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March 30, 2007
Edgar Allan Poe and the Road to Pulp Fiction
Certainly by no means is Edgar Poe considered a pulp writer, but his work influenced many who toiled in the weird tale genre, and his name is frequently linked with that of H.P. Lovecraft as a writer with a similar focus. And Poe’s stories contain elements that would later be picked up by writers for the weird menace pulps.Posted by ds at 08:37 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 24, 2007
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras: Verne Lays the Foundation for Fictional Pulp Adventures to Foreign Lands
Verne is of interest to pulp readers because, first, as one of the most translated novelists in the world, his novels take the readers to many of the locations that would later be the exotic settings for many, many pulp adventure stories.Posted by ds at 10:05 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 17, 2007
Following the "Traitor of the Natchez Trace"
"Traitor of the Natchez Trace" is actually not a north-western. Instead, it's a frontier story — not a western, really, because it's set along the Natchez Trace (thus the title) when the Mississippi River was considered The West. I enjoy tales like this, which take place outside the typical western formula and include a bit of history or cultural information as additional narrative color to create a stronger verisimilitude.Posted by ds at 10:13 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 10, 2007
Freebooters: A Pulp-Fiction Vision of Storytelling on the Comic Book Page
Barry Windsor-Smith came to comic book fame as the artist on Marvel’s Conan comic during the Robert E. Howard boom of the 1970s. A few years back he came up with a big (I mean big, as in oversize — approximately the height and width of an unfolded newspaper [a really big tabloid, like a real newspaper]) monthly comic that he wrote and drew titled Storytellers. Each issue featured one episode in each of three continuing series — “Young Gods,” a heroic fantasy series; “Timerider,” an SF series; and “Freebooters,” an S&S series.Posted by ds at 12:18 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
March 06, 2007
Bound To Please--The Lit'ry Side of Pulp Fiction
A collection of “essays on great writers and their books” may not at first seem appropriate for readers of high-energy, action-blasting pulp fiction, but be warned that Michael Dirda, a longtime writer and editor for the Washington Post Book World and 1993 recipient of the Pulitzer Price for distinguished criticism, is a great promoter of genre fiction.Posted by ds at 09:11 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
