I’ve always felt it important for creative people to recognize their inspirations. Some are good at that, others not so much. An excellent example of this...
Tag - Robert E. Howard
The 2024 Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention was held in April, and the new Windy City Pulp Stories #23 is out. For the first time, I was able to attend the...
I recently picked up two books from Hippocampus Press on Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961). This was part of a special deal when one of the editors, Scott Connors...
An interesting series of works on Robert E. Howard is the “Informal Guide to Robert E. Howard” series by Fred Blosser from Pulp Hero Press. At present the...
An interesting book I got recently is The Weird Tales Boys by Stephen Jones. Published in 2023 by PS Publishing‘s paperback imprint Drugstore Indian Press, it...
In the world of sword-and-sorcery fiction, one of the best-known series is Fritz Leiber‘s (1910-92) Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Leiber, along with...
New for 2024 is the third edition of the excellent reference guide to the world of pulps: The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction, written by Ed Hulse who...
We continue to look at the fanzine Echoes, which ran from 1982 to 2002. Published by the late Tom and Ginger Johnson, it is probably the longest-running pulp...
In a recent post I mentioned Robert H. Barlow (1918-51), who at a young age started corresponding with H.P. Lovecraft, striking up a friendship with him. Later...
On Black Friday weekend 2023, Steeger Books put out their next sets of Argosy Library volumes, Series XIV and XV. As always, with each series, we get 10 books...