
The Vanilla Pug

The website of the greatest pulp fiction writer who ever lived


Hack lives in Los Angeles and he couldn’t help but notice that the detective stories that he loves from the 1940s set in the City of Angels always have the hero dressed in heavy layers when the temperature in inevitably between 90-110°.



Happy heavenly birthday to the legendary Mary Pickford!!!

Hack wrote this because he had a deadline coming up and he heard his cover artist Jonny M. joke to his pug Boris that the little dog’s favorite rapper was “Tupug.” Half an hour later, Hack had this ready for publication.
It’s not his best work.

Happy World Theater Day!

Congratulations to our friends at The Main Theater on their opening night tonight in the mystery comedy Done to Death!

Happy heavenly birthday to George Nissen, inventor of the trampoline!

Happy heavenly birthday to Farrah Fawcett!