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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The Perfect Assassin (Doc Savage, #1)
Helen of Wyndhorn
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Lowdown Road
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
Call Me a Cab
Last Stop (The Diamond Knife #1)
Solomon Kane: The Hound of God
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
Gun Honey, Vol. 2: Blood for Blood
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
Conan: Terror from the Abyss: The Heroic Legends Series
Conan: The Shadow of Vengeance
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2)
The Man of Bronze (Doc Savage #1)
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)
The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Maltese Falcon
The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom, #4)
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #1)
The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)
Lost Horizon by James HiltonThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Classic Adventure - 1850-1950
42 books — 7 voters
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinCharlotte Gray by Sebastian FaulksA Life in Secrets by Sarah HelmThe Alice Network by Kate QuinnThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
If You Liked Agent Carter, Try...
193 books — 45 voters

Jaws by Peter BenchleyCujo by Stephen  KingSlugs by Shaun HutsonBats by William W. JohnstoneSlither by John Halkin
Retro killer animal novels
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Captain Hawklin and the Skyhook Pirates by Charles F. MillhouseCaptain Hawklin and the Underwater Menace by Charles F. MillhouseSpring-heeled Jack and the President's Ring by D.L. MackenzieThe Adventures of Lazarus Gray by Barry ReeseDieselpunk ePulp Showcase by Grant Gardiner
The Best of New Pulp
175 books — 137 voters


Robert E. Howard
It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot.
Robert E. Howard

J.G. Ballard
Kandinski looked up. 'Do you read science fiction?' he asked matter-of-factly. 'Not as a rule,' Ward admitted. When Kandinski said nothing he went on: 'Perhaps I’m too skeptical, but I can’t take it too seriously.' Kandinski pulled at a blister on his palm. 'No one suggests you should. What you mean is that you take it too seriously.' Accepting the rebuke with a smile at himself, Ward pulled out one of the magazines and sat down at a table next to Kandinski. On the cover was a placid suburban ...more
J.G. Ballard

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