pulp magazine
Lurid fiction serial
A pulp magazine is a cheap periodical printed on rough wood-pulp paper, typically featuring sensational fiction—detective stories, westerns, science fiction, horror.
The format flourished from the 1920s through the 1950s, producing genre conventions still influential today.
He collected old pulp magazines from the thirties.
The term pulp now describes any lurid, melodramatic storytelling in that tradition.
Hard-boiled film genre
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- sci-fiFuturistic fiction, abbreviated
- adventureRisky exciting undertaking
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
thriller · western · romance · mystery · fantasy · serial · cliffhanger · protagonist
Booth selling periodicals
- digestMetabolize or summarize
- dimeU.S. ten-cent coin
- penny dreadfulCheap Victorian crime serial
- chapbookSmall booklet of verse
serial · anthology · issue · subscription · cover art · masthead · woodpulp · back issues
Shockingly vivid or gruesome
- titillatingPleasurably stimulating, often sensually
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- graphicVividly detailed or visual
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
salacious · racy · violent · gritty · shocking · overwrought · breathless · action-packed
Classic radio vigilante
Object worth amassing
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- ephemeraDisposables preserved as collectibles
- memorabiliaCollected items of significance
- Golden AgeLegendary period of perfection
pre-war · rarities · back issues · fanzine · reprints · archival · yellowed · brittle
noir
Hard-boiled film genre
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- sci-fiFuturistic fiction, abbreviated
- adventureRisky exciting undertaking
horror · thriller · western · romance · mystery · fantasy · serial · cliffhanger · protagonist · villain
newsstand
Booth selling periodicals
- digestMetabolize or summarize
- dimeU.S. ten-cent coin
- penny dreadfulCheap Victorian crime serial
chapbook · serial · anthology · issue · subscription · cover art · masthead · woodpulp · back issues
lurid
Shockingly vivid or gruesome
- titillatingPleasurably stimulating, often sensually
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- graphicVividly detailed or visual
provocative · salacious · racy · violent · gritty · shocking · overwrought · breathless · action-packed · garish
The Shadow
Classic radio vigilante
collectible
Object worth amassing
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- ephemeraDisposables preserved as collectibles
- memorabiliaCollected items of significance
Golden Age · pre-war · rarities · back issues · fanzine · reprints · archival · yellowed · brittle · deterioration
- Media Historyprinting press, newspaper, telegraph, radio, television
- periodicalsnewspaper, journals, periodicals, newspapers, journal
- printed matternewspaper, pamphlet, leaflet, leaflets, flyer
- book tradebook dealers, bookselling, bookseller, publisher, bookshops
- print historyprinting press, printing presses, printing houses, movable type, print shops
pulp magazineliterary magazine
Periodical featuring creative writing
literary journal · The New Yorker · The Atlantic · literary review · academic journal
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