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  • Simple, Fast search of the FictionMags Index

    Simple, fast search of the FictionMags Index. It’s finally here. https://pulpflakes.com/fmisearch/ The FictionMags Index (FMI) is the biggest online index of English language fiction published in periodicals. Search the FMI by author or artist name, magazine title or look for a specific issue by date or issue number. Tips and tricks While search tolerates partial……

  • Robert O. Erisman, pulp editor: Man of Mystery, Love and many others

    This profile of Robert O. Erisman appeared in 1939, a year after he became a pulp editor at Martin Goodman’s Magazine Management. Erisman, thought to be a Goodman relative, also contributed scripts to Goodman’s early comics: Daring Mystery and Mystic. Editor of 29 pulps prefers melodrama to the correct prose he used to write Robert……

  • Homesteading in the 1920s: part 4 by Cherry Wilson

    Part 3 of a personal account of homesteading in the 1920s by western author Cherry Wilson. Grass, brush and trees had been steadily drying out during the hot months of July and August, needing only a spark to transform the peace­ful land into a roaring furnace. Then fires were reported on distant moun­tains. Day by……

  • Homesteading in the 1920s: part 3 by Cherry Wilson

    Part 3 of a personal account of homesteading in the 1920s by western author Cherry Wilson. But to go back to those first glo­rious days of Spring, after the event­ful Winter; when the very air made one’s head light. The call of the out­door was so strong that while snow still lay in canyon pockets……

  • Homesteading in the 1920s: part 2 by Cherry Wilson

    Part 2 of a personal account of homesteading in the 1920s by western author Cherry Wilson. Two days later, when order was established, we looked with pardon­able pride upon our work. For out of that rude shack we had made a home. The bare logs were hung with bright pennants, cheery cur­tains of cretonne draped……