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
Gun-Angel Of Hell’s Hideout
by Rollin Brown
Ward Yarbo’s Rafter J hardcases held a tight loop on Nuevo Springs. And the one man who could cut their lead-backed dally was clamped in a murder frame, his guns jail-hobbled.
A Novel Of Colt Retribution
Shadow Of A Lobo
by Wayne D. Overholser
Armfield’s toll road was life itself to the mountain-locked valley. To keep it open, even peaceful citizens might turn to murder.
A Smashing Northland Novelet
Spoilsmen Of Eldorado
by John Starr
The strongest fist north of Chilkoot belonged to King Hardesty, and Alaska was his kingdom — until the day his luck went cold.
A Novelet Of Darkest Africa
The Forgotten Of Allah
by Dan Cushman
The ways of fate are devious in Africa’s vast, mysterious land. Sometimes, as Kellar learned at Tahoula, it is easier to escape three deaths than one.
Short Action Stories
Showdown Colts
by Ben Frank
Who in all that fear-frozen crowd would challenge Curly Red’s killer rep? Who but a ragged, barefoot button named Ronny.
Blind Sixes
by C. Hall Thompson
When ambush death struck Kinkaid, Willie Maw was the only witness. But the killers weren’t worried — Willie Maw was blind.
Dead Men Don’t Draw
by Giles A. Lutz
Grimly, Deputy Ben Keiper laid his trap — a two-way death noose for the vacant-eyed giant and the girl with the bushwack guns.
Lead-Branded
by Hascal Giles
McKay was safe. Nobody believed that story the Indians told at Raton Pass — until Matt Stone rode in with a five-year-old bullet, and the gun to sling it.
