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Coming soon!
High Adventure #165
Hostages of Hate by Anthony Rud – PEOPLE’S
Randolph Haish vowed to exterminate every member of the family which he thought had wronged him.
But the family included Koot Koven, an ex-soldier, and Koot objected to being exterminated.
A remarkable girl got mixed up in the affair too, a story of fiendish cleverness, rapid-fire action, and genuine romance.
7x10, 110 pages, $12.95
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Now available!
G-8 and His Battle Aces #57 – June 1938
Patrol of the Iron Hand by Robert J. Hogan
Death walks the world in an iron garb and sleeps in the dismal caves of Hell!
Stahlmaske once more roams the Front—and the bodies of the damned lie strewn in his wake!
The Master Spy Calls on his courage and wits to battle forces of Hate!
Suicide On Wheels by Greaseball Joe
Cover Artist: Frederick Blakeslee
7x10, 110 pages, $12.95
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Coming in April!
G-8 and His Battle Aces #58 – July 1938
Fangs of the Serpent by Robert J. Hogan
The skies are red with the blood of men who have a right to live, and G-8 flies to his last appointment with Death!
This is the will of the Serpent and there is hell and misery locked in the magic of his eyes.
You’ll know about this when you’ve felt the bloody FANGS OF THE SERPENT. Death Makes A Bargain by Greaseball Joe
Cover Artist: Frederick Blakeslee
7x10, 110 pages, $12.95
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IKE MARS, PRIVATE EYE
Now available!
Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to announce the release of a new Fred Adams Jr. Mystery here in “Ike Mars – Bloody.” Pittsburg private eye Ike Mars was struck by lightning twice. Now he can change his face to look like anybody else. An enviable talent for any investigator. When a small time hood dies in Mars’ arms, after having been shot, he leaves the Mars with a small, key covered in blood.
The street-smart shamus safely assumes the man was killed by people after that key. So, the question is why is it so important as to be worth a man’s life? What mystery does it unlock and how much danger is Mars in now that he possesses it?
Once again, pulp scribe Fred Adams, Jr. launches another thrilling mystery series with this novel starring one of the most unique characters ever to walk the midnight streets of crime novels.
Artist James McFarland handles the interior illustrations and Rob Davis the cover. This is new pulp fiction at its finest.
Available from Amazon and coming soon on Kindle.
Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!
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DOMINO LADY VOLUME 3
Now available!
Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to announce the release of “Domino Lady Vol 3.”
Pulpdom’s sexiest masked avenger returns in five new adventures courtesy of writers Adam Mudman Bezecny, Gene Moyers, Brad Mengel and Samantha Lienhard. By day she is wealthy Los Angeles socialite Ellen Patrick. By night she dons her mask, cape and arms herself with a hypodermic syringe and deadly silver plated automatic to become the beautiful and mysterious vigilante known only as the Domino Lady.
In this volume she uncovers a secret female society also combating evil; a plot to take over rich wineries, confronts a blackmailer, defends a Hollywood union against gangsters and solves a friend’s murder.
“Domino Lady is arguably the most well known of the classic female pulp heroes,” says Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor, Ron Fortier. “Fans can’t get enough of her adventures and we are delighted to satisfy their demands.” Dressing up this third volume is the same super talented art team that was responsible for volumes one and two. James Lyle provides all the interior black and white illustrations, while Ted Hammond delivers another stunning, colorful cover. All neatly assembled by award winning Art Director Rob Davis.
When it comes to spills and thrills, defending innocent people and thwarted the bad guys, it is all in a night’s work for the one and only, Domino Lady.
Available from Amazon and on Kindle.
Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!
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| | Altus Press: Pulp Blog - Now online!
Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Show
More Pulp Releases: The Spider #4 and Dusty Ayres #11… At a Discount
More Pulp Releases: The Spider #3 and Operator 5 #2
The Altus Press 30% Off Cyber Monday Sale: Race Williams, Talbot Mundy, The Domino Lay, and 20 Ebooks
The Altus Press 30% Off Weekend Sale Continues With The Spider, Operator 5, G-8, and Dusty Ayres
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We’re releasing two Popular Publications Hero Pulp titles every other week, and that’s on top of our other forthcoming pulp titles!
Yes, we’ve been busy preparing a few million words of pulp prose for release, and it continues with these new releases.
Domestic orders of $35 of softcovers gives you free shipping. So what's the hold-up? Order now from altuspress.com.
The Spider #8: The Mad Horde
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge
Never before in history had anything quite so horrible as the Mad Horde been loosed upon a terrified humanity! In rural towns and through the thronging streets of great cities the death-bringers stalked, spreading the slow madness of which they themselves must soon die! The Spider, dismayed and horrified as never before in his long career, is forced at last into risking the life of the girl he loves—so that a million others may live!
$13.95 softcover
On sale until April 5: $12.95
Captain Satan #1: The Mask of the Damned
By William O’Sullivan
He held in his hands the burning Brand of Hell, and in his heart was locked the courage of the Gods! Wise guys and tough mugs, crooks and their thieving mobs knew the Mark of Satan; and they knew the swift ghosts of Fear and Destruction that rode by his side—the many fierce hands of Justice that fought in Satan’s Crew!
$13.95 softcover
On sale until April 5: $12.95
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Altus Press has been hard at work on these oversized collections, and you can get them at www.altuspress.com or via Mike Chomko's table at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Show in Lombard, IL, on April 12:
Operator 5: The Complete Purple Wars (2 Volume Deluxe Edition)
by Emile C. Tepperman, illustrated by John Fleming Gould and John Newton Howitt
introduction by Will Murray and an afterword by Tom Johnson
Dustjacketed two-volume hardcover edition.
The "War and Peace of the Pulps” is finally collected in a two-volume deluxe, hardcover edition. Running in the pages of Operator #5 magazine from 1936–38, this 14-part epic chronicled the invasion and conquering of America by a mysterious foe from Europe: The Purple Empire. As Will Murray describes in this edition's Introduction: "Battles rage from coast to coast. The exploits of Operator 5 shift from espionage and counterespionage to straight military adventure. Through it all, Jimmy Christopher rises to become the de facto leader of the resistance."
Written by Emile C. Tepperman (author of The Spider and The Masked Marksman) and containing nearly 300 illustrations by John Fleming Gould, this half-million-word saga remains the greatest epic to see print in Golden Age of the pulps and is still considered most risky and ambitious experiment ever undertaken in the single-character magazines.
This two-volume deluxe, hardcover edition includes an all-new Introduction by pulp historian Will Murray, as well as Tom Johnson's retrospective on the series, The History of the Purple Wars. It also collects the rarely-reprinted Epilogue to the Purple War, "Revolt of the Devil Men."
Also restored are all of author Tepperman's rarely-reprinted footnotes which graced the original pulp editions of the stories.
Never-before collected, this remastered, comprehensive collection of Operator 5: The Complete Purple Wars has been one of the most eagerly-anticipated pulp publications of all time.
788 pages / 8.5"x11" / $150
Ships and Men: The Complete Epic (Deluxe Edition)
by H. Bedford-Jones
illustrated by Frederic Anderson, George Avison, John Richard Flanagan, Leyland R. Gustavson, Robert L. Lambdin, Arthur Lytell, Alex Raymond, Alfred Simpkin, Yngve E. Soderberg, and Harve Stein
Dustjacketed hardcover edition.
Running for three years in the pages of the prestigious Blue Book Magazine, author H. Bedford-Jones crafted the most ambitious work of his career: a massive, 34-part saga of seafaring adventure, told chronologically throughout the annals of naval warfare, involving a number of significant figures in world history. Never before collected, this 200,000-word epic includes nearly 200 interior illustrations by artists such as Alex Raymond, John Richard Flanagan, and Leyland R. Gustavson.
350 pages / 8.5"x11" / $85
Black Mask (2019 Yearbook)
by Brian Townsley, Jane Jakeman, Brian Stanley, Hannah Honeybun, Katrina Younes, William Burton McCormick, Frank Megna, Michael Bracken, Jonathan Sheppard, Jim Doherty, Isaac Babel, Boris Dralyuk, D.L. Champion, Dashiell Hammett, Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, T.T. Flynn, and Frederick C. Davis
Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue. This time around, it includes nine new stories in the Black Mask vein by Brian Townsley, Jane Jakeman, Brian Stanley, Hannah Honeybun, William Burton McCormick, Frank Megna, Jonathan Sheppard, Michael Bracken, Jim Doherty, as well as a new article on Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister by Katrina Younes. In addition, Boris Dralyuk has kindly supplied his translation of Isaac Babel’s “Lyubka the Cossack” and arranged for its reprinting here.
And, as with previous issues, Black Mask collects some of the best hard-boiled detective fiction from the Popular Publications vaults, as written by some of the genre’s best: Dashiell Hammett, D.L. Champion, Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, T.T. Flynn, and Frederick C. Davis.
142 pages / 8.5"x11" / $19.95
Altus Press
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| | American Mythology Productions
Now available!
CARSON OF VENUS: FLAMES BEYOND #3
(Writer) Carey Christopher Paul (Art) Cyrus Mesarcia
(Cover) Cyrus Mesarcia
(Cover) Puis Calzada (Pulp Homage cover)
In the climactic conclusion of Carson of Venus: The Flames Beyond, Carson Napier must go head to head with his nemesis Varlek Sar, whose army of ghostly Carson duplicates is locked in a deadly battle with the allied forces Duare has assembled from across Amtor. But the war raging in the streets of the dystopian science-city of Havatoo is just the diversion Varlek Sar needs, as he sets his sights beyond the mythical flames that surround Amtor to achieve his true goal-conquest of the planet Earth!
Carson of Venus The Flames Beyond #3 comes with three covers - Main by series artist Cyrus Mesarcia, Pulp Homage by Puis Calzada, and limited-edition Character Design edition also by Mesarcia.
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale March 27 (Main & Pulp Homage covers).
Full Color, 32 pages, $9.99, On sale March 27 (Limited Edition cover).
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ZORRO LEGENDARY ADVENTURES BOOK 2 #1
(Writer) Jean-Marie Nadaud (Art) Robert Rigot
(Cover) Francisco Cueto
Celebrate 100 years of Zorro with a new chapter of classic swashbuckling adventure never seen in English! We've scoured the world for the most exciting Zorro comics and are delivering them for the first time to fans through the Legendary Adventures line. These are classic tales of action and intrigue that are timeless and beautifully illustrated by Europe's most talented artists.
Zorro Legendary Adventures #1 Book 2 comes with two covers - Main and Limited-Edition Blazing Blades of Zorro by Francisco Cueto.
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
Full Color, 32 pages, $9.99 (Limited).
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Nothing new this week.
Past episodes:
Airship 27 Update with Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
Audible versions of Bobby Nash's "Abraham Snow" Series with Voice actor Stuart Gauffi
Roger Alford - The Black Spectre Origins Book II
New World Order: HERO U.N.I.O.N. by Jeff Deischer
Interview with Legendary Comic artist Robert Fujitani
The Avenger Double Feature by Bobby Nash and Chuck Miller
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VINTAGE SCI FI 2020 WALL CALENDAR
Coming in September!
Wall Calendar, 11x15, Full Color
SRP: $16.95
2020 Vintage Sc- Fi Calendar is solicited in the April PREVIEWS (Available March 27).
The Diamond Item Code is APR192398.
