{"id":21983,"date":"2026-03-11T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=21983"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:25:54","slug":"the-collected-pulp-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2026\/03\/11\/the-collected-pulp-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Collected Pulp Horror’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to The Paperback Fanatic<\/em>, Justin Marriott<\/a><\/strong> has put out several other fanzines<\/a>. Another is Pulp Horror<\/em>, which I believe has run for eight issues.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>From No. 5 on, they have been available via POD on Amazon.<\/p>\n

As with The Paperback Fanatic<\/em>, Marriott slaps \u201cpulp\u201d on paperback books<\/a>, so this fanzine covers both actual<\/em> pulp horror, as well as horror paperbacks. The Collected Pulp Horror<\/em> reprints the contents of the first three issues from 2015 and 2016. I guess we\u2019re out of luck for No. 4…<\/p>\n

As before, I\u2019ll note those articles that are truly pulp-related.<\/p>\n

First up, from issue No. 1, originally published in October 2015, is the following. We get a review of Fred Chappell<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s novel Dagon<\/em> (1987), which was his entry into the Cthulhu mythos<\/a>. I think I have a copy in my collection, but I\u2019m not sure whether I read it at the time it came out. Another review is on William Hope Hodgson<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s excellent The House on the Borderland<\/em>, which I\u2019ve posted on.<\/p>\n

Another article looks at Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror<\/em> (1931\u201333), a short-lived pulp that tried to compete against Weird Tales<\/a><\/em>. I am trying to assemble a collection of facsimile copies so I can review the whole run. Several major pulp authors had work there.<\/p>\n

Then, from issue No. 2 (June 2016), we first get a great article looking at the science fiction and horror crossover. I think anyone who reads or watches movies knows that many horror tales can have a science-fiction, instead of a supernatural, basis. Here we start with works from H.G. Wells<\/a><\/strong> (\u201cValley of the Spiders,\u201d \u201cEmpire of the Ants,\u201d et al.), works in early SF pulps like \u201cShambleau\u201d and \u201cWho Goes There?\u201d, and also works by Clark Ashton Smith<\/a><\/strong> and A.E. van Vogt<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Another article kind of continues this, looking at \u201cbug-eyed monsters,\u201d especially in the works of van Vogt. Frank Belknap Long<\/a><\/strong> did a trio of insect science-fiction horror stories in the 1930s: \u201cThe Last Men,\u201d \u201cGreen Glory,\u201d and \u201cThe Great Cold.\u201d While they have since been collected, you almost want a collection with just those three.<\/p>\n

Finally, from issue No. 3 (June 2016), we get a review of Basil Copper<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s Great White Space<\/em>, which I\u2019ve posted on here. I read the Manor Book edition with the Bob Larkin<\/a><\/strong> cover and, despite some issues, thought it was an interesting Cthulhu mythos tale.<\/p>\n

There are many other articles in this volume, so if you are interested in horror paperbacks, especially from the 1970s, there are probably several other articles of interest.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure whether I\u2019ll get further issues of Pulp Horror<\/em>, but I\u2019ll take a look to see if there are articles of interest to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to The Paperback Fanatic, Justin Marriott has put out several other fanzines. Another is Pulp Horror, which I believe has run for eight issues. From No. 5 on, they have been available via POD on Amazon. As with The Paperback Fanatic, Marriott slaps \u201cpulp\u201d on paperback books, so this fanzine covers both actual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pulp Super-Fan looks at 'The Collected Pulp Horror.'","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[56,38,135,14],"tags":[2504,510,410,977,371,933,2495,547,142,304,606],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-21983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fanzines","category-references","category-reprints","category-review","tag-a-e-van-vogt","tag-basil-copper","tag-clark-ashton-smith","tag-frank-belknap-long","tag-h-g-wells","tag-horror","tag-justin-marriott","tag-paperback-books","tag-weird-fiction","tag-weird-tales","tag-william-hope-hodgson"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2025\/12\/collected-pulp-horror-featured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-5Iz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22128,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983\/revisions\/22128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21983"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=21983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}