Venture Press: 67 books

The gruesome discovery of a dead banker shocks a sleepy coastal town in Scotland. Clearly, a serial killer is on the loose, and an internal leak is giving sensitive information to the media. Enter hard-boiled detective DI Bob Valentine. After a near-death experience, disturbing visions plague him...

This issue's Big Pulp is "Homicide Hotfoot" by Robert Leslie Bellem. Another wild ride with Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, helping a movie comedy team on the receiving end of a literal punchline. Theodore Roscoe's "Luck!" follows a hapless gambler experiencing a miraculous winning...

by Mickey Spillane Edited by Max Allan Collins & Lynn F. Myers, Jr. 40 fast-moving short-short stories by the creator of Mike Hammer! Before Mike Hammer, P.I. made his explosive debut in I, the Jury, author Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) toiled in relative obscurity, writing...

This issue's main feature is "The Great Green Blight" by Emmett McDowell -- a 20,000 word short story of high adventure and space opera. Spaceliners fell prey to savage phantom crews. A small band of men fight to save the Empire from destruction, but a single step could spell death! Also,...

Does science fiction have the answer for illegal immigration? "Highway J" by Charles Eric Maine depicts a world where a wall must be built within the time-stream! Illegal immigration is the hot-button topic these days -- especially now that President Donald J. Trump is moving forward...

Pulp Adventures continues its quarterly journey across the landscape of pulp fiction. This issue travels from the South Seas to London back alleys, and stops in smoky firehouses in the Windy City! The highlight of this issue is “The Daughter of Huang Chow” by Sax Rohmer, a classic thriller by...

"A yearning for connection binds many of the stories in Jeff Boyle’s fine collection. His lean, muscular prose reads as smooth as a flat sea. Yet still waters can disguise powerful undertows, and to slip into Boyle’s world is to risk being swept away. Let yourself go, and when the current releases...

To some, the postage stamps were colored bits of paper, worth mere pennies. Other people coveted them, preserved them, spent thousands of dollars to acquire them. One person in New York City was driven to commit murder.... Max Adrian was the rare stamp broker everyone in the know avoided — and those...

MYSTERY, SCIENCE FICTION, HORROR — NEW AND CLASSIC PULP FICTION! Audrey Parente, editor A tale of Romans and Catholics during the reign of mad Caligula by Talbot Mundy; a young woman becomes embroiled in a murder investigation on the eve of her wedding in a mystery by Charles Boeckman; Chinatown...

Fall 2014 — The relaunch of Pulp Adventures boasts an all-star line-up! The greatest names in new and classic pulp fiction! Stories include: "Fury In Vermont" by Ron Fortier — The stunningly seductive adventuress Kate Fury in a fight to the death against zombies! "Toothpick"...

What happened when Maximum Woman literally became too big for her britches? How did immortality kill Perpetual Man? The Silver Ballerina had a lot to cope with when her triumphant theme music faded away, and she succumbed to paralysis. The Golden Years of Super-Heroes aren't always golden,...

Surrounded by an unfamiliar language, references and ideas, many students coming here to learn English along with newcomers hoping to start a new life in the United States find themselves quickly overwhelmed and bewildered. This book is their road map to an American culture that has enveloped them...

LOVE STORY WRITER is crammed with practical information on the art and craft of creating and selling the romantic story. It does not pretend to "teach" you how to write. Yet the novice or the professional writer will find more help in this wise and witty book than in many so-called text books. It...

The author of The Comic Book Killer offers up twelve tales of mystery, magic, and grouchiness—served with a liberal dash of sarcasm and cynicism. A woman’s birthday celebration becomes a prelude to murder; an absinthe-minded author seeks inspiration from a bottle; a rare volume could destroy the...