Adventure House in Bethesda, Md. is the best of the current
publishers reprinting pulps. The collections AT THE STROKE OF
MIDNIGHT featuring John K. Butler's hard-boiled cab driver
Steve Midnight, and FOOTPRINTS ON A BRAIN featuring the weird
hero Inspector Allhoff (by D.L. Champion) are both essential
collections for pulp fans.
Adventure House has begun a "print-on-demand" service that
will reprint any requested pulp fiction that meets certain
criteria. Here's the skinny:
> Adventure House is proud to announce our newest pulp
reprint line. Our Print On Demand (POD) line of fine pulp
reprints.
> What titles are available? Well that's the amazing
part of this line of reprints, you the reader decides what we
will reprint.
>
> Suggest a title we can reprint and if we get 50
pre-orders we will go into production and produce the
book.
>
> Here is the catch. We cannot produce a book if the
material is in copyright and we cannot negotiate copyright
permission, or if the book is so scarce that we cannot locate
a reproducible copy. So please keep those simple guidelines
in mind when you make your suggestions.
>
> PRICE: $14.95 per edition for a 110 page pulp
reprint. Price does not include shipping.
>
I'd be willing to bet that there are 50 rare birds that would
like to get a collection of stories featuring Frederick
Nebel's Steve MacBride & John X. Kennedy, for example. Or
maybe David Goodis' early work in the aviation pulps? Or any
of the dozens of uncollected Day Keene stories from Dime
Detective? Anyway, I think it would be worth
considering.
Here's the URL for Adventure House, for any wanting to go
further: http://www.adventurehouse.com/index.htm
Jim Stephenson
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