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)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Conan: City of the Dead
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
Solomon Kane: The Hound of God
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
Lowdown Road
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
The Heroic Legends Series - Kull: The Talons of Deep Time
Solomon Kane: The Banquet of Souls: The Heroic Legends Series
The Heroic Legends Series - Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter (Savage Tales Short Fiction Book 7)
Conan: Terror from the Abyss: The Heroic Legends Series
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)
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #1)
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom, #4)
The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)
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
161 books — 37 voters
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 Nightclerk by Stephen SchneckTwilight Candelabra by William J. CraddockThe Six Pillars Of Effective Leadership by Jim CarloughLogan's Run by William F. NolanNog by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Mmm Mmm Paperbacks
133 books — 10 voters
The First Paper Cut by Camille CabreraL.A. Confidential by James EllroyMy Dirty California by Jason MosbergThe Stand In by Brad GeagleyHollywood Tough by Stephen J. Cannell
Best Hollywood Mystery (fiction)
20 books — 25 voters



D.A. Madigan
Pulp is almost zen, very nearly pure stream of unconsciousness. Here´s a good guy. There´s a bad guy. They hit each other. Oh, the bad guy is unmasked and it´s the greedy banker who was trying to foreclose on the old Beesby place! Wow. Next story, please.
D.A. Madigan

Carroll John Daly
The tin pan notes of a piano drift faintly into the night. A man curses and a window slams. Far distant an ash can clatters on stone and the almost human screech of a cat pierces the night.
Carroll John Daly, The Snarl of the Beast

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