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Pulp Fiction and The Arabian Nights

Pulp Fiction and The Arabian Nights

By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News Historical fantasy tends to center around medieval Europe. Recent shows The Borgias and Game of Thrones have moved the action somewhat farther south and east into the Mediterranean, taking [...]

Cinco de Mayo and Pulp Fiction: Bandits and Soldaderas

Cinco de Mayo and Pulp Fiction: Bandits and Soldaderas

By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News   As a former colony like the United States, Mexico has a history that in some ways mirrors that of its northern neighbor. It’s had a fight for independence (in [...]

Detective Fiction: From Edgar Allen Poe to Pulp Fiction

Detective Fiction: From Edgar Allen Poe to Pulp Fiction

By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News Pulp writers had a field day with their fictional detective creations during the golden age of pulp fiction. From Lady Molly of Scotland Yard to Philip Marlowe, Nero Wolfe to Hercule [...]

Pulp Fiction Treasures: The Path to Loot

Pulp Fiction Treasures: The Path to Loot

By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News Readers of everything from pirate yarns to mysteries thrill to the words “X marks the spot,” despite the fact that treasure maps—drawn by those possessed of vast quantities of booty [...]

Pulp Fiction & Chronicle of the Old West

Pulp Fiction & Chronicle of the Old West

Dakota and Sunny Livesay, who run the website, newspaper and radio show Chronicle of the Old West, keep alive the spirit of the cowboy and the trail with their preservation and dissemination of history—but in a [...]

Cowboys & Their Horses, from Pulp Fiction to the Silver Screen

Cowboys & Their Horses, from Pulp Fiction to the Silver Screen

By Thomas McNulty, Golden Gazette News A cowboy’s best friend was his horse. His horse provided not only reliable transportation but was critical to surviving the sometimes harsh elements of the Wild West. A cowboy’s saddlebag, [...]

Zombies from Pulp Fiction to the Silver Screen

Zombies from Pulp Fiction to the Silver Screen

By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News Modern fiction and movies are beset by a plague of zombies—shuffling semblances of living beings that are generally bent on destroying those actually still alive and devouring either their brains [...]

The Mysterious Disappearance of Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Disappearance of Agatha Christie

By Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News One of the favorite genres of the early pulp fiction magazine writers of the 1930s and 1940s the mystery genre. To writers like Dashiell Hammett, Walter B. Gibson and L. [...]

Golden Age Trivia: Cowboys—The Boots Make the Man

Golden Age Trivia: Cowboys—The Boots Make the Man

by Lee Barwood, Golden Gazette News One of the most popular categories in pulp fiction was the western. The cowboy led a tough life, living in the open much of the time as he tended cattle [...]

Errol Flynn & His Pulp Fiction Adventuring Counterparts!

Errol Flynn & His Pulp Fiction Adventuring Counterparts!

By Thomas McNulty, Golden Gazette News During the days of the Depression the pulp magazines flaunted amazing stories about adventurers cut from the same cloth as aviators Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh. Hollywood filmmakers were pleased [...]