Adventure House

Arthur O. Friel debuted in ADVENTURE in 1919.  With his engrossing tales of the unexplored Amazon jungle, he quickly became one of the pulp's most popular authors, a position he held for many years.  here, reprinted for the first time, are Friel's first ten stories for ADVENTURE.  They follow the experiences of two rubber industry workers, Pedro and Lourenco.  Their journeys into the jungle, one fo the wildest and most inhospitable places on Earth, lead to fantastic, suspenseful—and often violent—adventures, and encounters with bizarre and fascinating people.  These stories are some of Friel's most entertaining work, and some of the best fiction to be found in the adventure pulps.

Also included is an in-depth discussion of Arthur O. Friel, an enigmatic real-life explorer, and the roots of his Amazon stories.

FROM GHOULS TO GANGSTERS: THE CAREER OF ARTHUR B. REEVE Edited by John LockeVOLUMES 1 & 2; 7x10" perfect bound; $20 each When journalist Arthur B. Reeve (1880-1936) turned his talents to fiction, he couldn’t have foreseen the results. His "scientific detective," Craig Kennedy, took the world by storm in 1911. Kennedy was labeled "the American Sherlock Holmes" while Reeve quickly became the most popular American detective-story author. For the next quarter- century, Reeve worked tirelessly at the writing game. His stories were published in a variety of magazines, slick and pulp, then turned into bestselling books. His newspaper serials were read in homes across the country. He wrote hit movies; reported on the notorious crimes of the day; hosted a national radio program. He was friend to police chiefs and presidents. Kennedy appeared in print, on stage, in films, comic strips and, eventually, television. By the time of his death, Reeve--and his famous detective--were American institutions. But the astonishing breadth of his career has never been fully explored--until this two-volume set, a major advance in what has previously been known about Reeve and his works.    

Volume 2 consists of nonfiction material by and about
Reeve. Included is a 40-page narrative describing Reeve’s fascinating
career; articles by Reeve on crime solution, detective fiction, and his
career; a 75-page guide to Reeve’s work, covering his magazine and
newspaper appearances, film credits, stage, radio, books, comic strips,
and more; an extensive Art Gallery featuring cover reproductions,
interior illustrations, cartoons, ads, and ephemera; and complete
bibliography and index. 251 pages.

FROM GHOULS TO GANGSTERS: THE CAREER OF ARTHUR B. REEVE Edited by John LockeVOLUMES 1 & 2; 7x10" perfect bound; $20 each When journalist Arthur B. Reeve (1880-1936) turned his talents to fiction, he couldn’t have foreseen the results. His "scientific detective," Craig Kennedy, took the world by storm in 1911. Kennedy was labeled "the American Sherlock Holmes" while Reeve quickly became the most popular American detective-story author. For the next quarter- century, Reeve worked tirelessly at the writing game. His stories were published in a variety of magazines, slick and pulp, then turned into bestselling books. His newspaper serials were read in homes across the country. He wrote hit movies; reported on the notorious crimes of the day; hosted a national radio program. He was friend to police chiefs and presidents. Kennedy appeared in print, on stage, in films, comic strips and, eventually, television. By the time of his death, Reeve--and his famous detective--were American institutions. But the astonishing breadth of his career has never been fully explored--until this two-volume set, a major advance in what has previously been known about Reeve and his works.

Volume 1 collects stories from all phases of Reeve’s career. Included are tales of Craig Kennedy, and Reeve’s lesser-known detectives. The early stories that made Reeve famous are here, as well as stories written for specialized markets, and obscure works written for pulps and newspapers; all taken from their original appearances. Since Reeve’s early stories were rewritten for book publication, and his later stories were never reprinted, the stories here are freely available for the first time. 255 pages.

Reporter by day
Detective by night
Adventurer by blood....
....RETURNS TO BATTLE THE FORCES OF STRANGENESS!

Here in Volume 3 are ten more chilling tales from the pen of Paul Chadwick, from the great 1930's pulps, DETECTIVE-DRAGNET and TEN DETECTIVE ACES, the majority reprinted here for the first time since their original publication.

• 240 pages
• 6x9
• John Locke Cover Design
• Reset type edition
• ADVENTURE 10/03/18
• The Cave * Charles Beadle
• ADVENTURE 08/03/19
• The Tree of Life * Charles Beadle
• ADVENTURE 08/18/19
• The White Frog * Charles Beadle
• ADVENTURE 01/18/21
• City of Baal * Charles Beadle
• ADVENTURE 09/03/21
• Buried Gods * Charles Beadle
• ADVENTURE 06/20/22
• Gifts of Diamonds * Charles Beadle
• THE FRONTIER 03/25
• White Magic * Charles Beadle
• THE CITY OF BAALby Charles Beadle                     

Mysterious Africa... At the turn of the 20th Century, Charles Beadle served the British Empire in the colonies of southern Africa; saw duty in the Boer War. Afterwards, he worked his way north through perilous territory as an oddjobber, trader and explorer. When his travels ended, he tapped his storytelling gifts and turned the Africa of experience into enthralling fiction, becoming a stalwart of the great adventure pulps. Included in this collection of seven short stories and novelettes-- originally published in Adventure and The Frontier--are strange tales of daring quests, wildlife in riot, treacherous characters, inscrutable witchdoctors, bizarre tribes, gruesome fates--all the mystery, discovery, danger . . . and dread, of unknown lands. From small-scale stories of isolated outposts under stress, to epic sagas of lost races in the depths of the jungle--from the macabre to the breathtaking--here is adventure at its best. Also included is a detailed discussion of the historical context of Beadle’s stories, and a look at his fascinating life and career. 6x9-inch perfect bound, 240 pages7 stories, $20.00

