I was recently sent a new fanzine: Ackermansion Memories #14. Put out by James Van Hise, it harkens back to fanzines of the past before the advent of print-on-demand and...
I recently picked up a hardback book that collects a large number of pulp-cover art: Savage Art: 20th Century Genre and the Artists that Defined.It was published in 2010...
I have posted about Victor Rousseau Emanuel (1879-1960), a prolific pulp author in the early years who is largely overlooked today. Some of his works have been...
The sixth issue of the pulp fanzine The Shadowed Circle arrived around Thanksgiving. The focus of this fanzine is, of course, The Shadow, and I subscribed for issues #4...
I was recently sent a new sword-and-sorcery book, Lord of a Shattered Land, by Howard Andrew Jones. I have really only known Jones (or HAJ as some have been calling him...
I was recently sent a new collection of works from men’s adventure magazines from the folks at Men’s Adventure Library, this time focused on the weird...
I got the most recent issues of Bronze Knuckles, a New Pulp fanzine. The main emphasis of the fanzine is pulp-hero stories, but other pulp-inspired stories are carried...
I was shocked when New Pulp author Derrick Ferguson had passed away in 2021. I don’t know what happened, but was surprised as I didn’t know he was unwell. I...
So I continue with the “The Adventures of Baron von Monocle” young-adult (YA) series by Jon Del Arroz. This time I cover the fourth and fifth novels in the series...
A new book that I came across is Masterpieces of Fantasy Art. Published by Taschen in 2023, and edited by Dian Hanson, it is subtitled “Myth, Muscle, and Sexy...