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Unearthing buried treasures from pulp literature’s yesteryear!
Most pulp fans agree that WEIRD TALES’ most significant rival in the realm of dark fantasy was the short-lived STRANGE TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR, which lasted only 10 issues from 1931 to 1933. Perhaps the strongest novelette published in STRANGE TALES was Jack Williamson’s always-fascinating WOLVES OF DARKNESS in the January 1932 issue.
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Unearthing buried treasures from pulp literature’s yesteryear!
“It’s The Man Who Rides Alone Who Meets Danger In The Most Dramatic Fashion … The Lone Rider Carries Excitement Wherever He Goes! Follow The Adventures Of The Lone Ranger In Every Thrilling Issue Of This Magazine.”
Well, it wouldn’t take you long to read “Every Thrilling Issue of This Magazine,” because THE LONE RANGER MAGAZINE lasted only eight issues before morphing into ROMANTIC WESTERN. Because of its short run, it’s a tough pulp to track down. Recently, a copy sold for almost $800 on eBay. I wonder how many silver bullets you’d have to melt down to raise that kind of cash?
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Unearthing buried treasures from pulp literature’s yesteryear!
There are several sites on the web from which you can read and/or download genuine pulp fiction from the 1910-53 period. I like pulpgen.com best, but as with most of the others, you can find only individual stories there and not entire issues. One site that does allow access to complete issues of some of the science-fiction magazines is the Internet Archive, from which I recently downloaded into my eReader the second issue of ASTOUNDING STORIES.
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Unearthing buried treasures from pulp literature’s yesteryear!
I’m not sure why I feel this way, but I wish I could recommend PHILO GUBB, CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL DETECTIVE more fervently than I can. Maybe this attitude springs just from the title, which is what drew me to it in the first place. I grin every time I think of it.
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Unearthing buried treasures from pulp literature’s yesteryear!
Sometime between 1934 and 1939, an Englishman named Rene Brabazon Raymond read James M. Cain’s little drop of noir poison, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, and decided to try his hand at composing a tough-guy crime novel of his own. Just as Cain’s book had been suggested by the Ruth Snyder/Judd Gray murder case of 1927, Raymond concocted a plot inspired by the exploits of the Ma Barker gang — at least, the FBI’s version of the Barker gang.
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