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Windy City Con Reports

Airship 27/Ron Fortier Blog: WINDY CITY 2018
2018 ECOF
(Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship)
 Irving, Texas
May 18-20, 2018
   

ECOF  

22nd Annual Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale
Saturday, May 12, 2018, 10am to 4pm!
Canada's premier pulp event!

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

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

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

Only $3! Tickets available at the door, kids under 10 admitted free with adult.
For more information, contact us at:  info@girasolcollectables.com

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

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

 We look forward to seeing you there.



67th Michigan Antiquarian Book And Paper Show
Sunday, April 29, 2018
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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

Causeway Bay Hotel
6820 South Cedar Street
Lansing, Michigan

New Location! Free Parking!

West of Lowe's Home Improvement

Admission $5
CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER FREE
Adventure House Pulp and Collectibles Show
SUNDAY – September 9th, 2018

ARBUTUS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
5200 Southwestern Blvd – Halethorpe MD 21227
We’ve finally put together a show in the Mid-Atlantic area on September 9th, 2018. 
Conveniently located off I-95, just south of the Baltimore Beltway. 
Only 5-10 minutes from BWI Airport or Amtrak. [See map below.]

Convention Hours – 10am – 4pm
$5.00 Attendance Fee
Seventy plus tables with thousands of pulps and lots of popular culture collectibles.
Two large parking lots
Snack bar on premises
Hotels nearby include: [Rates are not guaranteed]
Holiday Inn BWI Airport – $108
Country Inn & Suites – $118
Holiday Inn Express – $99
Aloft BWI  – $89
Red Roof Plus – $80
Hilton Garden Inn BWI Airport – $93
BWI Airport Marriott – $139
Fairfield Inn & Suites BWI Airport – $96
La Quinta Inn & Suites  – $115
Hilton Baltimore BWI Airport – $139
Hampton Inn BWI – $97
Shipping services by Adventure House through USPS available for a standard counter rates and a small handling fee.
Short trip to the Baltimore Inner Harbor [15 Minutes]
Slightly longer trip to Washington DC [30 minutes]
Adventure House
Now available!
Satan Paints the Sky by Robert J. Hogan
G-8 walked down the road that leads to Death, and in the sky he flew where the Falcons waited with their bloody claws bared! 
For that is the way of War and there is no mercy—only red courage against hatred as SATANS PAINTS THE SKY!

Cover Artist: Frederick Blakeslee

7x10, 110 pages, $14.95



Adventure House
Now available!

Phantom Detective - Winter 1952

The Silent Killer by Robert Wallace
Fighting to save thousands of teen-agers from drug addiction, the Phantom tackles a mysterious ring of dealers in despair!

The Glass Noose by Robert Leslie Bellem
The Pointing Finger by Philip Ketchum
Flight Westward by Bryan Croghan
Murder on the Meter by Ardythe Gamel
The Suicide of Richard Manse by Ray Cummings
The Death Lei by Frank Richardson Pierce
7x10, 86 pages, $14.95



Adventure House
Now available!

Battle Stories - July 1930

Saps and Sappers by Arthur Guy Empey
Three dumb doughs blunder into a German-mined hill!

Spy Hunter of the Somme by Harold F. Cruickshank
Bombing the Sea Snakes by Harold Bradley Say
Four Battling Bucks by E.L. Valence
Johnny Get Your Gun by Major George Eliot
The Glory Grabber by Joseph Ball
A Demon of the Dugouts by Seth Bailey
Air Lanes of Intrigue by Frederick C. Painton
Sky Crusaders by Edwin C. Parsons
The Golden Death by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Call to Arms by William A. Shipman

Cover Artist: George Rozen
7x10, 176 pages, $14.95




Altus Press
THE SPIDER: SLAUGHTER, INCORPORATED (Facsimile Edition)
by Grant Stockbridge, Donald G. Cormack, Arthur Leo Zagat, and Norvell Page
Introduction by Will Murray
Now available!

Originally slated to appear in The Spider Magazine in the 1940s, "Slaughter, Incorporated" was ultimately shelved when that magazine was cancelled.
Never before published directly from author Donald G. Cormack's original manuscript,
this edition has been faithfully reconstructed as an exact copy of the never-published
February 1944 issue of The Spider Magazine, complete with vintage interior illustrations.

In addition, The Spider: Slaughter, Incorporated (Facsimile Edition) marks the first publication
of the never-before-published lost Red Finger story, "Red Finger and the Murder Trio," penned by Arthur Leo Zagat.

Also including a story by longtime Spider author, Norvell Page.

$19.95 softcover
Altus Press
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS #6: THE RED DESTROYER
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Now available!

”Stand by for action—three o'clock—map position M-24.”
Dusty Ayres suspected that this message came from the enemy, that it was bait luring him to a trap;
but he didn't guess how deadly the snare was, didn't know that he was keeping a rendezvous
with one of the most destructive weapons yet used by the Blacks—an invisible tornado of red death!

An amazing account of the next great war!

186 pages / $13.95 softcover

 


Altus Press
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS #7: THE WHITE DEATH
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Now available!

“You will instruct Captain Ayres to proceed to Washington H.Q. by staff train at 2:25.
He is to be provided with escort to station and placed in custody of Staff Sergeant Bolton…” Dusty read this radiogram with amazement.
First H.Q. grounded him, then sent this crazy order.
But the order did not worry the gods of war, for they knew that the very fires of hell itself would sweep across war-torn America
before the devilish plot behind that command could be smashed—before Dusty Ayres could learn the secret of the white death!

188 pages / $13.95 softcover
Altus Press

by Robb T. White, Jonathan Sheppard, Richard Billingsley, J.D. Graves, Brian Townsley, J. Allan Dunn, Paul Ernst, Dan Cushman, Frederick Nebel, and H. Bedford-Jones

Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue featuring five all-new stories, plus vintage hard-boiled classics from the pulp era of the 1930s-40s.
And it includes a never-before published cover by James Lunnon, painted for Black Mask in 1940.

 $14.95softcover  / $4.99 eBook

Altus Press
The Cross Brand
by Frederick Faust
Now available!

Longtime friends, Sheriff Harry Ganton and Jack Bristol, find themselves on different sides when Harry is mistakenly shot during an argument. Thinking he has killed his friend, Jack flees town, only to run into two mysterious strangers. Why does one have a cross brand on his forehead? And then there's the matter of Jack's appointment with the hangman's noose in his future....

139 pages / $12.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

Altus Press

Altus Press
The Next Wave of The H. Bedford-Jones Library
Now available!

Altus Press is pleased to announce the next wave of books in our acclaimed H. Bedford-Jones Library series.
This time out, we've collected a variety of HBJ's most beloved genres: historicals, mysteries, and Foreign Legion sagas, among others.
These have rarely if ever been reprinted. And each contains all of the original pulp illustrations by some of the best draftsmen of the pulp era.
Simply put: if you're looking for the best material to see print in the pulps, look no further than the works of The King of the Pulps, H. Bedford-Jones.

Each will be available soon at www.altuspress.com.

The Princess and the Prophet
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by John Richard Flanagan

Nostradamus, Mary of Scotland, and other historical figures interact in a novel by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

Under Nostradamus' care, wounded Scottish gentleman Cameron of Glenlyon was soon healed, and he told of his mission: he bore a secret message from Scotland to young Queen Mary; and Hamilton and others of the Scots Guards would kill him if need be, to prevent its delivery....

222 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Ghost of Screwface Hanlon
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Pete Kuhlhoff

The nephew of a King of the Underworld inherits his fortune... and his enemies. But is Screwface Hanlon really dead? Crawford must find out, or he'll end up like his mysterious uncle! A never-before collected series by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

62 pages | $14.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

They Lived By the Sword
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops

A fantastic novel of the World War of 218 B.C., and of Hannibal’s invasion across the Alps—the greatest military feat in history. It's a novel by the King of the Pulps—author H. Bedford-Jones—which has never before appeared in book form.

231 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Warriors in Exile
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops

Collected for the first time is author H. Bedford-Jones' 17-part saga of the French Foreign Legion... the fascinating series based on the records of the most famous and picturesque fighting force of modern times. Featuring stories of the Foreign Legions in Crimea, Italy, Formosa, Tonkin, Siam, Dahomey, Sudan, Madagascar, the Sahara, with Maximilian of Austria in Mexico, war-torn Spain in 1835, and the Franco-Prussian War.

384 pages | $24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover

One More Hero: The Cases of the Fireboat Men
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Leland Gustavson

Fireboat men must be not only firemen, but sailors, divers, engineers and police—dangerous callings, all.... Collected for the first time, this colorful series centers around Gunboat Brendan and the tragic problem he met below the murky harbor waters. Written by the prolific author, H. Bedford-Jones, the King of the Pulps.

102 pages | $14.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Gunpowder Gold
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Pete Kuhlhoff

Grimm had risked his life on the American and European battlefields. Now he was hot on the trail of the two hundred million francs left to the exiled young Russian Duchess Marie of Courtland, and Grimm needed that to fund the battles of the American Colonies... and to buy the needed gunpowder to win their independence.

This edition marks the first time this novel-length adventure has been published in book form. It's another historical fiction classic by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

197 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover






Altus Press: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Altus Press Latest Releases: The Lost Spider Novel, Dusty Ayres, and a New Issue of Black Mask Magazine
The Next Wave of The H. Bedford-Jones Library is Here
Mavericks Headlines the Next Wave of Popular Hero Reprints
The Thrilling Heroes Return to Print
Moon-Blind by Erik Van Lhin (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
American Fantasy Press
THE ASTOUNDING ART OF HUBERT ROGERS
Kickstarter coming in September!


Doug Ellis and Bob Garcia spread the news at Windy City Pulp & Paperback Show this weekend about their new summer project: THE ASTOUNDING ART OF HUBERT ROGERS.

They expect to be ready in September or so to launch a new Kickstarter for it.

Rogers was the premier artist for ASTOUNDING in the 1930s, with covers for the sf classics, SLAN, GREY LENSMAN, FOUNDATION and most of the Robert A. Heinlein novels that appeared in the mag.
If that wasn't enough, his covers also appeared on pulps from ARGOSY to ADVENTURE.

The book is being produced with the cooperation of Rogers' family, giving access to rare material such as photos, sketches, prelims, proofs and original art, which should allow us to produce a book that we hope you'll find astounding!
This is going to be a fantastic project.

American Mythology Productions and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

In case you haven't heard, this summer American Mythology Productions is expanding their line of Edgar Rice Burroughs comics to include
CARSON OF VENUS and THE MOON MAID, joining PELLUCIDAR and THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT!

American Mythology Productions is releasing a four-part series that creates one shared universe under the banner "Fear on Four Worlds," the crossover event that you've been waiting for!

They put a lot of hard work and research into this to make it the most exciting, lovingly-rendered, and accurate expansion of some of ERB's greatest lost worlds.

The action begins in June with CARSON OF VENUS #1, followed by THE MOON MAID #1 in July, PELLUCIDAR #1 in August, and just announced, THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT #1 in September.
Written by Christopher Mills and Mike Wolfer, and illustrated by Cyrus Mesarcia and Gabriel Rearte, you'll see all of your favorite Burroughs "bad guys" like the Mahars, the Va-gas, the Horibs, and MORE!
NOW is the time to be an ERB fan, so if you don't want to miss any of these incredible comics, RUSH to your local comic book store NOW and tell them to order them, only from American Mythology Productions!








Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week
Past episodes:
Doc Brazen: Millenium Bug - A Doc Savage Pastiche
Secret Agent X, Volume 6 from Airhsip 27
Four in the Way: Vol. 2 of the Saints and Sinners Series
Doc Savage Pastiches
"Three on a Match" - Sergio Leone meets Barsoom
Bobby Nash discusses "Sanderson of Metro"
Audible Studios
The Land of Always Night: Doc Savage - MP3 CD
Coming June 12!

Doc battles a chalk-white faced villain named Ool who can kill with the touch of a finger and possesses a strange pair of dark goggles. The battle against the villain leads to a lost civilization hidden deep in the earth where Doc and his fabulous five face an otherworldly challenge.

Full cast of narrators includes Roger Clark, Kevin Pariseau, Marc Vietor, Lauren Fortgang, Victor Bevine, Peter Ganim, Angelo Di Loreto, Nick Sullivan, Jonathan Davis, and Gabriel Vaughan.

Listening Length: 5 hours and 3 minutes
$14.99
Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
By Ed Hulse (editor)
Now available!

The Shadow, The Spider, The Avenger, Doc Savage, The Black Bat, The Phantom Detective — these swashbuckling heroes of mid-20th-century pulp fiction all had one thing in common: They fought crime from outside the law, unhindered by red tape and unmindful of such legal niceties as due process. They fought with fists and guns, for the most part hiding their true identities beneath outlandish costume and grotesque disguises.

This collection of essays by distinguished pulp-fiction aficionados chronicles the era of single-character magazines from offbeat angles and with keen insight. The pieces herein analyze key stories and characters while offering rare, behind-the-scenes glimpses of authors and editors at work, crafting and polishing the pulp-paper fever dreams that enthralled millions of young readers during the Great Depression, World War II, and beyond. Ed Hulse, editor of Blood ‘n’ Thunder, the award-winning journal of adventure, mystery and melodrama, has assembled these affectionate essays with loving care and a discerning eye for the high-water marks in this phase of American popular culture.

This third volume of Blood ‘n’ Thunder Presents, like its predecessors, is profusely illustrated with pulp-magazine covers and original artwork.

Cover Art by Rafael De Soto
Introduction by Ed Hulse
220 pgs., paperback, 8 1/2 X 11
Price: $24.95
PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!

2018 Windy City Film Program
Murania Press 2017 Year-End Sale
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER Back-Issue Availability
Bold Venture Press

Aviation thrills and horrific villains in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft and G-8 & His Battle Aces!

Out of the night explodes an engine of unimaginable fury, powered by the drive to accumulate and hoard for the mere sake of possession — a force that draws its strength from the perpetual motion of irreconcilable imperatives engaged in timeless opposition; a beast that should be a myth, but thrives on the nightmares that well out of the unconscious when the unconscious is untethered from myth.  The Mysteriarchs of the Abyss have shackled and enslaved the primordial evil that has guarded their hideous treasure troves for eons — a dragon of gargantuan proportions with more destructive rage than the Great War itself!

Also features the short story "Zohar of the Jungle" by Stuart Hopen.

To the world at large, The Twilight Patrol is a high-flying band of scrappy patriots, ever alert for trouble and always willing to lend a hand. To the sinister foes lurking behind the Axis horizon, they are a force to be reckoned with in the onslaught against freedom. To their fans, The Twilight Patrol is the bravest assortment of adventurers ever brought together to confront the dark forces threatening our mortal realm.

144 pages, 8.5" x 11"
Paperback: $14.95 / eBook: $3.99

Bringing Back Classic Adventure One Page at a Time - Now online!

Vintage Reads – The Sword of Rhiannon
Vintage Reads – The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales
Vintage Reads – The Dying Earth


Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!

Pulp Appeal: Econoclash Review #1 - New!
Pulp Appeal: CIRSOVA #5
Issue 5 of Broadswords and Blasters Available Now!
Pulp Consumption: Sharp Ends


THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscribe for 2018
 
Subscribe for 2018 now, as the price will rise after this special offer ends!
The 2018 Issues are numbers 81, 82, and 83.

Please note that Bronze Gazette Special Editions are not included in any subscription, but may be purchased separately.
Only $30.00
 
THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #81 is now available and recommended!
 
Front Cover: Dan Brereton
"The State of the World of Bronze" by Chuck Welch
"Notes on a Doc Savage Illustration" by Dan Brereton
"The Stories Behind the Story" by David Avallone
"Reviewing the Ring of Fire" by Bobb Cotter
"The Girl Who Hated Doc Savage" by Dafydd Neal Dyar
"Doc Savage and the WEP" by Julián Paga
"Sons of Savage: Doc Caliban" by Art Sippo, MD
"Doc Has a Gun!" by Michael Ingalls
Back Cover: Tim Faurote imagines Doc and the Fatal Five in the style of James Bama

Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
You can order available single issues at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/back-issues/
Subscribe for 2018 (Issues 81, 82, and 83) at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/subscribe/

$35.00 USA
$45.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$55.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)
Click HERE to subscribe!
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 The Bronze Gazette  


Castalia House Blog - Now online!

The Pulp Swordsmen: Duar - New!
Sensor Sweep: Harold Lamb, Shaver and Lovecraft, Windy City Pulp & Paperback Show - New!
Short Reviews – Hide and Seek, by Arthur C. Clarke
Elric: The Ruby Throne
Tales From the Magician’s Skull #1
Sensor Sweep: A. Merritt, Leigh Brackett, Dungeons of Chaos, and Rocket’s Red Glare

Conan le Cimmérien - La reine de la côte noire - Coming May 2!
Writer Jean-David Morvan
Designer Pierre Alary
Colorist Sedyas

Pursued for killing a judge, Conan found refuge in extremis on a merchant ship. But shortly after setting sail, the Cimmerian and his new companions face a threat: the pirates of the legendary Bêlit, self-proclaimed Queen of the Black Coast! After a tough fight, Conan is a sensation to his terrible opponent who soon falls in love. She sees in him the one she has always expected, the pirate king who will lead his men to glory ...

Jean-David Morvan and Pierre Alary deliver a great performance of The Queen of the Black Coast, Conan's matrix narrative that shows all the facets of the character and forms the synthesis of its mythological essence.

Language: French
Hardcover, 240 x 320 mm, 64 pages, Full Color, 14.95 €
EAN / ISBN: 9782344011966

Language: French
Hardcover, 275 x 368 mm, 64 pages, Black & White, 29.50 €
EAN/ISBN : 9782344029503


Conan le Cimmérien - Le colosse noir - Coming May 2!
Screenwriter Vincent Brugeas
Draftsman and Colorist Ronan Toulhoat

Based in the city of Khoraja, Conan tries his luck serving Amalric's mercenaries. While waiting for the fight, he leads a life of ordinary troop, drinking and frolicking in the taverns. Fate catches up with him one night as he accidentally meets Yesmala, princess and regent of the kingdom in person. She would have seen Conan in a dream: the gods have designated him as the general who must lead his armies against the demonic hordes of the wizard Nathok. As a private soldier, Conan the barbarian becomes the only hope of an entire kingdom.

The authors of the remark Roy des Ribauds plunge us into a black and warlike adventure imbued with witchcraft.
The trait of Ronan Toulhoat unfolds all its excess in the gigantism of architectures and epic battles.

Language: French
Hardcover, 240 x 320 mm, 72 pages, Full Color, 14.95 €
EAN / ISBN: 9782344012475

Language: French
Hardcover, 275 x 368 mm, 72 pages, Black & White, 29.50 €
EAN/ISBN : 9782344029510


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


Forgotten Books: AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT by John K. Butler (1998) - New!
Comic Gallery: CAPTAIN SCIENCE (1950-51) - New!
Comic Book Story: "The Spawn of Venus" by WALLY WOOD - New!
Pulp Gallery: ACE G-MAN STORIES (1936) - New!
Movie Posters of 1915 - New!
The Art of Frank Hamilton (Part 4)
Comic Gallery: PRINCE VALIANT
Pulp Gallery: BATTLE STORIES
Doc Savage Out West! in MR. CALAMITY by Will Murray

The Digest Enthusiast #8
 Coming soon!


          Larque Press  
The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Magazine of Horror #36 Apr. 1971
Broadswords and Blasters #5 Spring 2018
Black Cat Mystery Magazine #2
Magazine of Horror #35 Feb. 1971
Pulp Literature #18 Spring 2018
Pulp Literature 17 Winter 2018


DMR Books Blog - Now online!

Out of Space and Time by Clark Ashton Smith - New!
Forefathers of Sword and Sorcery: Harold Lamb
Who "Made" Conan and Robert E. Howard? -- Part One
The Savage Swords of Louis L'Amour  
Reavers of Skaith: Saving the Last For First
"I Dream in Fire But Work in Clay" - Arthur Machen
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
UNTAMED PELLUCIDAR
By Lee Strong
Illustrated by Douglas Klauba
Now available in hardcover!

Northern Russia, 1924: The Red Army is eliminating those who resist the fledgling Soviet government. At The Battle of the Plutonian Plain, the White Russian forces, aided by wily American Edgar Rice Burroughs, do not fall, instead retreating into the dangers of Pellucidar. Comrade Trotsky, the Soviet leader, sends his troops to hunt them down—and destroy them.

Mikhail Kirillivitch Kirov, a young conscript caught up in this mad scheme, is fascinated by this new world. Formerly a student anthropologist, he finds Pellucidar’s Stone Age landscape and inhabitants a revelation—until he’s grabbed by a mammoth Skal and flown back to its aerie to feed its giant offspring.

Thus begins Kirov’s astounding adventure in the Northern environs of Pellucidar, rife with its incredible Paleolithic animal life, including Skals, Trals and Dyals, tremendous birds with sharp talons and fierce beaks; Ryths, the huge Stone Age cave bears whose claws can tear a man apart; and the vicious Jaloks, hyaenodons whose wild packs slaughter their prey mercilessly. These and other fantastic beasts stalk Kirov as he navigates the complex world of Pellucidar’s most dangerous predator: Man.

To survive, Kirov must escape slavery from the Beautiful Ala and her mighty Black Birdriders, foster a civil war, impress the natives with his “inventions,” conquer the terrifying Pulka Horde, and become a warlord of several tribes as they flee the Soviet invaders. It’s a tale in the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ epic adventures at The Earth’s Core.
AUTHOR
Lee Strong’s heart was captured by the dinosaurs found At the Earth’s Core in 1962—he has been a Burroughs reader ever since. Lee also worked for the US Department of Defense (DOD); changed international policy with a single report; deployed to Kuwait; saved taxpayers $5 million; and reformed the $2 billion DOD Personal Property Program. A Soldier of Poloda is Lee’s first novel. He is currently working on two Pellucidar novels with more to come. Lee’s motto: More Adventure ! More Excitement !! More Burroughs !!!

ARTIST
An award-winning illustrator, Douglas Klauba was born and raised in Chicago, and is a graduate of the American Academy of Art. Doug's paintings have been included in the art annuals of Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, the Society of Illustrators, and Imagine FX magazine. His painting, "Mercury Jack," exhibited in the Spectrum Show at the Museum of American Illustration and another of his paintings,"Da Vinci's Dream" was awarded Best in Show at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention. A poster of his painting, "Stella 7" can be seen hanging on Howard Wolowitz's bedroom wall on the hit television show, The Big Bang Theory. He was Artist Guest at the 2016 Oum Oum, and previously provided interior art for Tarzan Trilogy..

$34.95
 



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New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

April 2018
Continuing our reprinting of Edmond Hamilton, we present "The Atomic Conquerors," from the August, 1926 issue of Weird Tales with the original title art and an introduction by Bob Gay.

Also, a bit of humor by the artist Stanley L. Wood, in an article entitled “Authors—from an Artist's Standpoint,” wherein Wood demonstrates that he had not only a very sharp wit, but also a gift for caricature, just as it appeared in the March, 1904 issue of Pearson's Magazine (UK).

March 2018
Since the flu season was a bit rougher than normal this year, we thought it was a good time to resurrect a short novel by Jack London, The Scarlet Plague, which tells of the end of civilization due to a rather nasty disease. 
We have reproduced all the Gordon Grant illustrations, all the text and have thrown in an introduction by Bob Gay that sets the novel in context.

January 2018
A tale of romance and piracy with a twist...The She Fiend (by an unknown author) gives us a female pirate with all the cunning and wiles of the Dragon Lady.  Introduction is by Dan Neyer.

December 2017
This month we present for your approval the very first published story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage." 
We have tried to put together a "definitive" edition of this early work and hope you enjoy it.  Introduction by Bob Gay.

November 2017
Since the we are in the midst of the holiday season, we thought a Christmas offering might be appreciated, and so we are happy to present a story by
Bret Harte, "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar," just as it appeared (with a few editorial interpolations) in the March, 1872 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Introductory notes are by Bob Gay.

October 2017
Just in time for Halloween, we present what is probably the most popular story to appear in Weird Tales, "The Night Wire" by H. F. Arnold.  
Read it at night with the lights turned low...

September 2017
Since we are now in the season of Fall (and not wanting to miss the chance for a pun), this month we present Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale of a famous fall, The Adventure of the Final Problem, just as it appeared in the December, 1993 issue of The Strand Magazine, including the illustrations by Sidney Paget. An introduction by Dan Neyer is also included and he makes some interesting points about our current perceptions of Professor Moriarty...
 
Also, if you are new to the site, you might wish to read Dan's biography of Doyle and possibly peruse some of our other Doyle stories.

August 2017
We've added a new Author Collection to FAFF, and are pleased to present The Edmond Hamilton Collection. 
Like our other Author Collections, our initial offering begins with a biography of Hamilton and we've also included Hamilton's very first story, The Monster God of Mamurath. 
In the months to come, we will be adding additional Hamilton stories to the collection and will also be adding more early science fiction by names both famous and forgotten.

July 2017
This month, we present "The Jameson Satellite," direct from the pages of the July, 1931 issue of Amazing Stories, along with an introduction by Bob Gay.
Also, we have added another annotated gallery of Bob's Stuff, with even more wonderment from Bob's boxes and shelves.
Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Flamehair - New!
Windy City Recap
Friday Update
Collecting Brackett
Tales From the Magician’s Skull Issue 2
Sea-Kings of Mars
The Skull Lives
Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

By Walter Gibson

A "LIVING" MUMMY haunts Buff Brewster's every step on the expedition seeking the lost tomb of Egypt's ancient Prince Reth. Fighting time to find the treasure crypt de-signed by Pattak the Tomb Builder, the archaeologists plead with the Egyptian government to postpone con-struction of a dam which will flood the site. But time is not the only enemy of the expedition. For Pattak himself- whose mummy is missing from a London museum-seemingly has returned to life to oppose the violation of his masterwork!

The curator of the museum, determined to prove his the-ory that the "forgotten Pharaoh" was banished from the Valley of Kings, arms Biff with a precious golden scarab to guard him in the Valley of Ghosts.

Biff successfully braves the perils of the mummy's men-ace, only to find himself challenged by worshippers of Thoth, an even older deity of the dead, who supposedly lost the battle of the gods centuries ago.

Trapped by the duplicity of a friend, Biff uses ancient magic to extricate himself and his companions, only to learn that it takes modern miracles to keep the "mummy" from hoarding the treasure for himself alone!

Trade Paperback:
6 x 9 inch
180 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $14.95

  
JOE KUBERT'S TARZAN AND THE LION MAN ARTIST EDITION HC - Now available!
(Writer/Art/Cover) Joe Kubert

Collecting the brilliant Joe Kubert’s final Tarzan stories in the acclaimed and multi-Eisner Award-winning Artist’s Edition format.
Including the third Tarzan novel adapted by Joe Kubert, Tarzan and the Lion Man, as well as five additional stories.

Includes Tarzan issues 224, 225, 227, 228, 229, 231, 232, 233, and 234. Featuring Kubert’s masterful handling of Edgar Rice Burroughs classic creation—this is truly as good as comics get!

Hardcover, 12x17, 176 pages, B&W, $125.00
KULL ETERNAL #3 - Arriving in comic shops May 2!
(Writer) Tom Waltz (Art) Luca Pizzari
Cover A: Luca Pizzari
Cover B: Bart Sears (Not shown)
Cover C: Julio Das Pastoras (retailer incentive cover)

Robert E. Howard’s legendary warrior king returns!

Kull's quest through time continues as he moves from bloody revolution to even bloodier civil war, only to find a hideous evil lurks in the night, threatening to forever change the New Atlantis' future.
Can Kull stop the flesh-eating monsters that hunt in the dark before it's too late?!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
 

Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

The Lone Ranger on Radio, Film, and Television
Ready Player One Movie Review
Cinevent Film Festival Turns 50
Filmfax Magazine celebrates a milestone

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.


