Vigilante Crime and Pulp

About Vigilante Crime and Pulp

Righteous Independent Fiction and More vigilantemag.substack.com (https://vigilantemag.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Gutter Books LLC

Category

fiction · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2025

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

38 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Shocking Exclusive! Host Bribed to Read Freida McFadden!

   Our rotund raconteur accepted a $50 cash bribe from shady new pulp fiction author Frank Kidd (https://substack.com/profile/104673130-frank-kidd) (Once Upon A Time in Argentina (https://amzn.to/3Wk5gEt)) to read bestselling chick thriller Brain Damage (https://amzn.to/4dLO0ht) by Freida McFadden aka Dr. Sara Cohen. Hear all about it! Come for the sadistic voyeurism, stay for the misogyny, misandry, and money-grab! Get full access to Vigilante Crime & Pulp at vigilantemag.substack.com/subscribe (https://vigilantemag.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

2. 

   19 Oct 2026

   How I Stole My Favorite Book: A Random Ramble

   Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to Vigilante Crime & Pulp at vigilantemag.substack.com/subscribe (https://vigilantemag.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

3. 

   28 Sept 2026

   How Ed McBain Rehabilitated the Heroin Junkie

   Philip “Big Philly” Smith took time away from talking smack about bad books to deeply diving into good books about smack! It’s 1952 and New York native Salvatore Lombino is a 26-year-old short story stud in the nadir of the pulp fiction magazine market. So what does he do? He legally changes his name to Evan Hunter and publishes his first crime novel, The Evil Sleep! from Falcon Books. Eventually, it was reissued as So Nude, So Dead (https://amzn.to/3TXNndM) (2015) by Ed McBain thanks to Charles Ardai and his temple to mid-century classics, Hard Case Crime. Listen now to learn how McBain’s debut transcended its modest prose and window dressing thanks the author’s eagle eye for targeting popular subgenre expectations to subvert. So Nude, So Dead is heroin, hoes, and prose—all a pulp writer knows. Other books mentioned in this episode: The Blackboard Jungle (https://amzn.to/4xL8uhj) by Evan Hunter Roots Down to Hell (https://amzn.to/3VUXaln) by Matthew Louis The Wrong Man (https://amzn.to/3Te8lF8) by Matthew Louis Frenzy (https://amzn.to/46QDGRn) by Jonathan Craig - Not specifically mentioned, but this is the other junkie amateur sleuth novel I was referring to. As promised in the episode, here is a picture of a street from my neighborhood. Get full access to Vigilante Crime & Pulp at vigilantemag.substack.com/subscribe (https://vigilantemag.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4)

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

3.7 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 19 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

25

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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