{"id":19742,"date":"2025-06-04T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=19742"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:51:26","slug":"pulp-adventures-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2025\/06\/04\/pulp-adventures-47\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pulp Adventures’ #47"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pulp Adventures<\/a><\/em> #47 from Bold Venture Press<\/a>, dated Winter 2025 is the first issue of the year. This one is a C. Auguste Dupin<\/a><\/strong> themed issue, with both an original story and a new one. There are detective, western, science fiction, urban crime, and more.<\/p>\n

\"Pulp<\/a>The cover for #47 is an original piece, done with AI, as is the back cover, both tied to stories in this issue.<\/p>\n

Taking up about half the issue are two stories with C. Auguste Dupin, who is considered the first fictional detective, and the term “ratiocination” was coined by Edgar Allan Poe<\/a><\/strong> (1809-49).<\/p>\n

Many probably don’t know that Poe wrote three Dupin stories. We get the first one, \u201cMurders in the Rue Morgue\u201d from 1841. So if you never read it, here’s your chance. This is preceded by a new story by U.K. author Ernest Dudley<\/a><\/strong> (1908-2006) that actually first appeared in 2011. “The Beetle” gives Dupin another baffling murder mystery. Here joined by Dr. Lessiter<\/strong>, he gets involved with a bizarre case involving a young lady who the doctor has proposed to which includes elements of Lovecraftian<\/a> horror.<\/p>\n

For more classic pulp fiction, we get two works that first appeared in the U.K. \u201cThe Follower,\u201d by Shelley Smith<\/a><\/strong> (1912-98) (who was actually Nancy Hermione Bodington<\/strong>), is a kind of reverse ghost story. Another strange tale is \u201cCasualty\u201d by John Burke<\/a><\/strong> (1922-2011), about birth and rebirth in a haunted hospital.<\/p>\n

For New Pulp<\/a> fiction, we get a western tale, \u201cVaquero\u2019s Vengeance\u201d by Scott Forbes Crawford<\/a><\/strong>, about the titular character riding after the outlaw who killed his outfit, along with his best friend. Will he succeed or die trying? \u201cDead Air\u201d by D.G. Critchley<\/a><\/strong> is an interesting little detective story about an accident that wasn’t an accident. And from Keith Vile<\/a><\/strong> is a science fiction tale of \u201cPsycho Ants.” What are they and what do they mean for mankind?<\/p>\n

Appropriate for this volume with detective tales with the first fictional detective, we get a different Sherlock Holmes<\/a><\/strong> pastiche in Teel James Glenn<\/a><\/strong>‘s \u201cThe Adventure of Sherlock Hominid,\u201d which gives an alternate world were several hominid races emerged and where Sherlock Holmes is a chimpanzee.<\/p>\n

For non-fiction, we get an editorial from Audrey Parente<\/a><\/strong>. Pulp researcher Will Murray<\/a><\/strong> gives a photo essay on the ending of the pulps in \u201cPulp Fiction Dateline: Rest in Pulp,” focusing on the major pulps and publishers shutting down in 1949 and \u201950. James Reasoner<\/a><\/strong>‘s \u201cRough Edges\u201d column gives a review of Perley Poore Sheehan<\/a><\/strong>‘s \u201cAbu, the Dawn Maker\u201d which was serialized in All-Story Cavalier Weekly<\/a><\/em> in 1915. This one hasn’t been reprinted, so hopefully in a future omnibus of Sheehan’s works Steeger Books<\/a> can include it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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