Big Pulp is your all-in-one magazine for pulp fiction, with every issue featuring the best in fantasy, mystery, horror, science fiction, adventure and romance fiction and poetry.

Big Pulp Fall 2011

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Exter Press

A modern amalgam of the classic newsstand of the golden age of pulp and popular fiction, Big Pulp publishes exciting, challenging and thought-provoking fiction and poetry by the best emerging and established genre writers from around the world. This collection begins with "Interrogate My Heart Instead," a heartrending tale of a torturer for a totalitarian regime and the man who loves him, by Iranian student Elaheh Steinke. Also featured are "Tears in the RIver," the first English-language fiction publication of Dutch writer Django Mathijsen (award-winning author of Mando Vide en het Robotbevrijdingsfront) and "The Cinnamon Forest," an original Indonesian folk tale by James Penha (Snakes and Angels) and Ferdinand Siregar. This collection also features fiction by Michael Bracken, author more than 900 published crime and mystery stories, and poetry by Pushcart Prize nominee Kristine Ong Muslim, as well as 20 more fantasy, romance, mystery horror and science fiction stories and poems.

Big Pulp: Interrogate My Heart Instead

A modern amalgam of the classic newsstand of the golden age of pulp and popular fiction, Big Pulp publishes exciting, challenging and thought-provoking fiction and poetry by the best emerging and established genre writers from around the world. This collection begins with the steampunk mystery "The Biggin Hill Duel" by Adrian Ludens. Also featured are "To Right A Wrong" by Devyani Borade, and "The Hunt" by Argentine writer Gustavo Arevalo Rendall. This collection also features fiction by Tim Lieder, publisher of Dybbuk Press; poetry by Terrie Leigh Relf, author of hundreds of published science fiction and horror poems and editor of Hungur Magazine; and more than 20 additional science fiction, horror, mystery and fantasy stories and poems.

Big Pulp: The Biggin Hill Duel

Each issue of Big Pulp is packed with fun, thought-provoking and exciting genre fiction and poetry from the best writers from around the globe. Featuring both award-winning and emerging authors, Big Pulp publishes fantasy, horror, science fiction, mystery and romance fiction, in a modern amalgam of the classic newsstand of the golden age of pulp and popular fiction. This issue begins with James Penha's "The Purloined Pearl," in which an Indonesian fisherman steals a dragon's pearl for his lover, and must pay the price for his avarice. In this issue's fantasy section, readers will also meet a paranormal antique collector with "A Good Eye," in Beth Cato's humorous short story; and "The Slaves of Cortagne," in James F.W. Rowe's poem about an ancient market where all manner of goods can be found. This issue also features "Uvlechenie," a tale of Russian asteroid miners by DeAnna Knippling; "Mercer's Ghost," an eerie tale of old west vengeance, by Milo James Fowler; "Aunt Anika's Unicorn Horn," a light mystery set in 17th century Amsterdam by Anna Sykora; and the blackly humorous "There Was Something We Didn't See in the Dark," by Belgian writer Thomas Gunzig (translated by Edward Gauvin), in which a group of friends on their way to a party encounter a beautiful woman on a dark, deserted road, with disastrous results. The rest of the issue is packed with more great science fiction, mystery, horror and romance fiction by David Cybulski, Jen Conley, Tony Haynes, Shannon Schuren, John Davies, Libby Cudmore, Chante McCoy, Jason Radak, Harri B. Cradoc, Ian D. Smith, Andrew McLinden, Jeffrey Caminsky, John Medaille, Adam Miller, Aliya Whiteley, and Wayne Scheer, and poetry by Joanna M. Weston, Bruce Golden, and Elizabeth Barrette.

Big Pulp: The Purloined Pearl

A string of grisly murders and missing persons cases puts a young police officer at risk of becoming food for worms in "Lot's Crawlers" by Joel V. Kela, the featured story in the Winter 2012 issue of Big Pulp (cover art by Ken Knudtsen). This issue also features Michael Andre-Druissi's alternative history "Hitler's Hollywood", in which Rita Hayworth's career takes a strange turn and alters the course of WWII, and "Children of an Angry Sea", a horror tale set in the aftermath of a major Pacific tsunami, by Michael D. Turner. In all, this issue features more than 25 stories and poems, including work by Patricia La Barbera, David Birch, KJ Hannah Greenberg, L.B. Sedlacek, William Doreski, Gerri Leen, Terrie Leigh Relf, Brian Trent, Walter Giersbach, Emanuele Pettener, DeAnna Knippling, F.J. Bergmann, Sean McGrath, Benjamin Kensey, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Holger Nahm, Catherine Boyle, Tony Haynes, and Frank Skolnik.

Big Pulp: Lot's Crawlers

Knippling, DeAnna

Kela, Joel

A massive collection of pornography inspires a brilliant MIT student to explore the limits of the human mind in "A Question of Storage" by John Bowker, the featured story in the Spring 2013 issue of Big Pulp (cover art by Phil Good). This issue also features more than 25 more great stories and poems from Steven Axelrod, K.C. Ball, Robert Bagnall, Michael Bracken, Alison Downs, Malon Edwards, Milo James Fowler, Lee Hammerschmidt, Tom Larsen, Tim Lieder, Luke Lloyd, Court Merrigan, James A. Newman, Thomas Pluck, Erin Pringle-Toungate, Terrie Leigh Relf, Jason Reynolds, Shane D. Rhinewald, Wayne Scheer, K.C. Shaw, Catherine Batac Walder, Dustin Walker, Changming Yuan, and Lee Zumpe

Big Pulp: A Question of Storage

Fowler, Milo James

Bowker, Fellow of Gresham College London and Adjunct Professor John

The son of a smalltown sheriff takes crime prevention into his own hands, but his curiosity may get the best of him in Arley Sorg's "Catskin," the cover feature of the Summer 2013 issue of Big Pulp. This issue also features more than 2 dozen SF, mystery, horror and fantasy stories, including work by Andrez Bergen, Geoffrey W. Cole, Daniel Davis, Adele Gardner, Tracy Hauser, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Chris Longhurst, Paco José Madden, Django Mathijsen, Catfish McDaris, Brandon Nolta, Terrie Leigh Relf, Jason Ridler, Philip Roberts, WC Roberts, Scotch Rutherford, Gwyn Ryan, Timothy A. Sayell, Natalie Stachowski, Michael D. Turner, and Nu Yang. Cover illustration by Phil Good

Big Pulp: Catskin

Ridler, Jason

McDaris, Catfish

The Kennedy Curse

Black Chaos II: More Tales of the Zombie

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