With that rather lurid opening paragraph from the heart of the Shudder Pulp era, it can only be time for Spicy History Stories #5, the fifth installment of a weekly column about pulp magazine history ...

Trade magazine profiles of magazine and pulp publisher Erman Jesse Ridgway often remarked that he was an imposing figure and a fit, athletic man who kept himself in shape. Ridgway had been a player on ...