Pulp magazines and reprints aren’t the only way to enjoy the works of classic pulp — or New Pulp — fictioneers. Many readers find e-readers, tablets, and even mobile phones a convenient method of perusing pulp fiction.
Our new digital pulp page adds new links and consolidates others from pages elsewhere on ThePulp.Net. The links below offer many different formats of e-texts for downloading. Not all will be compatible with your mobile device, so you may have to check multiple sites for the story you are looking for.
If you are familiar with a digital pulp provider that is not listed below, please let us know. Suggestions are always welcome.
- Adventure House ebooks
- Adventure House sells a handful of pulps as ebooks, and has a number of free stories.
- Age of Aces Presents
- In addition to their printed books, Age of Aces offers a selection of free PDFs of air combat stories from pulp fictioneers such as Frederick C. Davis, Arch Whitehouse, Donald Keyhoe, and others. PDFs of Alden McWilliams’ illustrated tributes to flying pioneers from Flying Aces magazine are also available.
- Comic Book Plus: Pulp Fiction
- The website devoted to scans of comic books and strips also includes a “pulp fiction” category. Using a broad definition of the topic, Comic Book Plus features pulp magazines and their precursors, dime novels, penny dreadful, and story papers. You can read the magazines online but must register to download them.
- Dieselpunk Industries: Pulp Magazine Library
- This site has hundreds of pulp magazine scans available for reading online for free.
- Futures Past Editions
- This publisher, run by Renaissance E Books Inc., puts out ebooks and paperbacks of science fiction, fantasy, adventure, and horror — many from the end of the pulp era. It also offers a number of free ebooks on its website.
- iPulpFiction
- iPulpFiction takes a different approach to digital pulp by selling its catalog in an HTML5 format, with the document residing on its web server but accessible by up-to-date web browsers. iPulpFiction provides classic pulp stories, including Black Mask Magazine, Famous Fantastic Magazine, Dime Mystery Magazine, and Horror Stories, and New Pulp stories, including books by Airship 27, Pro Se Productions, and Moonstone Books.
- Luminist League Library & Archives
- The Luminist League has a collection of periodicals online in PDF form, ranging from spiritual texts to chapbooks to fiction. Pulp fans will be interested in their pulp magazine and science fiction categories. (Some non-pulps are mixed in each section, too.)
- Miscellanea eTexts
- Miscellanea offers PDFs of two Edgar Rice Burroughs novelettes — “The Girl from Farris’s” and “The Efficiency Expert.” Other texts are available on the page as HTML files.
- Mysterious Press: Pulp
- Mysterious Press takes a relaxed view of “pulp,” but pulp aficionados will find ebooks by Lester Dent and George H. Coxe here. The ebooks are sold in a variety of e-reader formats through third-party vendors, such as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Sony.
- The Online Books Page
- Links to sites with electronic texts of books.
- Open Road Media: Lester Dent
- Open Road Media publishes a variety of authors’ works. But pulp fans will be interested in digital books by Lester Dent. The ebooks are sold in a variety of e-reader formats through third-party vendors, such as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Sony.
- Project Gutenberg
- Project Gutenberg provides public domain texts in a variety of formats. Because copyright laws vary around the globe, Project Gutenberg’s international sites, in particular its Australian version, may contain stories aren’t yet available elsewhere.
- Pulp Fiction Book Store
- The Pulp Fiction Book Store makes its ebooks available in .epub and .mobi formats for many reading devices. It offers a range of genre and includes some non-pulp material
- The Pulp Magazine Archive at Archive.org
- The Internet Archive is a wonderful resource for archived websites, videos, audio, and text. Pulp magazines have their own collection there. Reading them online or download them in a variety of formats, including ePub, PDF, Kindle, and plain text.
- Pulp Magazines Project
- The purpose of the Pulp Magazines Project is to create an open-access digital archive of pulp magazines. The project’s scanned pulps are available in free PDFs or Flash-based FlipBook versions.
- PulpMagazines.org
- Here’s another archive of dozens of digital pulps for reading online or downloading. You’ll also information about the pulps and links to pulp replicas for sale.
- PulpGen Archive
- Since 2002, Larry Estep, John Locke, and others contributed, scanned, and reformatted pulp stories at the PulpGen website. After that site shut down in 2021, Ed McBride resurrected it as the PulpGen Archive. The hundreds of free, downloadable PDFs can be sorted by author or magazine.
- Pro Se Productions
- New Pulp publisher Pro Se Productions offers ebook versions of most of its publications. You’ll find links to purchase its books in a variety of formats from the Kindle and Nook stores, and Smashwords.
- Radio Archives Pulp eBooks
- Radio Classics offers a variety of digital books in a number of formats under the banner of “Will Murray’s Pulp Classics.” Some of the ebooks contain one novel, while others comprise the feature novel and supporting stories from a particular pulp. Ebooks include Captain Future, Startling Stories, Doctor Death, Dr. Yen Sin, and more.
- Le Site de Capitaine Flam (Captain Future)
- This French website devoted to the Captain Future TV series also includes a handful of PDFs of the Captain Future and Startling Stories pulp stories in English, as well as French translations. You’ll also find PDFs of some of “The Worlds of Tomorrow,” profiles and maps of the planets, that originally appeared in the pulp.
- Steeger Books
- Steeger Books (formerly Altus Press), one of the premier pulp reprint publishers, also provides many of its books in formats for Apple devices and the Nook and Kindle e-readers.
