MysteriousPress just released the complete short stories of Oliver Quade, encyclopedia salesman. These stories originally appeared in the Thrilling Detective and Black Mask magazines. Kevin Burton Smith has an excellent summary of the Oliver Quade series over at the excellent Thrilling Detective website. I have the earlier collection Brass Knuckles, and when this released, I bought… Continue reading Collection of Frank Gruber’s Black Mask short stories about Oliver Quade, Encyclopedia salesman just released
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Pulp art – original paintings and cover photos from the Robert Lesser collection – slideshow
Close to 500 pictures in this slideshow: Courtesy the New Britain Museum of American Art Some really beautiful cover paintings there, covering all genres: Adventure, Hero, Fantasy, Weird, Science Fiction, Crime and Detective etc. A background article about the collection. You can get closer to some of this art in this book (highly recommended) A… Continue reading Pulp art – original paintings and cover photos from the Robert Lesser collection – slideshow
Friday’s Forgotten Books: The Best of Adventure, vol. 1, 1910-1912
This book collects the best stories from the first three years of publication of Adventure magazine, a pulp magazine that was considered one of the best pulp magazines. In this review, I’ll focus only on the highlights, which are reason enough to buy the book in my opinion. The Soul of a Regiment – This… Continue reading Friday’s Forgotten Books: The Best of Adventure, vol. 1, 1910-1912
T.T. Flynn – Sailor, Railroadman, Author
Pulp Magazine Covers with stories from T.T. Flynn Theodore Thomas Flynn (better known as T.T. Flynn, western and detective fiction author) is nowadays remembered for his book, The Man from Laramie, which was made into a successful movie. He also wrote a series of stories about Mr. Maddox, a bookie detective, in Dime Detective; another… Continue reading T.T. Flynn – Sailor, Railroadman, Author
Stars of Adventure
Like most magazines, Adventure had a core group of authors who wrote an amazing amount of fiction for the magazine. The top 20 appeared at least 50 times each in the contents page with a serial, novella, novel or short story. They wrote more than a quarter of the fiction appearing in the 753 pulp… Continue reading Stars of Adventure
Gordon Ray Young – Author, Cowboy – Autobiography in Saturday Evening Post, March 7, 1942
Gordon Young was one of the top writers for Adventure magazine. Here’s an auto-biographical short article from him on that originally appeared in the March 7, 1942 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Gordon Ray Young GORDON RAY YOUNG, having written his first Post serial with Tall in the Saddle, goes back over his own… Continue reading Gordon Ray Young – Author, Cowboy – Autobiography in Saturday Evening Post, March 7, 1942
Merry Christmas to you all and a happy New Year
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the readers of this blog. Wish you all many more happy years with friends, family and fiction of your choice. Pulp Christmas Postcard courtesy EBay If you want to get the postcard, go to http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=331073498240
On account of a woman – short story by Theodore Roscoe
This short story by Theodore Roscoe originally appeared in the January, 1936 issue of Adventure. It’s set in the Middle East, and is similar in structure to the Thibaud Corday stories. The ending is different though. Two companions are working in the Middle East when they come across a very striking statue of a woman. They steal it away from the… Continue reading On account of a woman – short story by Theodore Roscoe
The Seal of Jenghis Khan – short story by H. Bedford-Jones
H. Bedford-Jones was the King of the Pulps before Erle Stanley Gardner took over, writing more than a million words of fiction a year. The Seal of Jenghis Khan is fairly typical of his writing style, building a story on historical fact and lore around the legendary Genghis Khan. The Seal of Jenghis Khan… Continue reading The Seal of Jenghis Khan – short story by H. Bedford-Jones
Free story: Swain the Viking’s last adventure
Arthur D. Howden Smith‘s best writing is generally considered to be the Grey Maiden series. I personally prefer his stories of Swain the Viking that are based on the character of Swein Asleifsson as recorded in the Orkneyinga saga. Adventure magazine inspired Robert E. Howard, and I feel sure that at least some of that inspiration… Continue reading Free story: Swain the Viking’s last adventure