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Magazine: Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine

Editor: Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Language: English

ISSN:

Print issues: 12, 1988 – 1993

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• Only issues with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white.

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, #1

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, ed.

October 1988

Pulphouse Publishing

Hardcover, 267 pages

$17.95 / $50.00 slipcased

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Kristine Katherine Rusch.

  •  Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.

Fiction: Edward Bryant, While She Was Out  //  Randolph Cirilo, Faith of Our Fathers  //  Steve Rasnic Tem, Among

the Old  //  Gary L. Raisor, Cheapskate  //  Bruce Taylor, Popcorn  //  Dale L. Sproule, The Onion Test  //  Kij

Johnson, Ferata  //  Kim Antieau, After Great Pain  //  Thomas F. Monteleone, Nobody's Perfect  //  Michael Bishop,

A Father's Secret  //  Lori Ann White, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth  //  J. N. Williamson, Public

Places  //  Don Webb, Souvenirs from a Damnation  //  William F. Wu, On a Phantom Tide  // Sharon Epperson,

Night Class  //  Jeannette M. Hopper, We Lose It, Somehow  //  Kate Wilhelm, The Loiterer  //  Peter Drizhal, The

Silver Rain  //  Ron Goulart, The Night I Saw Bix Beiderbecke Playing on the Corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd  //  

Charles de Lint, The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow  //  Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Works of Art  //  Harlan Ellison, She's a

Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother

Essays: Jack Williamson, Notes from a Grand Master: Theme  //  Jon Gustafson, The Gimlet Eye Returns  //  Jack

Williamson, Notes from a Grand Master: Tone

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, #2

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, ed.

December 1988

Pulphouse Publishing

Hardcover, 243 pages

$17.95 / $50.00 slipcased

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Kristine Katherine Rusch.

Fiction: Steve Perry, Running Out of Vultures  //  Jerry Oltion, Alternating Current  //  Jon L. Davis, The Ascension of

Robert Callahan  //  Geoffrey A. Landis, Shards  //  Michael Swanwick, Foresight  //  William F. Wu, The Shade of Lo

Man Gong  //  Mike Resnick, Inquiry Into the Auction of the United States of America  //  Paul Di Filippo, Billy  //  Nina

Kiriki Hoffman, Savage Breasts  //  Thomas A. Easton, Social Climber  //  Ernest Hogan, Love Nwatta-Nwatta-

Nwatta Style  //  Ron Goulart, Visitation  //  Steven Bryan Bieler, Writing with Pad and Pencil  //  Ronald Anthony

Cross, Renegade  //  Steve Schlich, The Dogfather  //  Charles de Lint, That Explains Poland  //  Spider Robinson,

The Paranoid (excerpt from Callahan's Lady)

Essays: Jack Williamson, Notes from a Grand Master: Style  //  Algis Budrys, New World in the Morning  //  Jon

Gustafson, The Gimlet Eye Returns  //  Jack Williamson, Notes from a Grand Master: Point of View

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, #3

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, ed.

March 1989

Pulphouse Publishing

Hardcover, 308 pages

$17.95 / $50.00 slipcased

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Kristine Katherine Rusch.

Fiction: Peg Kerr, Miss Pemberly  //  Steve Perry, Willie of the Jungle  //  Ronald Anthony Cross, American Fairy

Tales #1: The Poor Little Black Girl  //  Alan Brennert, The Third Sex  //  Jonathan Lethem, A Wish  //  Mary A.

Turzillo, Kings  //  Don Webb, In the Wings  //  William F. Wu, Pagan Midnight  //  Harlan Ellison, Crazy as a Soup

Sandwich  // Esther M. Friesner, Black Butterflies  //  Avram Davidson, Conversational Tales of the Wanland Number

One: Of Sundry Tribes  //  Michael Bishop, At the City Limits of Fate  //  Henry Morrison Millstein, Hope  //  Ron

Goulart, The Werewolf of Hollywood  //  Ken Wisman, In the Heart of the Blue Caboose  //  Nina Kiriki Hoffman,

Chrysalis  //  David B. Silva, Ice Songs  //  Charles de Lint, The Drowned Man's Reel  //  Marina Fitch, Pieces of the

Sky  // Janet Kagan, Naked Wish-Fulfillment

Essays: Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Risks of Fantasy  //  Jon Gustafson, The Gimlet Eye Returns  //  Jack Williamson,

Notes from a Grand Master: Plot

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, #5

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, ed.

October 1989

Pulphouse Publishing

Hardcover, 280 pages

$17.95 / $50.00 slipcased

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Kristine Katherine Rusch.

