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27 September 2019  


70th Michigan Antiquarian Book And Paper Show
Sunday, October 20, 2019
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.


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

Causeway Bay Hotel
6820 South Cedar Street
Lansing, Michigan

 Free Parking!

West of Lowe's Home Improvement


Admission $5
CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER FREE


Adventure House

Adventure House is pleased to announce that Adventure House has acquired a number of the Girasol Collectables reprint files.
They will be releasing on a monthly basis a number of their public domain titles as part of our monthly offerings.

September 2019
GOLDEN FLEECE – 11/38 - Now available!
SAUCY MOVIE TALES – 01/36 - Now available!

August 2019
SPICY MYSTERY STORIES – 07/35  - Now available!
SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES – 01/35  - Now available!

July 2019
Oriental Stories – 12/30-01/31  - Now available!
Spicy Detective Stories – 06/34 - Now available!

June 2019
Strange Tales – 09/31 - Now available!
Magic Carpet Magazine – 04/33 - Now available!


Adventure House
Now available!

High Adventure #167

The Strato-Shooters by H. Bedford-JonesPharaoh Figured Wrong The Fifth Freedom The One-Handed Siberian Ice Cave and more.

7x10, 110 pages, $12.95







Age of Aces
Now available!

Through the dark night sky, streaking swiftly with their Hisso engines thundering, is the greatest trio of aces on the Western Front—the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes,” the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! At point was Captain Kirby, impetuous young leader of the great trio; on his right was little Lieutenant “Shorty” Carn, the mild-eyed, corpulent little Mosquito and lanky Lieutenant Travis, eldest and wisest of the Mosquitoes on his left! Flying in a V formation through four exciting hell-bent tales from the pages of Popular Publication’s Battle Aces.

Stories Include: The X-Gun Flight (Jan 32), The Iron Ace (Feb 32), The Flying Dreadnought (Jun 32), The 20-Ace Patrol (Jul 32). All illustrated by John Fleming Gould





Captain Philip Strange is back in eight more weird WWI stories spanning the run of the series in the penultimate volume of this series. A mental marvel from birth, who used his talents on stage as a boy, Philip Strange is now known as “The Phantom Ace of G-2? by the Allies during WWI and the verdamntBrain-Devil by the Boche. Just when you thought there were no more ways to die in war, the Germans come up with some even more gruesome ways! if you’re not just being incinerated by the sun’s ray focused through enormous lenses, you’re being gassed with a horribly disfiguring plague; drowned in a sea of blood or injected with a serum that turns you into a hyped up fighting hellion until you keel over dead; maybe you’ll be lucky and just have your own munitions blow up your entire outfit, or simply have your head chopped off and mounted on some psychotic ace’s wings. Thankfully, we have have Captain Philip Strange on our side to stop them in eight of his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!

Stories Include: The Code of K-14 (Feb 32), The Masked Marauders (Mar 33), The Sky Torch (Apr 33), Marauders Without Mercy (Oct 33), Legion of the Lost (Aug 34), Valley of Vengeance (Jun 35), Fokkers of the Red Fog (Aug 37), Headsman Strafe (Feb 38).


Age of Aces







Airship 27 Productions
BEHOWLS THE MOON
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions takes great pleasure and presenting “Behowls the Moon,” a new historical horror thriller by writer Philip McCormac.

It is 1916 and the winds of rebellion are rising in Ireland as Easter Sunday nears.  Sick of British rule, Irish freedom fighters to strike while England is supposedly pre-occupied with the war in France. Meanwhile in the village of Carrybeg, young Rauri Mac Cathail operates a small creamery with his Uncle Ivor, a decorated veteran of the Boer campaigns in Africa.

Weeks before Easter, Rauri is attacked by a gang of local thugs jealous of his romantic interest with the lovely Aishling O’Hagan and they beat him severely. Left to die in a ditch, Rauri is found by the hunchback orphan, Damian Hughes, and brought to Ina Riley, an old woman with healing skills. What people do not know is that both Ian and Aishling are werewolves and the only way they can save Rauir is to make him a changeling as well.

Says Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor Ron Fortier, “Mixing wild horror fantasy with factual historic events, writer Philip McCormac weaves a tale of drama and passion that is pure pulp magic. This is easily one of the most original manuscripts to ever cross my desk and we think our readers are going to love it.”  Award winning Art Director Rob Davis provides the black and white interior illustrations and the amazing Steve Otis the painted cover.


Available from Amazon and on Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!

 

Altus Press / Steeger Books: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Farewell Altus Press, Hello Steeger Books

Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at Pulpfest 2019
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


Altus Press / Steeger Books
Now available!


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 steegerbooks.com.



The Spider #16: The City Destroyer
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Thousands of busy persons bent over their desks in the tallest building in the world—conducting the commerce of the nation—when suddenly the steel girders began to creak and twist, and the gigantic edifice swayed giddily in the rising wind. Never before had criminal brains devised a more cunning or a more horrible weapon to garner their ill-gotten treasures. And never before was the Spider so strenuously put to test—for the Master, the man behind the devastation and death, eluded every suspicion, foresaw every contingency, left no tell-tale clues behind him as he ravaged, slayed and pillaged… Richard Wentworth, working for once hand in hand with the organized forces of law and order, fights the grimmest battle of his long career. Can the Spider avenge the countless dead who have already fallen? Can he bring the Murder Master to the justice he so richly deserves?

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

Captain Satan #5: The Ambassador From Hell
By William O'Sullivan


Phony guys and phony money, protected by a squadron of killers with hot guns in their hands! These are the men that Satan must fight as he becomes the Ambassador From Hell! The rivers of blood flow swiftly through the Underworld where the law has lost its grip, and Satan alone has the guns and the fists, plus the courage and brains to defeat them!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95


Steeger Books




American Fantasy Press
THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK
New Kickstarter campaign now online!
This project is now funded!


THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK Kickstarter is now online!

We're excited to bring acclaimed artist Hannes Bok's three solo fantasy novels into hardcover for the first time!

Both THE SORCERER'S SHIP and BEYOND THE GOLDEN STAIR were previously published as part of Ballantine Books' Adult Fantasy paperback line. His first novel-length tale: STARSTONE WORLD, is a much shorter and darker piece, which has never been reprinted since it appeared in Science Fiction Quarterly #7, [Summer of 1942], over 75 years ago.

These aren't your conventional fantasies, although all the trappings are there. His novels have a sly humor with plots containing unconventional twists and turns; a strange metaphysical bent; and his artist's talent for glorious description.

THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK's cover art is a never-before-published painting by Bok. A piece which mirrors the masculine, feminine, grotesque and transcendent archetypes which populate the novels within.

We'll be including Ballantine Adult Fantasy editor Lin Carter's introductions to THE SORCERER'S SHIP and BEYOND THE GOLDEN STAIR, plus an all-new introduction detailing the history of THE SORCERER'S SHIP by Bok collector, Professor William Lorenzo. Publisher, Robert T. Garcia will provide an introduction to STARSTONE WORLD. And we've discovered a number of unpublished photos of Bok to add to these intros as well.

Bok's pulp art for THE SORCERER'S SHIP is included, plus two paintings specified by the artist as illustrating that novel: a color reprise of an interior illustration and a color portrait of the creature Yanuk done for a fan.



   

American Mythology Productions
Arriving in comic shops October 2!


THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT 1975 #2
(Writer) Marv Wolfman (Art) Sonny Trinidad (Cover) Mike Wolfer

The official comics adaptation of the blockbuster 1975 film The Land That Time Forgot comes to a shattering conclusion! Stranded on the lost island continent of Caspak, Bowen Tyler, Lys la Rue, Baron von Schoenvorts and the crew of the submarine U-33 face unimaginable terrors in a prehistoric world out of time's abyss. But if they can somehow avoid death in the jaws of rampaging dinosaurs and escape the savage, human tribes of Caspak, can they overcome the very forces of nature itself and find a way off of the island before a natural cataclysm dooms them all?

Originally published in 1975 by Marvel Comics Group, The Land That Time Forgot movie adaptation has been lovingly remastered for a whole new generation of comics and Edgar Rice Burroughs fans.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99







Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!

THE SHADOW Volume 144: “The Dead Who Lived” & “Crime Over Casco”
The Knight of Darkness resumes his true identity of Kent Allard to crush hidden plots in classic pulp thrillers by Walter B. Gibson writing as Maxwell Grant. First, a plague of sleeping sickness hits New York, and only The Shadow can uncover the secret of the death gas and revive “The Dead Who Lived.” Then, “Crime Over Casco” leads Kent Allard to uncover a Neo-Nazi conspiracy in the quiet Maine coastal islands of Casco Bay! This instant collector’s item showcases both original color covers by George Rozen and Modest Stein and the interior illustrations by Edd Cartier and Charles Coll, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-262-9 Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, $14.95
 

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



Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.
Past episodes:
Award Winning author Gordon Dymowski discusses his work
Dorian Gray: Darker Shades from Wild Hunt Press
"A Good Man Returns" a Jeff Deischer espionage novel
Airship 27 Update with Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
Audible versions of Bobby Nash's "Abraham Snow" Series with Voice actor Stuart Gauffi

Asgard Press
VINTAGE SCI FI 2020 WALL CALENDAR

Now available!

Wall Calendar, 11x15, Full Color   
SRP: $16.95






Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1
Now shipping!

Between 2002 and 2016, Blood ‘n’ Thunder was the premier journal for devotees of adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This award-winning magazine, written by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, eventually expanded its readership to include casual fans of vintage storytelling mediums: pulp fiction, motion pictures, Old Time Radio drama, and so on. BnT, moribund for three years, has now returned in a new format but with the same excellence of writing and research. The articles and essays are scholarly without being dry or academic in nature; no publish-or-perish tedium here.

This revival issue covers a variety of subjects, all related to pulp fiction. David Kalb documents the history of the long-lost 1941-42 radio series featuring Street & Smith’s Avenger; he compares recently uncovered scripts to the novels from which they are adapted. David Saunders, whose father Norman was among the most prolific painters of lurid pulp covers, profiles the forgotten publisher J. Thomas Wood. Novelist and pop-culture historian Will Murray weighs in on pulp pulchritude—an appreciation of artists whose covers sported alluring women. Indefatigable researcher Rick Lai offers a detailed chronology of the Jimgrim saga, a multi-novel series penned by pulp-fiction giant Talbot Mundy. Blood ‘n’ Thunder editor Ed Hulse celebrates the Zorro centennial (he first appeared in a 1919 issue of the legendary All-Story Weekly) with a behind-the-scenes account of the making of Douglas Fairbanks’ 1920 swashbuckling hit The Mark of Zorro. Ed also documents the making of Hawk of the Wilderness, a 1938 cliffhanger serial adapted from the popular imitation-Tarzan novels that appeared in the venerable pulp Blue Book.


#1, Second Series
Cover Art by Lyman Anderson
92 pages, paperback, 7x10
Price: $9.95


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO U.S. BUYERS. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.

Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press


Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction
Permanent Price Reduction for “Forgotten Classics” 10-book set
Now available!

You may order at the Books section or click on the images below to order!

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.



Now available!
Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction” Complete Set

Permanent Price Reduction for “Forgotten Classics” 10-book set
These books are also available individually.



 
Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
Now available!

The 2019 edition of Lone Pine and the Movies, like its recent predecessors, chronicles the history of Western-movie production. Its cover story examines the wave of 1939 hits that brought big-budget “A” Westerns back to box-office prominence, with behind-the-scenes information on the making of Stagecoach, Dodge City, Jesse James, Union Pacific, and others released during Hollywood’s greatest year. Prolific “B”-Western director George Sherman, who began his 40-year career with two inexpensive horse operas shot partially at Lone Pine, is profiled with a detailed survey of his dozens of Westerns made for Republic Pictures. “The Lovely Ladies of Lone Pine” covers three favorite actresses whose careers are inextricably linked to the area: Beth Marion, Grace Bradley Boyd (Mrs. Hopalong Cassidy), and the late Peggy Stewart, a favorite guest at Lone Pine Film Festivals, who passed away earlier in 2019.

 “RevisitingFrontier Days” not only takes a detailed look at this favorite 1934 “B”-Western but tells the entire story of its star, Bill Cody, a marginal figure who built a career on Hollywood’s Poverty Row and made a precarious living on the fringes of the film industry. A Don Kelsen photo essay matches present-day pictures of Frontier Days locations with frame captures from the original film. Finally, this issue contains a special section, “The Man Who Loved Westerns,” devoted to the late Packy Smith, who organized the very first film festival devoted entirely to his favorite genre—and who, many years later, was instrumental in getting the Lone Pine Film Festival up and running. Packy, who died in late 2018, is remembered by some of his closest friends and fellow movie buffs.


Introduction by Ed Hulse
136 pages, 8x10, trade paperback
Price: $12.95

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Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
FORGOTTEN CLASSICS OF PULP FICTION, SECOND SERIES!
Coming soon!

Murania Press is proud to announce that, owing to the success of its recent “Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction” reprint line, a second series of ten books will be published soon.
The intent is to have the next ten volumes ready for Christmas-season gift purchases, although we’re making no hard and fast promises along that line.

As with the first series, released this past summer, individual books will be priced at $15.95 (postage included in the U.S.) but the entire set will sell for $100.

Like the earlier “Forgotten Classics” volumes, this second set offers considerable variety as to tone, genre, setting, and time period. In coming weeks we will have more to say about the new additions, but for now here are the titles, listed alphabetically by author:

1. H. Bedford-Jones, Blood, Amber and Jade. Action and intrigue in the Far East with Jim Hanecy, dealer in rare Oriental jewels and artifacts, and his daring associates.

2. Max Brand, The Sword Lover. The overlooked but excellent second novel by this specialist in Westerns is a swashbuckling adventure yarn set in 18th-century England.

3. J. Allan Dunn, The Island. The sequel to Barehanded Castaways is a rousing adventure in its own right and an eminently worthy continuation of Dunn’s original narrative.

4. Clarence E. Mulford, Black Buttes. Almost certainly this author’s best novel not featuring Hopalong Cassidy. Its protagonist spends years combing the West for his sister’s despoiler and becomes involved in a frontier murder mystery.

5. Roy Norton, The Glyphs. After deciphering ancient Mayan hieroglyphs, an eccentric archeologist, a soldier of fortune, and an English sportsman head to Nicaragua in search of a lost city that houses tremendous wealth.

6. Randall Parrish, The Strange Case of Cavendish. A baffling mystery that begins with murder in New York City and the victim’s disappearance, with the only clues directing an intrepid female reporter to the contemporary West.

7. Perley Poore Sheehan, The Copper Princess. The mummy of an ancient Peruvian princess is scientifically revived in early 20th-century New York, and her resuscitation has terrifying ramifications for a curious antropologist.

8. Francis Stevens, Serapion. Combining elements of fantasy, science fiction, and psychological horror, this spine-chilling tale chronicles the efforts of a malevolent spirit to dominate a weak man and his hapless associates.

9. Edgar Wallace, Blind Men. Mysterious events, culminating in murder, seem to have their origins in and around the London headquarters of a charity for the blind. Original pulp-magazine version of a novel later revised and published in book form (and brought to the screen) as Dark Eyes of London.10. Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams’ Vengeance. The best of this author’s Hurricane Williams novels, a South Seas adventure with an unforgettable climax.

10. Gordon Young, Hurricane Williams’ Vengeance. The best of this author’s Hurricane Williams novels, a South Seas adventure with an unforgettable climax.


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

Coming Soon: The Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction, Second Series! - New!
Lone Pine and the Movies
- New!
The BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER Revival Will Continue!
Permanent Price Reduction for “Forgotten Classics” 10-book set
PulpFest 2019 Report
My Incredibly Busy April, #2: The Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention
Slight Delay in Our Release of the “Forgotten Classics” Collection


Bold Venture Press
Pulp Adventures #32
Now available!

CLASSIC PULP FICTION
The Death Dancer | Charles Boeckman  3
The “Atomic Goddess of Beauty” sees a strange case of murder explode!
Roman Holiday | Talbot Mundy  28
A tale of Christians and Romans — and Lions — in the reign of mad Caligula!
The Pigtail of Hi Wing Ho | Sax Rohmer  119
Mystery in Chinatown ...

NEW PULP FICTION
The Mystery of Island X! | Bobby Nash  15
Lance Starr and his scrappy crew investigate mysterious goings-on on an island — only to discover the island IS the mystery!
The Spawn of Lilthu | William M. Hope  51
The “Welcome” mat was Thurl’s invitation to a hellish fate.
The Wicked Big ‘Monstah Ovah Bawstin’ | David Bernard  63
An FBI agent generates buzz with his biggest case.
Time and Tide | Adam Beau McFarlane  75
The Black Island Tavern plays host to a sailor like no other.
Stranded At Saturn | Jack Halliday  79
He dreamt of reaching the stars … until he crash-landed …
A Snitch in Time | Robert W. Walker  83
First-class seats for murder …


Format: Softcover
Pages: 132
Dimensions: 7" x 10"

$12.95



Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!

Pulp Consumption: Tough 2 (Crime Stories)
Pulp Appeal: Penny Dreadful
Pulp Appeal: Storyhack #3
Issue 10 is Live!
Pulp Appeal: From The Vaults of Imagination: The Forgotten Short Stories of Clark Ashton Smith (Guest Post by Joshua Grasso)
Pulp Appeal: Pulp Modern Summer 2019
Pulp Appeal: Moon Knight: From the Dead
Issue 9 is here!


THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #84 is now available and recommended!
 
Front Cover: Bob larkin
"Scattered Covers" by Chuck Welch
"A Bob Larkin Retrospective" by Courtney Rogers
"The Doc Savage Comics Guide" by Philip Schweier
"The Savage Society of Bronze Remembered" by Jennifer DiGiacomo
"The Cover That Could Have been" by
Julián Puga
"The Power of Gold" by Dafyyd Neal Dyar
"The True Origin of Capt. Gideon Argo" by Tony Simmons

"Fifty Years later" by Will Murray
Back Cover: Alvaro Fernandois

Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
You can order available single issues at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/back-issues/


Subscribe for 2019 (Issues 84 and 85) at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/subscribe/

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Coming soon!
Dare Devlin: Stormbirds
by Dafyyd Neal Dyar


 The Bronze Gazette  
   

CAPTAIN FUTURE RETURNS!
Coming in November!


Allen Steele has announced that he will soon be continuing the adventures of Captain Future.

From Allen Steele's announcement:

This fall Experimenter Publishing, the publisher of AMAZING STORIES, will be launching EDMOND HAMILTON'S CAPTAIN FUTURE as a paperback/ebook series called "Amazing Stories Selects." The first issue, scheduled for release in November, will feature "Captain Future in Love", the long novella that ran as a two-part serial in AMAZING last year; it will also include an essay about the history of Captain Future and how and why I reinvented this classic SF character. This will kick off a four-part story cycle, "The Return of Ul Quorn", that will run for the next three issues; the second installment, "The Guns of Pluto", is now being written, and we're aiming to publish it early next year.

As I've said a couple of years ago when my first CF novel, AVENGERS OF THE MOON, was published by Tor, although my take on the character is derived from Edmond Hamilton's novels of the 1940's, this ain't your grandpa's Captain Future. Authorized by the Hamilton estate, this is an updated and revised version of the original pulp series. For example, feast your eyes on Curt Newton's ship, the "Comet II". Rob Caswell, the illustrator, and I put a lot of time and thought into designing a plausible new version of this classic ship ... and this is just a preview of things to come.

As things come together, AMAZING and I will release more info about EHCF, including where and how to purchase single issues and subscriptions.
If you're a fan of high adventure and space opera in the grand tradition, we think you'll like this. Stay tuned.



Experimenter Publishing   Allen Steele



Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Sensor Sweep: 9/23/2019
- New!
Sensor Sweep: U.K Modules, Chernobyl game, Max Brand
Sensor Sweep: Tolkien’s Letters, Taghri’s Prize, Kardios of Atlantis
Sensuous Science Fiction
Sensor Sweep: Starbase, Scarlet Citadel, Baldur’s Gate
Sensor Sweep: Richard L. Tierney, Diana Gabaldon, Jirel of Joiry, Stan Lee
Joseph Payne Brennan back in print!


CONAN THE BARBARIAN

SAVAGE AVENGERS #6 (Featuring Conan) - Arriving in comic shops October 2!
Gerry Duggan (Writer) • Mike Deodato Jr. (Art)
Cover by David Finch

Conan & The Punisher attempt to walk out of the Savage Land hauling the caskets of Frank’s family...through Antarctica.
Frank Castle never was much of a religious man...but now he’s firmly “Crom-curious”
Watch out for the last page, it’s a doozy.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99






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


Forgotten Stories: "Robots Can't Lie" by ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM (1941)  
- New!
Big Little Books: DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY - New!
"Capt'n Courage" by RAFAEL ASTARITA (1951)  - New!
Pulp Gallery: COMPLETE STORIES - New!
Movie Posters of 1928 - New!
TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 12 (1951) - New!
ZORRO Pulp Illustrations (Part 4)
Pulp Gallery: SPORTS ACTION
Still More Westerns You MAY Have Missed (1927)  
TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 11 (1951)
Forgotten Stories: THEIR GUARDIAN FROM HELL by Norbert Davis (1937)

Cliffhanger Serial Posters: THE FLAME FIGHTER (1925)

The Digest Enthusiast #10
 Now available!


The tenth edition of The Digest Enthusiast is now available in print and digital on amazon.com featuring an interview with James Reasoner covering his stories for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine; PIs Cody, Delaney, and Markham; his Redemption series, the Wind River series with L.J. Washburn; and much more.


Interviews
Author, editor, and publisher James Reasoner delves into his stories for Mike Shayne; PIs Cody, Delaney, and Markham; his Redemption series, the Wind River series with L.J. Washburn; and much more.

Articles
Ward Smith remembers Armed Services Editions—digests that are not digests
Peter Enfantino tackles Startling Mystery Stories No. 1–18, and a keen assessment of Manhunt 1954 July–Oct
Vince Nowell, Sr. dissects Sol Cohen’s tactics to save Amazing Stories
Richard Krauss examines Charlie Chan’s media empire, with special emphasis on Renown Publications’ digest magazine
Steve Carper reports on the one, the only, Bronze Books and trailblazers Luke Roberts and Jesse Lee Carter
Tom Brinkmann exposes The Creature from the Black Lagoon with The Seven Year Itch.Fiction

Fiction
Robert Snashall and Joe Wehrle, Jr., with art by Carolyn Cosgriff

Also includes
News updates from the newsstand giants and the digital darlings of today’s genre fiction digests, straight from their editors and publishers
In-depth reviews of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2019 and Broadswords & Blasters No. 9
Plus over 100 digest magazine cover images, cartoons by Bob Vojtko, art by Brian Buniak, a poem by Clark Dissmeyer, first issue factoids, and more.

Includes over 100 digest magazine cover images
160 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest

Print version, $8.99
Kindle version, $2.99


    



The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Western Magazine No. 4 - New!
Fantastic Oct. 1975 - New!
Detective No. 3
Nostalgia Digest Autumn 2019 -
Mystery Weekly Magazine Sept. 2019
Amazing Stories Fall 2019
Weird Menace Vol. 2
Weird Menace Vol. 1
Western Magazine No. 2  
Paperback Parade No. 104



DMR Books
HEROES OF ATLANTIS AND LEMURIA
By Manly Wade Wellman & Leigh Bracket

Now available!



In the late ‘70s legendary pulp fictioneer Manly Wade Wellman created a fantasy hero named Kardios, who was the last survivor of Atlantis. The five tales of Kardios Wellman penned appeared in anthologies such as Swords Against Darkness and Heroic Fantasy, which are long out of print. For decades sword and sorcery fans have clamored for all five stories to be reprinted in a single collection, but their cries fell on deaf ears.

We at DMR Books have heard your call! Just as we brought collections by Weird Tales writers Nictzin Dyalhis and Clifford Ball into paperback for the first time, we will do what has never been done before and present to you a Kardios collection!

Even better, the collection, which is entitled Heroes of Atlantis & Lemuria, will contain more than just Kardios stories. All three of Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.’s sword and sorcery stories set in Lemuria will be included as well. These Lemurian adventures have never been collected before, either. If that’s not enough, we’ll top it off with a hard to find Leigh Brackett story set in Mu!

Heroes of Atlantis & Lemuria will be available mid-September. That’s just a few short weeks away, so keep an eye out for it. It will be published in trade paperback and digital formats.

Table of Contents
Straggler From Atlantis by Manly Wade Wellman
The Dweller in the Temple by Manly Wade Wellman
The Guest of Dzinganji by Manly Wade Wellman
The Seeker in the Fortress by Manly Wade Wellman
The Edge of the World by Manly Wade Wellman
Adventure in Lemuria by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Intrigue in Lemuria by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Volcano Slaves of Mu by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Lord of the Earthquake by Leigh Brackett





DMR Books Blog - Now online!

The DMRtian Chronicles, 9/22/2019
- New!
Metallic Mirrors Part Three: Bruce Pennington - New!
Mundy Monday: The Purple Pirate
The DMRtian Chronicles, 9/15/2019
Michael Tierney - The DMR Interview Part Two
To Dree, Or Not To Dree?
The Norse Sagas of Poul Anderson: Hrolf Kraki's Saga and "The Tale of Hauk"

The Norse Sagas of Poul Anderson: The Broken Sword
The DMRtian Chronicles, 9/8/2019

Dover Books
Joseph Payne Brennan
New titles available!


Acclaimed by Stephen King as "a master of the unashamed horror tale," Joseph Payne Brennan wrote hundreds of tales of terror, suspense, and fantasy. Collectors and fans will delight in this inexpensive reissue of Brennan's hard-to-find classic, Nine Horrors and a Dream. This collection, originally published by Arkham House in 1958, features stories published by Weird Tales and other pulp magazines of the 1950s — including the much-anthologized "Slime," which inspired the ever-popular thriller The Blob.

Less familiar but equally gripping tales include "Levitation," in which a carnival-goer has an unfortunate encounter with a hypnotist; "The Calamander Chest," the story of a low-priced antique that turns out to be no bargain; "Death in Peru," involving a lethal curse; the darkly humorous "On the Elevator"; and "The Green Parrot," which recounts a Good Samaritan's bad timing. Other selections include "Canavan's Back Yard," featuring a property with a gruesome history; "I'm Murdering Mr. Massington," which tells of a bizarre grasp at immortality; "The Hunt," a playfully creepy yarn about an obsessive chase; and "The Mail for Juniper Hill," in which a tipsy but determined postman refuses to let anything — even death — keep him from his appointed rounds.


Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0486834191
Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 7.8 inches
$9.95

The Shapes of Midnight

"Joseph Payne Brennan is one of the most effective writers in the horror genre, and he is certainly one of the writers I have patterned my own career upon," declared Stephen King. "In fact," he added, "The Shapes of Midnight could serve as an exercise-book for the young writer who aspires to pen and publish his or her own weird tales."

A poet as well as a writer of horror fiction, Brennan worked at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library as an acquisitions assistant for over 40 years. He wrote hundreds of stories for Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. This new edition of his increasingly rare compilation, The Shapes of Midnight, presents 10 of his best stories.

Selections include "Diary of a Werewolf," a first-person account of bloody sprees; "The Corpse of Charlie Rull," recounting the rampage of a radioactive zombie; "The Pavilion," which unfolds at an abandoned seaside haunt with something ghastly beneath its pilings; "House of Memory," a wistful look at the past's imaginative grip; "The Willow Platform," featuring the machinations of a self-styled warlock; and other chillingly memorable tales.


Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications
Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 7.9 inches
$12.56


Nine Horrors and a Dream    The Shapes of Midnight



Edgar Rice Burroughs Books
A PRINCESS OF MARS by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Deluxe Manuscript Edition!

Now available for pre-order!

Shipping November - December 2019!

The Deluxe Manuscript Edition of A Princess of Mars is the fifth title in the ERB Limited Edition Collection.
The set is published by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.  and includes an leather bound book in dust jacket, manuscript portfolio, handcrafted dip pen and Dejah Thoris medallion all housed in a 7”x10” custom decorated case. 
We think this will be the most elaborate and unique edition of A Princess of Mars ever published.

Each set features:

•  A Leather Bound Book limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artists and contributors with a corrected text, new foreword and preface.
•  20 Color Plates featuring the original (5) color Schoonover paintings and works by Frazetta, Abbett, Whelan, Manchess, Miller and including..
    (4-6) New Paintings commissioned for this edition (Artists like Iain McCaig, Dave Dorman, Thomas Gianni, Tom Grindberg, Doug Klauba and others.)
•  A Custom Case covered in Cialux cloth, with spine titling and decorations debossed in gold and 1st edition dust jacket illustration inlaid on the lid.
•  ERB Manuscript Portfolio (1911-1912) for 'Under the Moons of Mars" containing replica manuscript pages, editor letters, the Munsey check to ERB for UMM, and first publication pulp cover and pages.
•  Manuscript Pen (1911-1912)- replica of the dip pen used by ERB to write the holographic manuscript for Under the Moons of Mars.
•  2" Dejah Thoris Medallion - 3D portrait design in antique silver accented in gold, numbered to match the book and inserted inside the custom case.
•  New Dust Jacket artwork and color Barsoom Map endpapers.
•  30+ Black and White Illustrations by Tom Yeates and others…

In addition:
•  The Deluxe Manuscript Edition of A Princess of Mars does not include a Grosset & Dunlap printing since the ERB Limited Edition Collection only publishes titles in G&D that have not previously been available.
    So far that includes 1st G&D printings of Back to the Stone Age, Land of Terror, Savage Pellucidar and John Carter of Mars.
•   The text has been proofed by Frank Puncer and reset with corrections for this new edition. (One notable mistake was discovered in the 1st edition text that has been carried over to every later edition.)
•  The decorated box, dust jacket, book cover and title and chapter page designs are by Zavier Cabarga with the book bound in brown Cromwell leather with red/orange stamping
    in a style reminiscent of the first edition published by A. C. McClurg.
•  The custom case features a drop spine and houses the book, manuscript portfolio and a die cut tray for the medallion and pen.
•  This vintage-style document portfolio is a 6”x9” gusseted custom envelope made of heavy kraft paper and secured by a button and string.
    We have taken great care to source antique and vintage papers to match the original pages or documents.
•  The first publication pulp cover and pages are from the Feb. 1912 All-Story Magazine and include two-sided replicas of the color cover, contents page and first story page.
•  The handmade Italian wooden/pewter pen comes with an original 100 year-old Esterbrook 788 Oval gold-plated nib and is mounted in a base tray with the Dejah Thoris medallion.
•  Limited: 500 numbered copies signed by the contributors and artists, in slipcase






  Now online!

New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

August 2019
We are happy to present a previously unreprinted story by H. F. Arnold, "The City of the Iron Cubes,"  as it apppeared in the March and April, 1929 issues of Weird Tales, including the illustrations by C. C. Senf.
Along with some additional biographical material about Arnold, there is also an afterword following the story, where we discuss the end of the story, and why we believe the twist at the end may be the first appearance of an ending that, today, has been done so many times, that it is considered the worst of cliches.


July 2019
Baroness Orczy wrote many different types of stories during her career and "Young Muggins" shows yet another facet to her talents, as she weaves a tale of love, selfishness and self-sacrifice in rural England. 
Our reprinting appears just as it did in the May, 1906 issue of The Royal Magazine, including the illustrations by J. Barnard Davis.  Introduction to the story is by Dan Neyer.


June 2019
This month we feature Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mummy tale, Lot No. 249, including the illustrations by William Thomas Smedley and an introduction by your humble scribes, Dan Neyer and Bob Gay.
We've also done some behind the scenes work to make the site work better...do stop by and check us out.


May 2019
Edmond Hamilton returns to our pages with "The Man Who Evolved," direct from the pages of the April, 1931 issue of Wonder Stories, including the Frank R. Paul illustration.  Intro by Bob Gay
Also, we found a 1953 comic book story where the plot was (*ahem*) "borrowed" from Hamilton's original and our unknown scribe managed to condense the story down to a mere 4 pages. 
Read the original first, then "Evolution" which appears as it originally appeared in Tomb of Terror #12, with the digital restoration included at no extra cost.


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.



Now available!
Red Nails

Conan, mercenary praising his sword to the highest bidder, lands in the Darfar region, whose territory is almost entirely covered by a huge forest. Alongside the fierce warrior Valeria and after a clash against a terrible dragon, the Cimmerian then goes to a strange fortified city, apparently deserted. But the duo will quickly discover that a civilization lives hidden inside, and that the citadel seems to hide a heavy secret ...

The Red Nails is probably, along with Beyond the Black River , one of Conan's most beloved and sophisticated news stories. Howard affirms his style, persisting in his mistrust of modern civilizations, consumed by passivity, laxity and cruelty. Régis Hautière, Olivier Vatine and Didier Cassegrain give substance to this stifling camera in a splendid album in direct colors.


Language: French
Scriptwriter: Régis Hautière
Designer: Olivier Vatine & Didier Cassegrain

Color: Didier Cassegrain
Full Color
Size: 240 x 320 mm
72 pages
Shaping: Hardcover
Price: 14.95 €




Haffner Press
THE COMPLETE JOHN THE BALLADEER
By Manly Wade Wellman
Complete in two volumes!

Now available for pre-order!


Status Update
We're getting closer on completing the definitive collection of ALL (19 stories and 5 novels!) of the tales of Manly Wade Wellman's most popular character, John the Balladeer. As you can see, illustrator Raymond Swanland has delivered two masterpiece covers, and Stephen Jones has delivered his introduction. That's the good news. The bad news is that we're not going to be able to launch the book as planned at this year's World Fantasy Convention. But we feel the wait will be worth it. And remember, if you preorder The Complete John the Balladeer, you will receive the exclusive chapbook, Not All a Dream. This 32-page chapbook is Wellman's contribution to the unpublished anthology, The Last Dangerous Visions.

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.


 

Haffner Press
THE VAMPIRE STORIES OF ROBERT BLOCH
By Robert Bloch, Edited by Stephen Haffner, Illustrated by Gahan Wilson
Now available for pre-order!
Expected in time for Halloween!


Status Update
The Vampire Stories of Robert Bloch was staged to be at the printer—Thomson Shore in Dexter, Michigan—this summer. Tragically, Thomson-Shore declared bankruptcy in March and their assets were sold outright in May. This left more than a few presses, including us, scrambling to find replacement printers. Haffner Press was especially challenged as our books are case-bound and smythe-sewn. In recent years, most printers have invested heavily in short-run print-on-demand technology. While many book-printers offer smythe-sewn services, fewer than ever offer both smythe-sewing AND hardcover case-binding. (FYI, in 2006-2008, we did have some titles sewn by the printer and then cased by a third-party bindery, but we found this added unnecessary time and expense.) Happily, we can report that we are aligned with a printer who can do the entire job in-house and we hope to have this title ready for Hallowe'en.

In the meantime, here's notice that there will be THREE states of The Vampire Stories of Robert Bloch!
1.  $50 trade hardcover (currently available as a $45 preorder)
2.  $175 slipcased edition limited to 100 copies signed by Gahan Wilson, Paul Winters, Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Stephen Haffner with an exclusive chapbook, Dracula Country.
3.  Price TBD for a 26-copy lettered edition with special black embossed covers, signed by all contributors, the Dracula Country chapbook, and a Robert Bloch autograph laid in


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

500+ page Smythe-sewn Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-893887-90-9

Pre-order price: $45.00

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






Haffner Press
DESIGNS FOR DREAMING:
The Early Kuttner, Volume Three

Introduction by Dr. Garyn G. Roberts

Now available for pre-order!
Target Date: April 2020!


Exclusive Chapbook with all pre-orders!

All preorders of DESIGNS FOR DREAMING will ship with an exclusive chapbook reprinting the long-lost 1938 terror-tale, MASTER OF THE DAMNED!

