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:
1814 — The Battle Of New Orleans
Breed Of Battle
by William Heuman
Three nations fought for Louisiana, and facing them was Andy Jackson and his rabble army, foredoomed to defeat — betrayed by a traitorous friend.
A Novel Of The Great Southwest
The Curse Of Montezuma
by Les Savage Jr.
Señorita Scorpion was helpless against the murder-tide of the Montezuma fanatics — for fighting her was the man she loved.
A Novelet Of War-Torn Skies
Hell Over Burma
by Orlando Rigoni
Only Captain Dedman could break the Nips’ squeeze play — by flying straight into a yellow trap, guided by a traitor whose life he’d saved.
Action Short Stories
Owlhoot Phantom
by Ben Frank
Johnny James had a theory about capturing the owlhooter Jock Pete — only somewhere his reasoning was making a slip.
Captain Satan
by Frank Bonham
His men hating him, his record a black disgrace, Captain Standage gave orders — sending his regiment to certain death.
Maverick Sire
by Joe Austell Small
Young Ben Watson’s problem was too great for a small boy — if he did not shoot and kill his father, his life was forfeit.
Shoot And Be Damned!
by Jackson V. Scholz
Embittered Joe Reed had hired out his guns and his shooting skill — to prove to himself that two wrongs make a right.
