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October 29, 2002
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Sign up to the Pulp Rack mailing list to be notified of updates to the site. Once a week or so, you'll receive an email from The Pulp Rack proprietor letting you know about news and the latest updates to the site.Posted by ds at 01:51 PM | Comments (1)
Cowboy Music
Fans of Western Pulps might like information on where Cowboy or Western Music is still available. I'm not talking about what passes for so-called "Country" on most of today's homogenized FM stations, but genuine Western music, by Western artists. There's nothing better than sitting back with a Western story while cowboy songs play in the background.Posted by ds at 01:23 PM | Comments (3)
October 28, 2002
The Comanche's Ghost: Western Pulp Lives
If you like the sort of western stories that hark to the days of fast-action pulp magazines; to the solidly entertaining B movies in which heroes were heroes, no matter what sort of crises they faced; then the western novels of Howard Hopkins are for you.Posted by ds at 05:51 PM | Comments (0)
October 23, 2002
"Team Work"
It's a light but fun piece of reading -- don't be turned off just because it appeared in a romance magazine.Posted by ds at 04:17 PM | Comments (0)
Link and Listen
A list of online radio stations to provide a soundtrack for your reading experiences.Posted by ds at 12:13 PM | Comments (0)
October 21, 2002
Photo-Biblio: 1937 (a)
A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1937.Posted by ds at 05:28 PM | Comments (0)
Talbot Mundy: The Gault Papers
The following information was originally compiled and posted to the Internet by the late R.T. "Ditch" Gault under the title "Bibliographic Information on Talbot Mundy's Tibetan, Jimgrim, and Tros Story Series." Thanks to Carl William Thiel, I'm able to present it here.Posted by ds at 03:22 PM | Comments (0)
Repairman Jack: The Tomb
Repairman Jack is an excellent updating of the pulp vigilante character. Like Andrew Vachss' series character Burke, Jack lives between the lines of the infrastructural grid that makes up modern life in these United States.Posted by ds at 02:48 PM | Comments (0)
October 20, 2002
Photo-Biblio: 1937 (b)
A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1937.Posted by ds at 05:10 PM | Comments (0)
October 19, 2002
Photo-Biblio: 1937 (c)
A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1937.Posted by ds at 04:53 PM | Comments (0)
October 18, 2002
Photo-Biblio: 1938 (a)
A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1938.Posted by ds at 01:53 PM | Comments (0)
Listen While You Read
Listening to music while reading has always been a double pleasure to me. I expect there are others out there who can claim the same. So it made sense to add a list of online radio links to the site.Posted by ds at 11:37 AM | Comments (2)
October 17, 2002
Photo-Biblio: 1938 (b)
A further visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1938.Posted by ds at 02:04 PM | Comments (0)
October 16, 2002
Photo-Biblio: 1939
A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1939.Posted by ds at 03:48 PM | Comments (0)
Mundy's Tibetan Stories
The Gault Papers: The following information was compiled and posted to the Internet by the late R.T. "Ditch" Gault. Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon in 1879) was one of the most interesting and colorful of the writers during the great age of adventure pulp fiction.Posted by ds at 03:32 PM | Comments (2)
October 15, 2002
Seltzer's Take on Tom Horn
The popularity of Owen Wister's The Virginian opened up the western story field as a viable literary market for writers. For its contemporary readers and critics, it raised the level of the western from the adolescent western fantasies presented in...Posted by ds at 05:28 PM | Comments (0)
Mundy's Jimgrim Saga
Stories concerning James Grim (Jimgrim) formed the longest sustained series written by Talbot Mundy. The series ran from 1922 until 1932. Jimgrim supposedly died in Jimgrim (1930-31). Mundy did not take this seriously...Posted by ds at 04:33 PM | Comments (4)
Photo-Bibliography: 1940
A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1940.Posted by ds at 03:01 PM | Comments (0)
Harold Lamb's Grand Cham
Steve Young examines this Harold Lamb novel from a historical standpoint.Posted by ds at 02:54 PM | Comments (1)
October 14, 2002
Reviving Hammet's Flitcraft
When John Carroll Daly came along and shook up the mystery fiction field with "Three-Gun Terry" in the May 15, 1923 issue of Black Mask and with his series private eye, Race Williams, things changed quickly. Dashiell Hammett quickly followed...Posted by ds at 04:26 PM | Comments (1)
Mundy's Tros Saga
The saga of Tros of Samothrace is the most unified and sustained of Talbot Mundy's extended works. It is probably his best-remembered and most influential series, especially among science fiction and fantasy writers, who borrowed much from the cycle.Posted by ds at 01:13 PM | Comments (1)
Photo-Biblio: 1941
A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1941.Posted by ds at 11:43 AM | Comments (0)
October 13, 2002
Photo-Biblio: 1942
A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1942.Posted by ds at 03:29 PM | Comments (0)
Omnibus Editions & Nonfiction
The information that follows wrapped up Gault's bibliographic material on Mundy. It appeared at the end of his other citations and comments. I've set it apart from the other sections, as its focus differs slightly from that of the other bibliographic areas he developed.Posted by ds at 02:27 PM | Comments (0)
October 12, 2002
Photo-Biblio: 1944
A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1944.Posted by ds at 01:59 PM | Comments (0)
October 11, 2002
Photo-Biblio: 1948
A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1948.Posted by ds at 01:57 PM | Comments (0)
October 10, 2002
Photo-Biblio: 1949
A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1949.Posted by ds at 01:55 PM | Comments (0)
October 09, 2002
Man From Wyoming
The great value of this volume is in the marvelous Foreword by editor Jon Tuska that provides a short critical biography of author Coolidge (1873-1940) and serves as an excellent introduction to this writer and his work.Posted by ds at 03:56 PM | Comments (0)
Photo-Bibliography: 1950
A visual representation for the Faust works that appeared in magazines in 1950.Posted by ds at 01:51 PM | Comments (0)
October 07, 2002
Mexico's Pulp Private Eye
You could easily move from the tired-but-tough detectives of the 1940s to this turn-of-the-millennium practitioner and still recognize the Tarnished P.I. Knight-Errant figure. Frontera Dreams is Paco Ignacio Taibo II's seventh story featuring Mexico City private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne....Posted by ds at 05:22 PM | Comments (2)
Ancient Viking Pulp
Norse folklore and stories have inspired writers and artists for many years. I can imagine H. Bedford-Jones reading Egil's Saga with an eye turned toward writing a serial about Viking raiders for Argosy or Blue Book.Posted by ds at 04:08 PM | Comments (0)
October 02, 2002
Dean Cornwell
Dean Cornwell: Dean of Illustrators by Patricia Janis Broder, published by Collector's Press. Reprint of 1978 edition, with new preface. 238 pages. This big book is a beauty.Posted by ds at 12:44 PM | Comments (0)