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New titles now available!
The present volume is one of a set of three collections assembling a substantial fraction of the short fantastic fiction of Catulle Mendès (1841-1909). It assembles 23 tales of the fantastique dealing with anomalous events and altered states of consciousness that might or might not have supernatural causes.
Other writers such as Marcel Schwob have written stories of the same kind, but Mendès’ work in that vein is particularly interesting, not merely by virtue of its profusion and its uncommon imaginative range, but also because of its macabre humor and its straightforward disturbing aspects.
That combination of effects makes the present collection unique with in the field of weird fiction, and quite fascinating.
US $22.95 / GBP £12.99
5x8 trade paperback, 260 pages
This volume is one of a set of three collections assembling a substantial fraction of the short fantastic fiction of Catulle Mendès (1841-1909). It assembles more than eighty contes, fables and apologues employing supernatural motifs
The light-hearted flippancy of the majority of the stories collected here has its own heroic dimension in blithely sacrificing the copious resource of narrative energy to be found in the Devil’s works in order to focus much more extensively on the kindly ministrations of angels, Eros and other benign figures. It is a testament of Mendès’ ingenuity that the sacrifice in question was not a costly one, permitting him to maintain a level of productivity that few writers of his era could match.
Whimsy might look easy to a reader, but it is not nearly as easy for an author. Few writers have ever been able to draw from that particular well as prolifically and consistently as Catulle Mendès, and there are only a precious few whose work could be assembled into a kaleidoscopic display of phantasmagorical materials as rich as this one.
US $32.95 / GBP £22.99
5x8 trade paperback, 412 pages
STRANGERS 2: OF BLOOD AND FIRE
by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier
art by Mariano De La Torre, Anthony Dugenest, Alfredo Macall, Pierre Minne, Fernando Pasarin, and Studio Cirque.
Cover by Pierre Minne
Contents:
- Foreword by J.-M. & Randy Lofficier
- #1. Of Endings and Beginnings
- #2. The Judgment of Alpha
- #3. Of Blood and Fire
- #4. Jaydee vs Hunter
- #5. Virgin or Demon?
- #6. The Wrath of Azaka Thunder
HOMICRON is a NASA scientist whose body is inhabited by a mysterious alien from planet Alpha.
STARLOCK is the former servant of supremely powerful cosmic entities who has managed to escape from his Martian prison and is hiding on Earth.
FUTURA is a mysterious woman from a parallel dimension.
JALEB is the secretive agent of a Galactic Federation of telepaths.
JAYDEE is a teenage, alien metamorph, abandoned on Earth as a baby, and who may well be the deadliest killing machine in the universe...
These characters, all “strangers” to Earth, are brought together by TANKA, a former jungle lord who has been recruited by entities from our planet’s farthest future to be their “time agent” and is now empowered to protect our world from extra-terrestrial menaces.
In this first volume of the second season, from Paris to New Orleans, Jaleb and Futura search for Wathan, the secret agent of the Great Mind who seeks to plunge Earth into total chaos. Meanwhile, Homicron faces the judgment of her own race on Alpha and Tanka and Jaydee face another Salamandrite on the island of Haiti. With special guest-stars: Phoenix, Hunter and The Dark Flyer!
Strangers takes place entirely in the over 60-year-old fictional universe of Editions Lug, now Hexagon Comics, one of France’s oldest comics publishers which, from the 1950s to the 1980s, published nearly 300 popular comics starring numerous characters in genres as varied as superheroes, westerns, science-fiction, horror, heroic fantasy, jungle action, war, and historical swashbucklers.
US $34.95 / GBP £22.99
7x10 trade paperback, 160 pages
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| | | Black Moon: The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume Five - Now available!
by Seabury Quinn
The concluding volume in a series collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales.
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 over half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the French supernatural 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.
Available for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin collects 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 fifth volume, Black Moon, includes all the stories from “Suicide Chapel” (1938) to “The Ring of Bastet” (1951), as well as an introduction by George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg and a foreword by Stephen Jones.
Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher: Night Shade
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
$34.99
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| | | Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction
Coming This Month!
Before the trend toward specialization—before the hard-boiled dicks, before the Skylarks and Lensmen, before the Shadows and Spiders—pulp magazines offered escapist fiction that appealed to readers of all stripes. Virtually every story was suffused with the spirit of adventure; beyond that there was great variety in theme and setting. Qualities that became pronounced during the era of genre pulps were already evident in rough-paper yarns of the 20th century’s first two decades. Sadly, many great stories from this period are unknown to today’s pulp aficionados, especially inasmuch as the issues in which they appeared are hard-to-find collector’s items.
Murania Press has rescued from obscurity ten noteworthy novels originally published in such legendary pulps as Adventure, Blue Book, The Argosy, The Cavalier, and The Popular Magazine between 1908 and 1921. Some never saw publication in hard covers, others did but have been out of print for many decades. This group of exemplary stories, written by early pulpdom’s top fictioneers, is being republished as a series titled “Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction.”
Each book, measuring six by nine inches, utilizes the same cover design. Each is numbered on the spine, alphabetically by author. Each has an informative introductory essay putting the novel and its author in proper historical context for maximum appreciation by readers.
Stories in the “Forgotten Classics” series take place in a variety of locales: India, the Appalachian Mountains, the American West, the Gobi Desert, the Canadian northwest, the French Riviera, the South Seas, colonial-era Kentucky, and a mythical Balkan state. Within the group a reader will detect genre elements that would become more distinct and pronounced in pulp fiction of subsequent decades. But each novel is, at its core, a rousing adventure story clearly and vividly told. You’d never guess these gems were written a hundred or more years ago.
Murania Press has previously published four of the listed novels in its “Classic Pulp Reprint” series. Those books, now withdrawn from circulation, sold for $20 per title. Each of the “Forgotten Classics” volumes is priced at $16, and the entire set of ten will be available at $120, which includes shipping to buyers in the United States.
The “Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction” will begin shipping on May 1. Between now and then we’ll be running individual blog posts with additional information on each book. For now, here are the titles and the magazines from which they have been sourced:
1. H. Bedford-Jones, The Wilderness Trail. Originally published in the February 1915 issue of Blue Book.
2. B. M. Bowers, The Spook Hills Mystery. Originally published in the November 7, 1914 issue of The Popular Magazine.
3. George Bronson-Howard, The Return of Yorke Norroy. Originally published in the October 1908 issue of The Popular Magazine.
4. A. M. Chisholm, Fur Pirates. Originally published in the October 20, 1915 issue of The Popular Magazine.
5. J. Allan Dunn, Barehanded Castaways. Originally published in the December 20, 1921 issue of Adventure.
6. George Allan England, The Elixir of Hate. Originally published in the August-November 1911 issues of The Cavalier.
7. Francis Lynde, B. Typhosus Takes a Hand. Originally published in the October 20, 1921 issue of The Popular Magazine.
8. Talbot Mundy, Yasmini the Incomparable. Originally published in the January 1914 and July-September 1915 issues of Adventure.
9. Perley Poore Sheehan, The Abyss of Wonders. Originally published in the January 1915 issue of The Argosy.
10. Gordon Young, Savages. Originally published in the May 3, 1918 and July 18-September 3, 1919 issues of Adventure.
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Before launching what would eventually become the Marvel Comics empire, Martin Goodman published low-rent pulp magazines issued by a dizzying array of shell companies designed to insulate him from irate creditors. In order to compete in an already-crowded marketplace, he allowed editor-in-chief Robert O. Erisman to distinguish their periodicals with lurid covers and frankly sensational fiction. Bearing Goodman's "Red Circle" trademark, the short-lived horror pulps Mystery Tales, Uncanny Tales, Marvel Tales, and Real Mystery were transgressive in the extreme, shattering the boundaries of good taste and igniting a firestorm of outrage that eventually drove all horror pulps off the newsstands.
This book collects ten of the most shocking, sadistic, and salacious yarns ever to appear in Red Circle's shudder pulps — more than 100,000 words of mesmerizingly appalling fiction — tied together with a 4200-word essay that puts them in their proper cultural-historical perspective. We guarantee you'll never read another pulp anthology quite like it!
Cover Art by J. W. Scott
Introduction by Ed Hulse
306 pages, trade paperback, 6x9 inches
Price: $25.00
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| | Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press JOHNSTON MCCULLEY OMNIBUS
Now available!
Among the most prolific fictioneers ever to pound a typewriter, Johnston McCulley has earned pop-culture immortality as the creator of Zorro, who made his debut in 1919. At that time he was just one of many McCulley characters romping through the shag-edged pages of America's pulp-fiction magazines. Most others appeared in Street & Smith's DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE, a weekly periodical devoted to fast-paced tales of crime and mystery. The three novels contained in this book, originally published in DETECTIVE STORY as several series of connected novelettes, feature protagonists operating outside the law. Two of them, Black Star and The Spider, are master criminals who take special pleasure in outwitting police; the third, The Thunderbolt, is a vigilante attempting to right wrongs beyond the law's reach.
Although these yarns were written a hundred years ago, they lack the florid excesses common to what is popularly known as "purple prose." McCulley's style is simple and direct, and aside from some stilted dialogue here and there, his fiction remains just as entertaining as it was upon first publication. Moreover, his World War I-era protagonists set the pattern for countless pulp characters to follow, lending historical context to their fanciful exploits. In reading the adventures of Black Star, The Spider, and The Thunderbolt, today's pulp-fiction aficionado will encounter tropes that were still being employed twenty and thirty years later. None of the characters in this omnibus had Zorro's longevity, nor did they achieve his success in other media. But they are fascinating nonetheless as precursors of an entire school of pulp heroes and villains.
Cover Art by John A. Coughlin
Introduction by Ed Hulse
590 pages., trade paperback, 6x9 inches
Price: $35.00
All three novels are now available in one jumbo-sized, affordably priced volume.
Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
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Coming This Month: Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction - New!
Collectibles Section Update: March 28
2019 Windy City con’s Film Program: Saturday schedule
Coming Next Week: THE JOHNSTON MCCULLEY OMNIBUS
2/1/19: Customer Service Update
| | Bold Venture Press Tales of Zorro's Old California
In the early 1800s, California — with its warmth, its romance, its peaceful beauties — was still under Spanish rule.
While the legend of Zorro grew, stirring the hearts of Californians, this sprawling state was a land of opportunity and adventure — and, oft-times, great danger.
The Devil’s Doubloons
Señor Mendoza had all the ingredients of success, but Fate cast him aside.
Then, at the moment he was prepared to end his life, a mysterious masked woman sought his aid, and El Diablo brought a great promise — and a great threat!
A thrilling Old California adventure from 1940 by the creator of Zorro!
Cover by Francisco Silva
Softcover / Hardcover
Pages: 166
Format: 6 x 9 inches.
$14.95 / $29.95
Also available in eBook edition - $4.95
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MYSTERY, SCIENCE FICTION, HORROR — NEW AND CLASSIC PULP FICTION!
Audrey Parente, editor
Cover art by Norman Saunders
Interior illustration by Aleena-Valentine Lopez
CLASSIC PULP FICTION
"Noggins Gets His Man" by Johnston McCulley
A police detective bides his time hoping a killer might crack.
