Bennett Foster Foster, Bennett (1897-1969) (stories) Author of westerns; perhaps a pseudonym. That’s all the FictionMags Index currently has to say about this prolific author of westerns, who wrote more than 200 stories and serials from 1929 to 1956. A cursory search turns up six film and TV credits, three before his death and three… Continue reading Bennett Foster – Western Author, Teacher
Category: Westerns
H. A. DeRosso – photo found
Found a photo of H. A. De Rosso in the August, 1953 issue of Gunsmoke magazine and updated the article on him. Enjoy.
Fanny Ellsworth article on writing western stories for Ranch Romances
Fanny Ellsworth, editor of Ranch Romances and Black Mask magazine Fanny Ellsworth was one of the many uncredited women editors of the pulps who did an excellent job editing Ranch Romances – the longest running pulp that appeared from 1924 to 1971 – and Black Mask (the premier detective pulp that had the first print appearances… Continue reading Fanny Ellsworth article on writing western stories for Ranch Romances
Dee Linford – Western Author, Journalist, Technical Writer
Dee Linford is not a well known author today, remembered if at all as the author of the story Man Without A Star, which was made into two movies, Man Without A Star (1955), A Man Called Gannon (1968), and an episode of a TV series, The Virginian, in 1963. He wrote a series of… Continue reading Dee Linford – Western Author, Journalist, Technical Writer
Improbably beautiful covers #1 – Western Story Magazine, December 21, 1929 cover by Gayle Hoskins
Western Story Magazine, December 21, 1929 cover by Gayle Hoskins Another minute, and there would have been only a red dot on the ground, so i suppose this was the more interesting moment…a very well painted one at that. Gayle Hoskins manages to give the impression of a immense herd of bison very well in… Continue reading Improbably beautiful covers #1 – Western Story Magazine, December 21, 1929 cover by Gayle Hoskins
A muse on a mule
From Short Stories, January 10th, 1946 comes this poem from S. Omar Barker:
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
Read online: Western Story Magazine July 27, 1940 and more
With a novel by T.T. Flynn and stories by S. Omar Barker and others, looks like a must read. Courtesy the Western Games blog. Go to the end of the article to open the magazine. The same site also has a bunch of pulp western stories available.
H.A. DeRosso – new ebooks – 2 novels and 1 short story collection
AmazonEncore has reissued three H.A. DeRosso books in ebook format: A dark, psychological Western, .44 merges the brooding sensibility of noir with the stark, iconic desert landscapes that symbolically leave the characters exposed and vulnerable to the harsh high noon sun, but also those parts of themselves that they’d rather not give in to.… Continue reading H.A. DeRosso – new ebooks – 2 novels and 1 short story collection
Western Pulps from the Pulp Magazines Project
Some Western pulps have been added to the Pulp Magazines Project collection: Includes stories by W.C. Tuttle, Ernest Haycox, H.A. DeRosso, Walt Coburn, Hapsburg Liebe, Johnston McCulley, S. Omar Barker and others. Click on the links below the pictures to open the magazine. Support them in any way you can. THE FEUDISTS by Ernest Haycox… Continue reading Western Pulps from the Pulp Magazines Project