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Lost Continent Library
A free PDF magazine focusing on classic adventure movies, fiction and real-life adventure. New pulp-style genre fiction is showcased every month.
Background
Lost Continent Library
Publisher: Walter Bosley/Lost Continent Library
Publication range: Monthly
The Lost Continent Library magazine was started by the publishing company of the same name. Founded in 2002, the company is the publisher of reprints, ìThe Sunken Worldî by CoblentzStanton Stanton Coblentz, ìThe Hidden Trailî by Thomas A. Janvier, and new fiction ìWonder of the Worldsî by Sesh Heri, ìSecret of the Amazon Queenî by E.A. Guest and ìAtlantis Adventureî by Antoine Gagne.Publisher: Walter Bosley/Lost Continent Library
Publication range: Monthly
The company has gone from a traditional print publisher to the electronic venue and has found a successful niche with its magazine, free to readers in a downloaded PDF format.
The contributors
Founder Walter Bosley serves as chief editor, author Wm Michael Mott is associate editor, and Orange County Weekly cartoonist Bob Aul supplies graphic arts.The magazine presents new pulp/genre fiction. Authors featured so far have been Bill Craig, Bryn Colvin, Brian Jackson, Terry Klasek, Eric Enck, Wm Michael Mott and E.A.Guest. Real life adventures feature reprints or the recent Central American explorations of Craig Guggolz.
Comments/trivia
The premier issue included an article on Secret of the Incas, the mysteriously unavailable 1954 film from Paramount that clearly features scenes and recognizable character aspects that showed up in the first three Indiana Jones movies. An interview with producer/director Fraser Heston, whose father Charlton Heston starred in the film, is included with photos from the family archive.LCL magazine has received positive reviews from David Drage, the host of Dial P for Pulp, and Wildcat Books publisher Ron Hannah, and is downloaded by several thousand readers every month.
San Francisco Web site Travelersí Tales recently participated with LCL through a reprint from their edition of ìRoyal Road to Romance.î
Outside links
- Lost Continent Library magazine
