Tag: pulp
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Manhattan Redlined, 1930
There are already some NYC entries in the “Thrilling Cities” series. However, I recently came across an academic website that provides all the historic maps drawn up by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) between 1935 and 1940. https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/ The HOLC was a New Deal federal agency created to maintain home ownership in the Great…
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Weird Pulp: Burgundia
In the search for Weird Pulp inspiration my eye fell on Burgundia, a setting created by Keith Haney. For the outlay of $17.99 I purchased the Burgundia Campaign Setting. For my money I got a 170-page pdf published in 2021 but most recently updated in September 2023. Burgundia describes itself as a “Fantasy Noir” supplement…
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Pulp NPCs
I was losing track of all the Pulp NPCs in various tables so I made an alphabetical listing to avoid re-inventing the wheel. Something here for everyone. Addenda Sod’s Law that I would find another table once I’d posted the lists. I include the additions below: nothing too exciting but they appeal to my sense…
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The Sick Man of Pulp Mitteleuropa
It is an instructive fact that under the influence of seduction humans can become polymorphously perverse, and can be led into all possible kinds of sexual irregularities. This shows that an aptitude for them is innately present in their disposition. Misquote of Sigmund Freud (1905) 1. Cambridge, England Client: Concerned Professor: Gilbert Ledwidge, scholar of…
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Pulp Mitteleuropa
I do and always shall maintain that it is the privilege of the richer but less mentally endowed members of the community to contribute to the upkeep of people like myself. Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (1933) The world was quite big and a lot of work. I wondered if a Europe only approach…
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Steam Launches of London Babylon
Steam Launches are the curse of the river. Driving along at an excessive rate of speed, the average steam-launch engineer is an unmitigated nuisance. Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames (1881) You may be thinking that this is a bit niche, but The Drones are currently weaving up Limehouse Reach in a plush Saloon Launch whilst…
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World-spanning Pulp Conclusions
Not all those who wander are lost. Tolkien The post on Gévaudan means that I’ve completed the first stage of the World-spanning Pulp project I began at the start of the winter. This is the tweaked summary of the campaign originally generated by the dice. Location: Mansion in New York City Client: Mimi Hardacre, beautiful…
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Gévaudan, 1930
In those frightful forests I was beset by an inhuman, a ghastly thing-a werewolf. The true werewolf is not (as many think) a man who may take the form of a wolf, but a wolf who takes the form of a man! Wolfshead To recap. The dice generators for World-spanning Weird Pulp sent Smith to…