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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New Releases Tagged "Pulp"

The Heroic Legends Series - Conan: The Green God of Leng
The Perfect Assassin (Doc Savage, #1)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
Conan: The Halls of Immortal Darkness: The Heroic Legends Series
Call Me a Cab
Conan: Lord of the Mount
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
The Heroic Legends Series - Solomon Kane: The Lair of the Mari Lwyd
The Heroic Legends Series - Kull: The Talons of Deep Time
Conan: City of the Dead
Solomon Kane: The Banquet of Souls: The Heroic Legends Series
Conan: Lethal Consignment
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 Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom, #4)
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #1)
The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)
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Basi del Novocarnismo
35 books — 6 voters
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Best Sword and Sorcery
189 books — 228 voters

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 — 136 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

The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerA CLUE LEFT HANGING by C.K. PhillipsThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Crime Pulps
162 books — 38 voters


Trina Robbins
The storyline also changed with the times, and went from Marla Drake held captive by Nazis in the war years, to mad scientists, gangsters and kidnapping after the war. Miss Fury's adventures were part pulp, part film noir. ...more
Trina Robbins, Women And The Comics

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

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