ADVENTURES IN THE STRAND: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
& THE STRAND MAGAZINE -
Now available!
by Mike Ashley
Conan Doyle’s name is synonymous with The Strand magazine,
chiefly because of the Sherlock Holmes stories but also due to many
of his other contributions, such as the Professor Challenger stories,
his articles on spiritualism and fairies, and his coverage of the major
battles of World War I. From 1891 until his death in 1930, almost 300
contributions by Doyle were published in The Strand, including 120
stories, 9 serialized novels, and dozens of other items including poetry
and interviews. It is impossible fully to appreciate Conan Doyle’s artistic
development without considering the context of The Strand, as it published
almost all of his most memorable and important stories, but it also published
essays, commentary and other works that have become unjustly forgotten.
Doyle’s contributions highlight, for example, his abilities as a sportsman,
an interest which frequently found its way into his fiction. This study
charts his outlook and views, examines his shifting reputation during
his lifetime, and assesses how Doyle’s contributions to The Strand fit
into his overall output as a writer. Ashley uncovers hidden aspects of Doyle’s
writings that reveal him to be a more broadly talented writer than he is
often given credit for.
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.2 x 9 inches
List Price: $34.95
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Age of Aces Latest
Dispatches
Now available on line!
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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|
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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
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Altus Press: Enjoy Pulps! - New pulp blog by David Lee Smith is now online!
Unknown Pulp: Ladies of the Underworld - New!
The Phantom Detective – Oct. 1945: “Death to a Diplomat”
Pulps Pricings Sales Census: Ka-Zar Pulps, 1936-1937
“The Pot of Gold” by Eudora Ramsay Richardson (a Pre-Spider/Richard
Wentworth Story)
Pulps Pricings Sales Census
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Altus Press Pulp Blog by Morgan
Wallace - Now online!
“The Guthrie Method” by Raymond Z. Gallun / “Desperate Remedy”
by Mack Reynolds - New!
“As You Were” by Henry Kuttner in Australia’s “American
Science Fiction Magazine” series
The Irrationals by Milton Lesser (American Science Fiction
Magazine series)
American Science Fiction Magazine “Common Time” by James
Blish
The Thing from Another World by John W. Campbell, Jr.
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Altus
Press
Now available!
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
SALE PRICE: $18.95 softcover
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Altus
Press
Now available!
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
SALE PRICE: $18.95 softcover
Altus Press
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Altus
Press
Now available!
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
SALE PRICE: $27.95 softcover
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Altus
Press
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
SALE PRICE: $13.95 softcover
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Altus
Press
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
$14.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover
SALE PRICE: $13.95 softcover
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Anthony
Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming to comic shops June 8!
Now available at online retailers!
THE SPIDER
Volume 9: "The Mad Horde" & Slaves of the Laughing Death"
The pulp era's most bloodthirsty avenger continues his
deadly war against crime in two violent pulp novels
by Norvell Page. First, "The Mad Horde" of rabid creatures
is unleashed upon mill towns to undermine America's
vital steel industry. Then, in "Slaves of the Laughing Death,"
the fiend of 1000 faces known only as Munro returns for
a deadly rematch with the Spider, armed with a deadly weapon
that causes victims to laugh until they die!
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)
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Art's Reviews Podcasts!
- Now online!
Jeff Deischer: "The Night of the Owl" and
Guest Host Ric Croxton
Author Jeff Deischer talks about his latest novel in the Argetverse
Series. The Superhero Team, The 3 Musketeers, confronts the
mystery of The Owl. Is it a man or a monster? The Owl
roams he night striking down its victims. But why? For
what purpose? More superhero action from one of the best pulp
writers in our time.
Jeff and my old Ric Croxton reminisce the way we did when the Book
Cave was in full swing. Don't miss this One!
Past
episodes:
Gordon Dymowski on Black Bat Mystery, Vol. 3 and much more!
Sinbad: The New Voyages - The Legacy of Ray Harryhausen
Andrew Salmon and the New Sherlock
Holmes Fightcard Novel
The League of the Seventh Son;
Steve Payne's new Secret Agent X Novel
Michael Panush and his novel "The
Dagger Men"
Tom and Ginger Johnson: The
Pulp Power Couple
Rick Lai, Cthulhu, and Dangerous Things!
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Black Coat Press
New titles now available!
Contents:
Les Posthumes (1802)
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford.
Restif gave free rein to his imagination in Posthumous Correspondence
(first written in 1787-89; augmented in 1796, and finally published
in 1802), presented as a sequence of letters between Monsieur de Fontlhète
and his beloved wife Hortense.
In this first volume, Fontlhète makes contact with Yfflasie
and Clarendon, two discorporated souls and learns of their adventures
in the afterlife; later, he acquires artificial wings, uses his new-found
power to oppose evil and fight crime, taking on tyrants and warmongers,
then gains the ability of exchanging identities by taking over other
people's bodies with his own soul.
In the second volume, we meet Duke Multipliandre, whose adventures
include not only the acquisition of several superpowers, but a
vast series of erotic exploits, some involving the ability of exchanging
identities by taking over other people's bodies. After visiting many
exotic lands, Multipliandre boldly crosses the boundaries of the known
world, in order to explore the hypothetical world of Restif's cosmogonic
and evolutionary theories traveling to the Moon and Mars.
In the third and final volume, Duke Multipliandre visits the other
known planets of the solar system and numerous other worlds then
unknown to science, including trans-Uranian planets, a comet and
three planets within the orbit of Mercury, and interacts with their
peculiar inhabitants. After that, he sets off to visit several other
solar systems, including those of Sirius and Vega, and several nebulae,
before concluding his journey in the "astral center," into which
the entire universe will one day be dissolved, before being regenerated
as an entirely new universe. Multipliandre then returns to Earth, where,
immortal by virtue of his super-powers, he settles down to witness the
entire future of the Earth, initially coping with a new form of life
born from a close encounter between the planet and a comet, which produces,
among other plant and animal species, a race of winged humans, whom Multipliandre
calls "angels."
Posthumous Correspondence was intended to be the most ambitious,
fantastic and all-encompassing of all the exotic literary endeavors
that Restif had originally planned to write, the ultimate version
of his speculative cosmogony.
VOLUME 1: US $29.95 /GBP
£20.99
5x8 trade
paperback, 388 pages
VOLUME 2: US $29.95 /GBP £20.99
5x8 trade
paperback, 388 pages
VOLUME 3: US $29.95 /GBP £20.99
5x8 trade
paperback, 388 pages
ALL THREE VOLUMES: US $67.95 (25% DISCOUNT)
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Black Dog Books
New titles now available!
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
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
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Blood 'N' Thunder
/ Murania Press
HANDSOME
HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS
Now available for immediate
shipping!
This companion volume to DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND
MASKED MARAUDERS continues Ed Hulse's groundbreaking
history of American cliffhanger serials of the silent-movie
era. It covers some 190 "chapter plays" released
by production and distribution entities such as Universal,
Vitagraph, Mutual, Arrow, Rayart, and Mascot, along
with member companies of the Edison Trust and various fly-by-night
independent operators.Among the legendary serial stars whose
output is documented and analyzed are Francis Ford and Grace
Cunard, Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber, Helen Holmes, Eddie Polo,
Marie Walcamp, William Desmond, William Duncan, Eileen Sedgwick,
Joe Bonomo, Elmo Lincoln, Ann Little, Jack Daugherty, Juanita
Hansen, and Louise Lorraine. Serials that starred favorites
from the sports and theatrical worlds — Harry Houdini, Billie
Burke, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, Benny Leonard, and Maurice "Lefty"
Flynn, to name a few — are also covered.
At a length of nearly 160,000 words, illustrated with hundreds
of rare stills, posters, lobby cards, magazine
ads and even frame blowups from surviving film elements, HANDSOME
HEROES AND VICIOUS VILLAINS is the last word on
this fascinating segment of American movie history.
The product of a quarter century's research, it equals if
not surpasses the award-nominated DISTRESSED
DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS.
Single
copy price is $29.95, but for a limited time only HANDSOME
HEROES AND DISTRESSED DAMSELS can be purchased together for $49.95.
Visit muraniapress.com
and use our convenient Checkout feature to order either
or both.
PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO
DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES
BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.
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Blood 'N' Thunder
/ Murania Press
Since 2002 Blood 'n' Thunder has
celebrated adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture
of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Vintage pulp magazines,
motion pictures, radio dramas, and newspaper comic
strips are covered in its pages with extensively researched
articles by the most prominent historians specializing
in the study of these media.
The Blood 'n' Thunder Sampler offers previously unreprinted
articles as they originally appeared in the magazine.
