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[esonetwork]

'Captain Moxley and the Embers of the Empire' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'Captain Moxley and the Embers of the Empire' Book Review By Ron Fortier

CAPTAIN MOXLEY and the Embers of the Empire By Dan Hanks Angry Robot 375 pgs

One look at artist Daniel Strange’s collage cover and you would expect to read a rollicking, over-the-top action-packed pulp adventure. Sadly, often times as the old saw tells us, you can’t judge a book by its cover. In this rare and wonderful instance, you most bloody well can. “Captain Moxley and the Embers of Empire” is pretty much everything a good solid new pulp tale should be. It has a great protagonist, a wonderful supporting cast, and some truly weird and deadly villains. And it all takes place on an alternate earth not our own.

Wow, that’s a lot of good stuff. Indeed it is, and Hanks pulls it off beautifully. In this “other” earth, World War II has ended and former British fighter pilot, Samantha (Sam to family and friends) is in New York City to find her sister Jess who she believes has been kidnapped by a secret cabal known as the Nine. She was once one of their agents, but soon realized they were corrupt and left their ranks. Something they frown upon very badly.

As it turns out, Sam finds her sister busy at work on a new exhibition at the Natural Museum of Science in Manhattan. Jess is an archeologist, and along with her colleague and boyfriend, Will, is about to put on display an ancient artifact the Nine want. Sam arrives in the nick of time, fouls the attempted kidnapping/robbery, and then is off to Paris, along with Jess and Will, to contact Professor Edward “Teddy” Ascher, a former flying pal of French/Arab descent and leading expert on the Hall of Records, a supposed lost depository of the world’s accumulated knowledge hidden beneath the sands of Egypt.

It is Sam’s belief that the Nine’s primary goal is to find the hidden library because among its many wonders is a power source of unbelievable strength that would allow them to become masters of the world. Teddy proceeds to tell her aside from the amulet Jess has in her possession, there remains one other artifact, a key, supposedly hidden in the catacombs beneath Paris. Without it, the amulet is useless. Needless to say, Sam and her team of three soon find themselves racing against their enemies under the city streets to find that lost key.

If all this echoes the Indiana Jones movies, it is because Dan Hanks blatantly lists those films and many others, including pulps and comics, as his inspirations for writing this bold, in-your-face adventure. It is a fast-paced page-turner with so much action as to leave the reader for breath by its climatic finale. Oh, and as if that wasn’t enough to satiate your need for pulp thrills, the ending fades out with the obvious intent of a sequel. One we cannot wait to get our hands on. “Captain Moxley and the Embers of Empire” is a hoot, pulp fans. We found it at Amazon. You should pick it up now. Don’t wait another minute.

#Action Adventure #Alternate History #Angry Robot #book review #Capain Moxley #Dan Hanks #ESO Book Review #ESO Network #Pulp #Pulp Book Review #Pulp Fiction #Pulp Tale #Ron Fortier.

[doomreturn]

T. Wyatt Nelson - Lugosi as Dracula

(Weird Tales - October 1932)

#bela lugosi #dracula #weird tales #universal studios #universal monsters #universal horror #vintage horror #horror art #pulp horror

[weirdlookindog]

T. Wyatt Nelson - Lugosi as Dracula

(Weird Tales - October 1932)

#t. wyatt nelson #demons of the film colony #dracula #bela lugosi #universal monsters #weird tales #horror art #pulp art #illustration

[the-evil-clergyman]

Witch-House, from Weird Tales by Virgil Finlay (Nov. 1936)

#virgil finlay #art #illustration #1930s #1930s art #vintage art #vintage illustration #vintage #pulp illustration #pulp magazine #american artist #american art #american illustrators #weird tales #seabury quinn #witch #witchcraft #witches #classic art

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Creeps book series (1932-1936)

#creeps anthology #vintage horror books #vintage book covers #pulp art #horror art #30s horror #charles birkin #horror literature #supernatural fiction #uneasy tales #philip allan publishers #philip simmonds #1930s

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Pulp - Saucy Movie Tales (Mar1936)

Art by Norman Saunders

Movie Digest

#Pulp #Saucy Movie Tales #Film #Norman Saunders #Women #GGA #Good Girl Art #Movie Digest #Vintage #Art #Magazines #South Seas #1936 #1930s #30s #Pulp Art #Pulp Illustration

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

From Weird Tales, 1943. Unknown Artist.