"You Can Get Away With Murder" by Charles Boeckman
Amidst the sea of Mardi Gras revelers, two detectives follow a trail of clues to find a killer.
"Flapjack Meehan’s Coal Strike" by Frank Richardson Pierce
It can't be fool's gold when it's lumpy and black ...
NEW PULP FICTION
"’The Death Clock" by David Bernard
Antique heirloom or deadly obsession?
"The Ghost of Torreon" by Edd Vick and Manny Frishberg
Time and space — an inventor may run out of both …?
"When the Punishment Fits the Crime" by Carson Demmans
A rat turns stoolie …
"A Fear of Winning" by Gary Lovisi
Cheaters never win … but winners just might cheat …
"Daemon Mask: Crimson Wings of Silence"
by Stuart Hopen & Russ Martin
[35-page comic section] The Whisper clashes with a mad scientist whose "cleansing agent" could whitewash reality!
[The Whisper's origin story appears in Pulp Adventures #24]
SHORT FEATURE
"Happy 100th Birthday, Zorro" by Rich Harvey
Strike up the parade in Chillicothe, Illinois.
Editorial by Audrey Parente
Trade paperback, 7 x 10 inches, 134 pages, $12.95
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| Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!
Pulp Appeal: THE GETAWAY by Jim Thompson
Pulp Appeal: “The Garden of Adompha” by Clark Ashton Smith
Pulp Appeal: “The Tomb Spawn” by Clark Ashton Smith
Pulp Appeal: “The Master of the Crabs” by Clark Ashton Smith
Pulp Consumption: The Mummy (2017)
Pulp Consumption: The Mummy (1999)
Issue 8 Out Today!
| THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #83 is now available and recommended!
Front Cover: Tom Morgan & Mike Gusovich
"Mea Culpa" by Chuck Welch
"Mapping the Adventures" by Catherine Lavelée Welch
"Se-Pah-Poo: One of the Best?" by Craig Rogers
"Mystery of the Bronze Bombers" by Chuck Welch
"The Outlaw Doc Savage" by Dafyyd Neal Dyar
"The Sun Spot Menace" by Julián Paga
"Why Doc Savage Flipped His Lid" by Dafyyd Neal Dyar
"Skullcal Skulduggery" by Dafyyd Neal Dyar
"Alias Baron Karl" by Julián Paga
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/
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| Castalia House Blog - Now online!
Sensor Sweep: Classics, Steve Tompkins, Queen of the Black Coast, Gun Ghoul
Remembering a Friend
H.P. Lovecraft: The Music of Erich Zann
Brand New Cirsova Out Today!
Sensor Sweep: Dime Detective, Jules Verne, Warhammer, Galactic Patrol, Rambo!
Sensor Sweep: August Derleth, Mack Bolan, Fandom History, Bill Crider Prize
| Centipede Press
SWORDS IN THE MIST 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. The story of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is among the most enduring in modern fantasy, and 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 third book in the series, Swords in the Mist, includes “The Cloud of Hate,” “Lean Times in Lankhmar,” “Their Mistress, The Sea,” “When the Sea-King’s Away,” “The Wrong Branch,” and “Adept’s Gambit.”
For bonus materials, we have a rare photograph of Fritz Leiber, plus Leiber’s introduction from Night’s Black Agents, an essay by Fritz Leiber called “H.P. Lovecraft meets Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser,” some story fragments and a “Few Fafhrd & Gray Mouser Firsts,” and H.P. Lovecraft’s letters to Fritz Leiber regarding “Adept’s Gambit.”
This book features an introduction by Tim Powers and artwork by Grant Griffin. It features six color 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 in the Mist along with the bonus material mentioned above.
Bound in full black cloth, blind stamping on front board.
Illustrations hand-tipped into the book.
Introduction by Tim Powers.
Gorgeous dustjacket on Mohawk Superfine.
Head and tail bands, ribbon marker.
Published March 2019.
Book size 6 × 9 inches.
Number of pages: 280.
unsigned: $69 (on sale from $75)
Centipede Press
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Cirsova Publishing has teamed up with StarTwo to create an all-new, fully-illustrated 70th Anniversary Edition of Leigh Brackett’s original Eric John Stark Trilogy.
Cirsova Publishing aims to bring the action, adventure and romance of Leigh Brackett to a new generation of readers.
First published in the Summer of 1949, Queen of the Martian Catacombs introduced the world to Eric John Stark, the black mercenary swordsman. Stark’s adventures continued on Venus in 1949’s The Enchantress of Venus, and the swordsman returned to the Red Planet in 1951’s Black Amazon of Mars. While Brackett would revisit the character in 1970s with the Skaith trilogy, the original novellas are significant as one of the last iconic Sword & Planet cycles of the pulp era.
These stories will be presented like never before, featuring all new original artwork, including new covers paying homage to Allen Anderson’s originals for Planet Stories and 33 interior illustrations. Each has been checked and corrected against the original texts as they appeared in Planet Stories magazine and will feature introductions by Nathan Housley, aka the Pulp Archivist, Jeffro Johnson, the author of the critically acclaimed Appendix N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons, and culture commentator, critic, and pulp enthusiast Liana Kerzner.
The 70th Anniversary Illustrated Stark will be released as individual volumes, in a softcover omnibus, and in a coffee-table hardcover art edition.
Queen of the Martian Catacombs + Illustrated Stark (Hardcover) – 4/30/2019
The Enchantress of Venus – 5/31/2019
Black Amazon of Mars – 6/28/2019
The Complete Illustrated Stark (Paperback) – 7/31/2019
Our end-goal is to put these classic works of science fiction back in the hands of readers, young and old.
Due to the wide number of editions and ebooks available, this page provides links to all the available editions.
All print versions can be order / pre-ordered through Cirsova’s new Aero store or from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
The Illustrated Stark: 70th Anniversary Edition Hardcover Omnibus (Available 4/30/2019)
This 8.5″ x 11″ hardcover presents the stories magazine-style in two-columns with full-page illustrations.
Additionally, this edition contains an appendix of character art and unused sketches.
This print-only edition contains over 100 illustrations!
Queen of the Martian Catacombs (Available 4/30/2019)
This 6″ x 9″ volume contains Queen of the Martian Catacombs, fully illustrated, with an introduction by Nathan Housley.
The Enchantress of Venus (Available 5/31/2019)
This 6″ x 9″ volume contains The Enchantress of Venus, fully illustrated, with an introduction by Jeffro Johnson.
Black Amazon of Mars (Available 6/28/2019)
This 6″ x 9″ volume contains Black Amazon of Mars, fully illustrated, with an introduction by Liana Kerzner.
The Illustrated Stark: 70th Anniversary Edition Softcover Omnibus (Available 7/31/2019)
This collects all three fully illustrated stories in a single 6″ x 9″ volume. Note that it does NOT include the bonus content from the Hardcover Omnibus.
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| | The Complete Adventures of Jimmie Dale: Volume One
An Annotated Compilation of all five novels of the Gray Seal and the Tocsin (Volume 1)
By Frank L. Packard (Author), Michael Howard (Editor)
Now available!
In 1914 a character appeared who would permanently transform popular fiction. Frank Packard's Gray Seal melded elements from A. J. Raffles, Jimmy Valentine, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and Arsène Lupin, but those traits were combined with an entirely new concept: the gifted young man who conceals his identity behind a mask to fight crime in the big city.
It had never been done before and it's never stopped being done since. Jimmie Dale, the high society millionaire behind the Gray Seal persona, helped to launch the hero pulp boom of the 1930s and was a direct influence on the Green Hornet, the Spider, the Phantom, and especially The Shadow. The Gray Seal template was adopted by the comic book industry as well, and well into the Twenty-first Century continues to appear there, on television, and in the movies.
And now, for the first time ever the complete Jimmie Dale saga is being reprinted in a set of authoritative editions.
The personal papers of Gray Seal creator Frank Packard have been consulted for this project, along with various unpublished works of fiction by him that add further insight to the series.
Also, a detailed chronology has been established for the novels so they can be considered in their proper historical setting.
The definitive Gray Seal collection is finally here, beginning with the novel that forever changed adventure fiction - and the larger world of popular entertainment.
Paperback: 381 pages
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
$17.99
This is the first of three volumes.
Volume 2 is anticipated in late 2019.
There is no eBook edition at this time.
The plan is to wait until all three volumes in the reprint series are completed in trade paperback editions, then combine them into a single eBook edition.
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| AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT #2 - Arriving in comic shops April 10!
Tini Howard (Writer)
Kate Niemczyk (Art)
Cover by Sana Takeda
Variant Cover by Rebekah Isaacs
FIRST BLOOD ON THE HIGH SEAS!
BELIT finds her first battle at sea!
But will her impetuous nature lead the crew to victory, or sink her ambitions before they've begun?
Either way, CAPTAIN SATURNINUS will need a new ship!
PLUS: The next chapter in the all-new BELIT prose novella!
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
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| THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #4 - Arriving in comic shops April 10!
Gerry Duggan (Writer)
Ron Garney (Art)
Cover by Alex Ross
Variant Cover by Adi Granov
THE BATTLE FOR STYGIA!
CONAN descends into a hidden labyrinth protected by an undead army and does battle with the forces of KOGA THUN!
At stake -- the fate of Stygia!
Conan's friend SUTY begins a shocking transformation as he discovers what MENES has been hiding about the mysterious treasure they've been hunting...
PLUS: The next chapter in the all-new CONAN novella "THE SHADOW OF VENGEANCE", begun in issue #1 of SAVAGE SWORD!
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
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| Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery, Adventure, and the Wild West - Now online!
Basil Wolverton's SPACEHAWK Returns! (1940) - New!
Pulp Gallery: ADVENTURE Out in the Cold - New!
FRAZETTA Goes Coo-Coo Again (1948-49)
Pulp Gallery: THE SHADOW (1933)
Movie Posters of 1924 (Part 2)
FANTASTIC Covers by Herbert McCauley
Pulp Gallery: TOP-NOTCH (1935)
Forgotten Books: HALF-PAST MORTEM by John A. Saxon (Robert Leslie Bellem?)
SHADOW COMICS 81, 82, 83 & 84 (1947-48)
| | The Digest Enthusiast #9
Now available!
Interviews
• Filmmaker and author Susan Emshwiller reveals the inside story on her films, the work of her parents, Ed Emshwiller and Carol Emshwiller, along with nearly two dozen rare photographs of her famous family.
• Senior Art Director Victoria Green takes us behind the scenes of the art department at AHMM, Analog, Asimov’s, and EQMM, complemented by artist’s confidentials from Tim Foley and Maurizio Manzieri.
Articles
• Vince Nowell, Sr. charts Ray Palmer’s digest dynasty from 1948 to 1958, followed by the bibliography of S.J. Byrne, one of Palmer’s go-to SF storytellers.
• Tom Brinkmann uncovers Benedict Canyon, where Elke Sommer and Joe Hyams joined “A Neighborhood of Ghosts” from 1964 to 1969.
• Steve Carper wraps “One-and-Dones” with a final, fascinating batch of obscure and/or rare collector’s treasures.
• Peter Enfantino delivers a story-by-story synopsis of Manhunt from January thru June 1954.
Plus a report on the rare western digest paperback, Sunset Showdown by Steve Frazee.
