The Pulp Archivist

  Originally written on 19 March 2022 for the Castalia House Blog .

First posted at the Castalia House Blog on 13 March 2022. “Race, you’re one in a million of your kind–and I guess that I am one in a millio...

  Originally written for the Bizarchives on 5 March 2022.

  Originally written for the Bizarchives on 27 February 2022.

  Originally written for the Bizarchives on 13 February 2022. Tarzan. John Carter. Zorro. Any magazine that published all three of these pul...

 Originally written for the Bizarchives on 6 February 2022.

Robert E. Howard is best known for his sword and sorcery tales, and his heroes Conan and Krull. But Howard wrote more stories of Sailor Stev...

Love at first sight turns into a love that transcends the cosmos in Julian Hawthorne’s lost pulp romance,   The Cosmic Courtship . 1917’s Ar...

First published in The Howard Collector, Spring 1967, "The Curse of the Golden Skull" , by Robert E. Howard, resembles a prose ...

One of the delights in reading the pulps is being able to trace various sources of inspiration, such as Manly Wade Wellman's wild west...

2004's Pulp Fictioneers , a collection of Writer's Digest columns reprinted by John Locke, contains a wonderful little essay on th...

Just a short snipper today, a quote from Adventure Magazine's earliest days which sums up much about the pulp age: The first issue o...

In 1950, towards the end of Weird Tales 's run, yet just before his first John the Balladeer story, Manly Wade Wellman turned to the f...

In 1939, while science fiction was on the cusp of its first successful bid for recognition, a small fanzine, Futuria Fantasia , presented th...

As part of the 100th anniversary of Black Mask , Steeger Books recently announced that they will be premiering the first six titles of a n...

Whether in life or in the pulps, old soldiers tell some of the greatest tales. And, in the pages of Argosy, from 1929 to 1939, there were ...

For the King or for Richelieu?--that question had to be answered at one time or another by every young 17th Century Frenchman. But ill-a...

Radio operator Peter Moore, the man of brass and later to be called Peter the Brazen, gets caught up in Chinese intrigues in "A Pri...

The Shadow cleans up Chicago in Gangdom's Doom , the fifth Shadow novella.  Inspired by the April 1931 Chicago election, The Sha...

W. C. Tuttle 's Henry Harrison Conroy is a lesser-known pulp character. A quick Google search finds pirate sites carrying his storie...