More Farmer: A Perverse Passage

Along with the novels I read recently, I also read a fragment of an unpublished novel called The Monster On Hold excerpted in the program of the 1983 World Fantasy Convention. The novel would have continued the saga of the Nine, and featured Farmer’s Doc Savage pastiche Doc…


Tarzan the Terrible

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ eighth Tarzan book, first serialized in 1921, is the most enjoyable of the Tarzan novels I’ve read. I would actually put this novel in the hands of one of my friends who is not into pulp fiction or obsessed with Tarzan. (Tbf, I don’t have any actual friends who are…


Tarzan the Untamed

A week or two ago, I finished listening to a LibriVox recording of Tarzan the Untamed, first serialized in pulp magazines in 1919–1920. It was Edgar Rice Burroughs’ seventh Tarzan novel.

To my mind, this novel has three distinct episodes in it, which owes to the fact…