Fiction
• Crime, espionage, and fantasy fiction by Michael Bracken, Josh Pachter, and Joe Wehrle, Jr., with art from Marc Myers, Michael Neno, and Joe.
Also includes
• News from all your favorite genre digest magazines, straight from their editors’ lips, including every newsstand stalwart, and the new generation of POD/digital stars.
• In-depth reviews of EconoClash Review, Nostalgia Digest, Occult Detective Quarterly, and Hot Lead.
• Plus over 100 digest magazine cover images, cartoons by Bob Vojtko and Clark Dissmeyer, first issue factoids, and more.
• Cover by Ed Emshwiller
Print $8.99 (b&w interior)
eBook $2.99 (color)
Includes over 100 digest magazine cover images
159 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest
Print version, $8.99
Kindle version and Magzter, $2.99
Checkout the PREVIEW at the link below!
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| | The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!
Science Fiction Adventures March 1953 - New!
Mystery Weekly Magazine April 2019 - New!
Amazing Stories No. 3 Spring 2019
Science Fiction Adventures Feb. 1953
Analog Mar/Apr 2019
Paperback Parade No. 103 Feb. 2019
Paperback Fanatic No. 41 March 2019
Nostalgia Digest Spring 2019
Mystery Weekly Magazine March 2019
| DMR Books Blog - Now online!
Metallic Mirrors Part Two: Ken Kelly - New!
Mundy Monday: The Ivory Trail - New!
The DMRtian Chronicles, 3/31/2019 - New!
Steve Tompkins Tributes Across the Blogosphere
The DMRtian Chronicles, 3/24/2019
Steve Tompkins - May His Light Never Dim
A Lament for Sword-and-Sorcery Champion Steve Tompkins (1960-2009)
In Memoriam: Steve Tompkins
Steve Tompkins -- Ten Years Gone
The DMRtian Chronicles, 3/17/2019
Metallic Mirrors Part One: Michael Whelan
Algernon Blackwood's Sesquicentennial
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The Scarlet Citadel
The decay of a king. The fall of a kingdom.
Everything starts on a battlefield. Conan, then king of Aquilonia, faces a coalition of traitors led by the wizard Tsotha-Lanthi who, to overcome the rage of the Cimmerian, uses his spells before neutralizing it in the most cowardly way. Captured alive, Conan is taken to the terrible jails of the Scarlet Citadel to suffer a worse fate than death and obtain his abdication, while the wizard's armies march to his capital. Will the horror of the prison and the dreadful magic of the wizard overcome the inflexible resolution of Conan? Will he manage to escape to reach his people in time?
Luc Brunschwig and Étienne Le Roux take up the challenge of adapting one of Conan's darkest news, in which the Cimmerian probably makes the biggest fall in his history: from glorious king, he becomes a pathetic prisoner. A black story, panting, full of diplomatic issues and tensions, where the myth becomes human again.
Language: French
Scriptwriter: Luc Brunschwig
Designer: Etienne Le Roux
Full Color
Size: 240 x 320 mm
72 pages
Shaping: Hardcover
Price: 14.95 €
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The Scarlet Citadel
The decay of a king. The fall of a kingdom.
Everything starts on a battlefield. Conan, then king of Aquilonia, faces a coalition of traitors led by the wizard Tsotha-Lanthi who, to overcome the rage of the Cimmerian, uses his spells before neutralizing it in the most cowardly way. Captured alive, Conan is taken to the terrible jails of the Scarlet Citadel to suffer a worse fate than death and obtain his abdication, while the wizard's armies march to his capital. Will the horror of the prison and the dreadful magic of the wizard overcome the inflexible resolution of Conan? Will he manage to escape to reach his people in time?
Luc Brunschwig and Étienne Le Roux take up the challenge of adapting one of Conan's darkest news, in which the Cimmerian probably makes the biggest fall in his history: from glorious king, he becomes a pathetic prisoner. A black story, panting, full of diplomatic issues and tensions, where the myth becomes human again.
Language: French
Scriptwriter: Luc Brunschwig
Designer: Etienne Le Roux
Black & White
Size: 280 x 370 mm
64 pages
Shaping: Hardcover
Price: 14.95 €
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New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!
April 2019
We are very pleased to present The Neil R. Jones Collection, which starts with an 11,000+ word biography of Jones that incorporates his words, newspaper articles and our research to create a long overdue portrait of the creator of Professor Jameson. We have also located a nearly all of Jones' non-fiction writings from various magazines and fanzines and have included them, along with 5, never before reprinted, stories that chart his early years as an author. Copiously illustrated throughout, we hope you enjoy it.
March 2019
An early science fiction opus, A Corner in Lightning by George Griffith, for the March, 1898 issue of Pearson's Magazine including the illustrations by Paul Hardy. Introduction by Bob Gay.
November 2018
Baroness Orczy has not made an appearance on our pages in some time, and this month we remedy that problem with an historical romance, “The Revenge of Ur-Tasen,” pretty close to how it appeared in the June, 1900 issue of Pearson's Magazine, including the illustrations by J. Ambrose Walton. Introduction is by Dan Neyer.
October 2018
Edmond Hamilton returns to our pages this month with "The Comet Doom" from the pages of the January, 1928 issue of Amazing Stories.
The Frank R. Paul illustration is included and hopefully readers will find fascination with the parallels between this story and the Zoromes of Neil R. Jones, something Bob Gay discusses in his introduction to the story.
September 2018
No fiction this month, but an extremely rare autobiographical sketch of Neil R. Jones called (surprise!), "An Autobiographical Sketch of Neil R. Jones," reprinted from the January, 1937 issue of Fantasy Magazine.
Bob Gay pens the introduction.
July 2018
Edmond Hamilton returns to our pages, with a tale of a deserted island and evolution gone amok...it all comes together in "Evolution Island," a story from the March, 1927 issue of Weird Tales with all the text, the title illustration and a newly written introduction by Bob Gay.
June 2018
It has been some time since Baroness Orczy has graced our site and this month you will find "Juliette A Tale of the Terror," the sixth published story by the Baroness that is set during the French Revolution.
We have included all the original illustrations by the Baroness's husband, Montagu Barstow, translations for all archaic words and phrases and an informative introduction by Dan Neyer.
| The Golden Age of Science Fiction: A Journey into Space with 1950s Radio, TV, Films, Comics and Books - Now available!
John Wade grew up in the 1950s, a decade that has since been dubbed the ‘golden age of science fiction’. It was a wonderful decade for science fiction, but not so great for young fans. With early television broadcasts being advertised for the first time as ‘unsuitable for children’ and the inescapable barrier of the ‘X’ certificate in the cinema barring anyone under the age of sixteen, the author had only the radio to fall back on – and that turned out to be more fertile for the budding SF fan than might otherwise have been thought. Which is probably why, as he grew older, rediscovering those old TV broadcasts and films that had been out of bounds when he was a kid took on a lure that soon became an obsession.For him, the super-accuracy and amazing technical quality of today’s science fiction films pale into insignificance beside the radio, early TV and B-picture films about people who built rockets in their back gardens and flew them to lost planets, or tales of aliens who wanted to take over, if not our entire world, then at least our bodies. This book is a personal account of John Wade’s fascination with the genre across all the entertainment media in which it appeared – the sort of stuff he revelled in as a young boy – and still enjoys today.
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Product Dimensions: 6 x 9.2 inches
$42.95
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| A Good Man Returns - Now available!
by Jeff Deischer
When the mysterious criminal cartel TAROT begins assassinating CIA operatives around the globe, retired agent Conrad Slade is called upon to root out the cause by the equally mysterious Kubert Group. From Rio de Janeiro to Bogota to Rome, Slade follows the clues that will lead him to the ultimate answer.A Good Man Returns is written in the style and tone of ‘70s and ‘80s men’s adventure fiction and secret agent television programs.
Paperback: 198 pages
Publisher: Independently published
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
$15.00
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| 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
“Not All a Dream”
An unpublished Manly Wade Wellman story to be shipped with preorders of
THE COMPLETE JOHN THE BALLADEER
Note: Cover shown is not final!
John, whose last name is never revealed, is a wandering singer who carries a guitar strung with strings of pure silver. He is a veteran of the Korean War and served in the U.S. Army as a sharpshooter (in the novel After Dark, he mentions that his highest rank was PFC). In his travels, he frequently encounters creatures and superstitions from the folk tales and superstitions of the mountain people. Though John has no formal education, he is self-taught, highly intelligent and widely read; it is implied that his knowledge of occult and folk legendarium is of Ph.D level. This knowledge has granted him competent use of white magic, which he has used on occasion to overcome enemies or obstacles, but it is primarily his courage, wit and essential goodness that always enables him to triumph over supernatural evils (although the silver strings of his guitar and his possession of a copy of The Long Lost Friend are also powerful tools in fighting evil magic), while basic Army training allows him to physically deal with human foes.
The stories are rich in the customs and lore of the region and many of the folk songs John sings are authentic as well. Wellman did introduce some original songs and legends but his creations blend seamlessly with the traditional material. Whereas Tolkien integrated Northern mythology into his mythos, and C.S. Lewis the European Fairy Tales of yore, Wellman’s stories are drenched in the folktales and songs of old Americana; the haunting stories of the slaves and the tall tales of the Revolution, strange beasts, witch-women, and dark apparitions. As famed author Karl Edward Wagner wrote: “These stories are chilling and enchanting, magical and down-to-earth, full of wonder and humanity. They are fun. They are like nothing else you’ve read before.”—Adapted from Wikipedia
Complete in Two Volumes!
Smythe-sewn Hardcovers
Edited by Stephen Haffner
Pre-Order price: $90
Stories:
"O Ugly Bird!"
"The Desrick on Yandro"
"Vandy, Vandy"
"One Other"
"Call Me from the Valley"
"The Little Black Train"
"Shiver in the Pines"
"Walk Like a Mountain"
"On the Hills and Everywhere"
"Old Devlins Was A-Waiting"
"Nine Yards of Other Cloth"
"Then I Wasn't Alone"
"You Know the Tale of Hoph"
"Blue Monkey"
"The Stars Down There"
"Find the Place Yourself"
"I Can't Claim That"
"Who Else Could I Count On"
"John's My Name"
"Why They're Named That"
"None Wiser for the Trip"
"Nary Spell"
"Trill Coster's Burden"
"The Spring"
"Owls Hoot in the Daytime"
"Can These Bones Live?"
"Nobody Ever Goes There"
"Where Did She Wander?"
Novels
The Old Gods Waken (1979)
After Dark (1980)
The Lost and the Lurking (1981)
The Hanging Stones (1982)
The Voice of the Mountain (1984)
That's right. All the stories. All the novels (the most recent of which has been out of print for nearly 35 years!).
If you're acquainted with our previous Manly Wade Wellman volume, THE COMPLETE JOHN THUNSTONE, then you know what to expect and won't want to miss this important edition of one of the finest literary creations in all of weird fiction.
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Okay, you kiwis and pee-lots, listen up!
This is Sergeant Saturn letting you rascally rocketeers know that when you fans of a certain classic cosmic crusader send enough feedback, the Big Poobah at Haffner Press has little choice but to give you what you want.
To that end, be it known that sometime, sooner than later, you will be able to add THE COLLECTED CAPTAIN FUTURE, VOLUME ONE to your already stellar library in a revised 2nd Edition.
