Beyond Pulp Reprints

From the forgotten queens of sci-fi and horror pulps, to vignettes of Black life in Chicago in the late 1950s, to time-traveling and galaxy-hopping puns, Beyond Pulp Reprints are dedicated to bringing lost, forgotten, or neglected out-of-print works back into print in editions that are both lovely and affordable. Most volumes include new supplementary materials, from carefully researched introductions to original artworks. 

Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot
Reginald Bretnor
December 2024

Between 1956 and 1992, Reginald Bretnor wrote 122 very short sci-fi stories about Ferdinand Feghoot, who travels through space and time solving interplanetary problems. Each story is an elaborate setup for an awesome/awful pun. They became a thing: “A feghoot … is a humorous short story or vignette ending in a pun (typically a play on a well-known phrase), where the story contains sufficient context to recognize the punning humor” (Wikipedia). They’ve been out of print for 30 years, and copies of the 1992 Pulphouse collected edition are selling for hundreds of dollars on eBay. Our deluxe new edition features a foreword by Dean Smith, Tim Kirk’s illustrations from the 1992 edition, and new illustrations by Eric Raglin, Bonnie Hockin, Bert SG, Betty Rocksteady, and others. The cover art will be one of Tim Kirk’s 1992 illustrations with a banner by Alex Ensign, colored by colorist Anton Blake.

Requiem for a Siren: Women Poets of the Pulps
Edited by Jaclyn Youhana Garver and Michael W. Phillips Jr.
December 2024

During the heyday of pulp magazines (the 1920s through the 1950s), horror poetry appealed to all readers and writers—not just men. At least a quarter of Weird Tales readers were women, and across 30 years of original, published pulp poetry, a third of the writers were women. Requiem for a Siren collects 101 poems by almost 50 women published in the pages of Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and other pulps. The mothers and godmothers of the genre, these women composed striking lyrics of death, monsters, hauntings, and nightmares. Some names you might recognize, like Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Dorothy Quick, and Leah Bodine Drake. Hopefully, you’ll discover new favorites, too.

Fettered and Other Tales of Terror
Greye La Spina
October 2023

Although she’s mostly forgotten now, in the heyday of the pulps, Greye La Spina was more successful than H.P. Lovecraft, with more than one hundred stories and serial novels published in magazines such as Weird Tales and The Thrill Book. Her reputation is on the rise, though, with her inclusion in several anthologies released in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Weird Tales. This volume is the single largest collection devoted to this unjustly neglected queen of pulp horror, containing three short stories, a novella, and a serial novel published in her first decade as a writer.

This Is Life: Rediscovered Short Fiction
Frank London Brown
June 2023

Frank London Brown was one of the most important voices in Black Chicago literature, whose 1959 book Trumbull Park is a vital portrait of segregation in the North. He died of leukemia in 1962 at the age of 34. Between November 1959 and November 1960, he wrote “This Is Life,” a series of very short stories (most of them around 200 words) for the Chicago Defender. These poignant, vibrant vignettes observed episodes of Black life in Chicago in Brown’s trenchant style. These stories were then forgotten—they’ve fallen out of copyright and have never been collected, and even Brown’s family were unaware of their existence. With a new introduction by award-winning novelist Sandra Jackson-Opoku and a poetic afterword by Nile Lansana.