BBB Pulp Pick - Strange Tales

There's certainly plenty of fodder out there when it comes to pulp "classics" and Strange Tales is one of the more, well, strange. Here's some copy about this short-lived masterpiece.

"When Strange Tales first appeared in 1931 as a pulp magazine, it was clearly something new. Edited by Harry Bates as a companion to Astounding Stories, it combined the supernatural horror and fantasy of Weird Tales with vigorous action plots. Had the Great Depression not intervened and killed it after seven issues, the whole history of fantastic fiction might have been different.

"Strange Tales rapidly attracted the most imaginative and capable writers of the day, including such Weird Tales regulars as Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Henry S. Whitehead, Hugh B. Cave, Ray Cummings, and numerous others.

"Certainly Strange Tales gave Weird Tales a serious run for its money."

It later morphed into a Marvel Comics vehicle for Doctor Strange and Nick Fury ... but those are other stories.
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