What’s the difference between this forthcoming edition and the 2009 First Printing, you ask? Good question! All we can say at this time is that the 2nd Edition will contain the four Captain Future novels:
“Captain Future and the Space Emperor” (Captain Future, Win ’40)
“Calling Captain Future” (Captain Future, Spr ’40)
“Captain Future’s Challenge” (Captain Future, Sum ’40)
“The Triumph of Captain Future” (Captain Future, Fll ’40)
and we’ll share more information as it becomes available.
So, prime yer rockets while Mr. Wart Ears here goes to the galley for another jug of Xeno.
Edited by Stephen Haffner
Cover Art by George Rozen
700+ page Hardcover
Pre-order price: $45.00
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| | Hard Case Crime
Coming soon!
April 2019
A BLOODY BUSINESS
Dylan Struzan
Cover art by Drew Struzan
Read A Sample Chapter
"Dylan Struzan has delivered a soaring treat for those of us who love mobster history, a sprawling saga drawn not from rumor or recycled myth, but directly from the horse’s mouth. Her exploration of mob life and the shadow empires the bootleggers built is an exhilarating rush, a must-read."
FRANK DARABONT, director of The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption
ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROHIBITION, LEARN WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.
In 1919, the National Prohibition Act was passed, making it illegal across America to produce, distribute, or sell liquor. With this act, the U.S. Congress also created organized crime as we know it. Italian, Jewish, and Irish mobs sprang up to supply the suddenly illegal commodity to the millions of people still eager to drink it. Men like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone in Chicago and Nucky Johnson in Atlantic City, waged a brutal war for power in the streets and on the waterfronts. But if you think you already know this story...think again, since you’ve never seen it through the eyes of one the mobsters who lived it.
Called "one of the most significant organized crime figures in the United States" by the U.S. District Attorney, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo was just 15 years old when Prohibition became law. Over the next decade, Alo would work side by side with Lansky and Luciano as they navigated the brutal underworld of bootlegging, thievery and murder. Alo’s later career included prison time and the ultimate Mob tribute: being immortalized as "Johnny Ola" in The Godfather, Part II.
Introduced to the 91-year-old Alo living in retirement in Florida, Dylan Struzan based this book on more than 50 hours of recorded testimony—stories Alo had never shared, and that he forbid her to publish until "after I’m gone." Alo died, peacefully, two months short of his 97th birthday. And now his stories—bracing and violent, full of intrigue and betrayal, hunger and hubris—can finally be told.
First publication ever!
At nearly 200,000 words, this is the longest book Hard Case Crime has ever published, covering the entire 13 years of Prohibition, 1920-1933
With cover art and 24 interior illustrations by Drew Struzan, one of the most acclaimed movie poster painters of all time
July 2019
THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY
Joyce Carol Oates
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
Read A Sample Chapter
INSIDE THE MIND OF THE MANIAC
Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage, his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence.
Unavailable for 40 years, THE TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY is an eloquent, terrifying, heartbreaking exploration of madness by one of the most acclaimed authors of the past century. This definitive edition for the first time pairs the original novel with a never-before-collected companion novella by Joyce Carol Oates, unseen since its sole publication in a literary journal nearly half a century ago, which examines the impact of Gotteson’s killing spree on a woman who survived it, as seen through the eyes of the troubled young man hired by a private detective to surveil her...
First publication in 40 years, and first publication ever with the lost Joyce Carol Oates companion novella "Love, Careless Love," unseen anywhere outside of a literary journal in 1974
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most acclaimed authors of the past century, a National Book Award winner and six-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Features a new cover painting by the legendary Robert McGinnis
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For more than a decade, Bobby Derie has written insightful and penetrating essays on some of the leading authors of pulp fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, especially Robert E. Howard and his friends, colleagues, and fellow-writers. In this collection of twenty-six essays, Derie covers an extraordinarily wide range of subjects; but in every instance he draws upon primary documents to illuminate some of the obscurer corners in the realm of the pulp magazines, especially the legendary Weird Tales.
Here we find studies of the expansive and at times contentious correspondence of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard; Howard’s association with such colleagues in the pulp world as Clark Ashton Smith, Henry S. Whitehead, and Frank Belknap Long; Howard’s sporadic involvement with such fans as R. H. Barlow, Stuart M. Boland, and Francis T. Laney; a discussion of Howard’s writing for amateur papers; and numerous other topics.
Derie’s perspicacity and keenness of analysis are apparent on every page of his work. His thorough familiarity, not only with Robert E. Howard’s fiction but also with his bountiful letters, serves as the foundation of his critical work, and he exhibits a wide knowledge of the work of Lovecraft, Smith, and others who form the inexhaustibly fascinating cadre of writers associated with Weird Tales.
Bobby Derie is the author of Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos (2014) and the compiler of The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard: Index and Addenda (2015). He has written numerous articles on pulp fiction that have appeared in print and in online venues.
Paperback, 352 pages
Cover design by Dan Sauer, incorporating Bobby Derie's photomontage of Robert E. Howard.
$20.00
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| The Horror From The Mound by Robert E. Howard - Now online!
Hosted by: Matthew Clark
Produced by: KBOO
Program: Gremlin Time
Air date: Mon, 03/18/2019 - 11:00pm to Tue, 03/19/2019 - 12:00am
Considered to be the first "weird western" short story, 'The Horror From The Mound" is about a former cowpuncher, Steve Brill, who regrets having left the cowboy life to become a farmer in West Texas. He is also curious to see if there might be spanish treasure buried in a nearby hullock, which his mexican neighbors avoid walking past. As if it were haunted. A classic story from the pulp era, by Robert E. Howard which combines elements of regional legends and the horror story.
| Howard Andrew Jones - Now online!
Hardback Copy
Robert E. Howard’s Birthday
Novel Excerpt
State of the Tower
The Skull Will Return
Brood of the Witch Queen
Behind-the-Scenes
| The Illustrated Press
RAFAEL DESOTO
Coming soon!
$50
Details will be posted when available.
The Illustrated Press
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| ILLUSTRATORS SPECIAL #4 - Now available and arriving soon in comic shops!
A celebration of one of the greatest British comic strip artists of all time, Ron Embleton.
The life and art of one of the most popular and talented artists of the 20th century is explored in depth.
The retrospective includes many reproductions of his original art, including hitherto rarely seen examples of his fine art.
We hope that you are excited as we are at the incredible scope and vitality of this great man's art, from the early years of Wulf the Briton to Wicked Wanda from Penthouse.
Magazine, 144 pages, Full Color, $34.99
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| JAMES BOND ORIGIN #8 - Arriving in comic shops April 10!
(Writer) Jeff Parker (Art) Bob Q
Cover A: Dan Panosian
Cover B: Katie O'Meara
Cover C: Will Sliney
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Captured by the Russians, Lieutenant Bond meets the beautiful Oksana, who may be his ticket to safety, or lead to his doom. But it's quite difficult to know ally from foe, when you've been drugged. The epic World War 2 tale continues from JEFF PARKER (Aquaman, Fantastic Four) and superstar artist IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA (Mother Panic, The Flash)!
Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
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| | Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!
STARTLING STORIES, Spring 1945
Contents
RED SUN OF DANGER (Captain Future) by Brett Sterling
ARE YOU THERE, CHARLIE? by Ford Smith
DEATH BY PROXY by Malcolm Jameson
THE ISLAND OF UNREASON by Edmond Hamilton
Pulp-sized Magazine, 7 x 10 inch, 114 pages
Our Price $12.95
PLANET STORIES, Winter 1947
Contents
BLACK PRIESTESS OF VARGA by Erik Fennel
EARTH IS MISSING! by Carl Selwyn
ME, MYSELF AND Iby Kenneth Putnam
FAILURE ON TITAN by Robert Abernathy
THE RUNNING OF THE ZAR by Vaseloes Garson
AMONG THE SCENTED ONES by Basil Wells
EARTHBOUND by Henry Guth
DUEL IN BLACK by John Foster West
Pulp-sized Magazine, 7 x 10 inch, 130 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $12.95
SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY, Winter 1942
Contents
INTO THE FOURTH DIMENSION by Ray Cummings
SIR MALLORY'S MAGNITUDE by S. D. Gottesmon
THE YEAR OF UNITING by Hugh Raymond
POWER PLANT by Lee Gregor
BABY DREAMS by Allen Warland
CARIDI SHALL NOT DIE by Walter Kubilius
WHEN ANTEROS CAME by James Blish
Pulp-sized Magazine, 7 x 10 inch, 146 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $12.95
ADVENTURE NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES, January 1938
Contents
WHEN THE DEATH BIRD SINGS by Murray Leinster
THREE MODERN MUSKETEERS by Peter B. Kyne
VILLAGE OF THE DEVIL-DEVIL DRUMS by Will F. Jenkins
SHANGHAIED by Brian Loomis
SAGEBRUSH SLINGS THE BULL by Cliff Campbell
LONG AND SHORT by Eugene Cunningham
THE SMART ONE by Samuel Taylor
BRAND OF THE MAVERICK by Hamilton Craigie
Pulp-sized Magazine, 7 x 10 inch, 130 pages
Retail Price $19.95
Our Price $12.95
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| Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!
Two Book Reviews - New!
Reno rides the range!
Remembering the Friends of Old Time Radio Conventions
Debunking the Sergeant Preston of the Yukon myth
The day Silver rescued The Lone Ranger
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The Robert E. Howard Newsline
Now online!
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Philip José Farmer had a life-long love affair with the pulps he read in his youth. They influenced nearly everything he wrote, but in the 1970s he paid special tribute to them with several stories. Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes collects these stories for the first time in hardcover! This collection also features an introduction by college professor and pulp historian, Garyn G. Roberts, Ph.D., and artwork (coming soon) by Keith Howell!
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Greatheart Silver
The Return of Greatheart Silver
Greatheart Silver in the First Command
The Grant Robeson Papers
Savage Shadow
Skinburn
The first three stories: “Greatheart Silver,” “The Return of Greatheart Silver,” and “Greatheart Silver in the First Command,” originally appeared in Byron Priess’ Weird Heroes series and have been collected before in the paperback, Greatheart Silver. These stories are Philip José Farmer at his most irreverent.
The next two items, “The Grant Robeson Papers,” and “Savage Shadow” also appeared in Weird Heroes, and set up a fantastic premise that was never fulfilled and will leave you wanting more.
The final story, “Skinburn” appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and is the most scifi of these stories, while still giving a nod to the pulps.
Here’s something new—based on your feedback and buying trends, we’re only releasing this book in hardcover.
Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes will debut at FarmerCon XIV this coming August, but if you preorder the book now, we’re offering an “Early Bird Special” discount of $5 off! So you only $27 + shipping for this fascinating collection of Farmer paying homage to many of his literary heroes!
Please choose the correcting shipping option when preordering your copy.
$33 hardcover
5.5 × 8.5, 264 pages
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| Mystery*File - Now online!
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: C. S. MONTAYNE “The Perfect Crime.”
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: RICHARD SALE “The House of Kaa.”
Pulp PI Stories I’m Reading, Selected by David Vineyard: CLEVE F. ADAMS “Flowers for Violet.”
SF Stories I’m Reading: ROBERT L. DAVIS “Teratohippus.”
SF Stories I’m Reading: JOHN SHIRLEY “Shaman.”
| The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!
