Over the years, Bob has worked as an editor for numerous publishing companies. He's editing anthologies and single author collections of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, western, humor, and even boxing stories. Though usually his name appears on most books heedits, Bob has also edited a number of un-credited anthologies in the paperback field. Bob has edited numerous books with Martin H. Greenberg and Stefan Dziemianowicz including the award-winning HORRORS, 365 SCARY STORIES. You can see a few of those books by clicking on the images below.
Bob has edited over 130 anthologies and books edited by him have been reprinted all over the world. After taking a break from editing for several years while working on comic book projects, Bob has once again been gathering stories for new collections. Working with George A. Vanderburgh of Battered Silicon Dispatch Box Publications, Bob's hard at work putting together a series of books reprinting some of the best stories from rare pulp magazines. The name of this new series is LOST TREASURES FROM THE PULPS.
PULPcon 2002 saw first publication of THE VAGABOND AT ARMS by Seabury Quinn. This book collected the five adventures of Quinn's hero, "Carlos de la Muerte," from the pages of Magic Carpet and Golden Fleece in the 1930's. Also available now is a two volume hardcover set, THE COMPLETE PETER THE BRAZEN by George F. Worts, from the pages of Argosy magazine. This famous series of wild action stories set in China in the 1920's and 1930's runs more than 600,000 words and is considered by many collectors to be among the very best adventure stories ever published in the pulps. The two huge volumes also include several articles on Peter the Brazen and his creator, George F. Worts.
Another book in Lost Treasures series is MINIONS OF THE SHADOW by William Gray Beyer. This book reprints four complete novels from the pages of Argosy in the late 1930s-early 1940's. Mark Nevins goes into the hospital for a minor operation and emerges from a deep sleep six thousand years in the future. In short order, he's met the most beautiful girl in the world, been captured by cannibals, and hooked up with the last survivor of a race of giant spiders from the Moon. Only one story from this series, "Minions of the Moon," was ever reprinted and that's been unavailable for fifty years. Lots of SF adventure and a great Rudolph Belarski cover as well!
Coming late this fall will be THE MEMOIRS OF HORATIO HUMBERTON by J. Paul Suter. These are wild adventures from the early days of Dime Detective featuring an undertaker-sleuth who battles seemingly supernatural menaces.
Coming in 2004 are two more great reprint volumes from Dime Detective magazine. THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF THE DEAN by Merle Constiner features the exploits of an oddball crimefighter who works as a fortune-teller on the side. These are very funny, very entertaining novelets from the 1940's.
THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF BILL BRENT by Frederick C. Davis features all the wacky detective adventures of a hardboiled crime reporter who's forced to fill in as the Advice to the Lovelorn columnist at his newspaper. Needless to say, the letters he receives often lead to murder. More volumes in this series of reprints from the great pulp adventure magazines will follow and be listed here. Don't miss the complete adventures of the GREEN GHOST and the complete DON DIAVOLO.
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obvious to readers of the time, from the distinctive names of the heroes, to their fabulous strength, extending even to their titles - Tarzan of the Apes compared to Polaris of the Snows. Still, despite the similarities to the Burroughs novels, the Polaris series earned reader approval on its own merits, with its lost race at the North Pole featured in the first novel and its sequel, Minos of Sardanes; and its mysterious gods in the third and final book in the trilogy, Polaris and the Goddess Glorian. Most of all, the three novels are wildly entertaining adventures from a less sophisticated age when the world was a much more exotic place.
