Farewell 2015; welcome 2016
Exploring ‘This Island Earth’
Jon Arfstrom: 1928-2015

Pulp Newsgroups - Now online!
There are numerous pulp newsgroups that are of potential interest to pulp fans. 
Information on several of these groups and a link to sign up is posted below.

Abraham Merritt:
This group is dedicated to all of the fiction of ABRAHAM MERRITT. Merritt's novels, short stories, paperbacks, hardcovers, pulps, reprints, and any movies based on these works can all be discussed here. Also, any artwork from any of the above pertaining to Merritt's writing can be discussed and displayed. If interested, questions and statements about other authors that copied or imitated Merritt's style can be posted.  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ABEMERRITTFANS/

CoverUps: Sharing and trading of Pulp Fiction covers. Discussion not only allowed, but encouraged! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cover_Ups/

Doc Con:
  The annual Doc Savage Convention gathered together for the first time on October 24, 1998. The convention also known as Doc Con is the brainchild of Rob Smalley who together with Jay Ryan, Paul Cook and Courtney Rogers have hosted the event each year in Arizona. Traditionally held the second Saturday of each November, Doc Con attracts residents from around the country, for a weekend of planned Doc Savage events as well as discussions and camaraderie. Follow along with the planning each year by participating in this group.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Doc_Con/

 Burroughs Group:
This group is dedicated to the study and appreciation of one of the greatmasters of literary adventure,  Burroughs (1875-1950). Creator of numerous famous characters, such as Tarzan, Carson Napier, and John Carter of Mars, and exciting worlds, such as Venus, Barsoom, and Pellucidar, Burroughs is widely recognized as one of the fathers of the Pulp Era and modern heroic fiction.  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edgarriceburroughs/


FictionMags: The purpose of this mailing list is to discuss the history of fiction magazines, and to exchange information about magazines which have carried fiction, past or present. Particular emphases are on the "Gaslight" magazines of circa 1880-1914, the pulp magazines of the first half of the 20th century, the "Big Slick" magazines of the mid-20th century, the digest-sized magazines of the 1950s and 1960s -- and any other areas of magazine publishing which have been important for fiction. Discussion may cover aspects of the publishing history of the magazines concerned, their editors and editorial policies, the authors they published, and so on.

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/fictionmags/

Flearun: This group is for fans of all the incarnations of Doc Savage. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flearun/

H.R. Haggard: This group is dedicated to one of the greatest of adventure/fantasy writers , H.R. Haggard.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/masterofadventureriderhaggard/


Justice Inc.: This group is dedicated to the [1940's pulp version] of Richard Benson and his group of crime fighting adventurers , Justice Inc. Everything about this group can be discussed [ comics, pulps, radio shows, paperbacks, current news]also if anyone is interested in Paul Ernst---In the roaring heart of the crucible...... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JUSTICEINC/

Otis Adelbert Kline: This group is devoted to Otis Adelbert Kline. His works in the science fiction, weird and historical fiction genre and his general biography can also be discussed here.
Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OTISKLINE/
to join!

Pulp Fiction Uncensored: is for all fans of Pulp Fiction!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pulp_Fiction_Uncensored/

PulpMags: If you're interested in the old pulp magazines, this forum is the place to be. We deal with OLD pulps only! If you're looking for something dealing with modern "pulp fiction" style writing, you'd be bored here.This moderated list is setup along the lines of PEAPS, the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, and all pulp fans across the world are welcome. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpMags/

Pulp Swap Group:  Place your swappable pulps and digest, plus wants, in the file section or individual messages. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpSwap/

REH Comics Group: This group is dedicated to the characters created by Robert E Howard that have appeared in comic book form from Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Cross Plains Comics, Dynamite Entertainment etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheREHcomicsgroup/

Vintage Paperbacks:  A forum for readers and collectors of classic paperback books, primarily from the "vintage era" of 1939 to 1960 (roughly speaking). Ace Doubles, Dell Mapbacks, L.A. Bantams, Gold Medal, Avon, Handibooks, and many more - we cover them all. Discussion of all genres is welcome and we particularly want to hear about any rare and unusual paperbacks or stories *about* paperbacks that you might be able to share. We discuss the cover artists, the writers, the publishers, and anyone and everyone connected with the great world of vintage paperback books. Read a great old book lately? Come on in and tell us about it! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VintagePaperbacks/

Western Pulps: This list is dedicated to the discussion of Western pulp magazines -- the characters, the authors, the stories, the paperback reprints, and anything else connected with Western pulps. Though the primary emphasis is on pulps, we also discuss non-pulp Western novels, movies, comics, etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WesternPulps/

Ramble House
Now available!

