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'''Pulphouse Publishing''' was an American [[small press]] publisher based in [[Eugene, Oregon]], and specializing in science fiction and fantasy. It was founded by [[Dean Wesley Smith]] and [[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]] in 1988. The press was active until 1996. Over that period, Pulphouse published 244 different titles.<ref>Smith, Dean Wesley, "Introduction," ''Buried Treasures'', edited by Jerry Oltion, Wordshop, p.1</ref>
 
==Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine==
From 1988 through 1993, Pulphouse published a quarterly magazine in hardback form edited by Rusch. In addition to twelve issues, each of them themed, they published an "issue 0" which was a hardcover filled with blank pages to use as a sample to show prospective buyers. ''Pulphouse'' included stories by notable science fiction and fantasy authors including [[Charles de Lint]], [[Michael Bishop (author)|Michael Bishop]], [[Michael Swanwick]], and [[Harlan Ellison]]. In addition, each issue included essays on a variety of subjects. In 1989, Smith and Rusch won the [[World Fantasy Award]] in the [[World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional|Special Award: Non Professional]] category for their work on Pulphouse. From 1992 through 1994, ''Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine'' was nominated for the [[Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine]].
''The Best of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine'' was by published by [[Tor Books]] in 1991 and collected stories which had already appeared in the magazine as well as stories which were slated for later publication.
 
==Pulphouse Weekly==
In 1991, Pulphouse announced plans to publish a weekly fiction magazine, also called ''Pulphouse''. Although they published 19 issues between 1991 and 1995, the magazine never achieved weekly status and after the fifth issue the subtitle was changed from ''A Weekly Magazine'' to ''A Fiction Magazine''. ''Pulphouse Weekly'' was initially edited by Smith and later by Jonathan Bond. Over the course of its run, the magazine published stories by [[George Alec Effinger]], [[Mike Resnick]], [[Lawrence Watt-Evans]], [[Andre Norton]], [[O'Neil De Noux]] and [[Jeff VanderMeer]]. In addition to short stories, ''Pulphouse'' included serials by [[Spider Robinson|Spider]] & [[Jeanne Robinson]] and [[Robert Sheckley]].
 
Starting with issue zero March 1, 1991, and running through issue 19. Issue 9 started giving a month, instead of a date, and Issues 15 through 19 were undated.▼
From 1992 through 1994, ''Pulphouse Weekly'' was nominated for the [[Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine]].
 
▲Starting with issue zero March 1, 1991 and running through issue 19. Issue 9 started giving a month, instead of a date, and Issues 15 through 19 were undated.
 
==Author's Choice Monthly==
See main article [[{{Main|List of Author's Choice Monthly]]}}
 
Smith edited a series of twenty-nine monthly chapbooks for Pulphouse under the collective title "Author's Choice Monthly" from 1989 through 1992. Each of these books were published in a limited edition and included stories by a single author. Authors in the series included [[Karl Edward Wagner]] (#2 ''Unthreatened by the Morning Light''), [[Damon Knight]] (#21: ''God's Nose''), and [[Esther Friesner]] (#23: ''It's Been Fun'').
 
