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Seven vintage short stories and novelettes of colonial African adventure published in pulp magazines from 1918-25, written by an English author with extensive personal experience in Africa in the early 20th Century. These are vivid and entertaining stories with authentic settings and atmosphere. Included is a 7000-word introduction discussing the historical context and the fascinating life of the author.

A sweeping revisionist history of the founding of WEIRD TALES, one of the most influential pulp magazines. Its first two years (1923-24) was so painful to its creators that they immediately banished their memories to secrecy, their silence suppressing the story for almost a century. Here at last is the true saga, the unraveling of the mystery.

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A complete five-story series set in the backroads, railyards, and seedy hobo jungles of America where tramps traveled and congregated, a grand saga of life in a strange, often violent underworld. Includes the initial story from the SATURDAY EVENING POST (1914), and the remainder from the pulp magazine, ADVENTURE (1916-21). The authors were two brothers from San Francisco who started selling regularly to the pulps as teenagers. Included is a bi...

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Volume 3 contains another 10 stories of vintage detective hero, Wade Hammond, from 1930's detective pulps. Wade battles a baffling array of crazed killers, mad scientists, ornery animals, and more, all told in Paul Chadwick's memorably vivid style.

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Another 10 eerie adventures of Wade Hammond, globe-trotting adventurer, accomplished newsman, and courageous amateur sleuth, from great 1930's pulps Detective-Dragnet and Ten Detective Aces. Hammond pits his abilities against a frightening series of diabolical villains: The Cobra, The Man with the Grin, The Reaper, The Fiend, and many more.

This volume contains eight novelettes featuring Doctor Coffin, Hollywood's weirdest sleuth. He's a former character actor who fakes his own death, and, in his reborn guise, operates a string of funeral homes by day, and fights crime as Doctor Coffin by night. Reprinted from 1932-33 issues of the pulp magazine, "Thrilling Detective.

A collection of articles from writer's magazines in the Pulp Era (1920-1960) by and about pulp magazine editors. Articles are supplemented by ample biographical material. Includes photos/illustrations, and a complete index. Among the many editors covered are Farnsworth Wright (Weird Tales), Carson Mowre (Dell), Ray Palmer (Amazing Stories), Harold Hersey (Gangster Stories), Freeman H. Hubbard (Railroad Stories), W. Adolphe Roberts (Brief Stori...

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The Ocean was a short-lived Munsey pulp published in 1907-08 that specialized in sea stories. This collection reprints 20 of the best stories from the 11 issue run. Included are stories of peril at sea, mutinies, shipwrecks, ferocious weather, a ghost story, even an early scientific-romance, "In the Land of To-Morrow." Over 30 pages of nonfiction material is also included: a history of The Ocean, and extensive profiles of editor, Bob Davis, an...

The concluding volume of the complete Big Nose Serrano stories. Three short novels and one novelette are from the rare gang pulps, Greater Gangster Stories (1933-34), and The Gang Magazine (1935). As the series progressed, Big Nose became a champion of FDR's New Deal policies, enforcing them with the gangster's tools of violence, kidnapping and murder--and a sense of humor. Great fun, and truly unique.

The first four Big Nose Serrano novels by gang-pulp superstar, Anatole Feldman, from Gangster Stories, 1930-31. Never reprinted since original publication. Feldman established Serrano as one of the earliest adaptations of Cyrano de Bergerac, setting his hero in the Chicago of gangland times. He grew into a gangster of near-mythic proportions, inspiring to his Tommy gun toting followers, and feared by his mob enemies. But as violent and harrowi...

Volume 2 presents the second ten adventures of Friel's Amazon rubber industry workers, Pedro and Lourenco, as they encounter strange characters and perilous situations in the unexplored Amazon jungle. Whether battling headhunters, or being turned into sex slaves by a tribe of wild women, the atmosphere is steamy and the suspense unrelenting. From the great pulp magazine, Adventure (1920-21).