{"id":10048,"date":"2021-05-12T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=10048"},"modified":"2022-01-02T11:29:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T16:29:01","slug":"john-peel-collections-from-tales-of-the-shadowmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2021\/05\/12\/john-peel-collections-from-tales-of-the-shadowmen\/","title":{"rendered":"John Peel collections from &#8216;Tales of the Shadowmen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackcoatpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Coat Press<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Tales of the Shadowmen<\/em> series, there are several authors who appear almost regularly. One of those is <strong>John Peel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Two recent books collect his stories from <em>Tales<\/em>, up through volume #16, along with works from other sources and some new ones. So even if you&#8217;re been reading <em>Tales<\/em>, there are some new stories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/return-to-the-center-of-the-earth.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10048]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-11547\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/return-to-the-center-of-the-earth-620x1024.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Return to the Center of the Earth, and Other Tales of Steam &amp; Shadows&quot;\" width=\"400\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/return-to-the-center-of-the-earth-620x1024.jpg 620w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/return-to-the-center-of-the-earth-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/return-to-the-center-of-the-earth-768x1269.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/return-to-the-center-of-the-earth.jpg 908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The first collection up is <em>Return to the Center of the Earth, and Other Tales of Steam &amp; Shadows<\/em>. In this one, we get the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Return to the Center of the Earth,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #10 and 11, is clearly a sequel to <strong>Jules Verne<\/strong>&#8216;s story. <strong>Bismarck<\/strong> has <strong>Professor Lindenbrook<\/strong> and his assistant head back to the Center of the Earth, and they are soon joined by others, such as <strong>Ned Land<\/strong> and <strong>Von Horst<\/strong>. But instead of visiting Verne&#8217;s world, they come upon Burrough&#8217;s Pellucidar!<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Kind-Hearted Torturer,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #1, has <strong>Edgar Allan Poe<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Auguste Dupin<\/strong> teaming up with the <strong>Count of Monte-Cristo<\/strong> to rescue a damsel from the sinister Black Coats, a classic group of criminals from French pulp fiction that I&#8217;ve covered in my reviews of <em>Tales<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Incomplete Assassin,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #2, has <strong>Michel Strogoff<\/strong> (from the Verne novel of the same name) and French reporter and detective <strong>Rouletabille<\/strong> stopping an assassin.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Successful Failure,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #3, has amateur detective <strong>Isidore Beautrelet<\/strong> (who nearly outsmarted both <strong>Arsene Lupin<\/strong> and <strong>Sherlock Holmes<\/strong> in a classic tale) teaming up with British adventurer <strong>Biggles<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Dynamics of an Asteroid,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #5, finds <strong>Doctor Omega<\/strong> (an early French sf character who is very similar to the first <strong>Doctor<\/strong>) dealing with <strong>Professor Moriarty<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Biggest Guns,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #6, is set in WWI and has <strong>Doc Ardan<\/strong> (an early French adventurer who is used as an alias\/pastiche for <strong>Doc Savage<\/strong>) on a mission that has him involved with The Gun Club (from Jules Verne) and <strong>Lord Roxton<\/strong> (from <strong>Conan Doyle<\/strong>). Doc fans should enjoy the ending of this piece.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Cemetery Plant,&#8221; from <em>Book of Dead Things<\/em>, is a strange tale about a strange flower called a &#8220;cemetery plant,&#8221; and how it got its name.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Loaned Ranger,&#8221; from <em>History Is Dead<\/em>, is a different take on the origin of <strong>The Lone Ranger<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/twenty-thousand-years-under-the-sea.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10048]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-11548\" style=\"padding-right: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/twenty-thousand-years-under-the-sea-622x1024.