The Pulp Super-Fan

At the end of 2025, the latest collection of new Solar Pons stories by David Marcum came out from Belanger Books: The Singular Papers of Solar Pons. This volume contains 15 stories, four of which had appeared in prior anthologies (the novellas collection and the American Adventures collection). This was done as a Kickstarter campaign, […]

Harrigan’s File is a collection of science fiction tales by August Derleth, his only explicitly science fiction work. This series of short stories is about newspaper reporter Tex Harrigan and his various strange encounters with “queer people.” It was published in 1975 in hardback by Arkham House, and has never been reprinted. The series consists […]

I have posted about a few literary societies here and felt a post on several of these would be a good idea. By “literary society,” I mean a group of fans of a particular author or character who have come together in an organization that publishes a journal and/or newsletter, possibly organizes meetings, and maybe […]

We got the fourth issue of RevERBerate, a fanzine devoted to Edgar Rice Burroughs, in May 2026. Like the previous ones, this one is again 48 pages, it is printed on high-quality, glossy stock, perfect-bound with color cardstock covers. As usual, nothing on the cover indicates the issue number or date, which is on purpose. […]

I continue my reading of L. Patrick Greene‘s series about English adventurer Aubrey St. John Major, a.k.a. The Major, set in Africa, getting into the third and fourth volumes. This series ran from 1919 to 1939, with a few in 1947 and ’48, for over 100 stories in Short Stories and other pulps. Steeger Books […]

From July 30 to Aug. 2, 2026, PulpFest 2026 was held near Pittsburgh, again at the DoubleTree in Mars, Pa. This was my fourth time attending. I again made a point of arriving Wednesday night to be able to experience the con from Thursday through Saturday. In addition, there were three associated events. There was […]

I recently read one of H. Bedford-Jones‘s series dealing with a Denis Burke. Bedford-Jones had three series of stories featuring men with this name who are probably descendants. The third and final one, featured in Invitation to a Crime: Further Adventures of Denis Burke, ran for six stories, all set in French Morocco in the […]

As a fan of Sherlock Holmes who enjoys many of the pastiche stories written by others, I am also open to seeing stories that make use of various secondary characters in the canon. There have been a few stories written focused on Holmes’s older brother Mycroft, and one I recently picked up is S.F. Bennett‘s […]

I recently received the 14th issue of Men’s Adventure Quarterly, the excellent magazine series focused on men’s adventure magazines, now into its fourth year of publication. This is one of the issues I’ve been looking forward to, as they focus on “Bigfoot.” As a kid in the 1970s, Bigfoot was everywhere. The Six Million Dollar […]

I have previously posted on the excellent juvenile series starring The Three Investigators. Created in 1964 by Robert Arthur Jr., a former pulp author, this series had Jupiter Jones, Peter Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews, all living in California near Hollywood. They formed their own detective agency. While their age was not given, they were about […]

I have previously posted on the excellent Illustration magazine, published by Illustrated Press. It was published quarterly for several years and then ended with issue No. 84 in 2023. It featured articles on a variety of illustration artists who did advertising art, book and magazine covers, and interior artwork, including some pulp magazine artists. Daniel […]

H. Warner Munn (1903-81) was an author of horror and fantasy works, and a member of the Lovecraft circle of friends. He is probably best known for his early work for Weird Tales. His most well-known works are “Tales of the Werewolf Clan” and his unfinished “Merlin’s Godson” series. The “Tales of the Werewolf Clan” […]

This will be one of three postings on U.K. author John S. Glasby (1928-2011). Glasby, surprisingly, had two parallel careers. After graduating from college, he had a long career as a research chemist and mathematician. At the same time, he was an author of several hundred works in a variety of genres using several pen […]

I picked up A Clue to the Copper: The Complete Cases of Silver Skull by Richard Howells Watkins, published by Steeger Books as part of its Argosy Library series. This volume collects a short, three-story series featuring the adventures of the Silver Skull that ran in Detective Fiction Weekly in 1933. While all three stories […]

In early 2026, Charles F. Millhouse, creator of New Pulp character Captain Stephen Hawklin, came out with a new collection of short stories set in the 1930s: The Classic Adventures of Captain Hawklin, one for each year from 1930 to 1939. This is a prelude to his upcoming novel, Stormgate, that will cross over Hawklin […]

