Hillary Waugh was a successful author that wrote numerous novels including a police procedural series starring a Connecticut Police Chief n...

British writer Arthur Catherall used his own name and a variety of pseudonyms to write adventure novels and stories marketed for young adul...

In this episode, Eric explores the transition of vintage pulp stories and heroes from magazine format to mass market paperbacks in the 1960s...

The tenth of the Lancer Conan paperbacks, Conan of Cimmeria , was published in 1969. The publisher reprinted it in 1970 through 1973. Ace t...

Frank Kane's   private-eye character   Johnny Liddell   appeared in 29 novels and a number of short stories in the pulps and digests. Th...

Amelia Edwards (1831-1892) was a British writer and artist that was deemed the “Godmother of Egyptology”. Her fascination with Egyptian cult...

Paul Warren Fairman (1909-1977) was the founding editor of the science-fiction magazine If and the editor of Amazing Stories , Ellery Quee...

Bruno Fisher often used the name Russell Gray or Harrison Storm to write graphic horror stories in the early to mid 20th century. Many of ...

The February 1937 issue of Weird Tales featured Robert E. Howard's horror story “Dig Me No Grave”. The iconic Texas author was paid $1...

Grover C. Gulick (1916-2013), known as Bill Gulick, wrote a ton of western stories in the pulp magazines in the 1940s and 1950s. His caree...

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote two Tarzan serials that were published in 1919 and 1920. The first was titled “Tarzan the Untamed “ (aka “Tarza...

Not much is known about pulp writer Ed Barcelo. He authored short stories in pulps like All-Story Detective , Black Mask , and Pocket Detec...

In the 1968 hardcover Red Shadows (red binding), a fragmented six-page story appeared titled “The Castle of the Devil” by Robert E. Howard ...

The September 1927 edition of Amazing Stories (illustrations by J.M. De Aragon) featured H.P. Lovecraft 's short story “The Colour Out ...

E. Hoffman Price (1898-1988) was a fictioneer of the pulps , a staple of the Weird Tales pioneers alongside Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lov...

A one time editor of Collier's magazine, Henry La Cossitt (1899-1962) also served as a deck hand on a ship and worked as a radio commen...

Norman Daniels (Norman Arthur Danberg, 1905-1995) was a prolific author that experienced tremendous success in the pulp market before crea...