The Rook is a New Pulp hero created by Barry Reese. Barry mixes in pulp hero, comic book and comic strip characters into his stories, along with occult...
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There have been a lot of Sherlock Holmes pastiches over the years. One particular recent series that is interesting is “The Further Adventures of...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: Danse Macabre” (2006) is the third volume of this eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. It makes use of a...
Cap Fury, the Skipper was part of Street & Smith‘s attempt to repeat the success of The Shadow and Doc Savage. After the success of those two...
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of one of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: Dell Magazines. Kind of. Established in...
Let’s take a look at the fifth collection of The Rook stories by Barry Reese, “The Rook, Vol. 5.” For those who are familiar with the...
Judex is an interesting old proto-pulp character that has returned to prominence in recent years. I’ve previously posted on this character, looking at...
“Grottos of Chinatown: The Dorus Noel Stories” is an interesting collection of short stories by Arthur J. Burks. Burks was, during his time, very...
Today I’m taking a look at “The Rook, Vol. 4” by Barry Reese. For those who are familiar with the character (i.e., you’ve read the...
Here is the fourth volume of “Tales of Masks and Mayhem,” now from a new publisher, NTD Books. This one is a mix of new and reprinted stories, with...