One hundred years ago this week, the magazine Weird Tales debuted. The “Unique” magazine is perhaps the most famous of the pulps to readers today thanks to its publishing of horror by H. P. Lovecraft and Conan tales by Robert E. Howard, but it encompassed many more authors and works during its three-decade run. I’m …
Read the full post →“Wednesday Pulp: <em>Weird Tales</em>, March 1923”
I finished three books during this week, as well as one pulp magazine issue. Books Scarlet Riders: Pulp Fiction Tales of the Mounties, ed. by Don Hutchison — as an anthology, the usual mixed bag, with some stories straightforward adventure (e.g., “Red Snows,” by Harold F. Cruikshank, and “Doom Ice,” by Dan O’Rourke) and some …
There’s round-up action on the cover of this issue of the long-running pulp (indeed, the last to end publishing as a pulp). I like the image, but I can’t make out the artist’s signature. Ranch Romances is reputed to have fairly hard-boiled stories around this time, and I’ll be interested in seeing whether that is …
Read the full post →“Wednesday Pulp: <em>Ranch Romances</em>, Second October Number, 1949”
I finished three books during this week, as well as one 100-year-old magazine issue. Books Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh Centuries), ed. by Gábor Klaniczay — a collection of five hagiographical works especially on missionaries and martyrs (often the one condition leading to the other): the Passion of Saint Wenceslas, by …
Read the full post →“Weekly Reader — January 29 – February 4”
I finished two books during this week, and I began my reading of 100-year-old magazine issues as well. Books The Antiquary, by Sir Walter Scott — This tale centers on the title character and his friends and neighbors, including a mysterious young man whom he befriends; it offers plenty of gentle comedy and a modicum …
The year 2023 is off to a pretty good start on the reading front, as I finished 6 books through January 7: The Lone Rider (I Must Ride Alone), by Jackson Gregory — First published in 1940, though I read the Popular Library paperback whose cover is shown above. This is a reasonably effective western …
The February 13, 1926 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly featured four serials, including the start of Charles Francis Coe’s The Ranch Beyond, one novelette, four short stories, five poems, and a special insert that is a tribute to Frank A. Munsey, the founder of the magazine, who had passed away on December 22 of the …
Read the full post →“<em>Argosy All-Story Weekly</em>, February 13, 1926”
The February 6, 1926 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly featured four serials, including the start of The Seal of Satan, one novelette, five short stories, and five poems. I skipped the serials, as per my usual practice when I lack all the parts, but I read the remaining content. I found it another good issue, …
Read the full post →“<em>Argosy All-Story Weekly</em>, February 6, 1926”
About 90 years ago, the July 25th weekly issue of the crime and detection pulp magazine Detective Fiction Weekly offered up a fair amount of entertaining stories, some purportedly true. T. T. Flynn’s The Garroters of Ghost Cove, the issue’s novelette, is a fast-paced story in which protagonist Bob Riley, breaking into an apartment, discovers …
Read the full post →“<em>Detective Fiction Weekly</em>, July 25, 1931”
The third issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly for the year 1926 included the first installment of a new serial, Wild Paradise, by Kenneth Perkins; it’s a western adventure concerned with an Arabian stallion. Other serials in the issue include The Vanishing Professor (Part 2 of 4), There Goes the Bride (Part 4 of 5), and …
Read the full post →“<em>Argosy All-Story Weekly</em>, January 16, 1926”
