The start of pulp magazines is traced back to The Argosy (1888-1979), started by Frank A. Munsey (1854-1925). He had previously launched the publication as a...
Author W. Wirt (1876-?) was active only in the 1920s and ’30s in the pulps for about 10 years, all writing adventure stories. His main works were the Jimmie Cordie...
I’ve posted in the past of thrillers by several modern authors. I feel that many of these have pulpish elements, and have enjoyed several of them. Another that I...
F. Van Wyck Mason (1901-78) was a prolific author who started in the pulps, and wrote mystery, action, historical fiction, and young adult, but very little science...
I enjoy occult detectives, and am always looking for new ones. It’s interesting to discover new ones. While I’m familiar with a lot of works by Lin Carter...
The Secret of the Earth is an interesting lost-world novel by Charles Willing Beale (1845-1932), an author I have never heard who wrote but a handful of stories, most...
Well, after too long we have finally gotten Series IV of Altus Press‘ “Argosy Library,” with 10 more books of great, and sometimes overlooked, fiction...
After too long, Pro Se Press is back with a third volume of The New Adventures of Thunder Jim Wade, the short-lived Doc Savage clone. Again, it’s a complete...
I previously posted on Sinister Cinema’s Armchair Fiction series of reprints in their Lost World/Lost Race. They had put out 14 in the series, and have just added...
A pulp author that I have not read, but which I have seen mention over the years is Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946). And usually what I read was that he had a rivalry...