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...
Two good books that any pulp hero fan should have on their shelves is Don Hutchison‘s “The Great Pulp Heroes” (1996, 2007) and Nick Carr‘s...
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 publisher of...
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 the...