Protecting Project Pulp was an “Audio Pulp Fiction Magazine” hosted by Dave Robison and produced by Fred Himebaugh. PPP was originally serialized between 2012 and 2014. Once part StarShipSofa’s District Of Wonders podcast network, it is now archived here!
“Heed the call to adventure with Project Protecting Pulp! Do you feel your pulse quickening, that heady rush of excitement? That is the call to Adventure! Each week, Dave Robison opens the door to danger, thrills, and suspense through the tales of legendary storytellers from the glory days of pulp fiction.”
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|MP3| No 1 – Golden Lure by George Goodchild
Read by Scott Couchman, first published in Top-Notch, April 15, 1922
|MP3| No 2 – Bread Overhead by Fritz Leiber
Read by Mike Wood, first published in Galaxy, February 1958
|MP3| No 3 – Love of Life by Jack London
Read by Kevin Hayden, first published in Love of Life and Other Stories, 1907
|MP3| No 4 – Kroom, Son of the Sea by Valentine Wood
Read by Bob Hoe, first published in Top-Notch, June 15, 1930
|MP3| No 5 – Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard |PDF|
Read by Scott Couchman, first published in Fantasy Fan, March 1934
|MP3| No 6 – Flying Suitors by Arthur J. Burks
Read by Josie Babin, first published in Flying Stories, May 1929
|MP3| No 7 – There’s Hicks In All Trades by Tom Thursday
Read by Joe Sammarco, first published in All Sports, February 1940
|MP3| No 8 – When Caverns Yawned by Captain S. P. Meek
Read by Josh Roseman, first published in Astounding Stories, May 1931
|MP3| No 9 – Live Bait by E. Hoffman Price
Read by Steven Howell, first published in Alibi, April 1934
|MP3| No 10 – The Game of Rat and Dragon by Cordwainer Smith |PDF|
Read by Steven Howell, first published in Galaxy, October 1955
|MP3| No 11 – A Voice From the Fog by Ben Ames Williams
Read by Nobilis Reed, first published in All-Story, September 15 1917
|MP3| No 12 – The Eagle of Kuwahi by C. Hall Thompson
Read by Daniel Schwartz, first published in Indian Stories, Winter, 1950
|MP3| No 13 – Conjuror of the Clouds by Muriel A. Pollexfen
Read by Tim Ward, first published in Adventure, August 1911
|MP3| No 14 – The Way Down the Hill by Tim Powers
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1982
Host Dave Robison and editor Fred Himebaugh interview Tim Powers, author of this episode’s story.
|MP3| No 15 – Kali by Eric Taylor
Read by Jeff Lane, first published in All Star Detective Stories, November, 1929
|MP3| No 16 – Raiders of the Spaceways by Henry Kuttner
Read by Simon Hildebrandt, first published in Weird Tales, July, 1937
|MP3| No 17 – The Golgotha Dancers by Manly Wade Wellman |PDF|
Read by Kevin Hayden, first published in Weird Tales, October 1937
|MP3| No 18 – Hide-Away by H. A. DeRosso
Read by Jeff Lewis, first published in Triple Detective, Summer, 1954
|MP3| No 19 – Ten Dollars-No Sense by Tom Thursday
Read by Robert Smales, first published in Top-Notch Magazine, December 15, 1922
|MP3| No 20 – Fane of the Black Pharaoh by Robert Bloch
Read by Nick Camm, first published in Weird Tales, December 1937
|MP3| No 21 – The X-Gas by Cyril Plunkett
Read by Joe Sammarco, first published in Air Wonder Stories, March, 1930
|MP3| No 22 – The Tree of Life (part 1) by C. L. Moore |PDF|
Read by Jeff Lane, first published in Weird Tales, October 1936
|MP3| No 23 – The Tree of Life (part 2) by C. L. Moore |PDF|
Read by Jeff Lane, first published in Weird Tales, October 1936
|MP3| No 24 – Hell On Dirt Oval by Lester Del Rey
Read by Pete Fallico, first published in All Sports, August, 1949
|MP3| No 25 – Agent Andy by Russell A. Boggs
Read by Tim Maroney, first published in Adventure Magazine, August 3, 1919
|MP3| No 26 – Whispering Death by Lawrence Donovan |PDF|
Read by Robert Crandall, first published in Action Novels, August, 1929
|MP3| No 27 – Devil’s Asteroid by Manly Wade Wellman
Read by Jacob Sanderson, first published in Comet, July, 1941
|MP3| No 28 – Tarzan Rescues the Moon by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Read by Bryan Lincoln, first published in Jungle Tales of Tarzan, 1919
|MP3| No 29 – The Pink of Fading Neon by James Blaylock
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Triquarterly Journal, Northwestern University, #47, Winter, 1980
“The Pink of Fading Neon” ©1980 James Blaylock. Used by permission.
