Classic Pulp: Season One

With a stolen corpse, a missing scientist’s head, and gangsters scrambling for a fortune hidden inside a dead man’s skull, wisecracking reporter Daffy Dill races to crack a grisly ransom scheme before he and Dinah become the next bodies in the morgue. Published in DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY (Nov. 3, 1934). Written by Richard B. Sale — The A.I.R.T. Cast: Tracy Dickson — Announcer Kellan Dray — Richard "Daffy" Dilll Harry Ives — Shorty McInnis Carol Zimmerman — Gertie Dodge Kevin Wendt — Detective Bill Hanley Silas Renlo — Stubby Lewis Maris Delaine — Dinah Mason Simon Daub — Bradley Jerry Jamison — Inspector Calloran Tait Cummins — Sammy Lyons Oscar Rayburn — Dr. Emanuel Toomey Sketch Armison — Louis Vance Chester Gruhlkey — Blackie Shane Bertie Krump — Limpy Kassel — SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10 Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

THE FIFTY-GRAND BRAIN — PART Two  arrives July 23rd!

When a drunken showgirl leads wisecracking reporter Daffy Dill to a corpse in a rocking chair, he stumbles into a deadly racket involving gangsters, undertakers, and a mysterious “fifty-grand brain”—where every clue points to a plot far more twisted than murder. Published in DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY (Nov. 3, 1934). Written by Richard B. Sale — The A.I.R.T. Cast: Tracy Dickson — Announcer Kellan Dray — Richard "Daffy" Dilll Harry Ives — Shorty McInnis Carol Zimmerman — Gertie Dodge Kevin Wendt — Detective Bill Hanley Silas Renlo — Stubby Lewis Maris Delaine — Dinah Mason Simon Daub — Bradley Jerry Jamison — Inspector Calloran Tait Cummins — Sammy Lyons Oscar Rayburn — Dr. Emanuel Toomey Sketch Armison — Louis Vance Chester Gruhlkey — Blackie Shane Bertie Krump — Limpy Kassel — SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10 Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

THE FIFTY-GRAND BRAIN — PART ONE  arrives July 16th! [30-second preview]

Here's a special preview of Season Two of the Steeger Classic Pulp Podcast coming on Thursday, July 16th.

Hunted by machine-men and betrayed by science, one father and son hold the only key to humanity’s survival. Can flesh and blood outwit Atrakin, the immortal metal tyrant who would rule the universe? Published in SUPER SCIENCE STORIES (February, 1942). Written by Walter Kubilius. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

On a hard-pressed cattle ranch, a sharp-witted young woman finds her grit and judgment tested when a charming drifter rides in, stirring old wounds, fresh suspicions, and a risky game of trust under the wide-open western sky. Published in RANGELAND ROMANCE (February, 1949). Written by Fay Davis. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

As the death toll rises Edward V. King and Pat Lee race to solve the murders by levitation. Can they release New York from the grip of fear? Published in STRANGE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES (March/April1939). Written by Nat Scachner. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10 Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

As a masked mastermind terrifies a city with unimaginable murders, only Edward V. King stands between the killers and their next victim—but even he may be too late. Published in STRANGE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES (March/April1939). Written by Nat Scachner. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about STRANGE DETECTIVE MYSTERIES magazine SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10

Trapped in an underground hell of disease and death, Paul Lawton turns his torment into fury to face the monstrous master of the plague! In a climax of fire and madness, the green horror is unmasked—and the true face of evil stares back from beyond the grave!  Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave  SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

In a town gripped by a hideous plague, Paul Lawton races against madness and time to save the woman he loves from a fate written in green fire and death. But when the dead rise and the living vanish into the swamp, the line between man and monster dissolves in a nightmare of horror and revenge! Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

Dragged into the heart of the swamp, Paul Lawton faces the ghastly truth behind the plague—a nightmare kingdom ruled by a man who has become a monster! As living corpses close in and the mad surgeon reveals his hideous revenge, Lawton’s only hope lies between love, horror, and the blazing fires of hell itself! Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

