Pulp Books

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan of the Apes is Edgar Rice Burroughs' hugely popular 1914 book that spawned two dozen sequels. A child of a white couple who are killed by an ape in the jungles of Africa, Tarzan is raised by a ..

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Before many of the current genres were cemented, Edgar Rice Burroughs began putting out a seemingly endless blur of sci-fi/fantasy/pulp fiction books, starting with A Princess of Mars. He would later ..

The Airlords of Han

Philip Francis Nowlan

Armageddon 2419 A.D. is a science fiction novella by Philip Francis Nowlan which first appeared in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel called The Airlords of Han was p..

Holocaust House

Norbert Davis

Norbert Davis perfected the craft of mixing humor and the detective-noir genres and Holocaust House is one good example of it. Doan, the "hero" of this story is a small-time detective with a dry, sard..

Breckinridge Elkins

Robert E. Howard

Breckinridge Elkins is a fictional character created by pulp writer Robert E. Howard. He was featured in twenty-six humorous Western short stories, most of which originally appeared in the pages of Ac..

The Skylark of Space

E. E. Smith

The Skylark of Space by Edward E. "Doc" Smith was written between 1915 and 1921 while Smith was working on his doctorate in chemistry. Though the original idea for the novel was Smith's, he co-wrote t..

I Remember Lemuria

Richard S. Shaver

Magic Names Are you interested in the almost forgotten past of the Earth? If you are, here is the wonder book of all time concerning the great catastrophe which destroyed the civilization which destro..

California Joe, the Mysterious Plainsman

Prentiss Ingraham

The Strange Adventures of an Unknown Man, whose real identity, like that of the 'Man of the Iron Mask,' is still unsolved..