|MP3| No 30 – Waterfront Fists by Robert E. Howard
Read by Jim Philips, first published in Fight Stories, September, 1930
|MP3| No 31 – The Tigress Terrible by S. Ten Eyck Burke
Read by Josie Babbin, first published in All Story Weekly, June 26 1915
|MP3| No 32 – The Experiment In Gyro-Hats by Ellis Parker Butler
Read by Logan Waterman, first published in Amazing Stories, June 1926
|MP3| No 33 – The Whistling Corpse by G. G. Pendarves |PDF|
Read by Adam Pracht, first published in Weird Tales, July, 1937
|MP3| No 34 – The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. |PDF|PDF|PDF|
Read by Lewis Morgan, first published in Weird Tales, March, 1929
|MP3| No 35 – The Crystal Ray by Raymond Gallum
Read by Logan Waterman, first published in Air Wonder Stories, November, 1929
|MP3| No 36 – The Crawling Creature by Donald Bayne Hobart
Read by Jeff Lewis, first published in Thrilling Adventures, July 1932
|MP3| No 37 – The Waters Of Bowlegs Creek by J. E. Grinstead
Read by Dan Rabarts, first published in The Frontier, May 1926
|MP3| No 38 – Man From the Wrong Time-Track by Denis Plimmer
Read by Tim Maroney, first published in Uncanny Stories, April 1941
|MP3| No 39 – That Spot by Jack London |PDF|
Read by Steven Howell, first published in The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
|MP3| No 40 – The Golden Barrier by G.T. Fleming-Roberts
Read by Maury Kestenbaum, first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1940
|MP3| No 41 – The Queen of Wheats by Anonymous
Read by Brandie Tarvin, first published in I Confess, no. 25, Jan. 12 1923
|MP3| No 42 – Adventure’s Heart by Albert Dorrington
Read by Ben Boardman, first published in Top-Notch, May 1, 1922
|MP3| No 43 – The Spirit of France by S. B. H. Hurst
Read by Josie Babin, first published in Ace High Magazine, February, 1931
|MP3| No 44 – Wanted: A Wife by Carlotta M. Hardy
Read by Goldeen Ogawa, first published in All Story Weekly, August 19, 1916
|MP3| No 45 – The Devil’s Crypt by E. Hoffmann Price
Read by Tristan Gregory, first published in Strange Detective Stories, January, 1934
|MP3| No 46 – Arson Plus by Dashiell Hammett
Read by Nick Camm, first published in Black Mask, October 1, 1923
|MP3| No 47 – The Rats in the Walls by H. P. Lovecraft |PDF|PDF|
Read by James Silverstein, first published in Weird Tales, March, 1924
|MP3| No 48 – The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle
Read by Simon Hildebrandt, first published in 1905
|MP3| No 49 – The Girl From Samarcand by E. Hoffmann Price |PDF|
Read by James Silverstein, first published in Weird Tales, March 1938
|MP3| No 50 – The Nameless City by H P Lovecraft |PDF|PDF|
Read by Wilson Fowlie, first published in November 1921 issue of The Wolverine
This is the first ever story in the Cthulhu Mythos
|MP3| No 51 – The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Read by Nathan Lowell, first published in 1919 in Jungle Tales of Tarzan
|MP3| No 52 – Mitafri by Eric H. Wilkinson
Read by Josh Roseman, first published in Sea Stories, August 1929
|MP3| No 53 – The Hand of the Mandarin Quong by Sax Rohmer
Read by Doc Coleman, first published in Tales of Chinatown
|MP3| No 54 – River Round-Up by W. Ryerson Johnson
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Western Story Magazine, May 14, 1932
|MP3| No 55 – Mother of Toads by Clark Ashton Smith |PDF|
Read by Josie Babin, first published in Weird Tales, July, 1938
|MP3| No 56 – Rose Face by H. A. Lamb
Read by Lewis Morgan, first published in Adventure Magazine, March 3, 1920
|MP3| No 57 – The Shadow on the Doorstep by James Blaylock
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 1986
“The Shadow on the Doorstep” © 1986 James Blaylock. Used by permission.
