‘The Age of Dimes and Pulps’
I recently obtained the book The Age of Dimes and Pulps by Jeremy Agnew and published by MacFarlane Books in 2018. I am always on the lookout for more academic works on the pulps and am usually sadly...
View Article‘L’Affaire Barlow: H.P. Lovecraft and the Battle for His Literary Legacy’
A recent work in literary criticism I picked up is L’Affaire Barlow: H.P. Lovecraft and the Battle for His Literary Legacy by Lovecraft scholar Marcos Legaria, with a great intro by fellow Lovecraft...
View Article‘The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines From the...
Mike Ashley is a writer and researcher who has been specializing in the history of science-fiction, fantasy, and popular fiction for over 30 years, having put out over 50 books and numerous articles....
View Article‘The Bronze Gazette’ #93-95
For 2023, we got three issues of The Bronze Gazette: #93 to 95. This is the premier Doc Savage fanzine, which is offered in subscription sets of two to three issues. Thus for 2023, the subscription was...
View Article‘Lovecraftian People and Places’
For over 50 years Ken Faig Jr. has been a leading scholar of H.P. Lovecraft. Two of his focuses have been on the ancestry of Lovecraft himself, and on Lovecraft’s relations with various friends and...
View Article‘bare*bones’ #13-16
I have been posting on the fanzine bare*bones, which is devoted to “unearthing vintage, forgotten, and overlooked horror/mystery/sci-fi/western/weird film – paperbacks – comics – pulp fiction – video.”...
View ArticleFanzine Focus: ‘Echoes’ #17-34
As previously noted, the fanzine Echoes ran from 1982 to 2002. Published by the late Tom and Ginger Johnson, it is probably the longest-running pulp fanzine. Because of the changes in format, I’m not...
View ArticleFanzine Focus: ‘Echoes’ #35-50
We continue to look at the fanzine Echoes ran from 1982 to 2002. Published by the late Tom and Ginger Johnson, it is probably the longest-running pulp fanzine. Because of the changes in format, I’m not...
View Article‘Blood ‘n’ Thunder 2024 Special Edition’
We now have the annual issue of Blood ‘n’ Thunder, the Blood ‘n’ Thunder 2024 Special Edition, from Murania Press, again a little before Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention. This one clocks in at 276...
View Article‘Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp’ 2024 edition
New for 2024 is the third edition of the excellent reference guide to the world of pulps: The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction, written by Ed Hulse who runs Murania Press and publishes the...
View Article‘The Shadowed Circle Compendium’
I have been getting the excellent pulp fanzine The Shadowed Circle, which is focused on The Shadow, since it came out as a crowdfunding effort. There are six issues so far, with a seventh coming soon....
View Article‘The Pulpster’ #33
For PulpFest 2024, we have The Pulpster #33, the convention book. This one comes in at 64 pages. Also, this will be my second year attending PulpFest. This time, the anniversaries are the Spicy pulps...
View ArticleRobert Sampson’s ‘The Night Master’
Robert Sampson (1927-92) was one of the major pulp researchers. His main work is his six-volume Yesterday’s Faces, which I need to finish my review of. But he has done other works, like the only major...
View Article‘Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Second Century’
I discovered an interesting book on Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) and his works that was produced by the National Capital Panthans, a Washington, D.C., area group of the Burroughs Bibliophiles....
View Article‘The Weird Tales Boys’
An interesting book I got recently is The Weird Tales Boys by Stephen Jones. Published in 2023 by PS Publishing‘s paperback imprint Drugstore Indian Press, it is available on Amazon. It’s part of the...
View Article‘Cryptozoology Anthology’
Bigfoot, Yeti, Nessie, and other strange creatures that supposedly exist were something I was exposed to in the 1970s in movies and TV shows, such as In Search of, etc. Sasquatch was even a character...
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