Pulp (Pulps and related books)
DETECTIVE FICTION.
Kokomo, IN: Popular Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This title Detective Fiction is the final incarnation of Detective Fiction Weekly for the final six issues. Includes "Get Thee Behind Me," by John D. MacDonald and a reprint of the Cornell Woolrich story "The Two Deaths of Barney Slabaugh." Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 135-137.
DETECTIVE FICTION.
Kokomo, IN: Popular Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This title Detective Fiction is the final incarnation of Detective Fiction Weekly for the final six issues. Includes "Violence Inherited" by John D. MacDonald. Also fiction by Carroll John Daly, Joel Townsley Rogers and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 135-137.
DETECTIVE MYSTERY NOVEL MAGAZINE.
New York: Best Publications, Inc., 1948. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Johnston McCulley short story.
DETECTIVE NOVEL MAGAZINE.
New York: Best Publications, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This issue features an alternative to the uncommon hardcover of the novel "The Grindle Nightmare" by Q. Patrick. Douglas Swanson and Antonio Conti, researchers at the Rhodes University Hospital, are under attack from the SPCA for experimental animal research they are conducting to develop new serums and vaccines. When the isolated rural community of Grindle Valley is suddenly victim to a series of horrific animal mutilations involving pets and livestock, Swanson and Conti are the prime suspects, but subsequent incidents force authorities to accept that the town is under attack from a homicidal maniac. Several individuals report seeing a body dragged behind a car through the streets late at night, and soon Jo Baines, a farmer, is found drowned in a creek, his body mangled and broken, his hands caught in animal traps. His young daughter, Polly, who has mysteriously disappeared is later found dead, cruelly bound and hoisted into the branches of a tree where she has died from loss of blood and exposure. THE GRINDLE NIGHTMARE is a grisly, violent crime novel that most closely resembles the weird thrillers found in the shudder pulps of the 1930s or a book by Mark Hansom or R. R. Ryan if either of those authors were better writers capable of constructing coherent plots and characters, regardless of how improbable. In the August 10, 1935 issue of The Saturday Review, William C. Weber summed up THE GRINDLE NIGHTMARE thus: “More nasty people and unpleasant events you’ll never find between two covers. Verdict: Ghastly.” A tense, fast-paced work whose emphasis on abnormal psychology and communicated madness brings the novel squarely into the horror genre. This issue also includes short fiction by Norman Daniels and Ray Cummings. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 142-144.
DETECTIVE NOVEL MAGAZINE.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Death for Clara" by Q. Patrick. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 142-144.
DETECTIVE STORY ANNUAL.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. The first in this annual series. Reprints stories from various Street and Smith's magazines 1939-40. Includes Cornell Woolrich ("You'll Never See Me Again"), Frank Gruber, Steve Fisher, Cleve Adams, William Campbell Gault and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 147-148.
DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Edgar Wallace, Mel Watt, Herman Landon and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 148-151.
DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Mystery fiction.
DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.
DETECTIVE TALES [CANADIAN ISSUE].
Toronto, Canada: Popular Publications, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue, contents correspond to the October 1944 U. S. publication, though drops two stories. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES [CANADIAN ISSUE].
Toronto, Canada: Popular Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue, contents correspond to the June 1942 U. S. publication. Fiction by Norbert Davis, Frederick C. Davis and others. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Story by Day Keene and others. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazine." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES [CANADIAN ISSUE].
Toronto, Canada: Popular Publications, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue, contents correspond to the July 1945 U. S. publication, though drops one story. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1948. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazine." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES [CANADIAN ISSUE].
Toronto, Canada: Popular Publications, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue, contents correspond to the August 1943 U. S. publication. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES [CANADIAN ISSUE].
Toronto, Canada: Popular Publications, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue, contents correspond to the August 1943 U. S. publication. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazine." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES.
Kokomo, IN: Popular Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a John D. MacDonald story, "Over My Dead Body," and other fiction by Hugh B. Cave, William Campbell Gault, Richard Wormser and others. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES [CANADIAN ISSUE].
Toronto, Canada: Popular Publications, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue, contents correspond to the January 1945 U. S. publication, though drops two stories. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1948. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Day Keene, Bruno Fischer and others. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. John D. MacDonald story, "Run, Sister, Run." Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazine." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES.
Kokomo, IN: Popular Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a John D. MacDonald story, "Case of the Gorgeous Gams," also fiction by William Campbell Gault, Gil Brewer and others. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes W. T. Ballard, Day Keene, John Corbett and others. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.
DETECTIVE TALES.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Day Keene, W.T. Ballard, and others. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazine." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.