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:
Complete South African Novelet
Sand and Diamonds
by Victor Rousseau
Rawlins and Simons melted like ghosts into the ominous maw of Ngami
Complete Feature Adventure Action Novel
The Menace of Mastodon Valley
by Kenneth Gilbert
White man’s pluck in the nightmare mazes of a prehistoric jungle
Action Short Stories
Pink Lady
by Frank Richardson Pierce
An Irish feud, a practical joke — and the decks of a dreadnought run red!
Carry On!
by John C. Cudoba
Biting bolos cannot purge the man who weakens in the Service
The Winged Ones
by H. Field Leslie
Blood flows on the Treasure Trail — and Splint Moraine settles with fate!
All Clear
by Douglas Oliver
The swivel-chair captain thought all lieutenants made good cannon-fodder
The Killing at Dead Man’s Run
by Howard E. Morgan
A Mountie laughs, and swings a punch at Death
Departments
Question Trail
On the outtrails of the globe with Action experts
World Adventurers
Action readers spin true yarns as real and gripping as fiction!
Man Talk
Behind the scenes with Action’s staff of writers