Earlier this year, the revised third edition of Bookery’s Guide to Pulps & Related Magazines by Tim Cottrill came out from Murania Press. The first edition came out in 2005, which was actually an update of The Ultimate Guide to the Pulps from 2001, and the second edition came out in 2020 from Ivy Press […]

Well, it’s nearing the end of July 2026, and coming up, we have this year’s PulpFest along with a new issue of The Pulpster, the convention book, now up to #35. This year, it runs 72 pages, many in color. And this will be my fourth time attending the event. The focus this time is […]

So with this posting, I have caught up with the excellent Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective series from Airship 27. This time I go over volumes 19 and 20, which are the most recent volumes. As I don’t know when the next volume will come out, I didn’t want to delay covering these two too long; […]

Finally, after too long, we get the next in the George Chance: The Ghost Archives series from Steeger Books, which reprints the Ghost/Green Ghost series from Thrilling, written by G.T. Fleming-Roberts. The character had 14 original stories from 1940-44. He first starred in his own pulp magazine in 1940, titled The Ghost-Super Detective, for three […]

Paladins: The Blue Death is a New Pulp team-up novella by Bobby Nash, published by Moonstone Books. It’s available in three editions: a regular paperback, a deluxe paperback with illustrations, and a hardcover with illustrations. Cover and illustrations are by Jay Piscopo. Strangely, I couldn’t find it on Amazon, so the only place to get […]

The Barry Chase series was a short one from Detective Fiction Weekly that ran three stories in 1937 and 1938. It was written by B.B. Fowler (1893-1981), who had several other stories and series in the 1930s and ’40s. Steeger Books reprinted the first story in its Argosy Library: Graduation in Red. I hope we […]

The fifth volume of D.C. Jones and Adventure Command International is out, and it gives us a new foe as the timeline moves into 1977, when the original G.I. Joe toys ended, to be replaced with a new group. We get a cover style similar to the earlier volumes, while making a nod to this […]

Dr. Skull is a serialized thriller from Lewis Clay that ran in 10 issues of Detective Fiction Weekly from Sept. 17, 1938, through Nov. 11, 1938. It was cover-featured with the first installment, and this cover is used by Steeger Books for this addition to its Argosy Library. The volume also includes an intro by […]

Author and pulp historian Will Murray has paused his activities as the new Grant Stockbridge to tackle a different pair of pulp characters. In the first “Wild Adventures” of Secret Agent X, we get Secret Agent X vs. Doctor Death from Altus Press. Secret Agent X was Ace Magazines‘ longest-running pulp hero, who got 41 […]

I had recently reviewed Ken Faig Jr.’s collection Lovecraftian People and Places (2022) from Hippocampus Press. In 2025, he came out with a sequel, More Lovecraftian People and Places. For those not aware, Ken Faig Jr. has been a leading scholar of H.P. Lovecraft for more than 50 years. Like the previous volume, this one […]

Just prior to the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention, we got the annual issue of Blood ‘n’ Thunder: the Blood ‘n’ Thunder 2026 Special Edition, from Ed Hulse’s Murania Press. This is the sixth such annual edition, going back to 2021, but this fanzine goes back 24 years. I’ve reviewed the prior volumes here. […]

I have posted before on William Preston’s series of stories featuring his pastiche/homage to Doc Savage: The Old Man. This series is made up of five short stories that appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction from 2010 to 2024. At the time it finished, I was really hoping we would get a book collecting the whole […]

Recently, Bold Venture Press put out David Goudsward’s work Adventurous Liberation: H.P. Lovecraft in Florida, which focuses on the several trips of H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) to Florida. I have been looking forward to this work since it was mentioned in L’Affaire Barlow. Being from Florida, I was always interested in learning more about Lovecraft’s time […]

Paperback Fantastic is a three-book series by Justin Marriott, creator of the fanzine Paperback Fanatic, which came out in 2022. Bill Cunningham of Pulp 2.0 did the covers. Each of the three volumes focuses on paperbacks and comic books tied to the theme, and many of the paperbacks reprint pulp fiction, hence their inclusion here. […]

At the end of 2025, we got the second collection of the Lady From Hell series: The Adventure of the Voodoo Moon: The Complete Cases of the Lady From Hell, Vol. 2. This series ran 25 stories, all in Detective Fiction Weekly from 1935 to 1936. The final story appeared in 1938 in Popular Detective, […]