Pulp Winds: Pulpish fiction and “fact”
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
posted by Miguel Martins
Pulp Winds, a collection of Wm. Michael Mott‘s short fiction, poetry and Forteana, was released earlier this month. The blurb sounds appealing: ”tales from the antediluvian world to lost cities beneath the earth, onward to other planets around distant stars, and even to the Dark Ages, the Old West and the High Seas.” Mott, a fan of REH and Clark Ashton Smith, promises “fast-paced, pulse-pounding accounts of action, horror, love, hate and gore” in a pulpish vein.
It includes introductions by Walter Bosley, Brad Steiger and Gerald W. Page. The design and art were intended to emulate the pulps.
The author makes references to eldritch tomes familiar to TC readers like Lovecraft‘s infamous Necronomicon and its Howardian counterpart the Book of Skelos. The Forteana section should resemble the research which can be found in Michael Mott’s Caverns, Cauldrons, and Concealed Creatures. Some tales and poems are reprints from material already published in Lost Continent Library Magazine or Planetary Stories.
A few excerpts from Pulp Winds can be read here.
