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Now, THIS Is A Fan Letter….
It’s always great to get feedback from readers of Murania Press publications, although much of it comes in the form of terse e-mails or brief notes accompanying subscription renewals (“Keep up the good work” . . . “Loved the last issue”). But every now and then I get a hum-dinger of a letter. One such […]
READ MORE >>PulpFest 2013 Plans Are Underway
The PulpFest committee is delighted to announce that our 2013 convention will once again be held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Next year the confab will take place from Thursday, July 25th, through Sunday, July 28th. It will boast the same combination of product and programming that has made PulpFest the […]
READ MORE >>A. Merritt’s BURN WITCH BURN, MGM’s Film Version, THE DEVIL DOLL
I enjoy comparing famous fictional works to films adapted from them. Over the weekend I revisited A. Merritt’s Burn, Witch, Burn! (1932) for the first time in more than 30 years. I finished re-reading it on Monday night, so last night I screened The Devil-Doll, its 1936 movie version, for the first time in nearly […]
READ MORE >>DIME DETECTIVE’s First Issue
In 1930 Harry Steeger and Harold S. Goldsmith launched their Popular Publications line of pulp magazines with four titles: Battle Aces, Detective Action Stories, Gang World, and Western Rangers. Popular’s initial offerings enjoyed varying degrees of success, but it wasn’t until the following year that the new company really hit pay dirt. Newsstands across the […]
READ MORE >>Catching My Breath
I’m sorry I haven’t posted here more regularly of late, but it’s been busy around here. Real busy. In recent weeks my time has been monopolized by the latest edition of Lone Pine in the Movies, an annual magazine I produce for the Lone Pine Film Festival. As some of you know, I’ve been an […]
READ MORE >>Three-Day Overstock Sale!
I’ve got a case of Murania Press books left over from last month’s PulpFest, and I’m going to try an experiment by discounting the three titles for which I have extra copies. So for the next three and a half days — until midnight on Monday, September 10 — I’m offering Barehanded Castaways and Blood […]
READ MORE >>Update: Collectibles for Sale
I finally managed to finish posting the new sales items I intended to upload this past weekend. There are a couple dozen fresh listings — vintage pulps, paperbacks and hardcovers. Robert E. Howard, Sax Rohmer, H. Bedford-Jones, Maxwell Grant, Arthur O. Friel, and Clarence E. Mulford are just some of the authors who are represented […]
READ MORE >>The Shadow Strikes . . . 75 Years Later!
Seventy-five years ago, Grand National Films — a small Hollywood studio — released The Shadow Strikes, the initial entry in what was intended to be a series of four feature-length films adapted from the pulp-fiction adventures of Walter B. Gibson’s legendary crime fighter. The character had previously appeared in six 20-minute featurettes released by Universal […]
READ MORE >>The Return of Pulp AdventureCon
Rich Harvey’s Pulp AdventureCon, traditionally the year’s final gathering of pulp and paper collectors in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, will be held on Saturday, November 10, at its usual location: the Ramada Inn on Route 206 in Bordentown, New Jersey. Most if not all Pulp AdventureCon attendees drive to Rich’s show, and the Ramada Inn […]
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- Now Available: When Dracula Met Frankenstein
- Collectibles Section Update
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