#From Weird Tales #1943 #40's #40s #art #artwork #painting #comics #vintage pulp art #memento mori #skull #skeleton #skele #horror aesthetic #terror aesthetic #b&w #sketch art #sketch

[oakendesk]

Shock Mystery Tales Mar 1962

Carl Pfeuffer

#pulp magazine art #pulp art #pulp art 1962 #Shock Mystery Tales #Carl Pfeuffer art #byronrimbaud

[thefugitivesaint]

Alan Hunter (1923-2012), ''Fantasy Tales'', Vol. 2, #3, Summer 1978 Source

#Alan Hunter #fantasy tales #pulp magazines #horror fiction #black & white illustration #horror art

[trashmenace]

Weird Tales October 1933

#pulp #weird tales #fake

[goryhorroor]

horror + uncanny tales covers

#i loved these so much #horror #uncanny tales #art #pulp fiction #pulp fiction art #horroredit

[esonetwork]

'Sahara Six' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'Sahara Six' Book Review By Ron Fortier

SAHARA SIX (A Mace Bullard Patrol) By James Hopwood Pro-Se Press 126 pg

Adventure tales of the French Foreign Legion were a staple of the classic pulp magazine titles. These were hardy stories of brave men who for whatever reasons were societies’ cast-offs and banded together under the French flag. It was a brotherhood where loyalty was demanded and survival was never guaranteed.

Writer James Hopwood wonderfully captures both the non-stop action and pure essence of those early action yarns with his Mace Bullard series. Bullard is a man with no past, suffering amnesia after having been mugged on the streets of Rabat. Thus he joins the local Legion troop and is accepted by them without so much as a shrug. Soon he finds himself stationed at Fort Granuille. There, while on patrol under the command of a tough by-the-book Sgt. Le Pen, Bullard sees combat against a group of Malaci Arab raiders. When Le Pen is knocked unconscious, Bullard takes command and saves the patrol but refuses to follow the remaining enemy into the hellhole desert known as The Sun’s Anvil.

Because of this decision, Le Pen charges him with insubordination and Commander Renault has no option but to punish Bullard by assigning him to a distant outpost called Sahara Six. There Bullard finds a dilapidated fort occupied only but three men, one woman, and a dog. The captain is a drunk, the cook a woman, the mechanic has only one hand and the remaining rookie legionnaire is Sgt. Le Pen’s own nephew. All the other soldiers had long since deserted leaving this motley group behind. And if that wasn’t bad enough, shortly after his arrival, the outpost finds itself under siege by another band of Malaci following the orders of their leader, the fanatical El Hakim.

From the first page to the last, “Sahara Six” propels the reader along with reckless panache expertly showcasing one action sequence after another. All of which are brilliantly described in glorious pulp bravura. There is nothing slow or boring about this tale and fans of the old pulps are in for a rousing treat. New Pulp has never been better.

#book review #ESO Network #ESO Network Book Review #James Hopwood #Mace Bullard #Pro-Se Press #Pulp Review #Pulp Tale #Ron Fortier #sahara six

[mistymountainmonster]

#90s #90s core #retro #retro 90s #mine #heart #my old posts #tales from the crypt #vintage pulp #pulp #horror #horror tv #vintage horror #retro horror #cybercore

[weirdlookindog]

Have you ever sat on a grave and heard a voice, unmistakably from below, say '’Aren't you going to invite me up?”

Boris Dolgov (1910-1958) - Illustration for August Derleth's 'Pikeman'

(Weird Tales - January, 1956)

#boris dolgov #pikeman #august derleth #weird tales #horror art #pulp art #art #story illustration #illustration

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Never Mess With a Witch - art by Frank Kelly Freas (1989)

#frank kelly freas #80s fantasy art #weird tales magazine #pulp art #cover art #never mess with a witch #1980s #1989

[mudwerks]

Weird Tales - January 1936 (Popular Fiction)

Classic cover by Margaret Brundage.

#Weird Tales #Margaret Brundage #cover #art #vintage #pulp #1936 #Popular Fiction