Category: Pulp Magazines

Pulps in the news – roundup

What’s Zorro doing in Ohio?    Editors of 1930s pulp Spicy Detective have some thoughts on keeping it classy     Exploring Rusty Hevelin’s sci-fi and fantasy pulp collection at the University of Iowa     Retired UNL professor expresses love for sci-fi, ‘Weird Tales’     Book Review: Pulp Macabre: The Art of Lee… Continue reading Pulps in the news – roundup

Interview with Matthew White Jr. – Editor of the Argosy

This interview originally appeared in the magazine, THE EDITOR, dated October 1904. Interviews with Editors. BY BURKE JENKINS.   MATTHEW WHITE, JR., OF THE ARGOSY.   SOME TIMES we feel in a somewhat light and flippant mood when we go on these little interviewing expeditions. Not that we are not always keenly alive to our… Continue reading Interview with Matthew White Jr. – Editor of the Argosy

Harold Lamb on selling his first story of Khlit the Cossack

This article was originally published in the February 25, 1918 issue of THE EDITOR magazine. Harold A. Lamb talks about the influence of editors on his first story of Khlit the Cossack and how he came to write it. The editor he refers to in the story is likely Arthur S. Hoffman.  Original heading for… Continue reading Harold Lamb on selling his first story of Khlit the Cossack

Charles Agnew MacLean – Editor of the Popular Magazine

From the April 10, 1920 issue of the magazine Advertising and Selling, comes this article about Charles Agnew Maclean, the editor of the Popular Magazine. The Men and Women Who Make Our Mediums: Charles Agnew MacLean One of a Series of Informal Visits with the Leading American Editors and Publishers with the Object of Interpreting… Continue reading Charles Agnew MacLean – Editor of the Popular Magazine

Commander Edward Ellsberg’s books and auto-biography reissued

Good news. The books of Commander Ellsberg, about whom I wrote earlier in this blog, and his multi-volume auto-biography, have been republished. The story of Commander Ellsberg: part 1, part 2, part 3 The not so good news is that they are available only in ebook format. However, you can read them on your computer,… Continue reading Commander Edward Ellsberg’s books and auto-biography reissued

From Murania Press comes The Island, sequel to Barehanded Castaways by J. Allan Dunn

I enjoyed the original novel, which was a very realistic Robinson Crusoe kind of adventure, first published in Adventure magazine. The novel was written by J. Allan Dunn in response to a challenge from Adventure’s editor to write a realistic shipwreck novel of survival, with no “convenient coconuts or self sacrificing fish“ http://muraniapress.com/classic-pulp-reprints/now-available-the-island/ The sequel promises… Continue reading From Murania Press comes The Island, sequel to Barehanded Castaways by J. Allan Dunn