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Twenty Thousand Years Under the Sea, and Other Tales of Steel &amp; Sorrows&quot;\" width=\"400\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/twenty-thousand-years-under-the-sea-622x1024.jpg 622w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/twenty-thousand-years-under-the-sea-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/twenty-thousand-years-under-the-sea-768x1265.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2021\/03\/twenty-thousand-years-under-the-sea.jpg 911w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Next, we have <em>Twenty Thousand Years Under the Sea, and Other Tales of Steel &amp; Sorrows<\/em>. In this one, we get the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Twenty Thousand Years Under the Sea,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #4, has <strong>Captain Nemo<\/strong> finding sunken city of R\u2019lyeh (from the works of <strong>H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;More Imaginative Sins,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #8, stars <strong>Carnacki<\/strong> (<strong>William Hope Hodgson<\/strong>&#8216;s early occult detective) going up against <strong>Madame Palmyre<\/strong>, from the occult novel <em>Baal<\/em> (translated by Black Coat Press).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Benevolent Burglar,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #9, has several classic thieves (including <strong>The Saint<\/strong>) and detectives (including <strong>Maigret<\/strong>, the classic French detective) going after the \u201ctreasure\u201d of the Black Coats.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Time to Kill,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #13, gives us <strong>Bob Morane<\/strong> (a \u201950s and \u201960s French adventurer that I wish BCP would translate into English) looking into a locked-room mystery. Thankfully, Doctor Omega shows up to help him out.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Gutter God,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #15, provides another new story of Carnacki the ghost breaker. This story deals with <strong>Jack the Ripper<\/strong> (or if you will, the real story about who and what he was), and also the <strong>Les Vampires<\/strong> gang.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Eye of the Hawk,&#8221; from <em>Tales<\/em> #16, has Doc Ardan in the Congo of the early 1930s, where he teams up with <strong>Jane Clayton<\/strong> to find several missing scientists, such as Doctor Omega, among others. This story could be a good set-up for a sequel, as they deal with the son of <strong>Robur the Conquerer<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Blood Calls for Blood,&#8221; from <em>Vampire Almanac<\/em> #2, from BCP takes its inspiration from <em>The Virgin Vampire<\/em> (1825, and available from BCP), the first tale of a female vampire, <strong>Alinska<\/strong>. Here she helps a young girl in vengenace, but at a price she did not expect.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Franklinstein,&#8221; from <em>Dark Moon Digest<\/em> #1, is a strange, little tale built around the idea that <strong>Benjamin Franklin<\/strong>&#8216;s experimentation in electricity took a little different path. One could turn this into a very different alternate-history series of works.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;To Protect and Serve,&#8221; from <em>Strife &amp; Harmony<\/em>, is a story with the Arthurian knight <strong>Bedivere<\/strong>, who must confront an evil in the deep woods.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Long Time Dead,&#8221; from <em>Unearthered<\/em>, is about a pair of graverobbers who dig up the wrong body.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Now Departing&#8230;,&#8221; from <em>Dark Tales From Elder Regions: New York<\/em>, is another strange tale were our heroine meets death (or actually <strong>Death<\/strong>) on the New York subway.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pink Samurai,&#8221; from <em>Midnight Rose<\/em>, is a story that doesn&#8217;t take inspiration from the pulps, but from anime. In particular, one called <em>Dirty Pair<\/em>, about a pair of government agents who in doing their job wind up causing greater destruction. Here we have two female samurai with a similar style.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Doctor Omega and the Silent Planet&#8221; is a previously unpublished Dr. Omega story that has him and companion <strong>Borel<\/strong> landing on a planet that has been ravaged by war machines.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Wrath of Grapes,&#8221; from <em>More Tales of Zorro<\/em>, has <strong>Zorro<\/strong> deal with a corrupt Don in Old California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, these are two good collections of stories. While I&#8217;ve read the works from <em>Tales<\/em>, there are enought new stories for me to get them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reading Black Coat Press&#8216;s Tales of the Shadowmen series, there are several authors who appear almost regularly. One of those is John Peel. Two recent books collect his stories from Tales, up through volume #16, along with works from other sources and some new ones. 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