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)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
Lowdown Road
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Conan: Lord of the Mount
Call Me a Cab
Last Stop (The Diamond Knife #1)
Conan: City of the Dead
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
Savage Realms Monthly, January 2021 (Savage Realms Monthly #1)
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
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)
Song of the Loon by Richard AmoryThe Lord Won't Mind by Gordon MerrickDerricks by James  BarrA Different Drum by Chris    DavidsonThe Man From C.A.M.P. by Victor J. Banis
Gay Pulp Fiction - Vintage
94 books — 7 voters
The Lost World by Arthur Conan DoyleShe by H. Rider HaggardLost Horizon by James HiltonDwellers in the Mirage by A. MerrittAt the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Classic Lost World Tales
42 books — 12 voters

We Got Zombies on the Lawn Again, Ma by Donnie  SmithDeath by Zamboni by David David KatzmanGrundish and Askew by Lance CarbuncleA Coupla Shades of Taupe by Court BurbackAlexei Maxim Russell's Field Guide to Assholes by Alexei Maxim Russell
Books That Make You Vomit With Joy!
130 books — 135 voters
Swords and Deviltry by Fritz LeiberThe Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. HowardElric of Melniboné by Michael MoorcockA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinSwords Against Death by Fritz Leiber
Best Sword and Sorcery
175 books — 172 voters

A CLUE LEFT HANGING by C.K. PhillipsThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Crime Pulps
159 books — 39 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


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

China Miéville
Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap. ...more
China Miéville

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