Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
Action Stories was one of many pulp magazines published by Fiction House, also known for their air pulps (Air Stories, Wings, Aces, George Bruce's Air Novels), western pulps (Lariat Stories, Frontier Stories, Civil War Stories), sports pulps (Fight Stories, Baseball Stories, Football Action), detective pulps (Detective Classics, Detective Book Magazine, Bull's-Eye Detective), science fiction pulps (Planet Stories) and general adventure pulps (True Adventures, Jungle Stories, Sheena). Action Stories published its first issue in September 1921. During its 30-year run, it contained a mixture of subjects, including sports fiction, war stories, adventures in exotic locations, a few science fiction tales, and a good smattering of western adventures. If a story couldn't find a place in any of the other Fiction House pulps, there was always room for it in Action Stories. Not to say these were second-tier stories, each was top-notch quality, which explains why the magazine survived for an amazing 224 issues. The final issue was published in the fall of 1950. Action Stories now returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
A Complete Western Novel
“Vengeance In My Holster”
by William Chamberlain
Only grim Steve Handrahan could follow that trail, as it thinned out across rocking dance-hall floors, vanished in thundering gunsmoke, or back-tracked through sudden pools of blood... No trail could grow cold for Steve that was made by his dad’s bushwhack killer.
Smashing Novelet Of The Range
Ghost-Rider Of Hang-Tree Basin
by Rollin Brown
They hunted him across a land already scorched with gunflame and slaked with blood. And he ran and hid from them like a rabbit — until he was ready. Then Matt Cruze strode into town — and his crashing guns chanted the end of evil in that place.
Short Action Stories
Gun-Sight
by Allan K. Echols
Six lead slugs for a brace of killers — and a sparkling diamond for his girl... Was this too big a load for even rugged young Rick Woodbine?
Boot-Hill For Sod-Busters
by William Heuman
When he rode in, the town was a pot-full of hot lead coming to a nice boil. All that was needed to blow the lid off was a strange waddy named Smith. Well, his name was Smith
Gambler’s Draw
by William J. Glynn
Deputy McBride was greased lightning with a gun, but Sherry Carter had slippery fingers himself. And he had a hole-card no star-totin’ gun-hawk could duck.
Blood-Spoor Of The Devil-Stones
by Dan Cushman
The white-skinned one crept through the jungle’s malarial gloom. Chattering monkeys froze, eyeing the right arm that ended in a gleaming talon, the heavy guns, the hawk-like eyes.... It was Armless O’Neil, once more tracking treasure to its death-haunted lair!
