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Pulp magazines were a widespread source of affordable popular fiction in the first half of the 20th century. They were essentially regular periodicals printed on paper obtained from cheap wood pulp (hence "pulp") featuring original text stories, in contrast to the slick magazines printed on higher-grade paper (often called "glossies" or "slicks"). Inside these mags were stories of almost every genre possible depending on a particular magazine's focus. While the Action-Adventure series in the spirit of Indiana Jones or Pellucidar and Proto-Superhero (like The Shadow or Doc Savage) are the best remembered today, there were a vast variety — crime & detective (such as Black Mask), horror (H. P. Lovecraft's stories), romance, fantasy (Such as Weird Tales which introduced Conan the Barbarian) and many others. Notably, the Science Fiction pulps (such as Amazing Storiesnote which wasn't technically in pulp format when it first appeared but "went pulp" for some years from 1933 on) are both credited with establishing Science Fiction as a distinct genre note the term "science fiction" was coined by Amazing Stories editor Hugo Gernsback and blamed for establishing the idea that all science fiction is pulpy Sci-Fi and mostly Space Opera, leaving the new genre stuck in the Sci-Fi Ghetto to the chagrin of hard Science Fiction devotees and others. This argument has mostly faded into history these days, but the underlying issues aren't dead yet. Pulp fiction was often low-quality, cliché-stormed, and short (the magazines had about 128 pages). That's why only the very few people involved in their crafting thought the fiction created for the pulps had real value the way, say, novels often try to. Which included the writers who often were paid a penny a word. However, they weren't entirely wrong — as exemplified by Lovecraft's works, pulp fiction could indeed be of great quality and had the potential of becoming classics. Yet, the pulps were at their best in the wild scenes of furious action, melodramatic romance, and sensational/exploitative plots. Pulp magazines reflected that in their covers — pinup-style Ms. Fanservice in all her curvy glory, taglines, Badass guys brandishing weapons, menacing villains or wild animals, dramatic scenes of peril, bright colors, and lurid or intriguing scenarios. The pulps strongly influence their descendant media even today. This can be attributed to the fact many Dead Horse Tropes were new and original back then. For instance, the Super Hero and Spy Hero stories like James Bond owe a lot to the medium's influence. If you want to look for it, you can read the comic book, Wordsmith, which is about the life and work of a pulp magazine writer in the 1930s with excerpts of the stories he writes. See also The Pulp Wiki. Eventually, the pulps were killed off by competition from movies, comic books, television, and the paperback novel, newer forms of affordable entertainment. Nowadays, the art of crafting pulp fiction is regarded as a technique to spark creativity and made the act of writing finally happen for those stuck in writer's block. It's said it reminds people how much fun writing stories can be. Especially when one doesn't worry about planning plot threads and complex characters. Space Opera, Planetary Romance, and Sword and Sorcery became distinct genres in the pulps. Compare with Dime Novel which along with the British Penny Dreadfuls were the immediate predecessors of pulp magazines. In turn, Airport Novels are the closest modern equivalent, although Extruded Book Product plumbs some of the same depths as the worst of the pulp serials. A point can be made about Creepypasta and Fanfiction fulfilling the role pulp magazines left much better in the sense of being more widespread thanks to the internet and that their authors are amateur writers and, therefore, the stories aren't curated by professional editors. See also Two-Fisted Tales for works directly inspired by the pulps. Not to be confused with the band called PULP. The movie Pulp Fiction derives its title and some of its style from stories in pulp magazines of the crime genre. The movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is also a homage to stories from pulp magazines, of the science fiction genre. |
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Horror Pulps: It was here that the Cosmic Horror Story was first developed, but there was also plenty of conventional Gothic Horror material here too. | |
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Action-Adventure | |
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Action-Adventure Pulps | |
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Sadly, due to the cancellation of the magazine, the "Yellow Vulture" epic was left permanently unfinished at a Cliffhanger. | |
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Sword and Sorcery | |
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Fantasy Pulps | |
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Science Fiction Pulps | |
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Hero Pulps | |
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Jungle Opera Pulps | |
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