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January 29, 2009

Edgar Poe, 200 years on

2009 marks the Bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe. Given a variety of titles posthumously -- the United States first literary critic, creator of the detective story, creator of the horror story, among other things -- his was a unique talent in our country's literary history.

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January 20, 2009

Pulps at the New York Comic Con

A panel of pulp fiction a-fiction-ados will discuss Pulp Fiction at the February 6-8 New York Comic Con, courtesy of Ed Catto.

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January 17, 2009

The Longest Running Pulps

by Mike Ashley. Mike Ashley is an indefatigable bibliographer, anthologist, and historian of fiction magazines. He’s sort of a genre fiction bon vivant. Mike wrote the following article for the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society (PEAPS), a collection of pulp fiction fans, collectors, and readers. Mike very graciously provided permission to publish it here, and I am very, very happy to do so.

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January 09, 2009

Inspector Frayne, the Best-dressed Man in the Police Department

By Monte Herridge, who brings us another essay about a series character from Detective Fiction Weekly. Harold de Polo created a short-lived series about a dandy police inspector named Frayne. Frayne prides himself on being the best-dressed man in the police department and one of the best in the city. His personal assistant is a red-haired detective named Don Haggerty, who was known in the department as Frayne’s right-hand man. He did many of the basic detective chores required in investigations, such as looking over the crime scene for any interesting signs or clues. In this role, he serves as a sort of Archie Goodwin to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe.

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