Essentially, it's a book-length BnT that gives readers a
better idea of what the typical issue looks like.
Included are surveys of the classic pulps Adventure, Dime
Detective, and The Popular Magazine; essays on
the first films featuring popular pulp characters Zorro
and Hopalong Cassidy; articles chronicling the Old-Time
Radio exploits of The Green Hornet; an overview of the mystery/espionage
thrillers featuring Clubfoot the Avenger; a personal
reflection on the return of Fu Manchu; a profile of distinguished
adventure-story writer Gordon Young; legendary Black Mask
editor Joseph "Cap" Shaw on writing for the pulps; and much
more. In short, it's the perfect introduction to Blood 'n' Thunder.
Readers of the Sampler would have to purchase six issues of
the journal at $12.50 each to get the material included
in this book for $24.95.
It's the perfect introduction to the wonderful world of vintage
pop culture chronicled in Blood 'n' Thunder.
If you've heard of BnT but never seen a copy, this is
the book for you!
PURCHASE
PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING
ORDERS.
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THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscriptions for 2016 are now available!
Issue 76 of
the Bronze Gazette is going to press!
This week is your last chance to subscribe and reserve copies
of issue 76 & 77.
It's just $20 (USA), $30 (Canada) and $35 (International)
to get a two-issue subscription.
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!
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Castalia House Blog
- Now online!
Short Reviews – Ordeal in Space by Ralph Sloan
- New!
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 8 - New!
Short Reviews – The Giants Return by Robert Abernathy
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 7
Short Reviews – The Enchantress of Venus by Leigh Brackett
Building a Weird Tales Library: Part 6
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Centipede Press
MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION: FRITZ LEIBER
Now available!
Poet, actor, playwright, chess expert, master of
fantastic fiction. Fritz Leiber was a true Renaissance Man.
His writing crossed all boundaries, from horror to sword
and sorcery. This book goes deep into Leiber’s underrated
science fiction oeuvre. It’s a comprehensive, page-turning
cache that captures Leiber’s thoroughly original style — altogether
mystical, beautiful, and sometimes disturbing.
“The Foxholes of Mars” is a literary assault: a frightening,
nitro-fueled tale of war on Mars, with one soldier questioning
the futility and purpose of the battle against bug-eyed
aliens — a distant mirror-image of our own times. “Space-Time
for Springers” is told through the glaring eyes of Gummitch,
a cat who happens to possess a genius IQ and a voracious
appetite for scientific knowledge. “Night Passage” takes us on
a dark journey into a Las Vegas where Earthlings and extra-terrestrials
mingle and gamble — and where one man takes a moonlit ride with
a mystery woman from Mercury, tailed by some very scary pursuers.
“The Mutant’s Brother” is a malevolent mix of horror and SF, a tale
of identical twins who each carry a frightful chromosome. One of
them is also a monstrous serial killer. The literally chilling “A
Pail of Air” takes place in an underground nest, where a family
fights to survive in a sunless, moonless, post-apocalyptic world where
even helium and carbon dioxide become crawling, shapeless threats.
Fritz Leiber was a storyteller and prophet for the ages.
His work will never be dated or irrelevant. Treat this
book like a crystal ball. These pages chronicle the world
to come. You’ve been warned.
Over 700 pages of Fritz Leiber’s best science fiction.
Afterword by John Pelan.
Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies.
Signed by John Pelan and cover artists Jim & Ruth Keegan.
Fully cloth bound, gorgeous dustjacket, ribbon marker, head
and tail bands.
Cloth in dustjacket $45
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An astounding two-volume collection of Fritz Leiber’s
best weird and horror fiction, across 900 pages, with over 20 full
page illustrations, many in full color, with a stunning wraparound
dustjacket by Tom Kidd. Also included is a new introduction by editor
John Pelan, with photographs of the author and images of old editions
of his books.
The two volumes are enclosed in a handsome slipcase ribbon marker,
cloth slipcase, and other extras. The complete contents are shown
below.
The edition is limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, and the
book is signed by Tom Kidd, Rodger Gerberding, John Pelan, Travis
Lewis, and Allen Koszowski, and has a special facsimile signature
by Fritz Leiber.
EDITION INFORMATION
Limited to 250 copies, each signed by John Pelan, Tom Kidd, Allen
Koszowski, Travis Lewis, and Rodger Gerberding.
New introduction by John Pelan.
Two handsome volumes in a single slipcase.
Extensive bibliography.
Many photographs of Fritz Leiber, both in black & white and
color.
Slipcase, ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full color wraparound
dustjacket art by Tom Kidd.
PRICING
Cloth: $275, signed in slipcase (on sale from $295). This item will
ship around June 15.
Cloth: $285 with a copy of Pan's Labyrinth Studies in the Horror Film.
Shipping around June 15.
Cloth: $425 with an unsigned copy of Fred Chappell Masters of the
Weird Tale. Shipping around June 15.
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Classicon
Saturday, June 18,
2016
10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
Classicon is one of the first pulp/paperback
shows ever established.
There are 35 tables and thousands of collectable old pulp
magazines, digests, and paperbacks, comic books, posters, pin-up
art, and more available for sale or trade.
University Quality Inn (map)
3121 E. Grand River Ave.
Lansing, Michigan
(Just north of Frandor Shopping Center)
Saturday, June 18, 2016
10:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
$3.00 admission
$25.00 for a dealer table
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The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith
Volume 3: A Vintage from Atlantis - Now
available!
Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors
to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and
shape “weird fiction” in the early twentieth century, alongside
contemporaries H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, drawing upon his
background in poetry to convey an unparalleled richness of imagination
and expression in his stories of the bizarre and fantastical.
The Collected Fantasies series presents all of Smith’s fiction chronologically.
Authorized by the author’s estate and endorsed by Arkham House,
the stories in this series are accompanied by detailed background
notes from editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger, who in preparation
for this collection meticulously compared original manuscripts, various
typescripts, published editions, and Smith’s own notes and letters.
Their efforts have resulted in the most definitive and complete collection
of the author’s work to date.
A Vintage from Atlantis is the third of five volumes collecting all
of Clark Ashton Smith’s tales of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.
It includes all of his stories from “The Holiness of Azédarac”
(1931) to “The God of the Asteroid” (1932), as well as an introduction
by Michael Dirda.
Series: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.9 x 8.9 inches
List Price: $17.99
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THE COMPLETE FICTION OF H. P. LOVECRAFT
- Coming July 1!
THE COMPLETE FICTION OF H. P. LOVECRAFT collects the author's
novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between
the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark
fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific
and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some
of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore,
F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this
volume areThe Case of Charles Dexter Ward, "The Call of Cthulhu," "The
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The
Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Color Out of Space," "The Dunwich Horror,"
and many more hair-raising tales.
Hardcover: 1112 pages
Publisher: Chartwell Books
List Price: $14.99
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Davy Crockett's Almanak
of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!
DEATH by ELECTION
Poster Gallery: GENE AUTRY
Overlooked Films: "A Dime a Dance," from a BLACK MASK story
by Cornell Woolrich (1995)
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The
Digest Enthusiast Blog
- Now online!
The Digest Enthusiast #4 is here! - New!
Paperback Parade #93
Jerome Bixby & Joe E. Dean: Beyond Fantasy Fiction
Pulp Literature #10 Spring 2016
A “Christmas Present” from the Mysterious Traveler
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The
Digest Enthusiast #4
Now
available!
The
fourth spectacular edition of The Digest Enthusiast is now available in
print and Kindle from Amazon.
Contents:
Interviews:
Art Taylor: Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
• An insightful conversation with the award-winning
author and frequent contributor to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine,
Art Taylor.
Editors of the new generation of digital digests:
Alec Cizak, Pulp Modern
Jennifer Landels, Pulp Literature
John Kenyon, Grift
Kristen Valentine, Betty Fedora
Sheri White, Morpheus Tales
• The editors share their thoughts on the new
generation of digital digests.
Articles:
Suspense Magazine and Novels by Richard Krauss
• A close-up view of Suspense Magazine and
its Suspense Novel series, along with the associated radio, TV and
comic book series.
Galaxy Science Fiction Novels by Steve Carper
• Steve Carper’s comprehensive overview of the
digest-sized Galaxy Novel series.
Galaxy Magabooks by Gary Lovisi
• Gary Lovisi’s companion piece (to Galaxy
Novels): Galaxy Magabooks.
Criswell Predicts: Fate & Spaceway by Tom Brinkmann
• Tom Brinkmann’s exposé on The Amazing
Criswell’s prognostications for Fate Magazine and Spaceway science
fiction.
