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Nov 3 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!"

And today it's all about fleeing in white dresses... Image The Phantom Room by Elizabeth Erin Mande. Popular Library, 1971.

That is a huge choker she's wearing. Are they meant to be that big? Image
Nov 2 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Jon Juan: The One And Only Superlover!!

Issue 1, 1950. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Image Not Batgirl. Nope...

Miss Fury. Issue 7, Fall 1945. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Image
Oct 4 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!"

You can find these anywhere you know... Image The Woman Without a Name, by Laurence M. Janifer. Signet Books, 1973.

At least that makes the proofreading a bit easier... Image
Oct 3 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
The Time Machine, Brave New World, 1984: these weren’t the first dystopian novels. There's an interesting history of Victorian and Edwardian literature looking at the impact of modernity on humans and finding it worrying.

Today in pulp I look at some early dystopian books… Image Paris in the Twentieth Century, written in 1863, was the second novel penned by Jules Verne. However his publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel rejected it as too gloomy. The manuscript was only discovered in 1994 when Verne’s grandson hired a locksmith to break into an old family safe. Image
Oct 2 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Today in pulp... well it's mostly going to be Josh Kirby covers! Image The Caves Of Steel, by Isaac Asimov. Panther Books, 1958. Cover by Josh Kirby. Image
Sep 30 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Today in pulp I look back at the work of Victorian illustrator Sidney Sime.

Come this way... Image Sidney Sime was born in Manchester in 1865. After working as a miner for five years he studied illustration at the Liverpool School of Art. His work was first exhibited in 1889. Image
Sep 24 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Time for another pulp countdown, and today it's my top 10 public relations campaigns! Image At no 10: nuclear power! It's for nuclear families after all. Image
Sep 15 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Time for another pulp countdown, so here's my top 10 strangest settings for nurse romance novels!

Seriously, did you think they were all set in hospitals? Image At #10: nurse in society! Privilege and palliatives amongst the well-to-do and the well-to-don't. Image
Sep 14 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
Did you have a pocket calculator? In the 1970s it was the cutting edge of consumer tech!

Let's look back at its history... Image Compact electronic calculators had been around since the mid-1960s, although 'compact' was a relative term. They were serious, expensive tools for business. Image
Sep 13 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Today in pulp: can you judge a book by its cover?

Let's look at some unusual covers for popular novels and see... Image Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. Bestseller Library, 1966.

Elizabeth Bennet is probably wearing more lipstick than Austen intended, and the IKEA wall art isn't period, but otherwise this captures the spirit of the novel. ✅ Image
Sep 9 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
Time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!"

And today I try to answer an important question: why? Image The modern gothic romance has a very familiar cover: there is a house, usually with a single lit window. It's often night or at least the gloaming time. A woman is outside with long, luxurious hair, usually in an evening dress or night attire. Image
Aug 6 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Today in pulp... it's time to look back at a forgotten pulp genre: Crime Clowns!

"I didn't choose the crime clown life, the crime clown life chose me." Image We all know clowns are scary: they're also pretty indecent. Maybe it's their role in life - 'the rustic fool' - but frankly that's no excuse for the things they get up to!
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Jul 24 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Today in pulp... Rudolph Belarski covers! Image Tossed by fate...

A Woman Of Samaria, by James Wesley Ingles. Popular Library 299, 1950. Cover by Rudolph Belarski Image
Jul 19 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Today in pulp... a brief history of pain. Image What is pain? Well it's nature's way of telling you to stop doing something. It comes in many forms and has puzzled science and medicine for many centuries. Image
Jul 6 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Ceefax was the 1970s British analogue internet on your telly. As we're no longer sure what social media platform to be on nowadays let's take a look back at it.

Just waiting for the right page... Teletext is a way of sending text and very blocky graphics alongside a traditional TV signal, to be decoded and displayed by a suitably equipped telly.

Rumbelows could sort you out with a Ferguson or ITT compatible TV if you wanted to receive it.
Jul 1 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
As you can only view 600 tweets it's time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!"

Well you haven't fled Twitter yet... Ravenswood, by Janet Louise Roberts. Avon Books, 1971.

This is what 'hedge funds' used to be used for.
Jun 18 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Today in pulp I look back at the Witchploitation explosion of the late 1960s: black magic, bare bottoms and terrible, terrible curtains!

Come this way... Image Mainstream occult magazines and books had been around since late Victorian times. These were mostly about spiritualism, with perhaps a bit of magic thrown in. Image
Jun 7 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
The British music press: a print retrospective.

New Musical Express (March 1952 - March 2018) Image Melody Maker (January 1926 - December 2000). Image
Jun 5 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Today in pulp: proof (if it were needed) that all the ladies love a lad in lederhosen!

That's not Sean Bean btw... Image I know, it's an idle vice... Image
Jun 4 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!"

Today we visit Germany. This may involve compound nouns... Image Germany is of course the land of the spooky schloß, but there are many other domiciles that Frauen mit Tollen Haaren can flee from... Image
Jun 4 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Time I think to look at some of the art nouveau illustrations by J.R. Witzel for Jugend magazine... Image Josef Rudolf Witzel was an illustrator and painter born in Frankfurt in 1867. He was also one of the pioneers of art nouveau in Germany. Image