• 176 pages
• 6x9
• John Locke Cover Design
• Reset type edition
• THRILLING DETECTIVE 06/32
• Doctor Coffin: The Living Dead Man * Perley Poore Sheehan
• THRILLING DETECTIVE 07/32
• The Murdered Wife * Perley Poore Sheehan
• THRILLING DETECTIVE 08/32
• Dead Man Blues * Perley Poore Sheehan
• THRILLING DETECTIVE 09/32
• Seven Seconds To Die * Perley Poore Sheehan
• THRILLING DETECTIVE 10/32
• Horror House * Perley Poore Sheehan
• THRILLING DETECTIVE 11/32
• Hollywood Ghost * Perley Poore Sheehan
• THRILLING DETECTIVE 05/33
• Manhattan Monster * Perley Poore Sheehan
• THRILLING DETECTIVE 09/33
• Small Town Stuff * Perley Poore Sheehan
  

The lid of the coffin was heavy.  Yet it shook, it yielded.  It might have been moved not so much by living muscle as by some blind but deathless will.
   The lid rose.  It slide aside.
What appeared brought a contraction to the throat of the man watching.
The movements of the thing in the long box were groping, broken, disarticulate, as if a clotted rag—a crushed and shapeless mass—were crawling into life.
   Out of this moil and much of what had once been a human being, a gaunt and bloody hand appeared at an inhuman angle, then a disheveled and misshapen head.
   It was a horror.

Doctor Coffin must rank as one of pulpdom's strangest denizens.  He'd been the famous actor, Del Manning, before faking his own death.  He returned as the mysterious Doctor Coffin, proprietor of a chain of Hollywood mortuaries by day, crimefighter by night.  From 1932-1933, Thrilling Detective featured him in a series of novelettes by Perley Poore Sheehan, veteran fictioneer and Hollywood screenwriter.  Collected here are eight of Doctor Coffin's exploits, including the first six.

See him transform the actors' mastery of disguise into a potent force for justice.  See him haunt the City of Stars.  See him turn his life into the greatest masquerade of all.

Features an introduction by John Wooley, world foremost authority on Hollywood detectives.

• 169 pages
• 6x9
• John Locke Cover Design
• Reset type edition
• DETECTIVE-DRAGNET 03/32
• Satan's Shrine * Paul Chadwick
• DETECTIVE-DRAGNET 12/32
• The Corpses' Carnival * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 05-06/32
• Teeth of Terror * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 10/33
• Fangs of the Cobra * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 06/35
• Murder Bait * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 09/35
• Scented Murder * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 10/35
• The Murder Maker * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 11/35
• The Grinning Ghoul * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 12/35
• The Terror Train * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 02/36
• Murder On the Air * Paul Chadwick

Reporter by day
Detective by night
Adventurer by blood....
....TAKES ON ANOTHER ROUND OF UNCANNY CASES!

Here in Volume 2, Wade Hammond, globe-trotting adventurer, accomplished newsman, and courageous amateur sleuth, pits his abilities against a freightening series of diabolical villains: The Sloth, The Man with the Grin, The Reaper, The Fiend, and many more.

From the vivid imagination of legendary fictioneer, Paul Chadwick, from the pages of the great 1930's pulps, Detective-Dragnet and Ten Detective Aces, are collected another ten of Wade Hammond's unforgettable adventures, the majority reprinted here for the first time since their original publication.

• 179 pages
• 6x9
• John Locke Cover Design
• Reset type edition
• DETECTIVE-DRAGNET 12/31
• Murder In the Mist * Paul Chadwick
• DETECTIVE-DRAGNET 01/32
• Murder By Minutes * Paul Chadwick
• DETECTIVE-DRAGNET 05/32
• The Murder Monster * Paul Chadwick
• DETECTIVE-DRAGNET 07/32
• Ghost Fingers * Paul Chadwick
• DETECTIVE-DRAGNET 09/32
• Tarantula Bait * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 03/33
• Skyscraper Horror * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 04/33
• Doctor Zero * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 11/33
• Trance of Horror * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 10/34
• The Skeleton Scourge * Paul Chadwick
• TEN DETECTIVE ACES 08/35
• Corpse Cheaters * Paul Chadwick

Reporter by day
Detective by night
Adventurer by blood!

Meet Wade Hammond, tough and smart, the man who tackles cases the police can't handle, bettling some of the most diabolical killers known to pulp fiction.  It takes brains as well as brawn to outsmart these insidious madmen, geniuses at twisting science itno terrifying tools of murder, and Wade never shrinks from the challenge.

For the first time, ten of the most spine-chilling Wade Hammond stories have been collected from the pages of classic 1930's pulps, Detective-Dragnet and Ten Detective Aces. In these vivid, atmospheric tales from the pen of Paul Chadwick, author of Secret Agent X and Captain Hazzard, the mood is mysterious, the situation perilous, and the suspense unrelenting.  Lock the doors, pull down the blinds, and enter the weird and wonderful world of Wade Hammond.