 
PERCHANCE TO WAKE
Yet More Selected Stories from Science Fantasy

 Chosen and Introduced by
Damien Broderick and John Boston

 
Damien Broderick and John Boston are proud to announce the third installment in their series of tales taken from the pages of Science Fantasy magazine.
This volume has ten stories from some of the best writers of SF we have.
Thanks to Damien and John, this magazine that was far ahead of its time, can be enjoyed by all.

Contents
John Rackham, Bring Back a Life
Thomas Burnett Swann, Vashti
Josephine Saxton, The Wall
Brian Stableford and Craig Mackintosh, Beyond Time’s Aegis
Brian Aldiss, The Circulation of the Blood
J.G. Ballard, You and Me and the Continuum
Christopher Priest, The Run
Keith Roberts, Corfe Gate
Robert Wells, Stop Seventeen
Chris Boyce, Mantis

  
Available Editions
      $20 Trade Paperback 6" x 9"
 
This book is available at Amazon and the Create Space store but the publisher offers you a discount and free shipping if you call or e-mail him with your order.
fender@ramblehouse.com
228-826-1783



Raven's Head Press
THE ORDER OF THE DRAGON
by Phil Hore
Now available!


 Two unlikely allies join forces with two of history's greatest writers, Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker,
to save England from the ancient Order of the Dragon and the horrible sceret they protect.

Book one of the BLOODLINE TRILOGY, a new pulp series featuring Amun Galeus and Sebastian Vulk
as they traverse the ages solving supernatural mysteries and fighting against evil
in all its various manifestations from flesh and blood to the demonic powers of hell.


Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 224 pages, $15.95

 

Raven's Head Press
THREE UNDER THE MOON
by Marco Siena
Now available!

3 Under the Moon is comprised of three intertwined horror tales that take place under the moon of England.
The cast includes werewolves, bungling petty criminals, and mutant law officers who operate outside the realm of normal.
The first story, Yellow Car and Silver Bullets, tells about the meeting between three crooks who chase a mysterious individual named Juan who just may be a werewolf.
In I Hate to Go an Italian-American special agent, Ray Konopski, arrives in London to settle a baffling case that leads him to cross paths with Juan.
The final story, Tell Him, centers around Harper, a London bobby, who joins together with Konopski to solve a strange case surrounding Juan who just happened to murder him the night before.


Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 112 pages, $15.00


The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Archive
THE SPIDER'S WEB
Research copies are now available!


Archive DVD featuring Warren Hull - 15 Chapters (Complete)

One of the major original pulp heroes comes to the screen in the greatest adaptation of pulp to film ever created, featuring Warren Hull and Iris Meredith. Consistently rated one of the top 5 cliffhanger serials of all time by fans, and hugely influential. Source: new digital transfer of 16mm original print, complete, with generally excellent sharp picture quality, restored picture element with stabilization, exposure correction, and noise reduced audio.

Status: Restoration complete, archive DVD requests are shipping now.
To request a research copy, click here.





The Shadow - Under the Blue Light - Now online!

Death In The Crystal
- New!
Ten Glass Eyes
Room 1313
Trail of Vengeance
The Masked Headsman

Tellers of Weird Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog in which he researches and writes about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine and its companion titles, Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.

Anthony Rud and the Tango Dancer Murder-Part Two - New!
Anthony Rud and the Tango Dancer Murder-Part One  - New!
Abrach (?-?)-Part Two - New!
Abrach (?-?)-Part One - New!
Marion Carrere (1906-1970)
Edith de Garis (?-1950)
Mrs. Edgar Saltus (1883-1960)
Edgar Lloyd Hampton (1872-1951)
Edith Ogutsch (1929-1990)


Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels
by Christopher R. Yates
(New publications to the list are in bold)

Now available!
The Black Stiletto: Endings & Beginnings, Raymond Benson, Oceanview Publishing, $16.00, January 12, 2016
Ex-Isle, Peter Clines, Broadway Books, $14.00, February 2, 2016

