Fading Shadows Presents NEW PULP

Fading Shadows Presents

NEW PULP

Edited By Tom & Ginger Johnson

NOT FOR SALE. This anthology of New Pulp novels is collected for--and available to-- a few close friends in hope of keeping the stories on file for the future. Currently, each story is available for sale in their original publication, as long as those copies exist. But once they are gone, the stories may be lost forever.

The victims died with their faces eaten away by a mysterious, insidious power. A fiendish mastermind had decreed these ghastly murders--and, guarded by an army of killers, he thought himself safe from retribution. But a strange grey shape glided through the shadows, sworn to bring justice to . . . THE FLESH-DESTROYERS By Steve Mitchell

Sneering, Talking Skeletons, Formally Clad, Prophesy Doom For Members of The Swank, Exclusive Aegis Club, Turning It Into . . . THE CRIME CLUB a Complete Adventure of The Visage By Shawn Danowski.

CARNIVAL OF DEATH, a complete adventure of The Black Ghost By Tom Johnson. When a new menace rears its ugly head in his Great City, The Black Ghost finds that he may be up against an old enemy. One that refuses to stay dead! But why is Spider back, and who – or what – is Cipher, the team of ex soldiers that accompany her? And why is an agent of British Intelligence on the case? Plus, it seems the British government may know the identity of the intrepid fighter in black!

The Visage

The Visage

Creator: Sean Danowski

Characters

Nicholas “Nick” Dane

Jerry Maxion

Edward “Jazz” Bartler

Earl Wayford

Vladimir - Vlad

Nicholas “Nick” Dane had gone off to war as a young boy, but returned a man – changed! Thirty, dark-featured with dark eyes. He brought forth black gloves that he slipped over his hands. From another pocket he produced a white cloth mask that he slipped over his face. Save for twin slits for the eyes, the mask covered his face totally. Then taking his gray fedora he donned that as well. Two automatics rested in shoulder holsters beneath his coat.

Blonde-headed Jerry Maxion was a former Federal agent turned detective, whom The Visage had saved from a frame up years before. The small agency Jerry ran in Lower Manhattan was merely a front, for he was an agent of The Visage.

Edward “Jazz” Bartler is all bulk, everything about him suggested squares, from his compact build to his chiseled jaw and wide shoulders. A former jazz cornetist in Kansas City speakeasy bands, ex Chicago gangster, one-time member of the Capone mob, and now an agent of The Visage.

Earl Wayford is a broker for the wealthy. His office is on the fourteenth floor of the Luthridge Building just off Wall Street in the financial district. He is the third agent of The Visage.

Dane lives in the penthouse apartment of the left tower of the Zaggurat Towers. Black and gold trim, the twin towers were almost invisible in the night sky.

Vladimir - Vlad, is Dane’s faithful old Russian manservant. He had been with the Dane family for several generations.

There have been three novels so far, serialized in CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES.

The Murder Club CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES #8, 9, 10 & 11

Doom In The Hills    CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES #23, 24, 25 & 26

The Murder League CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES #32, 33, 34 & 35

The Shroud

The Shroud

Creator: Sean Danowski

Characters

King Raven (Ravenshroud)

Foster

Adele

Annie Julep

Set in the 1880s, he had been a famous actor once. His stage name was King Raven, as he felt his true name, Ravenshroud was too morbid. His costar had loved him, but bargained her soul for eternal youth and life on the stage. He had saved her soul, but lost his in the process. He made another bargain of sorts, one for the return of his soul, but it too was for a price.

Ravenshroud is a gentleman in flowing black mantle from beneath which peaked the last word in fashionable wear. He has jade eyes, an aristocratic face with an aquiline nose and thin lips. His lithe, long-legged frame unfolded, an opera hat set rakishly upon his slicked hair, and a golden serpent-head walking stick complimented the attire. A razor-sharp blade was concealed within that walking stick!

The Shroad’s face was a stark chalk white, the lipless mouth a permanent grin exposing a skull’s visage. The eyes were deep sockets from which peered white orbs that glared without blinking. Not quite human, his calling card is a miniature silver skull, tiny emeralds imbedded in its eye sockets.

The Carriage is fully a town coach of the most expensive model, with its midnight black exterior and its sable curtains, drawn by twin ebon stallions whose coats shown in the gaslight with a dull luster; only touches of gold trim broke the color scheme. Four oil lamps hung from the four corners of the carriage, their dullish orange glow flickering like funeral lights. The sumptuous but dim interior contained matching deep crimson leather seats and curtains. But perhaps most notable – and most amazing – was that the coach was driverless!

Foster is Ravenshroud’s elderly servant.

Adele is a statuesque lady on the brink of middle age, her aristocratic features serene, her blazing red hair heightening her elegantly mature features. She believes Ravenshroad dead, sacrificed for the return of her soul.

Annie Julep is an elderly woman who runs a boarding house where Ravenshroud sends those he is helping to safety.

            There have been two stories in this exciting series:

“The House of Somnus” WEIRD STORIES #1

“The Headless Horrors” DOUBLE DANGER TALES #2

Number 9

Number Nine

Creator: Sean Danowski

Characters

Paul Highland

Danny

Miss Reeves

Gray eyes behind a domino mask, Number Nine is a master of deception, and a man of countless faces whose own face was not known and never seen by friends, enemies, or the public at large for he was almost always in disguise. Long ago, after the Great War, he had established himself as a crime fighter. During the war he had been assigned to an elite group of airmen, ten men who were sent on a mission behind enemy lines to France. He was the ninth man, and the only one to survive, but ten graves were left in France, leading the military to believe all ten had died. Only one man knew the secret, the officer who had sent them on the mission, Commander Paul Highland.

Vance is a sharp dressed man in fedora, pastel tie, pinstriped suit and leather gloves; the brim of his hat cast a shadow over his face. This was the only name revealed for the mysterious manhunter.

Paul Highland is now the assistant district attorney for the great city. He has a deep, commanding voice.

Danny is a police desk sergeant, and a spy for Number Nine.

Miss Reeves is Paul Highland’s secretary.

The NEW YORK HERALD is the city’s newspaper.

Number Nine uses coded words to identify himself to Paul Highland with, “One from the grave.” Highland responds with, “Who is lost to the living.”

Only one novel was published as a four-part serieal:

“Siege of Satan’s Death Brigade” CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES #13, 14, 15 & 16.