A prior posting was on the various “boy inventor” adventure series that ran in the “dime novels,” the late 1800s forerunners to the...
Category - Proto-pulp
I have previously posted on the excellent fanzine Blood ‘n’ Thunder produced by Ed Hulse and his Murania Press. Maybe calling it a...
The Nyctalope is an overlooked French proto-superhero/proto-pulp adventurer that was featured in a series of serialized novels and stories during the first...
In studying pulps, it’s also valuable to study those fiction sources that preceded the pulps: the story papers and dime novels. Many of the same types of...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: Gentlemen of the Night” (2006) is the second volume of an eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. It makes use of...
What is (and is not) “pulp” is something that has generated a lot of discussion over the years. Some people are very stringent about what pulp is;...