Pigeons From Hell: Horror Masterpiece
Robert E. Howard will always be the father of Sword & Sorcery. He created Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, King Kull, and finally, Conan the Read More
Category: Pulp Magazines
Hero Pulps: Champions of Excitement
The hero Pulp was a product of the 1930s and the Great Depression. In a time when all seemed doom and gloom, it was exciting Read More
Going Wild: An Interview with Jack Mackenzie
Jack Mackenzie is at it again. His latest project is a series of Pulp hero novels called Wild Inc. The first book is The Shattered Read More
Donald Bayne Hobart: Comic Book Storyteller
Donald Bayne Hobart (1898-1970) (aka Hobart Donbayne, aka Bayne Hobart) was a prolific Pulpster especially in the 1940s. He wrote many of the Masked Rider Read More
Link: Fritz Leiber: Pastiche or Passé
Should a Mythos author write Lovecraftian pastiches? Is the Mythos anything, really, but a colossal pastiche of Lovecraft? Is the Mythos’ value lessened by its Read More
Lin Carter’s People of the Dragon
When reading Lin Carter you have to ask yourself before beginning: “Which author is he pastiching now?” If there is pure Lin Carter fiction out Read More
Plant Monsters in Weird Tales
Plant monsters were a natural for Weird Tales. The Pulp featured all types too, from the romantic in “The Woman of the Wood” by A. Read More
Otis Adelbert Kline’s Doctor Dorp
This post begins: Otis Adelbert Kline is probably remembered best for his Edgar Rice Burroughs pastiches set on Venus and the Moon as well as Read More
The Monsters of H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard is not usually thought of as a monster writer, and for the most part that reputation is sound. He loved to write Read More
Adventures in Time and Space
Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas are credited with editing and publishing the first major Science Fiction anthology, a volume that said to the Read More