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 Mystery Range
Brand Of The Gallows Ghost
by Les Savage, Jr.
“Get out, Señorita Scorpion, while there is still time. You ride a bad road — a road that leads to hell and don’t ever come back.”
A Novelet Of Wagon-Trains West
The Devil’s Bull-Whackers
by William Heuman
He was fighting a man he hated. He was beating a trail, and topping a record... and breaking the girl he loved.
A Novelet Of The Gun-Swift West
Gun-Talk Serenade
by William R. Cox
Fight talk. Range War. The thunder clouds gathered... and a tide of fate swept Rim Logan to a meeting with death.
Short Stories
One Bullet For Bad-Eye
by Tom W. Blackburn
Etienne’s woman said he would die. Perhaps she was right. He had but one bullet... and the murderers were two.
Shadow Of A Fullback
by Ted Roemer
The Indians were pleading for his old football magic, his power drives through the line. Couldn’t they see he was tired, washed up?
Brahmas Are Murder
by Noel Loomis
Ted Frost hadn’t finished a ride in six weeks, and he hadn’t been thrown — he’d jumped!
Grubhoe Gunny
by William J. Glynn
He’d had his warning: “Give up your land or die.” Okay. It was his move now. Let ‘em come —
Lawmen Die Hard
by John Quayle, Jr.
Gunsmoke shrouded the valley. Rustlers milked it dry. Pop Wilkes had to act and act fast — or turn in his star.
Company For The Corpse
by Richard Brister
This is one murder case that won’t need no solving.
