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...
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...
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...
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...
Most people are aware of Popular Publications’ Dime Mystery Magazine, the originator of the “weird menace” genre. But before it was Dime Mystery, it...
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...
In learning more about the pulp hero as a phenomenon, I frequently saw mention of The Gray Seal. First published in 1914, he was popular enough that his works were...
It’s great that more publishers are bringing out classic pulp fiction works in book form, reprinting stuff that has either fallen out of print or was never...