{"id":5213,"date":"2016-11-29T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:01:01","slug":"remembering-the-pulpsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2016\/11\/29\/remembering-the-pulpsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the pulpsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated: Jan. 3, 2023<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because Twitter stopped allowing third-party software to freely schedule posts, we’ve moved our remembrances of pulp creators to a new feature at ThePulp.Net: On This Date<\/a>. As a result, the information about the daily posting to Twitter and to Facebook described below no longer applies.<\/p>\n

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The pulps are more than just the stories and characters depicted on the covers and inside of the magazines.<\/p>\n

The pulps are the thousands of writers, artists, and editors who churned out the popular fiction magazines from 1896 through the mid-1950s.<\/p>\n

Around this time in 2012, I started noting the anniversaries of births and deaths of pulp writers, artists, and editors on ThePulp.Net’s Facebook page<\/a> and in its Twitter feed<\/a>. It started out with just a few a month as I began collecting names and dates in a spreadsheet.<\/p>\n

Facebook page<\/a>, so now they are strictly on ThePulp.Net’s Twitter feed<\/a>. (With so many each day, it was clogging up the Facebook page’s feed; and with a change in the way Facebook distributed new posts from Twitter, fewer folks were seeing them there.)<\/p>\n

In November 2014, my spreadsheet listed names and dates of around 450 pulpsters. I’m adding new names and dates to my list regularly. This month, for instance, I added 86 more names to the spreadsheet, bringing the total to 1,074 names.<\/p>\n

Yet, that only scratches the surface of the vast number of folks working on the pulps. I will keep adding to the list, and continue posting the tributes on Twitter.<\/p>\n

In addition to the effort of logging new information and getting the tweets scheduled, there’s a benefit for me in doing this. I’m discovering writers such as Norman Elwood Hammerstrom<\/strong>, who apparently published only one story (in Weird Tales<\/em>), and others such as Allan R. Bosworth<\/strong>, who sold over 360 stories to the pulps (from Adventure<\/em>, Argosy<\/em>, and Top-Notch<\/em> to Doc Savage<\/em>, Texas Rangers<\/em>, and Thrilling Sports<\/em>). Both are mostly forgotten today, and I was unaware of them until adding them to my spreadsheet.<\/p>\n

I hope you’ll check out the tributes. You don’t have to have a Twitter account to read them. Just head over to ThePulp.Net’s Twitter page<\/a> to see that latest tweets.<\/p>\n

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Fictioneer Katharine Haviland-Taylor died on this date (Nov. 28) in 1941. She was 50. #pulpmags<\/a><\/p>\n

— ThePulpNet (@ThePulpNet) November 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n