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Welcome to /r/Pulp, your destination for lurid, sensational, or otherwise shallow fiction of questionable quality.

Welcome to /r/Pulp - Your destination for lurid, sensational, or otherwise shallow fiction of questionable quality.


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Anthology of some of Black Masks finest ""The Black Mask Boys" edited by William F.Nolan

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2024/10/29
23:58 UTC

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" The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril" by Paul Malmont hardcover first printing

2 Comments
2024/10/28
18:32 UTC

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Lovers of Everything Pulp.

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Hi Everyone

Longtime lover of pulp media here, especially magazines like Amazing/Astounding/Startling Stories and Weird Tales. Ive recently decided to make a Redbubble store specifically related to my love of pulp artwork. I've just started it and hoave more images coming. I already have quite a few products including clothes, stickers, phone cases, notebooks and more so feel free to give it a look if you feel so inclined. Love this subreddit so far and cant wait to see more of your posts.

https://www.redbubble.com/people/Ozymandias123/shop?asc=u

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2024/10/28
10:10 UTC

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Thrilling Wonder Stories -Dec 1948

2 Comments
2024/10/27
18:23 UTC

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Detective Story Magazine September 1941 featuring Raymond Chandler's "No Crime in the he Mountains"

2 Comments
2024/10/27
17:42 UTC

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Planet Stories Winter 1948

9 Comments
2024/10/27
17:36 UTC

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Fantastic Stories Feb.1948 cover art by Virgil Finlay

1 Comment
2024/10/27
17:35 UTC

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Pulp style illustration I painted for a book cover

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2024/10/26
18:32 UTC

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Dissertation research

Hi Everyone! I am currently writing a dissertation about the importance of fashion in the UK Indie music industry. For this, I’m looking to interview people who dress like various bands, such as Oasis, The Smiths, and Pulp. If you’d be interested in this, I can send you over a list of short questions for you to answer about your style and how/why you take inspiration from musicians! Many thanks ⭐️

2 Comments
2024/10/24
19:35 UTC

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Tales From The Crypt

Do you consider the comics/t.v. series as pulp?

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2024/10/21
12:03 UTC

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Does anyone have a contact with the guys behind Age of Aces?

Does anyone have any ways of contacting the guys behind Age of Aces?

It seems the email on the website is no longer checked (I sent few emails, got no response) and the comments on the site are no longer working (posting a comment just takes you to a blank screen).

I know they release books on Pulpfest, so maybe someone run into them there and knows a means of contacting them?

All I want to know if they would consider releasing their books digitally.

3 Comments
2024/10/18
12:44 UTC

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Can I translate Hugh Davidson's "Vampire Master" for a Portuguese magazine?

That story has never been translated to Portuguese and I publish for a Brazilian magazine.

Although I know that the story was published in the 30's and the author died in the 70's, I don't know how to check if there is somebody who owns his copyright after his death for me to check.

1 Comment
2024/10/17
13:27 UTC

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Creep Shadow, Creep by A. Merritt [1947 Avon edition]

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2024/10/12
00:18 UTC

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Seasonal Greetings Film Fun 1930s

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2024/10/09
01:10 UTC

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Argonauts Magazine cover

1 Comment
2024/09/27
22:50 UTC

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Brother Bones is a masterpiece if modern pulp

I know pulp novels are kind of a niche within a niche, but I've recently gotten into reading modern pulp author Ron Fortier's original pulp work featuring his own characters, and while unsurprising, it does bum me out a little that nobody else seems to know this series exists, and I hope I can rectify that at least a little.

For those who haven't read them, Brother Bones is a series of pulp throwback novels told in multiple interconnected short stories. The books follow Tommy Bonello, a former hitman who became a monk after developing a conscience, but was ultimately discovered by the crime family he was once a part of and gunned down. Not quite redeemed, but not quite beyond redemption, he is given a second chance to earn his way into Heaven by returning to earth in a rotting corpse to hunt down a variety of human murderers and supernatural abominations. With his new mission, he dons an ivory skull mask, arms himself with dual pistols, and sets out to punish the wicked as Brother Bones, the Undead Avenger.

The early stories featuring the character very much lean on him being something of a Shadow pastiche, but as the series goes on, both Bones and his cast of allies and the few consistent enemies he hasn't killed yet are increasingly fleshed out and given a great degree of pathos and depth. The stories still keep the over-the-top pulp tone, and that same sense of lurid sensationalism, but the complexity of the characters does elevate the material significantly.

Overall, I can't suggest the series enough. The action scenes are enthralling, the tone is pulpy and absurd, while still taking itself seriously, and the characters are among the most memorable in the genre, in my opinion. It's everything I could've asked for from a slightly more horror oriented take on classic pulp heroes, and so far, the series hasn't faltered a bit in quality. Can't suggest them to this subreddit enough.

7 Comments
2024/09/24
02:23 UTC

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Any interest in a quarterly gentleman’s pulp magazine?

I’ve just finished up publishing my first comic and my next project I’m considering doing is a modern pulp magazine. Printed on some nice rough paper. Occult detectives, adventurers, Victorian explorers, dark fantasy heroes, crime stories, Golden Age superheroes in the vein of the JSA

Combination of comic stories, illustrated novellas, prose, showcases of indie comics, interviews of mainstream pros, character profiles, bios of golden age creators. Aiming for 64-72 pages.

10x7.5” golden age dimensions. A beautiful cover each issue. Spared no expense (to quote a visionary)

I’ll probably try and publish it next summer so it’s a ways off, just wanna gage interest in an idea like this.

3 Comments
2024/09/18
02:53 UTC

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Nick Carter Issue #1 ‘Run, Spy, Run’ first published February 1964

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2024/09/17
18:53 UTC

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I was thinking what a pulp novel would’ve felt like when it was fresh and new back in the day

And I was wondering if maybe they would’ve felt like those word search and crossword puzzle books that you find near the supermarket check out even to this day. It seems like they probably would’ve had the same kind of paper and the same kind of cover stock paper and about the same dimensions, wouldn’t you think?

6 Comments
2024/09/17
02:23 UTC

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