One of pulpdom’s most famous writers was Erle Stanley Gardner. He wrote for some of the biggest names in pulp, such as Black Mask, Argosy, Clues, Ace...
Category - Pulp
The following is an excerpt from my new book The Shadow in Review. If you’d like more information about the book, see the end of this blog entry for my...
“The Howling Death” was originally published in the January 1943 issue of The Spider Magazine. The Spider found a city mad with terror, its...
No, Perry Mason is not a character from the old pulp magazines. Many people have forgotten that Perry Mason didn’t start out on TV with the Raymond Burr...
Can a human brain live inside the skull of a gorilla? The answer is yes, certainly, if you’re listening to an old time radio episode of The Shadow...
“Emperor of the Yellow Death” was originally published in the December 1935 issue of The Spider Magazine. Wang-ba emerged from the mystic Orient to...
Let’s take a look at one of those radio adventures of The Shadow that has not survived in recorded form. Today, you can listen to over 200 audio files of...
“Legions of Madness” was originally published in the June 1936 issue of The Spider Magazine. The city is in the grip of an insanity that racks its...
Erle Stanley Gardner. He’s the guy often used as an example, in pulp fandom circles, of a pulp author who escaped the low-paying pulps and moved on up to...
Let’s go back to early 1940 and examine one of the lost radio shows featuring The Shadow. Of the 28 broadcasts from 1940, taking time off for the summer...