Submitted by Kuttner on January 6, 1937, the 3500-word terror-tale "Master of the Damned" was serialized in three issues (July 1937, Vol. 1 No. 2, Winter 1937 Vol. 1 No. 3, and November 1938 Vol. 1 No. 4) of John Weir's hectographed fanzine Fantasmagoria. The story involves witches, warlocks and . . . well, here's Mr. Kuttner's chilling prose to give you a sample:   

Incubi and succubi leaped and cried beside shrieking hags. Warlocks bestrode yelling mooncalves that cavorted through the throng, and demons and familiars mingled with the coven. A monstrous, bloated head, leering and chuckling, crawled past on spidery legs, and in its wake crept a thing like a monstrous turtle, save that human hands and feet propelled the creature on its way. Curiously deformed toads and serpents squirmed underfoot, and great cats, monstrously altered, capered in the wake of their masters. I saw a headless thing, with a grinning face growing on its belly, rush up to the altar, carrying a tall black candle, and light it from the red flame that sprang, apparently, from the ground itself before the altar.
YIKES! And there are 3,380 more words to the story!! Speaking of which, how can you get a copy of "Master of the Damned"? Well, if you've placed a preorder for Designs for Dreaming: The Early Kuttner, Volume Three, then you're already in line to receive it! You read that correctly: "Master of the Damned" is available as an exclusive chapbook shipping with all preordered copies of Designs for Dreaming at no extra charge! So, get on board, smash that Preorder link, and make your Kuttner book kollection something that everyone will krave!


Before his marriage to (and subsequent collaborations with) Catherine L. Moore, Henry Kuttner was a frequent contributor to the pulp magazines that specialized in the weird, supernatural, horror, and science fiction genre. Beginning in 1936, Kuttner launched a steady stream of short stories aimed at Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Thrilling Mystery, and others.

Kuttner and Moore were married on June 7, 1940 in New York with artist Virgil Finlay as Best Man. With NYC as his base of operations, Kuttner interfaced on a frequent basis with the major local genre editors: Leo Margulies at Standard Magazines (Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Strange Stories,), Alden H. Norton at Popular Publications (Astonishing Stories, Strange Detective Mysteries) and perhaps most importantly, John W. Campbell, Jr. at Street & Smith Publications (Unknown / Unknown Worlds). Campbell’s Astounding Science Fiction will loom large in Kuttner’s career for the next decade.

In DESIGNS FOR DREAMING (the third and final volume of “The Early Kuttner”) Kuttner sells the last of his stories to the weird-menace pulps, places some SF stories with lesser markets (Stirring Science Stories and Fantastic Adventures), and delivers some of his finest fantasy work in Unknown Worlds. By the summer of 1942, Kuttner’s Draft Status was reclassified as 1-A. By April 13, 1943, Pfc Henry Kuttner had orders to report to Fort Dix, New Jersey. The early phase of Kuttner’s career was over.


Cover art by Robert Gibson-Jones
700+ pages
Smythe-sewn binding
Full cloth-covered binding boards

Pre-order: $45.00

The Illustrated Press
ALLEN ANDERSON

Now available fror pre-order!
Scheduled to ship in October!

Standard Edition
This is the ultimate book on the work of pulp artist ALLEN ANDERSON. Known best for his covers for PLANET STORIES, DELL COMICS, spicy pulps, Western pulps, and many others, this spectacular book contains stunning reproductions taken directly from Anderson's original paintings, as well as reference photos, rare proof sheets of pulp covers, and much more. Limited to just 900 copies.

224 pages, 9x12 inches, hardcover with dust jacket. $44.95 (U.S.)

Deluxe Edition
 
This is the ultimate book on the work of pulp artist ALLEN ANDERSON. Known best for his covers for PLANET STORIES, DELL COMICS, spicy pulps, Western pulps, and many others, this spectacular book contains stunning reproductions taken directly from Anderson's original paintings, as well as reference photos, rare proof sheets of pulp covers, and much more. Limited to just 100 copies!

224 pages, 9x12 inches, hardcover with dust jacket
in red slipcase with white lettering. Insert bookplate signed and numbered by author David Saunders. $64.95 (U.S.)

To see a preview of the book, follow this link: https://issuu.com/illomag/docs/rafaeldesoto






Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

WONDER STORIES QUARTERLY, Winter 1932

Contents
THE ONSLAUGHT FROM RIGEL by Fletcher Pratt
THE MOON DESTROYERS by Monroe K. Ruch
THE REVOLT OF THE STAR MEN by Raymond Gallun
THE METAL MOON by Everett C. Smith and R. F. Starzl
SPACEWRECKED ON VENUS by Neil R. Jones
THE MARTIAN by Allen Glasser and A. Rowley Hilliard

Magazine, 8.5 x 11 inch, 146 pages
$14.95






 
 
JOE GOLEM OCCULT DETECTIVE CONJURORS #5 (of 5) - Arriving in comic shops October 2!
(Writer) Mike Mignola, Chris Golden (Art) Peter Bergting, Michelle Madsen (Cover) David Palumbo

Felix Orlov, all traces of his humanity gone, reaches toward the heavens as the Outer Dark descends!
Dr. Cocteau is convinced he can use Lector's Pentajulum to make contact with the "gods" who answer Felix's cries-and is willing to put the entire Drowning City in jeopardy to do it.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99




Lon Chaney - "Outside The Law" (1920) Crime Novel Reprint
Reprint the rare paperback novel of Outside The Law (1920), a silent era film starring Priscilla Dean and Lon Chaney.
New Kickstarter now online!
This project will only be funded if it reaches its goal by Tuesday, October 22, 2019
All rewards will ship early November, 2019

This quick moving crime thriller greatly expands on the plot of a film.  The uncredited author based their story on Tod Browing's photoplay.

Scenes that are brief in the movie are fleshed out with more detail in this book, the motives of the characters are clearer (Chaney's Ah Wing too!), main characters have a back story, the jewel heist at the mansion is more suspenseful, and Lon Chaney's Black Mike Silva meets a much more grisly demise at the end that would not have passed the censors!

Why Reprint This?
The pulp novel for Outside the Law  was published in 1926 in time for the movie's re-release, not long after the debut of The Phantom Of The Opera.  It sold very well. Unfortunately, they are extremely scarce and expensive today.  After nearly a century later the paper may become brittle to the point where it can't be read from cover to cover without pieces falling out.

This long out of print edition of Outside the Law was never reprinted or is readable online. 
This Kickstarter is for the funding of at least 100 books.


Kickstarter


Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

Universal Studios Cliffhanger Classics - New!
The Shadow: 1940 Cliffhanger Serial
King Kong, The Alvin Show and Rock and Roll
The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
The Lion King Reigns Supreme
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon: The Radio Program



The Robert E. Howard Newsline
Now online!


Bringing you the latest news in Robert E. Howard books, pulp reprints, comics, audio, conventions, games, and whatever else seems applicable.

Now featuring:

Links to Robert E. Howard Days 2019 Panel Discussions  


The Art of Robert E. Howard: Peter Andrew Jones

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Virgil Finlay

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Michael William Kaluta:  Part 1   Part 2   Part 3  

Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie

Accepting new articles for posting.
Contact me at bthom1@cox.net





Meteor House
Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes
Now available!

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



Mike Chomko -  July/August 2019 newsletter is now available!

Mike has released a list of pulp-related books and periodicals available from Mike Chomko for July/August 2019.

Orders over $20 are discounted approximately 10%.
Shipping is between $2-6, depending on the weight of your order (media mail or bound printed matter). 
Michael Chomko, 2217W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542

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



Mystery*File - Now online!

A Pulp Fiction Mystery Review: JOHN JAY CHICHESTER – The Bigamist.
- New!
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: L. M. MONTGOMERY “The House Party at Smoky Island.”
A Movie Review by Dan Stumpf: SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES DEATH (1943).
Stories I’m Reading: AUGUST DERLETH “The China Cottage.”
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: Three Northerns by FREDERICK NEBEL.
Mike Nevins on Pulp Writer RAOUL WHITFIELD, Part Two.


The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Bounty

The Scarlet Claw
The Midnight Phantom
Australis Incognito
The Henchmen

North-West Adventures - Now online!

King of the Royal Mounted Cover Gallery
(1935) Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted

(1883) “Captain of the ‘Polestar'

(1951) “The Smile of Jean Charcot”

(1937) “The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw”

Lawrence Mott (1881-1931)


PAPERBACK PARADE #104 - Now available!

PAPERBACK PARADE #104, the magazine for paperback readers and collectors -- 100 pages in Full Color!

Contents
Gary Lovisi: Paperback Talk
Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Writer & the Stories”
Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Books & the Covers”
Gary Lovisi & Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Signet List”
Art Scott “Carter Brown: In Belmont & Tower”
Philip Harbottle “Fearn’s Jinxed Novels”
Richard Greene “Matchless Paperbacks: Straw Boss”
Gary Lovisi “Mighty Midgets”
Jon D. Swartz “Early Penguin SF”
Jon D. Swartz “Bill Crider”


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George Vanderburgh has been named the winner of the 2019 Munsey Award. Nominated by the general pulp community, George was selected by previous winners of the Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards. The award is a fine art print created by David Saunders and published by Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press. It is presented annually to an individual or institution that has bettered the pulp community. Bill Lampkin — winner of the 2018 Munsey Award — presented this year’s award.

Our 2019 Munsey Award winner, GEORGE VANDERBURGH has published over 600 books through his Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, many of them directly related to the pulps. He was largely responsible for finally getting all of Fred Davis’ classic Moon Man stories back into print. And what about his Peter the Brazen series, his five volumes featuring the work of Seabury Quinn, THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE PARK AVENUE HUNT CLUB, his Green Ghost set, THE COMPLEAT SAGA OF JOHN SOLOMON, THE ADVENTURES OF THE GOLDEN AMAZON, THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE SUICIDE SQUAD, and others? He has also given us numerous collections of detective fiction, including volumes featuring the Thinking Machine, Dr. Thorndyke, and Martin Hewitt. Looking at his website, his future plans include several books reprinting pulp authors who have been unjustly forgotten. Along with the late Robert Weinberg, George served as the co-editor of Arkham House Publishers until the death of April Derleth. A regular attendee of pulp conventions, George has helped both longtime and new fans to collect the tales of some of the most fantastic heroes from the pulps. At this year’s PulpFest, George was part of our presentation, “The Game’s Afoot: Sherlock Holmes and the Pulps.”

Congratulations to George for this most deserved award.


PulpFest Blog Posts

PulpFest 2020 Estate Auction
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Thanks for Making PulpFest 2019 a Great Success!
PulpFest 2019: Two Sought Adventure: Eighty Years of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Get Nostalgic at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
Sunday at PulpFest 2019

Our 2019 Munsey Award Winner

Saturday at PulpFest 2019

Friday at PulpFest 2019
PulpFest 2019 Begins Today -
Safe Travels
PulpFest Primer
Last Minute Dealer Changes
One Week to Go!
Highlights from THE PULPSTER



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Davey Jones' Loot" by Albert Richard Wetjen from ACTION STORIES, December, 1938

Featuring: Stinger Seave
Hurricane-lashed waters! The rending crash of ship against ship - and the Stinger spikes a warship's guns to levy toll on a South Seas killer!

"Gunman's Hate" by Col. William T. Cowin from G-MEN DETECTIVE, April, 1936
Eight gangsters are trying to escape from the law. Their boss has a plan which will also satisfy his hatred of the cops who killed his brother. They are going to kidnap a rookie cop and use him to lure a large squad to their hideout, which has been booby-trapped.

"The Twenty-First Century Limited" by Paul Slachta from AMAZING STORIES, December, 1929
To win a postal contract a space pilot must dodge of comet smack in the middle of his route without killing his shipload of passengers.



PULPSTER #28
Now available!


Copies of THE PULPSTER #28 — the annual PulpFest program book — are available for purchase through Mike Chomko, Books, one of the leading purveyors of pulp-related publications in the field.

Echoing the “Children of the Pulps” portion of our PulpFest 2019 theme, THE PULPSTER takes a look at how characters and fictioneers from the pulpwood paper magazines influenced other characters, television, movies, and more that came after them.

Fronting the magazine is art by Rudolph Belarski from the cover for the September 1939 BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE magazine. It illustrates one aspect of how the pulps influenced the creation of the superhero in comics, with a decidedly Batman-looking Black Bat. That leads into the first of our cover stories.

Will Murray recalls how he and Anthony Tollin pieced together how the creators of Batman lifted elements from THE SHADOW MAGAZINE for their Dark Knight. Will also writes about Johnston McCulley, whom he calls the grandfather of the superhero. Meanwhile, D. Kepler looks at how McCulley’s most famous character — Zorro — on the 100th anniversary of his debut, has been portrayed on screens around the world.

Scott Tracy Griffin surveys how Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan begat generations of jungle men, women, and children in popular culture.

Three articles examine the pulp magazines’ influence on movies and television: Aaron H. Oliver writes about the 1960s western/spy TV series THE WILD WILD WEST; Jess Terrell looks at the original STAR WARS trilogy; and Sara Light-Waller details how Japanese anime (animated) and tokusatsu (live-action special effects film) drew from the pulps.

THE PULPSTER also celebrates the 100th anniversaries of two pulp magazines: ROMANCE and THE THRILL BOOK. Doug Ellis writes about how ROMANCE struggled for a year with its name and its place in the adventure field, while Richard Bleiler looks at the ambitious oddity that was THE THRILL BOOK.

Then editor emeritus of THE PULPSTER, Tony Davis, writes about Bertrand Sinclair and his nearly 50-year career in the pulps. And THE PULPSTER reprints a letter from fictioneer G. T. Fleming-Roberts in which he reflects on the influence of Sherlock Holmes on his career.

Of course, this issue has the regular departments: “Final Chapters,” by Davis, which notes those of the pulp community who have passed away during the last year; and columns by publisher Michael Chomko and editor Bill Lampkin. And we would be remiss without noting assistant editor Peter Chomko’s help with this issue.

If you’d like to order a copy of THE PULPSTER #28, please write to Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com or 2217 W. Fairview St., Allentown, PA 18104-6542. The cost of the issue is $13, postage paid in the United States. Buyers from outside the United States should inquire about shipping charges, prior to placing an order.

Back issues of THE PULPSTER are also available through Mike Chomko, Books. A limited number of copies of THE PULPSTER #26 and 27 are available. The cost of each is $13, postage paid. Reduced postage is available on orders for multiple books. These prices are good only in the United States. Buyers from outside the United States should inquire about shipping charges, prior to placing an order. All other issues of THE PULPSTER are out of print.

Please note that all issues of THE PULPSTER — included this year’s number — are in very short supply. Order your copies before they are gone!

Mike will accept payments made via check or money order or through Paypal. Please write to him at mike@pulpfest.com or 2217 W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA 18104-6542 for further instructions.



















IN THE 100th BIRTHDAY YEAR OF ZORRO,
PULP ADVENTURECON WILL BE SPECIAL!



The Pulp Archivist - Now online!

The Last Ancestor
- New!
Leviathan
Giants
The Oklahoma Tradition
Light Novel Recommendations: An Introduction
Quick Reviews: Shadow Heart and A Thousand Li


Pulp Den by Tom Johnson - Now online!

Sunken Treasure Lost Worlds
- New!
Shadow of The Dagger
Welcome To Miskatonic University
Boundless
King Ra Ra: Carrots For Sale
The City Burns At Night
Oklahoma Winds
ASTOUNDING
Haunted Charlottesville


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

Pulpfest 2019 trip report - photos
Walker Martin: Pulpfest 2019 report - August 15-18, 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The dark side of the pulps
Pulp links roundup - July 2019 edition  
Donald Francis McGrew - Author, Journalist  
Elliot W. Chess – Fighter pilot, Author
Link Roundup - May 2019


The Pulp Hermit  by Tom Johnson - Now online!

Introducing New Pulp Author Tom Johnson
A New Artist Comes to ECHOES
Introducing New Pulp Author Ginger Johnson
Betty Dale, Charlotta & Leanne Manners
A Piece of Something Big  
The Pulp.Net  - Now online!


Eleven new episodes of ThePulp.Net's Pulp Event Podcast—
featuring nearly seven-and-a-half hours of programming from PulpFest 2019 — are now online.

You can listen to them on the web at ThePulp.Net’s PulpFest 2019 page,
or on your favorite mobile device by subscribing to the free podcast at the iTunes App Store or Google Play store.



The Pulp.Net



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
Now available!


QUEEN OF THE PULPS, the definitive biography of Daisy Bacon and the untold story of LOVE STORY MAGAZINE!

Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hundreds of thousands of readers each week. The first weekly periodical devoted to romance fiction and the biggest-selling pulp in the early days of the Great Depression, Love Story sparked a wave of imitators that dominated newsstands for more than twenty years.

Disparaged as "love pulp," the magazine actually championed the "modern girl," bringing its heroines out of the shadows of Victorian poverty and into the 20th century. With Love Story'ssuccess, Bacon became a national spokesperson, declaring that the modern woman could have it all-in love, in marriage and in the business world.

Yet Bacon herself struggled to achieve that ideal, especially in her own romantic life, built around a long-term affair with a married man. Drawing on exclusive access to her personal papers, this first-ever biography tells story behind the woman who influenced millions of others to pursue independence in their careers and in their relationships.

Softcover: $39.95



Radio Archives
G-8 and His Battle Aces #12 Audiobook
The Panther Squadron
by Robert J. Hogan

Read by Nick Santa Maria
  Now available!

They called G-8 the Flying Spy. History never recorded his exploits—and for good reason! No one would ever believe World War I was that wild!
 
For days all had been quiet on the enemy front. Then a dying American spy broke through the lines to gasp out a strange message — “Women being tortured... Black Forest... Hear screams every night... Stop them!” Puzzled, G-8 set out to follow this strange clue, never guessing he was hurtling into combat with Germany’s most ghastly staffel — a sky squadron of man-beasts!



If it hadn’t been for a $65.00 check, America’s Master Spy may never have landed in pulp magazines. Working in the fledgling aviation industry of the early 20th Century, Robert J. Hogan found himself basically unemployed after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Aviation, along with many other markets, took a major hit that October and left Hogan desperate to make money. Legend has it that one day Hogan was reading a magazine, one focused on aviation stories, and declared rather excitedly that he could write better than the authors he’d been reading. Soon, he set out to prove that, writing and submitting a story to Wings Magazine, one which the magazine bought. With a $65.00 dollar check in hand, Robert J. Hogan changed jobs and a pulp legend was soon born.
 
Even though G-8 took on monstrous foes and nightmarish conspiracies, Hogan’s experience as a pilot informed the stories as well. Readers found a touch of authenticity in Hogan’s work as well as a loving attention to the experience of flight. This, along with Hogan’s nightmarish imagination, adds to the fascination fans have had for decades with G-8.
 
Nick Santa Maria brings G-8, Nippy and Bull to thrilling life in their desperate struggle to defeat a deadly nemesis unlike anything they have ever before encountered in ‘The Panther Squadron’. Originally published in the September 1934 issue of G-8 and His Battle Aces magazine.
 
Nick DeGregorio composed the music for the G-8 and His Battle Aces series of audiobooks.




    
Discounted 50% the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $9.99

Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs


Radio Archives
The Phantom Detective #3 Audiobook
The Scarlet Menace
by G. Wayman Jones

Read by Milton Bagby
  Now available!

Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages a one-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering his own justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!
 
The Phantom Detective continues his exciting lone campaign against a sinister organization of hooded death dealers who shackle a great city in the clutches of fear and terror. The greatest sleuth of all time is on the trail again! Follow the Phantom Detective on his perilous pursuit of the dread criminals who hold all Zenia City in their thrall! Chapter by chapter, in an ever-rising crescendo of breath-taking thrills, go with him as he works his way through a maze of intrigue and a labyrinth of crime unequalled in the history of the world. Lose yourself in the pulse-stirring experiences of the most ingenious and bravest of all enemies of the underworld!


 
Following The Shadow into pulp magazines as the second ‘pulp hero’ character, The Phantom Detective bore little to no similarity to Street & Smith’s vigilante. Except for both being born of wealth and having been in the Great War, there is little to compare between the two. While The Shadow worked with a team of agents, The Phantom Detective went to great lengths to fight his war against crime alone, keeping his identity secret from all but one and rarely calling on others to help him. Also, The Phantom Detective is quite possibly the only self-made Pulp hero to hit the newsstands, going to great lengths to teach himself all he needed to be the world’s greatest detective and more. Also unlike The Shadow, The Phantom Detective not only had a good relationship with the police, but they called on him for help so often that his trusted friend installed a beacon on top of a building to summon him when law enforcement needed help only The Phantom Detective could give!
 
The Scarlet Menace was originally published in the May 1933 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.


Discounted 50% the first week.
MP3 digital download - $7.99
Audio CDs - $15.99

Regular price:
8 hours - $15.99 Download / $31.98 Audio CDs



Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Phantom Detective #3 eBook
The Scarlet Menace - May 1933

Now available!

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.

The Phantom Detective! The name alone conjures up action and adventure. From the same publisher that brought you The Black Bat, Captain Danger, The Crimson Mask and The Green Ghost came one of pulpdom's best-known detectives. Scourge of the underworld, The Phantom, as he was called, aided the Law with his sweetheart Muriel Havens. His first adventure was published in February 1933 and they continued for 170 thrilling exploits until the Summer 1953 issue. The Phantom Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:
A Full Book-Length Novel
The Scarlet Menace
by D.L. Champion writing as G. Wayman Jones
The Phantom Detective’s exciting lone wolf campaign against a sinister, lawless organization of hooded death dealers who hold a great city in the clutches of fear and terror
 
Bumped Off — Gripping Short Story
by George Allan Moffatt
Grim death lurked in the doorways of Pelton Street.
 
After Midnight — Gripping Short Story
by Preston Grady
Ed Watson’s tense struggle with three killers
 
Ricocheting Bullets — Gripping Short Story
by Arthur J. Burks
Detective Waring, ex-Marine, on a tough murder case
 
The Phantom Speaks — A Department


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


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
G-8 and His Battle Aces #12 eBook
September 1934

Now available!

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.

G-8 and His Battle Aces rode the nostalgia boom ten years after World War I ended. These high-flying exploits were tall tales of a World War that might have been, featuring monster bats, German zombies, wolf-men, harpies, Martians, and even tentacled floating monsters. Most of these monstrosities were the work of Germany’s seemingly endless supply of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8’s recurring Nemesis, Herr Doktor Krueger. G-8 battled Germany’s Halloween shock troops for over a decade, not ceasing until the magazine folded in the middle of World War II. G-8 and His Battle Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:
Introduction to G-8 and His Battle Aces
by Will Murray
 
Smashing Sky War Novel
The Panther Squadron
Told by G-8 To Robert J. Hogan
For days all had been quiet on the enemy front. Then a dying American spy broke through the lines to gasp out a strange message — "Women being tortured... Black Forest... Hear screams every night... Stop them!" Puzzled, G-8 set out to follow this strange clue, never guessing he was hurtling into combat with Germany's most ghastly staffel — a sky squadron of man-beasts!
G-8 Speaks
The club is called to order, gang. Come in and meet some of the fellows!

Cover
painted by Frederick Blakeslee
G-8 jerked out his Colt


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




Recoverings
The Only Dust-jackets Officially Authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD MEN
BACK TO THE STONE AGE
LAND OF TERROR
A special Alternate Timeline Dust-jacket for THE WAR CHIEF

Now available!


The first three jackets are all reconstructed using scans of the original paintings for those covers.
THE WAR CHIEF alternate is based on art by noted western artist Maynard Dixon and you can read more about it here.


Please take a moment to read the four-page article  about the publishing of THE WAR CHIEF and why it meant so much to Ed Burroughs. I think you’ll be interested to find out that the book was one of the most well-researched novels he ever wrote (besides I AM A BARBARIAN), and, considering its point of view and many of the statements about white settlers, the US Army and the reasons for the Apache’s explicit savagery, certainly his most controversial.

RED SONJA #9   - Arriving in comic shops October 2!
(Writer) Mark Russell (Art) Mirko Colak
Cover A: Amanda Conner
Cover B: Joseph Michael Linsner
Cover C: Khoi Pham
Cover D: Michael Walsh
Cover E: Cosplay

War wages on. Sonja The Red and her Hyrkanian army travel to the mysterious Sorcerers of Wigur-Nomadene, in the hope that they will intervene on her behalf. But elsewhere…treason in Sonja's War Council…
By MARK RUSSELL (The Riddler: Year of The Villain, Wonder Twins) and BOB Q (James Bond Origin).

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

     
  
 
 





The Serial Squadron
Coming in September!

CAPTAIN AMERICA
THE MOVIE SERIAL
FEATURING DICK PURCELL
ADRIAN BOOTH and LIONEL ATWILL
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD Upgrade


A remastering of the original Squadron-produced transfer with complete, correct chapter openings, stabilized, and offered in HD with improved sharpness and motion.
Also includes new and upgraded extras.

Watch for information on how to preorder and when the title will ship.





 
The Serial Squadron
Coming in October!

ROCKETMAN IN THE COMICS AND THE MOVIES
Book


The history of Rocketman/Commando Cody in the serials and related characters including Bulletman in the comics. Includes a brand NEW Rocketman story.



THE HOUSE OF HATE
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD


New upgraded transfer of the amazing, massively influential Pearl White mystery serial, with solid leading man Antonio Moreno,
and, introducing The Hooded Terror, most fearsome and deadly of the early serial villains.









The Shadowcast #1 - THE LIVING SHADOW - Now online!

Season 1, Episode 2 - 'THE SHADOW/GREEN HORNET: Dark Nights' - New!
Season 1, Episode 1 - The Living Shadow
In this first episode, we explore the origins of the Dark Avenger with the very first pulp story: THE LIVING SHADOW, and review The Knight of Darkness's first film appearance in the rare 1931




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

Love Traffic by Gaston Lamond
“Murder Mayhem” by Ray Stahl (aka: Bart Carson)
Murder Gets Around by Robert Sidney Bowen
Spider Pete by Claude Stewart
The Finger of Death by Henry Keyworth



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.

July: Geismar and Fiedler-The Science Fiction Connection - New!
July: Hemingway and Lovecraft-Part Two
July: Hemingway and Lovecraft-Part One
C.L. Moore in Traces Magazine  
July: Weird Tales #363
July: Ernest Hemingway, Star Wars, and the Adolescentization of America
July: Edith and Ernest
July: Losses and Gains
 

WEIRD TALES #363 - Now available!

WEIRD TALES HAS RETURNED!
 
A sorcerer on a cliff cuts into his own hand, summoning members of the ancient cult that destroyed his family...
A maid hunts her former employer with a sword, attempting to win a revenge that could save us all...
A doomed man rides a train to his dead father's home to unravel a terrible secret...
A strange box arrives at your door, containing something so bizarre that... well, you'll have to dig in to Weird Tales #363 to see.
 
Weird Tales continues a 95-year commitment to dark fantasy with this illustrated collection of new short fiction from masters of the craft.


Editor: Jonathan Maberry
Cover art by Abigail Larson

Contents
"The Eyrie"
"What Waits in the Trees" by Stephanie Wytovich
"Up from Slavery" by Victor LaValle
"Erasure" by Stephanie Wytovich
"By Post" by Josh Malerman
"A Housekeeper’s Revenge" by Lisa Morton
"A Woman Who Still Knows How to Die" by Stephanie Wytovich
"Due to the Memory of Scars" by Stephanie Wytovich
"The Shadows beneath the Stone" by Jonathan Maberry
"Outside the Shells of Horseshoe Crabs" by Stephanie Wytovich
"I-O-U" by Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Payday" by Hank Schwaeble
"Distant Drums" by Marc Bilgrey
"Amelia Delia Lee" by Tori Eldridge


Full color, 90 pages
Softcover: $12.99
Kindle: $9.99



Weird Tales   Weird Tales: Paperback  Weird Tales: Kindle



WEIRDBOOK #41
Softcover edition now available at Amazon!

Prose
Tonight I Wear My Crimson Face, by Adrian Cole
The House of the Witches, by Darrell Schweitzer
The Bones, by Erica Ruppert
-The Idols of Xan, by Steve Dilks
 Conjurings, by Marlane Quade Cook
Matriarch Unbound, by Glynn Owen Barrass
The Mouth at the Edge of the World, by Luke Walker
"An Autumn Settling", by Alistair Rey
I Know How You'll Die, by K.G. Anderson
Fair Shopping, by Jack Lee Taylor
Black Aggie, by Marina Favila
The Chroma of Home, by Arasibo Campeche
The Last Resort, by Dean MacAllister
The Crypt Beneath the Manse, by S. Subramanian
 A Winter Reunion, by C.M. Muller
 The Stravinsky Code, by Leonard Carpenter
 She Talks to Me, by Matthew Masucci
 Wings of Twilight, by L.F. Falconer
 A Pantheon of Trash, by Thomas C. Mavroudis
 Juliet's Moon, by D.C. Lozar
The Gargoyle's Wife, by Jean Graham
The Melting Man, by Justin Boote
Dead Waves, by Sean McCoy
The Proposal, by J.D. Brink
Dark Energy, by Kevin Hayman
Christmas at Castle Dracula, by S. L. Edwards
There Was Fire, by M. Ravenberg
Them, by Sharon Cullars
For Love of Lythea, by C. I. Kemp

Poetry
Beltane, by K.A. Opperman
Twin Hungers, by Scott J. Couturier
The Jackal, by Ashley Dioses
Our Family Ghost, by Joshua Gage
Le Gargoyle, by Russ Parkhurst"



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







20 September 2019  


70th Michigan Antiquarian Book And Paper Show
Sunday, October 20, 2019
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.


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

Causeway Bay Hotel
6820 South Cedar Street
Lansing, Michigan

 Free Parking!

West of Lowe's Home Improvement


Admission $5
CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER FREE


Adventure House

Adventure House is pleased to announce that Adventure House has acquired a number of the Girasol Collectables reprint files.
They will be releasing on a monthly basis a number of their public domain titles as part of our monthly offerings.

September 2019
GOLDEN FLEECE – 11/38 - Now available!
SAUCY MOVIE TALES – 01/36 - Now available!

August 2019
SPICY MYSTERY STORIES – 07/35  - Now available!
SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES – 01/35  - Now available!

July 2019
Oriental Stories – 12/30-01/31  - Now available!
Spicy Detective Stories – 06/34 - Now available!

June 2019
Strange Tales – 09/31 - Now available!
Magic Carpet Magazine – 04/33 - Now available!

May 2019
Spicy Western Stories – 11/36  
Spicy-Adventure Stories – 12/34

April 2019
Soldiers of Fortune – 10/31
Spicy Mystery Stories – 06/35


Adventure House
Now available!

High Adventure #167

The Strato-Shooters by H. Bedford-JonesPharaoh Figured Wrong The Fifth Freedom The One-Handed Siberian Ice Cave and more.

7x10, 110 pages, $12.95







Age of Aces
Now available!

Through the dark night sky, streaking swiftly with their Hisso engines thundering, is the greatest trio of aces on the Western Front—the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes,” the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! At point was Captain Kirby, impetuous young leader of the great trio; on his right was little Lieutenant “Shorty” Carn, the mild-eyed, corpulent little Mosquito and lanky Lieutenant Travis, eldest and wisest of the Mosquitoes on his left! Flying in a V formation through four exciting hell-bent tales from the pages of Popular Publication’s Battle Aces.

Stories Include: The X-Gun Flight (Jan 32), The Iron Ace (Feb 32), The Flying Dreadnought (Jun 32), The 20-Ace Patrol (Jul 32). All illustrated by John Fleming Gould





Captain Philip Strange is back in eight more weird WWI stories spanning the run of the series in the penultimate volume of this series. A mental marvel from birth, who used his talents on stage as a boy, Philip Strange is now known as “The Phantom Ace of G-2? by the Allies during WWI and the verdamntBrain-Devil by the Boche. Just when you thought there were no more ways to die in war, the Germans come up with some even more gruesome ways! if you’re not just being incinerated by the sun’s ray focused through enormous lenses, you’re being gassed with a horribly disfiguring plague; drowned in a sea of blood or injected with a serum that turns you into a hyped up fighting hellion until you keel over dead; maybe you’ll be lucky and just have your own munitions blow up your entire outfit, or simply have your head chopped off and mounted on some psychotic ace’s wings. Thankfully, we have have Captain Philip Strange on our side to stop them in eight of his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!

Stories Include: The Code of K-14 (Feb 32), The Masked Marauders (Mar 33), The Sky Torch (Apr 33), Marauders Without Mercy (Oct 33), Legion of the Lost (Aug 34), Valley of Vengeance (Jun 35), Fokkers of the Red Fog (Aug 37), Headsman Strafe (Feb 38).


Age of Aces







Airship 27 Productions
BEHOWLS THE MOON
Now available!

Airship 27 Productions takes great pleasure and presenting “Behowls the Moon,” a new historical horror thriller by writer Philip McCormac.

It is 1916 and the winds of rebellion are rising in Ireland as Easter Sunday nears.  Sick of British rule, Irish freedom fighters to strike while England is supposedly pre-occupied with the war in France. Meanwhile in the village of Carrybeg, young Rauri Mac Cathail operates a small creamery with his Uncle Ivor, a decorated veteran of the Boer campaigns in Africa.

Weeks before Easter, Rauri is attacked by a gang of local thugs jealous of his romantic interest with the lovely Aishling O’Hagan and they beat him severely. Left to die in a ditch, Rauri is found by the hunchback orphan, Damian Hughes, and brought to Ina Riley, an old woman with healing skills. What people do not know is that both Ian and Aishling are werewolves and the only way they can save Rauir is to make him a changeling as well.

Says Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor Ron Fortier, “Mixing wild horror fantasy with factual historic events, writer Philip McCormac weaves a tale of drama and passion that is pure pulp magic. This is easily one of the most original manuscripts to ever cross my desk and we think our readers are going to love it.”  Award winning Art Director Rob Davis provides the black and white interior illustrations and the amazing Steve Otis the painted cover.


Available from Amazon and on Kindle.

Airship 27 Productions – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!

 

Altus Press / Steeger Books: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Farewell Altus Press, Hello Steeger Books

Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at Pulpfest 2019
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


Altus Press / Steeger Books
Now available!


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 steegerbooks.com.



The Spider #16: The City Destroyer
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge

Thousands of busy persons bent over their desks in the tallest building in the world—conducting the commerce of the nation—when suddenly the steel girders began to creak and twist, and the gigantic edifice swayed giddily in the rising wind. Never before had criminal brains devised a more cunning or a more horrible weapon to garner their ill-gotten treasures. And never before was the Spider so strenuously put to test—for the Master, the man behind the devastation and death, eluded every suspicion, foresaw every contingency, left no tell-tale clues behind him as he ravaged, slayed and pillaged… Richard Wentworth, working for once hand in hand with the organized forces of law and order, fights the grimmest battle of his long career. Can the Spider avenge the countless dead who have already fallen? Can he bring the Murder Master to the justice he so richly deserves?

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95

Captain Satan #5: The Ambassador From Hell
By William O'Sullivan


Phony guys and phony money, protected by a squadron of killers with hot guns in their hands! These are the men that Satan must fight as he becomes the Ambassador From Hell! The rivers of blood flow swiftly through the Underworld where the law has lost its grip, and Satan alone has the guns and the fists, plus the courage and brains to defeat them!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95


Steeger Books




American Fantasy Press
THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK
New Kickstarter campaign now online!
This project will only be funded if it reaches its goal by Saturday, September 28, 2019


THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK Kickstarter is now online!

We're excited to bring acclaimed artist Hannes Bok's three solo fantasy novels into hardcover for the first time!

Both THE SORCERER'S SHIP and BEYOND THE GOLDEN STAIR were previously published as part of Ballantine Books' Adult Fantasy paperback line. His first novel-length tale: STARSTONE WORLD, is a much shorter and darker piece, which has never been reprinted since it appeared in Science Fiction Quarterly #7, [Summer of 1942], over 75 years ago.

These aren't your conventional fantasies, although all the trappings are there. His novels have a sly humor with plots containing unconventional twists and turns; a strange metaphysical bent; and his artist's talent for glorious description.

THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK's cover art is a never-before-published painting by Bok. A piece which mirrors the masculine, feminine, grotesque and transcendent archetypes which populate the novels within.

We'll be including Ballantine Adult Fantasy editor Lin Carter's introductions to THE SORCERER'S SHIP and BEYOND THE GOLDEN STAIR, plus an all-new introduction detailing the history of THE SORCERER'S SHIP by Bok collector, Professor William Lorenzo. Publisher, Robert T. Garcia will provide an introduction to STARSTONE WORLD. And we've discovered a number of unpublished photos of Bok to add to these intros as well.

Bok's pulp art for THE SORCERER'S SHIP is included, plus two paintings specified by the artist as illustrating that novel: a color reprise of an interior illustration and a color portrait of the creature Yanuk done for a fan.



   

American Mythology Productions 
Coming in January!


