Tag Archives: horror

Pulp Consumption: True Detective (Season 1)

Posted on July 31, 2017 by

True Detective was[1] a short-lived HBO anthology series, with each season covering a different plot, sort of like American Horror Story on FX. That’s where the comparisons with the longer-lived show end. True Detective combines multiple sub-genres within pulp, including … Continue reading →

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Issue 2 Now Available!

Posted on July 17, 2017 by

That’s right folks, the second issue of Broadswords and Blasters is now live and ready for purchase. Grab your hard copy here, or if you’d rather get your pulp dead tree free, well, that’s available too. And while we are … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: Sandman Slim

Posted on June 19, 2017 by

Alright, admittedly, on the surface Richard Kadrey’s anti-hero James Stark might seem an odd fit for a pulp appeal article, what with him being a supernatural vigilante-type in an ostensibly urban fantasy setting. Scratch the surface though, and what you … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: Randolph Carter

Posted on April 24, 2017 by

Howard Phillips Lovecraft is a polarizing figure.1 His fiction lives on for us mainly because of the anthologizing and reprinting of his stories that was done mostly by August Derleth in the years after Lovecraft’s untimely death at the age … Continue reading →

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