Now featuring: Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie
The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Dr. Shadows
The Man of The Mist
The Velvet Wasp
The Vigilantes


DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, Pennsylvania
Guest of Honor — Joe Lansdale
Thursday, July 26 through Sunday, July 29, 2018
Are you thinking about attending PulpFest 2018?
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 next year’s convention is shaping up to be one of our best.

2018 marks the centennial of the armistice that ended the First World War.
Also called “The War to End All Wars” and “The Great War,” PulpFest — The Great Convention — will be honoring the 100th anniversary
 of the war’s end by focusing on the so-called “war pulps” of the early twentieth century and the depiction of war in popular culture.

We’ll explore the work of Leonard H. Nason — who wrote about soldiers and war for ADVENTURE and other magazines —
and have presentations on artistic interpretations of war in comic books, pulps, and men’s adventure magazines.
Author and anthologist Don Hutchison will moderate a panel on “Fighting Aces of War Skies: The Pulps Take Flight” and
 Henry G. Franke, III — the editor of THE BURROUGHS BULLETIN — will discuss “Edgar Rice Burroughs and The Great War.”
Also, Robert Gould will talk about his father — John Fleming Gould — the interior artist who illustrated every issue of G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES.

We’ll also be celebrating the century mark of Grand Master of Science Fiction Philip José Farmer.
PulpFest and its associated convention — FarmerCon — will be saluting the acclaimed author of such works as ESCAPE FROM LOKI, THE DARK HEART OF TIME, the classic Riverworld series, and more.
Join us for panels and presentations on “World Building and Writing in the Nine Continuity,” “The Dark Heart of Loki: Philip José Farmer Revisits 1918,” and the life and legacy of Philip José Farmer.
We’ll also be showing the French documentary MOI, TARZAN, featuring Farmer, George McWhorter, and Francis Lacassin.

And don’t forget about our Guest of Honor — Joe Lansdale — the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories.
Winner of the Edgar Award, ten Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award,
the British Fantasy Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many other awards,
Joe will be talking with Tony Davis — editor emeritus of THE PULPSTER and winner of the 1999 Lamont Award — on Saturday evening, July 28, in the PulpFest programming room.
Mr. Lansdale will also be available at other times during the convention.

For All Members

All PulpFest 2018 members — including dealers — must register for the convention.

Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying at the DoubleTree: $35 (includes free early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying elsewhere: $40 (without early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying elsewhere: $70 (with early-bird shopping)

Single-day membership for Friday or Saturday: $20
Single-day membership for Sunday: $10 (available only at the door)
Supporting Membership: $25

Help Choose the 2018 Munsey Award

Every year, PulpFest recognizes the efforts of those who work to keep the pulps alive for this and future generations.
The Munsey Award recognizes an individual who has given of himself or herself for the betterment of the pulp community.
The award is named after Frank A. Munsey, the man who published the first pulp magazine.

Our 2017 Munsey Award winner was Phil Stephensen-Payne.

Nominations for the 2018 Munsey Award are now being accepted.
All members of the pulp community are welcome to nominate someone for this year’s award.
 If you have someone in mind that you feel worthy to receive this prestigious award, please let us know.

All members of the pulp community — excepting past winners of the Munsey, Rusty, or Lamont Awards  — are eligible.
Your nomination can be sent to PulpFest marketing and programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
You can also reach Mike at 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104-6542.
You will need to provide the person’s name and an explanation describing why that person should be honored.

The deadline for nominations is May 1, 2018.
The recipient of the Munsey Award will be selected through a vote cast by all the living Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Award winners.
 The 2018 Munsey Award will be presented on Saturday evening, July 28, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, the host hotel for PulpFest 2018.
The convention will take place over the last weekend in July, beginning on Thursday evening, July 26 and running through Sunday, July 29.
Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"The Gold Token" by Ben Conlon from THRILLING ADVENTURES, March, 1939
An American Emgineer, because he speaks the Amazon Indian's language is asked to accompany a policeman to recapture a convict. They capture the convict, get captured by headhunters.

"Upside Down or Backwards" by W. C. Tuttle from ADVENTURE, April 3, 1918
A comedy western in Piperock, Montana.

"Who's Got the Turkey?" by Percy Wilson from RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE, November, 1909
Stuck working before Thanksgiving a couple of Railroad men find a way to get a couple of turkeys.


Pulp Den by Tom Johnson - Now online!

Angelica You Have Chosen Well
Co-Evolution
Cop Shot
Millennium Bug
Across A Wounded Galaxy
Landscape of Darkness

         Pulp Den  
Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

Windy City Pulp and Paper convention 2018 - photos
Robert Ormond Case - Western Author
F.R. Buckley - biographical article  
Beautiful covers #3 - N.C Wyeth in the Popular Magazine
Beautiful covers #2 - Walter Baumhofer - Western Story
Cherry Wilson - Western Author
The Pulp Hermit  by Tom Johnson - Now online!

The Moneta Papers - New!
The Ganoraky Missile
Family Skeletons
Coincidence? Maybe, Maybe Not
The Black Bat
Ki-Gor
Frederick C. Davis
The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.
Pulps 1st - Spring Deal 50% off!

At Pulps1st.com there is a sale using promo code ZSPRINGDEALS for 50% off.
The pictures at the right are only samples of what's available.
Pulps 1st has t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, ipad cases stamps, and more!






Radio Archives
The Spider #60 Audiobook
The City that Paid to Die
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
Now available!

Deeper and deeper New York had sunk in the grip of the Underworld monarch — until the law was licked at last! But in that moment of desperation, Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, resolved to fight the underworld with its own savage weapons. With New York’s own police commissioner at his side, the Spider raised a fighting legion of honest men sworn to take the law into their own hands!

While the Spider borrowed his black slouch hat and cloak from the already thriving Shadow, the rest of the character was significantly different. The Spider stories are all about action, emotional intensity, and pacing. Wentworth himself is strongly emotional, plumbing the thrills of victory as readily, and as deeply, as the depths of despair during his escapades. His long-suffering fiancée, Nita van Sloan, is a worthy character in her own right, though frequently relegated to the traditional role of hostage-bait. As additional exotic spice, Wentworth maintains a Sikh manservant/warrior companion, Ram Singh, as well as chauffeur Ronald Jackson, the sergeant from his old army days. Rounding out the cast of characters is Commissioner of Police Stanley Kirkpatrick, Wentworth’s staunch friend and the Spider’s greatest adversary; Kirkpatrick himself lives in a state of constant angst for fear that duty will one day force him to send his friend to the electric chair as punishment for the Spider’s crimes. And indeed, that fear nearly becomes fact on several occasions.
 
This thrilling Spider audiobook features acclaimed voice talent Nick Santa Maria, who has made the Spider his own! The City that Paid to Die originally published in The Spider magazine, September, 1938.
 

Discounted 50% the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $9.99
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives

Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Eerie Stories eBook
#1 August 1937
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.
 
In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. By 1937, Ace Magazines, the same low-rent publisher who presented readers with Captain Hazzard, Flying Aces and Western Aces, tried to enter the field with Eerie Stories. Unfortunately, it didn't catch on with readers, only lasting one issue before folding. This is that issue. Eerie Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
Table of Contents:
 
Virgins Of The Stone Death — Novel by Gates Alexander
The glorious young body of the girl Terry Grant loved was fated to feel the cold embrace of death, instead of his own warm, protecting one — as her shapely limbs turned slowly into solid stone!
 
The Soul-Scorchers’ Lair — Cover Story by Ronald Flagg
He had a mad desire to scorch his wife’s soul, sending the intense heat of a blowtorch through her flesh.
 
Corpse Girl’s Return by Eric Lenox
She was alluring, desirable — but the newshawk shuddered. For he knew she had slept the sleep of death with the cadavers in the morgue.
 
Devil’s Brew by Branton Black
Sardonically, Gavin Clark planned murder, and visioned his trembling young wife bestowing her caresses upon a corpse...
 
Her Isle Of Horror by Cliff Howe
Loretta’s dark-eyed invitation made the young investigator face the horrific monsters of her storm-lashed island.
 
The Pain Master’s Bride by Rexton Archer
It was stark horror that Edmund Neymores learned when he witnessed the ghastly torment of a helpless girl as she posed for a statue of agony.
 
Sinister Skein by Horace Stoner
Trooper Trant had to untangle a bloody murder skein — depending on the help of a beautiful girl who didn’t trust him because he had seen her wearing the briefest of clothing.
 
Rehearsal With Doom by Terrence Flint
Middle-aged Graham Munster arranged a rehearsal with doom to force his pretty young ward to become his bride.
 
Lust For Blood by Clifford Gray
The boat club’s secretary floated over corpse currents to a madman’s hideaway where the price of life was blood.
 
Mate Of The Beast by Leon DuPont
Len Oakley found that no mortal man could steal a bride of the beast.
 
Terror’s Tomb by John Gregory
Private Detective Manton wanted to know why lovely Anne Seymour went willingly into a pit of terror with a parchment-faced fiend.
 
Step-Daughter To Greed by Peter Reginald
Terrified, the girl forced her trembling legs to carry her into the tomb of the dead — to search for an inheritance in hell...
 
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
 
Discounted 50% the first week.
$1.99
Recoverings
TARZAN AND THE LION MAN & SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS Dust-jackets
Now available!

Tarzan and the Lion Man, Synthetic Men of Mars covers
These newly released dust-jackets are as clean as possible.

TARZAN AND THE LION MAN has cover and spine art meticulously redrawn with every line matching St. John's from a 1200ppi scan.
The dark gold on the cover contains bright flecks that simulate the metallic ink on the 1934 edition.
This is reconstructed from the true first edition jacket, not the more common jacket that was issued on the Grosset & Dunlap reprint, the "red Tarzana" and subsequent ERB, Inc. reprints.

SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS uses a scan of the original John Coleman Burroughs painting on both cover and spine.
The original was smoke damaged in the 1953 fire but I've managed to digitally clean it up while retaining the detail of the brushwork. Click on the image to the right to see what you'll get when you order.

Tarzan and the Lion Man
Cover by J. Allen St. John.
$25.00

Synthetic Men of Mars
Cover by John Coleman Burroughs
$25.00


RED SONJA #15 - Arriving in comic shops May 2!
Writer: Amy Chu, Erik Burnham
Art: Carlos Gomez
Cover A: Mike McKone
Cover B: Carlos Gomez
Cover C: Juan Doe
Cover D: Cosplay Cover
Cover E Subscription: Anthony Marques

In the penultimate chapter of Hell or Hyrkania, Sonja returns to where her adventure started, the nation of Meru, to find it completely under the iron rule of Kulan Gath—who is using the native magic to grow more powerful than ever. The wizard needs to be stopped once and for all, before he finally gains the omnipotence he craves…but there’s one thing still standing between Gath and Sonja—and it’s something the she-devil never expected to face.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

 
 

 

RED SONJA / TARZAN #1 - Arriving in comic shops May 2!
Writer: Gail Simone
Art: Walter Geovani
Cover A: Adam Hughes
Cover B: Jae Lee
Cover C: Aaron Lopresti
Cover D: Walter Geovani
Cover E: Sergio Davila

The She-Devil with a Sword meets the Lord of the Jungle!
Eson Duul is an evil man. The mere mention of his name makes powerful quake with fear. He has no regard for life, including that of man. But he may finally have met his match when he finds himself up against Red Sonja and Tarzan!

Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, Red Sonja) and Walter Geovani (Red Sonja, Clean Room) reunite to bring us the crossover event featuring two of fiction's greatest heroes side by side at last!

Full Color, 152 pages, $3.99





 

Robert E. Howard Days
June 8-9, 2018!


We'll look forward to seeing you in June with all new panels and guests, a couple of extra-special surprise announcements and all the traditional activities that happen every year at Howard Days.
 

Robert E. Howard House Archaeology Project
New Go Fund Me Project to excavate the Howard House storm cellar!

In an effort to shed more light on Robert E. Howard the man, Project Pride, the owners of the Robert E. Howard House and Museum are partnering with the National Park Service (NPS) and the Southeastern Archaeology Foundation (SEAF) to sponsor an archaeological excavation at the house where Howard grew up, lived and died, and wrote his powerful and influential fiction.

The Howard House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1994 and today it has been restored to its period appearance in the 1930s.  The Robert E. Howard House and Museum is now a tourist destination for countless fans from around the world who make the pilgrim to Cross Plains to see the place where whole worlds were created in the mind of one man. It is also the site for the annual gathering of fans known as Howard Days  on the second weekend in June.

At the Howard Days gathering in 2017, Floyd Carter, Jr. who was a member of the family who purchased the home in 1970, told several Howard scholars and attendees about the presence of a storm cellar behind the house that was now filled in and buried. Carter suggested that there was a lot of material, possibly from the Howards, buried in the cellar that might be recovered if it were excavated. NPS archaeologist and Howard scholar Jeffrey Shanks was present and talked with Mr. Carter at length about his memories of the cellar. This led to discussions with Project Pride about the possibility of a professional archaeological excavation to see what could found. Because the Museum has only a handful of items from the Howards, recovering any artifacts that date from the period when Robert and his family lived there would add significantly to the collection.

The Project:

In January, the Project Pride Board of Directors approved Shanks's proposal for the NPS to uncover and excavate the storm cellar, process and analyze the artifacts recovered, and write the official report. The excavation will also be an educational opportunity for the Cross Plains community and local schools to teach about archaeology and the importance of preserving our shared cultural heritage.

Since the Howard House is on the National Register of Historic Places and one of the missions of the National Park Service is to provide technical assistance to NRHP sites, Shanks was able to secure funding to cover the salary costs for himself and another NPS archaeologist, Thadra Stanton, to carry out the project, including excavation, artifact analysis, and report write-up -- a cost of approximately $20,000. Project Pride and the Cross Plains community will be donating lodging for the archaeological team as well as some supplies and much-needed volunteer labor. Noted Howard experts from The Robert E. Howard Foundation  will be present to assist as well.

The remaining project costs are the travel expenses for the team and salary for an NPS Archaeological Technician to assist Shanks and Stanton. These costs are estimated at $3800. Shanks approached the Southeastern Archaeology Foundation (SEAF), a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation that assists and supports NPS archaeological projects, to assist in securing the remaining needed funds. In order to do so, SEAF has launched this GoFundMe crowd-sourcing campaign to raise those funds.

This is where you come in! If you are fan of Robert E. Howard and his stories or just support archaeology and cultural resource preservation, we can use your financial assistance and generosity. Because SEAF is a 501(c)3 any contribution you make is tax deductible. We are offering several donation levels with different gifts including the official project T-Shirt and copies of the forthcoming archaeological report. You can even join the team in Cross Plains and participate in the excavation!

NOTE: Any funds received in excess of the required amount will be donated to Project Pride to help with their ongoing costs in maintaining the the Robert E. Howard House and Museum.

Robert E. Howard Foundation
REH Foundation Awards Nominees!

The REH Foundation is proud to announce to official nominees for this year’s REH Foundation Awards, honoring the top contributions from the previous year in Howard scholarship and in the promotion of Howard’s life and works.

The top three nominees in each category were selected by the Legacy Circle members of the Foundation from an outstanding pool of eligible candidates and their contributions represent the best of the best. (Categories with more than 3 nominees represent a tie in the nomination voting)

All Premium members of the REH Foundation will be eligible to vote on these nominees to determine this year’s winners (Regular FREE members can upgrade to a Premium membership HERE).
Voting deadline is April 30th!
The winners will be announced at a special ceremony at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains on June 8.

The list of nominees is documented at the link below.
The Serial Squadron
Now available!

The Interplanetary Adventures of ROCKETMAN
Featuring Tristram Coffin, George Wallace, Judd Holdren, Dr. Vulcan, Marex the Martian
and Roy Barcroft as Retik the Moon Menace in 3 Complete Serials on 3 Dual-layer DVDs
KING OF THE ROCKET MEN
RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON
ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE

All remastered and restored!

Buy now US direct-from-the-Squadron discount price $26.95
($3 off full price of $29.95)
US Customers only at the moment, please --
outside-US order link will be posted soon)

SPECTRE LIBRARY: THE PULP AND PAPERBACK FICTION READER - Now online!

Gunman’s Bluff by Frederick C. Davis - New!
Spawn of the Vampire by N. Wesley Firth
THREE MILES FROM MURDER BY FREDERICK C. DAVIS


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.

Shaver and Lovecraft
The Shaver Mystery-Part Ten
The Shaver Mystery-Part Nine
The Shaver Mystery-Part Eight 
The Shaver Mystery-Part Seven


WEIRDBOOK #38
Now available!
Features
From the Editor’s Tower, by Doug Draa

Stories
HARLOT ROAD, by Michael Bracken
WITH A POET’S EYES, by John C. Hocking
THE WISHING WELL, by Robert Graves
O KING OF PAIN AND SPLENDOR!, by Darrell Schweitzer
YOU’D DO IT FOR DIAMONDS, by Adrian Cole
DREADFUL APPETITE, by Franklyn Searight
THE HANDMAID OF THE KEY, by R.C. Mulhare
BLUE MOON, by Allen Mark Price
SHE WHO GIVES LIFE, by C. I. Kemp
AN IMPLEMENT OF ICE, by W. H. Pugmire
NIGHT OF THE CIRCUS, by Sharon Cullars
WOLVERS HILL, by Tim Jeff reys
RAFTS, by Lorenzo Crescentini
CLEAN SWEEP, by Edward Ahern
LEAVING MALAGA, by Cynthia Ward
CATTLE CALL, by Gregg Chamberlain
ABOMINATION IS HER NAME, by J.N. Cameron
KACHINA, by Kenneth Bykerk
FLAT IS FLAT AND THAT IS THAT, by David J. Gibbs
DEATH IS NOT MY MASTER, by Scott Harper

Poetry
THE OLD ROCK, by Russ Parkhurst
SLEEPING WITH MAD SHADOWS, by Frederick J. Mayer
THE LIQUID PROFESSOR, by Jeff Barnes
THE TOAD STOOL PEOPLE, by Chad Hensley
THE PROMISE OF A POLIDORI SORE THROAT, by Clay F. Johnson
THIS HUNGRY EARTH, by S.L. Edwards

Artwork
Alexandra Petruk - Front Cover
Allen Koszowski - Interior Artwork

WEIRDBOOK is now offering Subscriptions!!!!

  Amazon.com   Kindle    Wildside Press: Softcover  Wildside Press: eBook

Weirdbook Magazine Blogspot  Weirdbook  Facebook: Weirdbook
WEIRDBOOK #39
Coming soon!

Weirdbook #39 May 2018
Full contents

Horror Around The Bend by Franklyn Searight
A Tiny Cut by Samson Stormcrow Hayes
Posthumous by Marlane Quade Cook
Pages From An Invisible Book by Darrell Schweitzer
The Name Was Evoc by Lorenzo Crescentini
Misdiagnosed by Jackie Bee
Dog Drool by Frederick J. Mayer
The Venusian Mantis by Teege Braune
The Color of the Gods by Ken Heueler
Spawning Ground by Hannah Lackoff
Curse of the Dark Queen by Lily Luchesi
Monika Unraveling by Rebecca House
Crawling With Them by Jason Zwiker
Seven Sisters by James Machin
The House In The Mountains Michael Washburn
Eyes Without A Face by Thomas Vaughn
Clartley Chowder by Riche Brown
Dominion Over Abbadon by Richard J. O'Brien
Divine Wind Of The Dark by Frank Schildiner
Skrik by Bekki Pate
The Ferryman's Journal by Ed Burkley
Demiurge by Marc A. Fitch
And In Her Eyes, The City Drowned by Kyla Lee Ward
Clouds Like Memories, Words Like Stones by John R. Fultz
Up The Lazy River by Adrian Cole

Poems and Flash Fiction
Bad Night by Lucy Snyder
Songs Of The Quail by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Sylvan Simalcrum by Chad Hensley
Mister Dorton's Cats by Russ Parkhurst
Miskatonic Etudes by James P. Roberts
Cursed by Julio Toro San Martin & Hank Simmons
The Autumn People by Kurt Newton
The Great Time Machine by Denny E. Marshall
Ea Carpe Noctis by Frank Coffman









20 April 2018  


Windy City Con Reports

Airship 27/Ron Fortier Blog: WINDY CITY 2018
2018 ECOF
(Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship)
 Irving, Texas
May 18-20, 2018
   

ECOF  

22nd Annual Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale
Saturday, May 12, 2018, 10am to 4pm!
Canada's premier pulp event!

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

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

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

Only $3! Tickets available at the door, kids under 10 admitted free with adult.
For more information, contact us at:  info@girasolcollectables.com

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

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

 We look forward to seeing you there.



67th Michigan Antiquarian Book And Paper Show
Sunday, April 29, 2018
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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

Causeway Bay Hotel
6820 South Cedar Street
Lansing, Michigan

New Location! Free Parking!

West of Lowe's Home Improvement

Admission $5
CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER FREE
Adventure House Pulp and Collectibles Show
SUNDAY – September 9th, 2018

ARBUTUS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
5200 Southwestern Blvd – Halethorpe MD 21227
We’ve finally put together a show in the Mid-Atlantic area on September 9th, 2018. 
Conveniently located off I-95, just south of the Baltimore Beltway. 
Only 5-10 minutes from BWI Airport or Amtrak. [See map below.]

Convention Hours – 10am – 4pm
$5.00 Attendance Fee
Seventy plus tables with thousands of pulps and lots of popular culture collectibles.
Two large parking lots
Snack bar on premises
Hotels nearby include: [Rates are not guaranteed]
Holiday Inn BWI Airport – $108
Country Inn & Suites – $118
Holiday Inn Express – $99
Aloft BWI  – $89
Red Roof Plus – $80
Hilton Garden Inn BWI Airport – $93
BWI Airport Marriott – $139
Fairfield Inn & Suites BWI Airport – $96
La Quinta Inn & Suites  – $115
Hilton Baltimore BWI Airport – $139
Hampton Inn BWI – $97
Shipping services by Adventure House through USPS available for a standard counter rates and a small handling fee.
Short trip to the Baltimore Inner Harbor [15 Minutes]
Slightly longer trip to Washington DC [30 minutes]
Adventure House
Coming soon!

G8 and his Battle Aces #52 - January 1938
Satan Paints the Sky by Robert J. Hogan
G-8 walked down the road that leads to Death, and in the sky he flew where the Falcons waited with their bloody claws bared! 
For that is the way of War and there is no mercy—only red courage against hatred as SATANS PAINTS THE SKY!

Cover Artist: Frederick Blakeslee

7x10, 110 pages, $14.95



Adventure House
Coming soon!

Phantom Detective - Winter 1952

The Silent Killer by Robert Wallace
Fighting to save thousands of teen-agers from drug addiction, the Phantom tackles a mysterious ring of dealers in despair!

The Glass Noose by Robert Leslie Bellem
The Pointing Finger by Philip Ketchum
Flight Westward by Bryan Croghan
Murder on the Meter by Ardythe Gamel
The Suicide of Richard Manse by Ray Cummings
The Death Lei by Frank Richardson Pierce
7x10, 86 pages, $14.95



Adventure House
Coming soon!

Battle Stories - July 1930

Saps and Sappers by Arthur Guy Empey
Three dumb doughs blunder into a German-mined hill!

Spy Hunter of the Somme by Harold F. Cruickshank
Bombing the Sea Snakes by Harold Bradley Say
Four Battling Bucks by E.L. Valence
Johnny Get Your Gun by Major George Eliot
The Glory Grabber by Joseph Ball
A Demon of the Dugouts by Seth Bailey
Air Lanes of Intrigue by Frederick C. Painton
Sky Crusaders by Edwin C. Parsons
The Golden Death by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Call to Arms by William A. Shipman

Cover Artist: George Rozen
7x10, 176 pages, $14.95



Adventures in Bronze / Altus Press
THE WILD ADVENTURES OF DOC SAVAGE
DOC SAVAGE: MR. CALAMITY
(Writer) Will Murray (Cover) Joe Devito
Now available in hardcover, softcover and eBook editions!
Coming to comic shops July 4!

Prospecting in the Wyoming badlands, Patricia Savage spies a man swimming in circles—high in a cloudless sky!
After he falls to his death, the dead swimmer is discovered soaked to the skin.
Who is he? How did he manage to swim through thin air?

These are the questions Pat sets out to answer when her cousin, the famous scientist-adventurer Doc Savage, diagnoses her account as a hallucination caused by altitude sickness.
But when the bronze-skinned girl vanishes, the Man of Bronze is forced to take action.

From the Bighorn Mountains to Devils Tower, Doc Savage and his mighty crew race against time
to avert an impending tragedy created by a nebulous devil in human form who calls himself Mr. Calamity.

Plus a bonus Doc Savage story: The Valley of Eternity.

Softcover edition:  $29.95
Hardcover edition: $49.95
eBook: $6.99
DOC SAVAGE: MR CALAMITY is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181311.




Altus Press
THE SPIDER: SLAUGHTER, INCORPORATED (Facsimile Edition)
by Grant Stockbridge, Donald G. Cormack, Arthur Leo Zagat, and Norvell Page
Introduction by Will Murray
Now available!

Originally slated to appear in The Spider Magazine in the 1940s, "Slaughter, Incorporated" was ultimately shelved when that magazine was cancelled.
Never before published directly from author Donald G. Cormack's original manuscript,
this edition has been faithfully reconstructed as an exact copy of the never-published
February 1944 issue of The Spider Magazine, complete with vintage interior illustrations.

In addition, The Spider: Slaughter, Incorporated (Facsimile Edition) marks the first publication
of the never-before-published lost Red Finger story, "Red Finger and the Murder Trio," penned by Arthur Leo Zagat.

Also including a story by longtime Spider author, Norvell Page.

$19.95 softcover
Altus Press
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS #6: THE RED DESTROYER
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Now available!

”Stand by for action—three o'clock—map position M-24.”
Dusty Ayres suspected that this message came from the enemy, that it was bait luring him to a trap;
but he didn't guess how deadly the snare was, didn't know that he was keeping a rendezvous
with one of the most destructive weapons yet used by the Blacks—an invisible tornado of red death!

An amazing account of the next great war!

186 pages / $13.95 softcover

 


Altus Press
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS #7: THE WHITE DEATH
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Now available!

“You will instruct Captain Ayres to proceed to Washington H.Q. by staff train at 2:25.
He is to be provided with escort to station and placed in custody of Staff Sergeant Bolton…” Dusty read this radiogram with amazement.
First H.Q. grounded him, then sent this crazy order.
But the order did not worry the gods of war, for they knew that the very fires of hell itself would sweep across war-torn America
before the devilish plot behind that command could be smashed—before Dusty Ayres could learn the secret of the white death!

188 pages / $13.95 softcover
Altus Press

by Robb T. White, Jonathan Sheppard, Richard Billingsley, J.D. Graves, Brian Townsley, J. Allan Dunn, Paul Ernst, Dan Cushman, Frederick Nebel, and H. Bedford-Jones

Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue featuring five all-new stories, plus vintage hard-boiled classics from the pulp era of the 1930s-40s.
And it includes a never-before published cover by James Lunnon, painted for Black Mask in 1940.

 $14.95softcover  / $4.99 eBook

Altus Press
The Cross Brand
by Frederick Faust
Now available!

Longtime friends, Sheriff Harry Ganton and Jack Bristol, find themselves on different sides when Harry is mistakenly shot during an argument. Thinking he has killed his friend, Jack flees town, only to run into two mysterious strangers. Why does one have a cross brand on his forehead? And then there's the matter of Jack's appointment with the hangman's noose in his future....

139 pages / $12.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

Altus Press

Altus Press
The Next Wave of The H. Bedford-Jones Library
Now available!