Shock Mystery Tales by Peter Enfantino
• Peter Enfantino dissects Shock Mystery Tales—the
shudder pulps inbred man-child.
Pocket Pin-ups trading cards
• An unfettered peek into the Pocket Pin-Ups
trading card set by Max Allan Collins.
Reviews:
H.G. Wells Society Newsletter #30
Bulldog Drummond by Snapper
Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines by Michael L. Cook
Fiction:
"A Rat Must Chew" by Gary Lovisi
"The Hideout" by Ron Fortier
"Strangers in Need" by Joe Wehrle, Jr.
"Wounded Wizard" by John Kuharik
Artwork and Cartoons:
Sean Azzopardi
Rob Davis
Brad Foster
Michael Neno
Bob Vojtko
Also includes:
Editor's Notes
Digest indexes (Suspense Magazine)
Social media round-up
Opening Lines
Print
version, $8.99, includes nearly 100 B&W cover images, 152 pages,
5.5" x 8.5" digest.
Kindle version, $2.99, includes
over 50 color cover images.
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Doc Con 2016
November 4, 5 & 6, 2016
Doc Con will be
held November 4, 5 & 6, 2016.
Request that vacation time...mark those calendars and let everyone
know you will be in Phoenix the first weekend of November.
Special plans are still being made to make this the best
Doc Con ever!
So stay tuned for more details to follow as soon as we can
announce them.
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Doc Savage Feature Film
- Dwayne Johnson confirms role
in the film!
Dwayne Johnson confirmed on Instagram that he will play the title
character in director Shane Black's upcoming "Doc Savage" film.
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Standard Edition: (Ships July 15, 2016)
Bound in midnight blue Cialux Italian book cloth with the
spine and front cover decorations stamped in gilt.
Color wraparound dust jacket, 675+ pages; 7”x10”; 600+ total images
- 500+ in color on glossy stock
$100.00 PREORDER 10% Discount $90.00 + $14 Flat Rate shipping via
Fed Ex
The Deluxe Edition: (Ships July 15, 2016)
Bound in genuine red leather with a hub spine and limited
to 375 signed and numbered copies with the spine and front cover
decorations stamped in gilt.
700+ pages; 7”x10”; 600+ images - 500+ in color on glossy stock
$150.00 PREORDER 10% off $135.00 + $14 Flat Rate Shipping
via Fed Ex
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Comics
All New Comic Strips created exclusively
for ERB, Inc.
You
can subscribe for only $1.99 / month
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
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Comics
Featuring art from your favorite ERB comic strips!
Now available!
The Land that
Time Forgot Comic Tee
The Mucker Comic Tee
The War Chief Comic Tee
Carson of Venus Comic Tee
Pellucidar Comic Tee
John Carter Comic Tee
Eternal Savage Comic Tee
Korak the Killer Comic Logo Tee
Tarzan Comic Tee
Cave Girl Comic Tee
Tarzan of the Apes Comic Tee
Mens and Womens sizes
Small, Medium, Large, X-Large, XXL (+$2),
XXXL (+$2)
$ 24.99 each
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan Mosaic unveiling at the Tarzana Community & Cultural Center
Thomas Yeates’ well known image,
TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION, has been created in mosaic form [5′
diameter]
and installed in the plaza of the Tarzana Community & Cultural
Center.
The artist, Thomas
Yeates, is a long-time favorite of all TARZAN fans.
TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION is a modern version
of the logo done by Roy G. Krenkel from 1966
that was originally modeled after the P. J. Monahan oil painting used
on the front cover of Argosy Weekly Magazine Dec. 9 1922.
The mosaic itself was done by Vita Nova
Luxury Mosaics located in Pacoima, California – 818-897-2432.
Gali Rotstein was the mosaic artist – her
detail and vision is wonderful and a faithful rendering of the
Yeates art.
Heidi L. Huber really moved it along with
her energy and enthusiasm for the project.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
TARZAN
MYTH & MYSTERY AT BRAZOS VALLEY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
JUNE 16 - OCTOBER 29, 2016
The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History proudly announces
the premiere of its upcoming exhibition, TARZAN: Myth & Mystery,on
display from June 16-Oct 29, 2016. This exhibition will open on Thursday,
June 16th, at 6 pm, with a free public lecture by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Bibliophile Jim Goodwin, followed by a wine & hors d’oeuvres reception
& gallery viewing.
A reader and collector of Edgar Rice Burroughs for over 55 years,
Goodwin will discuss the story behind Burroughs’ Tarzan tales, interesting
Burroughs background and Tarzan trivia, and other fascinating anecdotes
about Burroughs’ writing. A native Texan and a graduate of Stephen
F. Austin University, Goodwin worked in the communications industry
for 37 years. He is the co-founder of the Texas chapter of the Burroughs
Bibliophiles, the “Hell’s Benders.” The name “Hell’s Benders” originated
from Burroughs’ Western fiction novel, The Bandit of Hell’s Bend,
featuring a character named Tex. Mr. Goodwin currently resides in
Iowa Park, Texas with his wife, Rita, of 43 years and is blessed with
two daughters and 4 grandchildren.
Jim Goodwin
This exclusive exhibit showcases items from an extensive collection
of Tarzan and Edgar Rice Burroughs memorabilia. Early publications,
beautiful original artwork, rare books, and rarely seen film posters
will be shown alongside stunning taxidermy animals from central Africa.
Through this colorful and exciting exhibit, visitors can explore the
natural settings of the Tarzan books, the life of author Edgar Rice
Burroughs, the bold world of pulp art, Tarzan’s international appeal,
and other related topics.
The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History is committed to promoting
science, and cultural and natural history with the integration
of art in exhibits and educational programs. This exhibit was made
possible in part through Hotel Tax Revenue funded from the City of
College Station through the Arts Council of Brazos Valley. The Museum
partnered with Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., private collectors, Cushing
Memorial Library and Archives, and the Anthropology Department at Texas
A&M University to produce this outstanding display.
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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
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Now online!
New on Famous (and forgotten)
Fiction!
May 2016
We have revamped Valentine Follows a Curious Trail (The Blue Cross) by G.
K. Chesterton and fixed some errors from our previous reprinting and
cleaned up the illustrations by George Gibbs.
This story now serves as the beginning of our reprinting of the
original Father Brown stories as they appeared in the Post, complete
with the original illustrations.
Introductions to all are by Dan Neyer. Best place to start
is on our introductory page, The Innocence of Father Brown.
April 2016
A dictator meets his comeuppance in Kirby Draycott's The Clock Face of Schaumburg which,
as explained in in the introduction, bears some resemblance to a story
by a certain Mr. Poe. All the original illustrations are included,
just as they appeared in the November, 1898 issue
of The Royal Magazine. Introduction is by Bob Gay.
March 2016
A tale of romance and espionage by Baroness
Orczy, Number 187, as it appeared in the January, 1899 issue
of Pearson's Magazine, including the illustrations by Ernest
Prater. Introduction by Dan Neyer.
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.
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.
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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!
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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
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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.
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
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Back
issues - Still available!
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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 The 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
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#13 May 1935
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#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
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#17
September 1936
#18 October 1936
#19 November 1936
#20 December 1936
#21 January 1937
#22 February
1937
#23 March 1937
#26 June 1937
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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
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#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
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#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
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Girasol Collectables
Pulp Cover Gallery Edition Volume 5
The
Spider, G-8 and His Battle Aces, and Operator #5
Now available!
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!
$140 including shipping &
handling* (*within North America, for overseas
orders add $25.)
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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
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Now available
for pre-order!
Production
Update from Haffner Press!
Quite far along, this volume sees all proofreading complete except
for the long-awaited introduction.
This cover image is still a work-in-progress and Raymond Swanland
once again demonstrates that he is the master of heroic
and kinetic action.
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
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Haffner Press
LEIGH BRACKETT CENTENNIAL
Now available for pre-order!
Production Update from Haffner
Press!
Proofreading
is also complete on this title as well. We are still waiting for clearances
and permissions on a several texts and images that we
feel MUST be a part of this book.
And remember, there's a NEW AND UNPUBLISHED Brackett-tale in here!
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
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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!
As recounted
previously, this book was actually printed in December 2015, but the
binding job was so poor (we can show you in Chicago) that we
rejected the run and the printer refused to correct the situation.
We are updating the book to a 2016 release and plan
to send it and DEATH IN THE DARK to a different printer at
the same time.
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
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Haffner Press
Proofreading is complete and Fredric
Brown bibliographer Jack Seabrook is hard at work on his
introduction. We still need to secure a few logos for
the decorated endsheets. We want a different cover for this book.
The Saunders piece here is fine, but it doesn't match any
of the contents. Once all materials are complete, we'll send this
to the printer alongside MURDER DRAWS A CROWD.