CARSON OF VENUS: THE EYE OF AMTOR #1
(Writer) Mike Wolfer & Various (Art) Vincenzo Carratu, Mike Wolfer (Covers) Vincenzo Carratu, Mike Wolfer

In 2020, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. will be launching the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe, an all-new series of interconnected novels by today's top sci-fi writers... And it all begins at American Mythology with a groundbreaking comics prequel series to the first ERB Universe novel, Matt Betts' Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds! In Carson of Venus: Eye of Amtor, stranded Earthman Carson Napier fights against time and the planet Venus itself, tasked with gathering natural artifacts from across wild Amtor before a mad king executes his friends Ero Shan and Nalte. But Carson is not alone, as Princess Duare battles at his side against unearthly creatures and savage landscapes! Then, thrill to the adventures of scientist Jason Gridley and his mysterious protégé Victory Harben in the astounding Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun, a special, three-part, back-up story that launches the epic plotline that will run throughout the novels in the first ERBU "super-arc!" 

Carson of Venus Eye of Amtor #1 is available with three covers - Main by Vincenzo Carratu, Variant by Mike Wolfer, and a limited edition 1 in 350 Pulp cover, also by Carratu.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale January 1.
Full Color, 32 pages, $9.99 (Limited edition), On sale January 1.

CARSON OF VENUS: THE EYE OF AMTOR #1 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191533 (Carratu cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191534 (Wolfer cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191535 (Carratu Limited pulp cover).


American Mythology Productions  
 
American Mythology Productions 
Coming in January!

LADY ZORRO #1
(Writer) Pat Shand (Art) Mike Wolfer (Covers) Mike Wolfer, Larry Watts

Who is Lady Zorro? Like an avenging phantom, Lady Zorro haunts the arid wastes of the southern California desert, defiantly fighting against the tyrannical forces of the Spanish Empire, but how did she come to be a revered, legendary figure in Native American folklore? In an all-new take on the Zorro mythos, we'll learn those answers and more in this special, one-shot tale of supernatural adventure that introduces you to a Lady Zorro we have never before seen! A secret cabal of Spanish Army soldiers who call themselves "The Pródigo" are using stolen, Native American magic to power their reign of terror over the native inhabitants of Alta California, and no one but Lady Zorro stands in their way. But will her incredible, acrobatic and sword skills be enough to stem the slaughter, led by the hideous, transformed Father Serra, who wields dark magic and commands an army of monstrous, demon coyotes? It's an all-new Lady Zorro for an all-new generation of readers!

Lady Zorro #1 is available with three covers - Main Cover by interior artist Mike Wolfer, Swashbuckling Cvr by Larry Watts, and a Deluxe Limited Edition 1/350 Pulp Inspired Cover also by Wolfer!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale January 1.
Full Color, 32 pages, $9.99 (Limited edition), On sale January 1.

LADY ZORRO #1 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191526 (Wolfer cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191527 (Watts cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191528 (Wolfer Limited pulp cover).


American Mythology Productions  

 

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!

THE SHADOW Volume 144: “The Dead Who Lived” & “Crime Over Casco”
The Knight of Darkness resumes his true identity of Kent Allard to crush hidden plots in classic pulp thrillers by Walter B. Gibson writing as Maxwell Grant. First, a plague of sleeping sickness hits New York, and only The Shadow can uncover the secret of the death gas and revive “The Dead Who Lived.” Then, “Crime Over Casco” leads Kent Allard to uncover a Neo-Nazi conspiracy in the quiet Maine coastal islands of Casco Bay! This instant collector’s item showcases both original color covers by George Rozen and Modest Stein and the interior illustrations by Edd Cartier and Charles Coll, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-262-9 Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, $14.95
 

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


Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Coming to online retailers in December!
Coming to comic shops December 26!

THE SHADOW Volume 147: “Trail of Vengeance” & “The Mother Goose Murders”
The Knight of Darkness proves that "crime does not pay" in thrilling pulp novels by Walter B. Gibson. First, the bizarre killing sets a young man on a "Trail of Vengeance," but only The Shadow can unmask the true murderer! Then, a crime code based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes produces gun play instead of child's play. Can The Shadow unravel a web of crime to bring a halt to terror? Plus, "The Nursery Rhyme Murders," a classic Shadow radio mystery by Alfred Bester! Softcover, 7x10, 128 pages, B&W, $14.95

THE SHADOW VOLUME 147 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT192046.

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




Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.
Past episodes:
Award Winning author Gordon Dymowski discusses his work
Dorian Gray: Darker Shades from Wild Hunt Press
"A Good Man Returns" a Jeff Deischer espionage novel
Airship 27 Update with Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
Audible versions of Bobby Nash's "Abraham Snow" Series with Voice actor Stuart Gauffi

Asgard Press
VINTAGE SCI FI 2020 WALL CALENDAR

Now available!

Wall Calendar, 11x15, Full Color   
SRP: $16.95






Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1
Now shipping!

Between 2002 and 2016, Blood ‘n’ Thunder was the premier journal for devotees of adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This award-winning magazine, written by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, eventually expanded its readership to include casual fans of vintage storytelling mediums: pulp fiction, motion pictures, Old Time Radio drama, and so on. BnT, moribund for three years, has now returned in a new format but with the same excellence of writing and research. The articles and essays are scholarly without being dry or academic in nature; no publish-or-perish tedium here.

This revival issue covers a variety of subjects, all related to pulp fiction. David Kalb documents the history of the long-lost 1941-42 radio series featuring Street & Smith’s Avenger; he compares recently uncovered scripts to the novels from which they are adapted. David Saunders, whose father Norman was among the most prolific painters of lurid pulp covers, profiles the forgotten publisher J. Thomas Wood. Novelist and pop-culture historian Will Murray weighs in on pulp pulchritude—an appreciation of artists whose covers sported alluring women. Indefatigable researcher Rick Lai offers a detailed chronology of the Jimgrim saga, a multi-novel series penned by pulp-fiction giant Talbot Mundy. Blood ‘n’ Thunder editor Ed Hulse celebrates the Zorro centennial (he first appeared in a 1919 issue of the legendary All-Story Weekly) with a behind-the-scenes account of the making of Douglas Fairbanks’ 1920 swashbuckling hit The Mark of Zorro. Ed also documents the making of Hawk of the Wilderness, a 1938 cliffhanger serial adapted from the popular imitation-Tarzan novels that appeared in the venerable pulp Blue Book.


#1, Second Series
Cover Art by Lyman Anderson
92 pages, paperback, 7x10
Price: $9.95


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO U.S. BUYERS. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.

Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press


Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction
Permanent Price Reduction for “Forgotten Classics” 10-book set
Now available!

You may order at the Books section or click on the images below to order!

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.



Now available!
Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction” Complete Set

Permanent Price Reduction for “Forgotten Classics” 10-book set
These books are also available individually.



 

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

The BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER Revival Will Continue!

Permanent Price Reduction for “Forgotten Classics” 10-book set
PulpFest 2019 Report
My Incredibly Busy April, #2: The Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention
Slight Delay in Our Release of the “Forgotten Classics” Collection


Bold Venture Press



Bold Venture Press
Pulp Adventures #32
Now available!

CLASSIC PULP FICTION
The Death Dancer | Charles Boeckman  3
The “Atomic Goddess of Beauty” sees a strange case of murder explode!
Roman Holiday | Talbot Mundy  28
A tale of Christians and Romans — and Lions — in the reign of mad Caligula!
The Pigtail of Hi Wing Ho | Sax Rohmer  119
Mystery in Chinatown ...

NEW PULP FICTION
The Mystery of Island X! | Bobby Nash  15
Lance Starr and his scrappy crew investigate mysterious goings-on on an island — only to discover the island IS the mystery!
The Spawn of Lilthu | William M. Hope  51
The “Welcome” mat was Thurl’s invitation to a hellish fate.
The Wicked Big ‘Monstah Ovah Bawstin’ | David Bernard  63
An FBI agent generates buzz with his biggest case.
Time and Tide | Adam Beau McFarlane  75
The Black Island Tavern plays host to a sailor like no other.
Stranded At Saturn | Jack Halliday  79
He dreamt of reaching the stars … until he crash-landed …
A Snitch in Time | Robert W. Walker  83
First-class seats for murder …


Format: Softcover
Pages: 132
Dimensions: 7" x 10"

$12.95



Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!

Pulp Consumption: Tough 2 (Crime Stories)
Pulp Appeal: Penny Dreadful
Pulp Appeal: Storyhack #3
Issue 10 is Live!
Pulp Appeal: From The Vaults of Imagination: The Forgotten Short Stories of Clark Ashton Smith (Guest Post by Joshua Grasso)
Pulp Appeal: Pulp Modern Summer 2019
Pulp Appeal: Moon Knight: From the Dead
Issue 9 is here!


THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #84 is now available and recommended!
 
Front Cover: Bob larkin
"Scattered Covers" by Chuck Welch
"A Bob Larkin Retrospective" by Courtney Rogers
"The Doc Savage Comics Guide" by Philip Schweier
"The Savage Society of Bronze Remembered" by Jennifer DiGiacomo
"The Cover That Could Have been" by
Julián Puga
"The Power of Gold" by Dafyyd Neal Dyar
"The True Origin of Capt. Gideon Argo" by Tony Simmons

"Fifty Years later" by Will Murray
Back Cover: Alvaro Fernandois

Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
You can order available single issues at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/back-issues/


Subscribe for 2019 (Issues 84 and 85) at: http://www.bronzegazette.com/subscribe/

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Coming soon!
Dare Devlin: Stormbirds
by Dafyyd Neal Dyar


 The Bronze Gazette  
   

CAPTAIN FUTURE RETURNS!
Coming in November!


Allen Steele has announced that he will soon be continuing the adventures of Captain Future.

From Allen Steele's announcement:

This fall Experimenter Publishing, the publisher of AMAZING STORIES, will be launching EDMOND HAMILTON'S CAPTAIN FUTURE as a paperback/ebook series called "Amazing Stories Selects." The first issue, scheduled for release in November, will feature "Captain Future in Love", the long novella that ran as a two-part serial in AMAZING last year; it will also include an essay about the history of Captain Future and how and why I reinvented this classic SF character. This will kick off a four-part story cycle, "The Return of Ul Quorn", that will run for the next three issues; the second installment, "The Guns of Pluto", is now being written, and we're aiming to publish it early next year.

As I've said a couple of years ago when my first CF novel, AVENGERS OF THE MOON, was published by Tor, although my take on the character is derived from Edmond Hamilton's novels of the 1940's, this ain't your grandpa's Captain Future. Authorized by the Hamilton estate, this is an updated and revised version of the original pulp series. For example, feast your eyes on Curt Newton's ship, the "Comet II". Rob Caswell, the illustrator, and I put a lot of time and thought into designing a plausible new version of this classic ship ... and this is just a preview of things to come.

As things come together, AMAZING and I will release more info about EHCF, including where and how to purchase single issues and subscriptions.
If you're a fan of high adventure and space opera in the grand tradition, we think you'll like this. Stay tuned.



Experimenter Publishing   Allen Steele



Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Sensor Sweep: U.K Modules, Chernobyl game, Max Brand
- New!
Sensor Sweep: Tolkien’s Letters, Taghri’s Prize, Kardios of Atlantis
Sensuous Science Fiction
Sensor Sweep: Starbase, Scarlet Citadel, Baldur’s Gate
Sensor Sweep: Richard L. Tierney, Diana Gabaldon, Jirel of Joiry, Stan Lee
Joseph Payne Brennan back in print!





CONAN THE BARBARIAN
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #12 - Coming in December!
Jason Aaron  (Writer)
Mahmud Asrar
  (Art)
Esad Ribic (Cover)
Ron Garney
(Variant Cover)

THE EPIC CONCLUSION OF THE LIFE & DEATH OF CONAN!

* RAZAZEL has risen!
* CONAN has fallen!
* CROM may not care, but you CANNOT miss this issue!
* Plus: The final chapter of the all-new novella "BLACK STARLIGHT."THE EPIC CONCLUSION OF THE LIFE & DEATH OF CONAN!

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

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #12 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191062.



 
 
TRUE BELIEVERS: SUPERNATURAL THRILLERS #3 - CONAN: SERPENT WAR #0 - Coming in December!
Roy Thomas & Gerry Conway (Writers)
Gil Kane & Ernie Chan (Art)

Gil Kane (Cover)


Witness one of James Allison’s past lives in this adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s classic!
Reprinting Supernatural Thrillers (1973) #3


Full Color, 32 pages, $1.00, On sale December 4.

CONAN: SERPENT WAR #1 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT190902.



CONAN: SERPENT WAR #1 - Coming in December!
Jim Zub (Writer)
Scot Eaton (Art)

Carlos Pacheco (Cover)

Neal Adams (Variant Cover)

JAMES ALLISON will soon die. But it’s not his first death. He’s lived many lives, in many places – lives he can recall in vivid detail. But when an Elder God called the WYRM reaches across time to James, an ages-spanning quest begins! The serpent god SET plans to usher in an eternity of darkness, and only the chosen warriors across time and space have a hope of stopping him: CONAN THE BARBARIAN, SOLOMON KANE, DARK AGNES, and the man known as MOON KNIGHT! In an unprecedented comics event, Robert E. Howard’s characters join forces along with Marvel’s Moon Knight, in an all-new saga built on REH and Marvel lore from across the ages!


In an unprecedented comics event, Robert E. Howard's characters join forces along with Marvel's Moon Knight, in an all-new saga built on REH and Marvel lore from across the ages!

Full Color, 40 pages, $4.99, On sale December 4.

CONAN: SERPENT WAR #1 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT190892.




CONAN: SERPENT WAR #2 - Coming in December!
Jim Zub (Writer)
Stephen Segovia (Art)

Carlos Pacheco (Cover)

Luke Ross (Variant Cover)

JAMES ALLISON will soon die. But it's not his first death. He's lived many lives, in many places - lives he can recall in vivid detail. But when an Elder God called the WYRM reaches across time to James, an ages-spanning quest begins! The serpent god SET plans to usher in an eternity of darkness, and only the chosen warriors across time and space have a hope of stopping him: CONAN THE BARBARIAN, SOLOMON KANE, DARK AGNES, and the man known as MOON KNIGHT!


In an unprecedented comics event, Robert E. Howard's characters join forces along with Marvel's Moon Knight, in an all-new saga built on REH and Marvel lore from across the ages!


Full Color, 40 pages, $4.99, On sale December 18.

CONAN: SERPENT WAR #2 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT190898.




THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #12 - Coming in December!
Frank Tieri (Writer)
Andrea Di Vito (Art)

Dave Wilkens (Cover)
Patch Zircher (Variant Cover)

A DEMON IN ARGOS!

* After witnessing a heinous crime, CONAN hunts down a mysterious demonic sect.
* But whatever his intentions, Conan may well doom the nation if he doesn't solve the mystery in time!
* An epic quest across the Kothian Hills and a surprise twist!
* Plus: The concluding chapter of the all-new novella "THE SHADOW OF VENGEANCE."


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

THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #12 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191064.



AGE OF CONAN: VALERIA #5 (of 5) - Coming in December!
Meredith Finch (Writer)
Aneke (Art)
Jay Anacleto (Cover)

THE DEADLY TRUTH REVEALED!

* At last - the final showdown between Valeria and her quarry!
* But as VALERIA confronts the shocking revelations of her brother's death, what will this mean for her, and for the Knights of Mitra?
* All your questions will be answered!
Plus: The final chapter of the all-new novella "THE FALL OF THOTH-AMON."


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

AGE OF CONAN: VALERIA #5 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191066.





SAVAGE AVENGERS #8 (Featuring Conan)  - Coming in December!
Gerry Duggan (Writer) • Patch Zircher (Art)
Cover by Valerio Giangiordano

Conan hates wizards, but this holiday he has to deal with both Dr. Strange & Dr. Doom. Ho-ho-holy $@#%!
Can these three set aside their differences to deal with Kulan Gath, the name on the top of their naughty list?


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

SAVAGE AVENGERS #8 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191021.



CONAN: THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON TPB - Coming in January!
Written by ROY THOMAS
Penciled by GIL KANE & JOHN BUSCEMA
Cover by GIL KANE

Presenting Marvel's epic adaptation of Robert E. Howard's sole Conan novel, The Hour of the Dragon, plus its amazing comic book sequels! The evil Xaltotun has returned from the dark ages of Acheron to depose Conan, King of Aquilonia. But while the world thinks him dead, Conan battles his way from dungeon to tower and mounts an all-out war -- for upon usurpers, Conan must mete out a savage vengeance! In the process, he encounters Zenobia, the stunning slave woman who will become a key figure in his future. Classic creators Roy Thomas, Gil Kane and John Buscema bring the gripping story of palace intrigue and eldritch horrors to life -- and for the first time ever, the complete saga is presented in full color!

Collecting GIANT-SIZE CONAN #1-4, SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN (1974) #8 (E STORY) and #10 and CONAN ANNUAL #4-5.


Trade paperback, Full Color, 288 pages, $34.99, On sale January 1.

CONAN: THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT19.



SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: CONAN THE GAMBLER TPB - Coming in January!
Written by Meredith Finch, Jim Zub & Roy Thomas
Penciled by Luke Ross, Patch Zircher & Alan Davis
Cover by Marco Checcetto


More foes fall before the savage sword of Conan! A past wrong comes back to haunt Conan in a tale of revenge! Stripped of his weapons, his strength and even his wits, the Cimmerian must dig deep if he wants to live to see the dawn! Then, a violent encounter in Shadizar puts young Conan in the hot seat in a deadly game of Serpent's Bluff! Now, he must navigate the seedy underworld of "civilized" gambling. But when the chips are down, he'll play his best hand -- the one holding good Brythunian steel! Plus: Legendary creators Roy Thomas and Alan Davis spin an unforgettable tale as Conan leads a mysterious band of adventurers into the Himelian Mountains in search of a lost comrade. But Conan may get more than he bargained for when the startling truth behind the quest is uncovered! Collecting SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN (2019) #6-11.

Trade paperback, Full Color, 135 pages, $19.99, On sale January 15.

SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: CONAN THE GAMBLER is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT19.



CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: THE BATTLE OF SHAMLA PASS TPB - Coming in January!
Written by Timothy Truman & Benjamin Truman
Penciled by Tomas Giorello, Joe Kubert, Paul Lee & Timothy Truman
Cover by Joseph Michael Linsner


Conan leaves his trials behind for a new life -- as a mercenary! Presenting all-action adaptations of classic Robert E. Howard tales, plus original adventures of everyone's favorite barbarian! Howard's “Black Colossus� sees Conan face his bloodiest battle yet, when the mercenaries of Amalric clash with the demonic hordes of Natohk! Then, Conan becomes the leader of Princess Yasmela's Khorajan army! But another princess wants Conan for herself -- the immortal and vampiric Akivasha! The Cimmerian spends a tumultuous time fighting and looting with the Kozaki, a wild group of fellow mercenaries also known as the Free Companions! Plus, Conan faces pirate politics and a centuries-old mystery in an adaptation of Howard's Iron Shadows in the Moon! Collecting CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #8-25.

Trade paperback, Full Color, 472 pages, $44.99, On sale January 1.

CONAN CHRONICLES: THE BATTLE OF SHAMLA PASS is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191136.






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


ZORRO Pulp Illustrations (Part 4)
- New!
Pulp Gallery: SPORTS ACTION - New!
Still More Westerns You MAY Have Missed (1927)   - New!
TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 11 (1951) - New!
Forgotten Stories: THEIR GUARDIAN FROM HELL by Norbert Davis (1937)

Cliffhanger Serial Posters: THE FLAME FIGHTER (1925)
Alex Toth's ZORRO and the "Ghost of the Mission" Part 2 (1958)
Alex Toth's ZORRO and the "Ghost of the Mission" Part 1 (1958)
Pulp Gallery: BATTLE STORIES
Still More Movie Posters of 1927
TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 10 (1951)

DEJAH THORIS #1 - Coming in December!
(Writer) Dan Abnett (Art) Vasco Georgiev
Cover A: Lucio Parrillo
Cover B: Joseph Michael Linsner
Cover C: Adam Hughes
Cover D: Billy Tucci
Cover E: Cosplay

"Barsoom has always been a dying world. Closer to death these days, perhaps."

From DAN ABNETT (Guardians Of The Galaxy, Justice League Odyssey) and rising star VASCO GEORGIEV comes an all-new vision of the Princess Of Mars! Dejah has been many things: Wife, mother, royalty. But now, she is a determined scientist, dedicated to discovering why her world is freezing, and which political factions know the secret of this global catastrophe? Experience glittering palace intrigue and visceral adventure in the new ongoing adventures of DEJAH THORIS!


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

DEJAH THORIS #1 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191191 (Parrillo cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191192 (Linsner cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191193 (Hughes cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191194 (Tucci cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191195 (Cosplay cover).

    
     
        
        



DEJAH THORIS: DEJAH RISING TPB - Coming in December!
(Writer) Amy Chu (Art) Pasquale Qualano (Cover) J. Scott Campbell

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


Trade paperback, 6. 7x 10.2, 120 pages, Full Color, $19.99, On sale December 11.

DEJAH THORIS: DEJAH RISING TPB is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191220.



The Digest Enthusiast #10
 Now available!


The tenth edition of The Digest Enthusiast is now available in print and digital on amazon.com featuring an interview with James Reasoner covering his stories for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine; PIs Cody, Delaney, and Markham; his Redemption series, the Wind River series with L.J. Washburn; and much more.


Interviews
Author, editor, and publisher James Reasoner delves into his stories for Mike Shayne; PIs Cody, Delaney, and Markham; his Redemption series, the Wind River series with L.J. Washburn; and much more.

Articles
Ward Smith remembers Armed Services Editions—digests that are not digests
Peter Enfantino tackles Startling Mystery Stories No. 1–18, and a keen assessment of Manhunt 1954 July–Oct
Vince Nowell, Sr. dissects Sol Cohen’s tactics to save Amazing Stories
Richard Krauss examines Charlie Chan’s media empire, with special emphasis on Renown Publications’ digest magazine
Steve Carper reports on the one, the only, Bronze Books and trailblazers Luke Roberts and Jesse Lee Carter
Tom Brinkmann exposes The Creature from the Black Lagoon with The Seven Year Itch.Fiction

Fiction
Robert Snashall and Joe Wehrle, Jr., with art by Carolyn Cosgriff

Also includes
News updates from the newsstand giants and the digital darlings of today’s genre fiction digests, straight from their editors and publishers
In-depth reviews of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2019 and Broadswords & Blasters No. 9
Plus over 100 digest magazine cover images, cartoons by Bob Vojtko, art by Brian Buniak, a poem by Clark Dissmeyer, first issue factoids, and more.

Includes over 100 digest magazine cover images
160 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest

Print version, $8.99
Kindle version, $2.99


    



The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Detective No. 3 - New!
Nostalgia Digest Autumn 2019 -
Mystery Weekly Magazine Sept. 2019
Amazing Stories Fall 2019
Weird Menace Vol. 2
Weird Menace Vol. 1
Western Magazine No. 2  
Paperback Parade No. 104



DMR Books
HEROES OF ATLANTIS AND LEMURIA
By Manly Wade Wellman & Leigh Bracket

Now available!



In the late ‘70s legendary pulp fictioneer Manly Wade Wellman created a fantasy hero named Kardios, who was the last survivor of Atlantis. The five tales of Kardios Wellman penned appeared in anthologies such as Swords Against Darkness and Heroic Fantasy, which are long out of print. For decades sword and sorcery fans have clamored for all five stories to be reprinted in a single collection, but their cries fell on deaf ears.

We at DMR Books have heard your call! Just as we brought collections by Weird Tales writers Nictzin Dyalhis and Clifford Ball into paperback for the first time, we will do what has never been done before and present to you a Kardios collection!

Even better, the collection, which is entitled Heroes of Atlantis & Lemuria, will contain more than just Kardios stories. All three of Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.’s sword and sorcery stories set in Lemuria will be included as well. These Lemurian adventures have never been collected before, either. If that’s not enough, we’ll top it off with a hard to find Leigh Brackett story set in Mu!

Heroes of Atlantis & Lemuria will be available mid-September. That’s just a few short weeks away, so keep an eye out for it. It will be published in trade paperback and digital formats.

Table of Contents
Straggler From Atlantis by Manly Wade Wellman
The Dweller in the Temple by Manly Wade Wellman
The Guest of Dzinganji by Manly Wade Wellman
The Seeker in the Fortress by Manly Wade Wellman
The Edge of the World by Manly Wade Wellman
Adventure in Lemuria by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Intrigue in Lemuria by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Volcano Slaves of Mu by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Lord of the Earthquake by Leigh Brackett





DMR Books Blog - Now online!

Mundy Monday: The Purple Pirate
- New!
The DMRtian Chronicles, 9/15/2019 - New!
Michael Tierney - The DMR Interview Part Two
To Dree, Or Not To Dree?
The Norse Sagas of Poul Anderson: Hrolf Kraki's Saga and "The Tale of Hauk"

The Norse Sagas of Poul Anderson: The Broken Sword
The DMRtian Chronicles, 9/8/2019

Dover Books
Joseph Payne Brennan
New titles available!


Acclaimed by Stephen King as "a master of the unashamed horror tale," Joseph Payne Brennan wrote hundreds of tales of terror, suspense, and fantasy. Collectors and fans will delight in this inexpensive reissue of Brennan's hard-to-find classic, Nine Horrors and a Dream. This collection, originally published by Arkham House in 1958, features stories published by Weird Tales and other pulp magazines of the 1950s — including the much-anthologized "Slime," which inspired the ever-popular thriller The Blob.

Less familiar but equally gripping tales include "Levitation," in which a carnival-goer has an unfortunate encounter with a hypnotist; "The Calamander Chest," the story of a low-priced antique that turns out to be no bargain; "Death in Peru," involving a lethal curse; the darkly humorous "On the Elevator"; and "The Green Parrot," which recounts a Good Samaritan's bad timing. Other selections include "Canavan's Back Yard," featuring a property with a gruesome history; "I'm Murdering Mr. Massington," which tells of a bizarre grasp at immortality; "The Hunt," a playfully creepy yarn about an obsessive chase; and "The Mail for Juniper Hill," in which a tipsy but determined postman refuses to let anything — even death — keep him from his appointed rounds.


Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0486834191
Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 7.8 inches
$9.95

The Shapes of Midnight

"Joseph Payne Brennan is one of the most effective writers in the horror genre, and he is certainly one of the writers I have patterned my own career upon," declared Stephen King. "In fact," he added, "The Shapes of Midnight could serve as an exercise-book for the young writer who aspires to pen and publish his or her own weird tales."

A poet as well as a writer of horror fiction, Brennan worked at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library as an acquisitions assistant for over 40 years. He wrote hundreds of stories for Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. This new edition of his increasingly rare compilation, The Shapes of Midnight, presents 10 of his best stories.

Selections include "Diary of a Werewolf," a first-person account of bloody sprees; "The Corpse of Charlie Rull," recounting the rampage of a radioactive zombie; "The Pavilion," which unfolds at an abandoned seaside haunt with something ghastly beneath its pilings; "House of Memory," a wistful look at the past's imaginative grip; "The Willow Platform," featuring the machinations of a self-styled warlock; and other chillingly memorable tales.


Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications
Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 7.9 inches
$12.56


Nine Horrors and a Dream    The Shapes of Midnight



Edgar Rice Burroughs Books
A PRINCESS OF MARS by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Deluxe Manuscript Edition!

Now available for pre-order!

Shipping November - December 2019!

The Deluxe Manuscript Edition of A Princess of Mars is the fifth title in the ERB Limited Edition Collection.
The set is published by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.  and includes an leather bound book in dust jacket, manuscript portfolio, handcrafted dip pen and Dejah Thoris medallion all housed in a 7”x10” custom decorated case. 
We think this will be the most elaborate and unique edition of A Princess of Mars ever published.

Each set features:

•  A Leather Bound Book limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artists and contributors with a corrected text, new foreword and preface.
•  20 Color Plates featuring the original (5) color Schoonover paintings and works by Frazetta, Abbett, Whelan, Manchess, Miller and including..
    (4-6) New Paintings commissioned for this edition (Artists like Iain McCaig, Dave Dorman, Thomas Gianni, Tom Grindberg, Doug Klauba and others.)
•  A Custom Case covered in Cialux cloth, with spine titling and decorations debossed in gold and 1st edition dust jacket illustration inlaid on the lid.
•  ERB Manuscript Portfolio (1911-1912) for 'Under the Moons of Mars" containing replica manuscript pages, editor letters, the Munsey check to ERB for UMM, and first publication pulp cover and pages.
•  Manuscript Pen (1911-1912)- replica of the dip pen used by ERB to write the holographic manuscript for Under the Moons of Mars.
•  2" Dejah Thoris Medallion - 3D portrait design in antique silver accented in gold, numbered to match the book and inserted inside the custom case.
•  New Dust Jacket artwork and color Barsoom Map endpapers.
•  30+ Black and White Illustrations by Tom Yeates and others…

In addition:
•  The Deluxe Manuscript Edition of A Princess of Mars does not include a Grosset & Dunlap printing since the ERB Limited Edition Collection only publishes titles in G&D that have not previously been available.
    So far that includes 1st G&D printings of Back to the Stone Age, Land of Terror, Savage Pellucidar and John Carter of Mars.
•   The text has been proofed by Frank Puncer and reset with corrections for this new edition. (One notable mistake was discovered in the 1st edition text that has been carried over to every later edition.)
•  The decorated box, dust jacket, book cover and title and chapter page designs are by Zavier Cabarga with the book bound in brown Cromwell leather with red/orange stamping
    in a style reminiscent of the first edition published by A. C. McClurg.
•  The custom case features a drop spine and houses the book, manuscript portfolio and a die cut tray for the medallion and pen.
•  This vintage-style document portfolio is a 6”x9” gusseted custom envelope made of heavy kraft paper and secured by a button and string.
    We have taken great care to source antique and vintage papers to match the original pages or documents.
•  The first publication pulp cover and pages are from the Feb. 1912 All-Story Magazine and include two-sided replicas of the color cover, contents page and first story page.
•  The handmade Italian wooden/pewter pen comes with an original 100 year-old Esterbrook 788 Oval gold-plated nib and is mounted in a base tray with the Dejah Thoris medallion.
•  Limited: 500 numbered copies signed by the contributors and artists, in slipcase





Now available!
Red Nails

Conan, mercenary praising his sword to the highest bidder, lands in the Darfar region, whose territory is almost entirely covered by a huge forest. Alongside the fierce warrior Valeria and after a clash against a terrible dragon, the Cimmerian then goes to a strange fortified city, apparently deserted. But the duo will quickly discover that a civilization lives hidden inside, and that the citadel seems to hide a heavy secret ...

The Red Nails is probably, along with Beyond the Black River , one of Conan's most beloved and sophisticated news stories. Howard affirms his style, persisting in his mistrust of modern civilizations, consumed by passivity, laxity and cruelty. Régis Hautière, Olivier Vatine and Didier Cassegrain give substance to this stifling camera in a splendid album in direct colors.


Language: French
Scriptwriter: Régis Hautière
Designer: Olivier Vatine & Didier Cassegrain

Color: Didier Cassegrain
Full Color
Size: 240 x 320 mm
72 pages
Shaping: Hardcover
Price: 14.95 €




Haffner Press
THE COMPLETE JOHN THE BALLADEER
By Manly Wade Wellman
Complete in two volumes!

Now available for pre-order!


Status Update
We're getting closer on completing the definitive collection of ALL (19 stories and 5 novels!) of the tales of Manly Wade Wellman's most popular character, John the Balladeer. As you can see, illustrator Raymond Swanland has delivered two masterpiece covers, and Stephen Jones has delivered his introduction. That's the good news. The bad news is that we're not going to be able to launch the book as planned at this year's World Fantasy Convention. But we feel the wait will be worth it. And remember, if you preorder The Complete John the Balladeer, you will receive the exclusive chapbook, Not All a Dream. This 32-page chapbook is Wellman's contribution to the unpublished anthology, The Last Dangerous Visions.

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.


 

Haffner Press
THE VAMPIRE STORIES OF ROBERT BLOCH
By Robert Bloch, Edited by Stephen Haffner, Illustrated by Gahan Wilson
Now available for pre-order!
Expected in time for Halloween!


Status Update
The Vampire Stories of Robert Bloch was staged to be at the printer—Thomson Shore in Dexter, Michigan—this summer. Tragically, Thomson-Shore declared bankruptcy in March and their assets were sold outright in May. This left more than a few presses, including us, scrambling to find replacement printers. Haffner Press was especially challenged as our books are case-bound and smythe-sewn. In recent years, most printers have invested heavily in short-run print-on-demand technology. While many book-printers offer smythe-sewn services, fewer than ever offer both smythe-sewing AND hardcover case-binding. (FYI, in 2006-2008, we did have some titles sewn by the printer and then cased by a third-party bindery, but we found this added unnecessary time and expense.) Happily, we can report that we are aligned with a printer who can do the entire job in-house and we hope to have this title ready for Hallowe'en.

In the meantime, here's notice that there will be THREE states of The Vampire Stories of Robert Bloch!
1.  $50 trade hardcover (currently available as a $45 preorder)
2.  $175 slipcased edition limited to 100 copies signed by Gahan Wilson, Paul Winters, Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Stephen Haffner with an exclusive chapbook, Dracula Country.
3.  Price TBD for a 26-copy lettered edition with special black embossed covers, signed by all contributors, the Dracula Country chapbook, and a Robert Bloch autograph laid in


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

500+ page Smythe-sewn Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-893887-90-9

Pre-order price: $45.00

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






Haffner Press
DESIGNS FOR DREAMING:
The Early Kuttner, Volume Three

Introduction by Dr. Garyn G. Roberts

Now available for pre-order!
Target Date: April 2020!


Exclusive Chapbook with all pre-orders!

All preorders of DESIGNS FOR DREAMING will ship with an exclusive chapbook reprinting the long-lost 1938 terror-tale, MASTER OF THE DAMNED!

Submitted by Kuttner on January 6, 1937, the 3500-word terror-tale "Master of the Damned" was serialized in three issues (July 1937, Vol. 1 No. 2, Winter 1937 Vol. 1 No. 3, and November 1938 Vol. 1 No. 4) of John Weir's hectographed fanzine Fantasmagoria. The story involves witches, warlocks and . . . well, here's Mr. Kuttner's chilling prose to give you a sample:   

Incubi and succubi leaped and cried beside shrieking hags. Warlocks bestrode yelling mooncalves that cavorted through the throng, and demons and familiars mingled with the coven. A monstrous, bloated head, leering and chuckling, crawled past on spidery legs, and in its wake crept a thing like a monstrous turtle, save that human hands and feet propelled the creature on its way. Curiously deformed toads and serpents squirmed underfoot, and great cats, monstrously altered, capered in the wake of their masters. I saw a headless thing, with a grinning face growing on its belly, rush up to the altar, carrying a tall black candle, and light it from the red flame that sprang, apparently, from the ground itself before the altar.
YIKES! And there are 3,380 more words to the story!! Speaking of which, how can you get a copy of "Master of the Damned"? Well, if you've placed a preorder for Designs for Dreaming: The Early Kuttner, Volume Three, then you're already in line to receive it! You read that correctly: "Master of the Damned" is available as an exclusive chapbook shipping with all preordered copies of Designs for Dreaming at no extra charge! So, get on board, smash that Preorder link, and make your Kuttner book kollection something that everyone will krave!


Before his marriage to (and subsequent collaborations with) Catherine L. Moore, Henry Kuttner was a frequent contributor to the pulp magazines that specialized in the weird, supernatural, horror, and science fiction genre. Beginning in 1936, Kuttner launched a steady stream of short stories aimed at Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Thrilling Mystery, and others.

Kuttner and Moore were married on June 7, 1940 in New York with artist Virgil Finlay as Best Man. With NYC as his base of operations, Kuttner interfaced on a frequent basis with the major local genre editors: Leo Margulies at Standard Magazines (Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Strange Stories,), Alden H. Norton at Popular Publications (Astonishing Stories, Strange Detective Mysteries) and perhaps most importantly, John W. Campbell, Jr. at Street & Smith Publications (Unknown / Unknown Worlds). Campbell’s Astounding Science Fiction will loom large in Kuttner’s career for the next decade.

In DESIGNS FOR DREAMING (the third and final volume of “The Early Kuttner”) Kuttner sells the last of his stories to the weird-menace pulps, places some SF stories with lesser markets (Stirring Science Stories and Fantastic Adventures), and delivers some of his finest fantasy work in Unknown Worlds. By the summer of 1942, Kuttner’s Draft Status was reclassified as 1-A. By April 13, 1943, Pfc Henry Kuttner had orders to report to Fort Dix, New Jersey. The early phase of Kuttner’s career was over.


