An interesting early occult detective is Thomas Carnacki by English author Willam Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). Hodgson wrote several works of horror, science and...
Category - Pulps
In the 1970s, Philip José Farmer started a trilogy set in the world of Opar, the city discovered by Tarzan that is supposed to be a lost colony of Atlantis...
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: Grand Guignol” (2010) is the sixth volume of this eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. This collection fits...
Buck Rogers? The SF character from comicstrips, comicbooks, movies and TV shows? But this blog is about pulp characters. Buck Rogers isn’t a pulp...
For those not familiar, Jim Anthony was a sort-of Doc Savage “clone” published by Trojan/Culture Publications in the early 1940s. Trojan was a...
Manly Wade Wellman (1902-1986) wrote several occult detectives over the years as a pulp writer. But Wellman’s most well-known occult detective is John...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: The Vampires of Paris” (2009) is the fifth volume of this eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. Based on Philip...
For most pulp hero fans, if you mention The Green Ghost, they will think of the character created by G.T. Fleming-Roberts for Thrilling, that ran for about 14...
I have heard that in Germany, science fiction is divided into “Perry Rhodan” and “everything else.” But who is Perry Rhodan? He’s...