In the past I have posted on works that preceded the pulps, both U.S. and foreign, including works from storypapers and dime novels. But nothing is more...
Category - Foreign pulps
Dr. Mabuse is a character that may be known to some. Mostly through the various Dr. Mabuse films by Fritz Lang and others. But few may know that he started as...
It’s the end of 2015, and we have another volume of Tales of the Shadowmen. The Black Coat Press series is now up to 12 volumes. It’s subtitled...
Sexton Blake, a hugely popular British character during his time, is probably the best known of the various Sherlock Holmes knockoffs, which is interesting...
An interesting series of works that I have previously posted on is Joseph Lovece‘s “Dime Novel Cover Series.” The series makes use of various...
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...
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...