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The literary giants of pulp fiction
Other People’s Pulps: The man who invented the Batarang
Last week I received a gift certificate for Amazon, and – after buying a gift for my brother’s birthday – I went on a rampage through my wish list.
Among the dozen or so ebooks that I bought – and some of which you’ll see reviewed here in the future – I invested about two bucks in the two Wildside Press Megapacks dedicated to Kothar the Barbarian.
A Conan clone that hit the stalls in 1969 to ride the wave of the Cimmerian’s success, Kothar appeared in five novels: Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman, Kothar of the Magic Sword, Kothar and the Demon Queen, Kothar and the Conjurer’s Curse and Kothar and the Wizard Slayer.
All of these were the work of Gardner R. Fox – an author I did not know, and that is certainly a fascinating discovery for me. Continue reading
Pulp octopuses (or is it octopi?)
I have just been made aware of a wonderful website called Poulpe Pulps, which cover everything octopus-related in old – and sometimes not-so-old – pulps.
If you like octopuses, or pulps, or both, you are better follow the link above.
The website is a real delight.
Aladdin’s Cave of Pulp Goodness: Dieselpunk Industries
Ultrafast post to point you guys towards Dieselpunk Industries, a huge online collection of vintage movies and serials, with a side serving of downloadable pulp magazines and related contents.
Check them out!
A.K.A.
Edward J. Bellin, Paul Edmonds, Noel Gardner, Will Garth, James Hall, Keith Hammond, Hudson Hastings, Peter Horn, Kelvin Kent, Robert O. Kenyon, C. H. Liddell, Hugh Maepenn, Scott Morgan, Lawrence O’Donnell, Lewis Padgett, Woodrow Wilson Smith, Charles Stoddard…
They were all Henry Kuttner, alone or together with his wife, C.L. Moore.
I always liked Kuttner’s work. And C.L. Moore’s.
Discovering their arm-long list of aliases was for me the start of a great treasure hunt.
Discovering Blood’n’Thunder
I’m having a lot of fun – and I’m learning a lot – with the first of the two reprint volumes of Blood’n’Thunder.
For the uninitiated – but then, why are you here? – Blood’n’Thunder is one of the most respected, if not the most respected fanzine dedicated to the world of pulps, serials, radio dramas and related topics.
Edited by Ed Hulse (whose Guide to the Pulps is the definitive resource on the subject), and published by Murania Press, the magazine has always been a sort of Sacred Grail for me here in the back of beyond.
The red-covered trade paperback volume called The Best of Blood’n’Thunder collects articles from the long lost first ten issues of the magazine, and it is a veritable treasure trove of information, analysis and surprises. Continue reading
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