Altus Press is pleased to announce the next wave of books in our acclaimed H. Bedford-Jones Library series.
This time out, we've collected a variety of HBJ's most beloved genres: historicals, mysteries, and Foreign Legion sagas, among others.
These have rarely if ever been reprinted. And each contains all of the original pulp illustrations by some of the best draftsmen of the pulp era.
Simply put: if you're looking for the best material to see print in the pulps, look no further than the works of The King of the Pulps, H. Bedford-Jones.

Each will be available soon at www.altuspress.com.

The Princess and the Prophet
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by John Richard Flanagan

Nostradamus, Mary of Scotland, and other historical figures interact in a novel by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

Under Nostradamus' care, wounded Scottish gentleman Cameron of Glenlyon was soon healed, and he told of his mission: he bore a secret message from Scotland to young Queen Mary; and Hamilton and others of the Scots Guards would kill him if need be, to prevent its delivery....

222 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Ghost of Screwface Hanlon
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Pete Kuhlhoff

The nephew of a King of the Underworld inherits his fortune... and his enemies. But is Screwface Hanlon really dead? Crawford must find out, or he'll end up like his mysterious uncle! A never-before collected series by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

62 pages | $14.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

They Lived By the Sword
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops

A fantastic novel of the World War of 218 B.C., and of Hannibal’s invasion across the Alps—the greatest military feat in history. It's a novel by the King of the Pulps—author H. Bedford-Jones—which has never before appeared in book form.

231 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Warriors in Exile
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops

Collected for the first time is author H. Bedford-Jones' 17-part saga of the French Foreign Legion... the fascinating series based on the records of the most famous and picturesque fighting force of modern times. Featuring stories of the Foreign Legions in Crimea, Italy, Formosa, Tonkin, Siam, Dahomey, Sudan, Madagascar, the Sahara, with Maximilian of Austria in Mexico, war-torn Spain in 1835, and the Franco-Prussian War.

384 pages | $24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover

One More Hero: The Cases of the Fireboat Men
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Leland Gustavson

Fireboat men must be not only firemen, but sailors, divers, engineers and police—dangerous callings, all.... Collected for the first time, this colorful series centers around Gunboat Brendan and the tragic problem he met below the murky harbor waters. Written by the prolific author, H. Bedford-Jones, the King of the Pulps.

102 pages | $14.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Gunpowder Gold
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Pete Kuhlhoff

Grimm had risked his life on the American and European battlefields. Now he was hot on the trail of the two hundred million francs left to the exiled young Russian Duchess Marie of Courtland, and Grimm needed that to fund the battles of the American Colonies... and to buy the needed gunpowder to win their independence.

This edition marks the first time this novel-length adventure has been published in book form. It's another historical fiction classic by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

197 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover






Altus Press: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Altus Press Latest Releases: The Lost Spider Novel, Dusty Ayres, and a New Issue of Black Mask Magazine
The Next Wave of The H. Bedford-Jones Library is Here
Mavericks Headlines the Next Wave of Popular Hero Reprints
The Thrilling Heroes Return to Print
Moon-Blind by Erik Van Lhin (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
American Fantasy Press
THE ASTOUNDING ART OF HUBERT ROGERS
Kickstarter coming in September!


Doug Ellis and Bob Garcia spread the news at Windy City Pulp & Paperback Show this weekend about their new summer project: THE ASTOUNDING ART OF HUBERT ROGERS.

They expect to be ready in September or so to launch a new Kickstarter for it.

Rogers was the premier artist for ASTOUNDING in the 1930s, with covers for the sf classics, SLAN, GREY LENSMAN, FOUNDATION and most of the Robert A. Heinlein novels that appeared in the mag.
If that wasn't enough, his covers also appeared on pulps from ARGOSY to ADVENTURE.

The book is being produced with the cooperation of Rogers' family, giving access to rare material such as photos, sketches, prelims, proofs and original art, which should allow us to produce a book that we hope you'll find astounding!
This is going to be a fantastic project.

American Mythology Productions and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

THE MOON MAID #1
(Writer) Christopher Mills (Art) Gabriel Rearte, (Cover) Mike Wolfer

Deep beneath the crust of the Earth's moon lies a fantastic world of lush, purple vegetation, hideous monsters, the half-human/half-horse Va-gas, and the most incredible, alluring creature in the universe... Nah-ee-lah, the "Moon Maid!"

American Mythology is proud to present Edgar Rice Burroughs' immortal, sci-fi action adventure in comic book form, in all-new adventures that finds Nah-ee-lah a prisoner of the cannibalistic Va-gas, but salvation arrives in the form of two time and space-travelling adventurers from the prehistoric continent of Caspak, "The Land That Time Forgot!"

This thrilling first issue also serves as the second chapter in the "Fear on Four Worlds" saga, which ties Burroughs' greatest fantasy worlds together into one shared universe, including Va-nah (The Moon Maid), Amtor (Carson of Venus), Pellucidar, and Caspak (The Land That Time Forgot). The Moon Maid comes with four covers - Main Cover by Mike Wolfer, Visions of the Moon & B&W Limited Edition Covers by Gabriel Rearte, and a Blank Sketch Edition.

Moon Maid #1 comes with four covers:
Main Pulptastic Cover by Mike Wolfer
Visions of the Moon Cover by Gabriel Rearte
Limited Edition  Visions of the Moon B&W Cover by Gabriel Rearte
Blank Sketch Cover.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale July 25.

THE MOON MAID #1 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181342 (Wolfer cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181343 (Rearte cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181344 (Rearte Limited Edition B&W cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181345 (Sketch cover).

American Mythology Productions

ZORRO SWORDS OF HELL #1
(Writer) David Avallone (Art) Roy Allen Martinez

Zorro is back!
Los Angeles is invaded by an army of demonic horsemen and Zorro is the only man who can save his home from becoming Hell on Earth.
David Avallone (Bettie Page, Twilight Zone: The Shadow) and Roy Allen Martinez (House of M, Immortal Iron Fist) are proud to present the return of Zorro, as he faces down the Swords of Hell in this all new action-packed swashbuckling horror series.

Zorro Swords of Hell #1 comes with five covers:
Main by Roy Allan Martinez
Werewolves Fury by Richard Bonk
Classic Nostalgia by Jon Pinto
Ltd Ed Visions of Zorro by Alex Toth
Blank Sketch Edition cover.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale July 25.

ZORRO SWORDS OF HELL #1 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181327 (Martinez cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181328 (Bonk cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181329 (Toth cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181330 (Pinto cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY18128 (Sketch cover).







Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!

THE SHADOW #128: “Shadowed Millions” and “No Safety in Numbers” plus “The Chateau of Shadows"
The Dark Avenger proves that crime does not pay in classic pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson and Bruce Elliott writing as “Maxwell Grant." First, a huge investment in a South American country attracts international criminals and corrupt politicians, leading the Dark Avenger on a hunt for “Shadowed Millions.” Then, gang violence and gambling madness corrupt a city until The Shadow demonstrates to vicious mobsters that there is “No Safety in Numbers." BONUS: “The Chateau of Shadows,” a Golden Age of Comics classic by Walter Gibson and Bob Powell. This instant collectors item showcases the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Charles J. Ravel plus the classic interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Bob Powell with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-246-9 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

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

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming to online retailers in July!
Coming to comic shops July 25!

THE SHADOW Volume 132: “Fingers of Death” & “The Blackest Mail”
Lamont Cranston investigates crime in classic pulp thrillers by Walter. B. Gibson and Bruce Elliott. First, one by one, prominent citizens fall victim to "Fingers of Death" and only The Shadow can uncover the murderous mastermind behind the serial killings! Then, mysterious writing on a wall, a toy boat and a kite set Lamont Cranston on the trail of the Hollywood extortionist behind "The Blackest Mail." Plus, a lost Shadow radio adventure by Walter Gibson! Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

THE SHADOW VOLUME 132 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181958.
Anthony Tollin, P.O. Box 761474, San Antonio, TX 78245-1474
1 book: $14.95 plus $3.00 (First Class) or $2 (Media Mail) for postage and packaging
2 books: $29.90 (cover price) First Class postpaid
Six issues for $84 (first class) or $78 (media mail) [postpaid]
Check, Money Order, or Paypal (orders@shadowsanctum.com)




Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week
Past episodes:
Doc Brazen: Millenium Bug - A Doc Savage Pastiche
Secret Agent X, Volume 6 from Airhsip 27
Four in the Way: Vol. 2 of the Saints and Sinners Series
Doc Savage Pastiches
"Three on a Match" - Sergio Leone meets Barsoom
Bobby Nash discusses "Sanderson of Metro"
ATHENA VOLTAIRE 2018 ONGOING #5 - Coming in July!
(Writer) Steve Bryant (Art) Yusuf Idris (Cover) Steve Bryant

"Athena Voltaire and Golden Dawn," Part One.
A new story arc begins as Athena travels to Portugal to retrieve a previously undiscovered DaVinci Codex. Of course, there are always other interested parties!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale July 11.

ATHENA VOLTAIRE 2018 ONGOING #5 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181246.




AVENGERS OF THE MOON
 by Allen Steele
Now available!
 
The solar system needs a hero and it's about to get one in an old-fashioned pulp adventure with modern sensibility. It was an age of miracles. It was an era of wonder. It was a time of troubles. It was all these things and more... except there were no heroes. Naturally, one had to be created. Curt Newton has spent most of his life hidden from the rest of humankind, being raised by a robot, an android, and the disembodied brain of a renowned scientist. This unlikely trio of guardians has kept his existence a closely guarded secret since the murder of Curt's parents. Curt's innate curiosity and nose for trouble inadvertently lead him into a plot to destabilize the Solar Coalition and assassinate the president. There's only one way to uncover the evil mastermind — Curt must become Captain Future!

Allen Steele gives us a thrilling piece of sf pulp with Avengers of the Moon.

Softcover, 6 x 9, 304 pages, $15.99, On sale April 17.
Publisher: Tor Books

Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
By Ed Hulse (editor)
Now available!

The Shadow, The Spider, The Avenger, Doc Savage, The Black Bat, The Phantom Detective — these swashbuckling heroes of mid-20th-century pulp fiction all had one thing in common: They fought crime from outside the law, unhindered by red tape and unmindful of such legal niceties as due process. They fought with fists and guns, for the most part hiding their true identities beneath outlandish costume and grotesque disguises.

This collection of essays by distinguished pulp-fiction aficionados chronicles the era of single-character magazines from offbeat angles and with keen insight. The pieces herein analyze key stories and characters while offering rare, behind-the-scenes glimpses of authors and editors at work, crafting and polishing the pulp-paper fever dreams that enthralled millions of young readers during the Great Depression, World War II, and beyond. Ed Hulse, editor of Blood ‘n’ Thunder, the award-winning journal of adventure, mystery and melodrama, has assembled these affectionate essays with loving care and a discerning eye for the high-water marks in this phase of American popular culture.

This third volume of Blood ‘n’ Thunder Presents, like its predecessors, is profusely illustrated with pulp-magazine covers and original artwork.

Cover Art by Rafael De Soto
Introduction by Ed Hulse
220 pgs., paperback, 8 1/2 X 11
Price: $24.95
PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!

2018 Windy City Film Program
Murania Press 2017 Year-End Sale
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER Back-Issue Availability
Bold Venture Press

Aviation thrills and horrific villains in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft and G-8 & His Battle Aces!

Out of the night explodes an engine of unimaginable fury, powered by the drive to accumulate and hoard for the mere sake of possession — a force that draws its strength from the perpetual motion of irreconcilable imperatives engaged in timeless opposition; a beast that should be a myth, but thrives on the nightmares that well out of the unconscious when the unconscious is untethered from myth.  The Mysteriarchs of the Abyss have shackled and enslaved the primordial evil that has guarded their hideous treasure troves for eons — a dragon of gargantuan proportions with more destructive rage than the Great War itself!

Also features the short story "Zohar of the Jungle" by Stuart Hopen.

To the world at large, The Twilight Patrol is a high-flying band of scrappy patriots, ever alert for trouble and always willing to lend a hand. To the sinister foes lurking behind the Axis horizon, they are a force to be reckoned with in the onslaught against freedom. To their fans, The Twilight Patrol is the bravest assortment of adventurers ever brought together to confront the dark forces threatening our mortal realm.

144 pages, 8.5" x 11"
Paperback: $14.95 / eBook: $3.99

Bringing Back Classic Adventure One Page at a Time - Now online!

Vintage Reads – The Sword of Rhiannon
Vintage Reads – The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales
Vintage Reads – The Dying Earth


Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!

Pulp Appeal: CIRSOVA #5
Issue 5 of Broadswords and Blasters Available Now!
Pulp Consumption: Sharp Ends


THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscribe for 2018
 
Subscribe for 2018 now, as the price will rise after this special offer ends!
The 2018 Issues are numbers 81, 82, and 83.

Please note that Bronze Gazette Special Editions are not included in any subscription, but may be purchased separately.
Only $30.00
 
THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #81 is now available and recommended!
 
Front Cover: Dan Brereton
"The State of the World of Bronze" by Chuck Welch
"Notes on a Doc Savage Illustration" by Dan Brereton
"The Stories Behind the Story" by David Avallone
"Reviewing the Ring of Fire" by Bobb Cotter
"The Girl Who Hated Doc Savage" by Dafydd Neal Dyar
"Doc Savage and the WEP" by Julián Paga
"Sons of Savage: Doc Caliban" by Art Sippo, MD
"Doc Has a Gun!" by Michael Ingalls
Back Cover: Tim Faurote imagines Doc and the Fatal Five in the style of James Bama

Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
You can order available single issues at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/back-issues/
Subscribe for 2018 (Issues 81, 82, and 83) at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/subscribe/

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Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Sensor Sweep: Harold Lamb, Shaver and Lovecraft, Windy City Pulp & Paperback Show - New!
Short Reviews – Hide and Seek, by Arthur C. Clarke
Elric: The Ruby Throne
Tales From the Magician’s Skull #1
Sensor Sweep: A. Merritt, Leigh Brackett, Dungeons of Chaos, and Rocket’s Red Glare

CONAN OMNIBUS VOLUME 6 TPB - Coming in September!
(Writer) Brian Wood, Fred Van Lente (Art) Davide Gianfelice & Various (Cover) Massimo Carnevale

Brian Wood's acclaimed adaptation of "Queen of the Black Coast" reaches its heartbreaking conclusion. Having found his true love and spiritual equal, Conan faces the one foe no warrior can defeat. But there will be little time to grieve, for death takes no holiday, and evil never dies!

Collects Conan Vol. 15: The Nightmare of the Shallow (Conan the Barbarian #13-#18); Conan Vol. 16: The Song of Bêlit (Conan the Barbarian #19-#25); Conan Vol. 17: Shadows Over Kush (Conan the Avenger # 1-#6).

Trade paperback, 7x10, 448 pages, $24.99, On sale September 12.

CONAN OMNIBUS VOLUME 6 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY180375





 

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

The Art of Frank Hamilton (Part 4) - New!
Comic Gallery: PRINCE VALIANT - New!
Pulp Gallery: BATTLE STORIES - New!
Doc Savage Out West! in MR. CALAMITY by Will Murray
The Sweat Mag Art of Mort Künstler
Pulp Gallery: CLUES DETECTIVE STORIES (1937)
Movie Posters of 1914
The Sweat Mag Art of Stanley Borack

DEJAH THORIS #6 - Coming in July!
Writer: Amy Chu
Art: Pasquale Qualano
Cover A: Mike McKone
Cover B: Diego Galindo
Cover C: Pasquale Qualano

Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium sends Dejah Thoris on a scientific mission to chart air currents and atmospheric density tests. But Dekana Lor, Headmistress of the Royal Academy of Helium hints at a second secret mission to the princess. And who is this handsome Red Martian prince and why is he suddenly part of the team?

A prequel to Edgar Rice Burroughs' beloved book A Princess of Mars.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale July 11.

DEJAH THORIS #6 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181067 (McKone cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY18 (Galindo cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY18 (Qualano cover).

   

The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Magazine of Horror #36 Apr. 1971 - New!
Broadswords and Blasters #5 Spring 2018 - New!
Black Cat Mystery Magazine #2 - New!
Magazine of Horror #35 Feb. 1971 - New!
Pulp Literature #18 Spring 2018 - New!
Pulp Literature 17 Winter 2018
Magazine of Horror #17 Fall 1967
Nostalgia Digest Winter 2018
Joe Wehrle, Jr.’s Pencil Portraits
Drawn by Wehrle

DMR Books - Now available!

These titles are also available from Mike Chomko.
Contact Mike at mikechomko@gmail.com

The Thief of Forthe and Other Stories by Clifford Ball
After the death of Robert E. Howard, Clifford Ball was the first writer to follow in his footsteps and pen sword and sorcery stories for Weird Tales. For the first time ever, all of Ball’s stories are collected into one volume. A must-have for pulp historians and fans of fantasy, horror, and weird fiction! 206 pages.

Table of Contents:
Duar the Accursed
The Thief of Forthe
The Goddess Awakes
The Swine of Aeaea
The Little Man
The Werewolf Howls

The limited edition "classic size" version of this title will be available in April.
Trade paperback and digital versions will be coming later this spring.
$10.00

The Sapphire Goddess - The Fantasies of Nictzin Dyalhis
At last, the stories of one of the most unusual writers of weird fiction are collected! This volume contains all of Nictzin Dyalhis’ works of fantasy and science fiction, many of which have never before been reprinted. Those who love the wild imagination and masterful prose of authors such as Clark Ashton Smith and C.L. Moore are sure to enjoy this collection. 388 pages.

Table of Contents:

When the Green Star Waned
The Eternal Conflict
He Refused to Stay Dead
The Dark Lore
The Oath of Hul Jok
The Red Witch
The Sapphire Goddess
The Sea-Witch
Heart of Atlantan

The limited edition "classic size" version of this title will be available in April.
Trade paperback and digital versions will be coming later this spring.
$13.00

DMR Books Blog - Now online!

Forefathers of Sword and Sorcery: Harold Lamb
Who "Made" Conan and Robert E. Howard? -- Part One
The Savage Swords of Louis L'Amour  
Reavers of Skaith: Saving the Last For First
"I Dream in Fire But Work in Clay" - Arthur Machen
GREEN HORNET #5 - Coming in July!
(Writer) Amy Chu (Art) German Erramouspe (Cover) Mike McKone, Diego Galindo

The enigmatic public hero the Oko has captured Green Hornet and Kato on live TV, but what is are his true motives? It's up to a Daily Sentinel reporter to stop him before he exposes their identities to the whole world.

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

GREEN HORNET #5 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181077 (McKone cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181078 (Galindo cover).




 
GREEN HORNET OMNIBUS TPB VOLUME 2 - Coming in July!
(Writer) Amy Chu (Art) German Erramouspe (Cover) Mike McKone, Diego Galindo

The mysterious and deadly Redhand makes his move against the Kato family. With Mulan ailing, and Hayashi guarding her, it falls to Green Hornet to stand alone against the deadliest foe he has ever faced. An enemy with training and knowledge surpassing even his, an enemy who can't be found... until he strikes.  Then the "Outcast" arc sees a new power rising in Century City. A bureaucrat has seized control of the entire city, and to cement his position, he enlists the help of a killer who wears the Green Hornet costume. Now, Britt Reid, Jr. must fight for his life, and for his father's legacy. The Green Hornet and Kato will have to get as down and dirty as their new foes to preserve everything their fathers left as legacy. In the end, nothing will ever be the same in Century City.

Trade Paperback, Full Color, 360 pages, $29.99, On sale July 4.

GREEN HORNET OMNIBUS VOLUME 2 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181081.



Haffner Press
Now available!

“Of all of Raymond Chandler’s followers, the most Chandlerish of them all might have been Howard Browne. His private eye hero, PAUL PINE, is simply one of the great eyes, no matter how inspired by (or derivative of ) Chandler’s Philip Marlowe he might have been. All the Pine books are well worth reading, and A Taste of Ashes (1957) in particular is just a flat-out, stone-cold private eye classic.

Pine is a former investigator for the Illinois State attorney’s office in Chicago who works as a P.I. in Chicago. He’s got the obligatory cynicism, snappy similes and metaphors down pat, though he tends to be a bit more down to earth than Marlowe, and often mocks his own tendencies to moroseness and world-weariness. And let’s face it — Browne was a stronger plotter than Chandler.

In 1985, almost thirty years after Pine’s last appearance, Dennis McMillan published a book The Paper Gun. That volume collected the only previously-published Pine story, “So Dark For April,” plus an incomplete Pine novel that Browne, in the foreword, called “a story complete in itself. But it is not the whole novel.” He states that he had lost interest in the private eye genre, and so the story is only 122 pages in length, too long for a short story, but too short for a novel.’ —adapted from “Paul Pine” by Kevin Burton Smith, www.thrillingdetective.com
HALO FOR HIRE contains all the Paul Pine stories.

Edited by Stephen Haffner
Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff
Cover Art by Laurel Blechman
900+ page Hardcover


TABLE OF CONTENTS
Halo in Blood
Halo for Satan
Halo in Brass
"So Dark for April"
The Taste of Ashes
"The Paper Gun"

Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM COMPLETE AVON NOVELS VOLUME 07: THE MYSTERY OF THE SEA HORSE - Coming in July!
(Writer) Lee Falk (Cover) George Wilson

For the first time ever, the Avon edition of The Phantom is back in print! Hermes Press is proud to announce that they will be publishing all fifteen pocket Avon books, starting in August 2016 and continuing until the conclusion of the series in Volume 15! This exciting installment, Volume 7 offers the tale: "The Mystery of The Sea Horse!"

Famed artist George Wilson (Dr. Solar, Magnus Robot Fighter, The Phantom) painted the cover for Volume #7 as he did with all of the covers used for the Avon series, and they are reproduced beautifully to keep all of the details from the original books intact for a new generation of Phans to enjoy!

A palatial 200 foot yacht, “The Sea Horse” – a luxurious private island guarded by fierce dogs – all the property of the suave and charming Chris Danton.
What is the source of his seemingly inexhaustible wealth? What is the grim secret behind the “ageless” smile of the master of The Sea Horse?
The Phantom's sweetheart, beautiful Diana Palmer, innocently stumbles into Danton's web and finds herself caught up in an evil conspiracy from which she can be saved only by the power and ingenuity of the Phantom – The Ghost Who Walks.

Softcover, 6x9, 128 pages, B&W, $14.99, On sale July 4.

THE PHANTOM COMPLETE AVON NOVELS VOLUME 7 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181800.





Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM COMPLETE AVON NOVELS VOLUME 08: THE HYDRA MONSTER - Coming in July!
(Writer) Lee Falk (Cover) George Wilson

For the first time ever, the Avon edition of The Phantom is back in print! Hermes Press is proud to announce that they will be publishing all fifteen pocket Avon books, starting in August 2016 and continuing until the conclusion of the series in Volume 15! This exciting installment, Volume 8 offers the tale: "The Hydra Monster!"

Famed artist George Wilson (Dr. Solar, Magnus Robot Fighter, The Phantom) painted the cover for Volume #8 as he did with all of the covers used for the Avon series, and they are reproduced beautifully to keep all of the details from the original books intact for a new generation of Phans to enjoy!

What is the meaning of HYDRA – a mysterious evil that spans oceans and continents? Who are the black clad men– with V's tattooed on shaven skulls – who appear in the wake of wars, earthquakes, fires, and other catastrophes?
The final mumbled words of a dying man draw the PHANTOM into an amazing web of violence, crime, and murder – the web of THE HYDRA MONSTER.

Softcover, 6x9, 128 pages, B&W, $14.99, On sale July 4.

THE PHANTOM COMPLETE AVON NOVELS VOLUME 8 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181801.



Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Windy City Recap - New!
Friday Update
Collecting Brackett
Tales From the Magician’s Skull Issue 2
Sea-Kings of Mars
The Skull Lives
H.P. Lovecraft: Selected Works, Critical Perspectives and Interviews on His Influence - Coming Spring/Summer 2018!

This collection of H.P. Lovecraft’s most influential works presents several of his most famous stories, a sampling of his poetry and an abridgment of his monograph Supernatural Horror in Literature, with commentary providing background and context. Criticism is included from such scholars as S.T. Joshi and Robert M. Price, along with essays by writers Brad Strickland and T.E.D. Klein, and interviews with Pulitzer-nominated author Richard Monaco (Parsival) and award-winning novelists Cherie Priest (Boneshaker) and Caitlin Kiernan (The Drowning Girl).

SPRING-SUMMER 2018
$39.95
ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #61 - Coming in July!

This issue of Illustration features the sexy pin-up illustrations of the brilliant Earl Moran, perhaps best remembered for his pin-up paintings featuring a young and unknown Marilyn Monroe! Our feature showcases numerous examples of his original art, printed tear sheets and covers, and rare, previously unpublished photographs. Next up we feature the work of Ray Prohaska, famous for his slick magazine illustrations of the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Book reviews, exhibitions and events, and more round out the issue!

Magazine, 80 pages, Full Color, $15.00, On sale July 25.

ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #61 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181814.






JAMES BOND CASE FILES HC VOLUME 01 - Coming in July!
(Writer) Kieron Gillen & Various (Art) Antonio Fuso & Various (Cover) Tula Lotay

Contains Four exhilarating stand-alone Bond stories from superstar creators.

SERVICE: In contemporary politics, where Britain's world standing is often more zero than 007, an assassin plans to exterminate the "special relationship," and lead Britain and the United States into a very dark place...especially when he does so by aiming down the sights of an ancient Enfield rifle! It'll test Bond's deadly talents to their limits, in order to defeat the assassin and avert certain geopolitical disaster...

MONEYPENNY: Friend of JAMES BOND, former MI6 field agent and bodyguard of M! On a 'routine' protection mission, Moneypenny discovers a complicated assassination plot that bears a startling resemblance to a terrorist attack from her childhood. Can she call upon her secret agent skills to stop the plot...?

SOLSTICE: 007 accepts an unofficial mission. He travels to Paris, in pursuit of a Russian. But is Bond the hunter, or the hunted?

M: James Bond's superior, code-named M, scrambles MI6's secret agents across the globe. Sometimes, he knowingly sends them to their deaths, for the greater good. But a traumatic event from M's early days in the eld returns to haunt him, forcing M to return to the scene of a crime...HIS crime.

Hardcover, 7x10, TBA pages, Full Color, $24.99, On sale July 11.

JAMES BOND CASE FILES VOLUME 1 HC is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181082.


JAMES BOND VOLUME 2: EIDOLON TPB - Coming in July!
(Writer) Warren Ellis (Art) Jason Masters (Cover) Dom Reardon

James Bond is trapped in Los Angeles with a MI6 agent under fire and a foreign intelligence service trying to put them both in bags... and possibly more than one foreign intelligence service. And things may not be any safer in Britain, with bodies dropping and ghosts moving in the political mist... Collecting issues #7-12 of the ongoing James Bond comic book series written by Warren Ellis, the New York Times bestselling author of Gun Machine and critically-acclaimed comic book writer (Iron Man, Planetary, Astonishing X-Men), and featuring artwork by Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated).

Collecting issues #7-12 of the ongoing James Bond comic book series.

Trade paperback, 7x10, TBA pages, Full Color, $19.99, On sale July 4.

JAMES BOND VOLUME 2: EIDOLON TPB is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181083.



Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

HUGO GERNSBACK'S THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER PLUS SCIENCE AND INVENTION AND RADIO NEWS

HUGO GERNSBACK'S, the father of American Science Fiction, was the publisher of "The Electrical Experimenter", "Science and Invention", and "Radio News" magazines. In those fact-based magazines, he included a fiction story or two per issue (including an all science fiction issue of "Science and Invention" to test the waters for his "AMAZING STORIES" pulp magazine. It is believed by some that the author, Charles S. Wolfe, may have been a pen name of Gernsback.

This book contains the nearly complete literary output of "Charles S. Wolfe" which appeared in the three magazines listed above, plus one from "Black Mask".
All that is missing are two other stories which appeared in "Black Mask" pulp magazine.

