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Wilderness Trail
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 […]
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Barehanded Castaways
After being shipwrecked, nine average men of varying background and experiences finally reach land. With no tools, no weapons, no supplies—not so much as a penknife or watch-crystal among them—the castaways realize they can endure their isolation only by working as a team and making ingenious use of their limited knowledge. But Nature’s most hostile […]
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The Return of Yorke Norroy
One of pulp fiction’s earliest series characters, whose adventures have been forgotten by all but a few rabid collectors of pre-World War I magazines, returns in the swashbuckling adventure story that his creator probably meant to be his last. To the world at large Yorke Norroy is a fop, a fashion-plate, a wealthy idler, a […]
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The Elixir of Hate
Aging, seriously ill doctor Granville Dennison abandons his life and practice in New York City to sail across the Atlantic on a quixotic quest. Dennison has reason to believe that an Italian physician named Pagani, living with his young niece in an old villa on the French Riviera, may have found the secret to reversing […]
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B. Typhosus Takes a Hand
Waking up in a Pullman car one morning, a man finds that he can’t remember who he is or where he is going. Before long he learns his name is Rodney Hazzard, and his destination is the small Appalachian community of South Tredegar, where he’s apparently a businessman of some importance. Embarrassed by his predicament […]
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The Abyss of Wonders
An unlikely trio of friends, believing themselves destined for adventure, leave their small American town after being visited by the mysterious representative of a lost race hidden in the Gobi Desert. He calls them “Sons of the Blue Wolf,” and claims that their coming has been foretold. The three men, believing that Fate has chosen […]
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Johnston McCulley Omnibus
Among the most prolific fictioneers ever to pound a typewriter, Johnston McCulley has earned pop-culture immortality as the creator of Zorro, who made his debut in 1919. At that time he was just one of many McCulley characters romping through the shag-edged pages of America’s pulp-fiction magazines. Most others appeared in Street & Smith’s Detective […]
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Satan Lives for My Love! — Sex and Sadism in Marvel’s Horror Pulps, 1938-1940
Before launching what would become the Marvel Comics empire, Martin Goodman published low-rent pulp magazines issued by a dizzying array of shell companies designed to insulate him from creditors. In order to compete in an already-crowded marketplace, he allowed editor-in-chief Robert O. Erisman to distinguish their periodicals with lurid covers and sensational fiction. Bearing Goodman’s […]
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Those Sexy Serial Queens
From the dawn of the sound era through the mid-1950s, action-loving moviegoers patronized their local picture palaces every week to see the latest thrill-packed episodes of their favorite chapter plays. And while they were primarily drawn to the intrepid heroes who battled dastardly villains in pursuit of lost treasures or secret formulas, they also paid […]
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