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January 31, 2007

Manly Wade Wellman's Sergeant Jaeger Stories

Contrary to how the Black Mask style as practiced by Dashiell Hammett and his hard-boiled confreres seemed to influence so pervasively popular fiction writing in the United States — Hammett's staccato, fast-moving style became common in the hero pulps, among some western and science fiction writers, and nearly the de facto style of Gold Medal authors and others during the paperback original novel boom — the horror tale and weird tale typically kept a more lush style because of the Weird Tales genre's reliance on atmosphere and building up of sensation.

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January 30, 2007

Adventure! -- New Pulp with a Genuine Retro Heart

There’s some fun here, and quite a good portion of entertaining and enjoyable reading — all of it meeting the criteria for pulpish adventure fiction.

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January 29, 2007

"Wood on the Snow" -- a Review

Burrowing into a story by Ryerson Johnson is usually a comforting experience—"Johnny" was a solid storyteller who could seemingly weave a tale from the smallest incidents, tell it with style in such a way to capture a reader, and wrap it up with a satisfying ending. So it is with "Wood on the Snow."

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