Trade Paperback:
6 x 9 inch
276 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $14.95



  
KULL ETERNAL TPB - Coming in August!
(Writer) Tom Waltz (Art/Cover) Luca Pizzari

Kull has been a slave and a pirate, a warrior and a king, but now the defender of Atlantis is about to face his biggest challenge ever: traveling through time to save our modern world from the evil Serpent Men! After discovering that the Serpent Men are planning to conquer modern-day America, King Kull of Atlantis is about to become a fish out of water when the Elder Race sends him through the timeline to stop them. Now, he'll fight to save the world on a journey that takes him through the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War II, and all the way into modern times.

Collecting issues #1-3 and the 2018 Annual!

Trade paperback, 144 pages, Full Color, $19.99, On sale August 29.

KULL ETERNAL ANNUAL is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY180721.





Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

The Lone Ranger on Radio, Film, and Television
Ready Player One Movie Review
Cinevent Film Festival Turns 50
Filmfax Magazine celebrates a milestone

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.


Now featuring: Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie
Mystery*File - Now online!

COLLECTING PULPS: A Memoir  Part 21: Pulp Art, Part Three by Walker Martin
Pulp Fiction Stories I’m Reading: THORP McCLUSKY “The Crawling Horror.”  
Western Horror Stories I’m Reading, by David Vineyard: MAX BRAND “Werewolf.”
Stories I’m Reading: CORNELL WOOLRICH “Vampire’s Honeymoon.”
COLLECTING PULPS: A Memoir, Part 20, by Walker Martin: PULP ART, Part Two


The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Dr. Shadows
The Man of The Mist
The Velvet Wasp
The Vigilantes


DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, Pennsylvania
Guest of Honor — Joe Lansdale
Thursday, July 26 through Sunday, July 29, 2018
Are you thinking about attending PulpFest 2018?
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 next year’s convention is shaping up to be one of our best.

2018 marks the centennial of the armistice that ended the First World War.
Also called “The War to End All Wars” and “The Great War,” PulpFest — The Great Convention — will be honoring the 100th anniversary
 of the war’s end by focusing on the so-called “war pulps” of the early twentieth century and the depiction of war in popular culture.

We’ll explore the work of Leonard H. Nason — who wrote about soldiers and war for ADVENTURE and other magazines —
and have presentations on artistic interpretations of war in comic books, pulps, and men’s adventure magazines.
Author and anthologist Don Hutchison will moderate a panel on “Fighting Aces of War Skies: The Pulps Take Flight” and
 Henry G. Franke, III — the editor of THE BURROUGHS BULLETIN — will discuss “Edgar Rice Burroughs and The Great War.”
Also, Robert Gould will talk about his father — John Fleming Gould — the interior artist who illustrated every issue of G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES.

We’ll also be celebrating the century mark of Grand Master of Science Fiction Philip José Farmer.
PulpFest and its associated convention — FarmerCon — will be saluting the acclaimed author of such works as ESCAPE FROM LOKI, THE DARK HEART OF TIME, the classic Riverworld series, and more.
Join us for panels and presentations on “World Building and Writing in the Nine Continuity,” “The Dark Heart of Loki: Philip José Farmer Revisits 1918,” and the life and legacy of Philip José Farmer.
We’ll also be showing the French documentary MOI, TARZAN, featuring Farmer, George McWhorter, and Francis Lacassin.

And don’t forget about our Guest of Honor — Joe Lansdale — the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories.
Winner of the Edgar Award, ten Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award,
the British Fantasy Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many other awards,
Joe will be talking with Tony Davis — editor emeritus of THE PULPSTER and winner of the 1999 Lamont Award — on Saturday evening, July 28, in the PulpFest programming room.
Mr. Lansdale will also be available at other times during the convention.

For All Members

All PulpFest 2018 members — including dealers — must register for the convention.

Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying at the DoubleTree: $35 (includes free early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying elsewhere: $40 (without early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying elsewhere: $70 (with early-bird shopping)

Single-day membership for Friday or Saturday: $20
Single-day membership for Sunday: $10 (available only at the door)
Supporting Membership: $25

Help Choose the 2018 Munsey Award

Every year, PulpFest recognizes the efforts of those who work to keep the pulps alive for this and future generations.
The Munsey Award recognizes an individual who has given of himself or herself for the betterment of the pulp community.
The award is named after Frank A. Munsey, the man who published the first pulp magazine.

Our 2017 Munsey Award winner was Phil Stephensen-Payne.

Nominations for the 2018 Munsey Award are now being accepted.
All members of the pulp community are welcome to nominate someone for this year’s award.
 If you have someone in mind that you feel worthy to receive this prestigious award, please let us know.

All members of the pulp community — excepting past winners of the Munsey, Rusty, or Lamont Awards  — are eligible.
Your nomination can be sent to PulpFest marketing and programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
You can also reach Mike at 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104-6542.
You will need to provide the person’s name and an explanation describing why that person should be honored.

The deadline for nominations is May 1, 2018.
The recipient of the Munsey Award will be selected through a vote cast by all the living Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Award winners.
 The 2018 Munsey Award will be presented on Saturday evening, July 28, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, the host hotel for PulpFest 2018.
The convention will take place over the last weekend in July, beginning on Thursday evening, July 26 and running through Sunday, July 29.
Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"The Paradise of the Ice Wilderness" by Jul Regis from AMAZING STORIES, October, 1927
A whaler iced in finds the entrance to a warm underground world guarded by a monster.

"Death in a Cottage" by Paul Ernst from POPULAR DETECTIVE, August, 1937
To whitewash a black deed, a wily killer runs the Gamut of Mass Murder.

"Patrolman Stark Raises a Stink" by Robert C. Blackmon from MAMMOTH DETECTIVE, March, 1943
There wasn't much patrolman Stark could do all trussed up in the back of this truck - but at least he could make his "funeral" smell sweet!
Pulp Den by Tom Johnson - Now online!

Angelica You Have Chosen Well - New!
Co-Evolution - New!
Cop Shot
Millennium Bug
Across A Wounded Galaxy
Landscape of Darkness

         Pulp Den  
Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

Windy City Pulp and Paper convention 2018 - photos - New!
Robert Ormond Case - Western Author
F.R. Buckley - biographical article  
Beautiful covers #3 - N.C Wyeth in the Popular Magazine
Beautiful covers #2 - Walter Baumhofer - Western Story
Cherry Wilson - Western Author
The Pulp Hermit  by Tom Johnson - Now online!

The Ganoraky Missile - New!
Family Skeletons - New!
Coincidence? Maybe, Maybe Not
The Black Bat
Ki-Gor
Frederick C. Davis
The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.
Pulps 1st - Spring Deal 50% off!

At Pulps1st.com there is a sale using promo code ZSPRINGDEALS for 50% off.
The pictures at the right are only samples of what's available.
Pulps 1st has t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, ipad cases stamps, and more!






Radio Archives
G-8 and His Battle Aces #8 Audiobook
The Invisible Staffel by Robert J. Hogan
Read by Nick Santa Maria
Now available!

They called G-8 the Flying Spy. History never recorded his exploits—and for good reason! No one would ever believe World War I was that wild!
 
Ghost planes terrified the Front. Strange ships of death, all men could see were their dim outlines. Sky showed through their fuselages — their wings were transparent air — yet from their invisible guns death bullets spouted, nailing Yank pilots into murder cockpits. What were these weird ships? How could G-8 and his pals dare fight an invisible staffel?
In the late 1920s, Pulp magazines of all kinds were in the hands of millions of readers. With the country tightly in the grip of the Depression, people of all sorts were seeking some way to escape and Pulp magazines were cheap and widely available in nearly every genre imaginable. One specific type of story blazed to popularity and, oddly enough, this particular genre took a look back at the past, at aviation during World War One.
 
Amidst a flurry of flight themed magazines in the late 1920s into the early 1930s, Popular Publications’ President Harry Steeger looked to throw his company into the mix of highflying heroes, hero being a key word there. Thanks to the popularity of such characters as Doc Savage and The Shadow, Steeger wanted to create a pilot character that stood out from the other flyboys in Pulp, one that was as much over the top hero as he was a flyer. From that desire and discussions primarily with author Robert J. Hogan, G-8 and His Battle Aces was born.
 
G-8 changed the face of Aviation Pulp forever. Steeger allowed Hogan to not only put him in the fictional skies, but also to create spectacular, even supernatural enemies for the Battle Aces to protect the world against.
 
Nick Santa Maria brings G-8, Nippy and Bull to thrilling life in their desperate struggle to defeat a strange nemesis unlike anything they have ever before encountered in The Invisible Staffel. Originally published in the May, 1934 issue of G-8 and His Battle Aces magazine.
 
Nick DeGregorio composed the music for the G-8 and His Battle Aces series of audiobooks.
Discounted 50% the first week.
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Audio CDs - $9.99
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs

Radio Archives


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.
 
“Doc” Turner was one of the least likely heroes that appeared in the pulp magazine stories. He was a little old pharmacist who ran a drug store in the slums of New York, where just about everyone came to him when they had problems. Oh, and what problems they had! Werewolves and vampires mixed in with extortionists and gangsters. And solve their problems he did, with the aid of his strapping red-headed assistant, mechanic Jack Ransom, and his young stock boy Abe Ginsberg.
 
These short stories appeared in the back pages of The Spider magazine, a grand total of 70 of them. Every single one can be found in this collection; not a one is missing.
 
Table of Contents:
 
Introduction
 
Bargain Counter Corpse
from the October 1941 issue of the Spider magazine
Doc Turner, grizzled savior of Morris Street, was helpless in his attempt to strangle Manhattan’s newest racket — until Murder advertised a special Bargain Day in Corpses!
 
Satan’s Evening Star
from the December 1941 issue of the Spider magazine
Although young Jack Ransom had seen his venerable companion Doc Turner face sudden death without quailing, he never knew the Patriarch of the Slums to surrender, unresisting, to a man who was admittedly the very personification of evil!... One of Doc Turner’s most exciting adventures!
 
The Dolls From Hell
from the February 1942 issue of the Spider magazine
Surely, thought young Jack Ransom, the ancient patriarch of Morris Street had gone mad! Hadn’t Jack seen old Doc Turner place the death-dolls in his drug store window? And hadn’t he heard the beloved druggist utter the words that allied him with a mass-murderer?
 
Corpses Pay Dividends
from the April 1942 issue of the Spider magazine
Honey Morse, glamorous night club star, went back to the slums to warn old Doc Turner of a new and vicious plot against his beloved people. But a killer’s gun killed her in Doc’s arms — as she uttered just one word!
 
The Claws Of Shari
from the June 1942 issue of the Spider magazine
No one could explain the giant cat which stalked the darkened alleyways of the slums, killing human beings relentlessly and without reason. So old Doc Turner, protector of the poor, went on the warpath — even though he suspected a menace as ghastly as the dreaded were-wolf of yore!
 
Death Goes to a Picnic
from the August 1942 issue of the Spider magazine
Two large buses, and a station wagon driven by Jack Ransom, drove away from Manhattan’s slums loaded with laughing youngsters bound for their one joyous day in the country. But the station wagon did not return — and old Doc Turner knew that he should have played that fleeting hunch. For now, in an unknown spot, and in an unknown manner — Death was closing in on those pitiful kids!
 
Satan Has Little Teeth!
from the October 1942 issue of the Spider magazine
Old Doc Turner was afraid — because he knew the reason for those wrecked war trucks — because he knew the ghastly meaning of those insidious little teeth marks. He was afraid because he knew more than it was good for a human to know.
 
Death with a Dog’s Face
from the December 1942 issue of the Spider magazine
Old Doc Turner was treading on dangerous ground when he learned the closely guarded secrets of the agents of Axis-conquered nations. And, when he acted on that knowledge, he doomed himself to the curse of the dog-faced assassin!
 
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
 
Discounted 50% the first week.
$1.99
Recoverings
TARZAN AND THE LION MAN & SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS Dust-jackets
Now available!

Tarzan and the Lion Man, Synthetic Men of Mars covers
These newly released dust-jackets are as clean as possible.

TARZAN AND THE LION MAN has cover and spine art meticulously redrawn with every line matching St. John's from a 1200ppi scan.
The dark gold on the cover contains bright flecks that simulate the metallic ink on the 1934 edition.
This is reconstructed from the true first edition jacket, not the more common jacket that was issued on the Grosset & Dunlap reprint, the "red Tarzana" and subsequent ERB, Inc. reprints.

SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS uses a scan of the original John Coleman Burroughs painting on both cover and spine.
The original was smoke damaged in the 1953 fire but I've managed to digitally clean it up while retaining the detail of the brushwork. Click on the image to the right to see what you'll get when you order.

Tarzan and the Lion Man
Cover by J. Allen St. John.
$25.00

Synthetic Men of Mars
Cover by John Coleman Burroughs
$25.00


RED SONJA #19 - Coming in July!
Writer: Amy Chu, Erik Burnham
Art: Carlos Gomez
Cover A: Sean Chen
Cover B: Tom Mandrake
Cover C: Jan Duursema
Cover D: Cosplay Cover
Cover E Subscription: John Royale

Still seeking Lord Skath, Sonja finally reaches his castle in the Cimmerian mountains -- and it's not what she expected!
Castle Skath is now something of an attraction for wealthy visitors from across Hyborea; and its new owner, Rusa Sandak, has sinister plans to keep the gold flowing...

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale July 25.

RED SONJA #19 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181097 (Chen cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181098 (Mandrakecover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181099 (Duursema cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181100 (Cosplay cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181101 (Royal cover).
   
   
   
   
   

       

RED SONJA / TARZAN #3 - Coming in July!
Writer: Gail Simone
Art: Walter Geovani
Cover A: Aaron Lopresti
Cover B: Walter Geovani
Cover C: Sergio Davila
Cover D: Robert Castro

The adventure continues and the mystery deepens as Sonja and Tarzan must save the Greystoke family from extreme peril and try to rectify the disturbances in time caused by the evil Elon Duul!

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

RED SONJA / TARZAN #3 is solicited in the May PREVIEWS (Available April 25).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181105 (Lopresti cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181106 (Geovani Cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181107 (Davila cover).
The Diamond Item Code is MAY181108 (Castro cover).

 
   

     

 

Robert E. Howard Days
June 8-9, 2018!


We'll look forward to seeing you in June with all new panels and guests, a couple of extra-special surprise announcements and all the traditional activities that happen every year at Howard Days.
 

Robert E. Howard House Archaeology Project
New Go Fund Me Project to excavate the Howard House storm cellar!

In an effort to shed more light on Robert E. Howard the man, Project Pride, the owners of the Robert E. Howard House and Museum are partnering with the National Park Service (NPS) and the Southeastern Archaeology Foundation (SEAF) to sponsor an archaeological excavation at the house where Howard grew up, lived and died, and wrote his powerful and influential fiction.

The Howard House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1994 and today it has been restored to its period appearance in the 1930s.  The Robert E. Howard House and Museum is now a tourist destination for countless fans from around the world who make the pilgrim to Cross Plains to see the place where whole worlds were created in the mind of one man. It is also the site for the annual gathering of fans known as Howard Days  on the second weekend in June.

At the Howard Days gathering in 2017, Floyd Carter, Jr. who was a member of the family who purchased the home in 1970, told several Howard scholars and attendees about the presence of a storm cellar behind the house that was now filled in and buried. Carter suggested that there was a lot of material, possibly from the Howards, buried in the cellar that might be recovered if it were excavated. NPS archaeologist and Howard scholar Jeffrey Shanks was present and talked with Mr. Carter at length about his memories of the cellar. This led to discussions with Project Pride about the possibility of a professional archaeological excavation to see what could found. Because the Museum has only a handful of items from the Howards, recovering any artifacts that date from the period when Robert and his family lived there would add significantly to the collection.

The Project:

In January, the Project Pride Board of Directors approved Shanks's proposal for the NPS to uncover and excavate the storm cellar, process and analyze the artifacts recovered, and write the official report. The excavation will also be an educational opportunity for the Cross Plains community and local schools to teach about archaeology and the importance of preserving our shared cultural heritage.

Since the Howard House is on the National Register of Historic Places and one of the missions of the National Park Service is to provide technical assistance to NRHP sites, Shanks was able to secure funding to cover the salary costs for himself and another NPS archaeologist, Thadra Stanton, to carry out the project, including excavation, artifact analysis, and report write-up -- a cost of approximately $20,000. Project Pride and the Cross Plains community will be donating lodging for the archaeological team as well as some supplies and much-needed volunteer labor. Noted Howard experts from The Robert E. Howard Foundation  will be present to assist as well.

The remaining project costs are the travel expenses for the team and salary for an NPS Archaeological Technician to assist Shanks and Stanton. These costs are estimated at $3800. Shanks approached the Southeastern Archaeology Foundation (SEAF), a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation that assists and supports NPS archaeological projects, to assist in securing the remaining needed funds. In order to do so, SEAF has launched this GoFundMe crowd-sourcing campaign to raise those funds.

This is where you come in! If you are fan of Robert E. Howard and his stories or just support archaeology and cultural resource preservation, we can use your financial assistance and generosity. Because SEAF is a 501(c)3 any contribution you make is tax deductible. We are offering several donation levels with different gifts including the official project T-Shirt and copies of the forthcoming archaeological report. You can even join the team in Cross Plains and participate in the excavation!

NOTE: Any funds received in excess of the required amount will be donated to Project Pride to help with their ongoing costs in maintaining the the Robert E. Howard House and Museum.

Robert E. Howard Foundation
REH Foundation Awards Nominees!

The REH Foundation is proud to announce to official nominees for this year’s REH Foundation Awards, honoring the top contributions from the previous year in Howard scholarship and in the promotion of Howard’s life and works.

The top three nominees in each category were selected by the Legacy Circle members of the Foundation from an outstanding pool of eligible candidates and their contributions represent the best of the best. (Categories with more than 3 nominees represent a tie in the nomination voting)

All Premium members of the REH Foundation will be eligible to vote on these nominees to determine this year’s winners (Regular FREE members can upgrade to a Premium membership HERE).
Voting deadline is April 30th!
The winners will be announced at a special ceremony at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains on June 8.

The list of nominees is documented at the link below.
The Serial Squadron
Now available!

The Interplanetary Adventures of ROCKETMAN
Featuring Tristram Coffin, George Wallace, Judd Holdren, Dr. Vulcan, Marex the Martian
and Roy Barcroft as Retik the Moon Menace in 3 Complete Serials on 3 Dual-layer DVDs
KING OF THE ROCKET MEN
RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON
ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE

All remastered and restored!

Buy now US direct-from-the-Squadron discount price $26.95
($3 off full price of $29.95)
US Customers only at the moment, please --
outside-US order link will be posted soon)

THE SHADOW / BATMAN HC - Arriving in comic shops April 25!
Writer: Steve Orlando
Art: Giovanni Timpano
Cover: Alex Ross

The World's Greatest Mystery. The World's Greatest Detective. They can barely stand each other, so how will they possibly deal with the World's Greatest Evil? What legacy can two of the world's most enduring icons of justice leave once they discover an ancient evil has been living inside the world they protect for centuries. Can Batman and the Shadow save the world without destroying it in the process? Writer Steve Orlando (Batman/The Shadow, Justice League of America) and artist by Giovanni Timpano (The Shadow, Transformers) unite to tell an instantly classic tale of noir, mortality and generational heroes and villains.

Hardcover, Full Color, 160 pages, $24.99

 Co-published by Dynamite Entertainment and DC Comics
SHEENA #8 - Arriving in comic shops April 25!

Writer: Marguerite Bennett, Christina Trujillo
Art: Maria Sanapo
Cover A: Maria Sanapo
Cover B: Jan Duursema
Cover C: Gisele Lagrace

Betrayal and heartache await Sheena as she wakes to find herself captured by the vicious head of Cadwell Industries.
To her horror, she's not the only one taken captive! With no weapons to defend herself and no chance of escape, Sheena is forced to make a terrible choice--to save one friend's life at the expense of another.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99



SPECTRE LIBRARY: THE PULP AND PAPERBACK FICTION READER - Now online!

Spawn of the Vampire by N. Wesley Firth - New!
THREE MILES FROM MURDER BY FREDERICK C. DAVIS


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.

Shaver and Lovecraft - New!
The Shaver Mystery-Part Ten - New!
The Shaver Mystery-Part Nine
The Shaver Mystery-Part Eight 
The Shaver Mystery-Part Seven


WEIRDBOOK #38
Now available!
Features
From the Editor’s Tower, by Doug Draa

Stories
HARLOT ROAD, by Michael Bracken
WITH A POET’S EYES, by John C. Hocking
THE WISHING WELL, by Robert Graves
O KING OF PAIN AND SPLENDOR!, by Darrell Schweitzer
YOU’D DO IT FOR DIAMONDS, by Adrian Cole
DREADFUL APPETITE, by Franklyn Searight
THE HANDMAID OF THE KEY, by R.C. Mulhare
BLUE MOON, by Allen Mark Price
SHE WHO GIVES LIFE, by C. I. Kemp
AN IMPLEMENT OF ICE, by W. H. Pugmire
NIGHT OF THE CIRCUS, by Sharon Cullars
WOLVERS HILL, by Tim Jeff reys
RAFTS, by Lorenzo Crescentini
CLEAN SWEEP, by Edward Ahern
LEAVING MALAGA, by Cynthia Ward
CATTLE CALL, by Gregg Chamberlain
ABOMINATION IS HER NAME, by J.N. Cameron
KACHINA, by Kenneth Bykerk
FLAT IS FLAT AND THAT IS THAT, by David J. Gibbs
DEATH IS NOT MY MASTER, by Scott Harper

Poetry
THE OLD ROCK, by Russ Parkhurst
SLEEPING WITH MAD SHADOWS, by Frederick J. Mayer
THE LIQUID PROFESSOR, by Jeff Barnes
THE TOAD STOOL PEOPLE, by Chad Hensley
THE PROMISE OF A POLIDORI SORE THROAT, by Clay F. Johnson
THIS HUNGRY EARTH, by S.L. Edwards

Artwork
Alexandra Petruk - Front Cover
Allen Koszowski - Interior Artwork

WEIRDBOOK is now offering Subscriptions!!!!

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WEIRDBOOK #39
Coming soon!

Weirdbook #39 May 2018
Full contents

Horror Around The Bend by Franklyn Searight
A Tiny Cut by Samson Stormcrow Hayes
Posthumous by Marlane Quade Cook
Pages From An Invisible Book by Darrell Schweitzer
The Name Was Evoc by Lorenzo Crescentini
Misdiagnosed by Jackie Bee
Dog Drool by Frederick J. Mayer
The Venusian Mantis by Teege Braune
The Color of the Gods by Ken Heueler
Spawning Ground by Hannah Lackoff
Curse of the Dark Queen by Lily Luchesi
Monika Unraveling by Rebecca House
Crawling With Them by Jason Zwiker
Seven Sisters by James Machin
The House In The Mountains Michael Washburn
Eyes Without A Face by Thomas Vaughn
Clartley Chowder by Riche Brown
Dominion Over Abbadon by Richard J. O'Brien
Divine Wind Of The Dark by Frank Schildiner
Skrik by Bekki Pate
The Ferryman's Journal by Ed Burkley
Demiurge by Marc A. Fitch
And In Her Eyes, The City Drowned by Kyla Lee Ward
Clouds Like Memories, Words Like Stones by John R. Fultz
Up The Lazy River by Adrian Cole

Poems and Flash Fiction
Bad Night by Lucy Snyder
Songs Of The Quail by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Sylvan Simalcrum by Chad Hensley
Mister Dorton's Cats by Russ Parkhurst
Miskatonic Etudes by James P. Roberts
Cursed by Julio Toro San Martin & Hank Simmons
The Autumn People by Kurt Newton
The Great Time Machine by Denny E. Marshall
Ea Carpe Noctis by Frank Coffman









13 April 2018  
2018 PULP FACTORY AWARDS ANNOUNCED

On Friday evening April 6th, the ninth annual Pulp Factory Awards were announced at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Show.

Best Pulp Novel- Pulp Heroes: Sanctuary Fall
Best Pulp Cover- Holmes & Houdini by Chad Hardin
Best Pulp Short Story- “Takedown” The Ruby Files V2, Bobby Nas
Best Pulp Interior Illustrations- The Ruby Files V2- Nik Poliwko
Best Pulp Anthology- The Ruby Files V2 -Ron Fortier.

In addition Ron Fortier was awarded the first “Grand Master Award” chosen by the awards committee for service to New Pulp above and beyond.

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners of the awards. Kudos to all!


Windy City Con Reports

Airship 27/Ron Fortier Blog: WINDY CITY 2018
2018 ECOF
(Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship)
 Irving, Texas
May 18-20, 2018
   

ECOF  

22nd Annual Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale
Saturday, May 12, 2018, 10am to 4pm!
Canada's premier pulp event!

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

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

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

Only $3! Tickets available at the door, kids under 10 admitted free with adult.
For more information, contact us at:  info@girasolcollectables.com

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

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

 We look forward to seeing you there.



67th Michigan Antiquarian Book And Paper Show
Sunday, April 29, 2018
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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

Causeway Bay Hotel
6820 South Cedar Street
Lansing, Michigan

New Location! Free Parking!

West of Lowe's Home Improvement

Admission $5
CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER FREE
Adventure House
Coming soon!

Phantom Detective Winter 1952

The Silent Killer by Robert Wallace
Fighting to save thousands of teen-agers from drug addiction, the Phantom tackles a mysterious ring of dealers in despair!

The Glass Noose by Robert Leslie Bellem
The Pointing Finger by Philip Ketchum
Flight Westward by Bryan Croghan
Murder on the Meter by Ardythe Gamel
The Suicide of Richard Manse by Ray Cummings
The Death Lei by Frank Richardson Pierce
7x10, 86 pages, $14.95




Altus Press
THE SPIDER: SLAUGHTER, INCORPORATED (Facsimile Edition)
by Grant Stockbridge, Donald G. Cormack, Arthur Leo Zagat, and Norvell Page
Introduction by Will Murray
Now available!

Originally slated to appear in The Spider Magazine in the 1940s, "Slaughter, Incorporated" was ultimately shelved when that magazine was cancelled.
Never before published directly from author Donald G. Cormack's original manuscript,
this edition has been faithfully reconstructed as an exact copy of the never-published
February 1944 issue of The Spider Magazine, complete with vintage interior illustrations.

In addition, The Spider: Slaughter, Incorporated (Facsimile Edition) marks the first publication
of the never-before-published lost Red Finger story, "Red Finger and the Murder Trio," penned by Arthur Leo Zagat.

Also including a story by longtime Spider author, Norvell Page.

$19.95 softcover
Altus Press
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS #6: THE RED DESTROYER
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Now available!

”Stand by for action—three o'clock—map position M-24.”
Dusty Ayres suspected that this message came from the enemy, that it was bait luring him to a trap;
but he didn't guess how deadly the snare was, didn't know that he was keeping a rendezvous
with one of the most destructive weapons yet used by the Blacks—an invisible tornado of red death!

An amazing account of the next great war!

186 pages / $13.95 softcover

 


Altus Press
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS #7: THE WHITE DEATH
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Now available!

“You will instruct Captain Ayres to proceed to Washington H.Q. by staff train at 2:25.
He is to be provided with escort to station and placed in custody of Staff Sergeant Bolton…” Dusty read this radiogram with amazement.
First H.Q. grounded him, then sent this crazy order.
But the order did not worry the gods of war, for they knew that the very fires of hell itself would sweep across war-torn America
before the devilish plot behind that command could be smashed—before Dusty Ayres could learn the secret of the white death!

188 pages / $13.95 softcover
Altus Press

by Robb T. White, Jonathan Sheppard, Richard Billingsley, J.D. Graves, Brian Townsley, J. Allan Dunn, Paul Ernst, Dan Cushman, Frederick Nebel, and H. Bedford-Jones

Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue featuring five all-new stories, plus vintage hard-boiled classics from the pulp era of the 1930s-40s.
And it includes a never-before published cover by James Lunnon, painted for Black Mask in 1940.