Cover art by Robert Gibson-Jones
700+ pages
Smythe-sewn binding
Full cloth-covered binding boards

Pre-order: $45.00

Harryhausen: The Lost Movies - Now available!
by John Walsh 


The official guide to the unrealised films of Ray Harryhausen.

Known for his iconic stop-motion creatures, Ray Harryhausen was at the forefront of Hollywood special effects for much of the 20th century. His films include One Million Years B.C., Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts, among others. But for every film that reaches the big screen, half a dozen projects are never realised.

Harryhausen: The Lost Movies explores Harryhausen's unrealised films, including unused ideas, projects he turned down and scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor. This book includes never-been-seen-before artwork, sketches, photos and test footage from the Harryhausen Foundation archives.


Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.3 inches
List price: $39.95



Hermes Press: JOHNNY HAZARD SUNDAY ARCHIVE: 1944-1946 FULL SIZE TABLOID HC - Coming in December!
(Writer/Art/Cover) Frank Robbins

For a decade has been reprinting the daily version of Frank Robbins' masterpiece, Johnny Hazard. Now, after scouring collections all over the world for a set of the color tabloid Sundays, Hermes Press will produce an archival, full size reprint of these exciting Sunday stories. Believed by many to be in the same league as the best Sundays of the period, these stories read like a motion picture from the era and feature characters that are truly classics.  This special limited edition has the look, feel and size of the original Sundays and is accompanied by historical material, essays, and original artwork.

Hardcover, 11x14, 288 pages, Full Color, $75.00


JOHNNY HAZARD SUNDAYS ARCHIVE 1944-1946 FULL SIZE TABLOID HC is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191938.

THIS IS A RESOLICITATION. PREVIOUS ORDERS ARE CANCELLED.



Hermes Press: THE PHANTOM: THE ART OF THE GHOST WHO WALKS - Coming in December!
(Writer) Daniel Herman (Art) Ray Moore & Various

To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first masked hero of the comics, The Phantom, Hermes Press presents the first definitive survey of all of the major artists whose work brought the character and the comic strips and comic books to life. Prefaced by a definitive essay, which chronicles the birth of the feature, this book offers rarely seen early original artwork by Ray Moore and Wilson McCoy. This deluxe art book additionally offers chapters on the artists who have worked on the strip from its beginning in 1936 to the present with numerous examples of original artwork, specialty pieces, and unpublished artwork. The Art of the Phantom also covers artists from all over the world who have worked on feature including Australia, Italy, and Scandinavia.

Hardcover, 9x12, 240 pages, Full Color, $65.00


PHANTOM ART OF GHOST WHO WALKS HC  is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191939.

THIS IS A RESOLICITATION. PREVIOUS ORDERS ARE CANCELLED.





The Illustrated Press
ALLEN ANDERSON

Now available fror pre-order!
Scheduled to ship in October!

Standard Edition
This is the ultimate book on the work of pulp artist ALLEN ANDERSON. Known best for his covers for PLANET STORIES, DELL COMICS, spicy pulps, Western pulps, and many others, this spectacular book contains stunning reproductions taken directly from Anderson's original paintings, as well as reference photos, rare proof sheets of pulp covers, and much more. Limited to just 900 copies.

224 pages, 9x12 inches, hardcover with dust jacket. $44.95 (U.S.)

Deluxe Edition
 
This is the ultimate book on the work of pulp artist ALLEN ANDERSON. Known best for his covers for PLANET STORIES, DELL COMICS, spicy pulps, Western pulps, and many others, this spectacular book contains stunning reproductions taken directly from Anderson's original paintings, as well as reference photos, rare proof sheets of pulp covers, and much more. Limited to just 100 copies!

224 pages, 9x12 inches, hardcover with dust jacket
in red slipcase with white lettering. Insert bookplate signed and numbered by author David Saunders. $64.95 (U.S.)

To see a preview of the book, follow this link: https://issuu.com/illomag/docs/rafaeldesoto






JAMES BOND #1 - Coming in December!
(Writer) Vita Ayala, Danny Lore (Art) Eric Gapstur (Cover) Jim Cheung

New series, new team, new missions! VITA AYALA (Morbius, Age Of X-Man), DANNY LORE (Queen Of Bad Dreams) and ERIC GAPSTUR (James Bond 007) present a fresh take on the world's greatest secret agent. When a priceless piece of art is found to be fake, investigations lead down a rabbit hole of international crime and corruption. But what the hell does James Bond know about the world of art forgery?

Featuring a cover by superstar JIM CHEUNG (Justice League, Young Avengers), that will be revealed as an interlocking image over the first three issues!


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

JAMES BOND #1 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191221.



Jerry Schneider Enterprises
Now available!

WONDER STORIES QUARTERLY, Winter 1932

Contents
THE ONSLAUGHT FROM RIGEL by Fletcher Pratt
THE MOON DESTROYERS by Monroe K. Ruch
THE REVOLT OF THE STAR MEN by Raymond Gallun
THE METAL MOON by Everett C. Smith and R. F. Starzl
SPACEWRECKED ON VENUS by Neil R. Jones
THE MARTIAN by Allen Glasser and A. Rowley Hilliard

Magazine, 8.5 x 11 inch, 146 pages
$14.95



IMAGINATIVE TALES, September 1956

Contents
OPERATION DISASTER by Darius John Granger
YOU'LL GO MAD ON MARS! by C. H. Thames
"I'LL THINK YOU DEAD!" by Paul W. Fairman
JUGGERNAUT FROM SPACE by S. M. Tenneshaw
CHRISTOPHER HART'S BORKLE by Henry Still
THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES by Milton Lesser

Digest Magazine, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 132 pages
$12.95


Posters & Prints

Our posters and prints come in a variety of sizes.
Color posters and prints are printed on E-Surface Paper with a standard photographic finish and with a standard archival value of 100 years in home display and 200 years in dark storage.
Our black & white posters and prints are printed on True B&W Paper with a matte finish and has a 100 year archival quality.
Available only if shipped to an address in the United States.


Captain Future #1
Galactic Breed






JOE GOLEM: OCCULT DETECTIVE VOLUME 4 -- THE CONJURORS HC - Coming in December!
Mike Mignola (Writer), Christopher Golden (Writer), Peter Bergting (Art), Michelle Madsen (Color), David Palumbo (Cover)

Joe Golem is dead. Or is he? Simon Church is fading fast in the city above and Molly is held captive by Dr. Cocteau's gas-men below, but something stirs in the tunnels. How much of the golem is still in the man, or the man in the golem? And can either be enough to stop Dr. Cocteau once he has the artifact he seeks? The end of the adaptation of Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden's hit novel is collected for the first time in this hardcover edition. It features art by series veteran Peter Bergting (The Untamed) and colors by Michelle Madsen (Witchfinder, Crimson Lotus). Collects The Conjurors #1-4.

144 pages, $24.99, in stores on Feb. 19.


JOE GOLEM: OCCULT DETECTIVE VOLUME 4 - THE CONJURORS is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT190349.


Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

The Shadow: 1940 Cliffhanger Serial
King Kong, The Alvin Show and Rock and Roll
The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
The Lion King Reigns Supreme
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon: The Radio Program




The Robert E. Howard Newsline
Now online!


Bringing you the latest news in Robert E. Howard books, pulp reprints, comics, audio, conventions, games, and whatever else seems applicable.

Now featuring:

Links to Robert E. Howard Days 2019 Panel Discussions  


The Art of Robert E. Howard: Peter Andrew Jones

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Virgil Finlay

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Michael William Kaluta:  Part 1   Part 2   Part 3  

Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie

Accepting new articles for posting.
Contact me at bthom1@cox.net





Meteor House
Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes
Now available!

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



Mike Chomko -  July/August 2019 newsletter is now available!

Mike has released a list of pulp-related books and periodicals available from Mike Chomko for July/August 2019.

Orders over $20 are discounted approximately 10%.
Shipping is between $2-6, depending on the weight of your order (media mail or bound printed matter). 
Michael Chomko, 2217W. Fairview Street, Allentown, PA  18104-6542

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

Download the PDF files at the links below.

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



Mystery*File - Now online!

Pulp Stories I’m Reading: L. M. MONTGOMERY “The House Party at Smoky Island.”

A Movie Review by Dan Stumpf: SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES DEATH (1943).
Stories I’m Reading: AUGUST DERLETH “The China Cottage.”
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: Three Northerns by FREDERICK NEBEL.
Mike Nevins on Pulp Writer RAOUL WHITFIELD, Part Two.


The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Bounty

The Scarlet Claw
The Midnight Phantom
Australis Incognito
The Henchmen

North-West Adventures - Now online!

King of the Royal Mounted Cover Gallery
(1935) Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted

(1883) “Captain of the ‘Polestar'

(1951) “The Smile of Jean Charcot”

(1937) “The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw”

Lawrence Mott (1881-1931)


PAPERBACK PARADE #104 - Now available!

PAPERBACK PARADE #104, the magazine for paperback readers and collectors -- 100 pages in Full Color!

Contents
Gary Lovisi: Paperback Talk
Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Writer & the Stories”
Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Books & the Covers”
Gary Lovisi & Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Signet List”
Art Scott “Carter Brown: In Belmont & Tower”
Philip Harbottle “Fearn’s Jinxed Novels”
Richard Greene “Matchless Paperbacks: Straw Boss”
Gary Lovisi “Mighty Midgets”
Jon D. Swartz “Early Penguin SF”
Jon D. Swartz “Bill Crider”


$15.00 + $3.00 postage from Gryphon Books, www.gryphonbooks.com.
You can pay via Paypal or with a check to our address:
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Thank you and all best to you for 2017! Enjoy!


Back issues also available while they last!

 
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George Vanderburgh has been named the winner of the 2019 Munsey Award. Nominated by the general pulp community, George was selected by previous winners of the Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards. The award is a fine art print created by David Saunders and published by Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press. It is presented annually to an individual or institution that has bettered the pulp community. Bill Lampkin — winner of the 2018 Munsey Award — presented this year’s award.

Our 2019 Munsey Award winner, GEORGE VANDERBURGH has published over 600 books through his Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, many of them directly related to the pulps. He was largely responsible for finally getting all of Fred Davis’ classic Moon Man stories back into print. And what about his Peter the Brazen series, his five volumes featuring the work of Seabury Quinn, THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE PARK AVENUE HUNT CLUB, his Green Ghost set, THE COMPLEAT SAGA OF JOHN SOLOMON, THE ADVENTURES OF THE GOLDEN AMAZON, THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE SUICIDE SQUAD, and others? He has also given us numerous collections of detective fiction, including volumes featuring the Thinking Machine, Dr. Thorndyke, and Martin Hewitt. Looking at his website, his future plans include several books reprinting pulp authors who have been unjustly forgotten. Along with the late Robert Weinberg, George served as the co-editor of Arkham House Publishers until the death of April Derleth. A regular attendee of pulp conventions, George has helped both longtime and new fans to collect the tales of some of the most fantastic heroes from the pulps. At this year’s PulpFest, George was part of our presentation, “The Game’s Afoot: Sherlock Holmes and the Pulps.”

Congratulations to George for this most deserved award.


PulpFest Blog Posts

PulpFest 2020 Estate Auction
- New!
Thanks for Making PulpFest 2019 a Great Success!
PulpFest 2019: Two Sought Adventure: Eighty Years of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Get Nostalgic at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
Sunday at PulpFest 2019

Our 2019 Munsey Award Winner

Saturday at PulpFest 2019

Friday at PulpFest 2019
PulpFest 2019 Begins Today -
Safe Travels
PulpFest Primer
Last Minute Dealer Changes
One Week to Go!
Highlights from THE PULPSTER



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Dead End Street" by Owen Fox Jerome from POPULAR DETECTIVE, March, 1938

Dead End Street by Owen Fox Jerome (pseudonym of Oscar J. Friend)Corcoran, Rookie Patrolman, Stakes His Career on a Desperate Gamble!

"The Time Tragedy" by Raymond A. Palmer from WONDER STORIES, December, 1934

What may be the first killing-my-grandfather story.

"The Black Laugh" by William J. Makin from STRANGE TALES, January, 1932
The story of Spook Kopje - sarcophagus of a tragedy most pitiful. An African story.



















IN THE 100th BIRTHDAY YEAR OF ZORRO,
PULP ADVENTURECON WILL BE SPECIAL!



The Pulp Archivist - Now online!

Leviathan

Giants
The Oklahoma Tradition
Light Novel Recommendations: An Introduction
Quick Reviews: Shadow Heart and A Thousand Li


Pulp Den by Tom Johnson - Now online!

Shadow of The Dagger
- New!
Welcome To Miskatonic University
Boundless
King Ra Ra: Carrots For Sale
The City Burns At Night
Oklahoma Winds
ASTOUNDING
Haunted Charlottesville


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

Pulpfest 2019 trip report - photos
Walker Martin: Pulpfest 2019 report - August 15-18, 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The dark side of the pulps
Pulp links roundup - July 2019 edition  
Donald Francis McGrew - Author, Journalist  
Elliot W. Chess – Fighter pilot, Author
Link Roundup - May 2019


The Pulp Hermit  by Tom Johnson - Now online!

Introducing New Pulp Author Tom Johnson - New!
A New Artist Comes to ECHOES
Introducing New Pulp Author Ginger Johnson
Betty Dale, Charlotta & Leanne Manners
A Piece of Something Big  
The Pulp.Net  - Now online!


Eleven new episodes of ThePulp.Net's Pulp Event Podcast—
featuring nearly seven-and-a-half hours of programming from PulpFest 2019 — are now online.

You can listen to them on the web at ThePulp.Net’s PulpFest 2019 page,
or on your favorite mobile device by subscribing to the free podcast at the iTunes App Store or Google Play store.



The Pulp.Net



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
Now available!


QUEEN OF THE PULPS, the definitive biography of Daisy Bacon and the untold story of LOVE STORY MAGAZINE!

Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hundreds of thousands of readers each week. The first weekly periodical devoted to romance fiction and the biggest-selling pulp in the early days of the Great Depression, Love Story sparked a wave of imitators that dominated newsstands for more than twenty years.

Disparaged as "love pulp," the magazine actually championed the "modern girl," bringing its heroines out of the shadows of Victorian poverty and into the 20th century. With Love Story'ssuccess, Bacon became a national spokesperson, declaring that the modern woman could have it all-in love, in marriage and in the business world.

Yet Bacon herself struggled to achieve that ideal, especially in her own romantic life, built around a long-term affair with a married man. Drawing on exclusive access to her personal papers, this first-ever biography tells story behind the woman who influenced millions of others to pursue independence in their careers and in their relationships.

Softcover: $39.95



Radio Archives
The Spider #109 Audiobook
Army of the Damned
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge

Read by Nick Santa Maria
  Now available!

The reaching tentacles of this new and ghastly crime machine struck at the very heart of a nation already fighting for its life. When it framed youngsters from our armed services straight into the filthiest racket known to mankind, it became too rotten a game for even the crooked mayor of “Bloody” Bentonville. He called on the Spider. And that Master of Men plunged straight into the murder maw of Bentonville — to save, if he could, our fighting youth!


The Spider was wealthy Richard Wentworth III, master of disguise, dilettante of the arts, in perfect physical condition, and completely devoted to the pursuit of justice for the down-trodden, no matter what the cost to himself or loved ones. Secretly donning a decrepit black hat, a tattered black cape, a false hunch to his shoulders, a lank wig of stringy hair, an application of sinister face makeup and a pair of .45 automatics, Wentworth prowls the streets of New York as his alter-ego the Spider, chasing down criminal masterminds bent on enslaving or destroying humanity. Much of the action takes place in the tenements and slums.
 
One of the things that sets the Spider apart from other hero characters is magnitude; the villains commit acts of destruction on a grand scale, sinking whole ocean liners, toppling entire buildings, wiping out entire towns with germ warfare.
 
Nick Santa Maria breathes life into the Spider in Army of the Damned. Originally published in The Spider magazine, October, 1942.



    
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MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $9.99

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Radio Archives
The Phantom Detective #1 Audiobook
The Emperor of Death by G. Wayman Jones

Read by Milton Bagby

  Now available!

Forged in war, The Phantom Detective wages a one-man battle on crime! Solving impossible mysteries and delivering his own justice, he is the underworld’s masked nightmare!
 
The Phantom Detective fights single-handedly against a ruthless king of criminals, who plans a reign of wholesale death and destruction. Only the masked sleuth known as The Phantom can play a lone hand of justice against this mad genius!
 
Richard Curtis Van Loan — The Phantom Detective. The greatest sleuth of all time, his casebook is filled with tales of his courageous “Lone Wolf” campaign to rid the nation of organized crime and big time racketeers, his single-handed war against rampant banditry in America.


His identity known to only one person, this masked enemy of crime is a product of the cataclysmic World War. Born wealthy beyond all avarice, the war made playboy Richard Curtis Van Loan realize the futility of his pampered life. Daily facing death on the flaming Eastern Front, peace-time activities seemed too tame for him after his high flying career as a war pilot was over. Others, seeking readjustment vainly, took to other fields — many, to crime. Van Loan instead dedicated himself to fighting the criminal forces that sought to hold America in their grip.
 
Intent on his new mission, Van Loan taught himself every skill it required. Equipped with a knowledge of criminology second to none on earth as well a master of make-up, the actor’s art, mimicry, ventriloquism and hypnotist, he embarked on his perilous career. Sacrificing those things that the ordinary man may have for the asking — the simple pleasures of home and hearth — Van Loan prepared to gamble desperately against gangdom’s strangle-hold on humanity. Donning a mask, Van Loan took his fight to criminals face to face as The Phantom Detective!
 
The Emperor of Death was originally published in the February 1933 issue of The Phantom Detective Magazine and is read with pulse pounding intensity by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.


Discounted 50% the first week.
MP3 digital download - $7.99
Audio CDs - $15.99

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Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Phantom Detective #1 eBook
The Emperor Of Death - February 1933

Now available!

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.

The Phantom Detective! The name alone conjures up action and adventure. From the same publisher that brought you The Black Bat, Captain Danger, The Crimson Mask and The Green Ghost came one of pulpdom's best-known detectives. Scourge of the underworld, The Phantom, as he was called, aided the Law with his sweetheart Muriel Havens. His first adventure was published in February 1933 and they continued for 170 thrilling exploits until the Summer 1953 issue. The Phantom Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:
A Full Book-Length Novel
The Emperor Of Death
by G. Wayman Jones
From the Case-Book of Richard Curtis Van Loan
The Phantom Detective wages a lone-wolf campaign against a ruthless king of criminals, who plans a reign of wholesale death and destruction.
 
Framed — Gripping Short Story
by Will Levinrew
A Fast-Moving Story of a Cop’s Fight for Vengeance
 
Death On Dow Street — Gripping Short Story
by Jack D’Arcy
An Escaped Convict — and a Detective with Nerve
 
Rub-Out — Gripping Short Story
by John H. Compton
Slugger Morgan Carried Death in a Violin Case
 
Introducing The Phantom — Editorial


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


Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Planet Stories eBook
May 1954

Now available!

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.

During the science-fiction boom of the 1930s, there were over a dozen pulp magazines dedicated to the subject. Analog, Startling Stories, Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, Captain Future and Super Science Stories were just a few. In 1939, the pulp magazine publisher of Jungle Stories, and many others, added its own entry into the sci-fi field, Planet Stories. Until it folded in 1955, it published ground-breaking science fiction from some of the genre's brightest stars. Planet Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:
Novel of Distant Worlds
The Lost Tribes Of Venus
by Erik Fennel
On mist-shrouded Venus where hostile swamp meets hostile sea... there did the transmuted Earthman forsake his Terran heritage for the dull, dark waters of Tana; for the strangely beautiful Xintel of the blue-brown skin.
 
Sixty-Year Extension — Star-Flung Novelet
by Alan E. Nourse
They told only half the story to Daniel Carter Griffin when he volunteered to die. They told him of the glories of life reborn; youth recaptured; love rewon; of Free Agenting ‘round the Cosmos. Of many things they spoke... but never once dared they mention the lurid Second Death.
 
Hoydons Aweigh! — Star-Flung Novelet
by J.W. Groves
It’s a long time between furloughs for restless space voyagers. Brand’s was long enough for the entire universe to turn topsy-turvy under the star-dim rule of the “Touch-Not-the-Apple” League.
 
James P. Crow — Short Story
by Philip K. Dick
It was a robots’ world, run by soul-less heaps of haughty metal. But among the humans there was one — only one — who aspired to greatness; only one who stood the chance of breaking out of his subservient shell. He was the Time-Window Kid... He was James P. Crow.
 
Skeletons Of Space — Short Story
by James McKimmey, Jr.
Sand was all they could see. And sand would be all they’d eat... unless they licked that mad, crazing, swarming insect horde.
 
Land Beyond The Flame — Short Story
by Evelyn Goldstein
Beyond the Flame Barrier lay knowledge of the Originals. Long stretched, from horizon to horizon, a thin stream of living light; a thin path of peril for the truth-seeker, Allyn the Numan.
 
The Primus Curse — Short Story
by Bill Wesley
That the psychology boys had been right again, annoyed the veteran captain. He’d felt like a mechanical man all the time... never would he have believed he could send men to their deaths like that. And the ship!... he could have lost everything.
 
The Vizigraph
Down where the gripes begin.


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
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Recoverings
The Only Dust-jackets Officially Authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD MEN
BACK TO THE STONE AGE
LAND OF TERROR
A special Alternate Timeline Dust-jacket for THE WAR CHIEF

Now available!


The first three jackets are all reconstructed using scans of the original paintings for those covers.
THE WAR CHIEF alternate is based on art by noted western artist Maynard Dixon and you can read more about it here.


Please take a moment to read the four-page article  about the publishing of THE WAR CHIEF and why it meant so much to Ed Burroughs. I think you’ll be interested to find out that the book was one of the most well-researched novels he ever wrote (besides I AM A BARBARIAN), and, considering its point of view and many of the statements about white settlers, the US Army and the reasons for the Apache’s explicit savagery, certainly his most controversial.

RED SONJA #11  - Coming in December!
(Writer) Mark Russell (Art) Mirko Colak
Cover A: Amanda Conner, Paul Mounts
Cover B: Joseph Michael Linsner
Cover C: Khoi Pham
Cover D: Mirko Colak
Cover E: Cosplay

The penultimate chapter in Mark Russell's first year of Red Sonja. Dragan The Magnificent's complete victory is assured, save for one She-Devil, incapable of dying, unwilling to cede control of a bridge…

RED SONJA #11 is solicited in the October PREVIEWS (Available September 25).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191277 (Conner cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191278 (Linsner cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191279 (Pham cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191280 (Colak cover).
The Diamond Item Code is OCT191281 (Cosplay cover).

      
        
        
       





The Serial Squadron
Coming in September!

CAPTAIN AMERICA
THE MOVIE SERIAL
FEATURING DICK PURCELL
ADRIAN BOOTH and LIONEL ATWILL
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD Upgrade


A remastering of the original Squadron-produced transfer with complete, correct chapter openings, stabilized, and offered in HD with improved sharpness and motion.
Also includes new and upgraded extras.

Watch for information on how to preorder and when the title will ship.





 
The Serial Squadron
Coming in October!

ROCKETMAN IN THE COMICS AND THE MOVIES
Book


The history of Rocketman/Commando Cody in the serials and related characters including Bulletman in the comics. Includes a brand NEW Rocketman story.



THE HOUSE OF HATE
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD


New upgraded transfer of the amazing, massively influential Pearl White mystery serial, with solid leading man Antonio Moreno,
and, introducing The Hooded Terror, most fearsome and deadly of the early serial villains.









The Shadowcast #1 - THE LIVING SHADOW - Now online!

Season 1, Episode 2 - 'THE SHADOW/GREEN HORNET: Dark Nights' - New!
Season 1, Episode 1 - The Living Shadow
In this first episode, we explore the origins of the Dark Avenger with the very first pulp story: THE LIVING SHADOW, and review The Knight of Darkness's first film appearance in the rare 1931




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

Love Traffic by Gaston Lamond
“Murder Mayhem” by Ray Stahl (aka: Bart Carson)
Murder Gets Around by Robert Sidney Bowen
Spider Pete by Claude Stewart
The Finger of Death by Henry Keyworth



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.

July: Hemingway and Lovecraft-Part Two
July: Hemingway and Lovecraft-Part One
C.L. Moore in Traces Magazine  
July: Weird Tales #363
July: Ernest Hemingway, Star Wars, and the Adolescentization of America
July: Edith and Ernest
July: Losses and Gains
Problems in Science Fiction No. 2-Continued
A Note on a Passing  
Problems in Science Fiction-No. 2
A Teller of Weird Tales at Normandy

 

WEIRD TALES #363 - Now available!

WEIRD TALES HAS RETURNED!
 
A sorcerer on a cliff cuts into his own hand, summoning members of the ancient cult that destroyed his family...
A maid hunts her former employer with a sword, attempting to win a revenge that could save us all...
A doomed man rides a train to his dead father's home to unravel a terrible secret...
A strange box arrives at your door, containing something so bizarre that... well, you'll have to dig in to Weird Tales #363 to see.
 
Weird Tales continues a 95-year commitment to dark fantasy with this illustrated collection of new short fiction from masters of the craft.


Editor: Jonathan Maberry
Cover art by Abigail Larson

Contents
"The Eyrie"
"What Waits in the Trees" by Stephanie Wytovich
"Up from Slavery" by Victor LaValle
"Erasure" by Stephanie Wytovich
"By Post" by Josh Malerman
"A Housekeeper’s Revenge" by Lisa Morton
"A Woman Who Still Knows How to Die" by Stephanie Wytovich
"Due to the Memory of Scars" by Stephanie Wytovich
"The Shadows beneath the Stone" by Jonathan Maberry
"Outside the Shells of Horseshoe Crabs" by Stephanie Wytovich
"I-O-U" by Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Payday" by Hank Schwaeble
"Distant Drums" by Marc Bilgrey
"Amelia Delia Lee" by Tori Eldridge


Full color, 90 pages
Softcover: $12.99
Kindle: $9.99



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WARLORD OF MARS ATTACKS #4 - Arriving in comic shops September 25!
(Writer) Jeff Parker (Art) Dean Kotz
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Marc Laming
Cover C: Ramon Villalobos
Cover D: Ben Caldwell

"Back To Barsoom": The hero returns!
John Carter reunites with his Barsoom allies…just as MARS ATTACKS! Can John, Tars Tarkas, Woola and more defend the world they love, or will this Mars fall?

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

    
 
 




WEIRDBOOK #41
Softcover edition now available at Amazon!

Prose
Tonight I Wear My Crimson Face, by Adrian Cole
The House of the Witches, by Darrell Schweitzer
The Bones, by Erica Ruppert
-The Idols of Xan, by Steve Dilks
 Conjurings, by Marlane Quade Cook
Matriarch Unbound, by Glynn Owen Barrass
The Mouth at the Edge of the World, by Luke Walker
"An Autumn Settling", by Alistair Rey
I Know How You'll Die, by K.G. Anderson
Fair Shopping, by Jack Lee Taylor
Black Aggie, by Marina Favila
The Chroma of Home, by Arasibo Campeche
The Last Resort, by Dean MacAllister
The Crypt Beneath the Manse, by S. Subramanian
 A Winter Reunion, by C.M. Muller
 The Stravinsky Code, by Leonard Carpenter
 She Talks to Me, by Matthew Masucci
 Wings of Twilight, by L.F. Falconer
 A Pantheon of Trash, by Thomas C. Mavroudis
 Juliet's Moon, by D.C. Lozar
The Gargoyle's Wife, by Jean Graham
The Melting Man, by Justin Boote
Dead Waves, by Sean McCoy
The Proposal, by J.D. Brink
Dark Energy, by Kevin Hayman
Christmas at Castle Dracula, by S. L. Edwards
There Was Fire, by M. Ravenberg
Them, by Sharon Cullars
For Love of Lythea, by C. I. Kemp

Poetry
Beltane, by K.A. Opperman
Twin Hungers, by Scott J. Couturier
The Jackal, by Ashley Dioses
Our Family Ghost, by Joshua Gage
Le Gargoyle, by Russ Parkhurst"



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







13 September 2019  


70th Michigan Antiquarian Book And Paper Show
Sunday, October 20, 2019
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.


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

Causeway Bay Hotel
6820 South Cedar Street
Lansing, Michigan

 Free Parking!

West of Lowe's Home Improvement


Admission $5
CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER FREE

Ablaze Publishing
THE CIMMERIAN: QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST
Cancelled!

THE CiMMERIAN: QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST has been cancelled for the time being.
Conan Properties has sent a Cease and Desist notice to Ablaze and Diamond Comics Distributors.

Ablaze believes the story to be in the public domain in the USA and worldwide.
Regardless, Conan Properties has some type of issue with publication of this title in the U.S.
Hopefully this will be worked out and the book can eventually be published in English.


Ablaze Publishing  
 
 
 
 
 
   

Adventure House

Adventure House is pleased to announce that Adventure House has acquired a number of the Girasol Collectables reprint files.
They will be releasing on a monthly basis a number of their public domain titles as part of our monthly offerings.

August 2019
SPICY MYSTERY STORIES – 07/35  - Now available!
SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES – 01/35  - Now available!

July 2019
Oriental Stories – 12/30-01/31  - Now available!
Spicy Detective Stories – 06/34 - Coming ??!

June 2019
Strange Tales – 09/31 - Now available!
Magic Carpet Magazine – 04/33 - Now available!

May 2019
Spicy Western Stories – 11/36  
Spicy-Adventure Stories – 12/34

April 2019
Soldiers of Fortune – 10/31
Spicy Mystery Stories – 06/35


Adventure House
Now available!

High Adventure #167

The Strato-Shooters by H. Bedford-JonesPharaoh Figured Wrong The Fifth Freedom The One-Handed Siberian Ice Cave and more.

7x10, 110 pages, $12.95







Age of Aces
Now available!

Through the dark night sky, streaking swiftly with their Hisso engines thundering, is the greatest trio of aces on the Western Front—the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes,” the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! At point was Captain Kirby, impetuous young leader of the great trio; on his right was little Lieutenant “Shorty” Carn, the mild-eyed, corpulent little Mosquito and lanky Lieutenant Travis, eldest and wisest of the Mosquitoes on his left! Flying in a V formation through four exciting hell-bent tales from the pages of Popular Publication’s Battle Aces.

Stories Include: The X-Gun Flight (Jan 32), The Iron Ace (Feb 32), The Flying Dreadnought (Jun 32), The 20-Ace Patrol (Jul 32). All illustrated by John Fleming Gould





Captain Philip Strange is back in eight more weird WWI stories spanning the run of the series in the penultimate volume of this series. A mental marvel from birth, who used his talents on stage as a boy, Philip Strange is now known as “The Phantom Ace of G-2? by the Allies during WWI and the verdamntBrain-Devil by the Boche. Just when you thought there were no more ways to die in war, the Germans come up with some even more gruesome ways! if you’re not just being incinerated by the sun’s ray focused through enormous lenses, you’re being gassed with a horribly disfiguring plague; drowned in a sea of blood or injected with a serum that turns you into a hyped up fighting hellion until you keel over dead; maybe you’ll be lucky and just have your own munitions blow up your entire outfit, or simply have your head chopped off and mounted on some psychotic ace’s wings. Thankfully, we have have Captain Philip Strange on our side to stop them in eight of his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!

Stories Include: The Code of K-14 (Feb 32), The Masked Marauders (Mar 33), The Sky Torch (Apr 33), Marauders Without Mercy (Oct 33), Legion of the Lost (Aug 34), Valley of Vengeance (Jun 35), Fokkers of the Red Fog (Aug 37), Headsman Strafe (Feb 38).


Age of Aces








Altus Press / Steeger Books: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Farewell Altus Press, Hello Steeger Books

Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at Pulpfest 2019
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


Altus Press / Steeger Books
Now available!


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 #15: The Red Death Rain
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge
A woman lighted a cigarette, puffed it a few times, and began to scream, to tear her clothes from her body. Her head twisted back between her shoulders and she died a horrible convulsive death-death from tobacco smoke! The lascivious cultist, Deacon Coslin, had seen his mad prophecy fulfilled… for already other smokers, everywhere throughout the land, were dying by tens of thousands! With Richard Wentworth’s beloved Nita in the power of the enemy, facing an unspeakable death; with his faithful servants drugged and out of the battle; with the police hounding hint and the arch-criminal foreseeing every strategy, how can the Spider combat the overwhelming odds aligned against him? How can he save his compatriots from the Red Death Rain—save the land he loves from domination by an ambition-twisted brain?


$13.95 softcover

Operator 5 #8: The Green Death Mists
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould

The mad Emperor, warrior descendant of the ravagers of Asia, unleashed a new, horrible, ingenious weapon against the American people. While slant-eyed Mongols bent over a powerful death-machine, a thousand miles away, the air became unbreathable! Men and women and children—all living things—gasped for life-giving oxygen, and with searing, heaving lungs, fell strangled by the mysterious, deadly element. Against these demoniacal hordes, one man alone—Operator 5—struggles while red revolt and destruction blasts America!

$13.95 softcover


Steeger Books



 
     
Altus Press / Steeger Books
Domino Lady T-Shirt

Now available!

This is the logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt, 100% pre-shrunk cotton

$19.99



Altus Press / Steeger Books
Now available online!
Except The Major Volume 3 which is coming soon!


Dime Detective, Max Brand, H. Bedford-Jones, and the complete Scientific Club by Ray Cummings
headline a lineup of 14 new titles to see print this August.
 Altus Press will have them in stock & available for order at www.altuspress.com or
via Mike Chomko’s table at the Pulpfest 2019 Show in Pittsburgh, PA, on August 15.


The list of titles includes:


The Complete Tales of the Scientific Club (Deluxe Edition)
by Ray Cummings
introduction by Will Murray, illustrated by Joseph A. Farren, F.M. Follett, Virgil Finlay, Roger B. Morrison,
Frank R. Paul, Norman Saunders, Amos Sewell, Modest Stein, Lawrence Sterne Stevens, and Raymond Wardell


One of the most historically significant Twentieth Century science fiction series ever published is at last collected. A pioneer in pulp science fiction, Ray Cummings inspired an entirely-new fiction genre with his influential story originally published in 1919, The Girl in the Golden Atom, which introduced the world to a series of short stories and novels known as his “Matter, Space and Time” range.

This suite of stories featured the Scientific Club: a group of New York-based socialites of revolving membership who either recounted these tales of fantastic science—or were directly involved in these tales which originally appeared in the top magazines of the 1920s: All Story Weekly, Argosy, Detective Story Magazine, Flynn’s, and Science and Invention, among others.

This collection assembles all of the Scientific Club stories, sourced directly from their original magazine appearances… most of which have never before been reprinted. In addition, this deluxe edition includes all of Cummings’ Scientific Club stories which appeared exclusively in the United Kingdom. It also gathers the later Scientific Club stories from a brief revival in the mid-1930s.

No stone has been left unturned for this edition: two hitherto-unknown Scientific Club stories were discovered, and these have been included, along with 26 other stories. And among the many bonus features is a rare, alternate, early version of one of the Scientific Club stories.

Rounded out by vintage illustrations by Virgil Finlay, Frank R. Paul, Norman Saunders, Amos Sewell, Modest Stein, and Lawrence Sterne Stevens, and with an all-new introduction by Will Murray, The Complete Tales of the Scientific Club is a book one hundred years in the making.

8.5″x11″ | 494 pages | $85 deluxe casewrap hardcover

Dr. Yen Sin: The Complete Series (Deluxe Edition)
by Donald E. Keyhoe
introduction by William Patrick Maynard, afterword by Rick Lai

One of the great villain pulps from the 1930s is finally available in a complete, deluxe edition. Owing certain similarities to Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu, the Dr. Yen Sin series of three novels features “The Invisible Emperor” and his machinations to conquer the world using his unique mixture of futuristic science and ancient Asian technology. However, Yen Sin has met his match: “The Man Who Never Slept”—agent Michael Traile—who has the strange capability of not require sleep.

Includes an all-new introduction by current Fu Manchu author William Patrick Maynard, as well as a chronology of the character by Rick Lai.

