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"

Helen of Wyndhorn
The Perfect Assassin (Doc Savage, #1)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Last Stop (The Diamond Knife #1)
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Call Me a Cab
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
Conan: City of the Dead
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
The Magpie Coffin
The Women of Weird Tales
The Heroic Legends Series - Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter (Savage Tales Short Fiction Book 7)
Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar (Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe #2)
Savage Realms Monthly, January 2021 (Savage Realms Monthly #1)
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Beast of Vargu and Others
The Ghost in You (Reckless, #4)
Bêlit: Shipwrecked, The Heroic Legends Series -
Conan: The Shadow of Vengeance
Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
Gun Honey, Vol. 2: Blood for Blood
The Night Silver River Run Red
Wrath of N'kai
Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds (Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe)
Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories
Adventureman, Vol. 1: The End and Everything After
Conan: Black Starlight
Conan: Terror from the Abyss: The Heroic Legends Series
Lowdown Road
Zorro's Shadow: How a Mexican Legend Became America's First Superhero
Are Snakes Necessary?
Conan: The Halls of Immortal Darkness: The Heroic Legends Series
Master of Mystery: The Rise of the Shadow
Conan: The Child
Solomon Kane: The Hound of God
Renegade Swords
Conan: Lord of the Mount
The Turquoise Serpent (Ashes of the Urn Book 1)
Tarzan, Conqueror of Mars (The Wild Adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs Book 9)
Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons
Captain Moxley and the Embers of the Empire
Tarzan: The New Adventures

John Gardner
The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the ...more
John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

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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