 $14.95softcover  / $4.99 eBook

Altus Press
The Cross Brand
by Frederick Faust
Now available!

Longtime friends, Sheriff Harry Ganton and Jack Bristol, find themselves on different sides when Harry is mistakenly shot during an argument. Thinking he has killed his friend, Jack flees town, only to run into two mysterious strangers. Why does one have a cross brand on his forehead? And then there's the matter of Jack's appointment with the hangman's noose in his future....

139 pages / $12.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

Altus Press

Altus Press
The Next Wave of The H. Bedford-Jones Library
Now available!

Altus Press is pleased to announce the next wave of books in our acclaimed H. Bedford-Jones Library series.
This time out, we've collected a variety of HBJ's most beloved genres: historicals, mysteries, and Foreign Legion sagas, among others.
These have rarely if ever been reprinted. And each contains all of the original pulp illustrations by some of the best draftsmen of the pulp era.
Simply put: if you're looking for the best material to see print in the pulps, look no further than the works of The King of the Pulps, H. Bedford-Jones.

Each will be available soon at www.altuspress.com.

The Princess and the Prophet
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by John Richard Flanagan

Nostradamus, Mary of Scotland, and other historical figures interact in a novel by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

Under Nostradamus' care, wounded Scottish gentleman Cameron of Glenlyon was soon healed, and he told of his mission: he bore a secret message from Scotland to young Queen Mary; and Hamilton and others of the Scots Guards would kill him if need be, to prevent its delivery....

222 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Ghost of Screwface Hanlon
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Pete Kuhlhoff

The nephew of a King of the Underworld inherits his fortune... and his enemies. But is Screwface Hanlon really dead? Crawford must find out, or he'll end up like his mysterious uncle! A never-before collected series by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

62 pages | $14.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

They Lived By the Sword
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops

A fantastic novel of the World War of 218 B.C., and of Hannibal’s invasion across the Alps—the greatest military feat in history. It's a novel by the King of the Pulps—author H. Bedford-Jones—which has never before appeared in book form.

231 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Warriors in Exile
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops

Collected for the first time is author H. Bedford-Jones' 17-part saga of the French Foreign Legion... the fascinating series based on the records of the most famous and picturesque fighting force of modern times. Featuring stories of the Foreign Legions in Crimea, Italy, Formosa, Tonkin, Siam, Dahomey, Sudan, Madagascar, the Sahara, with Maximilian of Austria in Mexico, war-torn Spain in 1835, and the Franco-Prussian War.

384 pages | $24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover

One More Hero: The Cases of the Fireboat Men
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Leland Gustavson

Fireboat men must be not only firemen, but sailors, divers, engineers and police—dangerous callings, all.... Collected for the first time, this colorful series centers around Gunboat Brendan and the tragic problem he met below the murky harbor waters. Written by the prolific author, H. Bedford-Jones, the King of the Pulps.

102 pages | $14.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Gunpowder Gold
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Pete Kuhlhoff

Grimm had risked his life on the American and European battlefields. Now he was hot on the trail of the two hundred million francs left to the exiled young Russian Duchess Marie of Courtland, and Grimm needed that to fund the battles of the American Colonies... and to buy the needed gunpowder to win their independence.

This edition marks the first time this novel-length adventure has been published in book form. It's another historical fiction classic by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

197 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover






Altus Press: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Altus Press Latest Releases: The Lost Spider Novel, Dusty Ayres, and a New Issue of Black Mask Magazine
The Next Wave of The H. Bedford-Jones Library is Here
Mavericks Headlines the Next Wave of Popular Hero Reprints
The Thrilling Heroes Return to Print
Moon-Blind by Erik Van Lhin (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
American Fantasy Press
THE ASTOUNDING ART OF HUBERT ROGERS
Kickstarter coming in September!


Doug Ellis and Bob Garcia spread the news at Windy City Pulp & Paperback Show this weekend about their new summer project: THE ASTOUNDING ART OF HUBERT ROGERS.

They expect to be ready in September or so to launch a new Kickstarter for it.

Rogers was the premier artist for ASTOUNDING in the 1930s, with covers for the sf classics, SLAN, GREY LENSMAN, FOUNDATION and most of the Robert A. Heinlein novels that appeared in the mag.
If that wasn't enough, his covers also appeared on pulps from ARGOSY to ADVENTURE.

The book is being produced with the cooperation of Rogers' family, giving access to rare material such as photos, sketches, prelims, proofs and original art, which should allow us to produce a book that we hope you'll find astounding!
This is going to be a fantastic project.

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available and arriving in comic shops April 18!

THE SHADOW #128: “Shadowed Millions” and “No Safety in Numbers” plus “The Chateau of Shadows"
The Dark Avenger proves that crime does not pay in classic pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson and Bruce Elliott writing as “Maxwell Grant." First, a huge investment in a South American country attracts international criminals and corrupt politicians, leading the Dark Avenger on a hunt for “Shadowed Millions.” Then, gang violence and gambling madness corrupt a city until The Shadow demonstrates to vicious mobsters that there is “No Safety in Numbers." BONUS: “The Chateau of Shadows,” a Golden Age of Comics classic by Walter Gibson and Bob Powell. This instant collectors item showcases the original color pulp covers by George Rozen and Charles J. Ravel plus the classic interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Bob Powell with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-246-9 Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

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

Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Doc Brazen: Millenium Bug - A Doc Savage Pastiche

Author Jeff Deischer one of the few men to personally write a chronology of the entire Doc Savage corpus gives us a Doc Savage pastiche set in 1999 bringing the story up into modern times.  And it works! This is a story with plenty of action, Easter Eggs for the diehard fan, and an understanding of the character and his legacy that only a master pulp writer and Pulp chronicler could give us!  This is a terrific story that I think every true Pulp Hero  fan will enjoy. What's more Jeff has done something very difficult: his Doc Brazen bridges the gap between the Pulp Style of the 1930s and 1940s  and the modern world.
 
I consider this to be Jeff's finest novel to date.  This is the kind of story the fans of Old Pulp and New Pulp are looking for.
 
Don't miss this one!
Past episodes:
Secret Agent X, Volume 6 from Airhsip 27
Four in the Way: Vol. 2 of the Saints and Sinners Series
Doc Savage Pastiches
"Three on a Match" - Sergio Leone meets Barsoom
Bobby Nash discusses "Sanderson of Metro"
ATHENA VOLTAIRE 2018 ONGOING #3 - Arriving in comic shops April 18!
(Writer) Steve Bryant (Art) Ismeal Canales (Cover) Steve Bryant

Athena and company attempt a desperate gambit to keep the Nazi occultists from obtaining the final piece of the mysterious tablet!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
Audible Studios
The Land of Always Night: Doc Savage - Download Only
Now available!

Doc battles a chalk-white faced villain named Ool who can kill with the touch of a finger and possesses a strange pair of dark goggles. The battle against the villain leads to a lost civilization hidden deep in the earth where Doc and his fabulous five face an otherworldly challenge.

Full cast of narrators includes Roger Clark, Kevin Pariseau, Marc Vietor, Lauren Fortgang, Victor Bevine, Peter Ganim, Angelo Di Loreto, Nick Sullivan, Jonathan Davis, and Gabriel Vaughan.

Listening Length: 3 hours and 54 minutes
Audible Studios
The Golden Man: Doc Savage - MP3 CD
Coming May 15!

A golden man rises miraculously from the sea with the power to peer into the future and challenge the Man of Bronze.
Doc Savage and his crew follow the mystery man's fabulous trail from South America to New York where they uncover his dark sanctuary - and come face-to-face with an evil cult of blackmail and murder.

Marc Vietor (Narrator)
Listening Length: 3 hours and 54 minutes
$14.99
AVENGERS OF THE MOON
 by Allen Steele
Arriving in book stores April 17!
 
The solar system needs a hero and it's about to get one in an old-fashioned pulp adventure with modern sensibility. It was an age of miracles. It was an era of wonder. It was a time of troubles. It was all these things and more... except there were no heroes. Naturally, one had to be created. Curt Newton has spent most of his life hidden from the rest of humankind, being raised by a robot, an android, and the disembodied brain of a renowned scientist. This unlikely trio of guardians has kept his existence a closely guarded secret since the murder of Curt's parents. Curt's innate curiosity and nose for trouble inadvertently lead him into a plot to destabilize the Solar Coalition and assassinate the president. There's only one way to uncover the evil mastermind — Curt must become Captain Future!

Allen Steele gives us a thrilling piece of sf pulp with Avengers of the Moon.

Softcover, 6 x 9, 304 pages, $15.99, On sale April 17.
Publisher: Tor Books

Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
By Ed Hulse (editor)
Now available!

The Shadow, The Spider, The Avenger, Doc Savage, The Black Bat, The Phantom Detective — these swashbuckling heroes of mid-20th-century pulp fiction all had one thing in common: They fought crime from outside the law, unhindered by red tape and unmindful of such legal niceties as due process. They fought with fists and guns, for the most part hiding their true identities beneath outlandish costume and grotesque disguises.

This collection of essays by distinguished pulp-fiction aficionados chronicles the era of single-character magazines from offbeat angles and with keen insight. The pieces herein analyze key stories and characters while offering rare, behind-the-scenes glimpses of authors and editors at work, crafting and polishing the pulp-paper fever dreams that enthralled millions of young readers during the Great Depression, World War II, and beyond. Ed Hulse, editor of Blood ‘n’ Thunder, the award-winning journal of adventure, mystery and melodrama, has assembled these affectionate essays with loving care and a discerning eye for the high-water marks in this phase of American popular culture.

This third volume of Blood ‘n’ Thunder Presents, like its predecessors, is profusely illustrated with pulp-magazine covers and original artwork.

Cover Art by Rafael De Soto
Introduction by Ed Hulse
220 pgs., paperback, 8 1/2 X 11
Price: $24.95
PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!

2018 Windy City Film Program
Murania Press 2017 Year-End Sale
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER Back-Issue Availability
Bringing Back Classic Adventure One Page at a Time - Now online!

Vintage Reads – The Sword of Rhiannon
Vintage Reads – The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales
Vintage Reads – The Dying Earth


Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!

Pulp Appeal: CIRSOVA #5 - New!
Issue 5 of Broadswords and Blasters Available Now! - New!
Pulp Consumption: Sharp Ends
Pulp Appeal: Firefly (and Serenity)
Pulp Appeal: Disney/Pixar’s Up
Pulp Appeal : Storyhack #1
THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscribe for 2018
 
Subscribe for 2018 now, as the price will rise after this special offer ends!
The 2018 Issues are numbers 81, 82, and 83.

Please note that Bronze Gazette Special Editions are not included in any subscription, but may be purchased separately.
Only $30.00
 
THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #81 is now available and recommended!
 
Front Cover: Dan Brereton
"The State of the World of Bronze" by Chuck Welch
"Notes on a Doc Savage Illustration" by Dan Brereton
"The Stories Behind the Story" by David Avallone
"Reviewing the Ring of Fire" by Bobb Cotter
"The Girl Who Hated Doc Savage" by Dafydd Neal Dyar
"Doc Savage and the WEP" by Julián Paga
"Sons of Savage: Doc Caliban" by Art Sippo, MD
"Doc Has a Gun!" by Michael Ingalls
Back Cover: Tim Faurote imagines Doc and the Fatal Five in the style of James Bama

Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
You can order available single issues at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/back-issues/
Subscribe for 2018 (Issues 81, 82, and 83) at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/subscribe/

$35.00 USA
$45.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$55.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)
Click HERE to subscribe!
Click HERE for available back issues!

 The Bronze Gazette  


Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Short Reviews – Hide and Seek, by Arthur C. Clarke - New!
Elric: The Ruby Throne - New!
Tales From the Magician’s Skull #1 - New!
Sensor Sweep: A. Merritt, Leigh Brackett, Dungeons of Chaos, and Rocket’s Red Glare
Sensor Sweep: Weird Book, Freedom Squadron, Shaver Mystery, and Wasteland Warfare
James Bond Books From a Pulp Perspective
Short Reviews – The Jewels of Chamar, by Raymond F. Jones

DAN FOWLER: THE LEAGUE OF DEAD PATRIOTS - Now available!
By Andrew Salmon (Author), Mike Fyles (Illustrator)

March 1942
It began with FBI Agent Dan Fowler breaking up a black market ring. It ended with the ultimate sacrifice anyone could make.
Follow G-Man Dan Fowler as his case takes him into a Japanese internment camp and into the clutches of the Domino Lady!
•    What is the masked vixen's game?
•    Who is the mysterious Joe McGoohan?
•    Who deals in coffins filled with candles?
•    And what is killing the camp inmates?
At America's darkest hour, secrets abound and justice is in short supply - but truth may just shine brightest of all!
Award-winning author Andrew Salmon has made a name for himself writing best selling Sherlock Holmes tales and delivers an action-packed, short read blast fans of Stephen Hunter's G-Man will enjoy.

Kindle Price:    $0.99
THE DARK ANGEL: THE COMPLETE TALES OF JULES DE GRANDIN, VOLUME THREE - Now available!
by Seabury Quinn

Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn.

Quinn's short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales's original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin's knack for solving mysteries―and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)―captivated readers for nearly three decades.
Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh, presents all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero.

The third volume, The Dark Angel, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from "The Lost Lady" (1931) to "The Hand of Glory" (1933), as well as "The Devil's Bride", the only novel featuring de Grandin, which was originally serialized over six issues of Weird Tales.

Hardcover, 512 pages, $34.99
eBook: $19.99

DARK TALES CALL OF CTHULHU GN - Arriving in comic shops April 18!
(Writer) H. P. Lovecraft (Art) Dave Shepard

In this Dark Tale, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. Henry Wilcox can't ignore his dreams of an enormous green monster calling to him from an underwater alien city. He seeks the help of Professor Angell, who dies suddenly, leaving a box of research on the subject for his nephew, Francis. Francis seeks answers about his uncle's death, and in the process uncovers evidence of a cult waiting for the Great Old Ones to return. H. P. Lovecraft's story of supernatural monsters deep in the Pacific will keep you on the edge of your seat.

NOTE: Available only within the United States and U.S. Territories.

Softcover, 6x9, 128 pages, Full Color, $15.99



Canterbury Classics    Amazon.com

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


Doc Savage Out West! in MR. CALAMITY by Will Murray - New!
The Sweat Mag Art of Mort Künstler - New!
Pulp Gallery: CLUES DETECTIVE STORIES (1937) - New!
Movie Posters of 1914 - New!
The Sweat Mag Art of Stanley Borack
"Captain Science and the Insidious Doctor Khartoum" by Orlando & Wood (1951)
Pulp Gallery: MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES 1-4 (1938-39)
Comic Gallery: TONTO (1952)
Pulp Gallery: Opening Day for AMERICA'S GAME!

DMR Books - Now available for pre-order!

These titles are also available from Mike Chomko.
Contact Mike at mikechomko@gmail.com

The Thief of Forthe and Other Stories by Clifford Ball
After the death of Robert E. Howard, Clifford Ball was the first writer to follow in his footsteps and pen sword and sorcery stories for Weird Tales. For the first time ever, all of Ball’s stories are collected into one volume. A must-have for pulp historians and fans of fantasy, horror, and weird fiction! 206 pages.

Table of Contents:
Duar the Accursed
The Thief of Forthe
The Goddess Awakes
The Swine of Aeaea
The Little Man
The Werewolf Howls

The limited edition "classic size" version of this title will be available in April.
Trade paperback and digital versions will be coming later this spring.
$10.00

The Sapphire Goddess - The Fantasies of Nictzin Dyalhis
At last, the stories of one of the most unusual writers of weird fiction are collected! This volume contains all of Nictzin Dyalhis’ works of fantasy and science fiction, many of which have never before been reprinted. Those who love the wild imagination and masterful prose of authors such as Clark Ashton Smith and C.L. Moore are sure to enjoy this collection. 388 pages.

Table of Contents:

When the Green Star Waned
The Eternal Conflict
He Refused to Stay Dead
The Dark Lore
The Oath of Hul Jok
The Red Witch
The Sapphire Goddess
The Sea-Witch
Heart of Atlantan

The limited edition "classic size" version of this title will be available in April.
Trade paperback and digital versions will be coming later this spring.
$13.00

DMR Books Blog - Now online!

Forefathers of Sword and Sorcery: Harold Lamb - New!
Who "Made" Conan and Robert E. Howard? -- Part One
The Savage Swords of Louis L'Amour  
Reavers of Skaith: Saving the Last For First
"I Dream in Fire But Work in Clay" - Arthur Machen
Haffner Press
Now available!
Pre-order price ($50) will be held until April 15!

“Of all of Raymond Chandler’s followers, the most Chandlerish of them all might have been Howard Browne. His private eye hero, PAUL PINE, is simply one of the great eyes, no matter how inspired by (or derivative of ) Chandler’s Philip Marlowe he might have been. All the Pine books are well worth reading, and A Taste of Ashes (1957) in particular is just a flat-out, stone-cold private eye classic.

Pine is a former investigator for the Illinois State attorney’s office in Chicago who works as a P.I. in Chicago. He’s got the obligatory cynicism, snappy similes and metaphors down pat, though he tends to be a bit more down to earth than Marlowe, and often mocks his own tendencies to moroseness and world-weariness. And let’s face it — Browne was a stronger plotter than Chandler.

In 1985, almost thirty years after Pine’s last appearance, Dennis McMillan published a book The Paper Gun. That volume collected the only previously-published Pine story, “So Dark For April,” plus an incomplete Pine novel that Browne, in the foreword, called “a story complete in itself. But it is not the whole novel.” He states that he had lost interest in the private eye genre, and so the story is only 122 pages in length, too long for a short story, but too short for a novel.’ —adapted from “Paul Pine” by Kevin Burton Smith, www.thrillingdetective.com
HALO FOR HIRE contains all the Paul Pine stories.

Edited by Stephen Haffner
Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff
Cover Art by Laurel Blechman
900+ page Hardcover
Pre-order Price: $50.00

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Halo in Blood
Halo for Satan
Halo in Brass
"So Dark for April"
The Taste of Ashes
"The Paper Gun"

HALF PAST DANGER II: DEAD TO REICHS HC - Arriving in comic shops April 18!
Stephen Mooney (Writer/Art/Cover)

In the world of Half Past Danger, suddenly the time is two minutes ‘til midnight: the Nazis have created a bioweapon that could be the end of everything, and all that stands in their way are a hard-drinking Irishman, a British femme fatale, a Japanese ninja with a pet dinosaur, and an American marine who’s literally bulletproof. It’s an alternate-history, pulp science fiction-inspired, over-the-top, two-fisted thriller that finds a world on the brink!

Hardcover, 128 pages, Full Color, $24.99
Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

Friday Update - New!
Collecting Brackett
Tales From the Magician’s Skull Issue 2
Sea-Kings of Mars
The Skull Lives
H.P. Lovecraft: Selected Works, Critical Perspectives and Interviews on His Influence - Coming Spring/Summer 2018!

This collection of H.P. Lovecraft’s most influential works presents several of his most famous stories, a sampling of his poetry and an abridgment of his monograph Supernatural Horror in Literature, with commentary providing background and context. Criticism is included from such scholars as S.T. Joshi and Robert M. Price, along with essays by writers Brad Strickland and T.E.D. Klein, and interviews with Pulitzer-nominated author Richard Monaco (Parsival) and award-winning novelists Cherie Priest (Boneshaker) and Caitlin Kiernan (The Drowning Girl).

SPRING-SUMMER 2018
$39.95
JAMES BOND: THE BODY #4 - Arriving in comic shops April 18!
Writer: Ales Kot
Art: Eoin Marron
Cover: Luca Casalanguida

On the run from a lethal antagonist, weaponless and wounded deep in the Highlands, Bond finds solace with a woman who exchanged her job as a doctor and a life in the city for a cottage and solitary life of a writer. Can Bond find a quiet peace unlike he has known before or will his life choices catch up with him?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

A BIFF BREWSTER MYSTERY ADVENTEURE:
MYSTERY OF THE AMBUSH IN INDIA
 By Walter Gibson

Biff Brewster, sixteen, is a tall, strongly built blond youth who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, with his parents and the eleven-year-old twins, Ted and Monica. Because his mother and father believe that travel is as important to education as formal schooling, Biff is encouraged to travel to various countries during the vacation months. His experiences in these lands, and the young people he meets there, form the basis of a new series for adventure-loving readers. In every journey there is a strong element of mystery, usually a direct result of conditions peculiar to the region in which he is traveling. Thus, in addition to adventure, these books impart carefully re-searched information about foreign countries.

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 176 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $12.95


  
KONG ON THE PLANET OF APES #6 - Arriving in comic shops April 18!
(Writer) Ryan Ferrier (Art) Carlos Magno (Cover) Mike Huddleston

It all comes down to this: the final confrontation between Kong and those damn dirty apes who tore him from his home!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
The Lone Ranger on Radio, Film and Television - Now available!

The Lone Ranger has endured as an iconic figure in American popular culture, from his 1933 premier as a radio serial hero through a highly-rated television series (1949–1957) to a 2013 feature film. Created by script writer Fran Striker and radio station owner George W. Trendle, the character was meant to embody courage, fair play and honesty, and writers had to adhere to specific guidelines: “he never smokes ... he uses precise speech ... he never shoots to kill.” The popularity of the Ranger and his companion Tonto inspired later crime fighting duos like Batman and Robin, and The Green Hornet and Kato. This book examines the franchise in detail, with summaries and production details of the original radio episodes.

Softcover, 6" x 9", $29.95
Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

The Lone Ranger on Radio, Film, and Television - New!
Ready Player One Movie Review
Cinevent Film Festival Turns 50
Filmfax Magazine celebrates a milestone

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.


Now featuring: Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie
MILLENNIUM BUG (Doc Brazen) (Volume 1)  - Now available!
by Jeff Deischer

THE DOCTOR IS IN!

The world’s most famous crimefighter, scientist and adventurer from the Thirties and Forties comes out of his fifty-year retirement when his anti-crime operation is attacked.

Someone has discovered his secret: a clandestine program to turn criminals into productive members of society.

Aided by a new group of assistants, Ulysses Brazen, Jr. finds a genius equal to his behind a scheme to take over the world without firing a shot.

Paperback: 294 pages
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.7 x 8 inches
$15.00
Mystery*File - Now online!

COLLECTING PULPS: A Memoir  Part 21: Pulp Art, Part Three by Walker Martin - New!
Pulp Fiction Stories I’m Reading: THORP McCLUSKY “The Crawling Horror.”  
Western Horror Stories I’m Reading, by David Vineyard: MAX BRAND “Werewolf.”
Stories I’m Reading: CORNELL WOOLRICH “Vampire’s Honeymoon.”
COLLECTING PULPS: A Memoir, Part 20, by Walker Martin: PULP ART, Part Two


The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Dr. Shadows
The Man of The Mist
The Velvet Wasp
The Vigilantes


DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, Pennsylvania
Guest of Honor — Joe Lansdale
Thursday, July 26 through Sunday, July 29, 2018
Are you thinking about attending PulpFest 2018?
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 next year’s convention is shaping up to be one of our best.

2018 marks the centennial of the armistice that ended the First World War.
Also called “The War to End All Wars” and “The Great War,” PulpFest — The Great Convention — will be honoring the 100th anniversary
 of the war’s end by focusing on the so-called “war pulps” of the early twentieth century and the depiction of war in popular culture.

We’ll explore the work of Leonard H. Nason — who wrote about soldiers and war for ADVENTURE and other magazines —
and have presentations on artistic interpretations of war in comic books, pulps, and men’s adventure magazines.
Author and anthologist Don Hutchison will moderate a panel on “Fighting Aces of War Skies: The Pulps Take Flight” and
 Henry G. Franke, III — the editor of THE BURROUGHS BULLETIN — will discuss “Edgar Rice Burroughs and The Great War.”
Also, Robert Gould will talk about his father — John Fleming Gould — the interior artist who illustrated every issue of G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES.

We’ll also be celebrating the century mark of Grand Master of Science Fiction Philip José Farmer.
PulpFest and its associated convention — FarmerCon — will be saluting the acclaimed author of such works as ESCAPE FROM LOKI, THE DARK HEART OF TIME, the classic Riverworld series, and more.
Join us for panels and presentations on “World Building and Writing in the Nine Continuity,” “The Dark Heart of Loki: Philip José Farmer Revisits 1918,” and the life and legacy of Philip José Farmer.
We’ll also be showing the French documentary MOI, TARZAN, featuring Farmer, George McWhorter, and Francis Lacassin.

And don’t forget about our Guest of Honor — Joe Lansdale — the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories.
Winner of the Edgar Award, ten Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award,
the British Fantasy Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many other awards,
Joe will be talking with Tony Davis — editor emeritus of THE PULPSTER and winner of the 1999 Lamont Award — on Saturday evening, July 28, in the PulpFest programming room.
Mr. Lansdale will also be available at other times during the convention.

For All Members

All PulpFest 2018 members — including dealers — must register for the convention.

Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying at the DoubleTree: $35 (includes free early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying elsewhere: $40 (without early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying elsewhere: $70 (with early-bird shopping)

Single-day membership for Friday or Saturday: $20
Single-day membership for Sunday: $10 (available only at the door)
Supporting Membership: $25

Help Choose the 2018 Munsey Award

Every year, PulpFest recognizes the efforts of those who work to keep the pulps alive for this and future generations.
The Munsey Award recognizes an individual who has given of himself or herself for the betterment of the pulp community.
The award is named after Frank A. Munsey, the man who published the first pulp magazine.

Our 2017 Munsey Award winner was Phil Stephensen-Payne.

Nominations for the 2018 Munsey Award are now being accepted.
All members of the pulp community are welcome to nominate someone for this year’s award.
 If you have someone in mind that you feel worthy to receive this prestigious award, please let us know.

All members of the pulp community — excepting past winners of the Munsey, Rusty, or Lamont Awards  — are eligible.
Your nomination can be sent to PulpFest marketing and programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
You can also reach Mike at 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104-6542.
You will need to provide the person’s name and an explanation describing why that person should be honored.

The deadline for nominations is May 1, 2018.
The recipient of the Munsey Award will be selected through a vote cast by all the living Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Award winners.
 The 2018 Munsey Award will be presented on Saturday evening, July 28, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, the host hotel for PulpFest 2018.
The convention will take place over the last weekend in July, beginning on Thursday evening, July 26 and running through Sunday, July 29.
Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Let's Forget" by Captain Dingle from ARGOSY, December 25, 1920        
Two men, captains of competing tug boats, life-long friends, have been riven apart by a woman, but a quest to rescue a freighter . . .

"Outguessed" by Ralph Milne Farley from THRILLING ADVENTURES, July, 1936        
To escape from the French Foreign Legion and it's martinet commander one needs to know the desert like the back of one's hand -- and the mind of the commander.


"The Red Plague" by P. Schuyler Miller from WONDER STORIES, July, 1930        
1st place winner for Air Wonder Stories contest. A meteor unleashes a chemical reaction that binds up all water. Desperate humanity turns to Mars in hopes of defeating this plague.
Pulp Den by Tom Johnson - Now online!

Cop Shot - New!
Millennium Bug
Across A Wounded Galaxy
Landscape of Darkness
Gun Kiss  
Operation Hail Storm

         Pulp Den  
Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

Robert Ormond Case - Western Author - New!
F.R. Buckley - biographical article  
Beautiful covers #3 - N.C Wyeth in the Popular Magazine
Beautiful covers #2 - Walter Baumhofer - Western Story
Cherry Wilson - Western Author
The Pulp Hermit  by Tom Johnson - Now online!

