Thrilling Adventure Yarns
The pulp magazines were a gateway to other worlds and times. It was where some of the greatest writers of the 20th Century got their start and some of the most iconic characters made their debut, from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and John Carter to Maxwell Grant's The Shadow to Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian.
Without the pulps, comic books may never have introduced the super-hero...and then where would we be today?
The pulp magazine era was bristling with brawny men and statuesque women globetrotting, and getting into and out of danger. Their exploits quickened the pulses of their readers, young and old alike. They gave rise to some of the most enduring heroes known the world 'round.
To honor and celebrate a bygone era, editor Robert Greenberger put together these collections of pulp-inspired tales to produce new thrills and chills, spanning the traditional pulp realms of mystery, sword and sorcery, horror, science fiction, romance, and high adventure, in a series anthologies appropriately titled...Thrilling Adventure Yarns!
Without the pulps, comic books may never have introduced the super-hero...and then where would we be today?
The pulp magazine era was bristling with brawny men and statuesque women globetrotting, and getting into and out of danger. Their exploits quickened the pulses of their readers, young and old alike. They gave rise to some of the most enduring heroes known the world 'round.
To honor and celebrate a bygone era, editor Robert Greenberger put together these collections of pulp-inspired tales to produce new thrills and chills, spanning the traditional pulp realms of mystery, sword and sorcery, horror, science fiction, romance, and high adventure, in a series anthologies appropriately titled...Thrilling Adventure Yarns!
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"The Last Gunslinger"
by Mary Fan This pulp-style short story of the Old West plays with many classic genre tropes -- and upends a few. A band of rich hooligans upend a small Western town, but one young girl isn't about to take it anymore. Featured in... THRILLING ADVENTURE YARNS Edited by Robert Greenberger |
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"They'll Never Let You In"
by Mary Fan In this pulp-style horror story, a young woman yearns to join a secretive, elite club but soon discovers a dark secret behind those hallowed gates... Featured in... THRILLING ADVENTURE YARNS 2021 Edited by Robert Greenberger |
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"The Woman from Wuchu"
by Mary Fan In this noir detective story, a straight-laced detective turns to the mysterious Woman from Wuchu for help when one of his informants, a Chinatown sex worker, is murdered... Featured in... THRILLING ADVENTURE YARNS 2022 Edited by Bob Greenberger |
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"Zayne Stormrunner and the Prince of Saturn"
by Mary Fan In a space-opera world where the moons of Saturn are homes to thriving civilizations, tough-gal smuggler Zayne Stormrunner crash-lands on Dione to evade the authorities and disguises herself as a palace guard... only to be mistaken for the real deal when rebels attack and attempt to kidnap the prince. She reluctantly takes it upon herself to save the young man and soon finds herself in the middle of an interstellar conflict Featured in... THRILLING ADVENTURE YARNS 2025 Edited by Bob Greenberger |