Category Archives: Pulp Fiction Stories

Legion Pulp: Cold Steel

Posted on April 15, 2024 by Jack Wagner

This Georges Surdez story appeared in the 01 August 1932 issue of Adventure.  It’s a nice concise tale of what happens when a long-serving Legionnaire butts heads with a prideful officer of the Native Infantry (better known as the tirailleurs … Continue reading →

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Legion Pulp: Kismet in Picardy

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Jack Wagner

This month’s Foreign Legion pulp story is from the 10 December 1928 issue of Short Stories Magazine.  The author is Don McGrew (or Donald Francis McGrew, 1886-1955), an early and fairly prolific author for the pulps and other magazines who … Continue reading →

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Legion Pulp: Haunted Mountains

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Jack Wagner

Here’s another story of the Hell’s Angels squad of the French Foreign Legion penned by Warren Hastings Miller.  It appeared in the October 1932 issue of Blue Book Magazine.  The squad appeared regularly in this pulp for several years after … Continue reading →

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Legion Pulp: Strictly Private

Posted on December 16, 2023 by Jack Wagner

This story appeared in the September 10th, 1930 issue of Short Stories and was written by J. D. Newsom–a prolific pulp writer with many Foreign Legion stories to his credit.  It’s one of his tales where the fighting takes place … Continue reading →

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Legion Pulp: The Devil’s Own

Posted on November 16, 2023 by Jack Wagner

Here is another Panther paperback from the 1950’s offered up in lieu of a pulp fiction story for this month.  The author of The Devil’s Own is Alex Stamper which was a house pseudonym used by James McCormick for several … Continue reading →

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Legion Pulp: The Strange Case of Sergeant Pron

Posted on October 15, 2023 by Jack Wagner

Frederic Martyn, the author of this story, was an Englishman who served in the French Foreign Legion from 1889 to 1894, primarily in Tonkin.  So he’s perfectly suited to recount his adventures in the April 1918 issue of The Wide … Continue reading →

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Legion Pulp: Lances in the Dust

Posted on September 15, 2023 by Jack Wagner

For this month’s pulp fiction story I’m running a substitute…a pinch hitter so to say that is technically not a story from the old pulps but has all the trappings of one and comes in at 144 pages.  Published in … Continue reading →

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Legion Pulp: A Question of Faith

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Jack Wagner

This older story from Georges Surdez, four years into his pulp writing career, appeared in the 08 Oct 1926 issue of Adventure.  It’s a 34 page precursor to his 1931 novel, The Demon Caravan.  It took some doing to expand … Continue reading →

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Legion Pulp: Dead Man Alive Again

Posted on July 16, 2023 by Jack Wagner

This H. Bedford-Jones story is more of a mystery tale than a Foreign Legion adventure but I’m sure you will enjoy reading it nonetheless. It appeared in the 10 November 1932 issue of Short Stories.  The story begins with American … Continue reading →

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Legion Pulp: The Deserter

Posted on June 15, 2023 by Jack Wagner

The Deserter is a short story by Georges Surdez that appeared in the April 1943 issue of Adventure Magazine.  Surdez again displays his masterful understanding of wartime France and (Vichy) N. Africa and of course the French military and Foreign … Continue reading →

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