S.P. Meek was the name Sterner St. Paul Meek (1894-1972) used for his published works. He was an ordinance officer and military chemist, worked up from captain...
Category - Pulps
A popular element of many pulp fiction adventure, science fiction, and fantasy stories is the “lost world,” a land removed and unknown to the rest...
The start of pulp magazines is traced back to Argosy (1888-1979), started by Frank A. Munsey (1854-1925). He had previously launched the publication as a...
Author W. Wirt (1876-?) was active only in the 1920s and ’30s in the pulps for about 10 years, all writing adventure stories. His main works were the...
I’ve posted in the past of thrillers by several modern authors. I feel that many of these have pulpish elements, and have enjoyed several of them...
The Secret of the Earth is an interesting lost-world novel by Charles Willing Beale (1845-1932), an author I have never heard who wrote but a handful of...
Well, after too long we have finally gotten Series IV of Altus Press‘ “Argosy Library,” with 10 more books of great, and sometimes...
I previously posted on Sinister Cinema’s Armchair Fiction series of reprints in their “Lost World-Lost Race.” They had put out 14 in the...
A pulp author that I have not read, but which I have seen mention over the years is Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946). And usually what I read was that he had a...
Back in 2013, I did a review on an excellent reference guide to the world of pulps: The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction, written by Ed...