Cliff Lords
MAIO-SHAN
Black Dove
The Wraith
Midnight Guardian
The Black Spectre
| North-West Adventures - Now online!
Adventure Fiction, Authors: (1926) “The Menace of Mastodon Valley” - New!
Adventure Fiction: (1950) “Ghost River” - New!
Adventure Fiction: (1984) "The Return of Cavannagh" - New!
Adventure Fiction: (1926) “The Glacier Lode” by Strickland Gillian
Radio: (1938) Blair of the Mounties -
(1934) The Key to Windigo
W. Ryerson Johnson (1901-1995)
William Macleod Raine (1871-1954)
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| OLD BONES (Nora Kelly) - Coming August 20!
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
The first in the groundbreaking Nora Kelly series from #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child blends the legend of the Donner party with a riveting suspense tale, taking the dynamic duo's work to new heights.
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with tales of courage, resourcefulness, bad luck, murder, barbarism--and, finally, starvation and cannibalism.
Captivated by the Donner Party, Nora agrees and they venture into the Sierra Nevada in search of the camp. Quickly, they learn that the discovery of the missing starvation camp is just the tip of the iceberg--and that the real truth behind those long-dead pioneers is not only far more complex and surprising than they could have imagined...but it is one that puts them both in mortal danger from a very real, present-day threat in which the search for the lost party, and its fabled fortune in gold, are merely means to a horrifying end.
Series: Nora Kelly (Book 1)
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
List Price: $28.00
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Register Now for PulpFest 2019
PulpFest 2019 postcardPulpFest is accepting advance registrations for our 2019 convention, August 15 – 18. Register now and beat the rush. You’ll save money and get free early-bird shopping if you book a room at the convention’s host hotel. By staying at the DoubleTree, you help defray the convention’s expenses and show our hotel that PulpFest will help their bottom line.
There are plenty of rooms available at the beautiful DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. You can book a room directly through the PulpFest website. Just below the PulpFest banner at the top of our home page, you’ll find a link that reads “Book a Room.” Click the link and you’ll be redirected to a secure site where you can place your reservation.
You can also reserve a room by calling 1-800-222-8733. Be sure to mention PulpFest to receive the special convention rate of $129 plus tax per night.Included in the room rate are two complimentary breakfasts per room during your stay. Also included is free Wi-Fi in each sleeping room. Parking is free. You must book your room by July 31, 2019 in order to get the special convention rate.
For All Members
All PulpFest 2019 members — including dealers — must register for the convention.
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2019 if staying at the DoubleTree: $35 (includes free early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2019 if staying elsewhere: $40 (without early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2019 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
Programming for PulpFest 2019 - Updated!
Thursday, August 15
Dealers’ Room
3:00 PM – 10:00 PM — Dealers’ Room Set-Up
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM — Member Registration and Early-Bird Shopping
Evening Programming
8:15 – 9:00 PM — Bob Davis — Grandfather of Science Fiction (Gene Christie)
9:05 – 9:50 PM — A Century of Zorro — (Rich Harvey)
9:55 – 10:40 PM — Hollywood Pulp — From Pulp Page to the Silver Screen (Ed Hulse)
10:45 – 11:30 PM — Two Sought Adventure — 80 Years of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser (Jason Aiken & Morgan Holmes)
11:40 – 1:00 AM — Fu Manchu Film Fest (William Patrick Maynard)
Friday, August 16
Dealers’ Room
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM — Early Registration & Dealers’ Room Set-Up
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers Room Open to All
Author Readings — The New Fictioneers
11:00 – 11:55 AM — Raw Dog Screaming Press Rapid-Fire Read & Sweet Sixteen Celebration (Publisher Jennifer Barnes)
Readings by Mike Arnzen, James Chambers, Carrie Gessner, John Edward Lawson, Jason Jack Miller, and Stephanie Wytovich, plus coffee, tea, and sweets, compliments of the publisher
12:30 – 1:05 PM — Wayne Carey, author of Quatermain: The New Adventures
1:10 – 1:45 PM — Craig McDonald, author of The Hector Lassiter Series
1:50 – 2:25 PM — Joab Stieglitz, author of The Utgarda Series
2:30 – 3:05 PM — Christopher Paul Carey, The Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs Series and The Khokarsa Series author
3:10 – 3:50 PM — William Patrick Maynard, authorized author of Fu Manchu
Afternoon Programming
4:00 – 4:40 PM — Fu Manchu Film Fest (William Patrick Maynard)
Evening Programming
6:55 – 7:00 PM — Welcome to PulpFest (Convention Chairman Jack Cullers)
7:05 – 7:50 PM — ARGOSY, ADVENTURE and BLUE BOOK — Men’s Adventure Pulps (Bob Deis & Wyatt Doyle)
7:55 – 8:40 PM — The Game’s Afoot: Sherlock Holmes and the Pulps (George Vanderburgh & Garyn Roberts)
8:45 – 9:30 PM — The Secret Life of Women Pulp Artists (David Saunders)
9:35 – 10:25 PM — Dashiell Hammett and the Detective Story (John Wooley with John Gunnison)
10:25 – 11:10 PM — The Key of Imagination: THE TWILIGHT ZONE and the Pulps (Garyn Roberts)
11:15 – 12:45 AM — Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man (A film by Jason V. Brock)
Saturday, August 17
Dealers’ Room
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM — Dealers Room Open to All
Author Readings — The New Fictioneers
10:20 – 10:55 AM — Popular Fiction from Seton Hill (introduced by Heidi Ruby Miller)
Readings by Jeremiah Dylan Cook, E. C. Skowronski, Sara Tantlinger, and Ralph Weld
11:00 – 11:55 AM — Dog Star Books Rapid-Fire Read & Sweet Sixteen Celebration (Publisher John Edward Lawson)
Readings by Matt Betts, J.L. Gribble, Heidi Ruby Miller, K. W. Taylor, Albert Wendland, and K. Ceres Wright, plus coffee, tea, and sweets, compliments of the publisher
12:30 – 1:05 PM — Flinch Fest, featuring John Bruening, author of The Midnight Guardian Series
1:10 – 1:45 PM — Roger Alford, author of The Black Spectre Series
1:50 – 2:25 PM — Sara Light-Waller, author of ANCHOR and LANDSCAPE OF DARKNESS
2:30 – 3:05 PM — Christopher Ryan, author of Alex Simmon’s Blackjack and The Mallory and Gunner Series
Afternoon Programming
3:15 – 4:15 PM — Contemporary Pulp: Writing the New Pulp Fiction (featuring John Bruening, Christopher Paul Carey, and Will Murray, with William Patrick Maynard moderating)
4:15 – 4:45 PM — Auction Preview
Evening Programming
5:00 – 6:45 PM — PulpFest 2019 Group Meal
7:00 – 7:30 PM — PulpFest Annual Business Meeting (meet the convention organizers)
7:30 – 7:40 PM — Munsey Award Presentation (presented by William Lampkin)
7:45 – 8:25 PM — FarmerCon XIV: Farmer of the Pulps: A Harvest of Influences (panel, moderated by Paul Spiteri)
8:30 – 9:30 PM — Born Writing: The Unparalleled Career of Arthur J. Burks (John Locke)
9:30 – 9:45 PM — Last Minute Auction Viewing
9:45 – 12:00 AM — Saturday Night Auction
12:00 – 1:00 AM — Fu Manchu Film Fest Encore (William Patrick Maynard)
Sunday, August 18
Dealers’ Room
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM — Dealers Room Open to All
(many dealers will be packing up; buying opportunities may be limited)
| Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!
New this week
"The Whispering Shell" by Herman Howard Matteson from ALL-STORY WEEKLY, May 8, 1920
Hunui is a Polynesian girl. Like other Polynesian girls she had a "Whispering Shell" -- a conch she could whisper her secrets into and in return the shell would tell her its secrets. According to the shell a red-haired white man would enter her life, and a ship-wreck did just that. But Amanu, the best diver on the island, wants Hunui for himself so he contrives a trap to have the American attacked by a devillfish (squid).
"You Can't Hide That Clue" by Lee E. Wells from MAMMOTH DETECTIVE, May, 1943
No matter whom you think is guilty, you can't hide evidence. Herdrick concealed evidence that pointed toward his girl, and got kicked off the police force...
"Dr. Grimshaw's Sanitarium" by Fletcher Pratt from AMAZING STORIES, May, 1934
NOTE by the editors: The following manuscript is one of the results of the famous Grimshaw Sanitarium scandal, an event which in its day, made a tremendous stir, cost a state superintendent of hospitals his post, and turned the course of an election. But every state has its scandals of this type. It is seldom that their reverberations extend beyond the immediate locality; and for the benefit of those who have not heard of or do not remember the Grimshaw case, we will briefly rehearse the known facts.
| The Pulp Archivist - Now online!
No Wrong Way - New!
"Sword" and "Shield"
The Scientific-Ridiculous
What is Science Fiction?
Lewis, Lundwall, and Campbell
A Basic Science-Fiction Library
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| Pulp Den by Tom Johnson - Now online!
Trumpet of Triton - New!
The Last Shuttle Flight
You're Dead
Earthweeds
First Contact
Fate
Angkor Away
| Pulp Flakes - Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines, authors and their stories, adventure and detective pulps.
The readers of Dime Detective - New!
Windy City 2019 - See you there
Issue Review – Dime Detective Magazine, August, 1952
Issue Review - Dime Detective Magazine, June 1943
Issue Review – Dime Detective Magazine, Jan 15, 1935
Richard Dermody - Author, Journalist
Northwest adventure blog - story reviews, author surveys
It’s Great to Be Back - new Robert A. Heinlein book to be published this year
Index to the Weird Tales Collector fanzine
| The Pulp Hermit by Tom Johnson - Now online!
Of Other Days And Other Spiders
New Pulp Author Therese Drippe (Dagenais)
The Deadly Pick-Up
The Pulps And Their Time
The Equalizer #1
New Pulp Author Colleen Drippe | 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.
| | QUEEN OF THE PULPS
by Laurie Powers
Coming later this year!
Now available for pre-order!
QUEEN OF THE PULPS, the definitive biography of Daisy Bacon and the untold story of LOVE STORY MAGAZINE!
It will be available in both softcover and ebook.
Softcover: $39.95
Release date is still undetermined, but you can pre-order at the link below.
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| Radio Archives
The Spider #97 Audiobook
Satan's Seven Swordsmen
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge
Read by Nick Santa Maria
Now available!
Under the weird, topaz gaze of Dr. Fuji, Giver of the Gracious Death, underlings who failed him gladly took their own lives! And before his hypnotic power, fell Lona Deeping, Marianne, Ronald Jackson, Ram Singh — and, he thought, the Spider! A battle of the world’s two strongest wills — fought to the clash of Oriental steel and singing bullets!
By 1941, Richard Wentworth had been operating as the Spider for nearly eight harrowing years. He had been through everything a good pulp hero could expect to face. Malevolent master villains. Sinister Asian world conquerors. Mad scientists more diabolical than anything conceived before that point. And of course since the Spider was a wanted criminal, endless police officials, uniformed cops, homicide detectives and other officers of the law had been pursuing him with single-minded fervor.
