Welcome to the World of Australian Pulp Fiction

This blogging page contains information about Australian pulp fiction writers of the 1950s. It is part of my ongoing ARC research project which started a few years ago and resulted in my book Pulp : a collector's book of Australian pulp fiction covers. If you are interested in purchasing this book it is available from the National Library of Australia.

Of course Australia isn't the only country which produced "pulp" fiction; hence the name of this blog. I am particularly interested in Australia's place in the world of pulp. Strictly speaking of course "pulp" refers to the magazines of the 1930s and 1940s however, I am using it here as a shorthand for the fiction of the 1950s which was genre fiction and which didn't first appear in hardcover. More on that in another post.

The Australian writers in whom I am most interested are
Carter Brown (aka Alan G Yates)
Gordon Clive Bleeck
"Larry Kent" Des R Dunn and Don Haring
K.T. McCall
Look for my next blog on authors which will have a complete list of authors. If you have any books before 1960 to sell; then please don't hesitate to contact me.

I would be grateful for any information about these writers. Please post information about them and/of if you've read any of their books.

My research has attracted a fair amount of media attention:
The Age
The Sydney Morning Herald (1)
The Sydney Morning Herald (2)
University of Queensland
ABC's tv interview

The book also receives passing mentions on
Comics Down Under
and
Christchurch Cities Library Blog (though the author mistakenly believes that penny dreadfuls and pulps are the same thing; that is definitely not the case).
Script & Print

And I have contributed various articles such as the one at Mystery Files
and one at Thrilling Detective.

Strangely enough the book is mentioned on Wikipedia

Finally my research also incorporates radio; and here is some information about my time at the National Film and Sound Archives.
OTR
UQ News

My webpage at the University of Queensland is hopelessly out of date and this blog will be updated so please feel free to contact me. I need as much information about the 1950s pulp industry as you can send me