Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled edited by David Cranmer and Scott D Parker “Hardboiled” fiction has been popular since the post WW2 era. Every since returning GI’s started coming home after the Good War, there…
Pagan Passions by Randall Garrett and Larry Harris Randall Garrett was a post-WWII science fiction writer who created a number of fictional words for which he is little remembered. He was also one of the…
The Chloe Files #1: Ashes to Ashes by Howard Hopkins The character of Chloe Everson grew out of another one of Howard Hopkins’ novels, Grim, where Arlo Grim battles a coven of witches trying to…
Pulp Ink edited by Nigel Bird and Chris Rhatigan It may be that the anthology format will be the best one for e-publishing. At least with the newer generation of pulp writers, this seems to…
Echo of Guilt by Phyllis Paul There’s not much written these days about Phyllis Paul (1903-73). She published twelve novels in over a 30+ year period. Most of them can be classified as “thrillers”, although…
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham This is the story of Stanton Carlisle, a carnivalsideshow mentalist, who decides to strike out for the big time bygoing into the spiritualism racket. With his knowledge of humannature…
Martians, Go Home (1955) by Frederic Brown This has to be one of the most hilarious science fiction novels ever written. Frederic Brown (1906-72), who had spoofed space opera with What Mad Universe in 1949,…
How The West Was Weird: Campfire Tales edited by Russ Anderson, Jr. The old west is a perfect setting for horror tales. Isolated farmhouses, a mysterious stranger dragging a coffin, a hero who cannot be…
Published in 1959, the same year Hawaii became the fiftieth state in the union (as in Hawaii Five-O), this is the first of Michener’s big door-stopper books. It launched his successful career and made him…
By Tim Powers. I’ve been a big fan of Tim Powers’ urban and historical fantasy books since I read The Anubis Gates back in 1984. Powers was part of a California group of writers that…
