From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us . . . to PulpFest 2017!
As part of its celebration of “Hardboiled Dicks, Dangerous Dames, and a Few Psychos,” PulpFest will be honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert Bloch, author of PSYCHO. The convention is pleased to announce that the Narada Radio Company will be bringing their Pulp-Pourri Theatre to next summer’s PulpFest. The group will be dramatizing Bloch’s “Return to the Sabbath,” a short story that originally appeared in the July 1938 WEIRD TALES. Based in Corpus Christi, Pulp-Pourri Theatre is an all-new audio drama anthology series that has its origins in vintage pulp fiction, but presents its stories in the modern way. Pete Lutz is the company’s producer-director. You can sample their work online or via iTunes.
Additionally, PulpFest is planning to have presentations on DIME DETECTIVE, the villains of THE SHADOW MAGAZINE, “The Dangerous Dames of Kenneth Robeson,” Hollywood detective Dan Turner, Señorita Scorpion and the Domino Lady, Philip José Farmer, and much more.
We’ll keep you informed about all of these exciting topics through our website and social media sites. So please be sure to bookmark PulpFest.com and visit at least once a week. We’ll be offering a new post every Monday morning around 9 AM, eastern time. Alternately, you can read our posts via our facebook site or catch our tweets by following us via our Twitter page.
(Debuting with its November 1931 number, DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE was one of the leaders in its fiction category. Part of the reason for its success was its great artwork. William Reusswig painted the covers for the first 37 issues of the Popular Publications pulp, including the May 1932 issue. Reusswig sold freelance pulp covers to general fiction magazines such as ARGOSY, SHORT STORIES and ADVENTURE and contributed cover art for the detective, war, and western genre magazines. Additionally, he illustrated stories for COSMOPOLITAN, LIBERTY, OUTDOOR LIFE, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, SPORTS AFIELD, and other magazines.)
