The Author With a Thousand Heads: Round-Robins
Doc Savage had an adventure called The Thousand Headed Man in 1934. The Thousand Headed Man guards a lost city in the jungle. This piece Read More
Category: Pulp Magazines
Wan Tengri in Conan the Barbarian
Flame Winds was a Sword & Sorcery novel written by Norvell W. Page back in the Pulp days of John W. Campbell. It appeared in Read More
Robots Before the Pulps
The robot is an icon of Science Fiction, alongside the spaceship, the alien and the time machine. Of all these familiar themes, the robot is Read More
Munsey Covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs
Growing up in the 1970s, Edgar Rice Burroughs had wonderful artists like Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Roy G. Krenkel to illustrate his paperback covers. Read More
Link: Wait Here While I Describe the Eldritch Horror: Weird Tales Radio?
You learn the strangest things when you read “The Eyrie,” the old letter column in Weird Tales. Like that a boyish Julius Schwartz was a Read More
A Brief History of Sword & Sorcery
So, What the Heck Did You Think It Was Made Of? This piece is a condensed history dedicated to a sub-genre of fantasy called “Sword Read More
A. Hyatt Verrill – Science Fiction Writer
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954) is an unlikely early Science Fiction writer. He traveled throughout North and South America and was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt. Read More
Frank R. Paul and The Land That Time Forgot
Hugo Gernsback began his all-Science Fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, with a lot of reprints. This was because of several reasons. First, there wasn’t much SF Read More
Link: Yuggoth, Our Ninth Planet
One of the best parts about reading older fiction – say, the detective fiction of the 1880s or the pulp stories of the 1920s – Read More
Edmond Hamilton Comics: 1951
1951 saw Edmond Hamilton splitting his time between Pulps and comics. It was the year he finished the Captain Future stories though his comic counter Read More