{"product_id":"blood-n-thunder-2024-special-edition-9798884872493","title":"Blood 'n' Thunder 2024 Special Edition","description":"\u003ci\u003eBlood 'n' Thunder\u003c\/i\u003e's annual book-length issue for 2024 packs nearly 100,000 words of pulp- and pop-culture history into 276 pages. As always, our in-depth articles combine rigorous scholarship with fannish enthusiasm, exploring the world of vintage adventure, mystery, and melodrama in pulp magazines and other storytelling mediums. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this issue novelist Will Murray weighs in on a \"lost\" detective story supposedly written by \u003ci\u003eMaltese Falcon\u003c\/i\u003e creator Dashiell Hammett. Canadian journalist and documentary filmmaker Don Hutchison contributes appreciations of the classic 1932 film \u003ci\u003eWhite Zombie\u003c\/i\u003e and pulp fiction that features Royal Canadian Mounted Police as heroes. Old Time Radio expert Karl Schadow documents a 1931 radio series that dramatized stories from \u003ci\u003eAdventure\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, the \"Dean of the Pulps.\" Paperback authority Gary Lovisi covers a mid-1920s series of proto-paperbacks reprinting yarns from the pulps. Fanastic-literature historian Will Oliver survey \u003ci\u003eThe Black Cat\u003c\/i\u003e, a late 19th-century magazine often cited as the precursor to \u003ci\u003eWeird Tales\u003c\/i\u003e for its periodic forays into the strange and supernatural. Matthew Bradley takes a close and comprehensive look at the early fantasy and science-fictional stories of acclaimed fictioneer and dramatist Richard Matheson. Gilbert Colon reviews the participation in science-fiction fandom of the late film critic Roger Ebert. \u003ci\u003eBlood 'n' Thunder\u003c\/i\u003e editor-publisher Ed Hulse takes a deep dive into the occult world of Chandu the Magician, whose long-running radio adventures and big-screen appearances thrilled millions of fans during the 1930s. Finally, there's another handful of how-to articles, culled from the long-ago pages of \u003ci\u003eWriter's Digest\u003c\/i\u003e, by such prominent pulp-fiction writers and editors as Erle Stanley Gardner, Hugo Gernsack, Henry Kuttner, and Leo Margulies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach article is profusely illustrated with vintage magazine covers and artwork, rare movie stills, vintage advertisements, etc.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869651308818,"sku":"9798884872493","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a3fa9b28-8b0d-4b4d-bad7-f2bab08170f2.jpg?v=1737764975","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blood-n-thunder-2024-special-edition-9798884872493","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}