STUNT-MAN The Autobiography of Yakima Canutt With Oliver Drake Walker Publishing Company Published 1979 237 pages Having been a fan of the movie serials for most of my life, I was familiar with Yakima Canutt; considered by many to be the most famous stunt man of them all. Sometime in
CIRCLING THE RUNWAY A Jake Diamond Mystery By J.L. Abramo Down & Books 242 pgs We generally do not enjoy books wherein the writer moves back and forth between first and third person narratives. Most of the time these shifts are jarring in that the reader, safely ensconced in the
BARBARIANS ON BIKES Bikers & Motorcycle Gangs in Men’s Pulp Adventure Magazines Edited by Robert Deis & Wyatt Doyle A New Texture Book 116 pgs Even since appearing on the pulp scene a few years ago, Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle have done a truly wonderful job of educating the
SINGULARITY Rise of the Posthumans Edited by Jaime Ramos & Wayne Carey Pro Se Press 164 pgs. Shared world anthologies are always fascinating and at the same time a really challenge to pull off properly. In this wonderful book from Pro Se Press, editors Jaime Ramos and Wayne Carey have
THE MYTH HUNTER Curse of the Necronomicon By Percival Constantine Nifty Entertainment 145 pgs Of the various series created by new pulp scribe Percival Constantine, our favorite is his Myth Hunter books starring beautiful Elisa Hill; a trained archeologist who travels the globe in search of arcane artifacts often believed
THE MIDNIGHT GUARDIAN (Hour of Darkness) By John C. Bruening Flinch! Books 408 pages The traditional classic pulp novels that appeared in the 30s magazines generally ran 60,000 words. In them one would find a fast paced narrative that would explode across the pages in colorful, purple prose. Over time
CRIMSON SHORE A Pendergast Novel By Preston & Child Grand Central Publishing 370 pages Whenever people ask us what is the best New Pulp Fiction being published today, we’ll invariably point them to the Agent Pendergast novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. In the same way Clive Cussler’s Dirk
FIGHT CARD – SHERLOCK HOLMES A CONGRESSION OF PALLBEARERS By Andrew Salmon Fight Card 133 pgs This is the final entry in the Fight Card Sherlock Holmes trilogy as written by Canadian pulpster, Andrew Salmon. No stranger to Holmes and Watson, Salmon’s stories of the Great Detective have earned him
SHERLOCK HOLMES – DOMINO LADY Edited by Joe Gentile Moonstone Press 120 pages Normally we don’t care for “hybrid” publications. By that we refer to books that have comics strips and prose stories mixed together between two covers; neither a full out graphic novel or a traditional prose anthology. And
THE IMMORALITY ENGINE By George Mann Tor Books 347 pages It would be nice if publishers were uniform in how they dispensed their titles to reviewers but alas, that is not the case. Rather they simply hand copies to various marketing associates in their home offices and these men and
TALES FROM THE FLIP-SIDE The Adventures of Big Daddy Cool & The Bombshell Kittens By John Pyka Pros Se Press 169 pages When our colleague and fellow reviewer, Tommy Hancock, handed us a copy of this book and said, “It has everything from Nazis vampires to flying cars!” We knew
THE QUEEN’S MARKSMAN By Theresa M. Moore Antellus Books (www.antellus.com) 285 pages In 1878, young Robert St. John, a descendant of the fabled Earl of Loxley, aka Robin Hood, joins the army to fight in Afghanistan. On the journey east via the Orient Express with the new recruits, he encounters
