A juvenile series that was in counterpoint to Tom Swift Jr. was Rick Brant. Published by Grosset & Dunlap (like Tom), but owned outright by G&D and not the...
A new magazine that has come out is Skelos. It’s billed as “the journal of weird fiction and dark fantasy.” Like others, it was launched with Kickstarter, but you can...
After too long we get two more issues of Murania Press‘ excellent magazine Blood ‘n’ Thunder. Blood ‘n’ Thunder covers not just pulps, but their dime novel forerunners...
I have previously posted about the Vic Challenger series, having received the fifth novel in the series. Set in the 1920s, the series stars young Victoria Custer who...
With the wide range of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, a few have given him adventures in America. But as far as I know, the only extensive series of Sherlock Holmes stories...
I am always on the lookout for new occult detectives, and I recently discovered one who is actually an old one, written in the 1930s and ’40s. Detective Gregory George...
In going through my comic book collection, I came across two issues of a pulp-inspired comic, The Gloom. Clearly a parody of pulp heroes, it appeared in 2005 from U.K...
It’s been too long since I read and reviewed one of Barry Reese‘s works. But the wait has been worth it. Gotterdammerung is the long-awaited teamup between his three...
In 1989, a graphic novel from Marvel — The Dreamwalker — came and went with little fanfare, which is too bad, because it’s pretty good. It has, for me, the pulp elements...
PulpFest 2016 has come and gone, but we have the latest issue of The Pulpster to savor afterwards, now up to #25. The main focus of this issue is the 90th anniversary of...