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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, […]
In early 2026, we got a double issue of The Bronze Gazette: No. 98/99. Or maybe I should call it a flip issue. The same was done with No. 96/97, which I missed posting on. The Bronze Gazette is the premier Doc Savage fanzine, which was offered as a subscription for these “two” issues. The […]
An interesting art volume I received is Gil Cohen: Inside/Out (Archive Collection), edited by Bob Deis and Wyatt Doyle and published by New Texture as part of the Men’s Adventure Library series of books. This hardback volume is planned to be the first of several volumes collecting the over 400 pieces of art done by […]
Here we have the second volume of Lester Dent’s “gadget hero,” Clickell “Click” Rush: The Devils Smelled Nice: The Complete Adventures of the Gadget Man, Vol. 2. This one has the next six stories. This series was published in Street & Smith’s Crime Busters pulp in 1937-39, which was intended to be a sort of […]
I have been posting on the fanzine bare*bones, which is devoted to “unearthing vintage, forgotten, and overlooked horror, mystery, sci-fi, western, and weird film, paperbacks, comics, pulp fiction, and video.” It is produced by Peter Enfantino and John Scoleri through Cimarron Street Books. I have reviewed the first 20 issues. Now there are more, so […]
I picked up the third volume in the Jimmy Wentworth series from Steeger Books. The Brothers of the Snake: The Complete Chinatown Cases of Jimmy Wentworth, Vol. 3, collects the next six stories in this series. Written by Sidney Herschel Small (1893-1958), who wrote more than 500 stories of Asian intrigue in both the pulps […]
Trumpets From Oblivion is a historical action/adventure series by H. Bedford-Jones that appeared in Blue Book Magazine. This thirteen-part series ran from November 1938 to November 1939 and was cover-featured four times. The cover from the second story was used for the collection by Steeger Books, which is part of its H. Bedford-Jones Library. This […]
I picked up a small book by L.S. Goozdich, Fire in the Tall Grass. Published by Veritas Entertainment, this is the first adventure with Noah Redford, set after World War I. Since the book is small, I think this one is most likely a novelette. This is one of several such works by the author […]
The fifth volume in the chronological reprinting of Semi Dual stories from Steeger Books came out last year. I am holding off on the three Semi Dual serials that were reprinted from later in the series. This volume picks up where Vol. 4 left off, more or less. For those who may have forgotten who […]
This time I look at a fanzine that just recently ended, The Paperback Fanatic. Produced by Justin Marriott, it focused on, of course, paperback book collecting. It’s one of several such fanzines he has put out over the years. Starting with issue #37, they are available from Amazon via print-on-demand, so those issues are readily […]
After the release of The Singular Papers of Solar Pons, the next collection of new stories by David Marcum, we got the next issue of the scholarly journal devoted to Solar Pons: The Pontine Dossier, Millennium Edition, Vol. 1, No. 6 (Winter 2025-26), edited by Derrick Belanger. I was surprised to see this on Amazon, […]
The Man With the Rubber Face reprints the entire series of stories starring John Cabot, the titular “man with the rubber face,” in his crusade against criminals. Written by H. Bedford-Jones, this series ran in Mystery magazine. This was a slick-paper magazine from Tower Magazines, sold only in Woolworth stores, and is not properly a […]
I picked up The Fighting Heart of Man, Vol. 1, published by Veritas Entertainment. This small volume, 4- by 7-inches, has 11 stories by Nathanael Hummel and L.S. Goozdich. These stories are very short, sometimes being vignettes. Some feature characters for whom the two authors have published other works: Noah Redford and Nate Colt. Noah […]
On Black Friday weekend 2025, Steeger Books put out their next sets of Argosy Library volumes, Series XVIII and XIX, getting closer to 200 volumes. As always, with each series, we get 10 books of great and sometimes overlooked fiction that appeared in the early pulps. We get some stand-alone works, as well as volumes […]
In 2025, writer-artist Mike Mignola did an original hardcover graphic novel, Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown. Not set in the “Hellboy Universe,” this was a collection of short stories written and drawn by Mignola, set in “Lands Unknown,” a new dark fantasy setting of his. As he credits Howard, Smith, […]
I recently picked up a pair of books from Matthew Bieniek: Barnstormers: The Adventures of Kiki and Bridget. Set in 1925 during the post-World War I barnstormer era, this is the kind of story we might have gotten in the aviation pulps. The series focuses on a pair of young pilots with their own Curtiss […]
You may not be aware that the home of Robert E. Howard in Cross Plains, Texas, is in need of vital repairs. This has been reported by the Robert E. Howard Foundation on its website and in videos on YouTube. To help out, they have been working on fundraising for it, an effort joined in […]
The Mardi Gras Mystery is an interesting novella by H. Bedford-Jones that appeared in Short Stories in the August 1920 issue. I got the edition reprinted by Steeger Books in its H. Bedford-Jones Library. Set in New Orleans shortly after the start of Prohibition during Mardi Gras, we don’t have parades, but there are a […]