When the green plague tightens its grip on Rillwood, vengeance rises from the grave with arrows and blood-soaked warnings! Paul Lawton faces madness, murder, and a terror from beyond the veil that no man—or corpse—can escape! Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

From the blighted heart of Blackwater Swamp comes a nightmare of deathless tribes and ghastly sacrifice! When Paul Lawton’s fevered wound turns green and a woman’s body hangs riddled with ancient arrows, the swamp’s unholy secrets crawl once more into the light of day! Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

From the black, stinking depths of Blackwater rises a horror the Wampanoags dared not name! When Paul Lawton’s camera catches the ghastly truth—a human face behind the green glow—madness and murder slither from the slime to claim the living! Published in HORROR STORIES (February, 1935). Written by Hugh B. Cave. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about HORROR STORIES magazine

Tawny March thought juggling a Marine and a Soldier was trouble enough—until a wrong number brought a Navy man with eyes like storm-tossed seas! Now three uniforms, two proposals, and one sizzling secret threaten to set her heart—and her future—on fire! Published in ALL-STORY LOVE (November, 1947). Written by Ruth Brown. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10 [REMASTERED AUDIO]   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about ALL-STORY LOVE magazine. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10

Covington Cole leads the posse in a final showdown with the brutal Baxter Boys. Published in FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES (December, 1950). Written by George C. Appell. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10 [REMASTERED AUDIO]   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

The posse from Waterman's Station, led by the ambitious sheriff Covington Cole, is on the trail of the infamous Baxter Boys. Published in FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES (December, 1950). Written by George C. Appell. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10 [REMASTERED AUDIO]   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

After a ruthless outlaw gang blasts a frontier bank to splinters, an aging deputy joins forces with an ambitious sheriff whose hunger for glory may be deadlier than the killers they hunt—driving both men into a brutal mountain manhunt where pride, bullets, and fate collide. Published in FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES (December, 1950). Written by George C. Appell. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10 [REMASTERED AUDIO]   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES magazine

Haunted by a murderous force that strikes through his own unwilling hands, a terrified man races to save the woman he loves from a centuries-old curse—before the evil possessing him claims its final victim from beyond the grave. Published in TERROR TALES (1934). Written by Henry Treat Sperry. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10 [REMASTERED AUDIO]   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

On the eve of his wedding, a wealthy young man is haunted by a ghostly apparition and a murderous force from beyond the grave—one that can possess his body, strike without warning, and turn the woman he loves into its final target. Published in TERROR TALES (1934). Written by Henry Treat Sperry. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10 [REMASTERED AUDIO]   Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about TERROR TALES magazine. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10

Written by Ray Bradbury. On a pristine, welcoming world, newly arrived settlers mistake quiet for safety—unaware that the land itself is listening, waiting to decide when silence will answer back. Originally published in SUPER SCIENCE STORIES (January, 1949). Produced by arrangement with the Ray Bradbury estate. SteegerBooks.com promo code: audio10 Podcast © Keith Brian Shaw Source Text © Steeger Properties, LLC

From the newsroom of the New York Chronicle, reporter Joe "Daffy" Dill talks about SUPER SCIENCE STORIES magazine

Joe "Daffy" Dill reports on the Steeger rebranding and announces Season Two!  

A Very Exciting Announcement 

Ordered on a suicide mission to a forbidden Pacific island, two Secret Service operatives parachute into a jungle nightmare of purple gods, savage rituals, and a mad spy king ruling from a cave of living death—where one wrong move means sacrifice on an altar of criss-cross knives. Published in SPICY ADVENTURE (April, 1935). Written by C. C. Spruce.

[Rated MA]* When a terrified girl swears a dead killer is stalking her through the rain-soaked streets, Dan dives into a nightmarish web of murder, stolen diamonds, and the chilling possibility that the grave doesn’t always keep its secrets buried.

