Most Read This Week In Pulp

Pulp fiction can be characterized as "fast-paced, plot-oriented storytelling of a linear nature with clearly defined, larger than life protagonists and antagonists, creative descriptions, clever use of turns of phrase and other aspects of writing that add to the intensity and pacing of the story."

The earliest pulp stories were printed in pulp magazines from 1896 through the 1950s. The term pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. Magazines printed on higher quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". Pulp were most often priced at ten cents per mag
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Pulp"

The Perfect Assassin (Doc Savage, #1)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
Last Stop (The Diamond Knife #1)
Conan: The Halls of Immortal Darkness: The Heroic Legends Series
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
Call Me a Cab
Conan: Terror from the Abyss: The Heroic Legends Series
Conan: Lord of the Mount
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Gun Honey, Vol. 2: Blood for Blood
Tarzan: The New Adventures
Conan: City of the Dead
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
El Borak: The Siege of Lamakan
Solomon Kane: The Banquet of Souls: The Heroic Legends Series
Conan: Lethal Consignment
Bêlit: Shipwrecked
Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons
Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
Master of Mystery: The Rise of the Shadow
The Heroic Legends Series - Kull: The Talons of Deep Time
Conan: The Shadow of Vengeance
Savage Realms Monthly, January 2021 (Savage Realms Monthly #1)
Conan: The Child
Solomon Kane: The Hound of God
Lowdown Road
John Carter of Mars: Gods of the Forgotten (Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe)
The Heroic Legends Series - Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter (Savage Tales Short Fiction Book 7)

There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."--a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951) American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, and helped readers fashion new identities. ...more
Paula Rabinowitz

Edgar Rice Burroughs
If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten.
Edgar Rice Burroughs

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