Pulp 2 influences: Charles Dickens

One of the most famous and lauded storytellers of all time, Charles Dickens may seem an unlikely character to pop up in a blog about authors who influenced my book of pulp stories, but the way Dickens’s stories contained scenes of poverty and violence which shocked and outraged the public of the time and were serialised in magazines (replete with cliff-hangers) had a direct impact on the later pulp magazines and penny dreadfuls and shilling shockers.

He also had an admirable social conscience...