Rough Edges

LEADING WESTERN was a pulp from Trojan Publishing, the publisher of the Spicy and Speed lines, as you can probably tell from the cover. T...

(This post originally appeared on October 30, 2005.) I’ve read a lot of books by Donald E. Westlake over the years and have always prefe...

Over the past year or so I've become a big fan of the work of Charles Boeckman and even published a volume of hisWestern pulp stori...

Of the Big Three authors from WEIRD TALES, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith, Howard is the only one whose work I...

(This post appeared in somewhat different form on October 13, 2005.) ACE DRUMMOND was based on the comic strip of the same name that wa...

When Klaw interrupted a lynching, he got more than he bargained for, finding himself involved in a deadly hunt for a fortune in buried go...

That "They Pack a Punch!" line ran on all the covers of this pulp for several months in 1936, and this particular cover seems t...

This pulp lasted only one issue under this name before it was retitled COMPLETE WESTERN BOOK MAGAZINE. The lead novel is by Dane Coolidge...

Many of the Gold Medal Westerns during the Fifties displayed some of the same noir and hardboiled characteristics as the crime and susp...

Matthew Reilly is best known as an author of big, action-packed thrillers, but in TROLL MOUNTAIN he ventures into YA heroic fantasy ficti...