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Science Fiction/Fantasy Pulp Publications
Science Fiction/Fantasy Pulp Publications is devoted to republishing those wonderful old pulp magazines of the 1920s, 1930s 1940s and 1950s. For many of us "older" folks, they were a stepping stone from comic books and Tarzan to serious reading. Some of these old pulps may still be found, and are treasured by fans everywhere. But their pulp paper pages are brittle, fragile, and sometimes missing pages just when the story gets going good.
"Pulp Pubs" are in PDF Format and Require a Free PDF Reader
This series of publications cannot compete with the thrill of actually holding an old pulp in your hands. But it can reprint the magnificent covers, illustrations, and spellbinding tales for old fans and perhaps for new readers who just like good adventure stories.
Each Tailhook Ebook is a complete pulp magazine, except for some advertisements, editorials, reader forums, and filler items. We've included the prized cover art, even though some covers on the issues we scan are not always intact. The table of contents describes the stories in each issue, and illustrations are usually woodcuts that are now almost a lost artform.
We invite you now to return to the days when science fiction didn't deal with much "science," and fantasy was more "fantastic." Instead, the pulps placed heroes and heroines in peril on some distant planet or a different dimension, facing insurmountable dangers from alien creatures with weapons earthlings never imagined. Strangely, heroes carried both deathray guns and swords. Yet the authors imagined the planet, the dimension, the aliens, and the weapons, without explaining how they got that way because nobody cared. These stories are intended to stir the imagination, not to teach a course in physics, chemistry, alien anatomy, or rocketry.
Although these magazines are old, their stories are usually based sometime in our future or in another universe. That's what makes them readable even today. With all our new gadgetry and better understanding of the solar system and universe, we're still behind the time line of most pulp stories.
So let your imagination soar. And just enjoy some good yarns that are timeless.
Famous Fantastic Mysteries, March 1946 — This issue has only two stories — "The Machine Stops", a full-length novel by Britisher Wayland Smith; and "Before I Wake", a short story by Henry Kuttner. The novel opens with the Earth covered by a blue-green fog that permeates everything. Somehow the fog corrodes all metals and almost overnight returns civilization to the stone age. Within a few months, steel structures collapse, automobiles and airplanes fail, ships sink, even screws and nails in furniture and houses fall apart. Despite the panic of millions who riot for food, shelter and security, a small group of scientists survive to begin building civilization anew. The short story is about a boy on an island who dreams of sailing to exotic countries, and how he gets to do it. — #PULP01
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AMAZING STORIES March 1949 — The issue starts with a short story, "The Chemical Vampire" by Lee Francis. It's about a vampire that finds a new body. Other shorts include "The Strange Disappearance of Guy Sylvester" by Chester Galer and Taylor Shaver and "The Lost Power" by Guy Archette. Two interesting novelets round out the issue. They are "The Strange Tea of Ting Sun Fu" by Leroy Yerxa, and "The Swordsman of Pira" by Charles Recour. In "Strange Tea", a newspaper reporter uncovers a door between our world and a two-dimensional universe. "Swordsman" is about a time-traveler who lands in a world of sabretooth tigers, a beautiful girl, and a war — and refuses to come back. — #PULP02
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AMAZING STORIES March 1951 — Consists of two short novels and five short stories. An underlying theme of "the bomb and what to do with it" permeates many of the plot lines. The short novels are "Beyond the Rings of Saturn" by Robert Moore Williams, and "Whom the Gods Destroy" by P.F Costello. One of the more interesting short stories is "No Medal for Captain Manning" by William P. McGivern, about the last man on war-torn Earth, who enjoyed the feeling of peace until footsteps sounded behind him. Other short stories are "Ticket to Venus" by Rod Ruth; "Laughing Matter" by Enoch Sharpe; "You'll Die Yesterday" by Rog Phillips; and "Secret of the Burning Finger" by Julian S. Krupa. — #PULP03
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Fantastic Novels Magazine — Features another A. Merritt book-length novel, "The Ship of Ishtar." A modern scientist (1948) finds an ancient Babylonian artifact that draws him into another dimension to mediate a dispute between Babylonian gods. The dispute is centered on "The Ship of Ishtar", a beautiful priestess, and a war that has continued for centuries. The issue also hosts "The Middle Bedroom", a short story by H. deVere Stacpoole, which answers the question: "What was the dark secret behind the strange little frightened man's door?" — #PULP04
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Fantastic Novels Magazine — A. Merritt wrote "The Dwellers in the Mirage" in 1935. It's hero is Leif Langdon, an explorer who learns of an ancient lost civilization in the Gobi desert of Mongolia. It disappeared centuries ago, along with it's lush gardens and waterways. He traces evidence of the civilization to Alaska. With the help of a Cherokee friend, he finds the reconstructed society hidden under a mirage amid an impenetrable ring of mountains. The land is peopled by two races — a tribe of fairy-like dwarfs and a clan of iron-age warriors. Along the way, he encounters two gorgeous women — each a leader of her people — and a twelve-armed octopus-like deity from another dimension. As you might suspect, the tale has unexpected twists that only A. Merritt could conjure up. "Platinum" is a 1913 short story by Owen Oliver. The plot revolves around a group of shipwreck survivors who alternate being attacked by giant sea serpents and being eaten by volcano creatures with platinum arms and legs. — #PULP05.
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Amazing Stories Magazine — This July 1940 issue has six short stories, a load of features, and a list of story contest winners. "When the Gods Make War" tells of a 1960 world war that continues for centuries. "Adam Link, Champion Athlete" promotes civil rights for robots. "Mirrors of Madness" finds mirrors being used as murder weapons. "The Monster Out of Space" features a gigantic astroid-eater who graduates to moons and planets. "The Ray of Hypnosis" relates how an inept inventor finally gets one right. And "Secret of the Moon Treasure" tells how a potential war between the Earth and Moon is avoided at the last minute. Features include riddles, questions, a science quiz, and timely discussions. The issue rounds out with a herd of 1940s advertisements for products and services that aren't around anymore. Remember Sen-Sen? and tires with tubes for $5.20 each? and the Remington Rand portable manual typewriter? — #PULP06.
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Amazing Stories Magazine — The October 1940 169-page issue offers six more short science stories, one of which is a classic. The stories are "Raiders Out of Space" by Robert Moore Williams; "Rescue into the Past" by Ralph Milne Farley; "The Invisible World" by Ed Earl Repp; "The Day Time Stopped Moving" by Bradner Buckner; "The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years" by Don Wilcox; and "Revolt on IO" by Jack West. The classic yarn is the 600-year Voyage, in which a space ship with 17 married couples blasts off for a distant star cluster where their progeny will colonize a planet. Prof. Grimstone has volunteered to enter deep freeze and survive the entire voyage. Every 100 years, he is to waken, advise the generations to insure the travel plan is being followed, and return to deep sleep for another 100 years. Conditions each wake period are much different than the planners envisioned, and Grimstone advises solutions that come back to haunt him on the next wake period. This ebook is a fun collection that old time sci-fi fans will enjoy.— #PULP07.
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