Pulp Mags - How many stories?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

But it's not out in e-book until May 9th. And it's only $14.99. Start saving your nickles...(Not a bad price, for nearly 1200 print pages worth of stories. Just hope it is properly proofed. Unlike my typing....)

I bought it when it was available from Sony.

...and, it was also listed (for a lot cheaper price) on Kindle. --- It may, however, as you intimate, not be available....again. [SEE PARAGRAPH BELOW.]

ADDED: Here it is. This is the one I purchased for $20 as an ebook. Well worth the price, for me:

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Lizard-B...4055947&sr=1-4


Don

[pagansoul]

You can go to Manybooks.com and use the Genres/English Pulp and you get 362 ebooks which are the short stories you would find in Public Domain (from 1920s-50s). I have all of them.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by pagansoul

You can go to Manybooks.com and use the Genres/English Pulp and you get 362 ebooks which are the short stories you would find in Public Domain (from 1920s-50s). I have all of them.

Perhaps you mean Manybooks.net




Don

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by Tascosa

If you like classic Black Mask style, you'll like Nebel.

p.s. There's an older (cheaper) book of CARDIGAN stories; AMAZON should have it; don't think there's any duplication. There's also a reprint of the first Nebel collection from 1950, FIVE (?) DEADLY DAMES, featuring "Donohue" a tough p.i. from Black Mask.

p.p.s. Horace McCoy (THEY SHOOT HORSES...) was a *failed B.M. writer

Thanks for reminding me. I remember vaguely seeing that Cardigan collection in bookstores years ago, so now I have added it to my wishlist.

Some years ago I had a small collection called The Black Mask Boys which was good but too brief IMO.

I've looked for Horace McCoy off and on over the years, and haven't found much of his available. One of these days I'll read Horses. I never did see the movie.

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by mr ploppy

Don't know about those, but the scifi ones generally had about 120 pages, split into 7 stories plus assorted editorial and other non-fiction content.

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Your typical novel pulp ran around 70,000 words or so. (Novel pulp - Doc Savage, The Shadow, G8 and His Battle Aces, ect.) They were broken down into, Novel -50-60,000 word, Short Adventure Story, and some sort non-fiction adventure related story.

The later Doc Savages were 30-40,000 words packaged with another short novel (actually both were novellas), instead of one larger novel.

Thanks for the answers, guys!

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by Tascosa

...There's a new book of stories from a Black Mask writer, Fred Nebel who wrote very much in the Hammett style. CARDIGAN, the stories are from DIME DETECTIVE, a mag very much like B.M.

Speaking of Dime Detective, I have had on my Amazon wishlist for a while an out of print collection of 23 Dime Detective stories. The price dropped today, and I picked up a used copy for $1.96.

http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Boiled-De...4260455&sr=1-2

[David Postle]

Check out the pulp magazine archive website at www.pulpmags.org.
They've put up a few early Black Mask magazines recently,
so that should give you an idea of what they looked like.

As a sample here is the August 1920 issue Vol 1 No 5
http://www.pulpmags.org/PDFs/BM_1920_08.pdf

You''ll find a few more at the same website.

[GA Russell]

Thanks, David! That looks very interesting.

[Lemurion]

I had a number of SF pulps from the 30s onward, the big ones, and most of those had about 7-8 stories of varying lengths.