Eric's love affair with the subgenre of horror slashers is on display with a video review of the 1983 Pinnacle paperback, Joyride . Chec...

A master of blending horror with razor-sharp humor, Jeff Strand has carved out a unique niche in the genre with stories that are as unsett...

My monthly review of an Arthur Catherall book continues. I've become quite fond of the British author and his nautical adventure ficti...

This podcast episode features William R. Cox, a prolific author of over 1,000 pulp stories known for his crime-fiction, sports, and western ...

In March of 1969, Pinnacle published a paperback titled War Against the Mafia . It was written by Don Pendleton (1927-1995), a U.S. Navy ve...

One year before Bram Stoker's penultimate work, Dracula , his short story “The Burial of the Rats” (1896) was published in Lloyd's W...

H.P. Lovecraft's serial “The Lurking Fear” was originally published between January and April 1923 in Home Brew . The stories appeared ...

S. Craig Zahler (born January 23, 1973, in Miami, Florida) is a multi-talented artist: a screenwriter, film director, composer, cinematogra...

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...