Wildside Press

A print on demand publisher of classic pulp fiction.

An eclectic group of pulp reprints, including Black Mask, Mysterious Wu Fang, Operator 5, Spicy Mystery and more. Each book is 6x9 in size, and various page counts. The type has been reset, and most include the original illustrations.

*****SPECIAL NOTE******
This publisher has been very slow in filling orders. Adventure House has decided that if the order cannot be filled from available stock, we will not backorder the book. We apologize for any inconvience this may incur.

Achmed Abdullah	Christopher Booth	H. De Vere Stacpoole	Robert E. Howard
H. Rider Haggard	Edgar Rice Burroughs	H. Bedford-Jones	Johnston McCulley
Captain A.E. Dingle	Arthur O. Friel

OPERATOR #5 - Blood Reign of the Dictator
Special Discount - 10%

by Frederick Davis writing as Curtis Steele

Operator #5, a secret service ace, appeared in more than 48 novels in a classic pulp magazine bearing his name. From April 1934 to November 1939, Jimmy Christopher fought villains from inside the United States and invaders from without. With World War II looming on the horizon, the Operator #5 books became a reflection of the times -- none more so than when a fascist dictator appears to take over the U.S. government! One of the most violent pulps ever produced, full of thrill-a-minute action and peril, Blood Reign of the Dictator is a classic entry in the series.

43-66026
Weight: 1.00 lbs

SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES - 12/39
Special Discount - 10%

A complete Spicy Adventure reprint

The famous "weird menace" pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s are among the rarest and most sought-after publications by collectors. The "Spicy" magazines -- which included Spicy Mystery, Spicy Adventure, Spicy Detective, and others -- published a titilating mix of fantasy, horror, mystery, and suspense, punctuated by episodes of torture, sadism, sex, and other risque elements. Although tame by current standards, and sometimes of dubious literary merit, these publications presented tales which thrilled a sensation-hungry audience. Despite the themes and constraints of the market, writers who would later become famous -- including Hugh B. Cave, E. Hoffman Price, Robert Leslie Bellem, and many more -- were frequent contributors. The August 1935 issue of Spice Mystery Stories includes contributions from Robert Leslie Bellem, Atwater Culpepper, Ellery Watson Calder, Carl Moore, E. Hoffman Price, Jerome Severs Perry, Don King, Charles R. Allen, Charles A. Baker, Jr., and Arthur Wallace.

43-71369
Weight: 1.00 lbs

SPICY MYSTERY - February 1937
Special Discount - 10%

The famous "weird menace" pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s are among the rarest and most sought-after publications by collectors. The "Spicy" magazines -- which included Spicy Mystery, Spicy Adventure, Spicy Detective, and others -- published a titilating mix of fantasy, horror, mystery, and suspense, punctuated by episodes of torture, sadism, sex, and other risque elements. Although tame by current standards, and sometimes of dubious literary merit, these publications presented tales which thrilled a sensation-hungry audience. Despite the themes and constraints of the market, writers who would later become famous -- including Hugh B. Cave, E. Hoffman Price, Robert Leslie Bellem, and many more -- were frequent contributors.

The February 1937 issue features Bellem, Hugh Speer, Justin Case (Hugh B. Cave), and many others -- plus all the classic "spicy" artwork!

43-66024
Weight: 1.00 lbs

SECRET AGENT "X" - 02/34 -The Torture Trust
Special Discount - 10%

"The Torture Trust" they called themselves — that unholy trio who met in a hidden room in a deserted part of the city. Brilliant men by day, leading scholarly and productive lives as far as the police and the outside world were concerned, secretly they donned black cloaks and ran an organization of evil . . . for "The Torture Trust" threatened their blackmail victims with a terrible acid bath, leaving a trail of faceless corpses to bear mute testimony to their power!

Fearless, alone, Secret Agent X went against them in a desperate battle of wits at the gateway to destruction!

43-72426
Weight: 1.00 lbs

SINISTER STORIES-02/40
Special Discount - 10%

1st Issue

A facsimile reprint of the February 1940 issue of Sinister Stories -- the first issue of a classic "weird menage" pulp magazine.

Sinister Stories was a short-lived (only 3 issues) "weird menace" magazine, designed to thrill and titillate through a mix of suspense, science fiction, bondage, nudity, and grisly horror. Stories such as "Brides of the Half-Men," "Satan's Studio of Sin," and "White Flesh Must Rot" are surely masterpieces of over-the-top pulp writing!

43-67817
Weight: 1.00 lbs

THE SPIDER - 03/40
Special Discount - 10%

"Slaves of the Laughing Death"

An unseen weapon that drives men mad . . . A green gas which turns smiling faces into leering skulls . . . A master criminal who can assume at will any known identity . . . Add to these separate menaces three big-game hunters sworn to destroy the Spider -- and you have a situation in which the brilliance and courage of Dick Wentworth will thrill you as never before!

43-71370
Weight: 1.00 lbs

THE SPIDER - 05/41
Special Discount - 10%

"The Devil's Paymaster"

43-72481
Weight: 1.00 lbs

SUBMARINE STORIES-03/30
Special Discount - 10%

The March 1930 issue of the rare pulp magazine SUBMARINE STORIES, which lasted for thirteen issues and so must count as one of the more successful of the hyper-specialized pulps. Long prized by collectors as a curiosity, too scarce and valuable to be actually read, it turns out to be quite an entertaining magazine, containing stories by such pulp stalwarts as George Fielding Eliot (author of the grisly WEIRD TALES classic "The Copper Bowl") and Alan R. Bosworth, a prolific pulp writer who appeared in everything from ARGOSY to UNKNOWN WORLDS. Here too is a vivid first-hand account of undersea warfare by a genuine German U-boat captain.

43-67816
Weight: 1.00 lbs

TALES OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY 02/28
Special Discount - 10%

Tales of Magic and Mystery, which published five issues between December 1927 and April 1928 under the (anonymous) editorship of Walter B. Gibson, remains one of the rarest and most sought after of the early fantasy pulp magazines.

The third issue, featuring an uncredited cover believed to be by Earle Bergey according to Peter Haining's excellent reference book Monthly Terrors, also features contributions from Arthur Neale, Archie Binns, Howard Thurston, Carl M. Rosenquist, Ludwig Haupt, Walter B. Gibson, and Peter Chance.

43-70798
Weight: 1.00 lbs

THE THRILL BOOK-09/01/19
Special Discount - 10%

SCARCE

"The Thrill Book" is a legendary magazine, one of the holy grails of pulp collecting. Original copies sell for thousands of dollars -- if you can find them. Running for sixteen issues in 1919, it was a magazine of "strange, bizzare, occult, mysterious tales," but not quite a fantastic-fiction magazine, mixing various types of adventure stories with often outstanding fantasy, horror, and science fiction by Murray Leinster, Seabury Quinn, Francis Stevens, Perley Moore Sheehan, Tod Robbins, Edward Lucas White, Greye La Spina, and other giants of the pulp era. While sheer scarcity may have once added something to the lustre of "The Thrill Book," now that an issue is finally made available at an affordable price, the reader may appreciate that this truly was a pioneering -- and supremely entertaining -- publication.

43-67818
Weight: 1.00 lbs