{"id":18070,"date":"2024-04-22T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=18070"},"modified":"2024-04-17T07:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:44:45","slug":"windy-city-pulp-stories-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2024\/04\/22\/windy-city-pulp-stories-23\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Windy City Pulp Stories’ #23"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2024 Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention<\/a> was held in April, and the new Windy City Pulp Stories<\/a><\/em> #23 is out. This issue is again available through Amazon, as are most going back to #8, and published by Black Dog Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Windy<\/a>This year, the focus is on “weird menace<\/a>,” a genre within the pulps that originally came from Popular Publications<\/a> magazines started with Dime Detective<\/a><\/em> and later picked up by the spicies, Red Circle and Thrilling, among others. This genre mixed in horror elements with detective like stories. Pulp historian Will Murray<\/a><\/strong> kicks things off with a nice article on this genre from its origins in 1933 until its demise in 1941, touching on the main creators and writers, as well as the main pulps and publishers.<\/p>\n

The rest is mainly made up of a several non-fiction reprints, first with a set of five on the genre. We get articles by Wyatt Blassingame<\/a><\/strong>, Jack Williamson<\/a><\/strong>, Erle Stanley Gardner<\/a><\/strong>, Harry Adler<\/a><\/strong>, and Bruce Henry<\/a><\/strong>. These are taken from Writer’s Digest<\/a><\/em>, Author and Journalist<\/a><\/em>, and The American Mercury<\/em> from 1936 to 1939. Most are focused on how to write weird menace stories from authors who did so.<\/p>\n

We also get a couple of articles from The Bookman<\/em> in 1911 and 1916 on editors and the works they reject. I think these are probably the earliest works I can recall reading on this topic. The second one was most interesting, as it is a longer work made up of several short pieces by editors of many pulp and non-pulp literary magazines of the period.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the volume are some memorials for Roger Hill<\/a><\/strong> (1948-2023). And finally, there’s Ed Hulse<\/a><\/strong>‘s article on the movies being shown at the show.<\/p>\n

Always a welcome addition to my library of reference works. While weird menace isn’t a particular interest of mine, its always good to learn more about the wide world of pulps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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