Category: Pulp Magazines

The Story-Teller is a British pulp, described by Mike Ashley as “the best all-round all-fiction magazine of its day” in The age of the story-tellers, his survey of British fiction magazines. This issue, from 1924, is from around the middle of the magazine’s run from 1907 to 1936. The editor was Newman Flower of Cassell… Continue reading Issue Review: The Story-Teller, October 1924

I’ve always wanted to read one of the Munsey-era Railroad Man issues. In its first incarnation it lasted 13 years before Frank Munsey decided to merge it into the Argosy in 1919.  Like most pre-world war 1 magazines, early issues are quite hard to find. So I was happy to get my hands on a… Continue reading Review: The Railroad Man’s Magazine, June 1916

I had read the Father Brown stories earlier but never followed up to find more stories by Chesterton. A recent purchase of a bound volume of the British pulp The Story-Teller with some Chesterton stories changed that. Those stories were later collected under the title Tales of the Long Bow, on the cover of which Chesterton is pictured laughing, and… Continue reading Book Review: G.K. Chesterton – Tales of the Long Bow

I recently came across this article by pulpster William Campbell Gault, originally published in the Summer 1955 issue of the fanzine Grue. Fanzine scanned at the wonderful Fanac.org JAUNDICED EYEby Wm Gault There is a derogatory phrase used by critics in the more enlightened critical journals. The phrase is “pulp writing” and they use it… Continue reading Jaundiced eye by William Campbell Gault

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)