Pulp Serial Novels & Novellas

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » June 20th, 2022, 5:09 pm

Many of the pulp magazines in the public domain have long stories and multi-part serials that were often novella and even novel length fiction by authors worthy of consideration. I've sought to try to compile as many of these as I can track down that are available in the hopes that they will be adopted as recording projects and made available to a new generation of people interested in genre tales.

Weird Tales
I've created a whole separate Weird Tales thread over here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=91246. Feel free to hop over there to dig into one of the kookiest and most influential pulp mags out there.

The Blue Book
The Unknown Mr. Kent By Roy Norton

Did you enjoy "The Prisoner of Zenda" ? — Yes. Will you enjoy "The Unknown Mr. Kent"? — Yes also — most emphatically. For Mr. Norton has written a novel of the same delightful sort as Anthony Hope's famous story, and he contrives to cast a most enchanting glamour about his doll-house kingdom of Marken and the exciting events which transpire therein.

https://archive.org/details/bb_1916_08/page/n165/mode/1up

Joan's Enemies by J. J. Bell [35,485 word count]

A torn strip of paper held the clue to vast wealth; and Joan and her lover knew many trials before it was found: an alluring mystery-story by the author of ‘“‘Wee Macgreegor.”

https://archive.org/details/blue-book-v-025-n-06-1917-10/page/1100/mode/1up

The Ship of Shadows by H. Bedford-Jones [39,046 word count]

A story of international intrigue and high adventure, by the author of “After the Manner of Asia.”

https://archive.org/details/BlueBookV030N04192002IbcBc/page/n147/mode/1up

The Man Who Knew by Charles K. Van Riper [25,469 word count]

A most unusual|and tensely exciting story, novel in plot, swift in action and appealing in its romance.

https://archive.org/details/BlueBookV031N06192010/page/n163/mode/1up

Lanky Bob by E. E. Harriman [24,410 word count]

This spirited story is of the West Western; you’ll thoroughly enjoy its rapid movement, picturesque background and exciting episodes.

https://archive.org/details/BlueBookV034N06192204/page/n167/mode/1up

Adrift by Rex Vancil Bixby [12,559 word count]

A thrilling story of high-air adventure by the gifted author of that well-remembered Blue Book Magazine success “Sand.”

https://archive.org/details/blue-book-v-037-n-02-1923-06/page/45/mode/1up

The Flaw by Carl Clausen [12,017 word count]

A crime conceived cleverly, carried out with daring and nerve. And yet— consider the way it turned out! An unusual and deeply interesting novelette
by the noted author of “The Four-fathom Wallop” and “Drill Proof.’

https://archive.org/details/blue-book-v-037-n-02-1923-06/page/177/mode/1up

The Florida Kid by Charles Horn [56,223 word count]

The fascinating chronicle of a hobo's progress — of his strange life and companions on the road, and of the events which impressed him so profoundly : a most unusual and interesting novel.

Part 1: https://archive.org/details/BlueBookV038N03192401/page/n6/mode/1up
Part 2: https://archive.org/details/blue-book-v-038-n-04-1924-02/page/84/mode/1up
Part 3: https://archive.org/details/blue-book-v-038-n-05-1924-03/page/94/mode/1up

Cactus and Rattlers By H. Bedford-Jones [28,777 word count]

The Far West takes the place of Mr. Bedford-Jones' beloved Far East in this full-of-action novelette and most effectively demonstrates the power and versatility of its noted author.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66996

The Riddle of the Rangeland By Forbes Parkhill [20,872 word count]

There’s a very special attraction in a good Western story; and My. Parkhill, himself a Westerner, has here written one of the best we have ever printed.

https://archive.org/details/blue-book-v-038-n-04-1924-02/page/166/mode/1up

Madagascar Gold by H. Bedford-Jones [19,095 word count]

Here’s a complete novelette about one of the least-known regions of the world —the great French- controlled island of Madagascar. This picturesque background is only one of the many attractions offered by one of the most remarkable stories we have ever printed.

https://archive.org/details/BlueBookV039N01192405AdsContentsPage/page/n169/mode/2up

The Barren Islands By H. Bedford-Jones [18,965 word count]

he venturesome hero of “Madagascar Gold” is likewise the central figure in this stirring narrative of strange and swift adventure in little known seas.

https://archive.org/details/blue-book-v-039-n-02-1924-06/page/168/mode/1up

The Crime at the Lafayette Arms By Dean L. Heffernan [19,597 word count]

This mystery story will hold your interest throughout and keep you amused in most delightful fashion, for Mr. Heffernan has a lively imagination and a deft touch.

https://archive.org/details/BlueBookV040N01192411/page/n173/mode/1up

Meshes of Mystery by Forbes Parkhill [15,528 word count]

Things happen with pleasing rapidity in this engaging story of a three-cornered struggle between city detectives and two bands of enterprising criminals.

https://archive.org/details/blue-book-v-040-n-03-1925-01/page/172/mode/1up

The Arnold Legacy by William Byron Mowery [16,375 word count]

The man who wrote "The Loon Lake Patrol" and "Red Heritage" is at his best in this absorbing drama of the North Woods mining country.

https://archive.org/details/BlueBookV044N01192611/page/n51/mode/1up

The Bar E Bar Bandit by Allan Hawkwood [16,005 word count]

A thrill-crammed tale of wild ways and wild days on a remote New Mexico cattle range.

https://archive.org/details/BlueBookV058N06193404/page/n141/mode/1up

The Black Mask Magazine
The Black Mask was hugely influential hard-boiled crime fiction magazine where some of the first stories from legendary authors like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler first appeared.

