A self-imposed Q&A about William Preston’s ‘pulp’ hero By William Preston In 2010, my novelette “Helping Them Take the Old Man Down” appeared in Asimov’s...
Category - Pulp Articles
Churning out yarns for the pulp magazines wasn’t as cheery as the French Riviera, one hopeful fictioneer quickly learned. By Hal Murray Bonnett I wrote...
Analyzing Carroll John Daly’s hard-boiled novelette reveals why he was eclipsed by Dashiell Hammett. By Richard Bruce Stirling 1923 was a busy year. In...
In a short burst of productivity, the writer filled the pages of pulps such as ‘Fighting Aces.’ By Don Hutchison Author David Goodis produced 17 novels between...
A successful fictioneer offers encouragement for would-be competitors in the pulp-magazine field. By Erle Stanley Gardner I guess I’m what H. Bedford-Jones...
Planning ahead will ensure that your pulp treasures won’t be squandered after you’re gone. By David W. Smith Donating (my collection) to a public...
How to clean, repair, and preserve your pulp magazine collection. By Curt Phillips We’ve all seen them, and maybe you own a few. Pulp magazines that look great...
The editor of ‘Amazing Stories’ helped popularize the wild theories of Richard Shaver By Tony Davis Some people are by nature gullible, believing...
Homer Eon Flint found inspiration in his short life to write stories “ahead of their time.” By Vella Munn Science fiction’s No. 1 spokesman and...
In 1939, a barbarian, a thief, Fritz Leiber Jr. began a journey of a lifetime. By Don Herron Out of the smoldering creative fires of sword-and-sorcery, in 1939...