Golden Hell

Tremendous fun. Would have torn through it if work wasn’t so soul draining right now. A prime exaMole of what makes pulp fiction so darned likable. Hoping that its republishing isn’t a play to get rights money for Scientology.......more

This volume collects two of Hubbard's pulp novelettes, the title story from the September, 1936 issue of Thrilling Adventures magazine, and Pearl Pirate from the May, 1934 issue of the same periodical. Golden Hell is one of Hubbard's infrequent first-person narratives, and was published there as by......more

A pulp novel involving treasure-hunting in Mongolia. Well-written, but not one of Hubbard's more engaging stories.......more

I read some of his earlier pulp stories and this one I honestly found a little lacking in the details I realize that yes they were meant for Mass Entertainment and reading but a little more description or build up of the charterers or a better description of the bar that's all......more