Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most well-known fictional consulting detective, has inspired a whole range of imitators and pastiches. Because the character was copyrighted, some early authors choose to hide their copies under a range of silly...
Archive - March 2014
“Sisters of the Shadows: The Cagliostro Curse” is another great collection of interconnected short stories by Rick Lai. These are “Wold Newton”...
Some pulp hero fans make the mistake of lumping all the pulp heroes together into one group, as if they comprise a genre all their own. Sometimes it leads to some silly...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: Lords of Terror” (2008) is the fourth volume of this eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. It makes use of a concept of...
In what is probably the last in this series of articles, I give an overview of another of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: Fiction House. Established in...
Overall, I think that new “pulp-inspired” characters fall into two general categories. The first are the very clear “New Pulp” heroes, characters...
One type of heroic character that I enjoy is the “occult detective.” They can also be called an investigator. Or the terms paranormal or supernatural may be...
“Shadows of the Opera: Retribution in Blood” is another great collection of interconnected short stories by Rick Lai, the second in this series. These are...
When it comes to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, everyone knows of Sherlock Holmes. Less known are his many historical fiction works. And sadly, also often overlooked...