|MP3| No 58 – Strange Eden by Philip K. Dick |PDF|
Read by Bryan Lincoln, first published in Imagination
|MP3| No 59 – The Opener of the Way by Robert Bloch
Read by Simon Hildebrandt, first published in Weird Tales, October 1936
|MP3| No 60 – Letter from the Stars by A. E. van Vogt
Read by Josh Roseman, first published in Out of This World Adventures, July 1950
|MP3| No 61 – The Servant Problem by Robert F. Young
Read by Mike Wood, first published in Analog Science Fact Science Fiction, November, 1962
|MP3| No 62 – The Sea Witch by Nictzin Dyalhis
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Weird Tales, December 1937
|MP3| No 63 – The Inn of Treachery by Guido Rengetti
Read by Mandy McCall, first published in Thrilling Adventures, July 1932
|MP3| No 64 – The Lost Special by Arthur Conan Doyle |PDF|PDF|
Read by Jay Langejans, first published in Tales of Terror and Mystery
|MP3| No 65 – The Island Trovar by JC Hemphill
Read by Adam Pracht, first published in Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations.
“The Island Trovar” © 2012 JC Hemphill. Used by permission.
|MP3| No 65 Extra – JC Hemphill Interview
|MP3| No 66 – War Plans Divided by Robert Leslie Bellem
Read by Dallan Troyer, first published in Thrilling Spy Stories, July, 1939
|MP3| No 67 – Prominent Author by Philip K. Dick |PDF|
Read by Nick Camm, first published in Worlds of Science Fiction, May 1954
|MP3| No 68 – A World Is Born by Leigh Brackett
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Comet Magazine, July 1941
|MP3| No 69 – A Man’s Problem by Meredith Davis
Read by Pete Fallico, first published in Top Notch Magazine, December 15, 1922
|MP3| No 70 – The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson |PDF|PDF|
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in The Blue Magazine, November, 1907
|MP3| No 71 – The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick |PDF|
Read by Dave Lamm, first published in Science Fiction Adventures Magazine, December 1953
|MP3| No 72 – The Murder Machine by Hugh B. Cave
Read by Douglas B. Sedivy, first published in Astounding Stories of Super Science, September 1930
|MP3| No 73 – The Strangling Hands by M. G. Moretti
Read by Daniel Reynolds, first published in Weird Tales, Feb. 1938
|MP3| No 74 – World’s End by Henry Kuttner
Read by Simon Hildebrandt, first published in Weird Tales, Feb. 1938
|MP3| No 75 – Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani by William Hope Hodgson |PDF|
Read by Wilson Fowlie, first published in as “The Baumoff Explosive” in Nash’s Weekly Vol. 2, No. 2 (1919)
|MP3| No 76 – In Destiny’s Clutch by Rafael Sabatini
Read by Samuel Campbell, first published in Top-Notch Magazine, May 21, 1915
|MP3| No 77 – Shadows in the Moonlight (part 1) by Robert E. Howard |PDF|
Read by Nick Camm, first published in Weird Tales, April 1934
|MP3| No 78 – Shadows in the Moonlight (part 2) by Robert E. Howard |PDF|
Read by Nick Camm, first published in Weird Tales, April 1934
|MP3| No 79 – Beast-Jewel of Mars by V. E. Thiessen
Read by Dave Lamm, first published in Planet Stories, Spring, 1955
|MP3| No 80 – Bride of the Dark One by Florence Verbell Brown |PDF|
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Planet Stories, July 1952
|MP3| No 81 – Shepherds For Science by W. C. Tuttle
Read by Stephen Howell, first published in Adventure, March 3, 1920
|MP3| No 82 – Satan’s Boneyard by Leon Dupont
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in 12 Adventure Stories, October 1939
|MP3| No 83 – Elf Trap by Francis Stevens
Read by Josh Roseman, first published in Argosy, July 5, 1919