“. . . 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
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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
Production Update from Haffner
Press!
The artwork
is in hand, along with the introduction and foreword. Proofreading is also
complete, so this will likely be the next title to go to the printer!
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.
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Haffner Press
The Complete Ivy Frost
by Donald Wandrei
Cover Art by Raymond Swanland
Now available for pre-order!
Production
Update from Haffner Press!
Currently going through another
round of proofreading, we have the cover art on hand (Raymond
Swanland rocks it again!) and we await the introduction.
The cover titles will be redone in a bronze/copper hue, and a
lot of work remains on cleaning up all the covers of Clues Detective
Stories that decorate the endsheets as well as designing eighteen
double-page chapterheads.
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
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Production
Update from Haffner Press!
This magnificent tome has been
proofread twice and Ed Gorman's wonderful introduction has
been delivered.
In Hollywood terms, we put this "in turnaround" while we seek
a cover design that reflects the atmosphere of late-1950s
San Francisco.
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.
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Haffner Press
The Six Sleepers, The Collected
Edmond Hamilton, Volume Five
Now available for pre-order!
Production
Update from Haffner Press!
Bob Madle's fantastic intro is done
and the manuscript has been proofread. Additional work is
needed cleaning up the graphics for the appendix.
Following on from THE REIGN OF THE ROBOTS, THE COLLECTED
EDMOND HAMILTON, VOLUME FOUR, THE SIX SLEEPERS, THE COLLECTED
EDMOND HAMILTON, VOLUME FIVE brings you more of the World
Wreckers vintage works.
Here, Hamilton really put his Remington’s to the task with more
stories for WEIRD TALES as well as some of his best work
(which is to say some of the best work ever to appear
in) for WONDER STORIES. Depending on the length of ephemera
in the appendix, this volume may also see Hamilton crack the
Tremaine-era of ASTOUNDING STORIES.
As with previous volumes in this series, an appendix showcasing
the original pulp magazine illustrations also bulks large
with obscura including reader’s letters from the vintage
magazines commenting on these stories, along with editorial
correspondence between Hamilton and his editors.
Introduction by Robert A. Madle
Cover Art by Margaret Brundage
Illustrated by C.C. Senf, Frank R. Paul, H.W. "Wesso"
Wessolowski, Hugh Rankin, Joseph Doolin, Virgil
Finlay
600+ page Hardcover
$40.00
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Haffner Press
Hollywood on the Moon / Man About Time: The Pete Manx Adventures
Arthur K. Barnes & Henry Kuttner
Now available for pre-order!
Production
Update from Haffner Press!
We had an introduction lined up for
this from a noted SF comic, but it appears to have evaporated.
The book also needs different cover art.
This Bergey image from Startling Stories, while awesome, doesn't
match the time-frame of these stories. We'll have
more news later this year.
Prior to his marriage
to fellow science-fantasy writer Catherine L. Moore in 1940, Henry Kuttner
wrote stories of Lovecraftian horror, weird-menace “shudder” tales, and thrilling
adventure stories. But he also wrote blood-n-thunder Space Opera
stories in the vein of Edmond Hamilton (one of young Kuttner’s
favorite authors) told with a rough-edge style similar
to Kuttner’s protege Leigh Brackett.
Arthur K. Barnes, an early friend of Kuttner, published his
first story “Lord of the Lightning” for Wonder Stories
in December 1931. His “Interplanetary Hunter” series featuring
Miss Gerry Carlyle of the London Interplanetary Zoo was
originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories.
Together, Kuttner & Barnes collaborated (and in some cases,
wrote independently) on two series of science fiction
adventures for Thrilling Wonder Stories. The first, the
“Hollywood on the Moon” series, featured ace cameraman Tony
Quade of Nine Planets Films, Inc. and his crew skipping
around the solar system (even teaming up with Gerry Carlyle
a few times!) humorously encountering all manner of weird alien
life.
The second series, dealt with the hilarious temporal romps
of carnival barker, conman, and small-time crook Pete Manx.
Pete is always on the run from some debt collector,
or running to his lastest scam for an easy buck. Inevitably,
Manx always ends up in the laboratory of Dr. Mayhem, whose
unreliable time machine launches Pete into the past where
he finds himself in hotter water than before.
This volume collects all the SF collaborations of these two
punsters and features the interior illustrations of the original
magazines.
Introduction by Ron Goulart
Cover Art by Earle K. Bergey
600+ pp. Hardcover
$40.00
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Hard Case Crime
Coming soon!
July 2016
SOHO SINS by Richard Vine
Cover art by Robert Maguire
They were the New York art scene’s golden
couple—until the day Amanda Oliver was found murdered
in her SoHo loft, and her husband Philip confessed to shooting
her. But was he a continent away when the trigger was
pulled? Art dealer Jackson Wyeth sets out to learn the truth,
and uncovers the dangerous secrets lurking beneath the
surface of ManhattanÕs posh galleries and decadent parties,
a world of adultery and madness, of beautiful girls growing
up too fast and men making fortunes and losing their minds.
But even the worst the art world can imagine will seem tame
when the final shattering sin is revealed...
This stunning debut novel from an editor of one
of world’s leading fine art publications offers
an insider’s tour of the New York and international
art worlds, and a searing, unforgettable visit to the
darkest chambers of the human heart.
- First publication ever!
- An extraordinary first novel by an art world
insider
- Cover features a lost work by legendary painter
Robert Maguire
Hardcover, 352 pages, $22.99
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James Bond - New actor signed
for the role?
Since the news of Daniel Craigs departure from the 007 franchise,
rumours have run rampant as to who will replace him on the next
film, Throne of Spies.
Idris Elba, Tom Hardy and Tom Hiddleston have been among the primary
candidates cited in the rumors.
31 year old English actor Theo James, known primarily from the Divergent
trilogy, has reportedly been announced to be the new James Bond.
The first film starring the actor will be released in Febuary 2017
and three consecutive Bond flicks are reportedly outlined in his
contract.
There has been no "official" confirmation yet from the Bond
camp.
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Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!
ROUGH ON RATS
Joe Stone disappeared leaving his partner, Arthur Smith, with
an I O U for $38,000 and a fit to temper.
Smith hired Anthony Martin to find Stone, and, with difficulty,
Anthony found him.
And there, instead of ending, the case begins.
Some of the characters:
ANTHONY MARTIN-a private investigator with a file of unpaid bills,
a vulnerable but well-cushioned conscience, and a profitable proposition.
JERRY JONES-a girl who really belongs with the cows and chickens
but can usually be found in slacks, or less, at various bars around
town.
ARTHUR SMITH-a rotund, pig-eyed little man, who wants help and plenty
of it, but not from the police.
PAT TEMPLE-a beautiful girl with beautiful clothes in a beautiful
apartment-but where did she get all that beautiful money?
VINCENT KOALER-a helpful hotel clerk with a bald head and a penchant
for gambling of all sorts.
JOE STONE-an elusive gentleman in a business that caters to some of
the less happy characteristics of mankind.
PHIL ARKIN-an intelligent cop, with an education and personality,
whoe imminent retirement will be a great loss to the Vice Squad.
MICK-amiable and loyal, owner and bartender of "The Lucky Spot"-hangout
of B-girls, butter-and-egg men, and an assortment of questionable
characters.
Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 260 pages
$14.95
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KING'S QUEST #2
- Arriving in comic shops June 8!
Ben Acker, Heath Corson (Writers); Dan McDaid (Art);
Mark Laming, Jonathan Lau (Covers)
Bazillions of light years from Earth, our heroes split up! Mandrake
the Magician and Prince Valiant face a barren planet
of undead soldiers, as Flash Gordon, The Phantoms, and Jungle
Jim plunge into the heart of Mongo to save damsel-in-distress
Dale Arden! …Or, at least they think that’s what they’re doing!
Full Color, 32 pages,
$3.99
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Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!
Captain America: Cival War movie review
Gang Busters: Old Time Radio Crime Fighters
Collectors Item: The Shadow's Ring
The Lost 1933 Lone Ranger Radio Episodes
Three things you did not know about the Lone Ranger
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The Robert E. Howard Newsline
Now online!
Bringing you the
latest news in Robert E. Howard books, pulp reprints, comics, audio,
conventions, games, and whatever else seems applicable.
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September
15-17, 2016!
COME
MEET HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES
GET THEIR AUTOGRAPH!
HAVE YOUR PICTURE TAKEN WITH THEM!
