Saunders is an author who does not get enough recognition for his accomplishments. Saunders even penned a brand new, African-American pulp hero in 2011 with his standalone novel Damballa.Ĭharles R. This has been changing in the twenty-first century to some degree, as more enthusiasm for pulpy adventure returns.

Black heroes would pop up from time to time, including the Shaft novels and an action/adventure series called Black Samurai (both from the 1970s) as well as the Kenyatta books from Donald Goines. However, these stories were targeting a specific audience, a male readership for the most part and generally not targeted toward African American readers. The years have seen numerous subsequent adventures involving some of those more notable characters. Their adventures would go in and out of print, picked up for paperback reissue here, eBook reissue there, their legacies ultimately tended by small presses. Although those characters originally appeared in magazines and on radio dramas back in the 1920s and 1930s, then maintained a readership well into the twenty-first century. In the paeon of pulp literature we find the precursors to the modern superhero craze in figures of mystery like The Shadow, The Spider, Doc Savage, and the occasional femme fatale like Domino Lady. Reaper fun – S… on The Night She Came Home: Steph…Īnger Management: Pr… on Those Silly, Damned Ornitholog…Īnger Management: Pr… on One Pissed Off Baboon: Sh…

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The Meeting of Yourself Is the Meeting of a Stranger: Tom Piccirilli’s The Dead Letters.

Eight Eyes to Watch You: Arachnid (2001).

Follow Me Into the Night: Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Silver Nitrate.

Imaro by Charles R. Saunders