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Doubleday’s Crime Club: The Golden Age

In 1928, the publishing house Doubleday, Doran formed a separate division to publish mystery and detective stories exclusively. The Crime Club, Inc. became an industry phenomenon, publishing nearly 2,500 books over the next 63 years. It was home to many of the genre’s most famous characters, including The Saint, Bulldog Drummond, Hildegarde Withers, and the […]

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Blood ‘n’ Thunder 2023 Special Edition

Blood ‘n’ Thunder, the award-winning journal of vintage adventure, mystery, and melodrama, enters its third decade with a book-length barnburner of pulp and pop-culture scholarship! The all-star contributor lineup includes the late Robert Sampson (with a previously unpublished essay on gangster pulps) and Ron Goulart (on his personal relationship with legendary crime-fiction writer Cornell Woolrich), […]

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The Wild West of Fiction and Film

This revised and expanded second edition maintains the first’s emphasis on the nexus of Western pulp fiction and “B” movies, with coverage of significant Western serials as well. The Wild West of Fiction and Film does not pretend to be a comprehensive narrative history; it’s strictly a collection of essays with the same general theme. […]

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Mistress of Death and Desire

Murania Press introduces its second collection of gruesome horror-pulp stories reprinted from magazines originally published in the late 1930s by Martin Goodman, who would shortly establish what became the Marvel Comics empire. Bearing his “Red Circle” trademark, Mystery Tales, Uncanny Tales, Marvel Tales, and Real Mystery were transgressive in the extreme, shattering the boundaries of good taste […]

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