Pulpflakes Blog: The Secrets Of The Pulps

For over five decades, the pulp magazines entertained people all over the world. Discover the people behind them; the authors, editors, illustrators and their stories. Look behind the scenes and learn the secrets of storytelling.

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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……

  • Blood on the Beaches: Inside Secrets of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine

    This is a (lightly) edited version of two articles about the staff of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. They appeared in The Palm Beach Post-Times in the 1960s. A major national magazine published in Florida? It can’t be done, they said. “Why not?” mused Richard E. Decker, a publisher of several magazines in New York. New……

  • Clee Woods: Western Author

    This is a newspaper profile of Clee Woods, a prolific western author, originally published in the Santa Fe New Mexican. By ALICE BULLOCK Clee Woods, Albuquerque western and travel writer, is overlooking some darned good material in his writing. Him­self. He isn’t an easy man to Interview for a profile. Not that he isn’t cooperative……

  • Galen C. Colin: Popular Wild West author from Wichita

    This profile of Galen C. Colin, prolific writer of westerns for Wild West Weekly, appeared in the Wichita Eagle in 1932. Colin started out as an author of weird tales, moved to the western genre soon after and stayed with it for over twenty years. During that time, he published over 350 stories, of which……

  • Russell A. Bankson: The shooting star from Spokane

    This profile of Russell A. Bankson, Spokane author, was originally published in 1935. Russell’s writing career in the pulps started in 1915 and ended in 1957, lasting almost as long as the pulps themselves. One of the authors who helped to fill the pulps, Bankson averaged about 3-5 stories a year, mostly westerns, over that……

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