The Man who was Seven by J. Frederic Thorne [13,385 word count]

When a million dollars worth of gold, bonds and money goes missing from a locked bank vault, the authorities are stumped, especially because there’s a dead man with a knife in his back where the gold should be.To complicate matters, the dead man just looks like the person who checked into a hotel the previous day. There’s one problem.Seven men checked into seven hotels and clerks all gave the same description -- the dead man. Is it possible for one man to be in seven places at once, and end up dead in a bank vault, or is something more nefarious at work? That’s up to one determined detective to find it in J. Frederic Thorne’s classic mystery story.

https://archive.org/details/bm_1920_08/page/n4/mode/1up

Black Shadows by J.C. Kofoed [13,773 word count]

A prominent millionaire is found dead at his mansion—seemingly by his own hands. Cops say it’s a clear case of suicide. An up-and-coming newspaper reporter thinks otherwise. As more dead bodies pile up in the search for answers, no one knows who to blame in this exciting whodunit story.

https://archive.org/details/bm_1920_09/page/n4/mode/1up

The Man in the Black Mask by Harold Ward [13,165 word count]

IN accordance with the promise made to you three days ago, at exactly twelve o'clock to-day the tower on the northeast corner of your office will be blown up. I have no desire to shed innocent blood and ask you to see that the vicinity is kept clear of workmen at that hour.

"You will realize that I am under considerable expense and must insist that you reimburse me for the time lost while waiting for you to come to my terms. You will, therefore, add ten thousand dollars to the original sum of fifty thousand dollars asked for, for each week the amount demanded is unpaid.

"Three days from today at the hour of twelve, noon, your office will be demolished unless you grant my demands. Later, we will discuss the question of destroying your entire factory. Let today's explosion be a warning to you that I do not indulge in idle threats.

https://archive.org/details/bm_1920_11/page/n4/mode/1up

The Prisoner Speaks by J. Frederic Thorne [10,279 word count]
https://archive.org/details/bm_1921_12/page/n4/mode/1up

The Campaign for Vengeance by John Baer [15,392 word count]
https://archive.org/details/bm_1922_04/page/n62/mode/1up

Blueberry Pie by Thyra Samter Winslow [9,160 word count]
https://archive.org/details/bm_1922_08/page/n4/mode/1up

Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories was the first pulp magazine dedicated entirely to speculative and science fiction and was where many famous sci-fi writers were published early.
The Man who Saved the Earth by Austin Hall [18,688 word count]
https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume01Number01/page/n75/mode/2up

Station X by G. McLeod Windsor [69,577 word count]

His novel Station X (1919) is a novel of the radio age and was noted by H.P. Lovecraft as a "semi-classic" in his 1934 essay “Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction”. The novel narrates a psychic invasion of the Earth from Mars, told much in the manner of Jules Verne.

Part 1: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume01Number04/page/n3/mode/1up
Part 2: https://archive.org/details/amazing_stories_august_1926/page/n70/mode/1up
Part 3: https://archive.org/details/amazing_stories_september_1926/page/n49/mode/1up

The Moon Hoax by Richard Adams Locke [19,675 word count]

The Moon Hoax was concocted by Richard Adams Locke, the editor of the Sun, and today it reads not just as a parody of science and faith or a prank on a gullible public but also, somehow, as a transference of some of the energy that had led to those riots.

https://archive.org/details/amazing_stories_september_1926/page/n77/mode/1up

Beyond the Pole by A. Hyatt Verill [29,648 word count]

Deep in an unexplored part of Antarctica lives a strange and mysterious race… Beyond the Pole.

Part 1: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume01Number07/page/n4/mode/1up.
Part 2: https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume01Number08/page/n52/mode/1up

Through the Crater's Rim by A. Hyatt Verill [14,575 word count]

Our adventurer's find a strange race living within an extinct volcanic crater somewhere in Central America

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » June 20th, 2022, 5:09 pm

Just FYI, this is a work in progress. I'll hopefully be adding a bunch more here in the future.

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » June 22nd, 2022, 5:11 am

I added to the first post all the novellas and serials available from The Blue Book (given the piecemeal availability of that publication, many of the serials I had to omit due to one or more parts being from a missing issue).

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » October 24th, 2022, 2:12 pm

Just added more serials/novellas to Thrill Book and moved Detective Story Magazine into a separate thread.

flavo5000 · Post by **flavo5000** » March 8th, 2023, 5:54 pm

Just added the 1927 serials and novellas from Amazing Stories. Looks like some good stuff in there from authors like Ray Cummings, A. Hyatt Verill and Garrett P. Serviss!