Pulp Reprints

Speaking of pulp reprints, which I was a few days ago, I recently got a stack of them from my friend Brian Earl Brown, who is also the editor of PEAPS, the pulp apa. Brian publishes affordable reprints of rare and classic pulp serials under his Beb Books imprint, usually bringing out several titles each summer. This year I picked up:

TALES OF SHEENA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE, which consists of three novelets from the one-shot pulp of the same name, plus a fourth story that appeared later in JUNGLE STORIES.

A MAN NAMED JONES and LAND OF THE SHADOW PEOPLE, a pair of linked novels by Charles B. Stilson that originally appeared in the pulp ALL-STORY WEEKLY in 1919 and 1920. Stilson was one of the earliest authors influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs and is most famous for a trilogy of novels about the character Polaris of the Snows. (Those stories were reprinted by Brian last year and are still available.)

PALOS OF THE DOG STAR PACK, THE MOUTHPIECE OF ZITU, and JASON, SON OF JASON, all by J.U. Giesy, another early ERB-imitator. These stories were published in ALL-STORY WEEKLY in 1918, 1919, and 1921 respectively. (Note that by the time the third story came out, the name of the pulp had changed to ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY, an early merger of two pulps.)

I'm looking forward to reading all of these, although I usually have to be in the right mood to read stories this old. I believe most if not all of the books Brian published in years past are still in print. These include titles by Frank L. Packard (the Jimmie Dale series, which I read many, many years ago in the Gray Seal editions) and Perley Poore Sheehan, a well-known early pulpster. For information about any of them, you can e-mail Brian directly at beb01@sprynet.com .