pulp scans

[dreeder]

fans of the great pulps are welcome to join us at:
groups.yahoo.com/group/pulpscans/

we've a group of dedicated scanners preserving as much of the non-copyright stuff as they can. emphasis has been on science fiction, but western, sports, horror and more are there too.

to join, just say you're from this group.

[weirdmonger]

I don't know if these pages and pages of Small Press scans count as pulps.
I called them once the Baser Pulps:
vaultofevil.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=indie&action=display&thread=672

[dreeder]

nah, they're not pulps but who cares! great stuff.

all my collection is in storage as i'm working outside the uk, but your post made me think of stuff i'd love to see again. those mimeographed issues of 'shadow' certainly. early copies of 'l'ecran fantastique'. 'monster times'. my tattered copy of 'famous monsters of filmland 1'...

and so much more. i remember buying photocopied reprints of 'the shadow' and 'doc savage' pulps, two-up on an a4 page. the time collectors swopped single stills from hammer movies. the great 'psychotronic'. the thrill of the chase in dusty bookshops, piecing together our horror history from printed fragments. the internet? i'd have killed for the research capabilities of the internet back then in the 1970s...

and somewhere, still, at the bottom of a large packing case, sits a dozen box files of neatly collected horror/fantasy film posters, clipped from 'time out' and 'the evening standard' from mid-1970s to about 1990.

heh heh heh!

[Craig Herbertson]

Definitely worth an evil chortle. the internet certainly changed the ground rules and destroyed the thrill of the chase and the joy of the rare find. I remember sitting on buses to get to obscure towns where there might be one bookshop and a set of charity shops. The one with the stack of 'must haves' in the window was almost inevitably on a half day closing.

[jamesdoig]

Talking of baser pulps, I thought I'd post this tasteful Australian magazine. It lasted only 1 issue - it was banned within 10 seconds of hitting the news stands. Edited by legendary Aus small press guy Chris Masters. I notice Des Lewis is in it.

[pulphack]

i shall be joining you mr reeder as i have very fond memories of growing up on reprints of that sort of old tut as sold in places like the Popular Book Centre ( a london chain of second-hand shops that gave part-exchange on comics, magazines and paperbacks - distinguished by their big purple ink stamps - were they beyond gthe watford gap?anyone tell me?)

i have to agree with des - i think the small press filled the gap that pulps used to occupy for providing a market for new writers - s/p cos opf fandom, pulps cos they were cheap. different eras but the same idea. many writers in the small press were denied careers (professionally) by the lack of a pulp market, though they made reputations in the small magazines. i think des was on e of them to thje degree that he prefers (and correct me if i'm wrong, sir) the short story to the longer form as a chosen medium. and shorts haven't really madfe careers for many oin the last 30 years.

the two are complimentary and reliant on their eras for historical importance.

(ps excuse the typing but i've just got back from seeing orient win 5-0 at home and i can't remember when that last happened!)

[weirdmonger]

I only vaguely recall that mag, James, but that's not surprising as I no longer own my thousand-plus contributory copies from the Nineties.

I notice Wayne Edwards is also in there. He published the stylish PALACE CORBIE Horror Anthologies during that period.

I remember Chris Masters publishing a lot of Lovecraftian magazines.

des

PS: It's on my partial bibliography:
weirdmonger.blog-city.com/dfl_partial_bibliography.htm

[andydecker]

This is alone worth for for its small print. "If you are offended by what you read, tough shit". Guess this would have held up in court

[weirdmonger]

Feb 3, 2010 19:17:13 GMT andydecker said:

This is alone worth for for its small print. "If you are offended by what you read, tough shit". Guess this would have held up in court

When I submitted to it in the mid-Nineties I think I must have assumed it was something to do with Molière's Le Misanthrope (a play I studied at 'A' Level in the Sixties).

I notice from the scan that one of the stories included is entitled 'Blonde on a Stick'. Isn't that the (proposed?) title of a future Conrad Wlilliams novel?

[jamesdoig]

Des, you'd need a sizeable annex to house all those contributors copies

[jamesdoig]

Andy, if you're interested (and you're probably not ) here's Chris's website www.chrisamasters.com/ Some nice scans of early Aus small press mags.

[andydecker]

Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff.

I can appreciate the hard work they did. But this by-the-numbers violence for violence and gore for gore sake I find increasingly uninteresting if it isn´t clad in a halfway decent story.