An early series of chapbook reprints from Black Dog Books collected adventure stories from H. Bedford-Jones (1887-1949). Titled “Pathways of Adventure,” the series...
I have been working on my collection of pulp fanzines, and in addition to the several long-running ones are some shorter-lived ones. An interesting group of fanzines was...
One thing interesting in pulp research is to put forth various works as the antecedent or influences for other stories and characters. For instance, I know of several...
I previously posted on Sterner St. Paul Meek (1894-1972), who used “S.P. Meek” for his published works, when I reviewed his The Drums of Tapajos. He was an ordinance...
It’s 2019, this year’s Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention has come and gone, but the 2019 program book, the new Windy City Pulp Stories #19, is still here. Sadly, due...
I have posted previously on The Black Spectre, a recent New Pulp hero created by Roger Alford. I had received the first of a trilogy giving the origin of this character...
A prolific pulp author who is largely forgotten today outside of pulp fandom is Henry James O’Brien Bedford-Jones (1887–1949), better known as just H. Bedford-Jones. He...
In the past, I’ve done several series of articles that looked at the original pulp publishers, the comic lines connected to pulp publishers, and the like. There have...
Most people are aware of Popular Publications’ Dime Mystery Magazine, the originator of the “weird menace” genre. But before it was Dime Mystery, it was Dime Mystery...
When I was offered this blog, I took it because in many ways it was an extension of what I had started to do with reviews on Amazon. And I continue to put reviews there...