8.5″x11″ | 179 pages | $60 deluxe casewrap hardcover

The 7th Day
by Frederick Faust
introduction by Andrew Salmon
illustrated by Charles LaSalle and Harold Wellington McCrea

Seven days to solve a murder! Tony Newcomen, a fiction writer, gets a call from his friend and mentor, Thomas Decker. Decker believes his life is in danger—but he’s unable to offer more information, as he is murdered while on the phone! Determined to uncover his friend’s killer amidst the idle rich and lavish estates of 1930s Florence, Newcomen will stop at nothing to bring the guilty to justice. He must walk a razor’s edge as he digs deeper into the case. The local police are out to get him, he’s in danger of losing his heart to the prime suspect and the murderer is more than willing to add another victim to end the investigation.

Out of print since its original magazine publication more than 80 years ago, The 7th Day appears here in book form for the first time. Rich in atmosphere and with an intriguing cast of characters, The 7th Day is Frederick Faust at his nuanced best.

Also included is the short story, “Devil Dog,” which takes readers into the frozen wasteland of Alaska for a harrowing, fast-paced tale of murder and revenge in the fevered quest for gold.

6″x9″ | 224 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

A Seabold Fights
by Frederick Faust
introduction by Andrew Salmon
illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman

The best steel goes through the fire: Joseph Seabold hates the family business. But his aging cousin—running the Seabold Fruit Company—sees the young man as his successor. To test his mettle, he sends Seabold south of the border to the Republic of San Esteban where the company has a hand in the local politics to keep the company running. But revolution is brewing: the Republic is a powder keg about to explode! A naive mistake brands Seabold an enemy of the state and he has no choice but to join the revolution to overthrow the government. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of gritty battles, cold betrayals, steamy romance and heartless double crosses as only Frederick Faust can deliver.

This riveting tale has never been reprinted and appears in book form for the first time. Frederick Faust fans rejoice! This long neglected classic is back for a new audience to devour. This is Faust at his best.

6″x9″ | 200 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover




The Dime Detective Library: Series 5 (Six Book Set)

    By Amos Sewell, Arthur Leo Zagat, Carroll John Daly, J. Paul Suter, John Fleming Gould, Leslie T. White, Norbert Davis, William E. Barrett
This specially-priced set includes all six books in Series 5 of The Dime Detective Library:

The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Volume 2 by Carroll John Daly
The Complete Cases of Bail-Bond Dodd, Volume 2 by Norbert Davis
The Complete Cases of Horatio Humberton, Volume 1 by J. Paul Suter
The Complete Cases of Anne Marsh by Arthur Leo Zagat
The Complete Cases of the Blue Barrel, Volume 1 by William E. Barrett
The Complete Cases of the Arson Dick by Leslie T. White

Considered the greatest of all detective pulps to only Black Mask, Dime Detective was the home to dozens of classic, quirky series characters, all with an offbeat twist.
Get all of Series 5 at a discount!

Hardcover: $184.70  $150.00
Softcover: $124.70 $99.00


The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Volume 2 (The Dime Detective Library)
by Carroll John Daly
illustrated by John Fleming Gould

The creation of Carroll John Daly, father of the hard-boiled private eye, Vee Brown—AKA the Crime Machine—plied his trade in the pages of Dime Detective, the classic crime pulp that was second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre.

Vivian “Vee” Brown leads two lives. Delicate-looking and small in stature, he lacks physical strength and endurance. But that doesn’t prevent him from being an effective special operative to the Manhattan District Attorney. In this capacity he often ignores the legal niceties of due process, shooting first and asking questions later. Many citizens view him as a hair-trigger gunman whose promiscuous killings make him little better than the vicious criminals he hunts. In his other life, Brown lives in a luxurious Park Avenue penthouse, paid for not with his modest civil-servant salary, but with the royalties he earns as a phenomenally successful composer of sentimental songs—a sideline he keeps secret. Both the police and the underworld refer to him as a “Killer of Men.” But the denizens of Tin Pan Alley know him as “Master of Melodies,” the prince of pop music.

Volume 2 features the Crime Machine’s battles with his greatest nemesis, the Emperor of Evil.

6″x9″ | 356 pages | $24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover

The Complete Cases of Bail-Bond Dodd, Volume 2 (The Dime Detective Library)
by Norbert Davis
illustrated by John Fleming Gould and Frank Kramer

Bailbondsman William “Bail-Bond” Dodd was the first series character that hard-boiled genius Norbert Davis created for Harry Steeger’s best detective pulp. Running for eight installments, Volume 2 collects the balance of the series. This unique series was one of the best Davis ever wrote for the pages of Dime Detective.

6″x9″ | 222 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Complete Cases of Horatio Humberton, Volume 1 (The Dime Detective Library)
by J. Paul Suter
illustrated by John Fleming Gould

Meet the original necrologist sleuth: tall, gaunt Ho Humberton was a funeral director by day and detective at night… often those with more than a touch of the supernatural. Featuring the first half of this trend-setting detective series, this was one of the most popular series characters from the pages of Dime Detective. Also featuring the very first Horatio Humberton story, undiscovered for nearly 100 years.

6″x9″ | 337 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Complete Cases of the Arson Dick (The Dime Detective Library)
by Leslie T. White
illustrations by John Fleming Gould

Detective Todd Naughton of the central-office arson squad investigated some of the strangest arson and murder cases ever to appear in Dime Detective Magazine. Originally seeing print during the peak 1936–37 period of Dime Detective, this four-story complete series has never before been reprinted.

6″x9″ | 230 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Complete Cases of Anne Marsh (The Dime Detective Library)
by Arthur Leo Zagat
illustrated by Amos Sewell

Written during a period when the detective pulps showcased more gritty, realistic characters and situations, writer Arthur Leo Zagat penned a series of novelettes featuring the diminutive Anne Marsh, reluctant detective who must solve the death of her father and wage grim war in behalf of the city’s oppressed. Running for eight installments, this unique series was one of the few purposefully finite series from the pulp era, and one of the only female detective series characters to see print in a Popular Publications-published title.

6″x9″ | 298 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Complete Cases of the Blue Barrel, Volume 1 (The Dime Detective Library)
by William E. Barrett
illustrated by John Fleming Gould

Written at the height of Dime Detective’s popularity, author William E. Barrett (Lilies of the Field) penned this series featuring newspaperman Dean Culver, whose column—The Blue Barrel—dispensed gossip on the criminal underworld. No one called Dean Culver the Blue Barrel—for no one knew he was the author of the underworld-gossip column signed with that name each night in the Morning Star. If the easy-money players had ever guessed that the man who paid them off was the Walter Winchell of the other side of the law, he’d he cashing in his own checks at the first turn of the wheel, instead of those of the gamblers he spun it for.

6″x9″ | 228 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The World Was Their Stage (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
by H. Bedford-Jones
illustrated by George Avison, Merritt Berger, Pedar Cavanagh, John Richard Flanagan, Peter Kuhlhoff, J. Clinton Shepherd, and Raymond Sisley
cover by Herbert Morton Stoops

Spanning ancient Roman times, Normandy, medieval England and Germany, France, and colonial America, and including appearances by Cleopatra, d’Artagnan, and Cyrano de Bergerac, author H. Bedford-Jones details some of the most pivotable moments in history in this interconnected 17-part historical epic. The World Was Their Stage is one of the longest novels written by “the King of the Pulps,” H. Bedford-Jones, and has never before been reprinted.

Featuring scores of vintage story illustrations by George Avison, Merritt Berger, Pedar Cavanagh, John Richard Flanagan, Peter Kuhlhoff, J. Clinton Shepherd, and Raymond Sisley, along with a cover by Herbert Morton Stoops.

6″x9″ | 420 pages | $29.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover

John Solomon, Supercargo: The Adventures of John Solomon, Volume 2 (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
by H. Bedford-Jones

Continue the story of John Solomon, author H. Bedford-Jones’ longest-running series character, with this next book in the series.

6″x9″ | 196 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Barbary Gold (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
by H. Bedford-Jones

Sunken treasure in the Barbary waters off Africa! A group of three wartime adventurers are after a fortune in German gold: a sunken sub hides the horde, but they’ll have to fight pirates, Germans, and unknown dangers to recover it.

Written in the early days of the career of the prolific “King of the Pulps”—H. Bedford-Jones—Barbary Gold has never before been collected in book form. It’s a fast-paced adventure… the type which made H. Bedford-Jones one of the most beloved authors of the first half of the Twentieth Century.

6″x9″ | 134 pages | $14.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Heel of Achilles: The Complete Adventures of the Major, Volume 3 - Coming soon online!
by L. Patrick Greene
illustrations by O.J. Gatter

The long-running and much-beloved series from the pages of Short Stories is finally collected in order and with a plethora of bonus material. Join Aubrey St. John Major—AKA the Major—and his faithful companion, Jim the Hottentot, on their adventures across the diamond country of Africa. This collection includes the next seven stories, along with another rare, never-before reprinted story by L. Patrick Greene.

6″x9″ | 356 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Steeger Books














 
   

American Fantasy Press
THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK
New Kickstarter campaign now online!
This project will only be funded if it reaches its goal by Saturday, September 28, 2019


THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK Kickstarter is now online!

We're excited to bring acclaimed artist Hannes Bok's three solo fantasy novels into hardcover for the first time!

Both THE SORCERER'S SHIP and BEYOND THE GOLDEN STAIR were previously published as part of Ballantine Books' Adult Fantasy paperback line. His first novel-length tale: STARSTONE WORLD, is a much shorter and darker piece, which has never been reprinted since it appeared in Science Fiction Quarterly #7, [Summer of 1942], over 75 years ago.

These aren't your conventional fantasies, although all the trappings are there. His novels have a sly humor with plots containing unconventional twists and turns; a strange metaphysical bent; and his artist's talent for glorious description.

THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK's cover art is a never-before-published painting by Bok. A piece which mirrors the masculine, feminine, grotesque and transcendent archetypes which populate the novels within.

We'll be including Ballantine Adult Fantasy editor Lin Carter's introductions to THE SORCERER'S SHIP and BEYOND THE GOLDEN STAIR, plus an all-new introduction detailing the history of THE SORCERER'S SHIP by Bok collector, Professor William Lorenzo. Publisher, Robert T. Garcia will provide an introduction to STARSTONE WORLD. And we've discovered a number of unpublished photos of Bok to add to these intros as well.

Bok's pulp art for THE SORCERER'S SHIP is included, plus two paintings specified by the artist as illustrating that novel: a color reprise of an interior illustration and a color portrait of the creature Yanuk done for a fan.



   

American Mythology Productions 
Arriving in comic shops September 18!



PELLUCIDAR WINGS OF DEATH #1
(Writer) Mike Wolfer (Art) Bruno Bull (Covers) Roy Allen Martinez & Mike Wolfer

The immersive environment of Pellucidar comes to life amazing detail as we visit the tale that spun out of the Fear on Four Worlds event. The underground cities of the Mahars, the Sagoths, and the Horibs collide with savage repercussions in this beautiful new series illustrated by Bruno Bull and written by horror icon, Mike Wolfer. The Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Universe expands into this first full length Pellucidar solo story with a surprise ending!

Pellucidar Wings of Death #1 comes with three covers – Main by Roy Allan Martinez, Warrior Cvr by Mike Wolfer, and 350-copy limited-edition Virgin Art cover also by Martinez.


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
Full Color, 32 pages, $9.99 (Limited edition).







 

American Mythology Productions
Arriving in comic shops September 18!

ZORRO SACRILEGE #3
(Writer) Mike Wolfer (Art) Mauricio Melo
(Cover)
Mauricio Melo

The blackest night of Zorro's life has just begun, and it's one that sure to give you nightmares!
Outside the Mansion walls amasses an army of rotting, reanimated corpses, but what lies within the sanctuary's church is a fiendish presence that transcends evil itself!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99
Full Color, 32 pages, $9.99



     

Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!

THE SHADOW Volume 144: “The Dead Who Lived” & “Crime Over Casco”
The Knight of Darkness resumes his true identity of Kent Allard to crush hidden plots in classic pulp thrillers by Walter B. Gibson writing as Maxwell Grant. First, a plague of sleeping sickness hits New York, and only The Shadow can uncover the secret of the death gas and revive “The Dead Who Lived.” Then, “Crime Over Casco” leads Kent Allard to uncover a Neo-Nazi conspiracy in the quiet Maine coastal islands of Casco Bay! This instant collector’s item showcases both original color covers by George Rozen and Modest Stein and the interior illustrations by Edd Cartier and Charles Coll, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-262-9 Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, $14.95
 

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



Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.
Past episodes:
Award Winning author Gordon Dymowski discusses his work
Dorian Gray: Darker Shades from Wild Hunt Press
"A Good Man Returns" a Jeff Deischer espionage novel
Airship 27 Update with Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
Audible versions of Bobby Nash's "Abraham Snow" Series with Voice actor Stuart Gauffi

Asgard Press
VINTAGE SCI FI 2020 WALL CALENDAR

Now available and arriving in comic shops September 18!

Wall Calendar, 11x15, Full Color   
SRP: $16.95




 

Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1
Now shipping!

Between 2002 and 2016, Blood ‘n’ Thunder was the premier journal for devotees of adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This award-winning magazine, written by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, eventually expanded its readership to include casual fans of vintage storytelling mediums: pulp fiction, motion pictures, Old Time Radio drama, and so on. BnT, moribund for three years, has now returned in a new format but with the same excellence of writing and research. The articles and essays are scholarly without being dry or academic in nature; no publish-or-perish tedium here.

This revival issue covers a variety of subjects, all related to pulp fiction. David Kalb documents the history of the long-lost 1941-42 radio series featuring Street & Smith’s Avenger; he compares recently uncovered scripts to the novels from which they are adapted. David Saunders, whose father Norman was among the most prolific painters of lurid pulp covers, profiles the forgotten publisher J. Thomas Wood. Novelist and pop-culture historian Will Murray weighs in on pulp pulchritude—an appreciation of artists whose covers sported alluring women. Indefatigable researcher Rick Lai offers a detailed chronology of the Jimgrim saga, a multi-novel series penned by pulp-fiction giant Talbot Mundy. Blood ‘n’ Thunder editor Ed Hulse celebrates the Zorro centennial (he first appeared in a 1919 issue of the legendary All-Story Weekly) with a behind-the-scenes account of the making of Douglas Fairbanks’ 1920 swashbuckling hit The Mark of Zorro. Ed also documents the making of Hawk of the Wilderness, a 1938 cliffhanger serial adapted from the popular imitation-Tarzan novels that appeared in the venerable pulp Blue Book.


#1, Second Series
Cover Art by Lyman Anderson
92 pages, paperback, 7x10
Price: $9.95


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO U.S. BUYERS. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.

Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press


Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction
Permanent Price Reduction for “Forgotten Classics” 10-book set
Now available!

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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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Bold Venture Press



Bold Venture Press
Pulp Adventures #32
Now available!

CLASSIC PULP FICTION
The Death Dancer | Charles Boeckman  3
The “Atomic Goddess of Beauty” sees a strange case of murder explode!
Roman Holiday | Talbot Mundy  28
A tale of Christians and Romans — and Lions — in the reign of mad Caligula!
The Pigtail of Hi Wing Ho | Sax Rohmer  119
Mystery in Chinatown ...

NEW PULP FICTION
The Mystery of Island X! | Bobby Nash  15
Lance Starr and his scrappy crew investigate mysterious goings-on on an island — only to discover the island IS the mystery!
The Spawn of Lilthu | William M. Hope  51
The “Welcome” mat was Thurl’s invitation to a hellish fate.
The Wicked Big ‘Monstah Ovah Bawstin’ | David Bernard  63
An FBI agent generates buzz with his biggest case.
Time and Tide | Adam Beau McFarlane  75
The Black Island Tavern plays host to a sailor like no other.
Stranded At Saturn | Jack Halliday  79
He dreamt of reaching the stars … until he crash-landed …
A Snitch in Time | Robert W. Walker  83
First-class seats for murder …


Format: Softcover
Pages: 132
Dimensions: 7" x 10"

$12.95



Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!

Pulp Consumption: Tough 2 (Crime Stories) - New!
Pulp Appeal: Penny Dreadful
Pulp Appeal: Storyhack #3
Issue 10 is Live!
Pulp Appeal: From The Vaults of Imagination: The Forgotten Short Stories of Clark Ashton Smith (Guest Post by Joshua Grasso)
Pulp Appeal: Pulp Modern Summer 2019
Pulp Appeal: Moon Knight: From the Dead
Issue 9 is here!


THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #84 is now available and recommended!
 
Front Cover: Bob larkin
"Scattered Covers" by Chuck Welch
"A Bob Larkin Retrospective" by Courtney Rogers
"The Doc Savage Comics Guide" by Philip Schweier
"The Savage Society of Bronze Remembered" by Jennifer DiGiacomo
"The Cover That Could Have been" by
Julián Puga
"The Power of Gold" by Dafyyd Neal Dyar
"The True Origin of Capt. Gideon Argo" by Tony Simmons

"Fifty Years later" by Will Murray
Back Cover: Alvaro Fernandois

Everything, new and old, is beautifully designed by Kez Wilson.
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 The Bronze Gazette  
   

CAPTAIN FUTURE RETURNS!
Coming in November!


Allen Steele has announced that he will soon be continuing the adventures of Captain Future.

From Allen Steele's announcement:

This fall Experimenter Publishing, the publisher of AMAZING STORIES, will be launching EDMOND HAMILTON'S CAPTAIN FUTURE as a paperback/ebook series called "Amazing Stories Selects." The first issue, scheduled for release in November, will feature "Captain Future in Love", the long novella that ran as a two-part serial in AMAZING last year; it will also include an essay about the history of Captain Future and how and why I reinvented this classic SF character. This will kick off a four-part story cycle, "The Return of Ul Quorn", that will run for the next three issues; the second installment, "The Guns of Pluto", is now being written, and we're aiming to publish it early next year.

As I've said a couple of years ago when my first CF novel, AVENGERS OF THE MOON, was published by Tor, although my take on the character is derived from Edmond Hamilton's novels of the 1940's, this ain't your grandpa's Captain Future. Authorized by the Hamilton estate, this is an updated and revised version of the original pulp series. For example, feast your eyes on Curt Newton's ship, the "Comet II". Rob Caswell, the illustrator, and I put a lot of time and thought into designing a plausible new version of this classic ship ... and this is just a preview of things to come.

As things come together, AMAZING and I will release more info about EHCF, including where and how to purchase single issues and subscriptions.
If you're a fan of high adventure and space opera in the grand tradition, we think you'll like this. Stay tuned.



Experimenter Publishing   Allen Steele



Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Sensor Sweep: Tolkien’s Letters, Taghri’s Prize, Kardios of Atlantis
- New!
Sensuous Science Fiction - New!
Sensor Sweep: Starbase, Scarlet Citadel, Baldur’s Gate
Sensor Sweep: Richard L. Tierney, Diana Gabaldon, Jirel of Joiry, Stan Lee
Joseph Payne Brennan back in print!
Sensor Sweep: Cosmic Horror, Tom Barber, Casino Royale, David C. Smith
Sensor Sweep: Dragon Awards, Conan and the Living Plague, Atari, Farmer in the Sky, Obscure RPG
Sensor Sweep: Robert Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Marvel Universe, Ravage, Monster Manual


Clive Cussler: THE TITANIC SECRET (An Isaac Bell Adventure) - Now available!
by Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul


A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time.

In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery...

In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine, in which nine people died. His dangerous quest to answer the riddle leads to a larger puzzle centered on byzanium, a rare element with extraordinary powers and of virtually incalculable value. As he discovers that there are people who will do anything to control the substance, Isaac Bell will find out just how far he'll go to stop them.


Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 9.3 inches
List price: $29.00



The Complete Air Wonder Stories: Volume 1: Gwandanaland Comics #967
The Thrilling Hugo Gernsback Fiction Series! -- This Book: Complete Issues #1-4
Now Upgraded and Expanded to Four Issues
Now available!

In July 1929 Hugo Gernsback published the first issue of AIR WONDER STORIES, one of three magazines he started after he lost control of the original Amazing Stories. In 1929 science-fiction was still a small, niche market, but Gernsback's publications would change that, usher in the Golden Age of science-fiction, and alter the world as we know it. We're bringing you the complete 11-issue run of AIR WONDER STORIES (after which it was merged with Science Wonder Stories into the simpler Wonder Stories) --- some of the most imaginative and fantastic works of literature of the day, and of any day! Only Gwandanaland Comics publishes the complete series!


Paperback: 396 pages
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
$16.99




CONAN THE BARBARIAN

Marvel has announced that more characters from Robert E. Howard will be making their way to the Marvel Comics!
The likes of Dark Agnes, Solomon Kane, and a few more surprises are on the way in upcoming Marvel books.


THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #9 - Arriving in comic shops September 18!
Jim Zub (Writer)
Patrick Zircher (Art)

Marco Checchetto (Cover)

Yasmine Putri (Variant Cover)

A DEBT OF BLOOD REPAID!
• The chips are down, and CONAN will have to play his best hand…
• …the one holding good Brythunian steel!
• The DEMON’S DEN takes its debts seriously, and it will take everything Conan’s got if he is to emerge from the DEBTOR’S LOUNGE alive!
• PLUS: The next chapter in the all-new CONAN novella “THE SHADOW OF VENGEANCE”!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99




 
AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT, QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST TPB - Arriving in comic shops September 18!
Written by Tini Howard
Penciled by Kate Niemczyk
Cover by Sana Takeda


The spitfire who would be queen! Bêlit — the name alone conjures fear up and down the coasts of the Hyborian Age. And the sight of her ship, the Tigress, is an omen of despair for any town in the pirate queen’s path! The Age of Conan begins with one of the barbarian’s most formidable compatriots in a new story revealing how she became the undisputed Queen of the Black Coast! Teenage Bêlit is obsessed with the sea — as well as the monsters and treasures she thinks are summoning her there! But when she stows away on the dread Admiral Atrahasis’ ship, it leads her into a deadly adventure even she could not predict! Will Bêlit’s impetuous nature lead the crew to victory — or sink her ambitions before they’ve begun?

Collecting AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT, QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST #1-5.


Full Color, 112 pages, $15.99, On sale September 18.









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

Forgotten Stories: THEIR GUARDIAN FROM HELL by Norbert Davis (1937)
- New!
Cliffhanger Serial Posters: THE FLAME FIGHTER (1925) - New!
Alex Toth's ZORRO and the "Ghost of the Mission" Part 2 (1958) - New!
Alex Toth's ZORRO and the "Ghost of the Mission" Part 1 (1958) - New!
Pulp Gallery: BATTLE STORIES - New!
Still More Movie Posters of 1927 - New!
TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 10 (1951) - New!
Poster Magic: CARTER THE GREAT (1926-28)
RED RYDER Big Little Books
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L.B. COLE flies with Black Venus (1944)
Pulp Gallery: MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES

More Westerns You MAY Have Missed (1927)
TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 9 (1951)


The Digest Enthusiast #10
 Now available!


The tenth edition of The Digest Enthusiast is now available in print and digital on amazon.com featuring an interview with James Reasoner covering his stories for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine; PIs Cody, Delaney, and Markham; his Redemption series, the Wind River series with L.J. Washburn; and much more.


Interviews
Author, editor, and publisher James Reasoner delves into his stories for Mike Shayne; PIs Cody, Delaney, and Markham; his Redemption series, the Wind River series with L.J. Washburn; and much more.

Articles
Ward Smith remembers Armed Services Editions—digests that are not digests
Peter Enfantino tackles Startling Mystery Stories No. 1–18, and a keen assessment of Manhunt 1954 July–Oct
Vince Nowell, Sr. dissects Sol Cohen’s tactics to save Amazing Stories
Richard Krauss examines Charlie Chan’s media empire, with special emphasis on Renown Publications’ digest magazine
Steve Carper reports on the one, the only, Bronze Books and trailblazers Luke Roberts and Jesse Lee Carter
Tom Brinkmann exposes The Creature from the Black Lagoon with The Seven Year Itch.Fiction

Fiction
Robert Snashall and Joe Wehrle, Jr., with art by Carolyn Cosgriff

Also includes
News updates from the newsstand giants and the digital darlings of today’s genre fiction digests, straight from their editors and publishers
In-depth reviews of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2019 and Broadswords & Blasters No. 9
Plus over 100 digest magazine cover images, cartoons by Bob Vojtko, art by Brian Buniak, a poem by Clark Dissmeyer, first issue factoids, and more.

Includes over 100 digest magazine cover images
160 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest

Print version, $8.99
Kindle version, $2.99


    



The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Nostalgia Digest Autumn 2019 - New!
Mystery Weekly Magazine Sept. 2019
Amazing Stories Fall 2019
Weird Menace Vol. 2
Weird Menace Vol. 1
Western Magazine No. 2  
Paperback Parade No. 104



DMR Books
HEROES OF ATLANTIS AND LEMURIA
By Manly Wade Wellman & Leigh Bracket

Now available!



In the late ‘70s legendary pulp fictioneer Manly Wade Wellman created a fantasy hero named Kardios, who was the last survivor of Atlantis. The five tales of Kardios Wellman penned appeared in anthologies such as Swords Against Darkness and Heroic Fantasy, which are long out of print. For decades sword and sorcery fans have clamored for all five stories to be reprinted in a single collection, but their cries fell on deaf ears.

We at DMR Books have heard your call! Just as we brought collections by Weird Tales writers Nictzin Dyalhis and Clifford Ball into paperback for the first time, we will do what has never been done before and present to you a Kardios collection!

Even better, the collection, which is entitled Heroes of Atlantis & Lemuria, will contain more than just Kardios stories. All three of Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.’s sword and sorcery stories set in Lemuria will be included as well. These Lemurian adventures have never been collected before, either. If that’s not enough, we’ll top it off with a hard to find Leigh Brackett story set in Mu!

Heroes of Atlantis & Lemuria will be available mid-September. That’s just a few short weeks away, so keep an eye out for it. It will be published in trade paperback and digital formats.

Table of Contents
Straggler From Atlantis by Manly Wade Wellman
The Dweller in the Temple by Manly Wade Wellman
The Guest of Dzinganji by Manly Wade Wellman
The Seeker in the Fortress by Manly Wade Wellman
The Edge of the World by Manly Wade Wellman
Adventure in Lemuria by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Intrigue in Lemuria by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Volcano Slaves of Mu by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Lord of the Earthquake by Leigh Brackett





DMR Books Blog - Now online!

Michael Tierney - The DMR Interview Part Two
- New!
To Dree, Or Not To Dree? - New!
The Norse Sagas of Poul Anderson: Hrolf Kraki's Saga and "The Tale of Hauk"
- New!
The Norse Sagas of Poul Anderson: The Broken Sword - New!
The DMRtian Chronicles, 9/8/2019 - New!
Michael Tierney - The DMR Interview Part One
Long-Awaited Collection of Manly Wade Wellman's Kardios Stories Coming Soon
Mundy Monday: Queen Cleopatra
The DMRtian Chronicles, 9/1/2019
Sojan Shieldbearer: The Original Eternal Champion



Dover Books
Joseph Payne Brennan
New titles available!


Acclaimed by Stephen King as "a master of the unashamed horror tale," Joseph Payne Brennan wrote hundreds of tales of terror, suspense, and fantasy. Collectors and fans will delight in this inexpensive reissue of Brennan's hard-to-find classic, Nine Horrors and a Dream. This collection, originally published by Arkham House in 1958, features stories published by Weird Tales and other pulp magazines of the 1950s — including the much-anthologized "Slime," which inspired the ever-popular thriller The Blob.

Less familiar but equally gripping tales include "Levitation," in which a carnival-goer has an unfortunate encounter with a hypnotist; "The Calamander Chest," the story of a low-priced antique that turns out to be no bargain; "Death in Peru," involving a lethal curse; the darkly humorous "On the Elevator"; and "The Green Parrot," which recounts a Good Samaritan's bad timing. Other selections include "Canavan's Back Yard," featuring a property with a gruesome history; "I'm Murdering Mr. Massington," which tells of a bizarre grasp at immortality; "The Hunt," a playfully creepy yarn about an obsessive chase; and "The Mail for Juniper Hill," in which a tipsy but determined postman refuses to let anything — even death — keep him from his appointed rounds.


Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0486834191
Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 7.8 inches
$9.95

The Shapes of Midnight

"Joseph Payne Brennan is one of the most effective writers in the horror genre, and he is certainly one of the writers I have patterned my own career upon," declared Stephen King. "In fact," he added, "The Shapes of Midnight could serve as an exercise-book for the young writer who aspires to pen and publish his or her own weird tales."

A poet as well as a writer of horror fiction, Brennan worked at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library as an acquisitions assistant for over 40 years. He wrote hundreds of stories for Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. This new edition of his increasingly rare compilation, The Shapes of Midnight, presents 10 of his best stories.

Selections include "Diary of a Werewolf," a first-person account of bloody sprees; "The Corpse of Charlie Rull," recounting the rampage of a radioactive zombie; "The Pavilion," which unfolds at an abandoned seaside haunt with something ghastly beneath its pilings; "House of Memory," a wistful look at the past's imaginative grip; "The Willow Platform," featuring the machinations of a self-styled warlock; and other chillingly memorable tales.


Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications
Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 7.9 inches
$12.56


Nine Horrors and a Dream    The Shapes of Midnight



Edgar Rice Burroughs Books
A PRINCESS OF MARS by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Deluxe Manuscript Edition!

Now available for pre-order!

Shipping November - December 2019!

The Deluxe Manuscript Edition of A Princess of Mars is the fifth title in the ERB Limited Edition Collection.
The set is published by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.  and includes an leather bound book in dust jacket, manuscript portfolio, handcrafted dip pen and Dejah Thoris medallion all housed in a 7”x10” custom decorated case. 
We think this will be the most elaborate and unique edition of A Princess of Mars ever published.

Each set features:

•  A Leather Bound Book limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artists and contributors with a corrected text, new foreword and preface.
•  20 Color Plates featuring the original (5) color Schoonover paintings and works by Frazetta, Abbett, Whelan, Manchess, Miller and including..
    (4-6) New Paintings commissioned for this edition (Artists like Iain McCaig, Dave Dorman, Thomas Gianni, Tom Grindberg, Doug Klauba and others.)
•  A Custom Case covered in Cialux cloth, with spine titling and decorations debossed in gold and 1st edition dust jacket illustration inlaid on the lid.
•  ERB Manuscript Portfolio (1911-1912) for 'Under the Moons of Mars" containing replica manuscript pages, editor letters, the Munsey check to ERB for UMM, and first publication pulp cover and pages.
•  Manuscript Pen (1911-1912)- replica of the dip pen used by ERB to write the holographic manuscript for Under the Moons of Mars.
•  2" Dejah Thoris Medallion - 3D portrait design in antique silver accented in gold, numbered to match the book and inserted inside the custom case.
•  New Dust Jacket artwork and color Barsoom Map endpapers.
•  30+ Black and White Illustrations by Tom Yeates and others…

In addition:
•  The Deluxe Manuscript Edition of A Princess of Mars does not include a Grosset & Dunlap printing since the ERB Limited Edition Collection only publishes titles in G&D that have not previously been available.
    So far that includes 1st G&D printings of Back to the Stone Age, Land of Terror, Savage Pellucidar and John Carter of Mars.
•   The text has been proofed by Frank Puncer and reset with corrections for this new edition. (One notable mistake was discovered in the 1st edition text that has been carried over to every later edition.)
•  The decorated box, dust jacket, book cover and title and chapter page designs are by Zavier Cabarga with the book bound in brown Cromwell leather with red/orange stamping
    in a style reminiscent of the first edition published by A. C. McClurg.
•  The custom case features a drop spine and houses the book, manuscript portfolio and a die cut tray for the medallion and pen.
•  This vintage-style document portfolio is a 6”x9” gusseted custom envelope made of heavy kraft paper and secured by a button and string.
    We have taken great care to source antique and vintage papers to match the original pages or documents.
•  The first publication pulp cover and pages are from the Feb. 1912 All-Story Magazine and include two-sided replicas of the color cover, contents page and first story page.
•  The handmade Italian wooden/pewter pen comes with an original 100 year-old Esterbrook 788 Oval gold-plated nib and is mounted in a base tray with the Dejah Thoris medallion.
•  Limited: 500 numbered copies signed by the contributors and artists, in slipcase





Harryhausen: The Lost Movies - Now available!
by John Walsh 


The official guide to the unrealised films of Ray Harryhausen.

Known for his iconic stop-motion creatures, Ray Harryhausen was at the forefront of Hollywood special effects for much of the 20th century. His films include One Million Years B.C., Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts, among others. But for every film that reaches the big screen, half a dozen projects are never realised.

Harryhausen: The Lost Movies explores Harryhausen's unrealised films, including unused ideas, projects he turned down and scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor. This book includes never-been-seen-before artwork, sketches, photos and test footage from the Harryhausen Foundation archives.


Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.3 inches
List price: $39.95



Hippocampus Press
Arthur Machen: Collected Fiction (3 Volume Set)
Now available!


This is the first complete edition of the fiction of Anglo-Welsh writer Arthur Machen (1863–1947) ever published. It includes the totality of his short fiction, novelettes, novels, and prose poems. While there is some debate as to what actually constitutes a short story in Machen’s work—especially given his bountiful array of journalism, some of which borders on fiction—the works in this volume are unquestionably narratives that feature one or more elements of fictional composition. A substantial majority of these works are tales of horror and the supernatural—a genre in which Machen has made a lasting and ever-expanding impression.

The edition has been prepared by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction and the author of The Weird Tale (1990) and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012).
Joshi has prepared textually corrected editions of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and many other weird writers.


Volume 1: 1888–1895
This first volume contains his charming picaresque novel The Chronicle of Clemendy (1888), an exquisite imitation of the medieval narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio. At this time Machen was a young journalist who had moved from his native Wales to London, and he wrote a number of humorous and slightly risqué sketches for fashionable London magazines. But then he published “The Great God Pan” (1894), one of the pioneering works in the entire range of weird fiction. It was condemned by contemporary reviewers as the work of a diseased mind. Machen followed it up with the episodic novel The Three Impostors (1895), containing the brilliant segments “The Novel of the Black Seal” (which features the Little People, a sub-human race lurking on the edges of civilization), “The Novel of the White Powder,” and other vivid narratives.

Volume 2: 1896–1910
This second volume of Machen’s collected fiction begins with Machen’s most accomplished novel, The Hill of Dreams (written in 1895–97 and published in 1907), which H. P. Lovecraft called a “memorable epic of the sensitive aesthetic mind.” It features Lucian Taylor, a young man from the country who struggles to become a writer in London. His ruminations on life, love, and authorship are extraordinarily poignant, and at one point he engages in a lengthy dream of being back in ancient Rome, in the town of Isca Silurum, near his birthplace in Wales. Later in 1897 Machen wrote a series of exquisite prose poems that were later published as Ornaments in Jade (1924). These ten vignettes display Machen’s luminous prose at its most evocative, and they touch upon the possibility of strange and wondrous phenomena concealed behind the outward façade of the mundane world. Machen’s most accomplished weird tale, “The White People,” is also found here. Its account of a young girl insidiously inculcated in the witch-cult, told entirely from her own perspective as she jots down her thoughts and impressions in a diary, achieves the pinnacle of clutching fear. A very different work is the short novel A Fragment of Life, telling of how a seemingly ordinary couple rediscover their sense of wonder in the world around them. The novel The Secret Glory (written around 1907) is a discursive novel that searingly condemns the British school system for destroying the imaginations of its pupils. The entire work—including the final two chapters, first published only in a limited edition in 1992—is included here.

Volume 3: 1911–1937
The third volume of Machen’s collected fiction begins with a tale, “The Thousand and One Nights,” that has never before been reprinted. It continues with a succession of tales that Machen wrote during and just after World War I, a cataclysm that shook Europe to its foundations. The most famous of these is “The Bowmen” (1914), a narrative of medieval soldiers coming to the rescue of besieged British infantrymen in France was widely believed to be a true account, in spite of Machen’s repeated protestations to the contrary. Machen’s final war tale, the short novel The Terror (1916), is an imperishable depiction of the revolt of animals against humanity’s rulership of the earth. In the 1920s Machen resorted to humor and satire to convey his dissatisfaction with the increasing secularization of his era, which he felt was robbing the imagination of wonder and mystery. He also began contributing to anthologies of original weird fiction edited by Cynthia Asquith and others, producing several memorable tales as a result, including “The Happy Children” and “The Islington Mystery.” Machen’s final novel, The Green Round (1933), is a subtle tale of supernatural menace, narrated in the blandly repertorial prose that Machen had developed in his later work. He then published two final volumes of weird tales, The Cosy Room and The Children of the Pool (both 1936), which contain many memorable tales, including “The Bright Boy” and “N.”