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A mere mortal would have succumbed back in 1933. Not the indomitable Richard Wentworth. He seemed to thrive on conditions of continuous peril. Yes, he did put down his mask and guns a time or two, vowing never to become the dreaded Spider again. But the call to battle always made his blood sing, and inevitably the Master of Men returned to battle the underworld in another blazing exploit.
The Spider magazine finally folded with the October, 1943 issue, battered and bloodied by the onslaught of the new comic book superheroes, wartime paper shortages which led to wholesale cancellations of pulp magazines.
Nick Santa Maria once again brings the Spider to life in Satan's Seven Swordsmen. Originally published in The Spider magazine, October, 1941.
Discounted 50% the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $9.99
Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs
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His true face unknown, his identity forever buried in a secret government file, Secret Agent “X” came back from the dead to take on the sinister sadists and evil extortionists who prey on innocent Americans. A master of disguise who carries a non-lethal gas gun, “X” the unknown is backed by a cabal of wealthy citizens and is answerable only to the shadowy K-9 in Washington.
Weird white crosses were splashed upon the sidewalks of a terror-ridden city. And under each cross lay a man murdered without a motive. Secret Agent “X”, the man of a thousand faces, set out to meet the murder master whose face was known only to the dead.
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| | The enigma of enigmas, Secret Agent “X” has been deputized by a high government official to battle the darkest, most diabolical enemies of America before they sink their poisonous fangs into the nation’s healthy core. Faceless and unsung, “X” infiltrates these threats in a bewildering array of disguises.
Operating out of the supposedly haunted Montgomery Mansion, Secret Agent “X” ventures forth in a bewildering array of false identities to infiltrate the darkest underbelly of the underworld—and destroy it from within. A master investigator of a thousand guises and surprises. The only clue to his true identity is his haunting whistle…..
Secret Agent “X” bears strong similarities to other Pulp heroes, such as The Shadow, the Spider, even Doc Savage in some regards. What sets Secret Agent “X” apart, however, is how central mystery is to each story. In many of the stories, he is on a desperate hunt to uncover the identity of a maniac set on the destruction of humanity. But even more so, the real mystery in each tale is who Secret Agent “X” really is and why he continues to fight so desperately against evil in the world. That central theme kept readers returning for every single issue.
Follow the Man of a Thousand Faces as he confronts the menace of The Murder Brain, ripped from the pages of Secret Agent “X” magazine, April 1937 and read with chilling intensity by Milton Bagby.
Discounted 50% the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $9.99
Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs
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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.
Winging from World War II skies, it's Captain Danger, Nazi-dom’s ultimate nemesis! The exploits of this steely-eyed defender of justice, this whirlwind ace of aces, were things of legend as he struggled against the Axis of Evil. Captain Allan Danger, a character of epic proportions, first appeared in Air War, a new aviation magazine from Thrilling Publications in 1940. Intended as a companion magazine to Sky Fighters and The Lone Eagle, Air War contained a variety of aviation war stories, each showcasing an adventure of Captain Danger.
Captain Danger typified a hard-jawed, larger-than-life ace pilot who would battle the Nazi threat, encountering fantastic situations, robot-controlled planes, death fogs, and Nazi bombers that had harnessed the power of splitting the atom. In all, fifteen adventures of Captain Danger were published between 1940 and 1944, as the flyboys of the Allied nations battled against the war power of the Axis. The stories were part of America’s propaganda machine, blatant and unapologetic, high on hyperbole, low on subtlety. The Axis was portrayed as sniveling cowards who would shoot down helpless parachuters and run from an even fight —the Allies as staunch, dauntless, fighting for right. And greatest of them all... Captain Danger! Air War returns in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
A Complete Sky Action Novel
Captain Danger Over Italy
by Lieutenant Scott Morgan
The Yankee daredevil ace leads his valiant commandos into the face of death on an all-out smashing raid into enemy territory!
Bombs For Manila — A Complete Novelet
by F.E. Rechnitzer
Against heavy odds, Turk Hanlon carries out a special mission and beats the Japs at their own game!
Whispering Death — Swift-Action Short Story
by Orlando Rigoni
Captain Foxen scours the skies — and finds a sabotage ring in his own backyard.
They Also Serve — Swift-Action Short Story
by Robert Sidney Bowen
When the Hurricane’s pilot failed to fire, Connors had to turn his guns on that Messerschmitt.
One Life For All — Swift-Action Short Story
by Nathaniel Nitkin
Flight Lieutenant Waithe flies into the whirling confusion of an Axis counter-attack on Benghazi.
The Shores Of Sarangani — Swift-Action Short Story
by William O’Sullivan
Peewee Bemish leads his Marine pals in a surprise counter air thrust against a Jap blitz on Davao.
Prop Wash — Special Feature
by Joe Archibald
A Live-Wire Department for Readers.
Mexico Aloft — Special Feature
by A.A. Preciado
Our neighbors below the Rio Grande take wings.
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.
Regular price: $3.99 Discounted 50% the first week: $1.99
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| | Radio Spirits Now available!
Catch the buzz -- before the buzz catches you! Britt Reid, daring young publisher, masks up against organized crime and urban corruption as The Green Hornet! Join our hero and his stalwart valet Kato for another collection of twenty classic adventures from the 1948-49 seasons, including several previously uncirculated episodes not heard since their original broadcast.
Jack McCarthy hunts "the biggest of all game" as Britt Reid, alongside Lee Allman as Lenore Case, Gilbert Shea as Michael Axford, Rollon Parker and Michael Tolan as Kato, Jack Petruzzi as Ed Lowry, and Patricia Dunlap as "Clicker" Binney.
Includes a Program Guide by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.
Episodes: Gambling Ship 10-14-48; House Divided 10-19-48; Axford Boots A Beat 10-21-48; Jewel Deal 10-26-48; Election Steal 11-02-48; Club of the Bogus Coin 11-04-48; Point After Touchdown 11-09-48; Kaligan Dies At Midnight 11-11-48; Trucking With Murder 11-16-48; Double Checkmate 11-18-48; The Two-Faced Mobster 11-23-48; The Hunch of the Femme Fatal 11-30-48; The Incredible Robbery 12-14-48; Camouflage 12-16-48; Mystery On Pier 20 12-21-48; Miss Double Lucky 12-28-48; Road to Ruin 12-30-48; A Matter of Identity 01-04-49; A Switch of Salt 01-06-49; The Fixers Fixed 01-13-49
Duration: 10 hours
Media: (10) CDs
Price: $39.98
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| | ROBERT E. HOWARD DAYS
June 6-8, 2019
2019 HOWARD DAYS SCHEDULE
THURSDAY JUNE 6
2:00 – 4:00 pm: The Robert E. Howard House and Museum is open to the public. There are no docents on duty but the Gift Shop will be open and the grounds and Pavilion available to all.
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Fish Fry at the Cross Plains Senior Center.
6:00 pm: Barbarian Festival Parade down Main Street in Cross Plains.
Afterwards, Howard Fellowship at the Pavilion
FRIDAY JUNE 7
8:30 am until gone: Coffee and donuts at the Pavilion, compliments of Project Pride
9 am – 4 pm: Robert E. Howard House Museum and Grounds open to the public. The adjacent Alla Ray Morris Pavilion will be open until late night.
9 am – 4 pm: REH Postal Cancellation Souvenir at Cross Plains Post Office. Friday Only.
9 am – 11 am: Bus Tour of Cross Plains & Surrounding Areas. Friday Only.
10 am to 4 pm: REH Foundation Press canopy and Dealers Area open on grounds east of Museum.
10 am – 5 pm: Cross Plains Public Library open. Original Robert E. Howard typescripts along with original Weird Tales magazines will be on display. The Conan Board Game and the Conan Role-playing Game will be presented.
11 am: PANEL: A History of Project Pride and the Robert E. Howard Museum.
NOTE: Presented at the House & Pavilion.
NOON: Hot Dog Lunch hosted by Project Pride at the Pavilion. Donations are welcome!
1:30 pm: PANEL: The Writers of REH
2:30 pm: PANEL: The Fourth Annual Glenn Lord Symposium.
Following this panel will be the presentations of the 2017 Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards.
5:30 – 6:30 pm: Silent Auction items available for viewing & bidding at Banquet site
6:30 pm: Robert E. Howard Celebration Banquet & Silent Auction at the Family Life Center of the Baptist Church on Main Street. Guest of Honor Speaker: David C. Smith
9:00 pm PANEL: Fists at the Ice House, Celebrating 90 Years of Sailor Steve Costigan.
NOTE: Presented on the actual Ice House grounds where Howard boxed!
Afterward there will be Howard Fellowship at the Pavilion. All are welcome and adult beverages are allowed.
SATURDAY JUNE 8
9 am – 4 pm: Robert E. Howard House Museum open to the public. The adjacent Alla Ray Morris Pavilion will be open until late night.
9 am – 4 pm: BARBARIAN FESTIVAL at Treadway Park, 3 blocks west of REH House
10 am – 3 pm: Cross Plains Public Library open. Original Robert E. Howard typescripts along with original Weird Tales magazines will be on display The Conan Board Game and the Conan Role-playing Game will be presented.
10 am to 4 pm: REH Foundation Press canopy and Dealers Area open on grounds east of Museum.
11 am PANEL: The Sword & Sorcery Poetry of Robert E. Howard
NOON: Lunch and/or Barbarian Festival activities at your leisure
1:30 pm PANEL: Kull, Conan Solomon Kane: The Original S&S Characters?
2:30 pm PANEL: What’s Up with REH?
4:30 pm: Tour of the 100 year old REH House Grounds
6 to 8 pm: Sunset BBQ at the Pavilion
At twilight/after BBQ: Multi-language reading of Howard’s poem “Cimmeria” + more REH poetry read aloud from the Museum porch.
Afterward there will be Howard Fellowship at the Pavilion. All are welcome and adult beverages are allowed.
Special Announcements will be ongoing over both days,
There will be special guests and extemporaneous events: readings, book signings and surprises happening throughout Friday and Saturday
PLEASE NOTE: ALL PANELS LAST ONE HOUR AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 1000 N. MAIN ST. IN CROSS PLAINS, unless noted.
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| | | | The Serial Squadron
Now available!
PIRATE TREASURE
Featuring RICHARD TALMADGE
WILLIAM DESMOND
and WALTER MILLER
Champion flyer Dick Moreland uses his prize money for a groundbreaking flight to finance an expedition to a remote island where his pirate ancestor is said to have buried a million dollars in gold. Brassett, a crooked lawyer and member of the Aero Club tricks Moreland into accepting him along with his band of crooks on the voyage to the island and constant battles ensue as the various factions fight over control of the loot, and avoid hostile natives on the island as well.
Talmadge was a master of his trade who performed stunts for Douglas Fairbanks and this serial shows off his amazing abilities.
12 Episodes / Black and White
3 hours 48 minutes
Restored picture and audio
Dual-layer DVD SHIPPING NOW
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| | The Serial Squadron
Coming soon!
SPY SMASHER
Blu-Ray/DVD
The fan-favorite serial in a new HD transfer, for the first time on DVD and Blu-Ray. Really.
PREORDERS WILL BE TAKEN SOON FOR THIS TITLE.
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| SONGS OF GIANTS
The poetry of pulp, illustrated
Lost poetry of pulp giants Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs & H.P. Lovecraft
Illustrated by Mark Wheatley! This Kickstarter will run through April 20, 2019!
