As I’ve noted in the past, we often overlook “pulp” that appeared overseas. Britain has a similar group of fiction outlets like the pulps...
Category - Foreign pulps
We sometimes forget that pulp fiction didn’t only exist in the U.S. Pulp fiction and its equivalents existed in other countries in the early 20th century...
An interesting new series of works I recently discovered is Joseph Lovece‘s “Dime Novel Cover Series.” The series makes use of various...
We’ve looked at Sherlock Holmes and some of the Holmes pastiches that became characters in there own right. Now we look at another of those: Harry...
Rocambole is an early French character who is a forerunner of many similar characters of heroic fiction that followed him. These stories were written in the...
One of the most popular characters in French literature is Arsène Lupin. He holds a position similar to that of Sherlock Holmes, which is interesting as they...
An interesting early occult detective is Thomas Carnacki by English author Willam Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). Hodgson wrote several works of horror, science and...
I have heard that in Germany, science fiction is divided into “Perry Rhodan” and “everything else.” But who is Perry Rhodan? He’s...
Rocambole is an early French character who is a forerunner of many similar characters of heroic fiction that followed him. These stories were written in the...
In a previous posting I covered an interesting old proto-pulp character that has returned to prominence in recent years: Judex. Most are intrigued by The...