Three volumes, sold as a set.
Individual volumes available on Amazon.com
Edited by S. T. Joshi
Cover artwork by Matthew Jaffe
Ttrade paper, 1645 pages
Published simultaneously with THE SECRET CEREMONIES: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON ARTHUR MACHEN
This set is being released at NecronomiCon Providence 2019.
Pre-orders will be filled in late August, after the convention.
$75.00



The Illustrated Press
ALLEN ANDERSON

Now available fror pre-order!
Scheduled to ship in October!

Standard Edition
This is the ultimate book on the work of pulp artist ALLEN ANDERSON. Known best for his covers for PLANET STORIES, DELL COMICS, spicy pulps, Western pulps, and many others, this spectacular book contains stunning reproductions taken directly from Anderson's original paintings, as well as reference photos, rare proof sheets of pulp covers, and much more. Limited to just 900 copies.

224 pages, 9x12 inches, hardcover with dust jacket. $44.95 (U.S.)

Deluxe Edition
 
This is the ultimate book on the work of pulp artist ALLEN ANDERSON. Known best for his covers for PLANET STORIES, DELL COMICS, spicy pulps, Western pulps, and many others, this spectacular book contains stunning reproductions taken directly from Anderson's original paintings, as well as reference photos, rare proof sheets of pulp covers, and much more. Limited to just 100 copies!

224 pages, 9x12 inches, hardcover with dust jacket
in red slipcase with white lettering. Insert bookplate signed and numbered by author David Saunders. $64.95 (U.S.)

To see a preview of the book, follow this link: https://issuu.com/illomag/docs/rafaeldesoto






JAMES BOND 007 #11 - Arriving in comic shops September 18!
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: 
Robert Carey
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Khoi Pham
Cover C: C. Melkinov
Cover D: Robert Carey

"Goldfinger" continues. Infiltration. A mad love. Someone goes unhinged. From GREG PAK (Agents Of Atlas, Star Wars) and ROBERT CAREY (Aliens: Resistance).


Full Color, 36 pages, $3.99

 
 
 
   



Jerry Schneider Enterprises

Now available!

MAGAZINE OF HORROR #15

CONTENTS
THE VALE OF LOST WOMEN (a Conan story) by Robert E. Howard
THE ROOM OF SHADOWS by Arthur J. Burks
LILIES by Robert A. W. Lowndes
THE FLAW by J. Vernon Shea
THE DOOM OF LONDON by Robert Barr
THE GHOUL GALLERY by Hugh B. Cave

Digest, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$12.95




TWO COMPLETE DETECTIVE BOOKS #69, Winter 1951

Contents
PHANTOM LADY by William Irish
THE CLEAN-UP by Joe Barry.

Pulp Sized Magazine, 7 x 10 inch, 144 pages
$14.95



WONDER STORIES QUARTERLY, Summer 1932

Contents
BEYOND PLUTO by John Scott Campbell
EXILES OF MARS by Frank A. Kelly
REBELLION ON VENUS by John Bertin and Edward Morris
THE VOYAGE OF THE ASTEROID by Laurence Manning
THE MENACE FROM MERCURY by Raymond Gallun and John Michel
THE JOVIAN HORDE by Al. H. Martin

Magazine, 8.5 x 11 inch, 148 pages
$14.95


THE GREATEST ADVENTURE

GOLD--AND DEATH!
THEY FOUND A LOST WORLD OF WEIRD MONSTERS

When a sea captain brought a baby dinosaur to the home of a wealthy, brilliant scientist, it triggered off an expedition that well deserves the title of THE GREATEST ADVENTURE.
For the trail of that little creature led straight into the unexplored, quake-shaken Antarctic to a lost world overrun with the monsters of an evolution gone wild!
In every way a classic of science-fiction, it’s breathtaking story-telling by John Taine back in print at last!

Trade Paperback, 6 x 9 inch, 258 pages
$14.95







Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

The Shadow: 1940 Cliffhanger Serial - New!
King Kong, The Alvin Show and Rock and Roll
The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
The Lion King Reigns Supreme
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon: The Radio Program




The Robert E. Howard Newsline
Now online!


Bringing you the latest news in Robert E. Howard books, pulp reprints, comics, audio, conventions, games, and whatever else seems applicable.

Now featuring:

Links to Robert E. Howard Days 2019 Panel Discussions  


The Art of Robert E. Howard: Peter Andrew Jones

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Virgil Finlay

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Michael William Kaluta:  Part 1   Part 2   Part 3  

Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie

Accepting new articles for posting.
Contact me at bthom1@cox.net





Meteor House
Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes
Now available!

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




September 12-14, 2019! 

Hunt Valley Detla Hotel, Hunt Valley, Maryland

Announcing the first half of our celebrity lineup for our 2019 event!
Remember you can purchase your admission tickets in advance through the website and save money.
And book your hotel room early before they are sold out!
Hotel: (410) 785-7000


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



Mystery*File - Now online!

Pulp Stories I’m Reading: L. M. MONTGOMERY “The House Party at Smoky Island.”
- New!
A Movie Review by Dan Stumpf: SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES DEATH (1943). - New!
Stories I’m Reading: AUGUST DERLETH “The China Cottage.”
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: Three Northerns by FREDERICK NEBEL.
Mike Nevins on Pulp Writer RAOUL WHITFIELD, Part Two.
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: ERLE STANLEY GARDNER “Night Birds.”

Stories I’m Reading: STUART PALMER “The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl.”
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: THOMAS WALSH “Murder Twist.”

The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Bounty

The Scarlet Claw
The Midnight Phantom
Australis Incognito
The Henchmen

North-West Adventures - Now online!

King of the Royal Mounted Cover Gallery
(1935) Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted

(1883) “Captain of the ‘Polestar'

(1951) “The Smile of Jean Charcot”

(1937) “The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw”

Lawrence Mott (1881-1931)


OLD BONES (Nora Kelly) - Now available!
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





PAPERBACK PARADE #104 - Now available!

PAPERBACK PARADE #104, the magazine for paperback readers and collectors -- 100 pages in Full Color!

Contents
Gary Lovisi: Paperback Talk
Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Writer & the Stories”
Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Books & the Covers”
Gary Lovisi & Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Signet List”
Art Scott “Carter Brown: In Belmont & Tower”
Philip Harbottle “Fearn’s Jinxed Novels”
Richard Greene “Matchless Paperbacks: Straw Boss”
Gary Lovisi “Mighty Midgets”
Jon D. Swartz “Early Penguin SF”
Jon D. Swartz “Bill Crider”


$15.00 + $3.00 postage from Gryphon Books, www.gryphonbooks.com.
You can pay via Paypal or with a check to our address:
Gryphon Books, PO Box 280209, Brooklyn, NY 11228, USA. (Inquire on subscription rates and outside USA).
Thank you and all best to you for 2017! Enjoy!


Back issues also available while they last!

 
ORDERING INFORMATION: 
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You can also purchase Paperback Parade at our ebay store at the link below. 
You can pay via check to our mailing address:
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Paperback Parade single issue is $15.00 + postage. Query on back issues AND ON AD RATES.
Subscriptions:   Domestic: 3 issues for $40.00;    ALL INTERNATIONAL: 3 issues $65.00

POSTAGE RATES:
Domestic: the first item (book) is $3.00 media mail + 50 cents each additional item.
International: the first book is $14.00 via First Class International, $2.00 each additional book.
All books and magazines are mailed through the U.S. Postal Service.
Query on Priority Mail or other mailing methods.



     

 




George Vanderburgh has been named the winner of the 2019 Munsey Award. Nominated by the general pulp community, George was selected by previous winners of the Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards. The award is a fine art print created by David Saunders and published by Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press. It is presented annually to an individual or institution that has bettered the pulp community. Bill Lampkin — winner of the 2018 Munsey Award — presented this year’s award.

Our 2019 Munsey Award winner, GEORGE VANDERBURGH has published over 600 books through his Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, many of them directly related to the pulps. He was largely responsible for finally getting all of Fred Davis’ classic Moon Man stories back into print. And what about his Peter the Brazen series, his five volumes featuring the work of Seabury Quinn, THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE PARK AVENUE HUNT CLUB, his Green Ghost set, THE COMPLEAT SAGA OF JOHN SOLOMON, THE ADVENTURES OF THE GOLDEN AMAZON, THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE SUICIDE SQUAD, and others? He has also given us numerous collections of detective fiction, including volumes featuring the Thinking Machine, Dr. Thorndyke, and Martin Hewitt. Looking at his website, his future plans include several books reprinting pulp authors who have been unjustly forgotten. Along with the late Robert Weinberg, George served as the co-editor of Arkham House Publishers until the death of April Derleth. A regular attendee of pulp conventions, George has helped both longtime and new fans to collect the tales of some of the most fantastic heroes from the pulps. At this year’s PulpFest, George was part of our presentation, “The Game’s Afoot: Sherlock Holmes and the Pulps.”

Congratulations to George for this most deserved award.


PulpFest Blog Posts

PulpFest 2020 Estate Auction
- New!
Thanks for Making PulpFest 2019 a Great Success!
PulpFest 2019: Two Sought Adventure: Eighty Years of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Get Nostalgic at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
Sunday at PulpFest 2019

Our 2019 Munsey Award Winner

Saturday at PulpFest 2019

Friday at PulpFest 2019
PulpFest 2019 Begins Today -
Safe Travels
PulpFest Primer
Last Minute Dealer Changes
One Week to Go!
Highlights from THE PULPSTER



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Crimes of Old London: The Scoured Silk" by Marjorie Bowen from ALL-STORY WEEKLY, June  8, 1918

Pseudonym of Gabrielle M. V. Long, (1885-1952)
THIS is a tale that might be told in many ways and from various points of view, hut it has to be gathered from here and there, a letter, a report, a diary, a casual reference.
In its day the thing was more than a passing wonder and it left a mark of abiding horror on the neighborhood, until the house and then the street were finally demolished, and legend being uprooted from the stones on which it grew, began to fade and finally withered away.

"When Oscar Went Wild" by W. C. Tuttle from ADVENTURE, July, 1916
A humorous western. Two cowboys are asked to find and bring back a tame cougar but catch no one but two wild bobcats. Getting rid of them becomes the real challenge.

"The Silver Clock" by Thomas F. Hart from ARGOSY, February. 1895
A young man visiting Russia accidentally becomes a pawn of anarchists.



















IN THE 100th BIRTHDAY YEAR OF ZORRO,
PULP ADVENTURECON WILL BE SPECIAL!



The Pulp Archivist - Now online!

Leviathan

Giants
The Oklahoma Tradition
Light Novel Recommendations: An Introduction
Quick Reviews: Shadow Heart and A Thousand Li


Pulp Den by Tom Johnson - Now online!

Welcome To Miskatonic University

Boundless
King Ra Ra: Carrots For Sale
The City Burns At Night
Oklahoma Winds
ASTOUNDING
Haunted Charlottesville


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

Pulpfest 2019 trip report - photos
Walker Martin: Pulpfest 2019 report - August 15-18, 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The dark side of the pulps
Pulp links roundup - July 2019 edition  
Donald Francis McGrew - Author, Journalist  
Elliot W. Chess – Fighter pilot, Author
Link Roundup - May 2019


The Pulp Hermit  by Tom Johnson - Now online!

A New Artist Comes to ECHOES
Introducing New Pulp Author Ginger Johnson
Betty Dale, Charlotta & Leanne Manners
A Piece of Something Big  
The Tokaido Road
Introducing New Pulp Author Teel James Glenn
Bronze Shadows
INTRODUCING NEW PULP AUTHOR KATE A. GANNON
Legion of Living Dead  
The Pulp.Net  - Now online!
The Pulp.Net features three ongoing blogs!
Pulp Super-Fan blog written by Michael R. Brown, That's Pulp by John Olsen, and the long-running Yellowed Perils written by William Lampkin.


Radio Archives
G-8 and His Battle Aces #11 Audiobook
The Hurricane Patrol
by Robert J. Hogan

Read by Nick Santa Maria
  Now available!

They called G-8 the Flying Spy. History never recorded his exploits—and for good reason! No one would ever believe World War I was that wild!
 
Twice in one morning an American front-line company had been wiped out; every man killed — suffocated — without a chance to fight back. “I think I am about to die. A moment ago a Fokker dropped a missile into our trenches...” As G-8 read this message from a dead man he knew he held the first vital clue to the strangling death that had wiped out hundreds of Yanks. And grimly he vowed to follow it! G-8 scoured Paris, flew over the Mediterranean and even penetrated the wild country of northern Africa to combat this ghastly sky menace on dead man’s wings!


The origins of G-8’s flying adventures relate directly to his creator’s fascination with flying. As a young man, Robert J. Hogan, born in 1897, made his first flight on a trip to Colorado one summer en route to a ranch named the G-8. Completely taken with this then new marvel of transportation, Hogan joined the newly formed air corps in World War I, but never saw true action. He held onto his aviation interest, working as a supporter of the industry and as a pilot demonstrating some of the earliest models of airplanes for companies building them. With the 1929 Crash nearly ending the fairly newborn aviation market, Hogan had to find another way to earn money. Taking his very personal affection for airplanes well in hand, he wrote a story, submitted it to Wings Magazine, and became a paid writer. Not long after, G-8 and His Battle Aces would wing their way into the hearts and minds of pulp fans for generations.
 
Nick Santa Maria brings G-8, Nippy and Bull to thrilling life in their desperate struggle to defeat a deadly nemesis unlike anything they have ever before encountered in ‘The Hurricane Patrol’. Originally published in the August 1934 issue of G-8 and His Battle Aces magazine.
 
Nick DeGregorio composed the music for the G-8 and His Battle Aces series of audiobooks.



    
Discounted 50% the first week.
MP3 digital download - $4.99
Audio CDs - $9.99

Regular price:
5 hours - $9.99 Download / $19.98 Audio CDs


Radio Archives
Startling Stories Audiobook
Fall 1944

Read by Milton Bagby, Roberto Scarlato, and Roger Price

  Now available!


Startling Stories was the younger sibling of Thrilling Wonder Stories. It began in 1939 at the urging of science fiction fans who clamored for a full-length novel in each issue. At this point, Thrilling Wonder Stories contained a variety of novelets and short stories, but fans wanted something longer that allowed for more character development. And thus, Startling Stories was born. Each issue started off with a book-length novel, and was filled out with a variety of short stories, science columns, special features and, of course, letters to the editor. Some of science-fiction’s best authors appeared in Startling Stories, including luminaries such as Stanley G. Weinbaum, Eando Binder, Edmond Hamilton, and Alfred Bester. The magazine thrived through the 1940s and early 1950s, but fading revenues forced it to close with the Fall 1955 issue, after a 99-issue run. Startling Stories now returns with these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s listeners as audiobooks.

Table of Contents:
 
A Complete Book-Length Scientifiction Novel
Shadow Over Mars
by Leigh Brackett
Out of the Roaring Turmoil of the Red Planet Emerges Resolute Rick Urquhart — Destined to Rule the Universe, and to Dare Destruction for the Sake of the Woman He Loves!
 
The Cosmic Doodler — Unusual Short Story
by Carl Jacobi
 
Thrills In Science — Special Feature
by Oscar J. Friend
 
The Day Of The Beast — Unusual Short Story
by D.D. Sharp
 
The Invisible Vandals — Unusual Short Story
by Charles Stoddard
 
The Mad Domneys — Unusual Short Story
by Verne Chute
 
This Startling War — News from the Science Front
 
Meet The Author
by Leigh Brackett 
Discounted 50% the first week.
MP3 digital download - $7.99
Audio CDs - $15.99

Regular price:
8 hours - $15.99 Download / $31.98 Audio CDs



Radio Archives Pulp Classics
G-8 and His Battle Aces #11 eBook
August 1934

Now available!

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.

G-8 and His Battle Aces rode the nostalgia boom ten years after World War I ended. These high-flying exploits were tall tales of a World War that might have been, featuring monster bats, German zombies, wolf-men, harpies, Martians, and even tentacled floating monsters. Most of these monstrosities were the work of Germany’s seemingly endless supply of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8’s recurring Nemesis, Herr Doktor Krueger. G-8 battled Germany’s Halloween shock troops for over a decade, not ceasing until the magazine folded in the middle of World War II. G-8 and His Battle Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:
Introduction to G-8 and His Battle Aces
by Will Murray
 
Great Flying Novel
The Hurricane Patrol
Told By G-8 To Robert J. Hogan
Twice in one morning an American front-line company had been wiped out; every man killed — suffocated — without a chance to fight back. What was this awful new death? G-8 scoured Paris, flew over the Mediterranean and even penetrated the wild country of northern Africa to combat this ghastly sky menace on dead mans wings!
 
Hard-Boiled Buzzard — Gripping Short Story
by Lawrence Mason
Meet the toughest 7-minute egg that ever ate Boche lead — Spike Beaver!
 
G-8 Speaks — A Department for Air Fans
The club is called to order, gang. Come in and meet some of the fellows!
 
Cover
by Frederick Blakeslee
They were caught in the terrific gale...


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


Recoverings
The Only Dust-jackets Officially Authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD MEN
BACK TO THE STONE AGE
LAND OF TERROR
A special Alternate Timeline Dust-jacket for THE WAR CHIEF

Now available!


The first three jackets are all reconstructed using scans of the original paintings for those covers.
THE WAR CHIEF alternate is based on art by noted western artist Maynard Dixon and you can read more about it here.


Please take a moment to read the four-page article  about the publishing of THE WAR CHIEF and why it meant so much to Ed Burroughs. I think you’ll be interested to find out that the book was one of the most well-researched novels he ever wrote (besides I AM A BARBARIAN), and, considering its point of view and many of the statements about white settlers, the US Army and the reasons for the Apache’s explicit savagery, certainly his most controversial.

RED SONJA: BIRTH OF THE SHE DEVIL #4   - Arriving in comic shops September 18!
(Writer) Luke Lieberman (Art) Sergio Davila
Cover A: Lucio Parrillo
Cover B: Sergio Davila
Cover C: Cosplay

The fiery conclusion! Red Sonja has travelled long and hard to come to terms with her mentor - Ozzyus and save Shashana!
Now, the trio hurtle towards the oblivion and despair of the villainous Raka, while working to restore the kingdom of the good king Andol!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

  
 




The Serial Squadron
Coming in September!

CAPTAIN AMERICA
THE MOVIE SERIAL
FEATURING DICK PURCELL
ADRIAN BOOTH and LIONEL ATWILL
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD Upgrade


A remastering of the original Squadron-produced transfer with complete, correct chapter openings, stabilized, and offered in HD with improved sharpness and motion.
Also includes new and upgraded extras.

Watch for information on how to preorder and when the title will ship.





 
The Serial Squadron
Coming in October!

ROCKETMAN IN THE COMICS AND THE MOVIES
Book


The history of Rocketman/Commando Cody in the serials and related characters including Bulletman in the comics. Includes a brand NEW Rocketman story.



THE HOUSE OF HATE
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD


New upgraded transfer of the amazing, massively influential Pearl White mystery serial, with solid leading man Antonio Moreno,
and, introducing The Hooded Terror, most fearsome and deadly of the early serial villains.









The Shadowcast #1 - THE LIVING SHADOW - Now online!

From the mists of mystery emerges The Shadowcast!
In this first episode, we explore the origins of the Dark Avenger with the very first pulp story: THE LIVING SHADOW, and review The Knight of Darkness's first film appearance in the rare 1931




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

Love Traffic by Gaston Lamond
“Murder Mayhem” by Ray Stahl (aka: Bart Carson)
Murder Gets Around by Robert Sidney Bowen
Spider Pete by Claude Stewart
The Finger of Death by Henry Keyworth



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.

July: Hemingway and Lovecraft-Part Two - New!
July: Hemingway and Lovecraft-Part One - New!
C.L. Moore in Traces Magazine  
July: Weird Tales #363
July: Ernest Hemingway, Star Wars, and the Adolescentization of America
July: Edith and Ernest
July: Losses and Gains
Problems in Science Fiction No. 2-Continued
A Note on a Passing  
Problems in Science Fiction-No. 2
A Teller of Weird Tales at Normandy

 

WEIRD TALES #363 - Now available!

WEIRD TALES HAS RETURNED!
 
A sorcerer on a cliff cuts into his own hand, summoning members of the ancient cult that destroyed his family...
A maid hunts her former employer with a sword, attempting to win a revenge that could save us all...
A doomed man rides a train to his dead father's home to unravel a terrible secret...
A strange box arrives at your door, containing something so bizarre that... well, you'll have to dig in to Weird Tales #363 to see.
 
Weird Tales continues a 95-year commitment to dark fantasy with this illustrated collection of new short fiction from masters of the craft.


Editor: Jonathan Maberry
Cover art by Abigail Larson

Contents
"The Eyrie"
"What Waits in the Trees" by Stephanie Wytovich
"Up from Slavery" by Victor LaValle
"Erasure" by Stephanie Wytovich
"By Post" by Josh Malerman
"A Housekeeper’s Revenge" by Lisa Morton
"A Woman Who Still Knows How to Die" by Stephanie Wytovich
"Due to the Memory of Scars" by Stephanie Wytovich
"The Shadows beneath the Stone" by Jonathan Maberry
"Outside the Shells of Horseshoe Crabs" by Stephanie Wytovich
"I-O-U" by Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Payday" by Hank Schwaeble
"Distant Drums" by Marc Bilgrey
"Amelia Delia Lee" by Tori Eldridge


Full color, 90 pages
Softcover: $12.99
Kindle: $9.99



Weird Tales   Weird Tales: Paperback  Weird Tales: Kindle



WEIRDBOOK #41
Softcover edition now available at Amazon!

Prose
Tonight I Wear My Crimson Face, by Adrian Cole
The House of the Witches, by Darrell Schweitzer
The Bones, by Erica Ruppert
-The Idols of Xan, by Steve Dilks
 Conjurings, by Marlane Quade Cook
Matriarch Unbound, by Glynn Owen Barrass
The Mouth at the Edge of the World, by Luke Walker
"An Autumn Settling", by Alistair Rey
I Know How You'll Die, by K.G. Anderson
Fair Shopping, by Jack Lee Taylor
Black Aggie, by Marina Favila
The Chroma of Home, by Arasibo Campeche
The Last Resort, by Dean MacAllister
The Crypt Beneath the Manse, by S. Subramanian
 A Winter Reunion, by C.M. Muller
 The Stravinsky Code, by Leonard Carpenter
 She Talks to Me, by Matthew Masucci
 Wings of Twilight, by L.F. Falconer
 A Pantheon of Trash, by Thomas C. Mavroudis
 Juliet's Moon, by D.C. Lozar
The Gargoyle's Wife, by Jean Graham
The Melting Man, by Justin Boote
Dead Waves, by Sean McCoy
The Proposal, by J.D. Brink
Dark Energy, by Kevin Hayman
Christmas at Castle Dracula, by S. L. Edwards
There Was Fire, by M. Ravenberg
Them, by Sharon Cullars
For Love of Lythea, by C. I. Kemp

Poetry
Beltane, by K.A. Opperman
Twin Hungers, by Scott J. Couturier
The Jackal, by Ashley Dioses
Our Family Ghost, by Joshua Gage
Le Gargoyle, by Russ Parkhurst"



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







06 September 2019  

2019 Film Releases
All dates are subject to change.


2019

October 4, 2019
October 11, 2019
JOKER
ADDAMS FAMILY
November 1, 2019
November 1, 2019
November 8, 2019
November 22, 2019
November 27, 2019
CHARLIE''S ANGELS
TERMINATOR SEQUEL
UNTITLED KINGSMAN FILM
UNTITLED TERMINATOR FILM
FROZEN SEQUEL
December 20, 2019
STAR WARS: EPISODE IX


70th Michigan Antiquarian Book And Paper Show
Sunday, October 20, 2019
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.


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

Causeway Bay Hotel
6820 South Cedar Street
Lansing, Michigan

 Free Parking!

West of Lowe's Home Improvement


Admission $5
CHILDREN 13 AND UNDER FREE

Ablaze Publishing
THE CIMMERIAN: QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST
Cancelled!

THE CiMMERIAN: QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST has been cancelled for the time being.
Conan Properties has sent a Cease and Desist notice to Ablaze and Diamond Comics Distributors.

Ablaze believes the story to be in the public domain in the USA and worldwide.
Regardless, Conan Properties has some type of issue with publication of this title in the U.S.
Hopefully this will be worked out and the book can eventually be published in English.


Ablaze Publishing  
 
 
 
 
 
   

Adventure House

Adventure House is pleased to announce that Adventure House has acquired a number of the Girasol Collectables reprint files.
They will be releasing on a monthly basis a number of their public domain titles as part of our monthly offerings.

August 2019
SPICY MYSTERY STORIES – 07/35  - Now available!
SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES – 01/35  - Now available!

July 2019
Oriental Stories – 12/30-01/31  - Now available!
Spicy Detective Stories – 06/34 - Coming ??!

June 2019
Strange Tales – 09/31 - Now available!
Magic Carpet Magazine – 04/33 - Now available!

May 2019
Spicy Western Stories – 11/36  
Spicy-Adventure Stories – 12/34

April 2019
Soldiers of Fortune – 10/31
Spicy Mystery Stories – 06/35


Adventure House
Now available!

High Adventure #167

The Strato-Shooters by H. Bedford-JonesPharaoh Figured Wrong The Fifth Freedom The One-Handed Siberian Ice Cave and more.

7x10, 110 pages, $12.95







Age of Aces
Now available!

Through the dark night sky, streaking swiftly with their Hisso engines thundering, is the greatest trio of aces on the Western Front—the famous and inseparable “Three Mosquitoes,” the mightiest flying combination that had ever blazed its way through overwhelming odds and laughed to tell of it! At point was Captain Kirby, impetuous young leader of the great trio; on his right was little Lieutenant “Shorty” Carn, the mild-eyed, corpulent little Mosquito and lanky Lieutenant Travis, eldest and wisest of the Mosquitoes on his left! Flying in a V formation through four exciting hell-bent tales from the pages of Popular Publication’s Battle Aces.

Stories Include: The X-Gun Flight (Jan 32), The Iron Ace (Feb 32), The Flying Dreadnought (Jun 32), The 20-Ace Patrol (Jul 32). All illustrated by John Fleming Gould





Captain Philip Strange is back in eight more weird WWI stories spanning the run of the series in the penultimate volume of this series. A mental marvel from birth, who used his talents on stage as a boy, Philip Strange is now known as “The Phantom Ace of G-2? by the Allies during WWI and the verdamntBrain-Devil by the Boche. Just when you thought there were no more ways to die in war, the Germans come up with some even more gruesome ways! if you’re not just being incinerated by the sun’s ray focused through enormous lenses, you’re being gassed with a horribly disfiguring plague; drowned in a sea of blood or injected with a serum that turns you into a hyped up fighting hellion until you keel over dead; maybe you’ll be lucky and just have your own munitions blow up your entire outfit, or simply have your head chopped off and mounted on some psychotic ace’s wings. Thankfully, we have have Captain Philip Strange on our side to stop them in eight of his strangest cases yet from the pages of Flying Aces magazine!

Stories Include: The Code of K-14 (Feb 32), The Masked Marauders (Mar 33), The Sky Torch (Apr 33), Marauders Without Mercy (Oct 33), Legion of the Lost (Aug 34), Valley of Vengeance (Jun 35), Fokkers of the Red Fog (Aug 37), Headsman Strafe (Feb 38).


Age of Aces







AGE OF CONAN: VALERIA #2 (of 5) - Arriving in comic shops September 11!
Meredith Finch (Writer)
Aneke (Art)
Jay Anacleto (Cover)
Ema Lupacchino  (Variant Cover)

• VALERIA’S quest for revenge brings her one step closer to her brother’s killer…
• But a mysterious stranger with deadly intent has picked up her trail!
• And what secrets do the Knights of MITRA hold, and how do they link to Valeria’s past?
• Plus: The next chapter of an all-new novella featuring one of CONAN’s greatest nemeses—the wizard THOTH-AMON!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99







 

Altus Press / Steeger Books: Pulp Blog - Now online!

Farewell Altus Press, Hello Steeger Books

Announcing the new Altus Press releases premiering at Pulpfest 2019
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


Altus Press / Steeger Books
Farewell Altus Press, Hello Steeger Books

Welcome to the new home of what was (for many years) AltusPress.com. Hopefully you’ve found your way here from redirects from altuspress.com… if so, please update your bookmarks.

Why the change?
Well, there are a few reasons. Several years ago, Altus Press was acquired by Steeger Properties, LLC, and there has been some degree of confusion in regards to the relationship between the two, such as on invoices sent from the website, on credit card charges, etc.

For the last couple of years, altuspress.com has sold other publishers’ books, in addition to its own. To make things more confounding, Steeger Properties also had its own imprints for certain publications. In the end, it made for more questions when things should’ve been made much easier to understand.

Now, all of Steeger Properties’ imprints have been grouped together under one pulp fiction superstore, steegerbooks.com. We’ve made it very clear how to navigate these imprints on this new site. More on this below.

The Altus Press imprint will live on and will be used on certain public domain and legacy book series, so it’s not disappearing.

The new website
We’ve heeded the suggestions that customers of Altus Press have supplied us to improve their shopping experience: this new site has a prominent search option at the top of every page. We’ve added additional options to browse books by author or illustrator, by series, and by imprint. It will now be easy to find many more related titles each time your start browsing our store.

In the near future, you’ll be able to peruse older titles’ front and back covers, and you’ll be able to preview their interiors, to give you a good look at the books’ contents.

While some of the these features will only be enabled for newer titles, we’ll be going back & adding them to older books too.

In addition to picking up the pace on new ebook releases, we’ll also be gradually releasing a new line of electronic pulp titles. More on these in the near future.

I’m a long-time Altus Press customer: what do I need to do?
Nothing! Your altuspress.com login should work seamlessly on steegerbooks.com, and you’ll be able to see your older purchases, edit your account details, etc. In addition, we’ll be adding a Wishlist feature in order to save and share pulp releases. We’re also beefing up the customer service sections of our website. We want to make this the place to go in order to get your pulp fiction publications and to remove as much hassle from the process as possible.

Please let us know via our Contact page if there are any broken elements on the site, what you think of our redesign, and what we can improve.

Thanks for your continued support!

Steeger Books

Altus Press / Steeger Books
Now available!


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 #15: The Red Death Rain
By Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge
A woman lighted a cigarette, puffed it a few times, and began to scream, to tear her clothes from her body. Her head twisted back between her shoulders and she died a horrible convulsive death-death from tobacco smoke! The lascivious cultist, Deacon Coslin, had seen his mad prophecy fulfilled… for already other smokers, everywhere throughout the land, were dying by tens of thousands! With Richard Wentworth’s beloved Nita in the power of the enemy, facing an unspeakable death; with his faithful servants drugged and out of the battle; with the police hounding hint and the arch-criminal foreseeing every strategy, how can the Spider combat the overwhelming odds aligned against him? How can he save his compatriots from the Red Death Rain—save the land he loves from domination by an ambition-twisted brain?


$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95 until August 23.

Operator 5 #8: The Green Death Mists
By Curtis Steele, Frederick C. Davis, John Fleming Gould

The mad Emperor, warrior descendant of the ravagers of Asia, unleashed a new, horrible, ingenious weapon against the American people. While slant-eyed Mongols bent over a powerful death-machine, a thousand miles away, the air became unbreathable! Men and women and children—all living things—gasped for life-giving oxygen, and with searing, heaving lungs, fell strangled by the mysterious, deadly element. Against these demoniacal hordes, one man alone—Operator 5—struggles while red revolt and destruction blasts America!

$13.95 softcover
On sale for $12.95 until August 23.


Steeger Books



 
     
Altus Press / Steeger Books
Domino Lady T-Shirt

Now available!

This is the logo used for this classic pulp magazine from the 1930s.
Normal fit: Classic-cut standard weight t-shirt, 100% pre-shrunk cotton

$19.99



Altus Press / Steeger Books
Now available online!
Except The Major Volume 3 which is coming soon!


Dime Detective, Max Brand, H. Bedford-Jones, and the complete Scientific Club by Ray Cummings
headline a lineup of 14 new titles to see print this August.
 Altus Press will have them in stock & available for order at www.altuspress.com or
via Mike Chomko’s table at the Pulpfest 2019 Show in Pittsburgh, PA, on August 15.


The list of titles includes:


The Complete Tales of the Scientific Club (Deluxe Edition)
by Ray Cummings
introduction by Will Murray, illustrated by Joseph A. Farren, F.M. Follett, Virgil Finlay, Roger B. Morrison,
Frank R. Paul, Norman Saunders, Amos Sewell, Modest Stein, Lawrence Sterne Stevens, and Raymond Wardell


One of the most historically significant Twentieth Century science fiction series ever published is at last collected. A pioneer in pulp science fiction, Ray Cummings inspired an entirely-new fiction genre with his influential story originally published in 1919, The Girl in the Golden Atom, which introduced the world to a series of short stories and novels known as his “Matter, Space and Time” range.

This suite of stories featured the Scientific Club: a group of New York-based socialites of revolving membership who either recounted these tales of fantastic science—or were directly involved in these tales which originally appeared in the top magazines of the 1920s: All Story Weekly, Argosy, Detective Story Magazine, Flynn’s, and Science and Invention, among others.

This collection assembles all of the Scientific Club stories, sourced directly from their original magazine appearances… most of which have never before been reprinted. In addition, this deluxe edition includes all of Cummings’ Scientific Club stories which appeared exclusively in the United Kingdom. It also gathers the later Scientific Club stories from a brief revival in the mid-1930s.

No stone has been left unturned for this edition: two hitherto-unknown Scientific Club stories were discovered, and these have been included, along with 26 other stories. And among the many bonus features is a rare, alternate, early version of one of the Scientific Club stories.

Rounded out by vintage illustrations by Virgil Finlay, Frank R. Paul, Norman Saunders, Amos Sewell, Modest Stein, and Lawrence Sterne Stevens, and with an all-new introduction by Will Murray, The Complete Tales of the Scientific Club is a book one hundred years in the making.

8.5″x11″ | 494 pages | $85 deluxe casewrap hardcover

Dr. Yen Sin: The Complete Series (Deluxe Edition)
by Donald E. Keyhoe
introduction by William Patrick Maynard, afterword by Rick Lai

One of the great villain pulps from the 1930s is finally available in a complete, deluxe edition. Owing certain similarities to Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu, the Dr. Yen Sin series of three novels features “The Invisible Emperor” and his machinations to conquer the world using his unique mixture of futuristic science and ancient Asian technology. However, Yen Sin has met his match: “The Man Who Never Slept”—agent Michael Traile—who has the strange capability of not require sleep.

Includes an all-new introduction by current Fu Manchu author William Patrick Maynard, as well as a chronology of the character by Rick Lai.

8.5″x11″ | 179 pages | $60 deluxe casewrap hardcover

The 7th Day
by Frederick Faust
introduction by Andrew Salmon
illustrated by Charles LaSalle and Harold Wellington McCrea

Seven days to solve a murder! Tony Newcomen, a fiction writer, gets a call from his friend and mentor, Thomas Decker. Decker believes his life is in danger—but he’s unable to offer more information, as he is murdered while on the phone! Determined to uncover his friend’s killer amidst the idle rich and lavish estates of 1930s Florence, Newcomen will stop at nothing to bring the guilty to justice. He must walk a razor’s edge as he digs deeper into the case. The local police are out to get him, he’s in danger of losing his heart to the prime suspect and the murderer is more than willing to add another victim to end the investigation.

Out of print since its original magazine publication more than 80 years ago, The 7th Day appears here in book form for the first time. Rich in atmosphere and with an intriguing cast of characters, The 7th Day is Frederick Faust at his nuanced best.

Also included is the short story, “Devil Dog,” which takes readers into the frozen wasteland of Alaska for a harrowing, fast-paced tale of murder and revenge in the fevered quest for gold.

6″x9″ | 224 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

A Seabold Fights
by Frederick Faust
introduction by Andrew Salmon
illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman

The best steel goes through the fire: Joseph Seabold hates the family business. But his aging cousin—running the Seabold Fruit Company—sees the young man as his successor. To test his mettle, he sends Seabold south of the border to the Republic of San Esteban where the company has a hand in the local politics to keep the company running. But revolution is brewing: the Republic is a powder keg about to explode! A naive mistake brands Seabold an enemy of the state and he has no choice but to join the revolution to overthrow the government. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of gritty battles, cold betrayals, steamy romance and heartless double crosses as only Frederick Faust can deliver.

