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SHORT STORIES (25 April 1933) pulp magazine
Short Stories (1933 April 25) What I love about this issue of SHORT STORIES is it includes a full-page map of the world, pointing out where each enclosed story takes place. It’s a fairly cool concept,...
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The Laughing Cowboy by N. Wesley Firth
The Laughing Cowboy is a digest-paperback published by Grant Hughes in 1949 and features cover art by James McConnell. The cover story spans pages 3 to 75 and carries the Bert Forde byline; the filler...
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LET THE LADY DIE by Bevis Winter (the 6th Steve Craig detective thriller)
Let the Lady Die is the sixth (of 9) Steve Craig private-eye thrillers. This was published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd. in 1957. Text begins on page 9 and culminates on page 192. The jacket cover art is...
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Six Gun Pay-Off by Zed Montana
SIX GUN PAY-OFF by Zed Montana Six Gun Pay-Off (sic, “six-gun”) by Zed Montana was published by Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd and sports a cover illustration by Denis McLoughlin. No date. Appearing...
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Top-Notch magazine, 1935 featuring “The Blood of the Gods”— Robert E....
This is the July 1935 Canadian edition of Top-Notch magazine, identically mirroring the fiction contents of the American edition of the same date. The Canadian print run would be vastly lower, making...
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Apache Trail by A. A. Glynn (UK: John Spencer, 1956)
Published by John Spencer & Co. late 1956, Apache Trail by A. A. Glynn is #17 in the Blazing Western Series. The cover art is by Ray Theobald. The Apache Indian standing erect on the cover is...
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The Adventures of The Black Pilgrim by George Stanley (1945)
The Adventures of The Black Pilgrim by George Stanley (UK: Modern Fiction Ltd., 1945) Published circa September 1945 (per Whitaker’s Index) by Modern Fiction Ltd. (UK) is The Adventures of The Black...
View ArticlePulp fiction author Francis P. Verzani
Francis P. Verzani cranked out over 3 dozen short stories during the 1930s, a veritable fiction factory for Western Trails magazine. But first: who was Francis P. Verzani? And second: what happened to...
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PHANTOM [Vol. 1 No. 4, July 1957] a weird stories magazine
Dalrow Publishing released the fourth Phantom magazine on July 1957; this issue marks the earliest known involvement of American supernatural stories reprinted here. The stories likely were sold to...
View ArticlePulp fiction author Roland Krebs
Recently I posted a blog about pulpster Francis P. Verzani, despondent because I couldn’t locate much online about the fellow. Well, color me surprised to be doing it again. Roland Krebs was born 18...
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