ROBERT FULLER
KEIR DULLEA
GARY LOCKWOOD
LUCIANA PALUZZI
DEBRA PAGET
THE AMAZING KESKIN
JIM ROSIN
MARK REDFIELD
CAROL FORD
JOE MARTELLE
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KENT McCORD
DABNEY COLEMAN
KATHY GARVER
BERNIE KOPELL
JOHN AMOS
BRITT EKLAND
GERI REISCHL
RUSTY GILLIGAN
EDDIE DEEZEN
JEREMY AMBLER |
EVENTS
So much goes on during the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia
Convention that we suggest you look over the schedules and map out what seminars and movies you want
to see during the weekend.
ADMISSION
Cost is $20 per person, per day. Children under the age
of 16 are free.
You can pay for admission at the front gate when you attend
the convention.
Admission gives you access to everything during the weekend.
EVERYONE WHO ATTENDS GETS A FREE 56-PAGE PROGRAM GUIDE!
Purchasing tickets in advance will save you money. Tickets
are $15 per person, per day. If you pay for admission at the door,
the cost is $20 per person, per day.
The purchase of a Saturday Evening Dinner Banquet Ticket includes
free admission for Saturday. If you plan to attend the entire
weekend and the dinner banuqet, buy a two-day ticket for
every dinner banquet ticket you buy.
VENDORS AND DEALER
ROOM HOURS
Thursday, 10 am to 9 pm
Friday, 10 am to 9 pm
Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm
HOTEL
The Convention is held at Hunt Valley Wyndham in Maryland.
The Hotel is located at 245 Shawan Road, Hunt Valley, Maryland,
21031
Hotel phone number: 410-785-7000
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS BOOKING A ROOM, ASK FOR SHARON.
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Mystery*File - Now online!
Book Announcement: JONATHAN LEWIS – Ancient Egyptian Supernatural
Tales
A
Magazine Review by David Vineyard: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE
– September 1931
A Movie Review
by Walter Albert: KING OF THE JUNGLE (1933)
JONATHAN
LEWIS: Stories I’m Reading — H. P. LOVECRAFT “The Terrible
Old Man”
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Off-Trail Publications
- Now
available!
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.
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PANACEA: A Novel -
Coming July 5!
by F. Paul Wilson
Two secret societies vie for control of the ultimate
medical miracle--Panacea--in the latest novel by New York
Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson.
Medical examiner Laura Hanning has two charred corpses
and no answers. Both bear a mysterious tattoo but
exhibit no known cause of death. Their only connection
to one another is a string of puzzling miracle cures.
Her preliminary investigation points to a cult in the possession
of the fabled panacea--the substance that can cure all
ills--but that's impossible.
Laura finds herself unknowingly enmeshed in an ancient
conflict between the secretive keepers of the
panacea and the equally secretive and far more deadly
group known only as 536, a brotherhood that fervently
believes God intended for humanity to suffer, not be
cured. Laura doesn't believe in the panacea, but that doesn't
prevent the agents of 536 from trying to kill her.
A reclusive, terminally ill billionaire hires Laura
to research the possibility of the panacea. The billionaire's
own body guard, Rick Hayden, a mercenary who isn't
who he pretends to be, has to keep her alive as they
race to find the legendary panacea before the agents of
536 can destroy it.
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
List Price: $25.99
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PAPERBACK PARADE #93 - Now
available!
PAPERBACK PARADE #93 is just out!
The latest issue of my FULL COLOR rare and vintage paperback collectors
magazine is chock full of great covers and articles.
In this issue we look at:
The James Bond UK Pan paperbacks
Rare and unusual film and TV tie-in paperbacks
Favorite paperback covers by a fan
Then we cosy up with Kozy Books, a great series of 1960s US gga sleaze
Philip Wylie faces death
A look at the crime gga sf Venus Prime series
News, ads, letters and much more.
Back issues also available while they last!
ORDERING INFORMATION: We accept VISA, Mastercard,
US checks drawn on a US bank, (in USD only) or Paypal to
our email address at “gryphonbooks@att.net”
You can also purchase Paperback Parade at our ebay store at the
link below.
Please contact me with any questions or write to our address:
GRYPHON BOOKS, PO Box 280209, Brooklyn,
NY 11228-0209, USA
Paperback Parade single issue is $15.00 + postage. Query on back
issues AND ON AD RATES.
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Paperback Perils
- Now online!
Blood of Ancient Opar (Christopher Paul Carey, Meteor House
2016) - New!
Doc Ardan: The City of Gold and Lepers (Guy D'Armen, 1928/Jean-Marc
& Randy Lofficier, 2004)
The Warlord of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914)
The Gods of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1913)
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Perils on Planet X
Perils on Planet X #1, #2, and #3
by Christopher Mills and Gene Gonzales
Now available!
Standard Comic, Full Color,
32 pages
Print: $4.99 for each issue
Download: $0.99 for each issue
They are only available by
mail order from IndyPlanet.
This is is the best way to support us and the book,
as the profits go directly to Chris and Gene.
Each issue is 32 full-color pages, printed on high-quality,
heavy paper stock.
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A vast, unexplored, alien world
of natural and scientific wonders. Jungles, deserts and
arctic wastes teeming with bizarre and savage beasts,
fantastic monsters that defy evolution or
reason. A dazzling variety of warlike peoples, whom,
despite obvious technological advances, still swear,
live and die by the sword.
Then, there’s the princess, of course.
The most beautiful woman of at least two worlds,
stunning, sensual and immediately desirable. Strong
of will and of unquestionable moral fiber, she is
not only worth fighting and dying for, but worth
defying a world for, just to receive a kind word or shy
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Planetary Stories #36 - Now online!
Planetary Stories #36
CAUTION by Charles Stoddard
The ship's instruments suggested the materials constructing the
city's buildings were completely alien
XENOGRAFT - Written and illustrated by George Karagiannis
Bad news. There's an ice worm infestation in the cryotubes.
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN by William Quincy Belle
An unexpected correction of a mishap.
INTERFERON by Martyn Osmundsen
A political look at universal expansion
R.O.A.C. by Martian Edwards
The Royal Office for Accelerated Claims was another example of convoluted
red tape.
SALT by Gerd Maximovic
Who would have thought a planet of salt could present such hazards?
THE GREATEST DISCOVERY by Gerd Maximovic
It works! I used it myself!
Pulp Spirit #25
MARTIAN HONEY by Pierre Comtois
Martian honey was sweet, but finding it could be murder!
QUEEN OF THE RIVER by James J Griffin
She yearned for money, but Death got in her way!
LOST MERMAID by Kevin Breen
Being a captive wasn't going to stop her!
THE LOCKED ROOM MURDER CASE by Richard Logan
Another exciting Gumshoe 2040
SHRINK RAP by Craig Faustus Buck
There was a gun in his drawer, and it was loaded.
WHERE IS HELEN? by Gerd Maximovic
BEING immortal was one thing; STAYING immortal was another matter.
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PS Publishing
BLACK WINGS V
Now available for pre-order!
Shipping in May!
This fifth instalment of S. T. Joshi’s critically
acclaimed Black Wings series features twenty stories that
use H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos as the basis for imaginative ventures
into the weird and terrifying. One of the central themes in
Lovecraft’s work is the problematical nature of science in human
affairs, and in this volume we find stories by Caitlín R.
Kiernan, Lynne Jamneck, and Donald R. Burleson where scientists
come face to face with the appalling implications of their
discoveries.
Lovecraft was a master of the “sense of place,” inventing
imaginary towns in New England with a rich and sinister
history stretching back centuries. In this book, Jonathan
Thomas, W. H. Pugmire, and Sunni K Brock bring Lovecraft’s
towns of Arkham, Kingsport, and Innsmouth to life. Sam Gafford,
Darrell Schweitzer, and Stephen Woodworth evoke terror in other
corners of the American continent, while British writers David Hambling
and John Reppion find Lovecraftian horror in little-known towns in
England. The world-building that led Lovecraft to fashion an entire
universe set in the realm of dreams is duplicated in tales by Cody
Goodfellow, Mark Howard Jones, and Donald Tyson.
Madness is always an occupational hazard of the “searchers
after horror” who populate Lovecraft’s tales. In this
volume, stories by Robert H. Waugh, Nicole Cushing, and
Nancy Kilpatrick searingly display the psychological aberrations
of characters as they encounter the bizarre. Lovecraft himself
has become an iconic character, and his gaunt, lantern-jawed
figure stalks the tales by Jason C. Eckhardt and Mollie L.
Burleson. This volume concludes, as did its predecessor, with
a long poem by Wade German, one of the most dynamic figures
in a remarkable renaissance of weird poetry inspired by the work
of Lovecraft and his colleagues.
Black Wings V can take its place as a pioneering anthology
that shows how the work of H. P. Lovecraft is inexhaustibly
rich in the inspiration it can provide to contemporary writers
of weird fiction.
