Lesbian pulp fiction is a subgenre of American fiction. Featuring lesbian content, these paperback novels reached their height in the 1950s and 1960s. Even when titles were penned by lesbian or bisexual women, such as Ann Bannon, Valerie Taylor, Marijane Meaker (under the names Vin Packer and Ann Aldrich), publishers gave the books lurid titles (alluding to strangeness, deviance, and darkness) and sexualized covers to appeal to male, heterosexual values. They were one of the few places lesbian women of the time could find representations of themselves and know they were not alone. The genre declined in the 1960s with the rise of non-pulp lesbian literature.