Product Description: This companion volume to DISTRESSED DAMSELS AND MASKED MARAUDERS continues Ed Hulse's history of the silent-era movie serial. It covers the "chapter plays" released by such companies as Universal, Vitagraph, Mutual, Paramount, Arrow, Mascot, Rayart, and members of the Edison Trust...read more

Product Description: A pair of classic thrillers from the creator of King Kong, the Four Just Men, Mr. J. G. Reeder and other famous characters. Who is the mysterious charlatan who calls himself Jack o’ Judgment and eludes both criminals and cops alike? And in Captains of Souls, a woman’s honor is at the heart of a crime, but who will take up the cause of a man accused of murder...read more

Product Description: BLOOD 'N THUNDER #41 begins with a report on this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention. "Tricks of the Trade" offers an article by Arthur Burks, "speed merchant of the pulps," on an occupational hazard to fictioneering. "Pulp Page to Silver Screen" explores the 1931 Western TRAILIN', based on a Max Brand novel serialized in ALL-STORY WEEKLY...read more

Product Description: The motion-picture serial, routinely dismissed, overlooked, or undervalued by mainstream film historians, finally gets the attention it deserves in this meticulously researched and lovingly written book. Drawing on the well-established conventions of pulp fiction and blood-and-thunder stage melodrama, the motion-picture chapter play thrilled viewers of all ages and, more importantly, helped make moviegoing a weekly habit for millions of Americans during the Teens and Twenties...read more

Product Description: For more than a decade, BLOOD 'N' THUNDER has explored American popular culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as manifested in its mass-market fiction—dime novels, nickel weeklies, pulp magazines—and such complementary storytelling forms as stage melodramas, motion pictures, and Old Time Radio thrillers...read more

Product Description: The Financial Stability Of A Fledgling Nation Is Undermined By Ruthless River Pirates! In 1810, the still-young United States of America continues its westward expansion as a national economy begins to flourish. But the country’s commerce is seriously disrupted in Kentucky, at the juncture of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, by daring pirates who strike from nowhere and then disappear into the wilderness...read more

Product Description: A sister publication to BLOOD 'N' THUNDER, this spin-off covers motion-picture Westerns from the dawn of the silent-film era up to the present day, with a special concentration on "B" Westerns of the Thirties and Forties. The first issue, being a trial balloon, reprints material previously published in BLOOD 'N' THUNDER...read more

Product Description: The largest issue of this award-winning journal to date, Summer 2011 features an extensively researched article on Frank A. Munsey, the father of the pulp magazine. Other articles cover the early years of the Shadow radio show, the 1940 cliffhanger serial DRUMS OF FU MANCHU, a rare 1940 comic book with thinly disguised adaptations of hero-pulp novels, and the last years of legendary pulp and comic collector Bill Blackbeard...read more

Product Description: The Films of Betty Grable Book