Coincidence? Maybe, Maybe Not - New!
The Black Bat
Ki-Gor
Frederick C. Davis
The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.
Radio Archives
The Spider #59 Audiobook
The Devil's Candlesticks
by Wayne Rogers writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
Now available!



Overnight, a bizarre crime wave had gripped New York, turning America’s First Families into criminals who, for savage lawlessness, outdid the Underworld! Society’s Four Hundred had now become a ghastly, blood-thirsting set of thieves and murderers. Embezzlements and bank frauds had terrorized Manhattan and pauperized a helpless people. In this topsy-turvy world of terror, Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, set out to save a betrayed civilization — from a mystic Hindu crime-czar who had mastered the magic necessary to turn New York’s moneyed class into inhuman monsters!
For ten grim years, the Spider battled the underworld, imprinting his scarlet seal on the bodies of the criminals he slew. No one knew his name. His face was unknown. Pursued by the police, sought by the mob, the Master of Men crushed crime with a blazing intensity never witnessed before or since. Now he’s back with a vengeance in a new series of audiobooks retelling his pulp-pounding exploits.
 
Garbed in a black silk cloak, slouch hat and wearing an assortment of masks and strange disguises to make him look as fierce as his namesake, the Spider ran roughshod over a vicious legion of thugs and hoodlums, leaving behind him a trail of cold corpses branded by his calling card, a scarlet spider burned into their foreheads.
 
Nick Santa Maria reads this exciting suspense story of murder, mayhem and mystery that perfectly evokes 1937 Manhattan. The Devil's Candlesticks originally published in The Spider magazine, August, 1938.

Discounted 50% the first week.
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Audio CDs - $9.99
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Radio Archives


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.
 
“Doc” Turner was one of the least likely heroes that appeared in the pulp magazine stories. He was a little old pharmacist who ran a drug store in the slums of New York, where just about everyone came to him when they had problems. Oh, and what problems they had! Werewolves and vampires mixed in with extortionists and gangsters. And solve their problems he did, with the aid of his strapping red-headed assistant, mechanic Jack Ransom, and his young stock boy Abe Ginsberg.
 
These short stories appeared in the back pages of The Spider magazine, a grand total of 70 of them. Every single one can be found in this collection; not a one is missing.
 
Table of Contents:
 
Introduction
 
Doc Turner Meets the Angel of Death from the April 1940 issue of the Spider magazine
Doc Turner could deceive that mad, electrical wizard about megavolts and gamma-mu forces just so long... Then Gorchin would realize that the little druggist was attempting to thwart the man who could kill millions with one flick of the wrist.
 
Hell Incorporated from the June 1940 issue of the Spider magazine
Jack Ransom was inclined to doubt Doc Turner’s fearful suspicions of the Forbes plan to send thousands of slum kids to camp... He changed his mind — too late — when he saw the silent riflemen patrolling what could only be a summer camp for... Death!
 
Murder Marches On from the July 1940 issue of the Spider magazine
Old Doc Turner was accustomed to protecting those ignorant, pathetic slum-dwellers from human vultures — but how could he save them from the horror of an invisible parade which always left warm corpses strewn in its wake!...
 
God Bless America! from the October 1940 issue of the Spider magazine
What people would make more logical dupes for anti-American agents than the ignorant slum dwellers that Turner loved and served so selflessly? Doc realized that when the corpse of an old lady imparted to him a mysterious and deadly secret!
 
Doc Turner And The Heads Of Death from the January 1941 issue of the Spider magazine
Nanya Karista was irresistibly beautiful, compellingly charming. Yet the simple folk in the slums of Morris Street feared her with a nameless dread! Only Doc Turner dared solve this mystery — which smacked of the jungle’s weirdest witchcraft!
 
Morris Street Murder March from the February 1941 issue of the Spider magazine
Those pitiful, poverty-stricken inhabitants of Morris Street had long forgotten their ancient enemy, The Baron. But, deep in Hogbund Lane, old Doc Turner saw the awful thing which signaled the return of the Vengeance-Killer!
 
The Doves Of Death from the April 1941 issue of the Spider magazine
To old Doc Turner, the dove had always been the symbol of Peace. Yet one night he and young Jack Ransom — trapped at a killer’s gun-point — learned that pigeons can be made to carry murder!
 
Doc Turner’s Flaming Coffin from the August 1941 issue of the Spider magazine
How could Doc Turner knowingly permit young Jack Ransom to be branded a monstrous criminal? Did Doc suspect that far more ghastly tragedy was to befall his Morris Street wards that night — while he himself awaited a fiery casket?
 
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
 
Discounted 50% the first week.
$1.99


Robert E. Howard Days
June 8-9, 2018!


We'll look forward to seeing you in June with all new panels and guests, a couple of extra-special surprise announcements and all the traditional activities that happen every year at Howard Days.
 

Robert E. Howard House Archaeology Project
New Go Fund Me Project to excavate the Howard House storm cellar!

In an effort to shed more light on Robert E. Howard the man, Project Pride, the owners of the Robert E. Howard House and Museum are partnering with the National Park Service (NPS) and the Southeastern Archaeology Foundation (SEAF) to sponsor an archaeological excavation at the house where Howard grew up, lived and died, and wrote his powerful and influential fiction.

The Howard House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1994 and today it has been restored to its period appearance in the 1930s.  The Robert E. Howard House and Museum is now a tourist destination for countless fans from around the world who make the pilgrim to Cross Plains to see the place where whole worlds were created in the mind of one man. It is also the site for the annual gathering of fans known as Howard Days  on the second weekend in June.

At the Howard Days gathering in 2017, Floyd Carter, Jr. who was a member of the family who purchased the home in 1970, told several Howard scholars and attendees about the presence of a storm cellar behind the house that was now filled in and buried. Carter suggested that there was a lot of material, possibly from the Howards, buried in the cellar that might be recovered if it were excavated. NPS archaeologist and Howard scholar Jeffrey Shanks was present and talked with Mr. Carter at length about his memories of the cellar. This led to discussions with Project Pride about the possibility of a professional archaeological excavation to see what could found. Because the Museum has only a handful of items from the Howards, recovering any artifacts that date from the period when Robert and his family lived there would add significantly to the collection.

The Project:

In January, the Project Pride Board of Directors approved Shanks's proposal for the NPS to uncover and excavate the storm cellar, process and analyze the artifacts recovered, and write the official report. The excavation will also be an educational opportunity for the Cross Plains community and local schools to teach about archaeology and the importance of preserving our shared cultural heritage.

Since the Howard House is on the National Register of Historic Places and one of the missions of the National Park Service is to provide technical assistance to NRHP sites, Shanks was able to secure funding to cover the salary costs for himself and another NPS archaeologist, Thadra Stanton, to carry out the project, including excavation, artifact analysis, and report write-up -- a cost of approximately $20,000. Project Pride and the Cross Plains community will be donating lodging for the archaeological team as well as some supplies and much-needed volunteer labor. Noted Howard experts from The Robert E. Howard Foundation  will be present to assist as well.

The remaining project costs are the travel expenses for the team and salary for an NPS Archaeological Technician to assist Shanks and Stanton. These costs are estimated at $3800. Shanks approached the Southeastern Archaeology Foundation (SEAF), a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation that assists and supports NPS archaeological projects, to assist in securing the remaining needed funds. In order to do so, SEAF has launched this GoFundMe crowd-sourcing campaign to raise those funds.

This is where you come in! If you are fan of Robert E. Howard and his stories or just support archaeology and cultural resource preservation, we can use your financial assistance and generosity. Because SEAF is a 501(c)3 any contribution you make is tax deductible. We are offering several donation levels with different gifts including the official project T-Shirt and copies of the forthcoming archaeological report. You can even join the team in Cross Plains and participate in the excavation!

NOTE: Any funds received in excess of the required amount will be donated to Project Pride to help with their ongoing costs in maintaining the the Robert E. Howard House and Museum.

Robert E. Howard Foundation
REH Foundation Awards Nominees!

The REH Foundation is proud to announce to official nominees for this year’s REH Foundation Awards, honoring the top contributions from the previous year in Howard scholarship and in the promotion of Howard’s life and works.

The top three nominees in each category were selected by the Legacy Circle members of the Foundation from an outstanding pool of eligible candidates and their contributions represent the best of the best. (Categories with more than 3 nominees represent a tie in the nomination voting)

All Premium members of the REH Foundation will be eligible to vote on these nominees to determine this year’s winners (Regular FREE members can upgrade to a Premium membership HERE).
Voting deadline is April 30th!
The winners will be announced at a special ceremony at Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains on June 8.

The list of nominees is documented at the link below.
The Serial Squadron
Now available!

The Interplanetary Adventures of ROCKETMAN
Featuring Tristram Coffin, George Wallace, Judd Holdren, Dr. Vulcan, Marex the Martian
and Roy Barcroft as Retik the Moon Menace in 3 Complete Serials on 3 Dual-layer DVDs
KING OF THE ROCKET MEN
RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON
ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE

All remastered and restored!

Buy now US direct-from-the-Squadron discount price $26.95
($3 off full price of $29.95)
US Customers only at the moment, please --
outside-US order link will be posted soon)

SPECTRE LIBRARY: THE PULP AND PAPERBACK FICTION READER - Now online!

Spawn of the Vampire by N. Wesley Firth - New!
THREE MILES FROM MURDER BY FREDERICK C. DAVIS


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.

The Shaver Mystery-Part Nine - New!
The Shaver Mystery-Part Eight  - New!
The Shaver Mystery-Part Seven
The Shaver Mystery-Part Six
The Shaver Mystery-Part Five
The Shaver Mystery-Part Four
Augustus T. Swift (1867-1939)
The Shaver Mystery Interlude


WEIRDBOOK #38
Now available!
Features
From the Editor’s Tower, by Doug Draa

Stories
HARLOT ROAD, by Michael Bracken
WITH A POET’S EYES, by John C. Hocking
THE WISHING WELL, by Robert Graves
O KING OF PAIN AND SPLENDOR!, by Darrell Schweitzer
YOU’D DO IT FOR DIAMONDS, by Adrian Cole
DREADFUL APPETITE, by Franklyn Searight
THE HANDMAID OF THE KEY, by R.C. Mulhare
BLUE MOON, by Allen Mark Price
SHE WHO GIVES LIFE, by C. I. Kemp
AN IMPLEMENT OF ICE, by W. H. Pugmire
NIGHT OF THE CIRCUS, by Sharon Cullars
WOLVERS HILL, by Tim Jeff reys
RAFTS, by Lorenzo Crescentini
CLEAN SWEEP, by Edward Ahern
LEAVING MALAGA, by Cynthia Ward
CATTLE CALL, by Gregg Chamberlain
ABOMINATION IS HER NAME, by J.N. Cameron
KACHINA, by Kenneth Bykerk
FLAT IS FLAT AND THAT IS THAT, by David J. Gibbs
DEATH IS NOT MY MASTER, by Scott Harper

Poetry
THE OLD ROCK, by Russ Parkhurst
SLEEPING WITH MAD SHADOWS, by Frederick J. Mayer
THE LIQUID PROFESSOR, by Jeff Barnes
THE TOAD STOOL PEOPLE, by Chad Hensley
THE PROMISE OF A POLIDORI SORE THROAT, by Clay F. Johnson
THIS HUNGRY EARTH, by S.L. Edwards

Artwork
Alexandra Petruk - Front Cover
Allen Koszowski - Interior Artwork

WEIRDBOOK is now offering Subscriptions!!!!

  Amazon.com   Kindle    Wildside Press: Softcover  Wildside Press: eBook

Weirdbook Magazine Blogspot  Weirdbook  Facebook: Weirdbook






06 April 2018  
2018 & 2019 Film Releases
All dates are subject to change.
2018
April 20, 2018
 CLOVERFIELD 2017
May 4, 2018
May 25, 2018
 AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
SOLO, A STAR WARS STORY
June 8, 2018
June 15, 2018
June 22, 2018
June 29, 2018
 OCEAN'S EIGHT
THE INCREDIBLES 2
JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM
Untitled Fox Marvel Film
July 6, 2018
July 20, 2018
 July 27, 2018
 ANT-MAN AND THE WASP
ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 6
August 3, 2018
August 10, 2018
 THE PREDATOR
THE MEG
September 21, 2018
 ROBIN HOOD
October 5, 2018
 AQUAMAN
November 2, 2018
 X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX
December 14, 2018
December 21, 2018
 SPIDER-MAN ANIMATED FEATURE
AQUAMAN
2019
January 11, 2019
 HELLBOY
February 14, 2019
February 22, 2019
 GAMBIT
THE NEW MUTANTS
March 8, 2019
 CAPTAIN MARVEL
April 5, 2019
 SHAZAM
May 3, 2019
 THE AVENGERS: UNTITLED
June 7, 2019
 Untitled Fox Marvel Film
July 5, 2019
 SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING SEQUEL
November 1, 2019
November 22, 2019
 WONDER WOMAN SEQUEL
Untitled Fox Marvel Film





F. PAUL WILSON Guest of Honor 2018

Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention is a few months away. 
CELEBRATING HAROLD HERSEY’S 125TH BIRTHDAY AND THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF WINGS AND THE AIR WAR PULPS

We’re just one month away from the 18th annual Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention at The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL. 
We’re very pleased to announce that NYT bestselling author F. Paul Wilson will be our Guest of Honor at our 2018 con!

Wilson is the author of over 50 books, many of which feature his popular anti-hero, Repairman Jack. 
Among his numerous awards are the Bram Stoker Award, the Prometheus Award, the Porgie Award and the Inkpot Award. 
His first published story, “The Cleaning Machine,” appeared in the March 1971 issue of Startling Mystery Stories, while his second appeared a month later, in the April 1971 issue of the John Campbell edited Analog. 
His newest novel, “The God Gene,” is scheduled to be released by Forge Books on January 2, 2018. 
Wilson contributed the Foreword to The Art of the Pulps, published in October 2017, where he shared that
“I love the pulps. … I’ve been a fan of the pulps since my teens…” 
We’re excited to have him as our GoH, and we know that our attendees will enjoy meeting him at the convention!
Mark it on your calendar...our annual convention that you won't want to miss. 
With over 150 tables filled with great popular culture material, hundreds of pieces of art on display and for sale, thousands upon thousands of pulps, paperbacks, comic books, digests, hardbacks, and pulp reprints available. 

Our annual Friday Night Auction is another one to behold.  Material from the Glenn Lord estate, [former executor of the Robert E. Howard estate] it's going to be a doozie.
Nearly a copy of every pulp Howard appeared in will be auctioned.  Artwork from Howard books will be auctioned. 
And a special piece of Howard memorabilia that will be the talk of the convention will be auctioned. 
Also, don't forget about our standard Saturday Night auction as well. With more rare and interesting material being offered.

Our Guest of Honor F. Paul Wilson will not only be a subject of a panel discussion, but also will be commenting live while Windy City Film Festival plays his novel adaptation "The Keep." 
Sort of Windy City Film Festival meets Mystery Science Theatre.

Author/Pulp Historian John Locke will present his newest in-depth look into the pulps with the Secret Origins of Weird Tales. 
It is an inside look at how Weird Tales came to be, and the strange forces that lead to the production of one of pulp fandoms most prized publications.

Pre-registration for membership is still available. 
Once you register in advance, you may pick up your membership Thursday night at the Con Suite.  CLICK HERE to register.

Planning on staying at the Con Hotel?  Be sure to reserve your rooms early. 
You have until the March 20th [or when the block of rooms sell out] to get a room at the convention rate. 
CLICK HERE to go to the hotel site to make your reservation. 

Friday Night Auction to feature material from the estate of Glenn Lord

This year’s Friday night auction will draw on material from the estate of Glenn Lord. As literary executor of the Robert E. Howard estate for nearly three decades, Lord was instrumental in popularizing the works of Howard, and in making reams of previously unpublished Howard material available. It would be difficult to overstate his contributions to Howard’s legacy. Not surprisingly, his own pulp collection was centered around Howard, but also contained many other titles as well. If you’re a fan of pulps – and particularly if you’re a fan of the man who brought us Conan and so many other memorable characters – you won’t want to miss it!

We’ll be posting more details over the coming weeks concerning the pulps, fanzines and other rare material that will be in the auction.
One piece of original art that will be in the auction – Frank Utpatel’s original cover art for the second Robert E. Howard Arkham House collection, “The Dark Man and Others”.
2018 Windy City Film Program

FRIDAY
 12 p.m. — They Came from Beyond Space (1967).
1:30 p.m. — Hawk of the Wilderness (1938).
3:30 p.m. — The Keep (1983).

SATURDAY
 10 a.m. — The Ice Flood (1926)
11:15 a.m. — The Flying Squad (1940).
12:30 p.m. — The Return of Casey Jones (1933).
1:45 p.m. — The Whispering Chorus (1918).
3:15 p.m. — Hawk of the Wilderness, Chapters 7-12

For additional details, click here!

For Hotel Information/Registration information, visit the link below.
For con registration (Tables and membership), visit the link below.

You have several choices to register for this year's convention.
3 Day - $35.00
1 Day [Fri or Sat] - $25.00
1 Day [Sunday] - $10.00

 
2018 ECOF
(Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship)
 Irving, Texas
May 18-20, 2018
   

ECOF  

22nd Annual Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale
Saturday, May 12, 2018, 10am to 4pm!
Canada's premier pulp event!

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

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

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

Only $3! Tickets available at the door, kids under 10 admitted free with adult.
For more information, contact us at:  info@girasolcollectables.com

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

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

 We look forward to seeing you there.



39th Annual Paperback Books Show and Sale
Sunday, March 18, 2018!

There will be over 80 dealer tables with tens of thousands of vintage paperbacks for sale.
You can find every vintage paperback you want or need - from inexpensive filler copies to the most elusive and rare collectibles in the hobby.
There is no telling what might show up. Plan for a fun day of looking. There will be treasures found.
Click HERE for more information.

The show has another excellent lineup of authors and artists scheduled to be present at various times throughout the day.
Come meet the authors and artists. Bring your books and have them sign their works for FREE!
Check the Guest Schedule to plan your day.

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


67th Michigan Antiquarian Book And Paper Show
Sunday, April 29, 2018
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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

Causeway Bay Hotel
6820 South Cedar Street
Lansing, Michigan

New Location! Free Parking!

West of Lowe's Home Improvement

Admission $5
CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER FREE
Adventure House
Now available!

Phantom Detective October 1945

Death to A Diplomat by Robert Wallace
The Phantom Detective steps into a dark maze of mystery to ferret out the evil perpetrators of a grim scheme of death and blackmail when a legate’s murder stirs a roiling brew! 
Follow the exciting exploits of Richard Curtis Van Loan as he delves into a crime case that baffles a nation!

The Corpse Comes Home by John L. Benton
Marked For Murder by Robert Sidney Bowen
7x10, 86 pages, $14.95



Adventure House
Now available!

Thrilling Adventures - June 1932

Peril In The Wind by Henry Leyford
The argosy of an intrepid adventurer whom fate entrusts with the Emerald of the Pharaohs

Death’s Orchids by Lane Archer
Jungle Joss by Paul Regard
Pirates and Gentlemen by Scott Morgan
Keeping the Peace by Cole Weymouth
Dead Man’s Flight by Johnston Carroll

The Leopard Man [Part III] by Perley Poore Sheehan
7x10, 130 pages, $14.95



Adventure House
Now available!

Startling Stories - March 1942

Tarnished Utopia by Malcolm Jameson
Racked with pain in the torture chambers of the moon, a brave American plots a terrible death for Prince Lohan, Dictator of the Solar System!

Silent Eden by Henry Kuttner
Hornets of Space by R.F. Starzl
Mister Joe Doe, Earthman by Joseph J. Millard
7x10, 130 pages, $14.95




Altus Press
THE SPIDER: SLAUGHTER, INCORPORATED (Facsimile Edition)
by Grant Stockbridge, Donald G. Cormack, Arthur Leo Zagat, and Norvell Page
Introduction by Will Murray
Now available!

Originally slated to appear in The Spider Magazine in the 1940s, "Slaughter, Incorporated" was ultimately shelved when that magazine was cancelled.
Never before published directly from author Donald G. Cormack's original manuscript,
this edition has been faithfully reconstructed as an exact copy of the never-published
February 1944 issue of The Spider Magazine, complete with vintage interior illustrations.

In addition, The Spider: Slaughter, Incorporated (Facsimile Edition) marks the first publication
of the never-before-published lost Red Finger story, "Red Finger and the Murder Trio," penned by Arthur Leo Zagat.

Also including a story by longtime Spider author, Norvell Page.

$19.95 softcover
Altus Press
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS #6: THE RED DESTROYER
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Now available!

”Stand by for action—three o'clock—map position M-24.”
Dusty Ayres suspected that this message came from the enemy, that it was bait luring him to a trap;
but he didn't guess how deadly the snare was, didn't know that he was keeping a rendezvous
with one of the most destructive weapons yet used by the Blacks—an invisible tornado of red death!

An amazing account of the next great war!

186 pages / $13.95 softcover

 


Altus Press
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS #7: THE WHITE DEATH
by Robert Sidney Bowen
Now available!

“You will instruct Captain Ayres to proceed to Washington H.Q. by staff train at 2:25.
He is to be provided with escort to station and placed in custody of Staff Sergeant Bolton…” Dusty read this radiogram with amazement.
First H.Q. grounded him, then sent this crazy order.
But the order did not worry the gods of war, for they knew that the very fires of hell itself would sweep across war-torn America
before the devilish plot behind that command could be smashed—before Dusty Ayres could learn the secret of the white death!

188 pages / $13.95 softcover
Altus Press

by Robb T. White, Jonathan Sheppard, Richard Billingsley, J.D. Graves, Brian Townsley, J. Allan Dunn, Paul Ernst, Dan Cushman, Frederick Nebel, and H. Bedford-Jones

Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue featuring five all-new stories, plus vintage hard-boiled classics from the pulp era of the 1930s-40s.
And it includes a never-before published cover by James Lunnon, painted for Black Mask in 1940.

 $14.95softcover  / $4.99 eBook

Altus Press
The Cross Brand
by Frederick Faust
Now available!

Longtime friends, Sheriff Harry Ganton and Jack Bristol, find themselves on different sides when Harry is mistakenly shot during an argument. Thinking he has killed his friend, Jack flees town, only to run into two mysterious strangers. Why does one have a cross brand on his forehead? And then there's the matter of Jack's appointment with the hangman's noose in his future....

139 pages / $12.95 softcover / $29.95 hardcover

Altus Press

Altus Press
The Next Wave of The H. Bedford-Jones Library
Now available!

Altus Press is pleased to announce the next wave of books in our acclaimed H. Bedford-Jones Library series.
This time out, we've collected a variety of HBJ's most beloved genres: historicals, mysteries, and Foreign Legion sagas, among others.
These have rarely if ever been reprinted. And each contains all of the original pulp illustrations by some of the best draftsmen of the pulp era.
Simply put: if you're looking for the best material to see print in the pulps, look no further than the works of The King of the Pulps, H. Bedford-Jones.

Each will be available soon at www.altuspress.com.

The Princess and the Prophet
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by John Richard Flanagan

Nostradamus, Mary of Scotland, and other historical figures interact in a novel by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

Under Nostradamus' care, wounded Scottish gentleman Cameron of Glenlyon was soon healed, and he told of his mission: he bore a secret message from Scotland to young Queen Mary; and Hamilton and others of the Scots Guards would kill him if need be, to prevent its delivery....

222 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Ghost of Screwface Hanlon
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Pete Kuhlhoff

The nephew of a King of the Underworld inherits his fortune... and his enemies. But is Screwface Hanlon really dead? Crawford must find out, or he'll end up like his mysterious uncle! A never-before collected series by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

62 pages | $14.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

They Lived By the Sword
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops

A fantastic novel of the World War of 218 B.C., and of Hannibal’s invasion across the Alps—the greatest military feat in history. It's a novel by the King of the Pulps—author H. Bedford-Jones—which has never before appeared in book form.

231 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Warriors in Exile
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops

Collected for the first time is author H. Bedford-Jones' 17-part saga of the French Foreign Legion... the fascinating series based on the records of the most famous and picturesque fighting force of modern times. Featuring stories of the Foreign Legions in Crimea, Italy, Formosa, Tonkin, Siam, Dahomey, Sudan, Madagascar, the Sahara, with Maximilian of Austria in Mexico, war-torn Spain in 1835, and the Franco-Prussian War.

384 pages | $24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover

One More Hero: The Cases of the Fireboat Men
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Leland Gustavson

Fireboat men must be not only firemen, but sailors, divers, engineers and police—dangerous callings, all.... Collected for the first time, this colorful series centers around Gunboat Brendan and the tragic problem he met below the murky harbor waters. Written by the prolific author, H. Bedford-Jones, the King of the Pulps.

102 pages | $14.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Gunpowder Gold
by H. Bedford-Jones, illustrated by Pete Kuhlhoff

Grimm had risked his life on the American and European battlefields. Now he was hot on the trail of the two hundred million francs left to the exiled young Russian Duchess Marie of Courtland, and Grimm needed that to fund the battles of the American Colonies... and to buy the needed gunpowder to win their independence.

This edition marks the first time this novel-length adventure has been published in book form. It's another historical fiction classic by the King of the Pulps, author H. Bedford-Jones.

197 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover






Altus Press: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Altus Press Latest Releases: The Lost Spider Novel, Dusty Ayres, and a New Issue of Black Mask Magazine - New!
The Next Wave of The H. Bedford-Jones Library is Here
Mavericks Headlines the Next Wave of Popular Hero Reprints
The Thrilling Heroes Return to Print
Moon-Blind by Erik Van Lhin (American Science Fiction Magazine series)
AMAZING STORIES
Bringing back science fiction's first and original magazine - Amazing Stories!
New Kickstarter campaign for the return of Amazing Stories as a print magazine!

Amazing Stories is an institution. It is an icon of the field. Over the years it has represented both the best and the worst that this genre has to offer. It has inspired the careers of authors, artists, editors, academics, scientists and engineers. Its presence proved that there was a viable market for this kind of literature, a fact not lost on other publishers who quickly followed suit. By 1930 there were four magazines in the field, eventually many more. And the fans? They bought every single one of them. 

Amazing Stories deserves to be an ongoing part of our community. It may be a bit worn around the edges, the spine may be cracked a little and it may shed bits of pulp here and there, but those are love scars. Amazing Stories is not just our progenitor, it is the embodiment of the heart and soul of the genre. 

We love it. We love what it's done for us, what it represents, what it created. How can we not, when we love Science Fiction? 

We know you share that love. Please show that love. It's time for Amazing Stories to live again.

Checkout the reward levels at the link below.
Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.
Past episodes:
Secret Agent X, Volume 6 from Airhsip 27
Four in the Way: Vol. 2 of the Saints and Sinners Series
Doc Savage Pastiches
"Three on a Match" - Sergio Leone meets Barsoom
Bobby Nash discusses "Sanderson of Metro"
Audible Studios
The Land of Always Night: Doc Savage - Download Only
Now available!

Doc battles a chalk-white faced villain named Ool who can kill with the touch of a finger and possesses a strange pair of dark goggles. The battle against the villain leads to a lost civilization hidden deep in the earth where Doc and his fabulous five face an otherworldly challenge.

Full cast of narrators includes Roger Clark, Kevin Pariseau, Marc Vietor, Lauren Fortgang, Victor Bevine, Peter Ganim, Angelo Di Loreto, Nick Sullivan, Jonathan Davis, and Gabriel Vaughan.

Listening Length: 3 hours and 54 minutes
Audible Studios
The Golden Man: Doc Savage - MP3 CD
Coming May 15!

A golden man rises miraculously from the sea with the power to peer into the future and challenge the Man of Bronze.
Doc Savage and his crew follow the mystery man's fabulous trail from South America to New York where they uncover his dark sanctuary - and come face-to-face with an evil cult of blackmail and murder.

