It’s been a while since i posted some action/adventure fiction on this blog. This story originally appeared in the March 1929 issue of Everybody’smagazine. In the last couple of years it was published, Everybody’s became a pulp magazine. This was a bit surprising as the publishers, The Ridgway Company, already had one pulp magazine in… Continue reading Georges Surdez – Turnstile (from Everybody’s Magazine, March 1929)
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Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados
Here we are the end of this series of posts about blind detectives. I’ve already written about Bramah, so this article focuses on Max Carrados. And there is no better way to appreciate Carrados than to sample his stories. I’ve read all three collections of the Carrados stories: Max Carrados, The Eyes of Max Carrados… Continue reading Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados
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
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
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
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
Walker Martin: Collecting and Reading Black Mask
[In a recent mail thread with Walker Martin, I was joking about how his set of Black Mask would have kept him safe from the coronavirus, if only he hadn’t sold it. He could have read every issue while saying to his family – “See, a Mask a day keeps you safe.” Because he’s a nice guy,… Continue reading Walker Martin: Collecting and Reading Black Mask
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