New Releases
Bookery’s Guide to Pulps & Related Magazines
Recent years have seen a massive upsurge of interest in vintage pulp-fiction magazines. Attracted to the outré stories and lurid covers that many such periodicals sported, a new generation of collectors has taken to “the bloody pulps.” As a result, prices of these fragile collectibles have soared—especially at auction. In January 2024 Heritage Auctions sold […]
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Blood ‘n’ Thunder 2025 Special Edition
This issue will be of special interest to fans of The Shadow, Doc Savage, and their respective creators. Pulp historian and novelist Will Murray tells the complete story behind “The Golden Vulture,” a Shadow novel originally written by Doc Savage scribe Lester Dent in 1932 but shelved for six years until being revised by Walter […]
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The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction: 2024 Edition
The top-selling, best-reviewed title in Murania Press history is now available in a newly revised and expanded 2024 edition! With nearly 3000 copies in print, sold in 23 countries, The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction has been acclaimed one of the foremost (the foremost, in the opinion of some) reference books covering 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 The all-star contributor lineup includes the late Robert Sampson (with a previously unpublished essay on gangster pulps) and Ron Goulart (on his personal relationship with legendary crime-fiction writer Cornell Woolrich), […]
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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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When Dracula Met Frankenstein
In 1968 two ambitious young filmmakers, working on a shoestring, made a movie about a ruthless motorcycle gang. Titled Satan’s Sadists, it became the initial release of their new company, Independent-International Pictures, and was wildly profitable. Over the next two decades Sam Sherman and Al Adamson collaborated on a succession of low-budget films that attracted […]
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Blood ‘n’ Thunder, Second Series, Number Two
The second issue of the revived Blood ‘n’ Thunder opens with a special section devoted to Jimmie Dale, alias the Gray Seal, Frank L. Packard’s World War I-vintage protagonist whose adventures in Street & Smith’s People’s Magazine presaged the Depression-era hero-pulp phenomenon. Award-winning writer, editor, documentarian, and pop-culture historian Don Hutchison makes his first appearance […]
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The Spook Hills Mystery
What haunts the eerie “Spook Hills” of Idaho? What supernatural force endangers local ranchers? The Sunbeam Ranch, south of the Snake River country, is a cattle outfit operating in close proximity to sheepmen. That’s usually a recipe for disaster, but the usual squabbles over water and grazing land aren’t the biggest problems facing this district. […]
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Fur Pirates
A fortune in stolen furs, secreted in the Canadian Northwest for 20 years, is avidly sought by rival factions! In the wilderness fringing the great Carcajou River, 18-year-old Bob Cory joins recovering invalid Jim Dunleath and a wealthy Eastern sportsman named Fothergill on the quest to uncover $100,000 in stolen pelts cached 20 years before […]
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