Marc Vietor (Narrator)
Listening Length: 3 hours and 54 minutes
$14.99
AVENGERS OF THE MOON
 by Allen Steele
Arriving in book stores April 17!
 
The solar system needs a hero and it's about to get one in an old-fashioned pulp adventure with modern sensibility. It was an age of miracles. It was an era of wonder. It was a time of troubles. It was all these things and more... except there were no heroes. Naturally, one had to be created. Curt Newton has spent most of his life hidden from the rest of humankind, being raised by a robot, an android, and the disembodied brain of a renowned scientist. This unlikely trio of guardians has kept his existence a closely guarded secret since the murder of Curt's parents. Curt's innate curiosity and nose for trouble inadvertently lead him into a plot to destabilize the Solar Coalition and assassinate the president. There's only one way to uncover the evil mastermind — Curt must become Captain Future!

Allen Steele gives us a thrilling piece of sf pulp with Avengers of the Moon.

Softcover, 6 x 9, 304 pages, $15.99, On sale April 17.
Publisher: Tor Books

Black Coat Press
New titles now available!

PENELOPE'S SECRET & OTHER STORIES
by Nicolas Ségur
Adapted by Brian Stableford
Cover by Mike Hoffman
 
Penelope’s Secret (1922) picks up where Homer’s Odyssey ends, after the slaying of Penelope’s suitors and the discovery that her stubborn virtue was somewhat exaggerated, which causes Ulysses to seek advice from Minerva, Menelaus and his old tutor, the centaur Chiron.
 
Plato in Search of Amour (1926) described the manner in which Plato, emerging from adolescence, feels the pangs of young love and seeks the guidance of Socrates who hands him over to the great courtesan Aspasia
 
Naïs at the Mirror (1920) features the notorious courtesan whose self-examination includes accounts of her dealings with her lovers, her observations of Athenian mores and the conduct of contemporary philosophers, such as Epicurus.

Contents:
 Le Secret de Penelope [Fasquelle, 1922]
Platon cherche l’Amour [Flammarion, 1926]
Naïs au miroir [Fasquelle/Bibliothèque Charpentier, 1920.]
Introduction and Notes by Brian Stableford.

US $20.95 / GBP £12.99
 5x8 trade paperback, 264 pages

THE ROBE OF SINCERITY AND OTHER STORIES
by Marie-Jeanne L’Heritier de Villandon
Adapted by Brian Stableford
Cover by Mike Hoffman

Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier de Villandon (1664-1734), a relative of the better-known Charles Perrault, was among the most important creators of the  fairy tales genre. This ground-breaking collection gathers four stories originally published in 1696, a year before Perrault’s Tales of Mother Goose, the classic The Dark Tower and the Luminous Days published in 1705, as well as an essay written in the form of a letter, in which Mlle L’Héritier casts more light on the detail of her thinking, the process by which the tales came to be written and the various things that she was attempting to achieve.

These stories may well be the source material that inspired Cinderella and the Brothers Grimm’s Rumpelstiltskin, amongst others, and are not an adaptation of folklore, but an attempt to recycle literary inventions attributed to the medieval troubadours.

Contents:
From Oeuvres meslées (1696):
Marmoisan; or, Innocent Deceit
The Enchantments of Eloquence; or, The Effects of Mildness
The Clever Princess; or, The Adventures of Finette
Grateful Parnassus; or, The Triumph of Madame Des Houlières
From La Tour ténébreuse et les jours lumineux (1705):
The Dark Tower
Ricdin-Ricdon
The Robe of Sincerity
Appendix: Letter to Madame de G***
Introduction and Notes by Brian Stableford.

US $23.95 / GBP £14.99
 5x8 trade paperback, 304 pages 
THE POOL OF MNEMOSYNE
by Brian Stableford
Cover by Vincent Biwer
 
Brian M. Stableford’s latest novel, The Pool of Mnemosyne, concludes the saga of the immortal Axel Rathenius, from the artists’ colony of Mnemosyne, an island located off the northern coast of what in our world is called France, in the Everlasting Empire, 2,000 years after the birth of the Divine Caesar...
 
Rathenius now returns to Mnemosyne after his meeting with the legendary Madame Minerva only to be confronted by a new conspiracy which threatens to annihilate his beloved island...

Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since 1965. He has published more than 80 science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as several authoritative non-fiction books. He has also been translating the works of numerous authors of French mysteries, scientific romance and fantasy for Black Coat Press, which has previously published his four Mnemosyne novels.

Contents:
The Pool of Mnemosyne (2018)
US $23.95 / GBP £14.99
 5x8 trade paperback, 304 pages 
 



 
Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
By Ed Hulse (editor)
Now available!

The Shadow, The Spider, The Avenger, Doc Savage, The Black Bat, The Phantom Detective — these swashbuckling heroes of mid-20th-century pulp fiction all had one thing in common: They fought crime from outside the law, unhindered by red tape and unmindful of such legal niceties as due process. They fought with fists and guns, for the most part hiding their true identities beneath outlandish costume and grotesque disguises.

This collection of essays by distinguished pulp-fiction aficionados chronicles the era of single-character magazines from offbeat angles and with keen insight. The pieces herein analyze key stories and characters while offering rare, behind-the-scenes glimpses of authors and editors at work, crafting and polishing the pulp-paper fever dreams that enthralled millions of young readers during the Great Depression, World War II, and beyond. Ed Hulse, editor of Blood ‘n’ Thunder, the award-winning journal of adventure, mystery and melodrama, has assembled these affectionate essays with loving care and a discerning eye for the high-water marks in this phase of American popular culture.

This third volume of Blood ‘n’ Thunder Presents, like its predecessors, is profusely illustrated with pulp-magazine covers and original artwork.

Cover Art by Rafael De Soto
Introduction by Ed Hulse
220 pgs., paperback, 8 1/2 X 11
Price: $24.95
PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO DOMESTIC BUYERS.
OVERSEAS BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS



Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!

2018 Windy City Film Program
Murania Press 2017 Year-End Sale
BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER Back-Issue Availability
Bringing Back Classic Adventure One Page at a Time - Now online!

Vintage Reads – The Sword of Rhiannon
Vintage Reads – The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales
Vintage Reads – The Dying Earth


Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!

Pulp Consumption: Sharp Ends
Pulp Appeal: Firefly (and Serenity)
Pulp Appeal: Disney/Pixar’s Up
Pulp Appeal : Storyhack #1
THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Subscribe for 2018
 
Subscribe for 2018 now, as the price will rise after this special offer ends!
The 2018 Issues are numbers 81, 82, and 83.

Please note that Bronze Gazette Special Editions are not included in any subscription, but may be purchased separately.
Only $30.00
 
THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #81 is now available and recommended!
 
Front Cover: Dan Brereton
"The State of the World of Bronze" by Chuck Welch
"Notes on a Doc Savage Illustration" by Dan Brereton
"The Stories Behind the Story" by David Avallone
"Reviewing the Ring of Fire" by Bobb Cotter
"The Girl Who Hated Doc Savage" by Dafydd Neal Dyar
"Doc Savage and the WEP" by Julián Paga
"Sons of Savage: Doc Caliban" by Art Sippo, MD
"Doc Has a Gun!" by Michael Ingalls
Back Cover: Tim Faurote imagines Doc and the Fatal Five in the style of James Bama

Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
You can order available single issues at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/back-issues/
Subscribe for 2018 (Issues 81, 82, and 83) at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/subscribe/

$35.00 USA
$45.00 Canada (US Dollars)
$55.00 International
(Prices Include Postage)
Click HERE to subscribe!
Click HERE for available back issues!

 The Bronze Gazette  


Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Sensor Sweep: A. Merritt, Leigh Brackett, Dungeons of Chaos, and Rocket’s Red Glare
Sensor Sweep: Weird Book, Freedom Squadron, Shaver Mystery, and Wasteland Warfare
James Bond Books From a Pulp Perspective
Short Reviews – The Jewels of Chamar, by Raymond F. Jones

Centipede Press
SWORDS AGAINST DEATH by Fritz Leiber
Now available!

In the annals of heroic fantasy one epic tale stands head and shoulders above the rest, spanning sixty years in the telling, the saga of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser has captivated fans ever since Fritz Leiber’s first tale of the duo appeared in the August, 1939 issue of Unknown. Just in time for the seventy-eighth anniversary of the characters debut, Centipede Press is releasing the first of what will be the definitive eight-volume set comprising not only all of the stories by Fritz Leiber (and his friend Harry Fischer), but also the brilliant epilogue to the series, Swords Against the Shadowland by Robin Wayne Bailey.

The story of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is among the most enduring in modern fantasy and we suggest reserving your set sooner rather than later.
Each volume will be signed by the introducer and artists and will also feature a facsimile signature of Fritz Leiber.

The second book in the series, Swords Against Death , features work produced over a thirty-year period, including five classic novelettes of the genre that show Leiber's progression from excellent to perhaps the very best that the field has ever produced. These five novelettes and ably bolstered by five terrific short stories, demonstrating Leiber's ability to excel at any length.

With this volume what really sets the tone for the entire series is that we learn much more about the duos supernatural mentors, Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes. This book features an introduction by Steve Rasnic Tem and artwork by Dominick Saponaro. It is signed by both of them and also has a family-approved facsimile signature by Fritz Leiber. It features five interior illustrations, a full-color frontispiece, full color wraparound dustjacket, and custom illustrated endpapers. The book includes all of the stories that make up Swords Against Death along with Fritz Leiber's introduction to Bazaar of the Bizarre, some movie notes by Fritz Leiber, and a rare bonus essay, Lankhmar and Lands Around.

Signed edition is limited to 300 copies, each signed by Steve Rasnic Tem and Dominick Saponaro.
Bound in full black cloth, blind stamping on front board.
Color illustrations hand-tipped into the book.
Introduction by Steve Rasnic Tem.
Gorgeous dustjacket on Mohawk Superfine.
Head and tail bands, ribbon marker.

Swords Against Death signed: $85

 Centipede Press    


DAN FOWLER: THE LEAGUE OF DEAD PATRIOTS - Now available!
By Andrew Salmon (Author), Mike Fyles (Illustrator)

March 1942
It began with FBI Agent Dan Fowler breaking up a black market ring. It ended with the ultimate sacrifice anyone could make.
Follow G-Man Dan Fowler as his case takes him into a Japanese internment camp and into the clutches of the Domino Lady!
•    What is the masked vixen's game?
•    Who is the mysterious Joe McGoohan?
•    Who deals in coffins filled with candles?
•    And what is killing the camp inmates?
At America's darkest hour, secrets abound and justice is in short supply - but truth may just shine brightest of all!
Award-winning author Andrew Salmon has made a name for himself writing best selling Sherlock Holmes tales and delivers an action-packed, short read blast fans of Stephen Hunter's G-Man will enjoy.

Kindle Price:    $0.99
THE DARK ANGEL: THE COMPLETE TALES OF JULES DE GRANDIN, VOLUME THREE - Now available!
by Seabury Quinn

Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn.

Quinn's short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales's original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin's knack for solving mysteries―and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)―captivated readers for nearly three decades.
Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh, presents all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero.

The third volume, The Dark Angel, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from "The Lost Lady" (1931) to "The Hand of Glory" (1933), as well as "The Devil's Bride", the only novel featuring de Grandin, which was originally serialized over six issues of Weird Tales.

Hardcover, 512 pages, $34.99
eBook: $19.99

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

The Sweat Mag Art of Stanley Borack - New!
"Captain Science and the Insidious Doctor Khartoum" by Orlando & Wood (1951) - New!
Pulp Gallery: MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES 1-4 (1938-39) - New!
Comic Gallery: TONTO (1952) - New!
Pulp Gallery: Opening Day for AMERICA'S GAME!
Comic Gallery: PRINCE VALIANT
PHANTOM LADY vs. the "Knights of the Crooked Cross" by Matt Baker (1947)
WEIRD TALES 71, 72 & 73 (1929)
DMR Books - Now available for pre-order!

These titles are also available from Mike Chomko.
Contact Mike at mikechomko@gmail.com

The Thief of Forthe and Other Stories by Clifford Ball
After the death of Robert E. Howard, Clifford Ball was the first writer to follow in his footsteps and pen sword and sorcery stories for Weird Tales. For the first time ever, all of Ball’s stories are collected into one volume. A must-have for pulp historians and fans of fantasy, horror, and weird fiction! 206 pages.

Table of Contents:
Duar the Accursed
The Thief of Forthe
The Goddess Awakes
The Swine of Aeaea
The Little Man
The Werewolf Howls

The limited edition "classic size" version of this title will be available in April.
Trade paperback and digital versions will be coming later this spring.
$10.00

The Sapphire Goddess - The Fantasies of Nictzin Dyalhis
At last, the stories of one of the most unusual writers of weird fiction are collected! This volume contains all of Nictzin Dyalhis’ works of fantasy and science fiction, many of which have never before been reprinted. Those who love the wild imagination and masterful prose of authors such as Clark Ashton Smith and C.L. Moore are sure to enjoy this collection. 388 pages.

Table of Contents:

When the Green Star Waned
The Eternal Conflict
He Refused to Stay Dead
The Dark Lore
The Oath of Hul Jok
The Red Witch
The Sapphire Goddess
The Sea-Witch
Heart of Atlantan

The limited edition "classic size" version of this title will be available in April.
Trade paperback and digital versions will be coming later this spring.
$13.00

DMR Books Blog - Now online!

Who "Made" Conan and Robert E. Howard? -- Part One - New!
The Savage Swords of Louis L'Amour  
Reavers of Skaith: Saving the Last For First
"I Dream in Fire But Work in Clay" - Arthur Machen
Edgar Rice Burroughs
SONG OF OPAR by Jim Malachowski
Coming June 1!

Song of Opar is an update of Tarzan and La's adventures beginning in the early twentieth century. 
Working with new information, the Opar stories have been enhanced and updated. 
Song of Opar places more emphasis on the origins of Opar, adventures of Tarzan and La not documented anywhere else, and the demise of the lost city.

Song of Opar is a tale of more than 115,000 words. 
It features a spectacular cover featuring the talent of well-known ERB artist — Joe Jusko. 
Song of Opar has thirty interior illustrations newly created, by the author, expressly for this book.

Publisher: Seti Press
Language: English
Pages: 394
Binding: Perfect-bound
Dimensions (inches): 6 wide x 9 tall
Price: $29.95 (plus shipping)

SONG OF OPAR will debut at the Edgar Rice Burroughs Chain of Friendship convention May 17-18.
It will be available to the public June 1.

Seti Press


  Now online!

New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

March 2018
Since the flu season was a bit rougher than normal this year, we thought it was a good time to resurrect a short novel by Jack London, The Scarlet Plague, which tells of the end of civilization due to a rather nasty disease. 
We have reproduced all the Gordon Grant illustrations, all the text and have thrown in an introduction by Bob Gay that sets the novel in context.

January 2018
A tale of romance and piracy with a twist...The She Fiend (by an unknown author) gives us a female pirate with all the cunning and wiles of the Dragon Lady.  Introduction is by Dan Neyer.

December 2017
This month we present for your approval the very first published story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage." 
We have tried to put together a "definitive" edition of this early work and hope you enjoy it.  Introduction by Bob Gay.

November 2017
Since the we are in the midst of the holiday season, we thought a Christmas offering might be appreciated, and so we are happy to present a story by
Bret Harte, "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar," just as it appeared (with a few editorial interpolations) in the March, 1872 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Introductory notes are by Bob Gay.

October 2017
Just in time for Halloween, we present what is probably the most popular story to appear in Weird Tales, "The Night Wire" by H. F. Arnold.  
Read it at night with the lights turned low...

September 2017
Since we are now in the season of Fall (and not wanting to miss the chance for a pun), this month we present Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale of a famous fall, The Adventure of the Final Problem, just as it appeared in the December, 1993 issue of The Strand Magazine, including the illustrations by Sidney Paget. An introduction by Dan Neyer is also included and he makes some interesting points about our current perceptions of Professor Moriarty...
 
Also, if you are new to the site, you might wish to read Dan's biography of Doyle and possibly peruse some of our other Doyle stories.

August 2017
We've added a new Author Collection to FAFF, and are pleased to present The Edmond Hamilton Collection. 
Like our other Author Collections, our initial offering begins with a biography of Hamilton and we've also included Hamilton's very first story, The Monster God of Mamurath. 
In the months to come, we will be adding additional Hamilton stories to the collection and will also be adding more early science fiction by names both famous and forgotten.

July 2017
This month, we present "The Jameson Satellite," direct from the pages of the July, 1931 issue of Amazing Stories, along with an introduction by Bob Gay.
Also, we have added another annotated gallery of Bob's Stuff, with even more wonderment from Bob's boxes and shelves.
Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
Typically the 3rd Saturday of every month
Check the website at the link below for the latest schedule.
 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

Haffner Press
THE COLLECTED CAPTAIN FUTURE VOLUME 4
By Edmond Hamilton & Joesph Samachson
Now available for pre-order!

Jumpin’ Jungle Cats of Jupiter! It’s another mega-collection of four complete novels of the “Man of Tomorrow,” the “Wizard of Science,” the protector of the Solar System and a menace to evil-doers throughout the universe: CAPTAIN FUTURE!

Now that Captain Future (aka Dr. Curtis Newton) and the Futuremen (Grag the robot; Otho the Android; and Simon Wright, the Living Brain) have traveled not only through time but to another universe in the final story of Volume Three (See “Planets in Peril”), what other dangers will our heroes encounter?

Well, THE FACE OF THE DEEP sees the Futuremen stranded outside the Solar System on a volcanic planetoid in the company of a shipload of condemned criminals. Up next is WORLDS TO COME (written by Joseph Samachson) where Curt and his crew speed to the rescue of the Sagittarian system—ready to battle in mortal combat with nightmare enemies from another dimension.  Edmond Hamilton (writing as Brett Sterling) returns with THE STAR OF DREAD wherein our heroes ply their stock-in-trade by exposing a dangerous secret menacing humanity and taking desperate risks pursuing two scheming miscreants across the void! Closing out this penultimate volume of the novel-length adventures of The Futuremen is MAGIC MOON. Adorned by one of Earle K. Bergey’s finest cover paintings, we see conspirators plotting to seize the satellite Styx, third moon of Pluto, enslaving the peaceful natives, and putting Captain Future and his trusty aides on their most dangerous mission ever!

As with the previous three volumes of THE COLLECTED CAPTAIN FUTURE, “Under Observation,” the CAPTAIN FUTURE letters column is reprinted, and the original pulp covers and interior illustrations are reproduced in a generous appendix.

Edited by Stephen Haffner
Cover Art by Earle K. Bergey
Illustrated by H.W. "Wesso" Wessolowski
600+ page Hardcover
Pre-order price: $45.00

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
"Under Observation" - The Captain Future Letters Column
The Face of the Deep  (Captain Future, Win ’43)
Worlds to Come  (Captain Future, Spr ’43)
The Star of Dread  (Captain Future, Sum ’43)
Magic Moon  (Captain Future, Win ’44)
"The Future of Captain Future"
Appendix of original interior artwork
Haffner Press
Now available and starts shipping April 1!
Pre-order price ($50) will be held until April 15!

“Of all of Raymond Chandler’s followers, the most Chandlerish of them all might have been Howard Browne. His private eye hero, PAUL PINE, is simply one of the great eyes, no matter how inspired by (or derivative of ) Chandler’s Philip Marlowe he might have been. All the Pine books are well worth reading, and A Taste of Ashes (1957) in particular is just a flat-out, stone-cold private eye classic.

Pine is a former investigator for the Illinois State attorney’s office in Chicago who works as a P.I. in Chicago. He’s got the obligatory cynicism, snappy similes and metaphors down pat, though he tends to be a bit more down to earth than Marlowe, and often mocks his own tendencies to moroseness and world-weariness. And let’s face it — Browne was a stronger plotter than Chandler.

In 1985, almost thirty years after Pine’s last appearance, Dennis McMillan published a book The Paper Gun. That volume collected the only previously-published Pine story, “So Dark For April,” plus an incomplete Pine novel that Browne, in the foreword, called “a story complete in itself. But it is not the whole novel.” He states that he had lost interest in the private eye genre, and so the story is only 122 pages in length, too long for a short story, but too short for a novel.’ —adapted from “Paul Pine” by Kevin Burton Smith, www.thrillingdetective.com
HALO FOR HIRE contains all the Paul Pine stories.

Edited by Stephen Haffner
Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff
Cover Art by Laurel Blechman
900+ page Hardcover
Pre-order Price: $50.00

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Halo in Blood
Halo for Satan
Halo in Brass
"So Dark for April"
The Taste of Ashes
"The Paper Gun"
Haffner Press
THE VAMPIRE STORIES OF ROBERT BLOCH
By Robert Bloch, Edited by Stephen Haffner, Illustrated by Gahan Wilson
Now available for pre-order!

Robert Bloch (1917-1994) is one of the most fondly remembered and collected authors of crime, horror, fantasy, and science fiction of the 20th Century. Noted by many as the author of Psycho, Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a member of the Lovecraft Circle and began his career by emulating H.P. Lovecraft's brand of "cosmic horror." He later specialized in crime and horror stories dealing with a more psychological approach.

500+ page Smythe-sewn Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-893887-90-9
Pre-order price: $45.00

TABLE OF CONTENTS
“The Feast in the Abbey”
“The Beasts of Barsac”
“The Shambler from the Stars”
“The Opener of the Way”
“The Mannikin”
“A Question of Identity”
“The Cloak”
“Unheavenly Twin”
“Nursemaid to Nightmares”
“Fear Planet”
“Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper”
“Black Barter”
“Death Is a Vampire”
“The Bat Is My Brother”
“The Skull of the Marquis de Sade”
“The Bogey Man Will Get You”
“Tooth or Consequences”
“The Hungry House”
“The Man Who Collected Poe”
“The Light-House”
“I Kiss Your Shadow”
“Dig That Crazy Grave”
“The Sleeping Redheads” aka “Sleeping Beauty”
“Hungarian Rhapsody”
“The Living Dead”
“A Case of the Stubborns”
“The Undead”
“The Yougoslaves”
“The Bedposts of Life”
“The Scent of Vinegar”

Hard Case Crime
 Coming soon!
July 2018

UNDERSTUDY FOR DEATH
Charles Willeford
Cover art by Paul Mann

AN UNFORGIVABLE CRIME.
AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL.

Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband’s .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out—and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era.

On the 30th anniversary of the death of the masterful novelist the Atlantic Monthly called the "father of Miami crime fiction," Hard Case Crime is proud to present Charles Willeford’s legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication by a disreputable paperback house in 1961. One of Willeford’s rarest titles (copies of the original edition sell for hundreds of dollars), Understudy for Death still has the power to disturb, half a century after its debut.

First publication in almost 60 years!
The creator of detective Hoke Moseley and author of books such as Miami Blues and The Woman Chaser, Willeford is widely considered one of the finest crime novelists of the 20th century
Several of Willeford’s novels have been turned into movies and TV shows, most recently the FX pilot Hoke starring Paul Giamatti 
September 2018

CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL
Scott Von Doviak
Cover art by Paul Mann

AN INGENIOUS DEBUT NOVEL
INSPIRED BY A REAL UNSOLVED CRIME!

1946: A group of criminals pulls off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. Some of the thieves are captured, some are killed—but the loot is never found.

Forty years later, a college student finds himself on the trail of the missing art—and the multi-million-dollar reward.

But three decades after that, the art is still missing, and as his classmates return to Boston’s notorious Charlesgate Hotel for their big 25th reunion, dead bodies keep turning up. Will the stolen masterpieces be discovered at last?

A breathtakingly clever, twist-filled narrative that moves from 1946 to 1986 to 2014 and back again—and is steeped in Boston lore, including three unforgettable seasons of Red Sox baseball—CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL establishes Scott Von Doviak as a storyteller of the first order, and will leave you guessing until the final page.

First publication ever!
Virtuoso first novel by film critic Scott Von Doviak unfolds in three separate time periods: the 1940s, the 1980s, and the present day
Inspired by the unsolved real-life heist of priceless works of art from the Gardner Museum in Boston
October 2018

THE COUNT OF 9
Erle Stanley Gardner
Cover art by Robert McGinnis

A DOUBLE-LOCKED ROOM...
TWO STOLEN JADE IDOLS...
POISONED BLOWGUN DARTS FROM BORNEO...
—CAN EVEN COOL & LAM UNTANGLE THIS MYSTERY?

Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of PERRY MASON—at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print, including the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Gardner was also one of the most ingenious plot-spinners in the field, coming up with stunning twists and reveals—and THE COUNT OF 9 is Gardner at his twistiest.

Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha and Donald confront an impossible crime: how could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party when the guests were X-rayed coming and going—least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun? But that’s nothing compared to the crime they face next: an impossible murder...

First appearance in bookstores in half a century!
Erle Stanley Gardner remains one of the most popular American authors of all time
Features a new cover painting by legendary paperback and movie poster illustrator Robert McGinnis 




Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!

 Collecting Brackett
Tales From the Magician’s Skull Issue 2
Sea-Kings of Mars
The Skull Lives
H.P. Lovecraft: Selected Works, Critical Perspectives and Interviews on His Influence - Coming Spring/Summer 2018!

This collection of H.P. Lovecraft’s most influential works presents several of his most famous stories, a sampling of his poetry and an abridgment of his monograph Supernatural Horror in Literature, with commentary providing background and context. Criticism is included from such scholars as S.T. Joshi and Robert M. Price, along with essays by writers Brad Strickland and T.E.D. Klein, and interviews with Pulitzer-nominated author Richard Monaco (Parsival) and award-winning novelists Cherie Priest (Boneshaker) and Caitlin Kiernan (The Drowning Girl).

SPRING-SUMMER 2018
$39.95
Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!
Ella Frances Oldham Burroughs was a sister-in-law to famed author and creator of Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs,
through her marriage to one of his older brothers, Henry Studley Burroughs.
Their son, Studley, as an adult, would illustrate a few of his uncle's Tarzan books.

Ella was a talented poetress and author, but only had a few stories and poems published in her lifetime.
Included in this collection of her works is an unpublished poem from 1913.

Ella died in a tragic car accident in 1933

CONTENTS:
"The Bride"
"His Soldier Bride"
"A Little Girl Like You"
"Exemption"
"A Soldier in the Making"
"The Contest"
"The Happy Pilgrim"
"For a Council Bluffs War Memorial"
"Poem"
"Spring Notes"
"Service"
"Inca Love Song"
"Midsummer"
"Song"
"Wing-time, Ring-time"

Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 9 inch, 154 pages
Retail Price $39.95
Our Price $27.95

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 154 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $12.95


Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Ready Player One Movie Review
Cinevent Film Festival Turns 50
Filmfax Magazine celebrates a milestone

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.


Now featuring: Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie
Meteor House
TARZAN AND THE DARK HEART OF TIME
By Philip Jose Farmer
Coming in July!

One of the most famous heroes in literature is back!
Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, returns with a vengeance in this action-packed adventure by Philip José Farmer, Hugo Award winner, Nebula Grand Master, and author of the incredible Riverworld saga.

Tarzan’s beloved mate, Jane, has been kidnapped, and the furious ape-man will let nothing stand in the way of rescuing her—not even a sinister safari whose target is Tarzan himself. With fierce Masai trackers leading the chase, a trio of white hunters are hellbent on capturing the Jungle Lord. But as the pursuers, and their uncanny half-human tracker, close in from behind, Tarzan races toward even greater danger ahead.

For the trail leads to a bizarre, long-forgotten land boasting a multitude of strange and terrifying mysteries: the City Built by God, the Hideous Hunter, the One to Avoid, and most shocking of all, the Crystal Tree of Time—whose seductive powers could ultimately spell Tarzan’s doom . . .

Philip José Farmer, a descendant of the actual Greystoke family, and a recipient of the prestigious Golden Lion Award, bestowed by the Burroughs Bibliophiles at the 1970 Dum-Dum, is famous for his adventure novels starring Tarzanic characters. Now, in Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time, authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Farmer lends his vast imagination to the legend of the Lord of the Apes himself!

