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sFiction (Semicolon): The Secret of Terror Castle is the first installment in The Three Investigators series of mystery detective stories, also known as Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators. The original series was published from 1964 to 1987 and comprised 43 finished books, written by at least five different authors and illustrated by a multiplicity […]
I mentioned George Shipway (1908-1982) a few weeks back as an accurate historical novelist. He had ten novels from 1968 to 1979. Three novels about Norman England, two novels about King Agamemnon, two Indian Raj novels, two political satire books, and Imperial Governor. Shipway served in the Anglo-Indian Army in the cavalry until 1946. Wallace […]
Sensor Sweep: Donald Wandrei, Overrated Science Fiction Writers, D&D
Monday , 23, December 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentWriting (Kairos): Brandon Sanderson is widely respected as a meticulous world builder, an innovative storyteller, and a prolific writer. Over the past two decades he’s made his name as a crafter of ultra-refined magic systems and dynamic characters. Games (Kairos): The AAA video game industry stands at a turning point. Facing runaway development costs, dwindling […]
The new issue of Men’s Adventure Quarterly (#11) is well timed as it deals with UFOs in the men’s adventure magazines. All the talk about drones over New Jersey the past month has included UFOs. This issue is 143 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, sub-divided into articles about UFOs in men’s magazines in the 1950s, […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 21 December 2024
Saturday , 21, December 2024 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. The Assistant (Honor of the Fleet #3) – Felix R. Savage A merciless evil is stalking the cities of the Moon. Only Siegn can unravel the mystery. Assigned to break a VR […]
Sensor Sweep: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Claw, Wulfwald
Monday , 16, December 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentComic Books (Comics Beat): Conan The Barbarian: Battle of the Black Stone is one of the biggest surprises of the year. A bloody, thrilling pulp epic, with a razor-sharp sense of atmosphere and dread, the book has gotten a lot of attention as an explosive example of what Conan stories can do at their best. […]
Arkham House founded by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei in 1939 was the greatest of the small press publishers of horror, the weird, and science fiction. Founded when the big publishers were not interested in a hardback collection of the stories of H. P. Lovecraft. Derleth and Wandrei decided to do it themselves. It was […]
Sensor Sweep: Oz, Work for Hire, Nintendo, Viking Prince
Monday , 9, December 2024 Sensor Sweep 1 CommentPastiche (Screen Rant): Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane will be featured in upcoming novels from Titan Books, and ScreenRant has a first look at what’s to come. Created by Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian and Solomon Kane first debuted nearly a century ago, with Kane first appearing in a pulp magazine in 1928 […]
The crew that has brought us Men’s Adventure Quarterly is now producing art books. The Art of Ron Lesser Vol. 2: Dangerous Dames and Cover Dolls is a brand new art book. Format is hardback, 129 pages, 8.5 x 11 inch dimensions. Joe Jusko has a foreword on how he got into collecting paperback book […]
Science Fiction and Fantasy New Releases: 7 December 2024
Saturday , 7, December 2024 Uncategorized Leave a commentEvery week, the Castalia House Blog spotlights some of the many new releases in independent, pulp, and web novel-influenced science fiction and fantasy. Express Elevator to Hell (Universes at War #1) – edited by Chris Kennedy and April Kelley Jones Attack! Attack! Attack! The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and for […]
Sensor Sweep: Gladiator 2, Raymond Chandler, Cartoons
Monday , 2, December 2024 Sensor Sweep Leave a commentWeird Tales (Fandom Pulse): It seems as if skinsuits are a popular past-time of OldPub writers who still haven’t fled the old system. Even legacy magazines from the heyday of the pulp era aren’t safe from crusaders injecting their tired politics into them, which a pulp fiction scholar noticed about Jonathan Mayberry’s revival of Weird […]
A novel I pulled out to reread is Don Tracy’s The Black Amulet. I read this decades ago and remembered liking it at the time. The novel is set in a barbaric period and I thought of another “Paperback Barbarian” entry. Don(ald Fiske) Tracy (1905-1976) was an American fiction writer who wrote for slick magazines, […]