Coming soon!
Arrow – Vengeance, Oscar Balderrama & Lauren Certo, Titan Books, $7.99, February 23, 2016
Heroes Reborn: Collection One, David Bishop, Timothy Zahn & Stephen Blackmore, Titan Books, $7.99 February 23, 2016
Lara Croft and the Blade of Gwynnever, Dan Abnett & Nik Vincent, DK Publishing, $12.99,  February 23, 2016
Thor: Dueling with Giants, Asgard Trilogy, Book 1, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Joe Books, $9.99, March 8, 2016
Powers: The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim, Brian Michael Bendis & Neil Kleid, Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99, March 15, 2016
Civil War [re-issue, “Illustrated Edition”], Stuart Moore, Marvel, $39.99, March 15, 2016
The Conclave of Shadow [Missy Masters #2], Alyc Helms, Angry Robot, $7.99, April 5, 2016
Superhero Universe: Tesseracts Nineteen, eds. Claude Lalumière & Mark Shainblum, EDGE, $15.95, April 15, 2016
Heroes Reborn: Collection Two, Duane Swierczynski, Keith DeCandido & Kevin J. Anderson, Titan Books, $7.99, April 19, 2016
Sif: Even Dragons Have Their Endings, Asgard Trilogy, Book 2, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Joe Books, $9.99, May 10, 2016
Captain America: Dark Design, Stefan Petrucha, Marvel, $24.99, April 19, 2016
X-Men: Days of Future Past, Alex Irvine, Marvel, $7.99, May 17, 2016
Ghosts of Karnak, George Mann, Titan Books, Ltd., $7.99, May 24, 2016
Velveteen vs. The Seasons, Seanan McGuire, ISFic Press, $30.00, May 27, 2016
Stiletto [sequel to The Rook], Daniel O’Malley, Little, Brown & Co., $25.99, June 14, 2016
The Interminables, Paige Orwin, Angry Robot, $7.99, July 5, 2016
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, Paul Crilley, Marvel, $24.99, July 19, 2016
Warriors Three: Godhood’s End, Asgard Trilogy, Book 3, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Joe Books, $9.99, July 22, 2016
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge, Larry Correia & John Ringo, Baen, $27.00 August 2, 2016
Wild Cards XXIII: High Stakes, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $25.99, April 16, 2016
Black Widow: Forever Red, Margaret Stohl, Marvel Press, $9.99, September 6, 2016
Futuristic Violence & Fancy Suits, David Wong, St. Martin’s Griffin, $16.99, October 4, 2016
Wild Cards VI: Ace in the Hole, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $17.99, October 4, 2016
Black Widow: Red Vengeance, Margaret Stohl, Marvel Press, $17.99, October 2016
Monster Hunter Tales, eds. Bryan Thomas Schmidt & Larry Correia, Baen, $29.99, January 6, 2017




Western Heroes of Pulp Fiction: Dime Novel to Pop Culture
Pulp western art exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art

October 24, 2015 to February 14, 2016!


The Old West will meet the New West on October 24, 2015 in an art exhibition so wild and exploding with rawhide, smoking Colt 45s, and desert heat, that it took the Tucson Museum of Art to rein it in.
For the first time ever, Wild West artwork from comic books, pulp fiction novels, dime novels, and magazine and book illustrations will have its own exhibition, curated by the Tucson Museum of Art Glasser Curator of Art of the American West, Christine Brindza.

Western Heroes of Pulp Fiction: Dime Novel to Pop Culture will provide a survey of works from 1920 to Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Bill Schenck, exploring how images of the Wild West have built and reinforced American legends.

And here is the best part! You can make a lasting impact on this historic exhibition by helping us get the catalog published!

One of the most important and lasting components of any great exhibit is its catalog, so saddle up with us on our Indiegogo campaign, and take a look at the awesome rewards for donating to the publishing costs of the catalog.

You might even get your name in the book!


William Patrick Maynard - Now online!
A Crossover Too Far

A. J. Smithers is a respected author of fiction and non-fiction titles with a special dedication to the Clubland fiction of Dornford Yates, John Buchan, and H. C. “Sapper” McNeile. His 1983 novel, Combined Forces was subtitled Being the Latter-Day Adventures of Richard Hannay, “Bulldog” Drummond, and Berry and Co. Clubland literary scholar Richard Usborne praised the book and Smithers’ willingness to expose the dark sides of its characters’ lives. Wold Newtonians sometimes seek out this rare work because of the literary crossover within its pages. I approached the book first as a Bulldog Drummond completist and secondly as a fan of Richard Hannay.

Read the rest at the link below.