The August 1930 issue of Weird Tales featured a Robert E. Howard story titled “The Hills of the Dead”. It starred Howard's Puritan her...

Back on Episode 67 of the Paperback Warrior Podcast , we examined the life and literary works of a mysterious female pulp writer named All...

Lawrence Treat (1903-1998) was one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America, and served as the association's president and dire...

Frank Richardson Pierce (1887-1966) wrote over 1,500 stories for pulps and glossy magazines in his 50-year career. While using his own name,...

“The Brotherhood of Blood”, authored by Hugh B. Cave, was first published by Weird Tales in the May 1932 issue, alongside other notable fri...

There's three characters that appear occasionally in Robert E. Howard's horror stories: Conrad , Kirowan , and O'Donnel . Some...

Dust of Death was the lead story in the October 1935 issue of Doc Savage . It was authored by Harold A. Davis, filling in for the title...

Conan the Wanderer was first published by Lancer Books in 1968. The painted cover was created by John Duillo, who also created the cover fo...

Charles Boeckman (1920-2015) authored stories for digests and pulps like Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine , Detective Tales , All-St...

First published in Secret Agent X magazine in 1934, The Torture Trust introduced pulp readers to the mysterious figure known only as Secre...

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

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

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...

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

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...