Monday, July 22, 2019

Pulp self-awareness, 1947

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" H e found Larsen reading by a gasoline light in a cell that had been an oat bin. Heat from the hot mantle had beaded the teamster...
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Monday, March 11, 2019

ADVENTURE, August 1938

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A fter having hardly any time for pulp reading for a while I finally got a chance to settle down with this issue of Adventure from from H...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019

'And a damn good job it is, this bossing the Arena gang.'

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R obert Addison Nicolls (1905-1993), a history teacher and football coach at the Friends School of Baltimore, has a grand total of ten sto...
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Saturday, February 2, 2019

'The sun would have been kind not to have revealed this.'

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H. A. De Rosso has a reputation for writing some of the darkest western pulp stories. He peaked in the 1950s, as pulp westerns moved clos...
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Sunday, January 20, 2019

'At moments I am even envious of the defunct Mr. Li.'

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T sang Ah-bou was James W. Bennett's attempt at a Charlie Chan-style detective, the twist being that Tsang did his detective work in C...
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Thursday, January 17, 2019

'Do not forget, sheik, that brave sons and virtuous daughters are the offspring of mothers!'

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W illiam Ashley Anderson's fiction career extended from 1914 to 1973, and the man himself lived to be 98 years old. He had a run of st...
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Monday, January 14, 2019

'A touch of sun -- it does queer things.'

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B lue Book was the main market for H. Bedford-Jones' serial anthologies of thematically-related stories. The gimmick gave him an excu...
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