{"id":14228,"date":"2022-08-15T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=14228"},"modified":"2022-09-10T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T22:05:30","slug":"selected-tales-of-grim-and-grue-from-the-horror-pulps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2022\/08\/15\/selected-tales-of-grim-and-grue-from-the-horror-pulps\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Selected Tales of Grim and Grue From the Horror Pulps’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nice collection from the “shudder pulps” is Selected Tales of Grim and Grue From the Horror Pulps<\/em>. It was edited by Sheldon Jaffrey<\/strong> (1934-2003) and published by Bowling Green State University’s Popular Press in 1987.\u00a0 He had four works from Popular Press.<\/p>\n

\"Selected<\/a>Now, I’m not a fan of “weird menace” or “shudder pulps.” Several major pulp authors wrote works for these pulps. This volume reprints two “novels,” along with six works of various lengths.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, we get an excellent essay on the weird-menace pulps by Robert Kenneth Jones<\/strong>, who wrote the definitive work on this: Shudder Pulps: A History of the Weird Menace Magazines of the 1930s<\/a><\/em>, which came out in 1975 from Fax Collector’s Edition, and was reprinted by Wildside Press.<\/p>\n

This essay here first appeared in June 1972 in a booklet from Opar Press put out for Pulpcon 1: The Weird Menace<\/em>. It provides a history of the weird-menace genre that started at Popular Publications under the editorship of Rogers Terrill<\/strong> in three pulps: Dime Mystery Magazine<\/em>, Horror Stories<\/em>, and Terror Tales<\/em> in 1933. This would be picked up by other publishers such as Thrilling in their Thrilling Mysteries<\/em>, Red Circle with Mystery Tales<\/em>, and so forth.<\/p>\n

In addition to the essay, there are two indexes.<\/p>\n

Weird-menace pulps were marked by the hero being pitted against sadistic villains, with graphic scenes of torture and brutality. Different pulps each had their own slight twist on this.<\/p>\n

Major authors included Wyatt Blassingame<\/strong>, Hugh B. Cave<\/strong>, Arthur Leo Zagat<\/strong>, and more. Some authors, struggling to find work, would write for this genre as nothing else was available.<\/p>\n

As noted, there are eight works here. Almost all the authors here I know of from their non-weird-menace work. We get Blassingame, Cave, Wayne Rogers<\/strong>, G.T. Fleming-Roberts<\/strong>, Arthur J. Burks<\/strong>, and the husband and wife team of Edith and Ejler Jacobson<\/strong>. All the works come from Popular Publications.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I didn’t read any of these because, as I said, it’s not my cup of tea. If you are interested in weird menace and want a good sampler, this is it. The essay, combined with the works, is a great introduction to the genre. You can then move on to some of the other collections out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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