Fictioneer Dwight Bennett Newton died June 30, 2013. He was 97. Newton wrote western fiction starting in the pulps, including Lariat Story Magazine, 5 Western...
Category - Pulpsters
I haven’t mentioned the death of Richard Matheson on Yellowed Perils, though I did tweet about it when I heard the news earlier in the week. Though...
Fictioneer Jack Vance died Sunday, May 26, 2013, at age 96. Vance got his start with a novelette, “The World-Thinker,” published in Thrilling...
Of course, some of the fiction published in the pulp magazines was dreck. But there was also a fair share of excellent storytelling. I’m certain you can...
Frank R. Paul is such a monument in science fiction art that it’s almost a no-brainer to include him in the Great Pulp Art series. It wasn’t until...
With 2013 being the 80th anniversary of the first appearance of Doc Savage Magazine, I thought it fitting that we also remember the character’s primary...
Often it seems like there are two types of pulp fictioneers: Those whose writing style is straight out of the 1800s, and those who adopt a more modern style...
Writer Ray Bradbury died Tuesday, June 5, 2012, at the age of 91. He got his start writing fiction for fanzines during the late 1930s and soon joined the Los...
A personal letter written by Robert E. Howard to Emil Petaja is for sale on eBay. (A hat-tip to Lee A. Breakiron for pointing it out on the R.E.H. Inner Circle...
You can’t get too many looks behind the scenes at pulp magazines. There are a number of books that give insight into writing and producing a pulp, but...
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