Top pulp reference books

NEW: In 2005, ThePulp.Net asked over 100 pulp fans on the Internet to name their top five pulp reference books. Check out the Spring 2006 issue of Blood ’n’ Thunder for a detailed look at the top picks. Here’s the complete list of books suggested by respondents.

Featuring the pulps

For the time being, The Pulp Companion will continue its hiatus (except for the Events calendar at left, which we’ll keep updated). But don’t let that stop you from exploring the stories. Below is a listing of the feature stories; for the shorter items, please look in the TPC Archive.

A man named Dirk

Meet a very Doc Savage-like character who’s been on the best-seller lists for over 20 years: Dirk Pitt. MORE...

A ‘Frost’ in winter

Ron Fortier reviews a collection of pulp stories by Donald Wandrei. MORE...

Tuned in

Pick up your latest pulp and tune in the Senators vs Cleveland Indians game, or a Shadow radio program, or another program from the past. MORE...

Plot devices

The editor of Strange Science Magazine is clamoring for your story, but you’re suffering from a severe case of writer’s block. What to do? You’re probably familiar with Doc Savage author Lester Dent’s “The Master Fiction Plot,” which offers tips for plotting a story. But his guide wasn’t the first (or the last) designed to help writers develop their stories. In a five-part article, Edward J. Wood takes a look at fiction plotters such as the Plot Genie, Plotto and others. MORE...

Behind The Shadow

Ever been curious about the writer of The Shadow novels? What was he like? What were his interests? Eric Seidel reviews Thomas J. Shimeld’s biography, Walter B. Gibson and The Shadow. MORE...

Supernatural sleuthing

Writer Ron Fortier reviews Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak: Supernatural Sleuth, a collection of 16 stories featuring the weird, occultist detective. MORE...

The art of pulps

There may only be a few hundred original pulp cover paintings left in the world. If you’re in New York City this summer, head over to Brooklyn to feast your eyes on more than 100 on exhibition. MORE...

Double-barreled inspiration

An empty cabin, a shotgun-wielding old man, Hugh B. Cave and the idea for a popular pulp store. Romance With Attitude’s Conrad V. Sucatre recalls Cave’s appearance at the Windy City pulp show. MORE...

The ultimate villain

He’s a thief. He’s a criminal mastermind. The leader of an army of street thugs. And a mass murder. But who is Fantomas? MORE...

Typecast as pulp

That facE... it looks familiar. You think you’ve seen it on the cover of a pulp magazine. Or, maybe you want that typeface for your pulp publication. MORE...

Rather be flying?

Put down that copy of Lone Eagle. There’s work to be done. Missions to be flown. Enemy to be shot down. So grab that mouse and take off into the Crimson Skies. MORE...

Finding your group

If you’re looking for more pulp discussions that what you find in Internet newsgroups (or in Pulp.Forum – pardon the shameless plug), then check out the offerings at Yahoo Groups. MORE...

Grim returns

Brother Grim, an online pulp-ish comic strip and fiction series, should resume crimefighting this month as Supernatural Crime and Digital Comics and Pulps returns from a two-month hiatus. MORE...

A new beginning

The End of the Beginning brings a new start to one of paperback’s longest running pulp-like series, The Destroyer. MORE...

Pulp hang ups

Looking for something for that empty wall in your den? Check out a pulp cover print by CAPE Publishing Co. MORE...

Romancing the pulps

Say “pulps” and most of us probably think about action, adventure, gunfights and barbarians. Pulps also included sports and romance. Classic pulps such as Love Story Magazine and Ranch Romances have spawned a modern-day zine, Romances With Attitude. MORE...

An animated Doc

He’s an inventor. He’s in peak physical condition and an excellent fighter. He carries cool gadgets that he uses in his battle against evil. He’s known as “Doc.” ... And he’s got a teenage daughter. MORE...

Adventures of another Doc

The Doc Sidhe (pronounced “she,” as in banshee) books by Aaron Allston are both a tribute to and a gentle satire of Lester Dent’s Doc Savage novels. MORE...