Welcome to our first Pulp Spotlight of 2023. For first time readers, these articles consist of reviews of pulp fiction we enjoy. Today, we’re focusing our attention on Serena Jayne’s 2022 short story collection, Necessary
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The Lovecraft Adaptations in Cabinet of Curiosities
My wife and I recently had a baby, so my television time is limited these days, but I made sure to check out the H.P. Lovecraft adaptations in Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
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The Dreams in the Witch House
The second Lovecraft adaptation in the Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, a horror anthology due to come out on Netflix later this month, has its roots in the world of genuine science. In late
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Del Toro’s Model
Spooky season is upon us, and with it a slew of new ghosts and goblins on the big and small screens. Among them is Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, a horror anthology set to
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The Pulpy Prehistory of the The Thing IV – The Thing
Nothing reveals an artist’s talent quite like telling a story which has been told before. Lovecraft began a theme of alien Antarctic horror, and Campbell spun those elements into a new narrative. The Thing from
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The Pulpy Prehistory of the The Thing III – The Thing from Another World
Where John Carpenter fans might find Who Goes There? familiar, like coming home after a long absence, its 1951 adaptation is more like viewing the story through a funhouse mirror: anything recognizable is distorted, and
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The Pulpy Prehistory of The Thing II – Who Goes There?
In his long journey home, Odysseus was forced to pass between the fearsome monster, Scylla, and the vast, ship-swallowing whirlpool, Charybdis. A similar danger confronts anyone tasked with describing the origins of John W. Campbell’s
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The Pulpy Prehistory of The Thing I – At the Mountains of Madness
While magazines made of literal pulp are long gone, the spirit of the pulps is like a good movie monster–it just refuses to die. H. P. Lovecraft in particular has had a long undeath, spawning
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Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep
It's once again time to cast our gaze back to one of the greats of yesteryear. Today I'll be looking at one of the fathers of the Hardboiled Detective sub-genre: Raymond Chandler (along with one
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Darkhorse Comics App Reviewed
Hello all you pulpeteers out there! Now we all know that New Pulp Tales is the premier spot on the internet for all things pulp. We've got stories, we've got reviews, we've got ideas and
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