A very good overall history of the pulps is Ron Goulart‘s Cheap Thrills: The Amazing! Thrilling! Astonishing! History of Pulp Fiction. Originally...
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The Pulp Magazine Scrapbook is an interesting volume by Wooda “Nick” Carr published by Wild Cat Books in 2007 following The Pulp Hero and Master of...
I have noted in the past the great articles by Wooda “Nick” Carr that have appeared in many pulp fanzines over the years. And there is a great...
I have previously posted on “dime novels,” the fictional forerunners of pulps, which were long-running series of cheap fiction, often reprinting...
A nice, though relatively short-lived pulp fanzine was Purple Prose put out by Mike Chomko, who runs a business selling pulp magazines and reprints. Purple...
Magazines I Remember is a collection of reminiscence from pulp author Hugh B. Cave of “some pulps, their editors, and what is was like to write for them...
The Other Detective Pulp Heroes is a nice little volume put out by Tattered Pages Press as the first in their “Pulp Vault Pulp Study” volumes in...
Ed Hulse and his Murania Press have put out a third Blood ‘n’ Thunder Presents volume, this time focused on the pulp heroes: Fighting Crime One...
Last year when the great fanzine Blood ‘n’ Thunder ended with issue #50 (actually a double issue of #49/50), we were promised that BnT would...
A much needed work, Jess Nevin‘s new The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes (2017) is a “sequel” to his Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana (2005)...