AN ANTHOLOGY edited by S. T. Joshi
CATEGORY Lovecraft inspired Horror
PUBLICATION DATE May 2015
COVER ART Jason Van Hollander
PAGES 317
INTRODUCTION S. T. Joshi
EDITIONS
Unsigned Jacketed Hardcover — ISBN 978-1-848639-94-2
[£25]
300 Slipcased HC signed by the contributors — ISBN 978-1-848639-95-9
[£50]
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Thursday,
July 21 through Sunday, July 24, 2016
Are you thinking about attending
PulpFest 2016? You’re probably wondering what to expect
from this year’s convention. PulpFest is known for
its great programming and the line-up that we’re planning
for our 2016 convention is shaping up to be one of our
best.
We’ll be saluting a wide range of anniversaries at this summer’s
pulp con: the tenth anniversary of Sanctum Books; the
eightieth anniversary of THE WHISPERER and THE SKIPPER;
the ninetieth anniversary of AMAZING STORIES, the first
science-fiction pulp; the hundredth anniversary of the specialty
pulp; and the 120th anniversary of THE ARGOSY, the original
pulp magazine!
The Guest of Honor for PulpFest
2016 will be author, editor, musician, and science-fiction
and pulp fan Ted White.
Born February 4, 1938, Theodore Edwin White is a Hugo
Award-winning American writer, best known as a science-fiction
author and editor and as a fan and music critic.
In addition to books and stories written under his own
name, he has also co-authored novels with Dave van Arnam as
Ron Archer, and with Terry Carr as Norman Edwards.
Since the time he was a teenager, White has been a prolific
contributor to science-fiction fanzines, and in 1968
he won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Despite his
considerable professional credits, White maintains that
his achievements in fandom mean more to him than anything
else he has done. In 1953, he edited and published ZIP,
the first of his many fanzines. In 1956–57, he co-edited STELLAR
with Larry Stark; followed by VOID in 1960, joining founding
editors Gregory and James Benford; plus MINAC, EGOBOO, and
others. He was also a regular columnist for YANDRO and Richard E.
Geis’ PSYCHOTIC/SF REVIEW and has been active in numerous fan
events, including the organizing of the 1967 World Science Fiction
Convention in New York City as co-chairman. He still remains active
on several fandom- and fanzine-oriented electronic mailing lists.
In 1959, at the age of 21, White moved from Baltimore
to New York City with his first wife, Sylvia Dees White.
That year, he began writing music criticism for METRONOME
and a column for Tom Wilson’s JAZZ GUIDE (later 33 GUIDE).
As a music critic, he expanded into jazz writing and journalism
for ROGUE, along with record liner notes, concert reviews and
interviews. He was the only person to record an interview with
Eric Dolphy, the American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist,
and bass clarinetist. From 1977 through 1979 as Dr. Progresso,
he did the Friday afternoon DR. PROGRESSO radio show on WGTB-FM.
Following the advent of the Internet, White became the music
editor of the Collecting Channel website in 1999, and he continues
to maintain his own website of music commentary under his
Dr. Progresso pseudonym.
White’s first professional sale as a writer was
a short vignette sold to PLAYBOY in 1959. Two stories
released on the same day — “Phoenix,” written by Ted
White and revised by Marion Zimmer Bradley for the February
1963 AMAZING STORIES and “I, Executioner,” co-authored by Terry
Carr for the March 1963 IF (WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION) — have
been cited by our guest as his first-published stories. The
author later expanded “Phoenix” into the novel PHOENIX PRIME, originally
published in 1966 by Lancer Books. It was the first of the
QANAR series — continuing with THE SORCERESS OF QAR (1966) and STAR
WOLF (1971) — all published by Lancer. “I Executioner” became the
opening chapter of his Ace book, ANDROID AVENGER.
Captain AmericaTed’s first novel — INVASION FROM 2500 —
was written in collaboration with Terry Carr under the
pseudonym Norman Edwards. It was published in 1964. Through
1978 he wrote two science-fiction series and eleven stand-alone
novels, including one Captain America novel — THE GREAT
GOLD STEAL. It was published by Bantam Books and featured
a nod to its pulp forebears: one of the bad guys is named Andrew
“Monk” Mayfair. Two of White’s novels were written in collaboration
with Dave van Arnam, one with David Bischoff and one — using
White’s Doc Phoenix character — with Marv Wolfman. Ted White was
a 1966 Nebula-Award nominee for his short story, “The Peacock
King,” written with Larry McCombs. He was also instrumental in
kick-starting the professional careers of other writers, notably
Lee Hoffman. Still writing at nearly seventy-eight years of age,
White has had a number of short stories published in recent years.
“The Uncertain Past” appeared in the March & April 2014 number
of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION while”The Philistine”
can be found in the October 2015 issue of ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION
AND FACT.
Our Guest of Honor’s editorial career began as an assistant
and associate editor at THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND
SCIENCE FICTION from 1963 to 1968. He also served as an associate
editor at Lancer Books, working under Larry Shaw.
From October 1968 until October 1978, Ted White edited AMAZING
STORIES and FANTASTIC, upgrading the quality of both magazine’s
fiction while showcasing a variety of talented illustrators.
According to author, anthologist, and science-fiction and popular-culture
historian, Mike Ashley, White ushered “AMAZING into a silver,
if not a golden, age.” He also edited two 1973 anthologies,
THE BEST FROM AMAZING STORIES and THE BEST FROM FANTASTIC.
Both were published by Manor Books.
Ted White’s reputation as an editor impressed the publishers
of HEAVY METAL who hired him in 1979 to introduce
non-fiction into the magazine. White immediately hired four
columnists — Jay Kinney, Lou Stathis, Steve Brown and
Bhob Stewart — to cover, respectively, underground comics,
music, science fiction, and movies. HEAVY METAL continued
to feature mainly graphic stories during White’s tenure as the
new editor wove the text into the graphic art, rather than segregating
it into a separate section. In 1984-85, Ted White served
as Editorial Director for STARDATE, a multi-media science-fiction
magazine edited by David Bischoff.
Ted became a pulp collector as a teenager. He owns most
of the science-fiction pulps from the 1940s and many
from the twenties and thirties. Among his holdings are complete
runs of SCIENCE WONDER STORIES and AIR WONDER STORIES, both
issues of MIRACLE SCIENCE AND FANTASY STORIES, all the Futurian-edited
magazines, the complete run of CAPTAIN FUTURE, and many
other titles. His library of pulp and science-fiction digests
is complete from 1951 through the nineties. He also owns many
single-character pulps, including all but one issue of DOC SAVAGE
MAGAZINE and a couple dozen issues of THE SHADOW. He also has
many issues of THE AVENGER, CAPTAIN ZERO, THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE,
THE WHISPERER, and other hero pulps in his collection.
White also plays keyboards and saxophone. He currently
performs with the Washington, DC area improvisational
group Conduit. Although we’d love to have him play, Ted will
be speaking to PulpFest attendees during our evening
programming about his career, fandom, pulps, science
fiction, and AMAZING STORIES. His Guest of Honor speech
will take place on Friday, July 22nd in the PulpFest programming
room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus. We hope to see you at
the convention.
To give you an idea about what you’ll encounter from
July 21st through July 24th at the Hyatt Regency and the
city’s spacious convention center in the Columbus, Ohio
Arena district, below is the proposed scheduled for PulpFest
2016. We hope to see you at the convention.
Thursday, July 21st
Dealers’ Room
4:00 PM – 11:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Set-Up
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM — Early Registration
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Opens for Early-Bird
Shopping
Programming
9:10 – 9:55 PM — Street & Smith’s
Second Stringers — The Whisperer and The Skipper (Will
Murray)
10:05 – 10:50 PM — Traveling through Time with H. G.
