The Pulp Super-Fan

At PulpFest 2026, we got the fourth and final volume of Donald Keyhoe‘s Devildog Squadron series, The Coils of the Cobra, from Age of Aces Books. This was his second series, started in 1931, the same month as Philip Strange. It lasted for 24 stories from 1931 to ’35 in Sky Birds, published by Magazine […]

After reading one of H. Bedford-Jones‘s series dealing with a Denis Burke in a volume from Steeger Books titled Invitation to a Crime, I read a series dealing with another Denis Burke: Buccaneer Blood. Unlike the first one, this one is set around 1702 and deals mainly with buccaneers (or pirates) in the Caribbean. Oh, […]

About a month out from PulpFest, the sixth Thomas Adam Grey thriller by Duane Laflin, The Ancient Bones, came out. As I’ve been enjoying this series, I quickly got and read it. This series continues to be great, and I look forward to the next one. Laflin is a retired professional magician who now writes […]

Toward the end of 2025, I picked up Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.‘s new edition of The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs, along with Joshua Reynolds‘s authorized sequel, The Return of the Monster Men. I had read The Monster Men way back in the 1970s. Mine was the Ace Books edition with the Boris Vallejo […]

I recently got a massive volume of Sherlock Holmes stories: Sherlock Holmes in the Fullness of Time; or Adventures on Three Roads Less Traveled by Thomas Kent Miller. This volume collects three stories that have Sherlock Holmes in tales that also involve characters by H. Rider Haggard (and others). Strangely, in most of these stories, […]

While I’m not a fan of the hard-boiled detective genre, I recently obtained West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar by Raoul Whitfield (1896–1945). This reprints a series starring “Island detective” Jo Gar. He is a Spanish-Filipino living in Manila who is a former policeman, now a private investigator who often gets involved […]

Well, I guess I’m a glutton for punishment, but here we are with round three. Some time back, I did a review of the first two Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes volumes. And I was a bit disappointed. Well, a lot disappointed. I was very much on the fence about whether I was going […]

Pulp Adventures #49 from Bold Venture Press, dated Summer 2026, came out toward the end of June. We get 130 pages of classic and new pulp of various genres (historical fiction, horror, science fiction, intrigue, detective, and more), plus reviews and some nonfiction. The front and back covers are again AI-generated, and that’s fine. So, […]

I recently read one of H. Bedford-Jones‘s novels, The Devil’s Bosun. This story is set in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s. The story was serialized over four issues of Short Stories in November and December 1935. The first part was cover-featured, and that was used as the cover art of the volume. The […]

An interesting series of Sherlock Holmes pastiches is the “Secret Adventures” series by author, editor, and publisher Gary Lovisi. It was published by Ramble House in three volumes: The Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2007), More Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2011), and The Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Book Three (2016). The idea is […]

Oscar Cook (1888-1952) is an overlooked British author of macabre fiction. He spent a decade of his life in colonial service in Borneo, which colored his fiction. Returning to England, he wrote of his experiences there in Borneo: The Stealer of Hearts, published in 1924. I am only aware of one novel (The Seventh Wave), […]

In spring 2026, we got the third novel in the Paradise Investigations series from Teel James Glenn. This series, set in 1939 New York City, stars Adam Paradise, a private investigator who is Frankenstein‘s monster. The Undiscovered Country is set six months after the prior novel, and it’s now 1939. The Nazis are in power […]

The first book-length work on Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) and his characters and fiction was Richard A. Lupoff’s Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, which has gone through four editions. It first came out in hardcover from Canaveral Press in 1965, where Lupoff worked. Ace published the next two editions in 1968 […]

I have posted on The Moon Man before, a classic pulp hero who appeared in the pages of Ten Detective Aces, published by Ace Magazines, in 38 stories from 1933 to 1937. Created by pulp author Frederick C. Davis, Steeger Books has reprinted the whole series in seven volumes, which I have reviewed here. Sometimes […]

I recently picked up the fifth collection of the Ed Race series, which ran in the back of The Spider pulp from Popular Publications. Also known as The Masked Marksman, this series ran for 55 stories from 1934 to 1943. Ed Race, The Masked Marksman, Vol. 5, subtitled “Curtain Call for the Corpse,” by Steeger […]

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 […]