 | The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $7.09 Otto Penzler is a formidable name in the ranks of crime fiction anthologists.
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 | Fright (Hard Case Crime) by Cornell Woolrich
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.57 Woolrich is best known as the author -- under the name William Irish -- of the story on which Alfred Hitchcock based his film REAR WINDOW.
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 | The Wounded and the Slain by David Goodis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.09 Goodis wrote noir nightmares. This will keep you awake at night.
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 | Lingo And Partners of Peril: Two Classic Adventures Of The Shadow by Maxwell Grant
Buy used from: $8.00 Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!
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 | Doc Savage: "Land of Always Night" and "Mad Mesa" by Kenneth Robeson
Buy used from: $1.90 Two action-packed novels featuring that larger-than-life hero, Doc Savage, who influenced later pop culture characters like Superman, Batman, James Bond, and Indiana Jones.
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 | Comedy: Original Radio Broadcasts (Old Time Radio Shows)
Buy used from: $31.40 Set the mood for your pulp-era reading by spinning a CD with some Old Time Radio shows. Everybody deserves a laugh -- what better gift is there than to make someone smile?
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 | Mystery: Old Time Radio Shows (Orginal Radio Broadcasts)
Buy used from: $5.00 If you're in a more adventurous mood, try Mystery: Old Time Radio Shows.
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 | Walt and Skeezix: Book One (Bk. 1) by Frank King
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $8.00 GASOLINE ALLEY was a great, down-to-earth comic strip that aged with its characters, that showed readers humor in the everyday lives of normal people. In this sort of everyday domestic setting the pulp magazines brought color and larger-than-life Gosh-Wow-Pow!
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 | Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Jack Kirby
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $21.89 Speaking of Gosh-Wow-Pow! . . . Jack Kirby distilled SF pulp magazines, World War II, superhero comics, cosmic high drama informed by the mind-expanding culture bursting forth in 1960s-1970s California to create what DC Comics called his Fourth World series of books. 18 titanic tales of eye-popping, energy-crackling excitement by The King. This is Big Fun!
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 | Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1947 (Steve Canyon Series) by Milton Caniff
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $4.75 With the strip's launch in 1947, we see Steve encounter the sort of femme fatales and snappy patter you may be accustomed to seeing in noir films from the era. Fresh after the War, infused with a Raymond Chandleresque feel for heroes and villains only a step or two removed from Black Mask magazine, this is great stuff.
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 | An Eye of the Fleet (Mariner's Library Fiction Classics) (Mariner's Library Fiction Classics) by Richard Woodman
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.00 If you've read your way through Horatio Hornblower, try a nautical series with a similar Argosy-magazine pace: Richard Woodman's Nathaniel Drinkwater series.
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 | Magellania by Jules Verne
Set near Terra del Fuego, this first authentic translation into English of a novel written by Verne in 1897, but not published until after his death in a version extensively rewritten by his son, Michel, under the title The Survivors of the Jonathan (1909).
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 | Christopher's Ghosts by Charles McCarry
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $0.01 Charles McCarry's Paul Christopher espionage series keeps alive the traditions of realistic pulp writing as it was practiced in top-tier fiction magazines like Adventure and Blue Book.
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 | Vampire City by Paul Feval
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $16.84 Pre-pulp fiction from France, featuring vampires long before Bram Stoker gave the world Dracula.
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 | Paragaea: A Planetary Romance by Chris Roberson
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $1.90 Roberson re-imagines the scientific romance -- as practiced by pulp masters Edgar Rice Burroughs, Otis Kline, Leigh Brackett and others.
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