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 Novel Of African Terror
The Devil’s Five
by Joe Musgrave
Four wooden-faced hunters and a cold-eyed girl. They trekked from the ends of the earth to that steamy Congo village. And even jungle-wise Bart Collins could not escape the murder web they stretched across the Tamboni bush.
A Complete Western Novel
The Owlhoot Angel
by L.P. Holmes
Bitter and deadly, Dave Wall rode the dark trails. He was Luke Lilavelt’s man, burning the dread Window Sash brand across all Arizona — gun-carving an empire for the hombre he’d sworn to kill!
A Novelet Of Gunslick Lexicons
Trail Of The Renegade Gun
by Walker A. Tompkins
For five years, Morse wore the Confederate grey of Hood’s Volunteers. Now he ramrodded a carpetbaggers’ town, throwin’ his lead for the Yankee greed-pack.
A Novelet Of Colt Retribution
“Six-Gun Fiesta”
by Wayne D. Overholser
Gold Plume was Duke Madden’s town, and he ruled by lobo law. There was no room in it for an ex-marshal like Harrigan — not alive.
Short Action Stories
Boothill Bonanza
by Charles McDermott
When you hang the kill-sign on an old sage rat, be sure it’s double-rigged and cinched tight.
Never Prod A Pilgrim
by Lee Priestley
Look sharp, podner, before you boot any creased pants. They may be drapin’ a bronco gent.
