Pulp magazines were cheaply produced fiction magazines, most popular in the first half of the 20th century. Lots of well respected authors wrote for the pulps, but the magazines themselves had a lurid, sleazy reputation. Many of these pulps are very hard to find today!
I love pulp fiction. Heroes like Doc Savage, The Shadow, and countless others thrilled readers every week in these cheaply made novels. Some of them were really wonderful. Some of them were pretty bad. One of my favorite heroes from this period is The Spider, and never is The Spider better than in the Black Police trilogy: “The City that Paid to Die”, “The Spider at bay”, and “The Scourge of the Black Legions”.
This trilogy of pulp novels published in the earliest days of the second world war imagines a homegrown fascist uprising in New York City, and pits The Spider and a band of New York citizens against this corruption. It’s thrilling, and an excellent introduction to the pulps of the 30s.
If you like that, you may also enjoy some of these other pulp titles:
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Women of Weird Tales: Stories by Everil Worrell, Eli Colter, Mary Elizabeth Counselman and Greye La Spina (Monster, She Wrote)$18.99 -
Green Lama: The Complete Pulp Adventures Volume 2 – Kendell Foster Crossen$34.95 -
Green Lama: The Complete Pulp Adventures Volume 1 – Kendell Foster Crossen$34.95 -
Tales of The Red Panda: The Crime Cabal – Gregg Taylor$9.99 -
Tales of the Red Panda: Pyramid of Peril – Gregg Taylor$9.99 -
Tales of the Red Panda: The Mind Master – Gregg Taylor$9.99 -
Tales of the Red Panda: The Android Assassins – Gregg Taylor$9.99 -
Finn’s Golem – Gregg Taylor$6.49 -
Black Jack Justice – Gregg Taylor$9.99 -
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett$14.99 -
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction – Vol. 3$20.00 -
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction – Vol. 2$20.00 -
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction – Vol. 1$20.00 -
John the Balladeer – Manly Wade Wellman$19.99