Pulp Spotlight – New Pulp Tales

The Pulpy Prehistory of the The Thing III – The Thing from Another World

September 14, 2022September 14, 2022 Featured, Pulp Spotlight At the Mountains of Madness, David Henry, H.P. Lovecraft, Howard Hawks, John Carpenter, John W Campbell, Lovecraftian, pulp spotlight, The Thing, The Thing from Another World, Who Goes There?

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

The Pulpy Prehistory of The Thing II – Who Goes There?

September 7, 2022September 7, 2022 Featured, Pulp Spotlight At the Mountains of Madness, David Henry, H.P. Lovecraft, John Carpenter, John W Campbell, Lovecraftian, pulp spotlight, Shoggoth, The Thing, 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

The Pulpy Prehistory of The Thing I – At the Mountains of Madness

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 Featured, Pulp Spotlight At the Mountains of Madness, David Henry, H.P. Lovecraft, John Carpenter, Lovecraftian, pulp spotlight, Shoggoth, The Thing

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

Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep

August 24, 2022August 23, 2022 Column, Featured, Pulp Spotlight #detective, mystery, Raymond Chandler, 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

Darkhorse Comics App Reviewed

March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 Featured, Pulp Spotlight Darkhorse Comics, Darkhorse Comics App, DC Comics, EC Comics, Marvel Comics

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

The Shadow: The First Dark Knight

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 Column, Featured, Pulp Spotlight Maxwell Grant, pulp spotlight, Samuel Langland, The Shadow, Walter B. Gibson

The Shadow, though not obscure, is probably lodged in most people’s memories with other “second-tier” vigilantes and masks of yesteryear—Doc Savage, The Phantom, The Spider, Black Mask, Green Hornet, and so

The Whole Wide World

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 Featured, Pulp Spotlight Dan Ireland, Novalyne Price Ellis, pulp spotlight, Renee Zellweger, Robert E. Howard, The Whole Wide World, Vincent D'Onofrio

After my recent trip to Robert E. Howard’s home in Cross Plains Texas, I was motivated to watch The Whole Wide World. This movie is based on One Who Walked Alone, a memoir by Novalyne

Visiting the Robert E. Howard Museum

July 17, 2021July 17, 2021 Featured, Pulp Spotlight Conan the Barbarian, Kull, Marvel Comics, pulp spotlight, Robert E. Howard, Soloman Kane, Sword and Sorcery

One of pulp fiction’s most famous spots resides in the heart of Texas. I and fellow New Pulp Tales writer, Eric Skowronski, took a pilgrimage there on Thursday, July 8th. For me, I flew from

John Carter: A Cornerstone of Pulp

September 12, 2019December 13, 2020 Column, Pulp Spotlight edgar rice burroughs, Jeremiah Dylan Cook, john carter, pulp spotlight

As with Finn J.D. John’s other annotated omnibus that I devoured, Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian, The John Carter Trilogy was a pleasure to imbibe. Since I was traveling in August, I listened

Conan’s Weird Tales

July 16, 2019August 23, 2021 Column, Pulp Spotlight Conan the Barbarian, Finn J.D. John, Hyperborean Age, J.R.R. Tolkien, Middle-earth, Robert E. Howard, Soloman Kane, Sword and Sorcery

As seen in our very first Pulp Spotlight, we enjoy a good Conan story. In today’s Pulp Spotlight is Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian: The Complete Weird Tales Omnibus, compiled and edited by