Wells (Garyn Roberts)
11:00 PM — Pulps in the Pub (join your friends in the
hotel bar and talk pulp)
Friday, July 22nd
Dealers’ Room
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM — Early Registration and
Dealers’ Room Set-Up
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All
Programming
1:00 – 4:15 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to
be announced)
6:55 – 7:00 PM — Welcome to PulpFest 2016 (Convention
Chairman Jack Cullers)
7:00 – 7:40 PM — FarmerCon XI — Collaborating with Philip
José Farmer (panelists to be announced)
7:50 – 8:35 PM — Our Guest of Honor
(to be announced on January 11th)
8:45 – 9:30 PM — The First Science-Fiction Pulp — An AMAZING
Story (Joseph Coluccio, president of the Pittsburgh
Area Fantasy and Science Fiction Club)
9:40 – 10:20 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp — LOVE
STORY MAGAZINE and its Romantic Sisters (Laurie Powers)
10:30 – 11:15 PM — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp
— WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE and the Pulp Western (Will
Murray)
Saturday, July 23rd
Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All
10:00 AM – 10:00 PM — Gaming Track in the Clark Room,
Second Floor
Programming
1:00 – 1:50 PM — New Fictioneers Readings — (to
be announced)
2:00 – 2:50 PM — The AMAZING World of New Pulp (Ron
Fortier new pulp panel)
3:00 – 3:50 PM — Ten Years in The Shadow’s Sanctum —
Anthony Tollin’s Sanctum Books
5:00 – 6:50 PM — PulpFest 2016 Group Meal at a Dick’s
Last Resort (Volunteer coordinator Sally Cullers)
7:00 – 7:25 PM — PulpFest 2016 Business Meeting (meet
the convention organizers)
7:30 – 7:45 PM — 2016 Munsey Award Presentation (presented
by J. Randolph Cox or Stephen T. Miller)
8:00 – 8:45 PM — 120 Years of THE ARGOSY — The World’s
First Pulp Magazine (Doug Ellis)
8:55 – 9:40 PM — The Artists of THE ARGOSY —
120 Years of Sensational Pulp Artists (David
Saunders)
10:00 PM – ??— Saturday Night at the Auction (John
Gunnison & Joseph Saine)
Sunday, July 24th
Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Open to All
(many dealers will be packing up; buying opportunities
may be limited)
Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
For questions about our programming, please
write to our programming director Mike Chomko at
mike@pulpfest.com.
For questions about our dealers’ room, please write
to our convention chairperson Jack Cullers at
jack@pulpfest.com.
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Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!
New this week
"Reply to Satan" by Ralph Franklin from SECRET AGENT
"X", October, 1937
To save the girl he loved, Detective Doug Weldon challenged killer's
hell-guns with his personal....Reply to Satan
"Up Swiftwater Canon" by George M. Johnson
from ARGOSY WEEKLY, June 5, 1920
A bank courier is murdered and $10,000 payroll stolen. The Sheriff
investigates in a nice contemporary western police procedural.
"Homicide Tally" by H. Q. Masur from TEN
DETECTIVE ACES, December, 1941
From warblers to wicker baskets in one easy hop. That was the setup
Counselor Carew found at the Humming Bird Club. For he arrived
just in time to see a glamor gal canary swing into a dance of death.
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PULPlications!
PULPlications!
Is proud to present its first in a series of New Pulp Heroes for a
New Millennium!
Introducing DARE DEVLIN, the Supreme Adventurer !
A fearless green-eyed red-haired handsome Devil who
fights on the side of the Angels! Scion of fourteen generations
of heroic American pioneers dedicated to physical, intellectual
and moral self-development since 1776, he's achieved "Peak
Human" Condition!
Devlin and his Amazing Associates, all of whom faced certain
Death and lived, now consider themselves to be living on
"borrowed time" and honor-bound to use every remaining
moment seeking justice for all! Where others may be daunted,
they rise to any Challenge, because they all should've died
long ago!
The Supreme Adventurer and his Amazing Associates battle the
Brain-Wrecker, the Destroyer of Minds! Following a trail
of madness and death, they'll travel under the polar ice to
the shores of Japan before coming to grips not only with
the Brain-Wrecker but also an unexpected and even more powerful
foe!
Available now in paperback or
a deluxe hard cover version with an added bonus story, “Mechanized Death!”
For collectors , pre-orders for a special crimson cloth
hard cover edition signed by the author, Dafydd Neal
Dyar as well as the introduction writer, the Eisner Award
nominee Martin Powell and Rondo Award winner, cover artists
Mark Maddox are now open at Fantom Press.
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Pulp Adventurecon
November
5, 2016!
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Pulp Crazy - Now online!
The Master
Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs - New!
Recent
Doc Savage Film Developments
Delenda
Est by Robert E. Howard
Swords
in the Mist (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 3) by Fritz Leiber
Conan Vs
Rune by Barry Windsor-Smith
The Affair
of the Cuckolded Warlock by H. Warner Munn
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Pulp Den - Now online!
Glare of The Gorgon -
New!
Deadly Ties
The Crossroads
The Hatching
Fever City
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Pulp Flakes
- Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines,
authors and their stories, adventure
and detective pulps.
Adventure - Review of May 15, 1933 issue
Tom Curry - Author, Engineer, Sportsman
Some beautiful covers from the Elks magazine by Alex Raymond
Some beautiful covers from the Elks magazine by Edgar F.
Wittmack
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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.
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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/
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Radio Archives
Secret Agent "X" #11 Audiobook
The Sinister Scourge
by Paul Chadwick writing as Brant House
Read by Milton Bagby
Now available!
His true face unknown, his identity forever buried
in a secret government file, Secret Agent “X” came back from the dead
to take on the sinister sadists and evil extortionists who prey on innocent
Americans. A master of disguise who carries a non-lethal gas gun,
“X” the unknown is backed by a cabal of wealthy citizens and is answerable
only to the shadowy K-9 in Washington.
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Unseen, horrible as the tightening coils of some spectral serpent,
the dope ring worked! Those who betrayed its secrets died in the
agonies of the green-hued poison death. Those who served it became
sweating, shattered slaves. And Agent “X” dared both death and slavery
to fight the sinister scourge!
The enigma of enigmas, Secret Agent “X” has been deputized by a high
government official to battle the darkest, most diabolical enemies
of America before they sink their poisonous fangs into the nation’s
healthy core. Faceless and unsung, “X” infiltrates these threats in
a bewildering array of disguises.
Paul Chadwick specialized in telling melodramatic mystery yarns saturated
in an atmosphere of impending doom. The pulp editors called
these menace stories. Eventually, these thrillers evolved into sub-genre
known as weird menace. In Secret Agent “X”, a cloud of diabolical
danger hangs over the heads of every innocent character until
“X”, using his fists, his gas gun, or his loyal operatives, shatters
the threat for all time.
No one knew who Secret Agent “X” really was. Not his readers. Not
his editors. Not even his writer, conceivably. To this day in the
21st Century, his true identity is still a deep mystery. That’s
keeping a secret!
Follow the Man of a Thousand Faces as he confronts the menace of The
Sinister Scourge, ripped from the pages of Secret Agent “X” magazine,
January 1935 and read with chilling intensity by Milton Bagby.
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs
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Radio Archives
Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Operator #5 eBook
#42 The Dawn That Shook the World - November-December 1938
by Curtis Steele
Now available!
Total Pulp Experience. These
exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading
as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every
column of the original pulp magazine. As a special bonus, Will Murray
has written an introduction especially for this series of eBooks.
Jimmy Christopher, clean-cut, square-jawed and clear-eyed, was the
star of the most audacious pulp magazines ever conceived — Operator
#5. Savage would-be conquerors, creepy cults, weird weather-controllers
and famine-creating menaces to our mid-western breadbasket...
these were but a few of the fiendish horrors that Jimmy Christopher
was forced to confront. Operator #5 returns in vintage pulp tales,
reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
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Table of Contents:
Introduction by Will Murray
The Enemy is Here! — Editorial
Thrilling Feature-Length Novel of America’s Undercover Ace
The Dawn That Shook the World by Curtis Steele
Over the entire civilized world had broken the terrible, false dawn
of anarchy and revolution that threatened to consume America in its
fury! But Operator 5 and his volunteer aides saw one desperate chance
to avert disaster. Overseas sailed this valiant little band, on them
resting the final hope of civilization. And there, in his lair, they
found and fought, blow upon blow, the devil dictator who had sworn to
weld the whole world into an evil empire and make an end, for all time,
of freedom, justice and liberty!
Things That Made America Great
The Guns That Swam to Battle by Morton Taney
Only one British fort stood between the Colonial troops and a great
victory — yet that fort was impregnable. In this hour of darkness
for young America’s hopes, a single ray of light gleamed. For one
Yankee, who wouldn’t be licked, had found the way to beat the world’s
greatest army — without firing a single bullet!
The Secret Sentinel — A Department
Secret Sentinel Reports — Our Readers
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality
and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.
All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi
formats for the ultimate in compatibility.
If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want.
If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version
is what you want. $3.99.
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Radio Archives
Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Horror Stories eBook
John H. Knox
Now available!
These exciting pulp adventures
have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook. As a special
bonus, Will Murray has written an introduction especially for this Horror
Stories series of eBooks.
