Sorry for posting so irregularly. Work and life are keeping me busy this year, and looks like I will have to do what I can when I can find the time. Of course, if you want to contribute something, just drop me an email at pulpflakes _AT_ Gmail _DOT_ com. The first thing that made… Continue reading Top 10 cover themes for Adventure magazine
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Google Books scans of pulp magazines
Recently, Google Books added a lot of pulp magazine scans from the collection of the Library of Ohio State University. All of these are pre-1923, so out of copyright in the US, and you can view the magazine fully. These are well hidden by Google and pretty hard to find by searching. I’m not sure… Continue reading Google Books scans of pulp magazines
Why do we read adventure fiction?
From the Blue Book magazine, August 1935, Donald Kennicott’s (editor) views on discovering lost worlds and losing oneself in a world of reading. Enchanted Lands MANY years ago the writer was a homesteader in southern New Mexico. And once or twice during the four years of his sojourn there, he heard some wandering cowboy or sheep-herder remark… Continue reading Why do we read adventure fiction?
Christmas stocking stuffers – The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure
This book includes stories by Harold Lamb, Farnham Bishop and Marion Polk Angelotti, among others. Amazon is running a promotion where you can take 25% off the cost of any one book, using coupon BOOKDEAL25. <br /> The anthologist talks about how he chose the stories for this book here. Reviews: Michael Dirda picks this… Continue reading Christmas stocking stuffers – The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure
Pulp cover art exhibition at the Portland Public Library, Maine
The Portland Public Library is currently exhibiting the Robert Lesser collection of pulp cover art, and this is a video interview with Joshua David Bergey, grandson of pulp artist Earle K. Bergey. The video has some footage of the original paintings, including the original of this spectacular one from Weird Tales: Weird Tales pulp magazine cover… Continue reading Pulp cover art exhibition at the Portland Public Library, Maine
Some illustrators of Blue Book magazine
[Originally appeared in Blue Book, April 1938] Who’s Who in Blue Book Among the Illustrators Austin Briggs He was born in a private car on a railway siding in Minnesota; for his father was an electrical engineer engaged in revising a telegraph system, and his wife traveled with him. . .… Continue reading Some illustrators of Blue Book magazine
Recent books I’ve enjoyed
This list shouldn’t surprise anyone who hasn’t been hiding in a cave all summer. Altus Press has been doing an excellent job reprinting some very good authors, many of whom have been featured on this site. I have linked to the Ebook editions which are an excellent deal at $2.99 each; the books are also… Continue reading Recent books I’ve enjoyed
Charles B. Stilson – Author, Journalist
[Obituary appeared in the Rochester Democrat Chronicle, October 23, 1932] C. B. STILSON, NOVELIST AND EDITOR, DIES Devoted Life to Work of Newspapers and to Literature Charles B. Stilson, author Charles Billings Stilson, in point of service one of the oldest newspaper men in Rochester and a fiction writer whose work… Continue reading Charles B. Stilson – Author, Journalist
Interview with Gordon D. Shirreffs, Western writer
Gordon D. Shirreffs: An Interview with a Western Writer Carole Shirreffs Cox My father is Gordon D. Shirreffs. He has written 79 novels of the West as well as hundreds of short stories, pulps, and TV and movie scripts since he first began to sell what he wrote in the 1940s. He visited me in… Continue reading Interview with Gordon D. Shirreffs, Western writer
Leonard H. Nason – Soldier, Writer
Leonard H. Nason c. 1921 (Courtesy the Digital Collections of the Norwich University Archives) Allan Leonard Hastings Nason (his full birth name) was an untamed spirit, and it shows in his writing. He wrote about war and soldiers, and his characters are not respectful of authority. Typically, they are trying to find a way… Continue reading Leonard H. Nason – Soldier, Writer