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September 23, 2007

The Pulp Rack's Book Rack

A centralized location as part of The Pulp Rack site to check out further details or purchase a book mentioned in an article here.

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September 06, 2007

Christopher's Ghosts: Charles McCarry's Continuing Pulp Tradition

Charles McCarry is a contemporary writer keeping alive the traditions of realistic pulp writing as it was practiced in magazines like Adventure and Blue Book. I find a difference between McCarry’s work and other contemporary pulp adventure writing in the ways the writers go about representing their stories in reality.

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September 02, 2007

At the Mountains of Madness: 2001

Edgar Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym initially presents itself as a true account of an actual sea voyage, and H.P. Lovecraft attempts to ground “At the Mountains of Madness” in the real world with a seemingly realistic account of an expedition to the Transantarctic Mountains. Mountains of Madness, by John Long, flips the card by being an actual account of fossil-hunting fieldwork in those mountains.

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