“Tales of the Shadowmen: Femmes Fatale” (2011) is the seventh volume of this eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. This collection fits into...
Probably one of the best-known pulp heroes, even among people who know nothing about pulp heroes, is The Shadow. The Shadow is the pulp world’s Batman to Doc...
A comic-book character I recently looked into is Atomic Robo. I had first noticed him when I saw some pulp-inspired covers. So I decided to check him out. I’ve...
The Grey Monk is a New Pulp hero, created by John L. French, set in modern times (we see cell phones, computers and DNA analysis). Wild Cat Books put out a collection of...
An interesting early occult detective is Thomas Carnacki by English author Willam Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). Hodgson wrote several works of horror, science and...
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. This...
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 fiction...
“Tales of the Shadowmen: Grand Guignol” (2010) is the sixth volume of this eclectic anthology series from Black Coat Press. This collection fits into Philip...
Buck Rogers? The SF character from comic strips, comic books, movies and TV shows? But this blog is about pulp characters. Buck Rogers isn’t a pulp character. Oh...
Recently Moonstone Books put out a great collection of Sherlock Holmes stories: “Sherlock Holmes: The Crossover Casebook.” As the title implies, all the...