PULP DEN will be on hiatus for about a month. Authors,
if you have books with me waiting for reviews, they will be delayed during this
time. Unforeseen events have come up that will involve my complete attention. I
hope to get this taken care of as soon as possible, and get back to reading your
books. God Bless.
Monday, August 22, 2016
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Golden Hell
A blind obsession. A driving ambition. A relentless,
unrestrained, single-minded pursuit of a shiny metal. These are the symptoms of
a condition known as gold fever, and, like Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra
Madre, American mining engineer Captain Humbert Reynolds has got it bad.
Possible side effects include: temporary insanity, a propensity for violence,
and death.
The search for gold has taken Reynolds from the ruins of
the Yucatan to the mountains of Ecuador to the wilderness of northern Canada.
Now, his search for a yellow brick bonanza has brought him halfway around the
world, to the Gobi desert.
But the lure of the precious metal is about to lead
Reynolds into a Golden Hell, as he plunges into an inferno—a mountain of
horrors run by an unspeakably evil gang. And if he doesn’t find a way out, a
path to redemption, he may find that instead of snatching the ultimate prize he
will have to pay the ultimate price.
Also
includes the adventure, Pearl Pirate, a story of betrayal and deceit in which
an American captain loses his ship to a money-lender, and the only way to get
it back is to outfight and outfox a ruthless pirate and bring home a fortune in
black pearls.
Golden Hell (Adventure)
By L. Ron Hubbard
ISBN #978-1593132738
Price $9.95
144 Pages
Rating 5-Stars
“Pulp Adventure At Its Best”
GOLDEN HELL originally
published in the September 1936 issue of
THRILLING ADVENTURE: This book actually contains two novelettes, the title
story and PEARL PIRATE. In GOLDEN HELL, mining engineer Humbert Reynolds hears of gold in the Gobi. With his
guide, Yang T’ang and a guard of soldiers, he heads into the Gobi with gold
fever, and literally encounters Hell. Captured by a Mongol tribe they are taken
to a Monk hideaway in the mountains where the monks are forging gold deep
within the belly of a mountain, and molten metal flows like a burning pool in
hell. There, he and his men are chained like slaves to dig the gold in the
stifling heat of hell.
As wild as GOLDEN HELL is, PEARL PIRATE (May 1935 THRILLING
ADVENTURES) was a fight from beginning to end. There are three forces against
each other. The big American, Smoke Engel, wants his boat, the Witch, out of
hock with the evil Chinaman, Chan Tso-lan. Meanwhile, Joe Herrero, the Pearl
Pirate, steals black pearls from Chan. The Chinaman offers Smoke ten thousand
dollars and his boat, if he will bring back the pearls. From there it’s nothing
but a fierce battle between Smoke, Herrero, and their men, until the final
accounting with the Chinaman, who has plans on cheating everyone in the deal.
The sharks and barracuda have a feast in this bloody novelette, but it was all
action. Highly recommended.
Tom Johnson
Author of GUNS OF THE BLACK GHOST
Thursday, August 11, 2016
The Black Shadow
The Black Shadow: Wednesday was a busy day. During the
morning I was tied up with the hospital with my doctor’s appointment. Then we
had afternoon thunderstorms that kept me off the computer most of the rest of
the day. In the meantime I was trying, and not very well, to describe a scene I
wanted as a cover to a very understanding Teresa Tunaley. I felt sorry for her
trying to interpret my poor ability at describing what I wanted. But the
talented artist that she is, Teresa finally picked some of more sane musings
from my stumbling mumbo-jumbo, and the result is a fantastic new cover for THE
BLACK SHADOW. I want to thank her for this beautiful interpretation of the
scene. I’m posting the picture here so you can enlarge it to see the
three-dimensional effect. She did this in one day. Thank you so much Teresa.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Paperback Parade #94
PAPERBACK PARADE #94, August 2016. $15.00 (U.S.A.),
from Gary Lovisi, Gryphon Books, P.O. Box280209, Brooklyn, New York,
11228-0209. This 100-page issue contains articles by Gary Lovisi, Bill Crider,
Richard A. Lupoff, Richard Greene, Tom Johnson, Richard L. Kellogg, Graham
Andrews, and Philip Harbottle. With articles on King Kong, Milton K. Osaki,
Matchless Paperbacks, Earl Norman Spy Series, Philip Wylie, PEC Sleaze Spy
Series, Isaac Asimov, and much more. It is also filled with paperback covers in
color. The is the issue that contains Tom Johnson’s 11 page coverage of the
Earl Norman’s Burns Bannion paperback series.
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