This riveting tale has never been reprinted and appears in book form for the first time. Frederick Faust fans rejoice! This long neglected classic is back for a new audience to devour. This is Faust at his best.

6″x9″ | 200 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover




The Dime Detective Library: Series 5 (Six Book Set)

    By Amos Sewell, Arthur Leo Zagat, Carroll John Daly, J. Paul Suter, John Fleming Gould, Leslie T. White, Norbert Davis, William E. Barrett
This specially-priced set includes all six books in Series 5 of The Dime Detective Library:

The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Volume 2 by Carroll John Daly
The Complete Cases of Bail-Bond Dodd, Volume 2 by Norbert Davis
The Complete Cases of Horatio Humberton, Volume 1 by J. Paul Suter
The Complete Cases of Anne Marsh by Arthur Leo Zagat
The Complete Cases of the Blue Barrel, Volume 1 by William E. Barrett
The Complete Cases of the Arson Dick by Leslie T. White

Considered the greatest of all detective pulps to only Black Mask, Dime Detective was the home to dozens of classic, quirky series characters, all with an offbeat twist.
Get all of Series 5 at a discount!

Hardcover: $184.70  $150.00
Softcover: $124.70 $99.00


The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Volume 2 (The Dime Detective Library)
by Carroll John Daly
illustrated by John Fleming Gould

The creation of Carroll John Daly, father of the hard-boiled private eye, Vee Brown—AKA the Crime Machine—plied his trade in the pages of Dime Detective, the classic crime pulp that was second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre.

Vivian “Vee” Brown leads two lives. Delicate-looking and small in stature, he lacks physical strength and endurance. But that doesn’t prevent him from being an effective special operative to the Manhattan District Attorney. In this capacity he often ignores the legal niceties of due process, shooting first and asking questions later. Many citizens view him as a hair-trigger gunman whose promiscuous killings make him little better than the vicious criminals he hunts. In his other life, Brown lives in a luxurious Park Avenue penthouse, paid for not with his modest civil-servant salary, but with the royalties he earns as a phenomenally successful composer of sentimental songs—a sideline he keeps secret. Both the police and the underworld refer to him as a “Killer of Men.” But the denizens of Tin Pan Alley know him as “Master of Melodies,” the prince of pop music.

Volume 2 features the Crime Machine’s battles with his greatest nemesis, the Emperor of Evil.

6″x9″ | 356 pages | $24.95 softcover | $34.95 hardcover

The Complete Cases of Bail-Bond Dodd, Volume 2 (The Dime Detective Library)
by Norbert Davis
illustrated by John Fleming Gould and Frank Kramer

Bailbondsman William “Bail-Bond” Dodd was the first series character that hard-boiled genius Norbert Davis created for Harry Steeger’s best detective pulp. Running for eight installments, Volume 2 collects the balance of the series. This unique series was one of the best Davis ever wrote for the pages of Dime Detective.

6″x9″ | 222 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Complete Cases of Horatio Humberton, Volume 1 (The Dime Detective Library)
by J. Paul Suter
illustrated by John Fleming Gould

Meet the original necrologist sleuth: tall, gaunt Ho Humberton was a funeral director by day and detective at night… often those with more than a touch of the supernatural. Featuring the first half of this trend-setting detective series, this was one of the most popular series characters from the pages of Dime Detective. Also featuring the very first Horatio Humberton story, undiscovered for nearly 100 years.

6″x9″ | 337 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Complete Cases of the Arson Dick (The Dime Detective Library)
by Leslie T. White
illustrations by John Fleming Gould

Detective Todd Naughton of the central-office arson squad investigated some of the strangest arson and murder cases ever to appear in Dime Detective Magazine. Originally seeing print during the peak 1936–37 period of Dime Detective, this four-story complete series has never before been reprinted.

6″x9″ | 230 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Complete Cases of Anne Marsh (The Dime Detective Library)
by Arthur Leo Zagat
illustrated by Amos Sewell

Written during a period when the detective pulps showcased more gritty, realistic characters and situations, writer Arthur Leo Zagat penned a series of novelettes featuring the diminutive Anne Marsh, reluctant detective who must solve the death of her father and wage grim war in behalf of the city’s oppressed. Running for eight installments, this unique series was one of the few purposefully finite series from the pulp era, and one of the only female detective series characters to see print in a Popular Publications-published title.

6″x9″ | 298 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Complete Cases of the Blue Barrel, Volume 1 (The Dime Detective Library)
by William E. Barrett
illustrated by John Fleming Gould

Written at the height of Dime Detective’s popularity, author William E. Barrett (Lilies of the Field) penned this series featuring newspaperman Dean Culver, whose column—The Blue Barrel—dispensed gossip on the criminal underworld. No one called Dean Culver the Blue Barrel—for no one knew he was the author of the underworld-gossip column signed with that name each night in the Morning Star. If the easy-money players had ever guessed that the man who paid them off was the Walter Winchell of the other side of the law, he’d he cashing in his own checks at the first turn of the wheel, instead of those of the gamblers he spun it for.

6″x9″ | 228 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The World Was Their Stage (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
by H. Bedford-Jones
illustrated by George Avison, Merritt Berger, Pedar Cavanagh, John Richard Flanagan, Peter Kuhlhoff, J. Clinton Shepherd, and Raymond Sisley
cover by Herbert Morton Stoops

Spanning ancient Roman times, Normandy, medieval England and Germany, France, and colonial America, and including appearances by Cleopatra, d’Artagnan, and Cyrano de Bergerac, author H. Bedford-Jones details some of the most pivotable moments in history in this interconnected 17-part historical epic. The World Was Their Stage is one of the longest novels written by “the King of the Pulps,” H. Bedford-Jones, and has never before been reprinted.

Featuring scores of vintage story illustrations by George Avison, Merritt Berger, Pedar Cavanagh, John Richard Flanagan, Peter Kuhlhoff, J. Clinton Shepherd, and Raymond Sisley, along with a cover by Herbert Morton Stoops.

6″x9″ | 420 pages | $29.95 softcover | $39.95 hardcover

John Solomon, Supercargo: The Adventures of John Solomon, Volume 2 (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
by H. Bedford-Jones

Continue the story of John Solomon, author H. Bedford-Jones’ longest-running series character, with this next book in the series.

6″x9″ | 196 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

Barbary Gold (The H. Bedford-Jones Library)
by H. Bedford-Jones

Sunken treasure in the Barbary waters off Africa! A group of three wartime adventurers are after a fortune in German gold: a sunken sub hides the horde, but they’ll have to fight pirates, Germans, and unknown dangers to recover it.

Written in the early days of the career of the prolific “King of the Pulps”—H. Bedford-Jones—Barbary Gold has never before been collected in book form. It’s a fast-paced adventure… the type which made H. Bedford-Jones one of the most beloved authors of the first half of the Twentieth Century.

6″x9″ | 134 pages | $14.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover

The Heel of Achilles: The Complete Adventures of the Major, Volume 3 - Coming soon online!
by L. Patrick Greene
illustrations by O.J. Gatter

The long-running and much-beloved series from the pages of Short Stories is finally collected in order and with a plethora of bonus material. Join Aubrey St. John Major—AKA the Major—and his faithful companion, Jim the Hottentot, on their adventures across the diamond country of Africa. This collection includes the next seven stories, along with another rare, never-before reprinted story by L. Patrick Greene.

6″x9″ | 356 pages | $19.95 softcover | $29.95 hardcover


Steeger Books














 
   

American Fantasy Press
THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK
New Kickstarter campaign now online!
This project will only be funded if it reaches its goal by Saturday, September 28, 2019


THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK Kickstarter is now online!

We're excited to bring acclaimed artist Hannes Bok's three solo fantasy novels into hardcover for the first time!

Both THE SORCERER'S SHIP and BEYOND THE GOLDEN STAIR were previously published as part of Ballantine Books' Adult Fantasy paperback line. His first novel-length tale: STARSTONE WORLD, is a much shorter and darker piece, which has never been reprinted since it appeared in Science Fiction Quarterly #7, [Summer of 1942], over 75 years ago.

These aren't your conventional fantasies, although all the trappings are there. His novels have a sly humor with plots containing unconventional twists and turns; a strange metaphysical bent; and his artist's talent for glorious description.

THE FANTASY FICTION OF HANNES BOK's cover art is a never-before-published painting by Bok. A piece which mirrors the masculine, feminine, grotesque and transcendent archetypes which populate the novels within.

We'll be including Ballantine Adult Fantasy editor Lin Carter's introductions to THE SORCERER'S SHIP and BEYOND THE GOLDEN STAIR, plus an all-new introduction detailing the history of THE SORCERER'S SHIP by Bok collector, Professor William Lorenzo. Publisher, Robert T. Garcia will provide an introduction to STARSTONE WORLD. And we've discovered a number of unpublished photos of Bok to add to these intros as well.

Bok's pulp art for THE SORCERER'S SHIP is included, plus two paintings specified by the artist as illustrating that novel: a color reprise of an interior illustration and a color portrait of the creature Yanuk done for a fan.



   

American Mythology Productions
Arriving in comic shops September 11!

ZORRO RISE OF THE OLD GODS #1
(Writer) Jason Pell (Art) Puis Calzada (Covers) Michael William Kaluta
Puis Calzada

Horror rises from the deep as the denizens of dread Cthulhu herald the return of the old gods! Antiguo Camino is a small fishing town, nondescript and quiet. But when the horrors of the depths begin to crawl from the muck and terrorize the pueblo, Zorro must save the unsuspecting townsfolk and uncover the insidious force behind the monstrous uprising. This series celebrates the swashbuckling heroics of Zorro and the impending dread of H.P. Lovecraft in a unique and terrifying tale! 

Zorro Rise of the Old Gods #1 is available with four covers – Main Cover by living legend Michael Kaluta, Lovecraftian Horror by interior artist Puis Calzada, and a Limited Edition 1/350 Pulp cover also by Calzada!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99 (Kaluta & Calzada covers).
Full Color, 32 pages, $9.99 (Limited Edition).






Anthony Tollin's Sanctum Books
Now available!
Arriving in comic shops September 11!


THE SHADOW Volume 144: “The Dead Who Lived” & “Crime Over Casco”
The Knight of Darkness resumes his true identity of Kent Allard to crush hidden plots in classic pulp thrillers by Walter B. Gibson writing as Maxwell Grant. First, a plague of sleeping sickness hits New York, and only The Shadow can uncover the secret of the death gas and revive “The Dead Who Lived.” Then, “Crime Over Casco” leads Kent Allard to uncover a Neo-Nazi conspiracy in the quiet Maine coastal islands of Casco Bay! This instant collector’s item showcases both original color covers by George Rozen and Modest Stein and the interior illustrations by Edd Cartier and Charles Coll, with historical commentary by Will Murray and Anthony Tollin. (Sanctum Books) 978-1-60877-262-9 Softcover, 7x10, 112 pages, B&W, $14.95
 

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



Art's Reviews Podcasts! - Now online!

Nothing new this week.
Past episodes:
Award Winning author Gordon Dymowski discusses his work
Dorian Gray: Darker Shades from Wild Hunt Press
"A Good Man Returns" a Jeff Deischer espionage novel
Airship 27 Update with Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
Audible versions of Bobby Nash's "Abraham Snow" Series with Voice actor Stuart Gauffi

Black Coat Press
New titles now available!

THE TYRANNY OF THE WORD
by Brian Stableford
cover by Mike Hoffman

The novel is set in the 1480s, during the war in which the French annexed Bretagne.

At the Benedictine Abbey in Paimpol, a scholarly monk named Ollivier, reputed to have practiced necromancy, is buried under the watchful eyes of two Dominican heresy hunters, the burial only attended by his fellow scholar Brother Primael, who believes him to be innocent of any wrongdoing, and believes the same of Gilles de Rais, whose court at Tiffauges both men visited in their youth.

Before falling ill, Ollivier had spent three months at the Château de Tardivel and the forested region of Herbriant, where the epileptic chatelaine was once locked away by her husband as a madwoman, and her daughter Aidrena, is also chronically ill, while the young Vicomte who has recently inherited the title, Corentin, has indeed been practicing necromancy with Ollivier’s aid. Primael is sent to Tardivel at Corentin’s request, ostensibly to give succor to his mother and sister, but actually to assist him in his experiments in necromancy, now aimed at the summoning of Ollivier’s spirit.

Primael is immediately engulfed in a nightmarish series of events, both hallucinatory and real, through which he must negotiate a path in the hope of deciding in which direction virtue really lies, and solving the puzzle of exactly what Ollivier and Corentin had accomplished in their necromancy, and what its consequences might be for the inhabitants of Tardivel.



US $20.95 / GBP £12.99
5x8 trade paperback, 240 pages
THE SPELLS OF FRANKENSTEIN
by Frank Schildiner
cover by Mike Hoffman

1900: Gouroull, Victor Frankenstein’s lethal creation, wanders the snowy steppes in the heart of frozen Siberia and receives an offer he cannot refuse. If he opens a path for the ancient, alien beings known as the Outer Gods, their servant will provide him a perfect mate.

Gouroull must defeat demons, crazed collectors, inhuman monsters, an undying Roman Emperor, and a strange man named Whateley in his worldwide quest for his mate. Will his new ally, an odd holy man named Grigori Rasputin, fulfill his end of the bargain?

Based on Mary Shelley's classic work of terror, as reinterpreted by Academy award-winning screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière in the 1950s, The Spells of Frankenstein tells the story of an evil, violent version of the monster. The creature, known as Gouroull, roams the world, his plans both fiendish and lethal for all life on Earth.


US $23.95 / GBP £19.99
5x8 trade paperback, 308 pages
Art by Mariano De La Torre, Anthony Dugenest, Sergio Fernandez Davila, Alfredo Macall, Victor Nava,
Alfonso Ruis; colors by Anthony Dugenest, Bryan Wetstein and Studio Cirque; cover by Alfredo Macall.


Contents:
- Foreword by J.-M. & Randy Lofficier
- #1. Death is a Zorr-Ko by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Sergio Fernandez Davila
- #2. Death of a Stranger by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Alfonso Ruis & Anthony Dugenest
- #3. The Return of Ozark by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Alfredo Macall
- #4. Dark Horizon by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Mariano De La Torre
- #5. The Eve of Armaggedon by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Alfredo Macall
- #6. The White Hour by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Alfredo Macall & Victor Nava

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 third volume of Strangers, which completes the second season of the series, the Strangers at long last confront the supremely powerful galactic entities known as the Towers, who desire to recapture Starlock. Meanwhile, Futura faces up to the deadly Zorr-Ko and the god Coyote, while Jaleb is hunted by the Galactic Federation. Special guest-stars:  Ozark, master of the Mystic Arts, Stormshadow, shaman of the Twilight People, and the Hexagon group!

Six full-length stories written by Jean-Marc Lofficier with art by Sergio Fernandez Davila, Mariano De La Torre, Anthony Dugenest, Alfredo Macall, Victor Nava and Alfonso Ruis.

7x10 squarebound comic, 160 pages color
US$39.95 / GBP
£29.99





Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
BLOOD 'N' THUNDER VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1
Now shipping!

Between 2002 and 2016, Blood ‘n’ Thunder was the premier journal for devotees of adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This award-winning magazine, written by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, eventually expanded its readership to include casual fans of vintage storytelling mediums: pulp fiction, motion pictures, Old Time Radio drama, and so on. BnT, moribund for three years, has now returned in a new format but with the same excellence of writing and research. The articles and essays are scholarly without being dry or academic in nature; no publish-or-perish tedium here.

This revival issue covers a variety of subjects, all related to pulp fiction. David Kalb documents the history of the long-lost 1941-42 radio series featuring Street & Smith’s Avenger; he compares recently uncovered scripts to the novels from which they are adapted. David Saunders, whose father Norman was among the most prolific painters of lurid pulp covers, profiles the forgotten publisher J. Thomas Wood. Novelist and pop-culture historian Will Murray weighs in on pulp pulchritude—an appreciation of artists whose covers sported alluring women. Indefatigable researcher Rick Lai offers a detailed chronology of the Jimgrim saga, a multi-novel series penned by pulp-fiction giant Talbot Mundy. Blood ‘n’ Thunder editor Ed Hulse celebrates the Zorro centennial (he first appeared in a 1919 issue of the legendary All-Story Weekly) with a behind-the-scenes account of the making of Douglas Fairbanks’ 1920 swashbuckling hit The Mark of Zorro. Ed also documents the making of Hawk of the Wilderness, a 1938 cliffhanger serial adapted from the popular imitation-Tarzan novels that appeared in the venerable pulp Blue Book.


#1, Second Series
Cover Art by Lyman Anderson
92 pages, paperback, 7x10
Price: $9.95


PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING AND HANDLING TO U.S. BUYERS. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS MUST INQUIRE FOR SHIPPING RATES BEFORE PLACING ORDERS.

Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press


Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania Press
Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction
Permanent Price Reduction for “Forgotten Classics” 10-book set
Now available!

You may order at the Books section or click on the images below to order!

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.



Now available!
Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction” Complete Set

Permanent Price Reduction for “Forgotten Classics” 10-book set










 


 

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

The BLOOD ‘N’ THUNDER Revival Will Continue!

Permanent Price Reduction for “Forgotten Classics” 10-book set
PulpFest 2019 Report
My Incredibly Busy April, #2: The Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention
Slight Delay in Our Release of the “Forgotten Classics” Collection
Collectibles Section Update: May 3
My Incredibly Busy April, #1: The Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards Banquet
Coming This Month: Forgotten Classics of Pulp Fiction
Collectibles Section Update: March 28

Bold Venture Press



Bold Venture Press
Pulp Adventures #32
Now available!

CLASSIC PULP FICTION
The Death Dancer | Charles Boeckman  3
The “Atomic Goddess of Beauty” sees a strange case of murder explode!
Roman Holiday | Talbot Mundy  28
A tale of Christians and Romans — and Lions — in the reign of mad Caligula!
The Pigtail of Hi Wing Ho | Sax Rohmer  119
Mystery in Chinatown ...

NEW PULP FICTION
The Mystery of Island X! | Bobby Nash  15
Lance Starr and his scrappy crew investigate mysterious goings-on on an island — only to discover the island IS the mystery!
The Spawn of Lilthu | William M. Hope  51
The “Welcome” mat was Thurl’s invitation to a hellish fate.
The Wicked Big ‘Monstah Ovah Bawstin’ | David Bernard  63
An FBI agent generates buzz with his biggest case.
Time and Tide | Adam Beau McFarlane  75
The Black Island Tavern plays host to a sailor like no other.
Stranded At Saturn | Jack Halliday  79
He dreamt of reaching the stars … until he crash-landed …
A Snitch in Time | Robert W. Walker  83
First-class seats for murder …


Format: Softcover
Pages: 132
Dimensions: 7" x 10"

$12.95



Broadswords and Blasters - Now online!

Pulp Appeal: Penny Dreadful
Pulp Appeal: Storyhack #3
Issue 10 is Live!
Pulp Appeal: From The Vaults of Imagination: The Forgotten Short Stories of Clark Ashton Smith (Guest Post by Joshua Grasso)
Pulp Appeal: Pulp Modern Summer 2019
Pulp Appeal: Moon Knight: From the Dead
Issue 9 is here!


THE BRONZE GAZETTE
Issue #84 is now available and recommended!
 
Front Cover: Bob larkin
"Scattered Covers" by Chuck Welch
"A Bob Larkin Retrospective" by Courtney Rogers
"The Doc Savage Comics Guide" by Philip Schweier
"The Savage Society of Bronze Remembered" by Jennifer DiGiacomo
"The Cover That Could Have been" by
Julián Puga
"The Power of Gold" by Dafyyd Neal Dyar
"The True Origin of Capt. Gideon Argo" by Tony Simmons

"Fifty Years later" by Will Murray
Back Cover: Alvaro Fernandois

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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Dare Devlin: Stormbirds
by Dafyyd Neal Dyar


 The Bronze Gazette  
   

CAPTAIN FUTURE RETURNS!
Coming in November!


Allen Steele has announced that he will soon be continuing the adventures of Captain Future.

From Allen Steele's announcement:

This fall Experimenter Publishing, the publisher of AMAZING STORIES, will be launching EDMOND HAMILTON'S CAPTAIN FUTURE as a paperback/ebook series called "Amazing Stories Selects." The first issue, scheduled for release in November, will feature "Captain Future in Love", the long novella that ran as a two-part serial in AMAZING last year; it will also include an essay about the history of Captain Future and how and why I reinvented this classic SF character. This will kick off a four-part story cycle, "The Return of Ul Quorn", that will run for the next three issues; the second installment, "The Guns of Pluto", is now being written, and we're aiming to publish it early next year.

As I've said a couple of years ago when my first CF novel, AVENGERS OF THE MOON, was published by Tor, although my take on the character is derived from Edmond Hamilton's novels of the 1940's, this ain't your grandpa's Captain Future. Authorized by the Hamilton estate, this is an updated and revised version of the original pulp series. For example, feast your eyes on Curt Newton's ship, the "Comet II". Rob Caswell, the illustrator, and I put a lot of time and thought into designing a plausible new version of this classic ship ... and this is just a preview of things to come.

As things come together, AMAZING and I will release more info about EHCF, including where and how to purchase single issues and subscriptions.
If you're a fan of high adventure and space opera in the grand tradition, we think you'll like this. Stay tuned.



Experimenter Publishing   Allen Steele



Castalia House Blog - Now online!

Sensor Sweep: Starbase, Scarlet Citadel, Baldur’s Gate
- New!
Sensor Sweep: Richard L. Tierney, Diana Gabaldon, Jirel of Joiry, Stan Lee
Joseph Payne Brennan back in print!
Sensor Sweep: Cosmic Horror, Tom Barber, Casino Royale, David C. Smith
Sensor Sweep: Dragon Awards, Conan and the Living Plague, Atari, Farmer in the Sky, Obscure RPG
Sensor Sweep: Robert Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Marvel Universe, Ravage, Monster Manual
Sensor Sweep: Sword and the Sorcerer, Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore, Ian Fleming, Appendix N
Sensor Sweep: Anime loss, Nintendo lawsuit, Dragoncon, Paladins, Men’s Adventure Magazines
Sensor Sweep: Sword & Sorcery, Tales From the Magician’s Skull, Boxing, C.S. Lewis, RIFTS

Clive Cussler: THE TITANIC SECRET (An Isaac Bell Adventure) - Coming September 10!
by Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul


A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time.

In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery...

In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine, in which nine people died. His dangerous quest to answer the riddle leads to a larger puzzle centered on byzanium, a rare element with extraordinary powers and of virtually incalculable value. As he discovers that there are people who will do anything to control the substance, Isaac Bell will find out just how far he'll go to stop them.


Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 9.3 inches
List price: $29.00



The Complete Air Wonder Stories: Volume 1: Gwandanaland Comics #967
The Thrilling Hugo Gernsback Fiction Series! -- This Book: Complete Issues #1-4
Now Upgraded and Expanded to Four Issues
Now available!

In July 1929 Hugo Gernsback published the first issue of AIR WONDER STORIES, one of three magazines he started after he lost control of the original Amazing Stories. In 1929 science-fiction was still a small, niche market, but Gernsback's publications would change that, usher in the Golden Age of science-fiction, and alter the world as we know it. We're bringing you the complete 11-issue run of AIR WONDER STORIES (after which it was merged with Science Wonder Stories into the simpler Wonder Stories) --- some of the most imaginative and fantastic works of literature of the day, and of any day! Only Gwandanaland Comics publishes the complete series!


Paperback: 396 pages
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
$16.99




CONAN THE BARBARIAN

AGE OF CONAN: VALERIA #2 (of 5) - Arriving in comic shops September 11!
Meredith Finch (Writer)
Aneke (Art)
Jay Anacleto (Cover)
Ema Lupacchino  (Variant Cover)

• VALERIA’S quest for revenge brings her one step closer to her brother’s killer…
• But a mysterious stranger with deadly intent has picked up her trail!
• And what secrets do the Knights of MITRA hold, and how do they link to Valeria’s past?
• Plus: The next chapter of an all-new novella featuring one of CONAN’s greatest nemeses—the wizard THOTH-AMON!


Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99







 


Condé Nast Online 
Doc Savage & The Shadow
 Mugs, T-shirts, wall art, phone cases, hand towels, bath towels, tote bags, and more!
Now available!










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


Poster Magic: CARTER THE GREAT (1926-28)
- New!
RED RYDER Big Little Books - New!
A Word from Our Sponsor: POLARIS NUCLEAR SUB - New!
L.B. COLE flies with Black Venus (1944) - New!
Pulp Gallery: MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES
- New!
More Westerns You MAY Have Missed (1927) - New!
TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip - Week 9 (1951) - New!
Forgotten Books: THE MARK OF ZORRO by Johnston McCulley (1919)
Pulp Gallery: UNCANNY TALES
TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip Week 8 (1951)
LONE RANGER Gum Cards (1940)
Basil Wolverton's SPACEHAWK and the Pirates of Uranus (1940)
Pulp Gallery: SPEED DETECTIVE
Westerns You MAY Have Missed (1927)
TOM CORBETT, SPACE CADET Comic Strip Week 7 (1951)
Forgotten Books: TALES OF WELLS FARGO by Frank Gruber (1958)

The Digest Enthusiast #10
 Now available!


The tenth edition of The Digest Enthusiast is now available in print and digital on amazon.com featuring an interview with James Reasoner covering his stories for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine; PIs Cody, Delaney, and Markham; his Redemption series, the Wind River series with L.J. Washburn; and much more.


Interviews
Author, editor, and publisher James Reasoner delves into his stories for Mike Shayne; PIs Cody, Delaney, and Markham; his Redemption series, the Wind River series with L.J. Washburn; and much more.

Articles
Ward Smith remembers Armed Services Editions—digests that are not digests
Peter Enfantino tackles Startling Mystery Stories No. 1–18, and a keen assessment of Manhunt 1954 July–Oct
Vince Nowell, Sr. dissects Sol Cohen’s tactics to save Amazing Stories
Richard Krauss examines Charlie Chan’s media empire, with special emphasis on Renown Publications’ digest magazine
Steve Carper reports on the one, the only, Bronze Books and trailblazers Luke Roberts and Jesse Lee Carter
Tom Brinkmann exposes The Creature from the Black Lagoon with The Seven Year Itch.Fiction

Fiction
Robert Snashall and Joe Wehrle, Jr., with art by Carolyn Cosgriff

Also includes
News updates from the newsstand giants and the digital darlings of today’s genre fiction digests, straight from their editors and publishers
In-depth reviews of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2019 and Broadswords & Blasters No. 9
Plus over 100 digest magazine cover images, cartoons by Bob Vojtko, art by Brian Buniak, a poem by Clark Dissmeyer, first issue factoids, and more.

Includes over 100 digest magazine cover images
160 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" digest

Print version, $8.99
Kindle version, $2.99


    



The Digest Enthusiast Blog - Now online!

Mystery Weekly Magazine Sept. 2019 - New!
Amazing Stories Fall 2019 - New!
Weird Menace Vol. 2 - New!
Weird Menace Vol. 1 - New!
Western Magazine No. 2  
Paperback Parade No. 104
Tough Crime Stories No. 2
Hardboiled No. 9
Masterpieces of Adventure
Fantastic April 1975
Pulp Literature No.23
Western Magazine No. 1


DMR Books
HEROES OF ATLANTIS AND LEMURIA
By Manly Wade Wellman & Leigh Bracket

Coming this month!



In the late ‘70s legendary pulp fictioneer Manly Wade Wellman created a fantasy hero named Kardios, who was the last survivor of Atlantis. The five tales of Kardios Wellman penned appeared in anthologies such as Swords Against Darkness and Heroic Fantasy, which are long out of print. For decades sword and sorcery fans have clamored for all five stories to be reprinted in a single collection, but their cries fell on deaf ears.

We at DMR Books have heard your call! Just as we brought collections by Weird Tales writers Nictzin Dyalhis and Clifford Ball into paperback for the first time, we will do what has never been done before and present to you a Kardios collection!

Even better, the collection, which is entitled Heroes of Atlantis & Lemuria, will contain more than just Kardios stories. All three of Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.’s sword and sorcery stories set in Lemuria will be included as well. These Lemurian adventures have never been collected before, either. If that’s not enough, we’ll top it off with a hard to find Leigh Brackett story set in Mu!

Heroes of Atlantis & Lemuria will be available mid-September. That’s just a few short weeks away, so keep an eye out for it. It will be published in trade paperback and digital formats.

Table of Contents
Straggler From Atlantis by Manly Wade Wellman
The Dweller in the Temple by Manly Wade Wellman
The Guest of Dzinganji by Manly Wade Wellman
The Seeker in the Fortress by Manly Wade Wellman
The Edge of the World by Manly Wade Wellman
Adventure in Lemuria by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Intrigue in Lemuria by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Volcano Slaves of Mu by Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
Lord of the Earthquake by Leigh Brackett





DMR Books Blog - Now online!

Michael Tierney - The DMR Interview Part One
- New!
Long-Awaited Collection of Manly Wade Wellman's Kardios Stories Coming Soon - New!
Mundy Monday: Queen Cleopatra - New!
The DMRtian Chronicles, 9/1/2019 - New!
Sojan Shieldbearer: The Original Eternal Champion
The DMRtian Chronicles, 8/25/2019
The Kingdom Unvanquishable
Lovecraft's "The Teuton's Battle-Song"

Mundy Monday: “Messenger of Destiny”


Dover Books
Joseph Payne Brennan
New titles available!


Acclaimed by Stephen King as "a master of the unashamed horror tale," Joseph Payne Brennan wrote hundreds of tales of terror, suspense, and fantasy. Collectors and fans will delight in this inexpensive reissue of Brennan's hard-to-find classic, Nine Horrors and a Dream. This collection, originally published by Arkham House in 1958, features stories published by Weird Tales and other pulp magazines of the 1950s — including the much-anthologized "Slime," which inspired the ever-popular thriller The Blob.

Less familiar but equally gripping tales include "Levitation," in which a carnival-goer has an unfortunate encounter with a hypnotist; "The Calamander Chest," the story of a low-priced antique that turns out to be no bargain; "Death in Peru," involving a lethal curse; the darkly humorous "On the Elevator"; and "The Green Parrot," which recounts a Good Samaritan's bad timing. Other selections include "Canavan's Back Yard," featuring a property with a gruesome history; "I'm Murdering Mr. Massington," which tells of a bizarre grasp at immortality; "The Hunt," a playfully creepy yarn about an obsessive chase; and "The Mail for Juniper Hill," in which a tipsy but determined postman refuses to let anything — even death — keep him from his appointed rounds.


Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0486834191
Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 7.8 inches
$9.95

The Shapes of Midnight

"Joseph Payne Brennan is one of the most effective writers in the horror genre, and he is certainly one of the writers I have patterned my own career upon," declared Stephen King. "In fact," he added, "The Shapes of Midnight could serve as an exercise-book for the young writer who aspires to pen and publish his or her own weird tales."

A poet as well as a writer of horror fiction, Brennan worked at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library as an acquisitions assistant for over 40 years. He wrote hundreds of stories for Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. This new edition of his increasingly rare compilation, The Shapes of Midnight, presents 10 of his best stories.

Selections include "Diary of a Werewolf," a first-person account of bloody sprees; "The Corpse of Charlie Rull," recounting the rampage of a radioactive zombie; "The Pavilion," which unfolds at an abandoned seaside haunt with something ghastly beneath its pilings; "House of Memory," a wistful look at the past's imaginative grip; "The Willow Platform," featuring the machinations of a self-styled warlock; and other chillingly memorable tales.


Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications
Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 7.9 inches
$12.56


Nine Horrors and a Dream    The Shapes of Midnight



Edgar Rice Burroughs Books
A PRINCESS OF MARS by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Deluxe Manuscript Edition!

Now available for pre-order!

Shipping November - December 2019!

The Deluxe Manuscript Edition of A Princess of Mars is the fifth title in the ERB Limited Edition Collection.
The set is published by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.  and includes an leather bound book in dust jacket, manuscript portfolio, handcrafted dip pen and Dejah Thoris medallion all housed in a 7”x10” custom decorated case. 
We think this will be the most elaborate and unique edition of A Princess of Mars ever published.

Each set features:

•  A Leather Bound Book limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the artists and contributors with a corrected text, new foreword and preface.
•  20 Color Plates featuring the original (5) color Schoonover paintings and works by Frazetta, Abbett, Whelan, Manchess, Miller and including..
    (4-6) New Paintings commissioned for this edition (Artists like Iain McCaig, Dave Dorman, Thomas Gianni, Tom Grindberg, Doug Klauba and others.)
•  A Custom Case covered in Cialux cloth, with spine titling and decorations debossed in gold and 1st edition dust jacket illustration inlaid on the lid.
•  ERB Manuscript Portfolio (1911-1912) for 'Under the Moons of Mars" containing replica manuscript pages, editor letters, the Munsey check to ERB for UMM, and first publication pulp cover and pages.
•  Manuscript Pen (1911-1912)- replica of the dip pen used by ERB to write the holographic manuscript for Under the Moons of Mars.
•  2" Dejah Thoris Medallion - 3D portrait design in antique silver accented in gold, numbered to match the book and inserted inside the custom case.
•  New Dust Jacket artwork and color Barsoom Map endpapers.
•  30+ Black and White Illustrations by Tom Yeates and others…

In addition:
•  The Deluxe Manuscript Edition of A Princess of Mars does not include a Grosset & Dunlap printing since the ERB Limited Edition Collection only publishes titles in G&D that have not previously been available.
    So far that includes 1st G&D printings of Back to the Stone Age, Land of Terror, Savage Pellucidar and John Carter of Mars.
•   The text has been proofed by Frank Puncer and reset with corrections for this new edition. (One notable mistake was discovered in the 1st edition text that has been carried over to every later edition.)
•  The decorated box, dust jacket, book cover and title and chapter page designs are by Zavier Cabarga with the book bound in brown Cromwell leather with red/orange stamping
    in a style reminiscent of the first edition published by A. C. McClurg.
•  The custom case features a drop spine and houses the book, manuscript portfolio and a die cut tray for the medallion and pen.
•  This vintage-style document portfolio is a 6”x9” gusseted custom envelope made of heavy kraft paper and secured by a button and string.
    We have taken great care to source antique and vintage papers to match the original pages or documents.
•  The first publication pulp cover and pages are from the Feb. 1912 All-Story Magazine and include two-sided replicas of the color cover, contents page and first story page.
•  The handmade Italian wooden/pewter pen comes with an original 100 year-old Esterbrook 788 Oval gold-plated nib and is mounted in a base tray with the Dejah Thoris medallion.
•  Limited: 500 numbered copies signed by the contributors and artists, in slipcase





Edgar Rice Burroughs Books
TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD
By Fritz Leiber
Cover by Richard Hescox

Now available!

At long last, Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, Fritz Leiber's classic novel of the Lord of the Jungle, is back in print
available for the first time in hardcover, and featuring brand-new cover art by Richard Hescox and interior art by Douglas Klauba!

A Tarzan Tale Unlike Any Other
The year 1966 saw the release of one of the most unique Tarzan films ever made: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold. Starring former NFL linebacker Mike Henry in his debut as the cinematic ape-man, the film portrayed a cultured and refined Tarzan who seemed to be molded more after James Bond than the unsophisticated ape-man of past films. The depiction surprised and puzzled some moviegoers, but fans who had read the original Tarzan novels written by Edgar Rice Burroughs rejoiced at finally seeing their beloved character appear on the big screen bearing all the complexity and intelligence with which his creator had imbued him.

Enter critically acclaimed fantasy author Fritz Leiber, whose novelization of the film carried the honor of becoming the first authorized Tarzan novel to be written by an author other than Burroughs. Leiber’s tale was far from just a simple retelling of the movie; it was a faithful installment in the literary saga of the ape-man, with frequent callouts to Burroughs’ original Tarzan canon and myriad creative elements added to the storyline. Now readers can once again enjoy Fritz Leiber’s classic Tarzan and the Valley of Gold in this handsome, new illustrated edition, with an all-new foreward by Burroughs scholar Scott Tracy Griffin (author of Tarzan on Film).

