Paul S. Powers on the Pulp Fiction Trail
Laurie Powers didn’t know her grandfather, Paul S. Powers, had been a prolific pulp fiction writer until 1999 when an internet search on pen name Ward M. Stevens led her down a trail of discovery. From the mid-1920s until the late ‘40s, the elder Powers crafted dozens of stories, mostly for Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly, but also for Weird Tales, Thrilling Western, Thrilling Ranch Stories, Texas Rangers, and Rio Kid Western. For fifteen years, his popular characters Kid Wolf and Sonny Tabor pounded through the blood and thunder-filled pages of Wild West Weekly, thrilling readers across the nation, and setting the stage for Powers’ 1949 novel from Macmillan, Doc Dillahay. Doc Dillahay was released as a Bantam paperback as Six-Gun Doctor . In 2005, Golden West released Desert Justice , four Sonny Tabor novellas in hardback, followed in 2006 by a Dorchester edition published under its Leisure Western paperback imprint. In 2007 came Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in