Tag Archives: detective

Pulp Consumption: Jules de Grandin

Posted on July 23, 2018 by

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: Psych

Posted on January 1, 2018 by

HAPPY NEW YEAR! One aspect of pulp both Matt and I haven’t really touched upon is humor. Pulp is often thought of as being a serious genre, and since so much of it is focused on grit, violence, and noir … Continue reading →

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Pulp Consumption: Justified

Posted on December 25, 2017 by

Long Hard Times to Come JUSTIFIED was a law-and-crime show that ran for six seasons on FX, and starred Timothy Olyphant as US Marshall Raylan Givens and Walton Goggins as the criminal Boyd Crowder. The show was based off characters … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: Erle Stanley Gardner

Posted on May 22, 2017 by

You can’t read pulp fiction, particularly gumshoe detective stories, without stumbling across Erle Stanley Gardner. The guy was such a prolific writer that the eighty, yes EIGHTY, novels he wrote featuring his most famous character, Perry Mason, don’t even account … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: Dashiell Hammett

Posted on March 27, 2017 by

Dashiell Hammett lived the life of a hard-boiled detective before he created one of his own. His Continental Op character was one of the most popular detectives of the 1920s pulp fiction era. Hammett’s work with the Op and other … Continue reading →

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