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A Damon Gaunt mystery – Eyes that saw not

Continued from last week’s post on Isabel Ostrander, the creator of the blind detective Damon Gaunt. Unlike Thornley Colton, who displayed his skills in a number of novella length tales before getting into a novel-length adventure, Damon Gaunt’s first appearance is in a serialized novel. Because of the bigger scope of the novel, he doesn’t… Continue reading A Damon Gaunt mystery – Eyes that saw not

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Isabel Ostrander – Author

Isabel Ostrander was a prolific writer in the early twentieth century, contributing more than thirty serials using three pseudonyms, and perhaps more under other names, to the Munsey and Street and Smith pulps in little over a decade before her untimely death. Many of these serials were later reprinted as novels, some with changed titles.… Continue reading Isabel Ostrander – Author

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Bibliography of the Thornley Colton stories

Continued from last week’s post on Clinton H. Stagg who the creator of the first blind detective, Thornley Colton.All eight Thornley Colton stories were published in People’s magazine, Street and Smith’s companion to The Popular Magazine , from February 1913 to October 1913. One story per issue except for August 1913. People’s is one of… Continue reading Bibliography of the Thornley Colton stories

Clinton H. Stagg – Author, Script Writer, News Reporter

Continuing from last week’s The first blind detective in modern fiction Clinton Holland Stagg, the creator of the first fictional blind detective, was born on 22 November 1888 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey to William E. Stagg and Annie Stagg (neé Holland). There is no record of his father’s profession at the time of his… Continue reading Clinton H. Stagg – Author, Script Writer, News Reporter

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The first blind detective in modern English fiction

October is Blindness Awareness Month when the National Federation for the Blind (NFB), holds outreach activities to create opportunities for people to meet blind people living in their communities and to realize that blind people are vital contributing members of society. My small contribution to this is to get you to meet the earliest blind… Continue reading The first blind detective in modern English fiction

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REVIEW: Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine

Among the pulp genres, the love pulps had the highest circulations and the least discussion. This has been true for a long time. The early pulp fanzines I’ve seen were from the 1930s, Fantasy Fan and Phantagraph among them, and they focused on science fiction/fantasy. Later pulp fanzines covered the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs,… Continue reading REVIEW: Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine

Three interviews with pulpsters – Richard Matheson, Leigh Brackett and Curt Siodmak

Three interviews with pulpsters who would go on to write great movies. These interviews are taken from the University of California Press’ Back Stories series.   Leigh Brackett: Journeyman Plumber Interview by Steve Swires She wrote that [The Big Sleep] like a man. She writes good. Howard Hawks, quoted in Hawks on Hawks Leigh Brackett… Continue reading Three interviews with pulpsters – Richard Matheson, Leigh Brackett and Curt Siodmak

Pulp Round-Up May 2020 (Coronavirus edition 1)

Here are a few things to keep your mind off the current circumstances for a while: Ohio man donates a collection of comics, paperbacks, pulps and magazines to University of South Carolina. They needed two 26 foot trucks to move it. https://www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2019/05/uofsc_receives_major_comic_book_collection.php Northern Illinois University to digitize ~4000 dime novels and story papers from Street… Continue reading Pulp Round-Up May 2020 (Coronavirus edition 1)