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Blood 'n' Thunder, the award-winning journal of vintage adventure, mystery, and melodrama, enters its third decade with a book-length barnburner of pulp and pop-culture scholarship! The all-star contributor lineup includes the late Robert Sampson (with a previously unpublished essay on gangster pulps) and Ron Goulart (on his personal relationship with legendary crime-fiction writer Cornell Woolrich), along with well-regarded pulp historian Don Hutchison (on the film adaptation of Woolrich's Black Albi), novelist Will Murray (on the excellent but long-forgotten Western scribe Clyde A. Warden), award-winning writers Rick Lai (on the intersection between the works of Robert E. Howard and Robert Bloch) and Gilbert Colon (on famous noir writer David Goodis), Old Time Radio researcher Karl Schadow (on the 1930-31 radio show adapted from Dell's Scotland Yard pulp), and historian Will Oliver (on the proposed continuation of Conan the Barbarian stories by Leigh Brackett). But that's not all. The Blood 'n' Thunder 2023 Special Edition also features vintage articles on the writing trade by pulp fictioneers Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Bloch, Frank Gruber, Wyatt Blassingame, and Robert Turner. Blood 'n' Thunder editor-publisher Ed Hulse contributes lengthy articles on Britain's classic story paper The Thriller and the early silent-era cliffhanger serials starring Francis Ford and Grace Cunard. It all adds up to more than 300 pages, 100,000 words, and a hundred-plus illustrations—an irresistible editorial package for fans and devotees of vintage pulp and pulp-adjacent pop culture.