Horror Stories! The dark companion to Dime Mystery Magazine. Created
to showcase stories too horrible for Terror Tales. The third of
the triumvirate of fear pulps. This brand of fiction came to be called
Weird Menace. The mystery-and-menace formula proved so successful
that publisher Popular Publications produced Dime Mystery Magazine,
Terror Tales and Horror Stories. These three dominated the Weird Menace
genre all through the 1930s. Blurbed as “mystery-horror” stories
instead of “mystery-terror,” Horror Stories was formulated differently
that its companion titles. Damn the plot. Pour on the menace! This
ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Horror Stories
magazine, all written by Arthur J. Burks, reissued for today’s readers
in electronic format.
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Table of Contents:
Horror Stories — An Introduction by Will Murray
Men Without Blood — January 1935 issue of Horror Stories by John
H. Knox
Even knives could draw from them no blood. Yet it was blood that
they sought, blood that they sucked from their victim’s headless
corpses!
The Blood Moon — July 1935 issue of Horror Stories by John Knox
The man who had come to help Cicely Blain had to look on, impotent
and horrified, as the ritual fiends prepared to strip the skin from
her quivering body.
When the Blood-God Ruled — November 1935 issue of Horror Stories
by John H. Knox
They called her the Lady of the Night — that savage goddess who exacted
terrible sacrifices from her worshippers. Could Stanley Osborn,
knowing his only hope of escaping agonizing death at her hands,
call on another deity — in whom he would never believe!
The Pain People — February-March 1937 issue of Horror Stories by
John H. Knox
She gloried in the ecstasy of the passion-crazed and moon-blinded
beings whose priestess she was. And she led the man who loved her,
unsuspecting, down the tortuous midnight paths of that hell where
Pain is King!
Dance of the Beast People — December 1940 issue of Horror Stories
by John H. Knox
What was it that turned those simple miners’ wives into savage, snarling
beasts, hungry for the kill? Could it be that in them still flowed
the horror-tainted blood of the Nagualists — that the black sorcery
of a distant past had come again out into the open to ravage and
destroy?
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality
and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.
All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi
formats for the ultimate in compatibility. If you have a Kindle, the
Mobi version is what you want. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android,
or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want. $3.99.
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Ever since Biblo and Tannen placed a banner
across the cover art of TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS
to keep from shocking the public, fans have longed
to see the famous Frazetta image properly displayed
on their copies of the Canaveral Press dust-jacket.
Now, after over 100 hours of research, careful study
of more than 70 different Frazetta watercolors,
and careful production, the Alternate Timeline™
version of TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS is available from
Recoverings.
With coloring approved by Frazetta friend and collector,
and Edgar Rice Burroughs scholar Robert
R. Barrett, this full color dust-jacket presents the
art with the same palette and watercolor techniques that
Frazetta himself might well have used at that
point in his career.
Here is a new way to see and display the final collection
of ERB’s shorter Tarzan stories. This is how
the jacket might have looked if Canaveral had
had the money to do it right.
A limited edition, only 64 of these jackets will
be available.
Each will be individually printed, to order, on an
Epson Stylus Pro 3880, with 8-color UltraChromeK3
archival inks on 47lb. Red River Premium Matte
paper, to closely match the stock of the original.
Each jacket will be numbered and inscribed to the
buyer.
Limited
to 64 copies: $40.00
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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.
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Robert E. Howard Foundation
Join the Robert E. Howard Foundation
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Robert E. Howard
QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST Audiobook
Now available
for pre-order!
At the right is the finished cover art, sans lettering,
for an audio book of the REH classic, QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST
from BonaFide Outlaw Freepress coming out in July.
The list price is $19.95, but the audiobook
can be pre-ordered for $14.95.
To pre-order, click on the link below and then click on the SHOP
NOW button at the top of the page.
Pre-orders will ship July 18.
BonaFide Outlaw Freepress
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Shadow - Under the
Blue Light - Now online!
The Circle of Death - New!
The Black Dragon
The Golden Vulture
The Third Skull
The Devil's Feud
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Skelos Press
SKELOS: THE JOURNAL OF WEIRD FICTION
AND DARK FANTASY
Kickstarter campaign lauches
May 10 and runs through June 10!
First issue to ship in
late June / early July!
Skelos Press is proud to announce the launch of its
new flagship journal with a Kickstarter campaign that will
begin on Tuesday May 10th. The first issue of SKELOS: THE
JOURNAL OF WEIRD FICTION AND DARK FANTASY will feature a never-before-published
fantasy piece by Robert E. Howard (Conan, Kull, Solomon
Kane) illustrated by the legendary Mark Schultz (Xenozoic
Tales, Coming of Conan, Prince Valiant). Also featured
is a new sword and sorcery novelette by Keith Taylor (Bard
series, Cormac Mac Art), a long-awaited sequel to his classic
tale "Men from the Plain of Lir" originally published in WEIRD
TALES. This story will be illustrated by the fantastic Tomás
Giorello (Dark Horse King Conan). Another highlight of the
issue will be a tale of dark fantasy from World Fantasy Award
nominee and John W. Campbell Award nominee Scott A. Cupp.
SKELOS is edited by Mark Finn, author of the World Fantasy
Award-nominated BLOOD AND THUNDER; Chris Gruber, editor
of Robert E. Howard's BOXING STORIES from the University
of Nebraska Press; and Jeffrey Shanks, co-editor of the
Bram Stoker Award-nominated UNIQUE LEGACY OF WEIRD TALES.
Editor Mark Finn stated, "I'm excited to be part of the editorial
staff for this journal. We are finding and publishing
material that we love to read, and read about. There's
a long-standing tradition to weird fiction, and we think we
can contribute something new and exciting to it."
The first issue will contain short fiction from such talented
writers as Charles Gramlich, Dave Hardy, Jason Ray Carney,
Ethan Nahte, Scott Hannan, and Matt Sullivan; a fully illustrated
adaptation of Grettir and the Draugr from the Icelandic
sagas by Samuel Dillon; weird verse by Frank Coffman, Pat
Calhoun, Kenneth Bykerk, and Jason Hardy; Insightful essays by
Nicole Emmelhainz, Karen Kohoutek, and Jeffrey Shanks; reviews
by Charles Hoffman, Bobby Derie, Keith West, Todd Vick, Paul
McNamee, Deuce Richardson, Brian Murphy, and
Josh Adkins; and with illustrations by Mark Schultz, Tomás
Giorello, Samuel Dillon, and David Cullen.
The
Kickstarter campaign will run until June 10 and the issue will begin shipping
in late June with an ebook version available at the same time.
More information can found at the Skelos Press
Facebook page at the link below or you can follow the project
on Twitter @SkelosPress.
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TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE: SEASON ONE
- Coming June 14!
“Just in time for Father’s Day and the theatrical release,
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release the long awaited
animated series that aired when Saturday Morning Cartoons reigned
supreme. Available on DVD on June 14, 2016, Tarzan, Lord Of The
Jungle: Complete Season One was created by the Filmation Studio
for CBS and follows the animated adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs’
ape man from the 1970’s. The two-disc collectors set includes all
16 episodes from the series’ first season, and is priced to own at
$19.98 SRP.
As the opening narration explains: “The jungle: Here I was born;
and here my parents died when I was but an infant. I would have
soon perished, too, had I not been found by a kindly she-ape
named Kala, who adopted me as her own and taught me the ways of
the wild. I learned quickly, and grew stronger each day, and now I
share the friendship and trust of all jungle animals. The jungle
is filled with beauty, and danger; and lost cities filled with good,
and evil. This is my domain, and I protect those who come here; for
I am Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle!”
“Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle was animated the old fashion way, with
many hours of hand drawn stills,” said Mary Ellen Thomas, Vice President
Family & Animation Marketing and Partner Brands. “They don’t
make animation like this anymore, and we are really proud to be releasing
this timeless classic just in time for the July release of Tarzan in
theaters.”
16 22-MINUTE EPISODES:
Tarzan and the City of Gold
Tarzan and the Vikings
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Tarzan and the Forbidden City
Tarzan and the Graveyard of the Elephants
Tarzan's Return to the City of Gold
Tarzan and the Strange Visitors
Tarzan and the Land of the Giants
Tarzan and the Knights of Nimmr
Tarzan's Rival
Tarzan and the City of Sorcery
Tarzan at the Earth's Core
Tarzan and the Ice Creature
Tarzan and the Olympiads
Tarzan's Trial
Tarzan, the Hated
Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle: Complete Season
One
Street Date: June 14, 2016
Total Running Time: Approx 352 minutes
Price: $19.98 SRP
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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.
Eugene C. Dolson (1860-1938) - New!
Roberto Quaglia (b. 1962) - New!
Leslyn MacDonald (1904-1981)
Charles Henry Mackintosh (1885-?)
Lady Eleanor Smith (1902-1945)
Dorothea Gibbons (1902-1989)
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