New Pulp, ReviewStormgate Press Quick Reads fourth waveAt PulpFest 2026, Stormgate Press, publisher of Captain Hawklin, Pulp Reality, and more, has put out the fourth wave in its series of Stormgate Press Quick Read Books with three new books, bringing the total to 13. All are written by Charles F. Millhouse, who is the man behind Stormgate Press. These are short, digest-size […] [...]
November 11, 2026
Foreign pulps, Proto-pulp, Reprints, Review‘Flaxman Low: Occult Detective’As a fan of occult detectives, I have been aware of Flaxman Low for some time, but have yet to read any of his stories. He is one of the earliest of the occult detectives, and some try to claim he is the first full-time occult detective versus someone who sometimes deals with this. But […] [...]
November 9, 2026
New Pulp, ReviewMore ‘Flights of the Peregrine’Last year, I posted on the first in a new series of stories with Barry Reese‘s New Pulp hero The Peregrine, but written by other authors. It’s not clear if these are all considered canon in his timeline, as I only see one of them included. As posted before, the Peregrine, originally named The Rook, […] [...]
November 4, 2026
New Pulp, Pulps, Reprints, ReviewERB’s ‘Beyond the Farthest Star’I remember in high school when I was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs that one of the books I read was Beyond the Farthest Star (or, BtFS). What I found most intriguing about it was that Burroughs had spent time building up a whole planetary system for adventures, the Omos system, which had 11 worlds all […] [...]
November 2, 2026
New Pulp, Review‘The Challenger Chronicles,’ Vols. 1 & 2Airship 27 has for quite a while been doing their excellent series of new canon Sherlock Holmes stories, so it’s great they started to do a series for Arthur Conan Doyle‘s other series character: Professor George Edward Challenger. So far we’ve gotten two volumes of The Challenger Chronicles. Professor Challenger is probably best known for […] [...]
October 28, 2026
Artwork, Non-fiction, Post-pulp, Review‘Mort Künstler Covered,’ Vol. 1Covers sell, whether it’s books or magazines. This was just as important for pulp magazines as it was for men’s adventure magazines. One of the best of the MAM artists is Mort Künstler (1927–2025). The folks behind Men’s Adventure Library — Bob Deis and Wyatt Doyle — have been putting out several collections on various […] [...]
October 27, 2026
Foreign pulps, Proto-pulp, Pulps, Reprints, ReviewMIT Press’ Radium Age seriesAn interesting series of early science fiction works has appeared from MIT Press: The Radium Age. The series covers science fiction that appeared between 1900 and 1935, before the Golden Age of science fiction. The series is edited by Joshua Glenn, who is not a science-fiction expert but instead is a “semiotics analyst,” semiotics being […] [...]
October 26, 2026
New Pulp, Pastiche, Review‘Solar Pons: A Year of Mystery 1919’In early 2026, the latest collection of new Solar Pons stories came out from Belanger Books: Solar Pons: A Year of Mystery 1919. This volume contains 20 stories by various authors, all set in 1919. This was done as a Kickstarter campaign, and I got the work as part of that. Pons is a Sherlock […] [...]
October 21, 2026
Pulps, Reprints, Review‘Devildog Squadron, Vol. 4: Coils of the Cobra’At PulpFest 2026, we got the fourth and final volume of Donald Keyhoe‘s Devildog Squadron series, The Coils of the Cobra, from Age of Aces Books. This was his second series, started in 1931, the same month as Philip Strange. It lasted for 24 stories from 1931 to ’35 in Sky Birds, published by Magazine […] [...]
October 19, 2026
Pulps, Reprints, Review‘Buccaneer Blood,’ adventures of another Denis BurkeAfter reading one of H. Bedford-Jones‘s series dealing with a Denis Burke in a volume from Steeger Books titled Invitation to a Crime, I read a series dealing with another Denis Burke: Buccaneer Blood. Unlike the first one, this one is set around 1702 and deals mainly with buccaneers (or pirates) in the Caribbean. Oh, […] [...]
October 15, 2026
New Pulp, Review, Thriller‘The Ancient Bones’About a month out from PulpFest, the sixth Thomas Adam Gray thriller by Duane Laflin, The Ancient Bones, came out. As I’ve been enjoying this series, I quickly got and read it. This series continues to be great, and I look forward to the next one. Laflin is a retired professional magician who now writes […] [...]
