Now that you have The Spider pulp ring premium on your finger, how about an Operator #5 ring? A seller by the handle of wu_wei_dragon has a nice example of the...
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What if H.P. Lovecraft had worked as a Whitman’s Sampler copywriter? That’s what Luke Burns proposes in a brief, but devilishly funny post on McSweeney’s...
If you’ve got $2,300 burning a hole in your pocket, then head over to Hake’s Americana & Collectibles for a near-perfect example of The Spider pulp ring...
You may have heard or seen the news last week that Besse Cooper died at the age of 116 on Dec. 4 in Monroe, Ga. As far as I know, she had no direct connection...
Springfield Punx is one of the blogs that I follow regularly. Dean T. Fraser does a great job creating The Simpsons-like illustrations for a variety of...
There’s an interesting chart over at io9 that “Reveals How Science Fiction Futures Changed Over Time.” The accompanying article, by Annalee Newitz, discusses...
Okay, I’ve been on a string of John Carter posts of late because of the movie’s release. Here’s another one… The game Back in the 1970s, we used to play...
Here’s a funny take on the form-letter rejection slip. Still stinging from having his early stories repeatedly turned down, John D. MacDonald slipped paper...
“Pulp” is a medium. It is a pulpwood magazine. It is not a style of writing. Not a genre of fiction. Not one end of a spectrum of literature. Pulp is not...
It’s a good thing this story from the New York Times Sunday Magazine (dated March 26, 1911) didn’t pan out, or where would the pulps be? No Lovecraft, Clark...