The books and rewards are expected to ship in June!
The early part of the 20th century was a wild time in fiction, when publishers would try just about anything to see if it sold. Nowhere was there a more formidable challenge than in the pages of the pulps, which often chewed up and spat out would-be writers faster than new ones could step forward. Out of his fiery crucible came three giants: Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and H. P. Lovecraft.
These legendary authors forged names and reputations that still echo decades later. In turn, they have inspired many creators across the generations. One such creator is Overstreet Hall of Fame inductee, Inkpot, Mucker, Gem, Speakeasy, and Eisner award-winning writer-artist Mark Wheatley, and the result of that inspiration is Songs of Giants, a new Kickstarter project that launches on Monday, March 11, 2019.
Resurrected from crumbling pages of old pulp magazines, Songs of Giants cuts straight to the heart of the look, feel and language of the pulps as it highlights the often-forgotten poetry of these unforgotten masters. For his part, Wheatley expertly captures the essence of the beauty, horror, and adventure of Howard, Burroughs and Lovecraft’s words. He brings their poems to life with a fine line illustration style that is clearly inspired by the early, classic, golden age illustrators. The book also features an introduction by Nebula Award-winning author Jack McDevitt, creator of the Academy and Alex Benedict series.
Songs Of Giants is a limited edition, 8 ½” x 11” 72-page deluxe hardcover printed on super heavy stock, The accompanying Kickstarter rewards range from screen savers and wallpapers to an exclusive signature plate, audio books, and one-of-a-kind original art. Reward levels start at just $15 for a digital version of the book and only $25 for the printed version.
“I’ve spent more than a year crafting this art. And while I’ve been working, I’ve had a major pulp art show of my illustration originals. Based on the public reaction to that show, I’m thrilled to finally share Songs of Giants art with the public. The few people who have seen the work so far have convinced me that this is possibly my best work, ever. Because of that, it was difficult to keep the project quiet, so now I’m truly happy that the news is out,” said Mark Wheatley.
Working on his originals at a very large size in a traditional brush, pen and ink approach, Wheatley spent hours savoring the poems in order to bring them to life in this new way. Characters, dangers, and whole worlds became embodied in his illustrations, in turn reflecting the full flavor and power of the works that inspired them.
“Our initial goal of $5,500 is intentionally set very low. This money will cover the cost of printing the book. From our past experience on Kickstarter, having successfully raised money for the Doctor Cthulittle book and fulfilled the rewards, we believe that hitting this goal is very possible and quite likely. If we do not hit our stretch goals, we will still have enough to print the book and we are in a position to ship the rewards with our budget. Of course, the stretch goals offer a good many perks that we would like to be able to share with our backers,” Wheatley said.
For those who chose the reward levels that include the audio book, the masterful voice actor Mark Redfield is on full display with many of the poems from Songs Of Giants. His readings of Howard, Burroughs and Lovecraft are augmented by the outstanding original musical score and sound design by Jennifer Rouse. It provides a truly stirring dramatic experience!
The Kickstarter project for Songs Of Giants will launch on Monday, March 11 and is scheduled to conclude on April 20th. If successfully funded, the books and other rewards are expected to ship in June 2019. The Kickstarter project is listed under ComicMix, LLC, Wheatley’s frequent publishing collaborators.
8.5 x 11 inches, 72 pages plus signing plate
Full color front and back end pages.
Thick paper and boards.
Kickstarter Songs of Giants
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| SPECTRE LIBRARY: THE PULP AND PAPERBACK FICTION READER - Now online!
Murder Gets Around by Robert Sidney Bowen - New!
Spider Pete by Claude Stewart
The Finger of Death by Henry Keyworth
The Devil’s Dozen by Frederick C. Davis
Revenge Rides the Range by Will Frame
Elizabeth Anthony’s MURDER novels
| 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.
Brundage and Ingres - New!
The Thing's Incredible! The Secret Origins of Weird Tales by John Locke (2018) - New!
The Thompson-Pendragon Controversy-Conclusion
The Thompson-Pendragon Controversy-Part Five
The Thompson-Pendragon Controversy-Part Four
The Thompson-Pendragon Controversy-Part Three
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| | Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels
by Christopher R. Yates
(New publications to the list are in bold)
Now available!
Superman: Dawnbreaker, Matt de la Peña, Random House, $18.99, March 5, 2019
The Reign of the Kingfisher, T.J. Martinson, Flatiron Books, $27.99, March 5, 2019
Rico Dredd: The Titan Years, Michael Carroll, Abaddon Books, $11.99, April 2, 2019
Thanos: Death Sentence, Stuart Moore, Titan Books, $9.99, April 2, 2019
Coming soon!
Wild Cards IX: Jokertown Shuffle, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $18.99, April 30, 2019
Avengers: Infinity, James A. Moore, Titan Books, $24.95, April 30, 2019
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, Stuart Moore, Titan Books, $22.95, May 14, 2019
Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt, Neil Kleid, Titan Books, $9.99, May 28, 2019
Zero Sum Game, Cas Russell #1, S.L. Huang, Tor, $18.99, June 4, 2019
Avalanche [Secret World Chronicle #5], Mercedes Lackey & Cody Martin, Baen, $7.99, June 25, 2019
X-Men: Days of Future Past, Alex Irvine, Titan Books, $9.99, June 25, 2019
Heroine’s Journey, Sarah Kuhn, DAW, $7.99, July 2, 2019
Harley Quinn: Mad Love, Paul Dini, Titan Books, $12.95, July 2, 2019
Null Set, Cas Russell #2, S.L. Huang, Tor, $25.99, July 9, 2019
Wild Cards XXV: Low Chicago, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $18.99, July 16, 2019
The Violent Century, Lavie Tidhar, Tachyon Publications, $16.95, July 23, 2019
Monster Hunter Guardian, Larry Correia & Sarah Hoyt, Baen, $27.00, August 6, 2019
Wild Cards XXVII: Knaves over Queens, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $29.99, August 13, 2019
The Secret Life of Sam Holloway: A Novel, Rhys Thomas, Park Row, $15.99, August 27, 2019
The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man, Dave Hutchinson, Solaris, $9.99, September 3, 2019
Psi Judge Anderson: Year Two, Danie Ware, Laurel Sills & Zina Hutton, Abaddon Books, $11.99, September 17, 2019
The Godhead [The God Wave Trilogy #3], Patrick Hemstreet, HarperCollins, $26.99, November 12, 2019
Height of the Storm: A Novel of Earth Prime, Aaron Rosenberg, Green Ronin Publishing, $15.99, January 7, 2020
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| | WEIRDBOOK ANNUAL #2
Now available!
The Weirdbook Annual returns featuring a Cthulhu theme.
Storys abound featuring our squamish elder god!
Full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are:
-The Shining Trapezohedron, by Robert M. Price
-A Noble Endeavor, by Lucy A. Snyder
-Ancient Astronauts, by Cynthia Ward
-The Thing in the Pond, by John R. Fultz
-Enter The Cobweb Queen, by Adrian Cole
-Tricks No Treats, by Paul Dale Anderson
-Ronnie and the River, by Christian Riley
-Cellar Dweller, by Franklyn Searight
-Yellow Labeled VHS Tape, by R.C. Mulhare
-Tuama, by L.F. Falconer
-Mercy Holds No Measure, by Kenneth Bykerk
-Treacherous Memory, by Glynn Owen Barrass
-The Hutchison Boy, by Darrell Schweitzer
-Dolmen of The Moon, by Deuce Richardson
-Lovecraftian Limerick, by Andrew J. Wilson
-A Wizard's Daughter, by Ann K. Schwader
-The Shadow of Azathoth is your Galaxy, by DB Spitzer
-Ascend, by Mark A. Mihalko
-The Solace of the Farther Moon, by Allan Rozinski
-The Stars Are Always Right, by Charles Lovecraft
-Daemonic Nathicana, by K.A. Opperman
-Asenath, by Ashley Dioses
-The Book of Eibon/Le Livre D'eibon, trans. by Frederick J. Mayer
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| | Wonders and Visions: A Visual History of Science Fiction
By Adam Roberts and Graham Sleight
New crowd funding project at Unbound!
A sumptuous history of science fiction told through its iconic covers.
Our book tells the story of science fiction through its most iconic, beautiful, interesting and (sometimes) crass cover art: from the earliest days of publishing in the 19th-century, through the glory days of Pulp magazine covers and the Golden Age, into the endless visual experimentation of the New Wave and so to the post-Star Wars era, when a 'visual logic' comes to dominate not just science fiction but culture as a whole.
With over 350 full-colour images and more than 50,000 words of text this is more than simply an anthology of famous science fiction covers--it is an ambitious attempt to tell the whole history of the genre in a new way, and to make the case that science fiction art, from the sober future-visions of Chesley Bonestell, to the garish splendours of Hannes Bok, from the Magritte-like surrealism of Richard Powers, Frank Freas, Judith Clute, and Ed Emshwiller to the amazingly talented designers and artists of the 21st-century, exists as a vital and neglected mode of modern art as such.
Through much of the twentieth-century it flowed like a subterranean river, influencing artistic Modernism, surrealism, abstraction, op-art and postmodernism, creating a heritage that directly informs the global visual texts of today in cinema, TV, graphic novels and video games. There has never been a book quite like this one.
Printed on 120 gsm art paper, hardbound and hand-sewn, we want this book to be a visually beautiful artifact, although as far as that is concerned we have a head start since so much of the art we want to reproduce is so gorgeous. The intense, inky detail of Virgil Finlay’s illustrations to the extraordinary visions of Paul Lehr, from the cool wondrousness of Moebius to the gorgeous grotesqueness of H R Giger and the amazing cityscapes of Kirsten Zirngibl.
There will be three main types of entry. Firstly, there will be several hundred key covers: one or sometimes two images + plus 150-200 words of text, of the ten (or more) most iconic and recognisable covers from each decade of our history: from Wells and Verne to H Rider Haggard's Barsoom and E E 'Doc' Smith's Lensman, from Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End and Asimov's Foundation to Leigh Brackett and Joanna Russ's Female Man, from Cyberpunk masterpieces by William Gibson and Pat Cadigan to dystopias by Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy, to twenty-first century SF.
Second there will be more extended visual comparative studies, one or two page spreads that compare multiple covers for the same book, to see the way different artists and publishers have approached the task of visualising some of the most famous novels in the history of the genre: The Day of the Triffids; Dune; Left Hand of Darkness and more, as well as surveys of the work of famous illustrators, or publishing houses.
Third there will be milestone entries: examples of groundbreaking or unusual covers, usually the first example of (among other things) a fine late 19th-century illustrated binding for a SF title; a garishly coloured SF magazine cover; a Golden Age fix-up paperback, a psychedelic 1960s New Wave title, a movie-tie-in; a graphic novel adaptation of a classic: Shelley's Frankenstein as first SF novel; Auf Zwei Planeten as first Martian invasion; Time Machine as first time travel; Orphans of the Sky as the first Generation Starship novel; Leo and Diane Dillon's illustrations for Ellison's Dangerous Visions; early computer-generated SF art; and Metal Hurlant revolutionising the potential of SF comics.
Every visual entry will be accompanied by text, and the whole will threaded together to tell a new story about this important and beautiful mode of art.
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