Author Archives: Cameron Mount

Pulp Consumption: The Big Book of Hap and Leonard

Posted on August 13, 2018

A few weeks ago I picked up a Kindle collection of Joe R. Lansdale’s, appropriately titled The Big Book of Hap and Leonard. Matt Spencer wrote an article for us about the characters Hap Collins, a liberal former hippie who … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: John Carpenter’s They Live

Posted on August 6, 2018

A pair of mysterious sunglasses, secret messages hiding in advertising, a weird religious cult preaching about the overthrow of a government, and aliens? That’s John Carpenter’s They Live at its core. The film, starring former WWE superstar “Rowdy” Roddy Piper … Continue reading →

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Pulp Consumption: Jules de Grandin

Posted on July 23, 2018

Last month Horror on the Links, a collection of Seabury Quinn’s detective stories featuring Jules de Grandin, went on sale on Amazon for an amazingly low price. As a fan of Weird Tales and pulp fiction in general, of course … Continue reading →

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Pulp Consumption: Playback

Posted on July 9, 2018

Raymond Chandler is one of the foundational authors of noir. His Philip Marlowe is the quintessential hardboiled private investigator, a character Chandler rode until Marlowe seemed to become a pastiche of himself. This is not to say the acclaim Chandler … Continue reading →

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Pulp Consumption: Fletch

Posted on June 25, 2018

We talk a lot about movies and tv shows here, and you might think we don’t read much pulp, but we do and are. Both Matt and I recently picked up a collection of Seabury Quinn’s Jules de Grandin stories … Continue reading →

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Pulp Consumption: Sneaky Pete

Posted on June 11, 2018

If you’re a con man who has been recently paroled but people you conned are out to get you, what do you do? Maybe you assume a new identity and ply your conjob skills on other people. That’s exactly what … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: The Green Hornet

Posted on May 28, 2018

“The Green Hornet – He hunts the biggest of all game, the public officials that even the G-men cannot reach!” Thus starts the half-hour-long radio serial about a millionaire playboy with a crime-and-corruption fighting secret identity, The Green Hornet. The … Continue reading →

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