AMAZING! ASTONISHING! WEIRD! The Complete Pulp Covers Vol. 2 By Todd Frye Self-Published Mail@ToddFrye.Org Also available at Amazon. Having come to pulp fandom via the comic book route, we’ve always had a strong appreciation for the art of the pulps. From their being filled with beautifully rendered pen and ink
MURDER NEVER KNOCKS By Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins Titan Books 249 pages All Mike Hammer mysteries contain a fair amount of action, gun battles and bloodshed but at the moment we’re having a really hard time thinking of another one that comes this saturated with violence. From the
THE NANON FACTOR By Wayne Carey A Leo Book 341 pgs So this fellow named Carey sends us a copy of his first book, “The Nanon Factor,” to read and review. Upon starting the novel, we realize it features animals that have had their intelligence heightened by injections nano-molecules. A
WORLD, CHASE ME DOWN By Andrew Hilleman Penguin Books 332 pgs At the turn of the century, Pat Crowe and an associate kidnapped the teenage son of one of the wealthiest meatpacking tycoons of Ohmaha, Nebraska, Edward Cudahy. The they were paid twenty-five thousands dollars in gold coins as a
NIGHTSCAPE Edited by David W. Edwards Part One – by Derrick Ferguson & David W.Edwards Part Two – by Arlen M.Todd Imperiad Entertainment 299 pages What we have here is a title with two different pulp actioners; both edited by David W.Edwards. Thus will give you or take on each
CUT ME IN By Ed McBain Hard Case Crime 237 pages As a high school student in the early 1960s, we discovered the paperback crime fiction of writer Ed McBain and instantly became enamored of his enormous talent. He was and remains to this very day our favorite author. “Cut
NEED MORE ROAD By Stephen Jared Soltice Publishin 202 pages Stephen Jared is one of the more promising voices in New Pulp fiction working today and his past titles have shown a real flare for both heroic adventure and tightly plotted noir crime thrilles. Whereas with “Need More Road,” he
BANSHEES By Mike Baron WordFire Press 401 pages Since turning his considerable talents to prose, Eisner Award winning comicbook writer Mike Baron has been knocking out some fantastic over-the-top fiction. Among these is “Banshees,” a horror fantasy set squarely in the world of rock and roll and its tale is
VIC CHALLENGER – FAST! By Jerry Gill Ann Darrow Co. 203 pages (http://www.vicplanet.com/) The old adage about not judging a book by its cover has never been more valid than with this particular paperback novel. But we’ll get to that aspect at the end of our review. We’d much rather
SENTINELS : THE DARK CRUSADE By Van Allen Plexico White Rocket Books 206 pages If, like this reviewer, you are a fan of Van Plexico’s star spanning superhero saga, The Sentinels, then the arrival of this book, the eight in the series, was a much anticipated reading pleasure. Of course
THE BODY SNATCHERS AFFAIR A Carpenter & Quincannon Mystery By Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini Forge Books 219 pages This is the second Carpenter & Quincannon mystery we’ve had the pleasure of reading and are eager to point you in its direction. Authors Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini are both
THE DAMP FEDORA By Kate Pilarcik Down & Out Books 114 pgs Stream of consciousness writing is the process by which a writer jots down words faster than the output of a Thompson submachine gun. It is not easy to do, as often what ends up on the paper is
