Classic Pulps
Tune into CLASSIC PULPS, a podcast delivering audio storytelling with rich story narration and a full cast of proprietary Digital Voice Actors (DVAs).
Each episode brings classic pulps alive, exploring mystery, horror, science fiction, Westerns, and more. This series honors the legacy of these American classics but includes a disclaimer for outdated social attitudes and stereotypes.
DISCLAIMER: These stories reflect the prejudices, stereotypes, and social attitudes of their time, which may be offensive or inappropriate by today’s standards.
Tune into CLASSIC PULPS, a podcast delivering audio storytelling with rich story narration and a full cast of proprietary Digital Voice Actors (DVAs).
Each episode brings classic pulps alive, exploring mystery, horror, science fiction, Westerns, and more. This series honors the legacy of these American classics but includes a disclaimer for outdated social attitudes and stereotypes.
DISCLAIMER: These stories reflect the prejudices, stereotypes, and social attitudes of their time, which may be offensive or inappropriate by today’s standards.
Episodes

Tuesday Feb 10, 2026
The Silence
Tuesday Feb 10, 2026
Tuesday Feb 10, 2026
On a pristine, welcoming world, newly arrived settlers mistake quiet for safety—unaware that the land itself is listening, waiting to decide when silence will answer back.
Published in SUPER SCIENCE STORIES (January, 1949). Written by Ray Bradbury.

Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
Tenderfoot at Love
Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
On a hard-pressed cattle ranch, a sharp-witted young woman finds her grit and judgment tested when a charming drifter rides in, stirring old wounds, fresh suspicions, and a risky game of trust under the wide-open western sky.
Published in RANGELAND ROMANCE (February, 1949). Written by Fay Davis.

Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
Die, Hamlet - Part Two
Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
On the night a legendary actor plays Hamlet for the last time, he invites his enemies to a glittering penthouse supper—then keeps his fatal promise, leaving a hard-boiled newspaperman to unmask the killer before the final curtain falls for good.
Published in DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY (March 5, 1938). Written by Richard Sale.

Tuesday Jan 06, 2026
Die, Hamlet - Part One
Tuesday Jan 06, 2026
Tuesday Jan 06, 2026
On the night a legendary actor plays Hamlet for the last time, he invites his enemies to a glittering penthouse supper—then keeps his fatal promise, leaving a hard-boiled newspaperman to unmask the killer before the final curtain falls for good.
Published in DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY (March 5, 1938). Written by Richard Sale.

Monday Jan 05, 2026
Let's Talk Pulps
Monday Jan 05, 2026
Monday Jan 05, 2026
From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY magazine.

Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
By Night They Creep - Part Six
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Trapped in an underground hell of disease and death, Paul Lawton turns his torment into fury to face the monstrous master of the plague! In a climax of fire and madness, the green horror is unmasked—and the true face of evil stares back from beyond the grave!
Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave

Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
By Night They Creep - Part Five
Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
Dragged into the heart of the swamp, Paul Lawton faces the ghastly truth behind the plague—a nightmare kingdom ruled by a man who has become a monster! As living corpses close in and the mad surgeon reveals his hideous revenge, Lawton’s only hope lies between love, horror, and the blazing fires of hell itself!
Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave

Tuesday Oct 14, 2025
By Night They Creep - Part Four
Tuesday Oct 14, 2025
Tuesday Oct 14, 2025
In a town gripped by a hideous plague, Paul Lawton races against madness and time to save the woman he loves from a fate written in green fire and death. But when the dead rise and the living vanish into the swamp, the line between man and monster dissolves in a nightmare of horror and revenge!
Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave

Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
By Night They Creep - Part Three
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
When the green plague tightens its grip on Rillwood, vengeance rises from the grave with arrows and blood-soaked warnings! Paul Lawton faces madness, murder, and a terror from beyond the veil that no man—or corpse—can escape!
Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave

Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
By Night They Creep - Part Two
Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
From the blighted heart of Blackwater Swamp comes a nightmare of deathless tribes and ghastly sacrifice! When Paul Lawton’s fevered wound turns green and a woman’s body hangs riddled with ancient arrows, the swamp’s unholy secrets crawl once more into the light of day!
Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave

Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
By Night They Creep - Part One
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
From the black, stinking depths of Blackwater rises a horror the Wampanoags dared not name! When Paul Lawton’s camera catches the ghastly truth—a human face behind the green glow—madness and murder slither from the slime to claim the living!
Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave

Monday Sep 22, 2025
Let's Talk Pulps
Monday Sep 22, 2025
Monday Sep 22, 2025
From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about HORROR STORIES magazine

Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
Atrakin and the Man
Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
Hunted by machine-men and betrayed by science, one father and son hold the only key to humanity’s survival. Can flesh and blood outwit Atrakin, the immortal metal tyrant who would rule the universe?
Published in SUPER SCIENCE STORIES (February, 1942). Written by Walter Kubilius.

Monday Sep 08, 2025
Let's Talk Pulps
Monday Sep 08, 2025
Monday Sep 08, 2025
From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about SUPER SCIENCE STORIES magazine

Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Terror of the Corpse Balloons - Part Two
Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
As the death toll rises Edward V. King and Pat Lee race to solve the murders by levitation. Can they release New York from the grip of fear?
Written by Nat Scachner for STRANGE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES (March/April1939).

Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Terror of the Corpse Balloons - Part One
Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
As a masked mastermind terrifies a city with unimaginable murders, only Edward V. King stands between the killers and their next victim—but even he may be too late.
Published in STRANGE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES (March/April1939). Written by Nat Scachner.

Monday Aug 25, 2025
Let's Talk Pulps
Monday Aug 25, 2025
Monday Aug 25, 2025
From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about STRANGE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES magazine

Tuesday Aug 12, 2025
Who is Natalie?
Tuesday Aug 12, 2025
Tuesday Aug 12, 2025
Tawny March thought juggling a Marine and a Soldier was trouble enough—until a wrong number brought a Navy man with eyes like storm-tossed seas! Now three uniforms, two proposals, and one sizzling secret threaten to set her heart—and her future—on fire!
Published in ALL-STORY LOVE (November, 1947). Written by Ruth Brown.

Monday Aug 11, 2025
Let's Talk Pulps
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about ALL-STORY LOVE magazine

Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
Tin Star
Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
After a ruthless outlaw gang blasts a frontier bank to splinters, an aging deputy joins forces with an ambitious sheriff whose hunger for glory may be deadlier than the killers they hunt—driving both men into a brutal mountain manhunt where pride, bullets, and fate collide.
Published in FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES (December, 1950). Written by George C. Appell.

Monday Aug 04, 2025
Let's Talk Pulps
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES magazine

Tuesday Jul 29, 2025
Hands Beyond the Grave
Tuesday Jul 29, 2025
Tuesday Jul 29, 2025
On the eve of his wedding, a wealthy young man is haunted by a ghostly apparition and a murderous force from beyond the grave—one that can possess his body, strike without warning, and turn the woman he loves into its final target.
Published in TERROR TALES (1934). Written by Henry Treat Sperry.

Monday Jul 28, 2025
Let's Talk Pulps
Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about TERROR TALES magazine.