In addition, this handsome new edition, which sports a gorgeous painted cover by well known Burroughs artist Mark Wheatley, a new Foreword by longtime Burroughs scholar Robert R. Barrett, and a new Introduction by Farmer expert Win Scott Eckert, will also be released in a trade paperback edition.

Now accepting preorders, the book will be released at FarmerCon 100, held in conjunction with PulpFest 2018 in Pittsburgh, PA, July 26-29. As always, readers who preorder and attend FarmerCon/PulpFest can pick up their copies there—and as an added bonus, get them signed by Wheatley and Eckert! All other copies will ship immediately after FarmerCon 100.

ORDERING:
The trade paperback edition is $20 (plus shipping).
The hardcover edition is $35 (plus shipping).
Or you can preorder them together for only $50—that’s $5 off (plus you’ll save even more with combined shipping)!

Trade paperback: $20
Hardcover: $35
6×9, 260 pages

Due out in July 2018, you can preorder the trade paperback, hardcover, or both, by clicking here.

The Official Philip José Farmer   Meteor House



Meteor House
The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection
Coming in July!

To mark Philip José Farmer's 100th Birthday, Meteor House is proud to present a mammoth collection worthy of the Grand Master. With over fifty pieces spanning seven decades The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection goes beyond the typical "best of" anthology. From classic science fiction to poems, articles, tributes, speeches and more all by Farmer himself. Additionally there is an introduction by Joe R. Lansdale, a foreword by Tracy Knight, a bibliography at Zacharias L.A. Nuninga, and each decade features a synopsis of Farmer's life and career. At well over 900 pages this collection is a must for all science fiction fans and historians and is available in trade paperback and hardcover featuring two covers by Mark Wheatley.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Foreword

The 1940s
Bradley Brave Sees New York
O’Brien and Obrenov
Imagination

The 1950s
The Lovers
Sail On! Sail On!
Sestina of the Space Rocket
Mother
Lovers and Otherwise
Attitudes
Totem and Taboo
The Tin Woodman Slams the Door

The 1960s
On a Mountain Upside Down
Uproar in Acheron
The King of the Beasts
Riverworld
The Blind Rowers
Riders of the Purple Wage
The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod
My Father the Ripper (an excerpt from A Feast Unknown)
Kickaha’s Escape (an excerpt from A Private Cosmos)
The Josés From Rio

The 1970s
Only Who Can Make a Tree
The Sliced-Crosswise-Only-On-Tuesday World
An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke
Sketches Among The Ruins of My Mind
After King Kong Fell
Writing Doc’s Biography
Sherlock Holmes & Sufism
The Problem of the Sore Bridge—Among Others
To the Wizard of Sci-Fi
A Fimbulwinter Introduction
Osiris on Crutches
The Last Rise of Nick Adams
The Freshman
Creating Artificial Worlds

The 1980s
The Making of Revelation, Part 1
Buddha Contemplates His Novel
The Long Wet Dream of Rip van Winkle
The Man Who Came for Christmas
Plane Talking (an excerpt from A Barnstormer in Oz)
The Peoria-Colored Writer
Memoir
Why and How I Became Kilgore Trout
St. Francis Kisses His Ass Goodbye

The 1990s
Evil, Be My Good
Wolf, Iron, and Moth
Why Do I Write?
A Hole in Hell
More than Most
Casting Turtles (an excerpt from Nothing Burns in Hell)

The 2000s
The Face That Launched a Thousand Eggs
Keep Your Mouth Shut
The Good of the Land
The First Robot
The Princess of Terra
That Great Spanish Author, Ernesto
The Terminalization of J. G. Ballard
The Light-Hog Incident

Bibliography
Trade paperback: $35
Hardcover: $50
5.5×8.5, 940+ pages

Due out in July 2018, you can preorder the trade paperback, hardcover, or both, by clicking here.
Trade Paperback

Hardcover


September 13-15, 2018! 

Hunt Valley Wyndham (recently changed now to a Marriott)
SAME HOTEL, NEW NAME.

Announcing the first half of our celebrity lineup for our 2018 event!
Remember you can purchase your admission tickets in advance through the website and save money.
And book your hotel room early before they are sold out!
Hotel: (410) 785-7000

VENDOR HOURS: Thursday and Friday 9 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 5 pm
​CELEBRITY HOURS: Thursday and Friday, 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
​MOVIE ROOM: 24 hours a day
​PANELS & PRESENTATIONS: 9 am to 9 pm (See schedule of events)

Celebrity Lineup (So far)

BARBARA EDEN
I Dream of Jeanie
Barbara will be one of our weekend guests!

PATRICK DUFFY
Dallas
The Man from Atlantis
​

ERIK ESTRADA
CHIPS
Airport 1975
​

MARYAM D'ABO
007 Bond Girl
The Living Daylights

OLIVIA D'ABO
The Wonder Years
Conan the Destroyer​
CINDY WILLIAMS
Laverne and Shirley
American Graffiti

SHIRLEY JONES
The Partridge Family
The Music Man

DAWN WELLS
Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island​​
GARY CONWAY
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Burke's Law
Land of the Giants

LARRY STORCH
F-Troop
The Ghostbusters

and MORE!
MILLENNIUM BUG (Doc Brazen) (Volume 1)  - Now available!
by Jeff Deischer

THE DOCTOR IS IN!

The world’s most famous crimefighter, scientist and adventurer from the Thirties and Forties comes out of his fifty-year retirement when his anti-crime operation is attacked.

Someone has discovered his secret: a clandestine program to turn criminals into productive members of society.

Aided by a new group of assistants, Ulysses Brazen, Jr. finds a genius equal to his behind a scheme to take over the world without firing a shot.

Paperback: 294 pages
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.7 x 8 inches
$15.00
Mystery*File - Now online!

COLLECTING PULPS: A Memoir  Part 21: Pulp Art, Part Three by Walker Martin - New!
Pulp Fiction Stories I’m Reading: THORP McCLUSKY “The Crawling Horror.”  
Western Horror Stories I’m Reading, by David Vineyard: MAX BRAND “Werewolf.”
Stories I’m Reading: CORNELL WOOLRICH “Vampire’s Honeymoon.”
COLLECTING PULPS: A Memoir, Part 20, by Walker Martin: PULP ART, Part Two
MICHAEL AVALLONE’s “MAN FROM U.NC.L.E.” Books, by MIKE NEVINS
CON REPORT: PulpFest 2017, by Walker Martin
COLLECTING PULPS: A Memoir, Part 19, by Walker Martin: PULP ART

The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Dr. Shadows
The Man of The Mist
The Velvet Wasp
The Vigilantes


DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, Pennsylvania
Guest of Honor — Joe Lansdale
Thursday, July 26 through Sunday, July 29, 2018
Are you thinking about attending PulpFest 2018?
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 next year’s convention is shaping up to be one of our best.

2018 marks the centennial of the armistice that ended the First World War.
Also called “The War to End All Wars” and “The Great War,” PulpFest — The Great Convention — will be honoring the 100th anniversary
 of the war’s end by focusing on the so-called “war pulps” of the early twentieth century and the depiction of war in popular culture.

We’ll explore the work of Leonard H. Nason — who wrote about soldiers and war for ADVENTURE and other magazines —
and have presentations on artistic interpretations of war in comic books, pulps, and men’s adventure magazines.
Author and anthologist Don Hutchison will moderate a panel on “Fighting Aces of War Skies: The Pulps Take Flight” and
 Henry G. Franke, III — the editor of THE BURROUGHS BULLETIN — will discuss “Edgar Rice Burroughs and The Great War.”
Also, Robert Gould will talk about his father — John Fleming Gould — the interior artist who illustrated every issue of G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES.

We’ll also be celebrating the century mark of Grand Master of Science Fiction Philip José Farmer.
PulpFest and its associated convention — FarmerCon — will be saluting the acclaimed author of such works as ESCAPE FROM LOKI, THE DARK HEART OF TIME, the classic Riverworld series, and more.
Join us for panels and presentations on “World Building and Writing in the Nine Continuity,” “The Dark Heart of Loki: Philip José Farmer Revisits 1918,” and the life and legacy of Philip José Farmer.
We’ll also be showing the French documentary MOI, TARZAN, featuring Farmer, George McWhorter, and Francis Lacassin.

And don’t forget about our Guest of Honor — Joe Lansdale — the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories.
Winner of the Edgar Award, ten Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award,
the British Fantasy Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many other awards,
Joe will be talking with Tony Davis — editor emeritus of THE PULPSTER and winner of the 1999 Lamont Award — on Saturday evening, July 28, in the PulpFest programming room.
Mr. Lansdale will also be available at other times during the convention.

For All Members

All PulpFest 2018 members — including dealers — must register for the convention.

Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying at the DoubleTree: $35 (includes free early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying elsewhere: $40 (without early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2018 if staying elsewhere: $70 (with early-bird shopping)

Single-day membership for Friday or Saturday: $20
Single-day membership for Sunday: $10 (available only at the door)
Supporting Membership: $25

Help Choose the 2018 Munsey Award

Every year, PulpFest recognizes the efforts of those who work to keep the pulps alive for this and future generations.
The Munsey Award recognizes an individual who has given of himself or herself for the betterment of the pulp community.
The award is named after Frank A. Munsey, the man who published the first pulp magazine.

Our 2017 Munsey Award winner was Phil Stephensen-Payne.

Nominations for the 2018 Munsey Award are now being accepted.
All members of the pulp community are welcome to nominate someone for this year’s award.
 If you have someone in mind that you feel worthy to receive this prestigious award, please let us know.

All members of the pulp community — excepting past winners of the Munsey, Rusty, or Lamont Awards  — are eligible.
Your nomination can be sent to PulpFest marketing and programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
You can also reach Mike at 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104-6542.
You will need to provide the person’s name and an explanation describing why that person should be honored.

The deadline for nominations is May 1, 2018.
The recipient of the Munsey Award will be selected through a vote cast by all the living Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Award winners.
 The 2018 Munsey Award will be presented on Saturday evening, July 28, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, the host hotel for PulpFest 2018.
The convention will take place over the last weekend in July, beginning on Thursday evening, July 26 and running through Sunday, July 29.
Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Fuel" by George L. Catton from ARGOSY, August 30th, 1919
Old Peter Saunders and Kenneth Cary were arguing over the rights to a gold mine which rightfully belonged to Saunders.

"Log Jam" by Robert Leslie Bellem from SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES, March, 1937
A blue-eyed, slim-hipped girl owned the last logging outfit that dared make a stand against the octopus-tentacles of the Trust. Steve promised himself that she'd win, come hell or high-water!

"A Three Man Breeze" by Captain Henry P. Harrison from ARGOSY, December, 1898
Castaways as the result of a submarine earthquake - The peculiar craft which picked them up and the extraordinary fashion in which they are made to work their passage.


Pulp Den by Tom Johnson - Now online!

Millennium Bug - New!
Across A Wounded Galaxy - New!
Landscape of Darkness
Gun Kiss  
Operation Hail Storm

         Pulp Den  
Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.

F.R. Buckley - biographical article  - New!
Beautiful covers #3 - N.C Wyeth in the Popular Magazine
Beautiful covers #2 - Walter Baumhofer - Western Story
Cherry Wilson - Western Author
The Pulp Hermit  by Tom Johnson - Now online!

The Black Bat
Ki-Gor
Frederick C. Davis
The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.
Radio Archives
James Christopher, Operator #5 Audiobook
#25 Crime’s Reign of Terror
by Emile C. Tepperman writing as Curtis Steele
Read by Milton Bagby
Now available!



Men blanched at that name — the Scarlet Baron! Ambitious master of the united Underworld, he promised boundless riches for all! But Jimmy Christopher — Operator #5 of the Intelligence — understood the true purpose behind the new plague of rapine and murder. With the gallant Federal G-men slaughtered — with the Secret Service and militia admitting defeat — alone, wounded and heartsick, Operator #5 seizes the very last chance to save our crime-beleaguered land from shameful serfdom!
 
Jimmy belonged to the clean-cut, square-jaw, clear-eyed breed of hero made popular by the F. B. I. back in those grim days. He carried a Colt automatic and wore a flexible rapier concealed in the hollow of his leather belt. A gold skull ornament dangled from a vest-pocket watch chain. It contained a fast-acting poison in case of capture by enemy agents. Jimmy Christopher played a very dangerous game, of which he was a past master.

After two years, original Operator #5 author Frederick C. Davis grew tired of saving the United States through his surrogate hero, and bowed out. His editors required that he write under the house name of Curtis Steele, so readers didn’t notice when Emile C. Tepperman and then Wayne Rogers took over the series. Tepperman became famous for breaking the monthly menace format, and launching a continuing serial revolving around the Purple Invasion, wherein a Hitlerian Axis of European powers actually succeeds to conquering America, forcing Jimmy Christopher and his courageous crew into the roles of ragged guerrillas desperately battling to reclaim the nation, state by state. Fans have dubbed this thirteen-part saga, “The War and Peace of the pulps.”
 

Into this unprecedented crisis plunged Jimmy Christopher. Only one man, but a man who embodied the American spirit — and stands prepared to perish to protect his country.

 
Crime’s Reign of Terror is read with stirring intensity by Milton Bagby. Originally published in the April, 1936 issue of Operator #5 magazine.
 
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Radio Archives


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.
 
“Doc” Turner was one of the least likely heroes that appeared in the pulp magazine stories. He was a little old pharmacist who ran a drug store in the slums of New York, where just about everyone came to him when they had problems. Oh, and what problems they had! Werewolves and vampires mixed in with extortionists and gangsters. And solve their problems he did, with the aid of his strapping red-headed assistant, mechanic Jack Ransom, and his young stock boy Abe Ginsberg.
 
These short stories appeared in the back pages of The Spider magazine, a grand total of 70 of them. Every single one can be found in this collection; not a one is missing.
 
Table of Contents:
 
Introduction
 
Doc Turner and the Banshee
from the April 1939 issue of the Spider magazine
Eerie, chill, the wail of death broke over the tenements — calling to the grave two defenseless people. But Doc Turner, who was wise in the ways of medicine and misery, found the way to beat a ghost with no other weapon than his own humble nose!

Graves Filled To Order
from the May 1939 issue of the Spider magazine
Old Doc Turner had had many terrible battles with the human vultures who prey on society — but never one like his struggle to the death with a mad undertaker who dug premature graves and marked the living for his private corpses!

Doc Turner and the Winged Terror
from the June 1939 issue of the Spider magazine
Down upon Doc Turner's impoverished neighbors swooped sudden death. For Doc, who had dedicated his life to championing the poor, it meant a desperate duel with the mighty powers of evil and darkness.

Congratulations to the Corpse
from the July 1939 issue of the Spider magazine
It was a hospitable gathering who had come together to honor Doc Turner — but none could guess that Doc was already being entertained by a host from hell!

Doc Turner and the Eye of Death
from the August 1939 issue of the Spider magazine
Through the darkened tenements floated the incredible disk of purple light, trailing horror and sudden death in its wake. None save old Doc Turner knew its dreadful secret — and he had learned it too late to live.

In This Corner — Kid Death
from the September 1939 issue of the Spider magazine
Morris Street had bet its last pennies on the prizefight, out of loyalty to the Bruiser. But none of them knew that Death was the real champ in the ring that night — and old Doc Turner was the only man left to answer the final bell!

The Axeman’s Necklace
from the January 1940 issue of the Spider magazine
In which Doc Turner appoints himself executor of the Axeman's blood-stained estate — and helps to square a murderer's account in the Highest Court!

Death’s Dancing School
from the February 1940 issue of The Spider magazine
Doc Turner's unerring instinct leads him down a corpse-strewn trail to the lair of a ballet master who trains the Slums' fairest daughters... for a horrible purpose!

 
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 Spirits
GREEN HORNET: NIGHT FLIGHT
Now available!

Racketeers and swindlers, thieves and killers -- they all feel the sting of The Green Hornet! World War II might be over, but there's more crime than ever in Britt Reid's corner of the world. That means action for the crusading publisher turned masked avenger -- apprehending scheming crooks, corrupt politicians, and Communist spies.
Jack McCarthy wields the gas gun as the streamlined Black Beauty prowls the streets in twenty exciting 1948 adventures - many of which have not been available since their original broadcasts!

Includes a Program Guide by radio historian Martin Grams, Jr.

Episodes Include: Matrimony Limited 06-29-48; Death in the Gray Market 07-06-48; Racketeer Round-Up 07-13-48; Double-Double-Cross 07-20-48; Project Q-419 07-27-48; The Green Car on Display 08-03-48; The Frame of the Broken Back 08-10-48; Night Flight 08-17-48; Death Money 08-24-48; Suite Charity 09-14-48; Try For Freedom 09-16-48; Protection's A Word for Death 09-23-48; Arson, Murder and The Hornet 09-28-48; Coffins Are For the Dead 09-30-48; The Planners 10-05-48; The Oriental Jewel 10-07-48; Borderline Case 10-12-48; Where There's Smoke 12-02-48; The Headly Conspiracy 12-07-48; Cargo of Death 12-09-48

Duration: 10 hours
Media: (10) CDs
Catalog Number: 47832
Price: $39.98
 

Recoverings

These new dust-jackets use scans of the original cover paintings by J. Allen St. John and Studley O. Burroughs, producing the extremely sharp detail and rich color that my dust-jackets are known for.
Click on the image to the right and see for yourself.

APACHE DEVIL was the last cover that Studley O. Burroughs did for ERB, Inc. and CITY OF GOLD was the first that J. Allen St. John did, marking a return of the illustrator to his favorite and most well-known subjects.

Studley originally had the CITY OF GOLD assignment in the fall of 1932, but his personal problems got the better of him and he ended up way behind schedule.

Burroughs had C.R. Rothmund, his secretary, write to St. John as early as February of that year to ask him if he could reduce his prices for artwork, which he had quoted teh previous February, to match their "budget allowance" in the event that "the artist who is doing the work at present" would not be able to deliver on time. St. John agreed to a 37% decrease and ERB, Inc. put him off until it became clear that Studley would miss his deadline. Read more about this on The Back Flap Blog soon to come…

Tarzan and the City of Gold: 1933
Cover by J. Allen St. John.
$25.00

Apache Devil: 1933
Cover by Studley O. Burroughs.
$25.00

Robert E. Howard Days
June 8-9, 2018!


We'll look forward to seeing you in June with all new panels and guests, a couple of extra-special surprise announcements and all the traditional activities that happen every year at Howard Days.
 

Robert E. Howard Foundation
Join the Robert E. Howard Foundation

Robert E. Howard House Archaeology Project
New Go Fund Me Project to excavate the Howard House storm cellar!

In an effort to shed more light on Robert E. Howard the man, Project Pride, the owners of the Robert E. Howard House and Museum are partnering with the National Park Service (NPS) and the Southeastern Archaeology Foundation (SEAF) to sponsor an archaeological excavation at the house where Howard grew up, lived and died, and wrote his powerful and influential fiction.

The Howard House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1994 and today it has been restored to its period appearance in the 1930s.  The Robert E. Howard House and Museum is now a tourist destination for countless fans from around the world who make the pilgrim to Cross Plains to see the place where whole worlds were created in the mind of one man. It is also the site for the annual gathering of fans known as Howard Days  on the second weekend in June.

At the Howard Days gathering in 2017, Floyd Carter, Jr. who was a member of the family who purchased the home in 1970, told several Howard scholars and attendees about the presence of a storm cellar behind the house that was now filled in and buried. Carter suggested that there was a lot of material, possibly from the Howards, buried in the cellar that might be recovered if it were excavated. NPS archaeologist and Howard scholar Jeffrey Shanks was present and talked with Mr. Carter at length about his memories of the cellar. This led to discussions with Project Pride about the possibility of a professional archaeological excavation to see what could found. Because the Museum has only a handful of items from the Howards, recovering any artifacts that date from the period when Robert and his family lived there would add significantly to the collection.

The Project:

In January, the Project Pride Board of Directors approved Shanks's proposal for the NPS to uncover and excavate the storm cellar, process and analyze the artifacts recovered, and write the official report. The excavation will also be an educational opportunity for the Cross Plains community and local schools to teach about archaeology and the importance of preserving our shared cultural heritage.

Since the Howard House is on the National Register of Historic Places and one of the missions of the National Park Service is to provide technical assistance to NRHP sites, Shanks was able to secure funding to cover the salary costs for himself and another NPS archaeologist, Thadra Stanton, to carry out the project, including excavation, artifact analysis, and report write-up -- a cost of approximately $20,000. Project Pride and the Cross Plains community will be donating lodging for the archaeological team as well as some supplies and much-needed volunteer labor. Noted Howard experts from The Robert E. Howard Foundation  will be present to assist as well.

The remaining project costs are the travel expenses for the team and salary for an NPS Archaeological Technician to assist Shanks and Stanton. These costs are estimated at $3800. Shanks approached the Southeastern Archaeology Foundation (SEAF), a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation that assists and supports NPS archaeological projects, to assist in securing the remaining needed funds. In order to do so, SEAF has launched this GoFundMe crowd-sourcing campaign to raise those funds.

This is where you come in! If you are fan of Robert E. Howard and his stories or just support archaeology and cultural resource preservation, we can use your financial assistance and generosity. Because SEAF is a 501(c)3 any contribution you make is tax deductible. We are offering several donation levels with different gifts including the official project T-Shirt and copies of the forthcoming archaeological report. You can even join the team in Cross Plains and participate in the excavation!

NOTE: Any funds received in excess of the required amount will be donated to Project Pride to help with their ongoing costs in maintaining the the Robert E. Howard House and Museum.

The Serial Squadron
Coming soon!

PROJECT COMPLETE -- ORDER LINK TO BE POSTED SHORTLY

These serials are currently being restored and proofed and will be released as single and multi-serial sets in upcoming months.
Subscribers will receive the multi-disk sets including extra items such as the BLACK WHIP upgrade at no extra charge.

The Interplanetary Adventures of ROCKETMAN
Featuring Tristram Coffin, George Wallace, Judd Holdren, Dr. Vulcan, Marex the Martian
and Roy Barcroft as Retik the Moon Menace in 3 Complete Serials
KING OF THE ROCKET MEN
RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON
ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE

All remastered and restored
February/March 2018

SPECTRE LIBRARY: THE PULP AND PAPERBACK FICTION READER - Now online!

Spawn of the Vampire by N. Wesley Firth - New!
THREE MILES FROM MURDER BY FREDERICK C. DAVIS


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.

The Shaver Mystery-Part Seven - New!
The Shaver Mystery-Part Six - New!
The Shaver Mystery-Part Five
The Shaver Mystery-Part Four
Augustus T. Swift (1867-1939)
The Shaver Mystery Interlude

 Terence McVicker, Rare Books
Rare, used, and out-of-print books

Lots of pulp-related items for sale!

ROBERT E. HOWARD!
 H. P. LOVECRAFT! 
 CLARK ASHTON SMITH!
E. E. (DOC) SMITH!


Terence McVicker, Rare Books

WEIRDBOOK #38
Now available!
Features
From the Editor’s Tower, by Doug Draa

Stories
HARLOT ROAD, by Michael Bracken
WITH A POET’S EYES, by John C. Hocking
THE WISHING WELL, by Robert Graves
O KING OF PAIN AND SPLENDOR!, by Darrell Schweitzer
YOU’D DO IT FOR DIAMONDS, by Adrian Cole
DREADFUL APPETITE, by Franklyn Searight
THE HANDMAID OF THE KEY, by R.C. Mulhare
BLUE MOON, by Allen Mark Price
SHE WHO GIVES LIFE, by C. I. Kemp
AN IMPLEMENT OF ICE, by W. H. Pugmire
NIGHT OF THE CIRCUS, by Sharon Cullars
WOLVERS HILL, by Tim Jeff reys
RAFTS, by Lorenzo Crescentini
CLEAN SWEEP, by Edward Ahern
LEAVING MALAGA, by Cynthia Ward
CATTLE CALL, by Gregg Chamberlain
ABOMINATION IS HER NAME, by J.N. Cameron
KACHINA, by Kenneth Bykerk
FLAT IS FLAT AND THAT IS THAT, by David J. Gibbs
DEATH IS NOT MY MASTER, by Scott Harper

Poetry
THE OLD ROCK, by Russ Parkhurst
SLEEPING WITH MAD SHADOWS, by Frederick J. Mayer
THE LIQUID PROFESSOR, by Jeff Barnes
THE TOAD STOOL PEOPLE, by Chad Hensley
THE PROMISE OF A POLIDORI SORE THROAT, by Clay F. Johnson
THIS HUNGRY EARTH, by S.L. Edwards

Artwork
Alexandra Petruk - Front Cover
Allen Koszowski - Interior Artwork

WEIRDBOOK is now offering Subscriptions!!!!

  Amazon.com   Kindle    Wildside Press: Softcover  Wildside Press: eBook

Weirdbook Magazine Blogspot  Weirdbook  Facebook: Weirdbook


Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels
by Christopher R. Yates
(New publications to the list are in bold)

Now available!
Good Guys, Steven Brust, Tor, $25.99, March 6, 2018
The Refrigerator Monologues, Catherynne Valente, Saga Press, $15.00, March 6, 2018
The Oracle Year, Charles Soule, Harper Perennial, $21.99, April 3, 2018

Coming soon!
Civil War, Stuart Moore, Titan Books, $9.99, April 17, 2018
Avengers: Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Dan Abnett, Titan Books, $9.99, April 24, 2018
Monster Hunter Siege, Larry Correia, Baen, $7.99, April 24, 2018
Who is the Black Panther?, Jesse J. Holland, Titan Books, $9.99, April 24, 2018
Deadpool: Paws, Stefan Petrucha, Titan Books, $9.99, May 1, 2018
The Flash: Climate Changeling, Richard Knaak, Titan Books, $7.99, May 8, 2017
Gotham: City of Monsters, Jason Starr, Titan Books, $7.99, May 29, 2018
Vicious [Villains #1, reboot], V.E. Schwab, Tor, $25.99, May 29, 2018
Wild Cards XXV: Low Chicago, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $27.99, June 12, 2018
Heroine Worship [Heroine Complex #2], Sarah Kuhn, DAW, $7.99, July 3, 2018
Heroine’s Journey [Heroine Complex #3], Sarah Kuhn, DAW, $15.00, July 3, 2018
Monster Hunter Memoirs: Saints, Larry Correia & John Ringo, Baen, $27.00, July 3, 2018
Constance Verity Saves the World, A. Lee Martinez, Saga Press, $24.99, July 17, 2018
Avalanche: Secret World Chronicle (Bk. 5), Mercedes Lackey, et al., Baen, $25.00, August 7, 2018
Catwoman: Soulstealer, Sarah J. Maas, Random House, $18.99, August 7, 2018
The Point, John Dixon, Del Rey, $27.00,  August 7, 2018
Wild Cards VIII: One-Eyed Jacks, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $18.99, August 7, 2018
MJ-12: Endgame, Michael J. Martinez, Night Shade Books, $7.99, September 4, 2018
Target Rich Environment, Larry Correia, Baen, $25.00, September 4, 2018
Vengeful [Villains #2], V.E. Schwab, Tor, $25.99, September 25, 2018
The Monster Hunter Files, eds. Bryan Thomas Schmidt & Larry Correia, Baen, $7.99, September 25, 2018
Zero Sum Game, S.L. Huang, Tor, $25.99, October 2, 2018
 #HeroFail [Superheroes Anonymous #4], Lexie Dunne, HarperCollins, $7.99, October 18, 2018
Wild Cards XXVI: Texas Hold’em, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $27.99, October 23, 2018
They Promised Me the Gun Wasn’t Loaded, James Alan Gardner, Tor, $17.99, November 7, 2018
Monster Hunter Guardian, Larry Correia & Sarah Hoyt, Baen, $27.00, December 6, 2018