October 14, 2026
New Pulp, Pulps, Reprints, ReviewERB’s ‘Monster Men’Toward the end of 2025, I picked up Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.‘s new edition of The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs, along with Joshua Reynolds‘s authorized sequel, The Return of the Monster Men. I had read The Monster Men way back in the 1970s. Mine was the Ace Books edition with the Boris Vallejo […] [...]
October 12, 2026
New Pulp, Pastiche, Review‘Sherlock Holmes in the Fullness of Time’I recently got a massive volume of Sherlock Holmes stories: Sherlock Holmes in the Fullness of Time; or Adventures on Three Roads Less Traveled by Thomas Kent Miller. This volume collects three stories that have Sherlock Holmes in tales that also involve characters by H. Rider Haggard (and others). Strangely, in most of these stories, […] [...]
October 7, 2026
Pulps, Reprints, Review‘West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar’While I’m not a fan of the hard-boiled detective genre, I recently obtained West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar by Raoul Whitfield (1896–1945). This reprints a series starring “Island detective” Jo Gar. He is a Spanish-Filipino living in Manila who is a former policeman, now a private investigator who often gets involved […] [...]
October 5, 2026
New Pulp, Review‘The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes 3’Well, I guess I’m a glutton for punishment, but here we are with round three. Some time back, I did a review of the first two Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes volumes. And I was a bit disappointed. Well, a lot disappointed. I was very much on the fence about whether I was going […] [...]
September 30, 2026
Fanzines, New Pulp, Non-fiction, Pulps, Reprints‘Pulp Adventure’ #49Pulp Adventures #49 from Bold Venture Press, dated Summer 2026, came out toward the end of June. We get 130 pages of classic and new pulp of various genres (historical fiction, horror, science fiction, intrigue, detective, and more), plus reviews and some nonfiction. The front and back covers are again AI-generated, and that’s fine. So, […] [...]
September 28, 2026
Pulps, Reprints, ReviewH. Bedford-Jones’s ‘The Devil’s Bosun’I recently read one of H. Bedford-Jones‘s novels, The Devil’s Bosun. This story is set in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s. The story was serialized over four issues of Short Stories in November and December 1935. The first part was cover-featured, and that was used as the cover art of the volume. The […] [...]
September 24, 2026
New Pulp, Pastiche, Reprints, Review‘The Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ seriesAn interesting series of Sherlock Holmes pastiches is the “Secret Adventures” series by author, editor, and publisher Gary Lovisi. It was published by Ramble House in three volumes: The Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2007), More Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2011), and The Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Book Three (2016). The idea is […] [...]
September 23, 2026
Foreign pulps, Pulps, Reprints, ReviewA look at Oscar CookOscar Cook (1888-1952) is an overlooked British author of macabre fiction. He spent a decade of his life in colonial service in Borneo, which colored his fiction. Returning to England, he wrote of his experiences there in Borneo: The Stealer of Hearts, published in 1924. I am only aware of one novel (The Seventh Wave), […] [...]
September 21, 2026
New Pulp, Review‘The Undiscovered Country’In spring 2026, we got the third novel in the Paradise Investigations series from Teel James Glenn. This series, set in 1939 New York City, stars Adam Paradise, a private investigator who is Frankenstein‘s monster. The Undiscovered Country is set six months after the prior novel, and it’s now 1939. The Nazis are in power […] [...]
September 16, 2026
Non-fiction, References, Review‘Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs’The first book-length work on Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) and his characters and fiction was Richard A. Lupoff’s Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, which has gone through four editions. It first came out in hardcover from Canaveral Press in 1965, where Lupoff worked. Ace published the next two editions in 1968 […] [...]
September 14, 2026
New Pulp, Review‘The Moon Man,’ Vol. 3I have posted on The Moon Man before, a classic pulp hero who appeared in the pages of Ten Detective Aces, published by Ace Magazines, in 38 stories from 1933 to 1937. Created by pulp author Frederick C. Davis, Steeger Books has reprinted the whole series in seven volumes, which I have reviewed here. Sometimes […] [...]
September 9, 2026
Pulps, Reprints, Review‘Ed Race: The Masked Marksman,’ Vol. 5I recently picked up the fifth collection of the Ed Race series, which ran in the back of The Spider pulp from Popular Publications. Also known as The Masked Marksman, this series ran for 55 stories from 1934 to 1943. Ed Race, The Masked Marksman, Vol. 5, subtitled “Curtain Call for the Corpse,” by Steeger […] [...]
September 7, 2026
New Pulp, Pastiche, Review‘The Singular Papers of Solar Pons’At the end of 2025, the latest collection of new Solar Pons stories by David Marcum came out from Belanger Books: The Singular Papers of Solar Pons. This volume contains 15 stories, four of which had appeared in prior anthologies (the novellas collection and the American Adventures collection). This was done as a Kickstarter campaign, […] [...]
