The Pulp Rack's Eccentric Shopping List for 2007

Believe it or not, whether you imagine that Santa will shimmy down your chimney, it's time for The Pulp Rack's Eccentric Shopping List for 2007. - Read this article

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. - Read this article

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. - Read this article

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. - Read this article

The Mountains of Madness: 1931

By examining Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym we took a look at one of the authors and books that helped set the stage for pulp magazine writing in the 20th Century. It’s now appropriate to look at a work strikingly influenced -- perhaps inspired -- by Pym. - Read this article

Inspector Porky Neale: a Detective Fiction Weekly series

by Monte Herridge. Inspector Porky Neale was an interesting series by Roland Phillips that ran in DFW from about 1930-34. Porky was a nickname, and his real name was rarely if ever mentioned. - Read this article

Cities of the Fantastic: A Contemporary Series of Verne-inspired Graphic Novels

by Duane Spurlock. Jules Verne’s works continue to influence and inspire artists today. For contemporary examples, readers need only look at the graphic novels – or albums, to use the word typically given European works of this type – in the Cities of the Fantastic (Cités Obscures) series by Benoit Peeters and Francois Schuiten. Written by Peeters, who is French, and drawn by Schuiten, who is Belgian, the books in the series present a picture of the present or future as seen from the past – specifically, a future depicted according to a 19th Century extrapolation of mechanical science that is part steampunk, part world of marvels, part dystopia. The result is rather Vernian in its feel, thanks greatly to Schuiten’s art style, which suggests the engraving style used for reproducing illustrations in 19th and early 20th Century publications. Further, such consistently amazing architectural wonders haven’t been seen in the graphic storytelling form since the days of Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo. - Read this article

Talbot Mundy’s “Kitty” Stories

Mundy wrote four stories about actress/woman about town Kitty Crothers. I’m very pleased to share them here, because it’s doubtful they would find their way into print these days, as they offer settings far from the exotic locales Mundy is famous for in “Soul of a Regiment,” King—of the Khyber Rifles, and his JimGrim tales. - Read this article

"Kitty Burns Her Fingers"

by Talbot Mundy. Mundy does a very nice job -- with some chuckles along the way -- of demonstrating how trying to recreate a person in one's own image (even when it's "for their own good") usually has problematic consequences. - Read this article

Talbot Mundy: "America As Protector Of Armenia"

Georges Dodds provides this newspaper clipping about Adventure writer Mundy's views on providing assistance to Armenia as that country struggled for its independence and democratic rule following World War 1. - Read this article