I have previously posted on the excellent Doc Savage fanzine The Bronze Gazette, published for 75 issues by Howard Wright since 1990. It outlasted many other print pulp...
I have posted several times on Sherlock Holmes and the various pastiche stories and series using him. An interesting one is the Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell series...
In the past I have posted on works that preceded the pulps, both U.S. and foreign, including works from storypapers and dime novels. But nothing is more “proto pulp”...
Who is the first fictional detective? Sherlock Holmes? But what about Edgar Alan Poe‘s C. Auguste Dupin, who appeared in 1841? Nope, its Monsieur Lecoq who appeared in...
“In Altered States, the familiar becomes the unfamiliar and the known becomes the unknown. Heroes from across the ages are transported from the worlds and identities...
The prolific Edgar Rice Burroughs had several series set in exotic locations: Mars, the Hollow Earth, the Moon, and Venus. I have already looked at his Mars and...
I have previously posted on Robert Weinberg and his several excellent pulp reprint series. There was Pulp Classics, which mainly focused on the hero pulps, and the...
An interesting series was brought to my attention recently: Vic Challenger. (Full disclosure, I was sent one of the novels.) The premise is different, but one I think...
About a year ago, Altus Press started a new line called the “Argosy Library,” which is composed of several series of 10 books each highlighting some of the great fiction...
An interesting and somewhat prolific pulp author is Ralph Milne Farley. While during his time he wrote a variety of science fiction pulps, most today know him for his...