Fiction: Francis J. Matozzo, Why Pop-Pop Died  //  D. W. Taylor, The Salvation in My Hand  // John Dalmas, In the

Bosom of His Family  //  Scott Edelman, Is This a Horror Story?  //  John Maclay, Black Stockings  //  Ray Vukcevich,

Rachel's Inheritance  //  George Alec Effinger, Chopped Liver  //  David F. Bischoff, Cooking with Children  // Kathryn

Ptacek, Poppet  //  Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Hushabye  //  Darrell Schweitzer, The Man Who Found the Heart of the

Forest  //  Steve Perry, Cocksman  //  Charles de Lint, Romano Drom  //  Esther M. Friesner, Do I Dare to Ask Your

Name?  //  William F. Wu, Desert Night Ride  //  J. N. Williamson, The Sudd  //  Steve Schlich, La Cara de Piedra  //  

Elizabeth Hand, On the Town Route  //  Jules Archer, The Initiation  //  Kim Hughes, A Tongue to the Warning Bell  //  

Adam-Troy Castro, Clearance to Land

Essays: Jon Gustafson, The Gimlet Eye Returns  //  Edward Bryant, "It Ain't Just the Music, It's the Words"

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, #6

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, ed.

April 1990

Pulphouse Publishing

Hardcover, 306 pages

$20.00

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Kristine Katherine Rusch.

Fiction: Lisa R. Cohen, The Dream of the Turtle King  //  Stacey Davies, Wordsearch  //  Peni R. Griffin, Write to

Privacy  //  Ronald Anthony Cross, The Joy of Genre Cooking  //  Vivian Vande Velde, Recycled Grandfather  //  Nina

Kiriki Hoffman, Life Sentences  //  Charles de Lint, Freewheeling  //  Richard Paul Russo, View from Above  //  

William F. Wu, The Caravan of Death  //  Jeff VanderMeer, A Social Gathering  //  James Brunet, As Time Goes By  //  

Martha A. Hood, Food Chain Fandango  //  Arliss Ryan, The Tiger Leaps  //  Donna Dolezal Zelzer, A Slow Walk Into

Madness  //  Michael D. Toman, Why Tigers Hate Spiders  //  Avram Davidson, Go Forth, Thou Grore  //  Gary

Wright, A Tale of a Distant Land  //  Darrell Schweitzer, The Strange Rider from a Far, Dark Land  //  Russell Roberts,

Whistlin' Slim  //  Steve Perry, A Few Minutes in the Bruce Lee Rehab Unit of the Big Memorial Hospital  //  Joyce

Thompson, Dancing Holes  //  Bradley Denton, The Murderer Chooses Sterility  //  George Alec Effinger, Shrunk  //  

Susan Palwick, Offerings

Essays: Emma Bull, Why I Write Fantasy  //  Jon Gustafson, The Gimlet Eye Returns

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, #7

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, ed.

June 1990

Pulphouse Publishing

Hardcover, 311 pages

$20.00

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Kristine Katherine Rusch.

Fiction: A. R. Morlan, The Redemption of Pop Gee  //  Phillip C. Jennings, Peggy  //  Kim Antieau, The Curse: An

Oral Tradition  //  Yvonne Navarro, Memories  //  Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Imprint  //  Midori Snyder, Skin Deep  //  

Adrian Nikolas Phoenix, Point of View  // Elizabeth Engstrom, Seasoned Enthusiast  //  Kathe Koja, Illusions in

Relief  //  Nancy Holder, Message Found in a Bottle II, or: An Invitation from Your Captain  //  Marina Fitch, The River

Remembers  //  Charles de Lint, Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood  //  Don Webb, Four-and-Twenty  //  Jack

Cady, The Curious Candy Store  //  Steve Rasnic Tem, Escape on a Train  //  William F. Wu, Up on Tong Yun Guy  //  

David W. Taylor, Wangdang Sweet Poontang  //  Joyce Thompson, Boat People  //  Gerard Daniel Houarner, Say

No  //  David R. Bunch, For Tomorrow, Daphalene  //  Edward Bryant, The Loneliest Number  //  David J. Schow, Not

From Around Here

Essays: Jon Gustafson, The Gimlet Eye Returns  //  David J. Schow, If You Can't Stand the Meat, Get Out of the

Abattoir

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, #8

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, ed.

September 1990

Pulphouse Publishing

Hardcover, 243 pages

$20.00

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Kristine Katherine Rusch.

Fiction: Greg Egan, The Moral Virologist  //  Patricia Anthony, Lunch with Daddy  //  Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Family

Tree  //  Charles de Lint, A Tattoo on Her Heart  //  Kij Johnson, Solving the Homeless Problem  //  Jack McDevitt,

It's a Long Way to Alpha Centauri  //  P. M. S. Faught, Flaming Rockets  //  Paul Di Filippo, Master Blaster and

Whammer Jammer Meet the Groove Thang  //  Jonathan Lethem, The Buff  //  Thomas F. Monteleone, The Way of the

Cross  //  Jane Yolen, Creationism: An Illustrated Lecture in Two Parts  //  R. Garcia y Robertson, Ontogeny

Recapitulates Phylogeny  //  George Alec Effinger, The Riddle of the Czars  //  L. Timmel Duchamp, The Forbidden

Words of Margaret A.  //  S. A. Stolnack, The Last Whale  //  S. P. Somtow, Cruise Eternity

Essay: Jon Gustafson, The Gimlet Eye Returns

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, #9

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, ed.

