We all love a good story. And a behind-the-scenes story can be even better than the story told in the book itself. “Heroic editor spends years of his life trying to assemble a massive, global collection with contributions by the best in the field, but the book never sees the light of day” is a…
Is Tom Gauld our most erudite cartoonist? From the evidence of his work, he well could be — there’s a parade of authors both classic (Shakespeare, Austen) and genre (Ballard, Gaiman) and modern literary (Franzen, Mantel), and a dazzling awareness of tropes and ideas and genre furniture in his work, and it’s hard to think…
After a brief hiatus, the column spotlighting a different book each day (or most days at least) that would add to any Pulp fan’s, writer’s, and artist’s knowledge and toolbox, is BACK! Bear Manor Media is once again the go to source for the content for this column, but as always, if you have another…
As usual, except with one notable exception, ALL PULP’s Book a Day comes from http://www.bearmanormedia.com/, one of the best outlets for books on pulp and popular culture today! If you have other books, though, that you feel should be featured here, drop ALL PULP a line at allpulp@yahoo.com! ’50s Blondes An illustrated look at the…
PULP REVIEWS BY RON FORTIER AND ALL PULP’S BOOK A DAY! THE BONUS By Georgia Lowe Lucky Dime Press 398 pages Release Date – Oct.10, 2010 ISBN 10 – 0615371450 ISBN 13 – 978-0615371450 (historical fiction/drama) The trouble with most history books is that they are generally impersonal. They offer up the facts and then…
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/ Read about the author Before Bond, before Maxwell Smart and Mrs. Emma Peel, we’’ve enjoyed a wide variety of TV Spies. From 1951’’s Dangerous Assignment to today’’s Burn Notice, we’’ve watched cloak-and-dagger adventures from popular successes like Alias and Mission: Impossible to thoughtful mini-series like The Sandbaggers to cartoons and even live animals in…
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/ Written by one who knew them Meet and become friends with many of the actors from the Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys! Since he began collecting Movie Memorabilia on the Dead End Kids in 1964, author Richard Roat has had the great fortune to develop personal…
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/ LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (MGM,1927) starring Lon Chaney, is considered a Lost Film. It is still on the top of the AFI and other world wide film organizations “Most Wanted” lists as it was when the first edition of this book was published in 1985. This edition is 254 pages and the original printing was…
New review! http://www.bearmanormedia.com/ Growing Up With Monsters: My Times at Universal Studios in Rhymes By Carla Laemmle and Daniel Kinske, LCDR, USN Foreword by Ray Bradbury Illustrated by Jack Davis and Hermann Mejia A lovely book that tells the true story of how the classic Universal Studios Monsters were born from a centenarian who was…
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/  ALL PULP is sorry, but due to a sickness, we didn’t get you your book a day like we had for so long..well, no worries! We now bring you…  The official Bickersons biography!  For anyone writing in the golden era of Pulp, this is a great resource to have just so…
Read the new review! http://www.bearmanormedia.com/ Magic in a Pair of Horn-Rimmed GlassesVoted “Best Book of 2009” by Classic Images magazine! You know the films. You know the characters. You may even know the man behind the glasses. But do you really know the events and happenings that most changed Harold Lloyd? That define him? The…
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/ THE COMPLETE TORTUROUS STORY of the 1910 filmversion of Frankenstein is narrated in this 100th Anniversary edition.Everything you ever wanted to know about the classic firstFrankenstein film and then some. This highly researched documentbegins in the dusty archives of Thomas A. Edison and follows atrail of evidence that leads through the tattered pages of…
