Blood 'N' Thunder 2026 Special Edition

Now in its 24th year, the top-rated journal of adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the early 20th century is back with a new book-length edition containing more than 70,000 words and well over a hundred illustrations. Well-written, extensively researched articles and essays cover a variety of pulp and pop-culture topics, among them: the classic fantasy fiction magazine Unknown; a comprehensive multimedia history of Buck Rogers; the effects of the Great Depression on the pulp-magazine industry; the mutual admiration society between Maltese Falcon writer Dashiell Hammett and Doc Savage chronicler Lester Dent; eccentric magazine publisher Bernarr Macfadden and his best-known pulp Ghost Stories; a career overview of prolific Western-fiction author L. P. Holmes; the films of silent-movie serial queen Ruth Roland; and much more.

The contents of this year's Blood 'n' Thunder Special Edition have been put together with our patented blend of rigorous scholarship and fannish enthusiasm. Don't waste any time; get your copy today!