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 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)
Lowdown Road
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
The Heroic Legends Series - Kull: The Undoomed Man
The Heroic Legends Series - Solomon Kane: The Lair of the Mari Lwyd
The Heroic Legends Series - Conan: The Amulet of Nakamar
Conan: Terror from the Abyss: The Heroic Legends Series
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
Solomon Kane: The Hound of God
Gun Honey, Vol. 2: Blood for Blood
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
Call Me a Cab
The Heroic Legends Series - Conan: Comrades
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 Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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)
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399 books — 218 voters
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Best Hollywood Mystery (fiction)
20 books — 25 voters

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Green Hornet
54 books — 2 voters
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Mmm Mmm Paperbacks
133 books — 14 voters


If these yarns were trash - and millions of parents must have regarded them as such - then they were the best of all kinds of trash. They were trash for connoisseurs of trash. Trash for people who understood just how good trash could really be.
Don Hutchison, The Great Pulp Heroes

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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