November 1990

Pulphouse Publishing

Hardcover, 259 pages

$20.00

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Kristine Katherine Rusch.

Fiction: Lisa Tuttle, Bits and Pieces  //  Melinda M. Snodgrass, Silent Voices of the Clay  //  Nancy A. Collins, The

Two-Headed Man  //  Joe R. Lansdale, The Pit  //  David R. Bunch, We Hardly Ever Waked Phene  //  Don H.

Debrandt, Payback Tattoo  //  Steve Perry, A Few Minutes in the Undead Hunter's Gunshop  //  Nina Kiriki Hoffman,

Housewife  //  Harry Turtledove, Honeymouth  //  Robert Devereaux, Fructus in Eden  // Jerry Oltion, The Signing  //  

Mary Rosenblum, The Awakening  //  Marina Fitch, Just Give Me Your Hand  //  William F. Wu, Wild Garlic  //  Kelley

Eskridge, The Hum of Human Cities

Essays: Jon Gustafson, The Gimlet Eye Returns  //  S. P. Somtow, With an Olive Branch Through the Heart

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, #10

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, ed.

March 1991

Pulphouse Publishing

Hardcover, 247 pages

$20.00 / $60.00 slipcased

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Kristine Katherine Rusch.

Fiction: Marina Fitch, The Scarecrow's Bride  //  Kara Dalkey, The Peony Lantern  //  Dennis Etchison, Deadspace  //  

Charles de Lint, Winter Was Hard  //  John Brunner, A Christmas Crime  //  Michael Bishop, Icicle Music  // Ken

Wisman, Channumas  //  Nina Kiriki Hoffman, An Invasion of Angels  //  M. Elayn Harvey, Star of Wander  //  Ken

Wisman, The Christmas Catalogue  //  Esther M. Friesner, The Whiskaway Children and the Big Bang  //  Robert

Sheckley, Onesday  //  William F. Wu, The Year of the Fiery Horse  //  Lisa Goldstein, A Traveller at Passover

Essay: Jon Gustafson, The Gimlet Eye Returns

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, #11

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, ed.

September 1991

Pulphouse Publishing

Hardcover, 311 pages

$20.00

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Kristine Katherine Rusch.

Fiction: Edward Bryant, The Great Steam Bison of Cycad Center  //  A. R. Morlan, 'rillas  //  Kij Johnson, Canine

Intervention  //  Diane Mapes, Rosies  //  Resa Nelson, LovePets  //  Tim Sullivan, Nox Sanguinis  //  Harry

Turtledove, Gilgamesh and the Homeboys  //  William F. Wu, Shaunessy Fong  //  Stephani Perry, The Key  //  Nina

Kiriki Hoffman, Heavy Still Sky  //  Steve Rasnic Tem, The Secret Flesh  //  Brad Strickland, The Skin Party  //  

James Morrow, Diary of a Mad Deity  //  David R. Bunch, Preparation  //  W. M. Shockley, 300 Calories  //  Larry

Tritten, The Fine Art of Dreaming  //  Mary A. Turzillo, Alien Dreams  //  Wayne Wightman, The Angel at the End of

the Mind

Essays: D. W. Taylor, Turn the Mothers Out: A Manifesto for Genre Writers  //  Jon Gustafson, The Gimlet Eye

Returns

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, #12

Kristine Kathryn Rusch, ed.

September 1993

Pulphouse Publishing

Hardcover, 255 pages

$20.00

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Kristine Katherine Rusch.

Fiction: Steve Rasnic Tem, Fairytales  //  Rob Chilson, Standing in the Same Place  //  Lawrence Watt-Evans, A

Public Hanging  //  Adam-Troy Castro, Metastasis  //  Geoffrey A. Landis, Jamais Vu  //  William F. Wu, Tinsel Chink  

//  Norman Spinrad, Where the Heart Is  //  Bridget McKenna, Probability Factor  //  Dean Wesley Smith, Let's

Pretend  //  David B. Silva, Because I Could  //  Rory Harper, Do Me Good  //  Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Surreal Estate  //  

Ken Wisman, Canon in D  //  Robert Frazier, Sendings  // Darrell Schweitzer, Angry Man  //  Janet Kagan, No

Known Cure  //  James S. Dorr, The Swineherd's Tale  //  Rick Wilber, Being Ernest  //  William F. Wu, In the Temple of

Forgotten Spirits  //  Ken Wisman, Frost on the Window

Essay: Jon Gustafson, The Gimlet Eye Returns