|MP3| No 84 – Child of Atlantis by Edmond Hamilton
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Weird Tales, December, 1937
|MP3| No 85 – Shadows of the Deep by Travis Heermann
Read by Josie Babin,
|MP3| No 86 – Friend Island by Francis Stevens |PDF|
Read by Pete Fallico, first published in All-Story Weekly, September 7, 1918
|MP3| No 87 – Through the Dragon Glass by Abraham Merritt |PDF|
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in All-Story Weekly, November 24, 1917
|MP3| No 88 – Bogus Gems by Gordon Young
Read by Bryan Lincoln, first published in Adventure, December 18, 1919
|MP3| No 89 – Forbidden Fruit by Kris Neville
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Out of This World Adventures, July 1950
|MP3| No 90 – Spawn of Dagon by Henry Kuttner |PDF|
Read by James Silverstein, first published in Weird Tales, July 1938
|MP3| No 91 – Black Amazon of Mars (part 1) by Leigh Brackett |PDF|
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Planet Stories, March 1951
|MP3| No 92 – Black Amazon of Mars (part 2) by Leigh Brackett |PDF|
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Planet Stories, March 1951
|MP3| No 93 – Black Amazon of Mars (part 3) by Leigh Brackett |PDF|
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Planet Stories, March 1951
|MP3| No 94 – Queen of the Black Coast (part 1) by Robert E. Howard |PDF|PDF|
Read by Robert Crandall, first published in Weird Tales, May 1934
|MP3| No 95 – Queen of the Black Coast (part 2) by Robert E. Howard |PDF|PDF|
Read by Robert Crandall, first published in Weird Tales, May 1934
|MP3| No 96 – Stamp of Doom by Ray Cummings
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Crack Detective, March 1946
|MP3| No 97 – The Fangs of Otan by Harold F. Cruickshank
Read by Samuel Campbell, first published in Thrilling Adventures, August 1939
|MP3| No 98 – The Eyes of Thar by Henry Kuttner
Read by Rob Smales, first published in Planet Stories, Fall, 1944
|MP3| No 99 – The Avalanche Maker by W. Ryerson Johnson
Read by Logan Waterman, first published in West Magazine, July 22, 1931
|MP3| No 100 – Final Mission by John D. MacDonald
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in Planet Stories, November, 1950
|MP3| No 101 – The Weight of Reputation by Harrison R. Howard
Read by Shawn Robertson, first published in Adventure, March 30 1920
|MP3| No 102 – Out of This World by Henry Hasse
Read by Daniel Reynolds, first published in Planet Stories, Summer, 1942
|MP3| No 103 – The People of the Pit by Abraham Merritt |PDF|
Read by Fred Himebaugh, first published in The All-Story, January 5, 1918
|MP3| No 104 – The Coin of Dionysius by Ernest Bramah
Read by Jay Langejans, first published in The Strand Magazine
|MP3| No 105 – Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong (part 1) by F. Paul Wilson
Read by James Silverstein
|MP3| No 106 – Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong (part 2) by F. Paul Wilson
Read by James Silverstein
|MP3| No 107 – Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong (part 3) by F. Paul Wilson
Read by James Silverstein
|MP3| No 108 – Defense Mech by Ray Bradbury
Read by Fred Himebaugh first published in Planet Stories, Spring, 1946
|MP3| No 109 – The Corpse on the Grating by Hugh B. Cave
Read by Rob Smales first published in Astounding Stories of Super Science, February 1930
|MP3| No 110 – Claw of the Kidnapped Idol by Marcus Lyons
Read by Douglas Sedivy first published in Crack Detective Stories, December 1947
|MP3| No 111 – Mistress of Snarling Death by Paul Chadwick
Read by Dave Lamm first published in Ace Mystery, July 1936