Hi Gang Just picked up the early 1838 sighting in the TIMES. It is interesting to see the ongoing accounts. Just a few short weeks after the Jan. 11 account...
Hi Gang Is anyone still here??? A fanastic catalog recently came out by the book seller Jarndyce...... I know I overpaid but had to have... to complete the...
Jarndyce have just issued a new penny dreadful catalogue "Mischievous Literature". It is available from Jarndyce at £5 including postage in Britain, and £10...
Hi Gang Although no longer collecting much in the way of Pulp magazines, I still have a strong interest although now much more in to researching and collecting...
Does anyone have the wrapper for 'Jack Stedfast or Wreck and Rescue" by James Greenwood, pub. by E.Brett?? Got a copy but the cover is only a poor photocopy of...
Hello everyone, Yes, yet another Ph.D. student. I was hoping to read all 4134 messages of the list to make sure my queries would not have been answered ...
... Dime Novel Round-Up is still flourishing. Deidre is just horribly behind in updating her webpage... Slightly embarrassed, Deidre 19th-Century Girls Series...
Hi Marie, Nice to see someone else researching in this area: I don't directly (my phd is concerned with gothic and travel writing) but I've a longstanding...
Thanks, Marie. I do have a copy already but it was handy to have it online as well. I found a lot of very useful sites, and some of my own sites, have vanished...
Hello everyone, Thanks for the info, Deidre. I could always help you out when I get around going to the British Library. Thanks for the references, Mark. I...
Good morning again, Does anyone have a copy of John Medcraft's 'Bibliography of the penny bloods of Edward Lloyd'? Would you be willing to send me a scan? ...
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Hi Marie, Does Bleiler's material substantially update or correct Kausch's then? - I'd always assumed that Bleiler's would be earlier if only due to the fact...
Hello Marie,  here’s my 2 cents’ worth on some of your questions:  Since I'll be looking at serialization, my biggest question would be how do you know...
Hello, re your fundamental query, I just did a quick check of 5 penny-parts publications that I happened to have near my bed. In "The Indian Revolt" (pub'd by...
Hello All First, Some News; I'm told that Mike Dash, the expert on SHJ will have the be all and end all book on SHJ, hopefully early next year. I should be...
Rich Harvey is oddly reticent to plug his upcoming show on Yahoo's pulp-related message boards, so I'll take the liberty of doing it for him. This coming...
Hi Joe, I hadn't heard of Sam Patch before but you could be onto something there. Patch may have had a minor 'influence' on the SHJ story but we found numerous...
Hi John There may be other similar characters that fit the demon prototype but to just focus on that misses my point. Before I get to that point I have also...
Hello all, Any litetary influence was born *after* a series of weird scares involving ghosts and monsters in various manifestations that plagued London and its...
Hi Theo I respect your version but if we are going back to early literary we can probably go back a few thousand years with regard to monsters and ghost and so...
Hi Joseph, Current research establishes that the first mention of spring-heels appeared in an English newspaper in 1826. It is not necessary to invent a...
By the way Joe, I forgot to mention - I guess it goes without saying anyway - that I value your informed opinion very much, so I would be eager to learn more...
Theo Wonderful! This is what this site needed..some infusion!!! No time now but I promise I will be back..... You laid out a wonderful acount in short order,...
Hi Joe, and Theo, I think the book referred to is ‘Sam Patch the Famous Jumper’ from 2004 which has already been stripped of facts and Wikipedia-ized, as...
Theo, if you haven't already seen it, there's an article in the Melbourne newspaper The Argus in 1939 on an Australian SHJ - by none other than JP Quaine. Go...
