Pulp genres
PulpMagazines Pulp magazines offered readers a variety of genres, or categories, from FantasyGenre sword and sorcery to WesternGenre Westerns, from RomanceGenre love stories to FantasyGenre science fiction, from HeroPulpGenre hero pulps to MiscGenre railroad stories. Just about every conceivable genre was covered at one time or another during the pulps' half-century run.
Background
Genres offer a way to categorize pulp magazines and the stories in them. As a result, genres are broad topics and typically include many subcategories within them. Not all pulps or stories fit nicely into a single genre, or category. After some discussions on the Pulp Mags mailing list at Yahoo Groups, these main categories coalesced:Within each of these broader categories are subcategories, such as "HorrorGenre weird menace," "MysteryGenre hardboiled" or "FantasyGenre space opera." These subcategories are discussed within the entry of the broader genre.