September 2, 2026
Pulps, Reprints, Review‘Harrigan’s File’Harrigan’s File is a collection of science fiction tales by August Derleth, his only explicitly science fiction work. This series of short stories is about newspaper reporter Tex Harrigan and his various strange encounters with “queer people.” It was published in 1975 in hardback by Arkham House, and has never been reprinted. The series consists […] [...]
August 31, 2026
Pulps, ReferencesPulp and pulp-adjacent literary societiesI have posted about a few literary societies here and felt a post on several of these would be a good idea. By “literary society,” I mean a group of fans of a particular author or character who have come together in an organization that publishes a journal and/or newsletter, possibly organizes meetings, and maybe […] [...]
August 28, 2026
Fanzines, Non-fiction, Review‘RevERBerate’ #4We got the fourth issue of RevERBerate, a fanzine devoted to Edgar Rice Burroughs, in May 2026. Like the previous ones, this one is again 48 pages, it is printed on high-quality, glossy stock, perfect-bound with color cardstock covers. As usual, nothing on the cover indicates the issue number or date, which is on purpose. […] [...]
August 26, 2026
Pulps, Reprints, Review‘The Complete Adventures of The Major,’ Vols. 3 & 4I continue my reading of L. Patrick Greene‘s series about English adventurer Aubrey St. John Major, a.k.a. The Major, set in Africa, getting into the third and fourth volumes. This series ran from 1919 to 1939, with a few in 1947 and ’48, for over 100 stories in Short Stories and other pulps. Steeger Books […] [...]
August 24, 2026
Conventions, New Pulp, PulpsCon report: PulpFest 2026From July 30 to Aug. 2, 2026, PulpFest 2026 was held near Pittsburgh, again at the DoubleTree in Mars, Pa. This was my fourth time attending. I again made a point of arriving Wednesday night to be able to experience the con from Thursday through Saturday. In addition, there were three associated events. There was […] [...]
August 21, 2026
Pulps, Reprints, ReviewH. Bedford-Jones’ ‘Invitation to a Crime’I recently read one of H. Bedford-Jones‘s series dealing with a Denis Burke. Bedford-Jones had three series of stories featuring men with this name who are probably descendants. The third and final one, featured in Invitation to a Crime: Further Adventures of Denis Burke, ran for six stories, all set in French Morocco in the […] [...]
August 20, 2026
Old Time Radio (OTR), Pulp, The ShadowGoing on hiatusThis blog, That’s Pulp!, is going on an extended vacation. I can’t tell you when I’ll return… I don’t know. To all you pulp fans who have visited here over the past two years, I want to thank you for your interest, your support, and your kind comments. And to Bill Lampkin, who owns and […] [...]
October 6, 2017
Old TV Shows, Perry Mason, PulpPerry Mason novels: #49 and #50Erle Stanley Gardner started writing for the pulps in 1923. But it was for Perry Mason, the courtroom attorney, that he became the most well known. The first Perry Mason mystery was published in 1933 and the final one was published in 1973, three years after Gardner’s death. In today’s blog, I’ll be discussing the […] [...]
September 29, 2017
Movies, Pulp, The Shadow, Two-Minute MysteryTMM #11: Death in the Blue RoomThis week, we provide you with another in the rotating series of The Shadow two-minute mysteries. Don’t hold me to the two-minute part… but it’s close. That’s how long it will take to read. Solving the mystery may, however, take more than two minutes. Examine the clues; test your sleuthing skills. This mini-mystery originally appeared […] [...]
September 22, 2017
Mail-away premiums, Movies, Old Time Radio (OTR), Pulp, Serials, The ShadowAdvertising The ShadowAds and promotions for The Shadow appeared in many forms. Below you will see examples of some of them. Most are advertisements intended to entice radio listeners to tune in each Sunday afternoon for another exciting episode of The Shadow program. There are also a few advertisements for the pulp magazines and movies shown. Ink […] [...]
September 15, 2017
Old TV Shows, Perry Mason, PulpPerry Mason novels: #47 and #48Perry Mason. Let’s see… he was on TV… he was on the radio… he was in the movies… he was in the comic books… there was a daily newspaper strip… Now what am I forgetting? Oh, yeah, he was also in books. Books! You remember those things. Sometimes hard covered, sometimes soft covered. Words, no […] [...]
September 8, 2017