==Short Story Paperback/Hardback==
Short Story Paperback ($1.95)
# ''Loser’s Night'' by Poul Anderson
# ''A Case of Painter’s Ear'' by John Brunner
# ''Xolotl'' by Robert Sheckley
# ''All the Clocks Are Melting'' by Bruce Boston
# ''Blossoms'' by Kim Antieau
# ''Ecce Hominid'' by Esther M. Friesner
# ''A Case of Mistaken Identity'' by L. Timmel Duchamp
# ''The Cutter''' by Edward Bryant
# ''The Girl Who Fell into the Sky'' by Kate Wilhelm
# ''Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper'' by Robert Bloch
# ''The Steel Valentine'' by Joe R. Lansdale
# ''The Quickening'' by Bishop, Michael
# ''The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth'' by Roger Zelazny
# ''More Than the Sum of His Parts'' by Joe W. Haldeman
# ''No Way Street'' by Bruce Clemence
# ''The Spider Glass'' by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
# ''Uncle Dobbin’s Parrot Fair'' by Charles de Lint
# ''Dinosaurs'' by Walter Jon Williams
# ''Listening to Brahms'' by Suzy McKee Charnas
# ''Black Air'' by Kim Stanley Robinson
# ''The Dark Country'' by Dennis Etchison
# ''Journey to the Goat Star'' by Brian W. Aldiss
# ''Piecework'' by David Brin
# ''I Remember, I Remember...'' by Mary Caraker
# ''Sedalia'' by David J. Schow
# ''Slumming in Voodooland'' by Brian M. Stableford
# ''The Sword & the Stone'' by Jane Yolen
# ''The War of the Roses'' by Karen Joy Fowler
# ''The Cat With the Tulip Face'' by A. R. Morlan
# ''Twilight Time'' by Lewis Shiner
# ''Where the Summer Ends'' by Karl Edward Wagner
# ''Into Gold'' by Tanith Lee
# ''Daisy, in the Sun'' by Connie Willis
# ''Inuit'' by M. Shayne Bell
# ''The Shade of Lo Man Gong'' by William F. Wu
# ''Buckets'' by F. Paul Wilson
# ''The Pear-Shaped Man'' by George R. R. Martin
# ''The Evening & the Morning & the Night'' by Octavia E. Butler
# ''The Peacemaker'' by Gardner R. Dozois
# ''The Hero as Werewolf'' by Gene Wolfe
# ''The Bingo Man'' by Joyce Carol Oates
# ''Schrödinger’s Kitten'' by George Alec Effinger
# ''Sisters'' by Greg Bear
# ''The Ghosts of Tivoli'' by Nancy Holder
# ''Dr. Pak’s Preschool'' by David Brin
# ''Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back'' by Joe R. Lansdale
# ''Fiddling for Waterbuffaloes'' by S. P. Somtow
# ''Rachel in Love'' by Pat Murphy
# ''Unaccompanied Sonata'' by Orson Scott Card
# ''Nine Lives'' by Ursula K. LeGuin
# ''The Skull of the Marquis de Sade'' by Robert Bloch
# ''Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood'' by Charles de Lint
# ''The Price of Oranges'' by Nancy Kress
# ''If This Is Winnetka, You Must Be Judy'' by F. M. Busby
# ''My Brother’s Keeper'' by Pat Cadigan
# ''The Thermals of August'' by Edward Bryant
# ''Paper Dragons'' by James P. Blaylock
# ''Kirinyaga'' by Mike Resnick
# ''Candles on the Pond'' by Sue Ellen Sloca
# ''Shaunessy Fong'' by William F. Wu
 
==Axolotl Press==
 
In 1989, Pulphouse Publishing acquired Axolotl Press (founded by [[John Pelan]] in 1986) and began using it as an imprint. From 1989 through 1994, 26 titles were published using some form of the Axolotl name.
 
Series numbering seemed to begin with #09 and end with #30, there are two #16's printed in 1990. "Special editions" were also included.
 
==Other imprints==
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# ''Outlaw Blues'' by Teri White
# ''My Heart Cries for You!'' by Bill Crider
<ref> Richard Gombert Collection</ref>
 
==Legacy==
Pulphouse collapsed after wildly over-expanding the number of titles published every year, including several commercially unviable lines (such as the ''Short Story Paperback/Hardback'' line), leaving at least one title ([[Harlan Ellison]]'s ''Ellison Under Glass'') paid for but undelivered. <ref>Jack Chalker and Mark Owings, ''The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History'', CD-ROM version, 2000</ref>
 
In the Fall of 1996, [[Jerry Oltion]] published an anthology entitled ''Buried Treasure'', subtitled "An Anthology of Unpublished Pulphouse Stories," which, with the approval of Rusch and Smith, was designed to look like an issue of ''Pulphouse Hardback''.
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