The Valley of Gold...and Death
The burning wreck of a passenger jet with a missing cargo of gold and a desperate plea from a friend lead Tarzan of the Apes deep into intrigue in the jungles of Brazil. Soon the ape-man finds himself facing his most deadly nemesis yet: a criminal mastermind named Vinaro, whose enemies perish in mysterious explosions of gold and flame. But that may be only the beginning of Tarzan’s challenges. For if he is to defeat Vinaro, Tarzan must confront him in the legendary golden city of Tucumai, from where no outsider has ever returned. FRITZ LEIBER – Author

A renowned and award-winning author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, Fritz Leiber (1910–1992) is best known for his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser fantasy series. He is credited with coining the term sword and sorcery and is widely considered one of the genre’s founders. A SFWA Grand Master and winner of six Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards, and two World Fantasy Awards, Leiber stands as a giant in the field of fantastic literature. RICHARD HESCOX – Cover Art

Richard Hescox is one of the founding lights of the Imaginative Realism movement. He has contributed artwork to such projects as the films E.T. and The Dark Crystal, to computer games, record albums, and magazine illustrations. He has also providing cover art and interior illustrations for hundreds of books, including the limited edition of A Clash of Kings from the George R. R. Martin’s bestselling Game of Thrones series. Richard previously painted the iconic cover art for all five books of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Carson of Venus series. DOUGLAS KLAUBA – Interior Art

An award-winning illustrator, Douglas Klauba was born and raised in Chicago, and is a graduate of the American Academy of Art. His paintings have been included in the art annuals of Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, the Society of Illustrators, and Imagine FX magazine. He was Artist Guest of Honor at the 2016 Burroughs Bibliophiles Dum-Dum convention, and he previously provided artwork for the books Tarzan Trilogy and Untamed Pellucidar published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

Don't miss out on this first, fully illustrated hardcover edition from the press founded in 1931 by Edgar Rice Burroughs himself!

Order your copy today of Tarzan and the Valley of Gold directly from our webstore.


Hardcover, $34.99


 


  Now online!

New on Famous (and forgotten) Fiction!

August 2019
Baroness Orczy wrote many different types of stories during her career and "Young Muggins" shows yet another facet to her talents, as she weaves a tale of love, selfishness and self-sacrifice in rural England. 
Our reprinting appears just as it did in the May, 1906 issue of The Royal Magazine, including the illustrations by J. Barnard Davis.  Introduction to the story is by Dan Neyer.


June 2019
This month we feature Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mummy tale, Lot No. 249, including the illustrations by William Thomas Smedley and an introduction by your humble scribes, Dan Neyer and Bob Gay.
We've also done some behind the scenes work to make the site work better...do stop by and check us out.


May 2019
Edmond Hamilton returns to our pages with "The Man Who Evolved," direct from the pages of the April, 1931 issue of Wonder Stories, including the Frank R. Paul illustration.  Intro by Bob Gay
Also, we found a 1953 comic book story where the plot was (*ahem*) "borrowed" from Hamilton's original and our unknown scribe managed to condense the story down to a mere 4 pages. 
Read the original first, then "Evolution" which appears as it originally appeared in Tomb of Terror #12, with the digital restoration included at no extra cost.


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.



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
DESIGNS FOR DREAMING:
The Early Kuttner, Volume Three

Introduction by Dr. Garyn G. Roberts

Now available for pre-order!
Target Date: April 2020!

All preorders of DESIGNS FOR DREAMING will ship with an exclusive chapbook reprinting the long-lost 1938 terror-tale, MASTER OF THE DAMNED!

Before his marriage to (and subsequent collaborations with) Catherine L. Moore, Henry Kuttner was a frequent contributor to the pulp magazines that specialized in the weird, supernatural, horror, and science fiction genre. Beginning in 1936, Kuttner launched a steady stream of short stories aimed at Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Thrilling Mystery, and others.

Kuttner and Moore were married on June 7, 1940 in New York with artist Virgil Finlay as Best Man. With NYC as his base of operations, Kuttner interfaced on a frequent basis with the major local genre editors: Leo Margulies at Standard Magazines (Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Strange Stories,), Alden H. Norton at Popular Publications (Astonishing Stories, Strange Detective Mysteries) and perhaps most importantly, John W. Campbell, Jr. at Street & Smith Publications (Unknown / Unknown Worlds). Campbell’s Astounding Science Fiction will loom large in Kuttner’s career for the next decade.

In DESIGNS FOR DREAMING (the third and final volume of “The Early Kuttner”) Kuttner sells the last of his stories to the weird-menace pulps, places some SF stories with lesser markets (Stirring Science Stories and Fantastic Adventures), and delivers some of his finest fantasy work in Unknown Worlds. By the summer of 1942, Kuttner’s Draft Status was reclassified as 1-A. By April 13, 1943, Pfc Henry Kuttner had orders to report to Fort Dix, New Jersey. The early phase of Kuttner’s career was over.


Cover art by Robert Gibson-Jones
700+ pages
Smythe-sewn binding
Full cloth-covered binding boards

Pre-order: $45.00

Hard Case Crime
Coming soon!

October 2019


BLOOD SUGAR
Daniel Kraus
Cover art by Paul Mann


WHEN TRICK OR TREAT BECOMES LIFE OR DEATH

From the dark imagination of bestselling novelist Daniel Kraus—co-author with Guillermo del Toro of THE SHAPE OF WATER (which as a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture)—comes a Halloween crime story that’s like nothing you’ve ever read before.

At the end of Yellow Street, in a ruined junkyard of a house, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge for all the wrongs he has suffered. With the help of three alienated neighborhood kids, he plans to hide razor blades, poison, drugs, and broken glass in Halloween candy and use the deadly treats to maim or kill dozens of innocent children. But as the clock ticks closer to sundown, will one of his helpers—an innocent himself, in his own streetwise way—carry out or defeat the plan?

Told principally from the child’s point of view, in a voice as startling and unforgettable as A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, Kraus’ novel is at once frightening and emotional, thought-provoking and laugh-out-loud funny. It’ll make you rethink your concepts of family and loyalty and justice—and will leave you anxiously double-checking the wrappers on your Halloween candy for the rest of your days.

First publication anywhere!
Daniel Kraus is the New York Times-bestselling author of not only THE SHAPE OF WATER and TROLLHUNTERS (both co-authored with Guillermo del Toro) but also THE DEATH AND LIFE OF ZEBULON FINCH (named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the Year) and ROTTERS and SCOWLER (both winners of the Odyssey Award).
Kraus’ next project is THE LIVING DEAD, a posthumous collaboration with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero.





Harryhausen: The Lost Movies - Arriving in book stores September 10!
by John Walsh 


The official guide to the unrealised films of Ray Harryhausen.

Known for his iconic stop-motion creatures, Ray Harryhausen was at the forefront of Hollywood special effects for much of the 20th century. His films include One Million Years B.C., Clash of the Titans and Jason and the Argonauts, among others. But for every film that reaches the big screen, half a dozen projects are never realised.

Harryhausen: The Lost Movies explores Harryhausen's unrealised films, including unused ideas, projects he turned down and scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor. This book includes never-been-seen-before artwork, sketches, photos and test footage from the Harryhausen Foundation archives.


Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.3 inches
List price: $39.95



Hippocampus Press
Arthur Machen: Collected Fiction (3 Volume Set)
Now available!


This is the first complete edition of the fiction of Anglo-Welsh writer Arthur Machen (1863–1947) ever published. It includes the totality of his short fiction, novelettes, novels, and prose poems. While there is some debate as to what actually constitutes a short story in Machen’s work—especially given his bountiful array of journalism, some of which borders on fiction—the works in this volume are unquestionably narratives that feature one or more elements of fictional composition. A substantial majority of these works are tales of horror and the supernatural—a genre in which Machen has made a lasting and ever-expanding impression.

The edition has been prepared by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction and the author of The Weird Tale (1990) and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012).
Joshi has prepared textually corrected editions of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and many other weird writers.


Volume 1: 1888–1895
This first volume contains his charming picaresque novel The Chronicle of Clemendy (1888), an exquisite imitation of the medieval narratives of Chaucer and Boccaccio. At this time Machen was a young journalist who had moved from his native Wales to London, and he wrote a number of humorous and slightly risqué sketches for fashionable London magazines. But then he published “The Great God Pan” (1894), one of the pioneering works in the entire range of weird fiction. It was condemned by contemporary reviewers as the work of a diseased mind. Machen followed it up with the episodic novel The Three Impostors (1895), containing the brilliant segments “The Novel of the Black Seal” (which features the Little People, a sub-human race lurking on the edges of civilization), “The Novel of the White Powder,” and other vivid narratives.

Volume 2: 1896–1910
This second volume of Machen’s collected fiction begins with Machen’s most accomplished novel, The Hill of Dreams (written in 1895–97 and published in 1907), which H. P. Lovecraft called a “memorable epic of the sensitive aesthetic mind.” It features Lucian Taylor, a young man from the country who struggles to become a writer in London. His ruminations on life, love, and authorship are extraordinarily poignant, and at one point he engages in a lengthy dream of being back in ancient Rome, in the town of Isca Silurum, near his birthplace in Wales. Later in 1897 Machen wrote a series of exquisite prose poems that were later published as Ornaments in Jade (1924). These ten vignettes display Machen’s luminous prose at its most evocative, and they touch upon the possibility of strange and wondrous phenomena concealed behind the outward façade of the mundane world. Machen’s most accomplished weird tale, “The White People,” is also found here. Its account of a young girl insidiously inculcated in the witch-cult, told entirely from her own perspective as she jots down her thoughts and impressions in a diary, achieves the pinnacle of clutching fear. A very different work is the short novel A Fragment of Life, telling of how a seemingly ordinary couple rediscover their sense of wonder in the world around them. The novel The Secret Glory (written around 1907) is a discursive novel that searingly condemns the British school system for destroying the imaginations of its pupils. The entire work—including the final two chapters, first published only in a limited edition in 1992—is included here.

Volume 3: 1911–1937
The third volume of Machen’s collected fiction begins with a tale, “The Thousand and One Nights,” that has never before been reprinted. It continues with a succession of tales that Machen wrote during and just after World War I, a cataclysm that shook Europe to its foundations. The most famous of these is “The Bowmen” (1914), a narrative of medieval soldiers coming to the rescue of besieged British infantrymen in France was widely believed to be a true account, in spite of Machen’s repeated protestations to the contrary. Machen’s final war tale, the short novel The Terror (1916), is an imperishable depiction of the revolt of animals against humanity’s rulership of the earth. In the 1920s Machen resorted to humor and satire to convey his dissatisfaction with the increasing secularization of his era, which he felt was robbing the imagination of wonder and mystery. He also began contributing to anthologies of original weird fiction edited by Cynthia Asquith and others, producing several memorable tales as a result, including “The Happy Children” and “The Islington Mystery.” Machen’s final novel, The Green Round (1933), is a subtle tale of supernatural menace, narrated in the blandly repertorial prose that Machen had developed in his later work. He then published two final volumes of weird tales, The Cosy Room and The Children of the Pool (both 1936), which contain many memorable tales, including “The Bright Boy” and “N.”

Three volumes, sold as a set.
Individual volumes available on Amazon.com
Edited by S. T. Joshi
Cover artwork by Matthew Jaffe
Ttrade paper, 1645 pages
Published simultaneously with THE SECRET CEREMONIES: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON ARTHUR MACHEN
This set is being released at NecronomiCon Providence 2019.
Pre-orders will be filled in late August, after the convention.
$75.00



The Illustrated Press
ALLEN ANDERSON

Now available fror pre-order!
Scheduled to ship in October!

Standard Edition
This is the ultimate book on the work of pulp artist ALLEN ANDERSON. Known best for his covers for PLANET STORIES, DELL COMICS, spicy pulps, Western pulps, and many others, this spectacular book contains stunning reproductions taken directly from Anderson's original paintings, as well as reference photos, rare proof sheets of pulp covers, and much more. Limited to just 900 copies.

224 pages, 9x12 inches, hardcover with dust jacket. $44.95 (U.S.)

Deluxe Edition
 
This is the ultimate book on the work of pulp artist ALLEN ANDERSON. Known best for his covers for PLANET STORIES, DELL COMICS, spicy pulps, Western pulps, and many others, this spectacular book contains stunning reproductions taken directly from Anderson's original paintings, as well as reference photos, rare proof sheets of pulp covers, and much more. Limited to just 100 copies!

224 pages, 9x12 inches, hardcover with dust jacket
in red slipcase with white lettering. Insert bookplate signed and numbered by author David Saunders. $64.95 (U.S.)

To see a preview of the book, follow this link: https://issuu.com/illomag/docs/rafaeldesoto






Jerry Schneider Enterprises

Now available!

MAGAZINE OF HORROR #18

Contents:
IN AMUNDSEN'S TENT by John Martin Leahy
TRANSIENT AND IMMORTAL by Jim Haught
OUT OF THE DEEP by Robert E. Howard
THE BIBLIOPHILE by Thomas Boyd
THE ULTIMATE CREATURE by R. A. Lafferty
WOLVES OF DARKNESS by Jack Williamson

Digest, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 130 pages
$12.95



COSMIC STORIES, March 1941

The first issue of this short-lived pulp magazine.

Contents:
MECANICA by Frank Edward Arnold
THE MARTIANS ARE COMING by Robert W. Lowndes
CRYSTAL WORLD by John L. Chapman
THE MAN FROM THE FUTURE by Donald A. Wollheim
RETURN FROM M-15 by S. D. Gottesman
PLANET LEAVE by Clifton B. Kruse
THE SECRET SENSE by Isaac Asimov
WORLDS IN EXILE by Elton V. Andrews
THE LAST VIKING by Hugh Raymond
AMBITION by Wilfred Owen Morley
PURPLE DANDELIONS by Millard Verne Gordon
THE ROCKET by Damon Knight
THE REVERSIBLE REVOLUTIONS by Cecil Corwin
BIPED by Basil Wells

Pulp Sized Magazine, 7 x 10 inch, 132 pages
$12.95


10 STORY WESTERN MAGAZINE, December 1947

Contents
POWDERSMOKE PUPPET by Walt Coburn
SATAN SPAWNS A WOOLIE WAR by Thomas Thompson
GUN FEVER HERITAGE by Francis P. Verzani
RABBLE SOLDIER'S PRIVATE REBELLION by Dan Cushman
CONESTOGA GETS A SIXGUN SURGEON by Jackson V. Scholz
BUTTON'S TERROR TRAP by Gunnison Steele
PONOKA KID'S DILEMMA by Harold V. Weekes
GUNSMOKE WEDDING WREATH by John Jo Carpenter
MYSTERY OF MAGRUDER'S CACHE by Joseph Chadwick
TRAIL BOSS, YOU'RE DONE! by Harold R. Stoakes

Pulp Sized Magazine, 7 x 10 inch, 100 pages
$14.95


THE SEVEN SEAS, Winter 1953

The first and only issue of this digest magazine from the publishers of AMAZING STORIES and FANTASTIC.

Contents
THE DIVER OF THE REBECQUE by Garland Roark
PORT OF LONELY MEN by William McFee
THE MISTRESS OF CKU by Thomas H. Raddall
THE CAPTAIN'S DREAMS by Brian O'Brien
THE TRAWLER by James B. Connolly
THE TIDE by Liam O'Flaherty
THE FLOATING COURT by Edward A. Herron
S.S. SAN PEDRO by James Gould Cozzens

Digest, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 132 pages
$12.95






 
 
   
 
 
 
Justin Marriott
MONSTER MANIACS #1
Now available!

The fanzine devoted to vintage horror comics and magazines.

72 pages of full color.

Articles on Atlas pre-code horror comics, For Monsters Only magazine, National Lampoon's horror comics. interviews with Bill Van Ryn of Video Drive In Asylum and Peter Normanton of From the Tomb.
Lots of rare art from Frazetta, Neal Adams, Sanjulian, Jack Davis and more. And more!

Paperback: 72 pages
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
$10.99


 



Martin Grams' Blog - Now online!

King Kong, The Alvin Show and Rock and Roll - New!
The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
The Lion King Reigns Supreme
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon: The Radio Program
Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir
The Green Hornet Newspaper Strip
The Twilight Zone's 60TH Birthday Party
The Lone Ranger: The Early Years Preserved




The Robert E. Howard Newsline
Now online!


Bringing you the latest news in Robert E. Howard books, pulp reprints, comics, audio, conventions, games, and whatever else seems applicable.

Now featuring:

Links to Robert E. Howard Days 2019 Panel Discussions  


The Art of Robert E. Howard: Peter Andrew Jones

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Virgil Finlay

The Art of Robert E. Howard: Michael William Kaluta:  Part 1   Part 2   Part 3  

Robert E. Howard’s Reefer Madness By Bobby Derie

Accepting new articles for posting.
Contact me at bthom1@cox.net





Meteor House
Greatheart Silver and Other Pulp Heroes
Now available!

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




September 12-14, 2019! 

Hunt Valley Detla Hotel, Hunt Valley, Maryland

Announcing the first half of our celebrity lineup for our 2019 event!
Remember you can purchase your admission tickets in advance through the website and save money.
And book your hotel room early before they are sold out!
Hotel: (410) 785-7000


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



Mystery*File - Now online!

Stories I’m Reading: AUGUST DERLETH “The China Cottage.”

Pulp Stories I’m Reading: Three Northerns by FREDERICK NEBEL.
Mike Nevins on Pulp Writer RAOUL WHITFIELD, Part Two.
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: ERLE STANLEY GARDNER “Night Birds.”

Stories I’m Reading: STUART PALMER “The Riddle of the Dangling Pearl.”
Pulp Stories I’m Reading: THOMAS WALSH “Murder Twist.”



The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!

Bounty

The Scarlet Claw
The Midnight Phantom
Australis Incognito
The Henchmen

North-West Adventures - Now online!

King of the Royal Mounted Cover Gallery - New!
(1935) Zane Grey’s King of the Royal Mounted
- New!
(1883) “Captain of the ‘Polestar'
- New!
(1951) “The Smile of Jean Charcot”
- New!
(1937) “The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw”
- New!
Lawrence Mott (1881-1931)
Augustus William deHerries Smith (1881-1945)

Harry Sinclair Drago (1887-1979)
Dime Novels of the Klondike

ADVENTURE FICTION, ARTISTS: Western Story Covers  
ADVENTURE FICTION, AUTHORS: Jules Verne at the Poles

Adventure Fiction, Artists: Western Story Covers
Adventure Fiction, Authors: Jules Verne at the Poles




OLD BONES (Nora Kelly) - Now available!
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





PAPERBACK PARADE #104 - Now available!

PAPERBACK PARADE #104, the magazine for paperback readers and collectors -- 100 pages in Full Color!

Contents
Gary Lovisi: Paperback Talk
Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Writer & the Stories”
Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Books & the Covers”
Gary Lovisi & Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Signet List”
Art Scott “Carter Brown: In Belmont & Tower”
Philip Harbottle “Fearn’s Jinxed Novels”
Richard Greene “Matchless Paperbacks: Straw Boss”
Gary Lovisi “Mighty Midgets”
Jon D. Swartz “Early Penguin SF”
Jon D. Swartz “Bill Crider”


$15.00 + $3.00 postage from Gryphon Books, www.gryphonbooks.com.
You can pay via Paypal or with a check to our address:
Gryphon Books, PO Box 280209, Brooklyn, NY 11228, USA. (Inquire on subscription rates and outside USA).
Thank you and all best to you for 2017! Enjoy!


Back issues also available while they last!

 
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You can also purchase Paperback Parade at our ebay store at the link below. 
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Paperback Parade single issue is $15.00 + postage. Query on back issues AND ON AD RATES.
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August 15 - August 18, 2019




George Vanderburgh has been named the winner of the 2019 Munsey Award. Nominated by the general pulp community, George was selected by previous winners of the Lamont, Munsey, and Rusty Awards. The award is a fine art print created by David Saunders and published by Dan Zimmer of The Illustrated Press. It is presented annually to an individual or institution that has bettered the pulp community. Bill Lampkin — winner of the 2018 Munsey Award — presented this year’s award.

Our 2019 Munsey Award winner, GEORGE VANDERBURGH has published over 600 books through his Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, many of them directly related to the pulps. He was largely responsible for finally getting all of Fred Davis’ classic Moon Man stories back into print. And what about his Peter the Brazen series, his five volumes featuring the work of Seabury Quinn, THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE PARK AVENUE HUNT CLUB, his Green Ghost set, THE COMPLEAT SAGA OF JOHN SOLOMON, THE ADVENTURES OF THE GOLDEN AMAZON, THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE SUICIDE SQUAD, and others? He has also given us numerous collections of detective fiction, including volumes featuring the Thinking Machine, Dr. Thorndyke, and Martin Hewitt. Looking at his website, his future plans include several books reprinting pulp authors who have been unjustly forgotten. Along with the late Robert Weinberg, George served as the co-editor of Arkham House Publishers until the death of April Derleth. A regular attendee of pulp conventions, George has helped both longtime and new fans to collect the tales of some of the most fantastic heroes from the pulps. At this year’s PulpFest, George was part of our presentation, “The Game’s Afoot: Sherlock Holmes and the Pulps.”

Congratulations to George for this most deserved award.


PulpFest Blog Posts

PulpFest 2020 Estate Auction
- New!
Thanks for Making PulpFest 2019 a Great Success!
PulpFest 2019: Two Sought Adventure: Eighty Years of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Get Nostalgic at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
Sunday at PulpFest 2019

Our 2019 Munsey Award Winner

Saturday at PulpFest 2019

Friday at PulpFest 2019
PulpFest 2019 Begins Today -
Safe Travels
PulpFest Primer
Last Minute Dealer Changes
One Week to Go!
Highlights from THE PULPSTER



Pulpgen-Online Pulps - Now online!

New this week

"Payoff in Lead" by John S. Endicott from GHOST, SUPER-DETECTIVE, January, 1940

Three Hundred Grand Is Worth Fighting for - But the Odds Against Terry Black Are Tremendous! Endicott is a pseudonym for Norman A. Daniels.

"The Face of Isis" by Cyril G. Wates from AMAZING STORIES, March, 1929
Cyril Wates writes a Verne-ish tale about archeologists who discover evidence that an ancient Pharaoh tried to ascend to the moon (AKA the Face of Isis) using anti-gravity crystals. The scientists try to replicate the anti-gravity spaceship.

"The Image of Sesphra" by James Branch Cabell from ROMANCE, October, 1920
THEY of Poictesme narrate that in the old days Count Manuel married, and so fell into disfavor with King Raymond. They tell how it was Raymond's daughter, the Princess Alianora, whom Manuel had loved and loved no longer, who prompted this disfavor, and thereby set Dom Manuel a problem which stays unsolved.



















IN THE 100th BIRTHDAY YEAR OF ZORRO,
PULP ADVENTURECON WILL BE SPECIAL!



The Pulp Archivist - Now online!

Leviathan
- New!
Giants
The Oklahoma Tradition
Light Novel Recommendations: An Introduction
Quick Reviews: Shadow Heart and A Thousand Li
Out Today: Queen of the Martian Catacombs
The Passing of Greatness  
Bone Dungeon
EU Declares Project Gutenberg Terrorist Material, Demands Removal



Pulp Den by Tom Johnson - Now online!

Welcome To Miskatonic University
- New!
Boundless
King Ra Ra: Carrots For Sale
The City Burns At Night
Oklahoma Winds
ASTOUNDING
Haunted Charlottesville


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

Pulpfest 2019 trip report - photos - New!
Walker Martin: Pulpfest 2019 report - August 15-18, 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The dark side of the pulps
Pulp links roundup - July 2019 edition  
Donald Francis McGrew - Author, Journalist  
Elliot W. Chess – Fighter pilot, Author
Link Roundup - May 2019


The Pulp Hermit  by Tom Johnson - Now online!

A New Artist Comes to ECHOES - New!
Introducing New Pulp Author Ginger Johnson
Betty Dale, Charlotta & Leanne Manners
A Piece of Something Big  
The Tokaido Road
Introducing New Pulp Author Teel James Glenn
Bronze Shadows
INTRODUCING NEW PULP AUTHOR KATE A. GANNON
Legion of Living Dead  
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.



Radio Archives
The Spider #108 Audiobook
Hell Rolls on the Highways!
by Norvell W. Page writing as Grant Stockbridge

Read by Nick Santa Maria
  Now available!


 The very structure of our war effort was threatened. Great cargo laden trailer-trucks and mammoth, passenger-filled busses were crashing mysteriously to flaming destruction on our highways! . . . Read how Richard Wentworth, in the sinister robes of the Spider, challenges a mighty crime combine designed to wreck the nation’s overland transport! Read of the Evangelist, who swore to consign the Spider’s soul to hell! And of Kalimumtaz, Hindu tigress in whose pagan hand rested the fate of Wentworth’s every ally — while he himself plunged down a mountain in a fiery coffin!



The Spider stories are all about action, emotional intensity, and pacing. Wentworth himself is strongly emotional, plumbing the thrills of victory as readily, and as deeply, as the depths of despair during his escapades. His long-suffering fiancée, Nita van Sloan, is a worthy character in her own right, though frequently relegated to the traditional role of hostage-bait. As additional exotic spice, Wentworth maintains a Sikh manservant/warrior companion, Ram Singh, as well as chauffeur Ronald Jackson, the sergeant from his old army days. Rounding out the cast of characters is Commissioner of Police Stanley Kirkpatrick, Wentworth’s staunch friend and the Spider’s greatest adversary.
 
Once more,the incomparable Nick Santa Maria reads another thrilling Spider exploit. Hell Rolls on the Highways! originally published in The Spider magazine, September, 1942.


    
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


Radio Archives
The Lone Ranger Magazine #8 Audiobook
November 1937

Read by Milton Bagby
Now available!

Featuring the Hard Riding’ - Fast Shootin’ Modern Robin Hood of the West - The Lone Ranger, his Wonder Horse Silver and Tonto.
 
The Lone Ranger magazine ran from April 1937 to November 1937. The title was changed to Romantic Western and was published from January 1938 to July 1939.
 
Trojan Publishing was the publisher. The pulp magazine preceded the first recorded radio show.
 
These eight stories are torn from the pages of the November, 1937 issue of The Lone Ranger magazine and is read with stirring intensity by Milton Bagby and Paul Curtis.



Table of Contents:
 
Death’s Head Vengeance
Read by Milton Bagby
Featuring The Famous Masked Rider The Lone Ranger With “Silver” And Tonto.
 
The Kid Goes Through - Short Story
by John G. Pearsol
 
Famous Frontier Fights - Special Feature
by Col. J.J. Boniface

 
Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen - A Film Review
 
The Vanished Buffalo - Special Feature
by Claude Rister
 
The Ranger and the Kid - Short Story
by C. Willis Finlayson
 
Outdoor Trails - Special Feature
by Dick Wood
 
Trail Driving - Special Feature
by Wilton West

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



Radio Archives Pulp Classics
The Lone Ranger Magazine eBook #8
November 1937

Now available!

Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.

The Lone Ranger rides again! Return with us to the old west, where one masked man and his faithful companion fought for justice. Four years after The Lone Ranger's broadcast debut, the popularity of the thrice-weekly radio series, prompted a short-lived series of pulp magazine stories. Trojan Publishing, which was also responsible for such pulp titles as Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective; Private Detective Stories and Spicy Detective Stories bought the magazine rights in 1937, and released the first issue of The Lone Ranger Magazine dated April 1937. After eight monthly issues, the final issue of the magazine was dated November 1937. The Lone Ranger returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.

Table of Contents:
A Complete Novel
Death’s Head Vengeance
Featuring The Famous Masked Rider The Lone Ranger With “Silver” And Tonto
 
The Quiz Page — A Special Feature
 
The Kid Goes Through — Short Story
by John G. Pearsol
 
Famous Frontier Fights — An Article
by Col. J.J. Boniface
 
Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen — A Film Review
 
The Vanished Buffalo — An Article
by Claude Rister
 
The Ranger and the Kid — Short Story
by C. Willis Finlayson
 
Outdoor Trails — A Department
by Dick Wood
 
Trail Driving — An Article
by Wilton West
 
The Stamp Page — A Department
by W.B. Carnahan
 
Chuck Wagon Chats — A Department
by Pop Bonner


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


Recoverings
The Only Dust-jackets Officially Authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD MEN
BACK TO THE STONE AGE
LAND OF TERROR
A special Alternate Timeline Dust-jacket for THE WAR CHIEF

Now available!


The first three jackets are all reconstructed using scans of the original paintings for those covers.
THE WAR CHIEF alternate is based on art by noted western artist Maynard Dixon and you can read more about it here.


Please take a moment to read the four-page article  about the publishing of THE WAR CHIEF and why it meant so much to Ed Burroughs. I think you’ll be interested to find out that the book was one of the most well-researched novels he ever wrote (besides I AM A BARBARIAN), and, considering its point of view and many of the statements about white settlers, the US Army and the reasons for the Apache’s explicit savagery, certainly his most controversial.

RED SONJA #8  - Arriving in comic shops September 11!
(Writer) Mark Russell (Art) Mirko Colak
Cover A: Amanda Conner
Cover B: Joseph Michael Linsner
Cover C: Khoi Pham
Cover D: Katie O'Meara
Cover E: Cosplay

Hyrkania burns, from flames allowed by its ruler, Sonja The Red. In The Clearing, Lord Oak will hear her call for alliance with the woodland tribes. But trust does not come easily to either folk.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99

  
   
 
 





The Serial Squadron
Coming in September!

CAPTAIN AMERICA
THE MOVIE SERIAL
FEATURING DICK PURCELL
ADRIAN BOOTH and LIONEL ATWILL
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD Upgrade


A remastering of the original Squadron-produced transfer with complete, correct chapter openings, stabilized, and offered in HD with improved sharpness and motion.
Also includes new and upgraded extras.

Watch for information on how to preorder and when the title will ship.





 
The Serial Squadron
Coming in October!

ROCKETMAN IN THE COMICS AND THE MOVIES
Book


The history of Rocketman/Commando Cody in the serials and related characters including Bulletman in the comics. Includes a brand NEW Rocketman story.



THE HOUSE OF HATE
Blu-Ray/DL-DVD


New upgraded transfer of the amazing, massively influential Pearl White mystery serial, with solid leading man Antonio Moreno,
and, introducing The Hooded Terror, most fearsome and deadly of the early serial villains.









The Shadowcast #1 - THE LIVING SHADOW - Now online!

From the mists of mystery emerges The Shadowcast!
In this first episode, we explore the origins of the Dark Avenger with the very first pulp story: THE LIVING SHADOW, and review The Knight of Darkness's first film appearance in the rare 1931




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

Love Traffic by Gaston Lamond
“Murder Mayhem” by Ray Stahl (aka: Bart Carson)
Murder Gets Around by Robert Sidney Bowen
Spider Pete by Claude Stewart
The Finger of Death by Henry Keyworth



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.

C.L. Moore in Traces Magazine  - New!
July: Weird Tales #363
July: Ernest Hemingway, Star Wars, and the Adolescentization of America
July: Edith and Ernest
July: Losses and Gains
Problems in Science Fiction No. 2-Continued
A Note on a Passing  
Problems in Science Fiction-No. 2
A Teller of Weird Tales at Normandy

 

 Terence McVicker, Rare Books
Rare, used, and out-of-print books

New listings are now online!

Lots of pulp-related items for sale!

ROBERT E. HOWARD!
 H. P. LOVECRAFT! 
 CLARK ASHTON SMITH!
E. E. (DOC) SMITH!



Terence McVicker, Rare Books

 

Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels
by Christopher R. Yates
(New publications to the list are in bold)

Now available!
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
Height of the Storm: A Novel of Earth Prime, Aaron Rosenberg, Green Ronin Publishing, $15.99, August 20, 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

The Nobody People: A Novel, Bob Proehl, Del Rey, $27.00, September 3, 2019

Coming soon!
Harley Quinn: Mad Love, Paul Dini, Titan Books, $12.95, September 10, 2019
Psi Judge Anderson: Year Two, Danie Ware, Laurel Sills & Zina Hutton, Abaddon Books, $11.99, September 17, 2019
Venom: Lethal Protector, James R. Tuck, Titan Books, $8.99, September 24, 2019
Captain America: Dark Designs, Stefan Petrucha, Titan Books, $9.99, October 15, 2019

Captain Marvel: Liberation Run, Tess Sharpe, Titan Books, $8.99, October 29, 2019
Batman: The Court of Owls, Greg Cox, Titan Books,$12.95, November 5, 2019

The Godhead [The God Wave Trilogy #3], Patrick Hemstreet, HarperCollins, $26.99, November 12, 2019
X-Men: The Mutant Empire Omnibus, Christopher Golden, Titan Books, $10.99, November 12, 2019
Avengers: Infinity, James A. Moore, Titan Books, $8.99, November 26, 2019
Wild Cards X: Double Solitaire, Melinda Snodgrass, Tor, $19.99, December 3, 2019
Wild Cards XXVIII: Joker Moon, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $29.99, December 12, 2019
Null Set [Cas Russell #2], S.L. Huang, Tor, $18.99, January 14, 2020]
X-Men and the Avengers: The Gamma Quest Omnibus, Greg Cox, Titan Books, $10.99, January 21, 2020

Bloodshot – The Official Movie Novelization, Gavin Smith, Titan Books, $8.99, February 4, 2020
The Reign of the Kingfisher: A Novel, T.J. Martinson, Flatiron Books, $16.99, March 3, 2020
Wild Cards XXVI: Texas Hold’em, ed. George R.R. Martin, Tor, $18.99, April 14, 2020

Critical Point [Cas Russell #3], S.L. Huang, Tor, $27.99, April 28, 2020
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, Stuart Moore, Titan Books, $9.99, May 12, 2020



WEIRD TALES #363 - Now available!

The first full color issue of Weird Tales is now available!

It is 80 pages of brand new, fully illustrated short fiction, and includes a lifetime membership to the evolving Weird Tales website.

Editor: Jonathan Maberry
Cover art by Abigail Larson
80 pages

Contents
"The Eyrie"
"What Waits in the Trees" by Stephanie Wytovich
"Up from Slavery" by Victor LaValle
"Erasure" by Stephanie Wytovich
"By Post" by Josh Malerman
"A Housekeeper’s Revenge" by Lisa Morton
"A Woman Who Still Knows How to Die" by Stephanie Wytovich
"Due to the Memory of Scars" by Stephanie Wytovich
"The Shadows beneath the Stone" by Jonathan Maberry
"Outside the Shells of Horseshoe Crabs" by Stephanie Wytovich
"I-O-U" by Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Payday" by Hank Schwaeble
"Distant Drums" by Marc Bilgrey
"Amelia Delia Lee" by Tori Eldridge


It is $12.99, plus $4.99 shipping and handling within the USA.

It is $12.99, plus $10.99 Shipping and Handling for orders outside of the USA.

Weird Tales



WEIRDBOOK #41
Softcover edition now available at Amazon!

Prose
Tonight I Wear My Crimson Face, by Adrian Cole
The House of the Witches, by Darrell Schweitzer
The Bones, by Erica Ruppert
-The Idols of Xan, by Steve Dilks
 Conjurings, by Marlane Quade Cook
Matriarch Unbound, by Glynn Owen Barrass
The Mouth at the Edge of the World, by Luke Walker
"An Autumn Settling", by Alistair Rey
I Know How You'll Die, by K.G. Anderson
Fair Shopping, by Jack Lee Taylor
Black Aggie, by Marina Favila
The Chroma of Home, by Arasibo Campeche
The Last Resort, by Dean MacAllister
The Crypt Beneath the Manse, by S. Subramanian
 A Winter Reunion, by C.M. Muller
 The Stravinsky Code, by Leonard Carpenter
 She Talks to Me, by Matthew Masucci
 Wings of Twilight, by L.F. Falconer
 A Pantheon of Trash, by Thomas C. Mavroudis
 Juliet's Moon, by D.C. Lozar
The Gargoyle's Wife, by Jean Graham
The Melting Man, by Justin Boote
Dead Waves, by Sean McCoy
The Proposal, by J.D. Brink
Dark Energy, by Kevin Hayman
Christmas at Castle Dracula, by S. L. Edwards
There Was Fire, by M. Ravenberg
Them, by Sharon Cullars
For Love of Lythea, by C. I. Kemp

Poetry
Beltane, by K.A. Opperman
Twin Hungers, by Scott J. Couturier
The Jackal, by Ashley Dioses
Our Family Ghost, by Joshua Gage
Le Gargoyle, by Russ Parkhurst"



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