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Tag Archives: golden age of pulp
Pulp Consumption: Jules de Grandin
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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Tagged classic pulp, detective, golden age of pulp, occult, Seabury Quinn
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Pulp Appeal: The Green Hornet
“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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Tagged Bruce Lee, Chris Roberson, golden age of pulp, inspiration, radio, The Green Hornet, tropes, two-fisted action
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Pulp Appeal: Jirel of Joiry
C.L. Moore, stands out as one of the godparents of sword and sorcery and science-fiction, and nowhere is this more apparent than in her creation, Jirel of Joiry. Jirel stands out for several reasons as a character of the Golden … Continue reading
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Tagged c.l. moore, classic pulp, female hero, golden age of pulp, jirel of joiry, sword and sorcery, weird tales
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Pulp Appeal: Dashiell Hammett
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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Tagged Dashiell Hammett, detective, golden age of pulp, hard-boiled, influence, magazine, pulp fiction, radio
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