A 1922 defense of action fiction argues that adventure stories are not crude entertainment, but one of storytelling’s most fundamental forms By Arthur...
Category - Pulp Articles
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A field guide to the penny-a-word trade, where action was God and plausibility his only prophet By Henry Morton Robinson Wood-pulp literature is bought by the...
Robert E. Howard’s ‘Spear and Fang’ was a triumph for both writer and fantastic fiction By Jeffrey Shanks One hundred years ago, the July 1925 number of Weird...
A literary agent examines the ‘peculiar requirements of this first-class market for unusual adventure, detective, and Western stories’ By August Lenniger “It...
Fictioneer Walter B. Gibson explains what it takes to keep writing ‘The Shadow’ after 10 years. By Walter B. Gibson Ten years ago, Street &...
This Rozen twin introduced pulp readers to the first familiar image of The Shadow. By Al Tonik I had been to Pulpcon many times and met a number of remarkable...
The artist examines six of the 62 covers he did for the popular pulp magazine. In the mid-1970s, artist Graves Gladney sat down with pulp fans Terry Klasek and...
The artist holds nothing back when talking about other artists, both classic and contemporary. Graves Gladney painted some of the most iconic covers for The...
The artist candidly reflects on his craft and his work in the pulps. Graves Gladney painted some of the most iconic covers for The Shadow. He produced 62...
Long before the current zombie boom, reanimated horrors lurked in the pulps By Jeffrey Shanks Zombies are everywhere these days, shambling, crawling, and...