Do you have a pulp lair?

The other day Doc Mystery posted a blog item about someone’s elaborate gaming basement, and that got me wondering, “Who has a pulp lair?”

I wouldn’t call my “pulp lair” much of a pulp lair. It’s just a six-foot bookshelf — stuffed with pulp reference books, reprints and paperbacks, and several boxes on top full of pulps — on one wall of our home office; two filing cabinet drawers full of pulp fanzines across the room; a framed transcription disc of an old-time radio episode of The Shadow hanging on another wall; and a terrific reproduction of The Shadow by Scotty Phillips hanging next to the bookshelf. Other pulp books are on bookshelves scattered throughout the house, plus more are stored away in boxes.

Not an overwhelming sight. But it’s my “pulp lair.”

Now, several of my Arizona pulp friends have quite nice pulp lairs. Jay Ryan converted his home office into the ultimate Doc Savage pulp lair. Jay’s Doc room is filled just about everything he mentions in his Collector’s Handbook of Bronze. (You get a glimpse of it about 8 minutes, 35 seconds into the Arizona Doc Con 2006 Highlights video on YouTube.com.)

Courtney Rogers and Rob Smalley have converted spare bedrooms into pulp lairs, with bookcases of pulps and pulp reprints and pulp-related (of mostly Doc Savage) prints on the walls.

But, getting back to my initial question: “Who has pulp lair?” Do you? Care to share it with other pulp fans? Post a comment or drop me an e-mail. If you have good photos, I’ll set up a gallery to share.

So, show off your pulp lair!

– William