[Rated MA]* Hired to pull a slick midnight snatch, Dan finds himself neck-deep in a foggy Hollywood nightmare of deceit, danger, and a dame whose desperate scheme threatens to cook them all before the truth can surface.

[Rated MA]* When a panic-stricken Wampas Baby star hijacks hard-boiled Hollywood Dan at gunpoint for a desperate midnight dash to the airport, a murderous horoscope prophecy drags them both into a deadly maze of jealousy and frame-ups!

[Rated MA]* Cornered, cuffed, and one frame-up away from a murder rap, Dan bluffs his way through poison, passion, and press passes—till the final showdown proves that in Hollywood, even love can be lethal.

[Rated MA]* Framed for a starlet’s poison death and dodging cops with itchy triggers, Dan chases the real killer through a haze of morphine, movie moguls, and midnight kisses—where the only antidote for murder is a .38 and a hunch.

[Rated MA]* When a redheaded starlet trades her ingénue halo for a hangover and a one-way ticket to the morgue, Dan Turner hits the Hollywood nightbeat—where a striptease, a snatch job, and a .22 slug turn a case of bad booze into cold murder.

[Rated MA]* When a worried ex-gridiron star hires hard-boiled Dan to shadow his oil-heiress wife and thwart a ruthless blackmailer, a clandestine hotel payoff detonates into sudden, smoking death!

[Rated MA]* In the blistering California desert, Dan goes undercover as a Bedouin extra to guard a sabotage-plagued epic—only to find murder crashing the set like a runaway camera crane!

[Rated MA]* When dazzling Hollywood starlet Nalia Kenton vanishes from fame and her powerful lover, Dan tracks her to a sun-scorched desert ranch—only to have brutal death shatter the silence of her hidden hideaway!

[Rated MA]* On the dimly lit Altamount soundstage, Dan watches a sultry starlet bare all for a Mata Hari execution scene—only for a real bullet to crash the take and turn blank-fire drama into cold-blooded murder!

Listen, sweetheart, if you're plowin' through one of my yarns and wonderin' what the hell I'm talkin' about half the time, relax. I've been slingin' this lingo so long it's second nature to me, but I know it can twist a square john into knots. So here's a little glossary—my personal brand of patter, the way I call 'em in Tinseltown. No fancy explanations, just the straight dope.

After uniting the tribes of Pellucidar against their reptilian overlords, David Innes prepares for a triumphant return to the surface world—but treachery strikes at the final moment, sending him on a desperate journey through darkness where one wrong turn could cost him both his kingdom and the woman he loves.

David battles a ravenous dragon and a seven-foot savage to rescue the woman he loves—only to discover her heart is fiercer than any beast.

Condemned to the vivisection pits of Phutra, a desperate fugitive slays his way to the Mahar’s forbidden secret and flees into the wilds—only to face traitors, ravenous beast-kings, and tireless Sagoth hunters on his blood-soaked trail!

Cast back into the shadowed halls of Phutra, a weary wanderer faces merciless investigators and ravenous prehistoric terrors, gambling his life for a desperate chance to save his friends—and win back the woman haunting his dreams!

Fleeing the hypnotic slaughter-pits of the Mahars, a lone castaway braves island jungles, monstrous sea serpents, and treacherous tribes as he fights to win freedom—and return for the friend he left behind!! 

Dragged into the reptile-ruled depths of Phutra, desperate slaves plot a mad escape beneath the unblinking inner sun—while the monstrous Mahars prepare a blood-soaked spectacle of beasts and doom!

Hurled into the blazing noonday of the earth’s hollow heart, two helpless captives are driven in chains toward the monstrous Mahars—winged overlords who rule Pellucidar with terror and slave-blood!

A runaway “iron mole” plunges two unsuspecting explorers into a hidden inner world where ravenous beasts, savage tree-folk, and a motionless sun hurl them headlong into screaming adventure! Edgar Rice Burroughs' "At the Earth's Core" appeared as a four-part serial in ALL-STORY WEEKLY (April 4 to 25, 1914).