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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Helen of Wyndhorn
The Perfect Assassin (Doc Savage, #1)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
The Ghost in You (Reckless, #4)
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
Lowdown Road
Call Me a Cab
Conan: Lord of the Mount
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
Conan: Black Starlight
Savage Realms Monthly, January 2021 (Savage Realms Monthly #1)
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2)
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)
The Man of Bronze (Doc Savage #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)
The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom, #4)
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #1)
Lost Horizon by James HiltonThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Classic Adventure - 1850-1950
42 books — 7 voters
Her Little Flowers by Shannon  MorganThe Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasThe Blue Monsoon by Damyanti BiswasOut by Natsuo KirinoThe Guest by Lorraine Mace
Great Noir and Noirish Novels by Women
151 books — 80 voters

Life Turns Man Up and Down by Kurt Thometz1929 and Mad Balls by Louis AragonSin-a-Rama by Adam ParfreyThe Book of Zines by Chip RoweThree Naughty French Novels by Alfred de Musset
Löwenbrow
104 books — 3 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

Jaws by Peter BenchleyCujo by Stephen  KingSlugs by Shaun HutsonBats by William W. JohnstoneSlither by John Halkin
Retro killer animal novels
19 books — 11 voters


And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you
Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

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