With profound economic uncertainty lingering at home and the clouds of fascism building abroad, Americans were in desperate need of an escape in the 1930s. So they flooded into movie houses on a daily ...

What it’s about: In the first half of the 20th century, fiction magazines were popular, and were typically printed on cheap paper made from wood pulp (as opposed to the glossy, high-quality paper used ...

Download MP3 audio of the author reading this story here, or sign up for Slate’s free daily podcast on iTunes. About the only demand pulp placed on its writers was to keep the reader’s attention. Thus ...

In a kitschy clash of chisel-cut gangsters, half-naked women and radioactive beasts from beyond, Peter Haining’s The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines offers a polemical history of the scandalous ...

Those of us born after, say, 1950, probably aren’t terribly familiar with pulp magazines. But most anybody reading one today might get a jolt of déjà vu nonetheless. From the 1920s through the ’40s, ...

Liquored-up private eyes, femme fatales quivering in passion -- tenderly! vulnerably! -- babe-crazy mole men, voodoo and vampires: This was the realm of the immensely prolific sex and horror writer ...

Stories of powerful heroes have existed since the creation of stories and myths. Most modern myths of powerful creatures revolve around superheroes such as Batman and Superman. However, these are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. A new exhibition of Künstler’s pulp magazine and book ...

Known among pulp fans as one of the world's most knowledgeable and discerning collectors in the field, Dr. Richard Meli has spent several decades amassing what might be the most impressive pulp ...

AT EVENTIDE, when gun smoke and alkali dust swirl across the television screens of this wide land, my living room is peopled with the querulous ghosts of characters who died with their boots on a ...