pulp magazines
Disposable fiction periodicals
Pulp magazines were cheap, mass-produced periodicals printed on rough wood-pulp paper, flourishing from the 1890s through the 1950s.
They featured sensational fiction—detective stories, science fiction, horror, adventure, romance—with lurid covers and breathless prose.
Many celebrated genre writers got their start in the pulps.
The adjective pulpy now describes anything with that same garish, lowbrow energy.
- dime novelsCheap sensational 19th-century fiction
- penny dreadfulsCheap Victorian horror serials
- speculative fictionGenre of imagined realities
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- periodicalsRecurring printed publications
serialized · space opera · ray guns · noir · thrillers · mystery · weird fiction · serialized stories · cliffhangers · short stories · dog-eared pages · cheaply · Lovecraftian · sensational · cosmic horror · adventure · newsstand · cheap thrills
- classic sci-fiAsimov, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke, Ray Bradbury
- early sci-fiJules Verne, H.G. Wells, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, The Time Machine
- lowbrowreality TV, tabloids, trash TV, celebrity gossip, schlock
- old periodicalsvintage comics, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic, bound volumes, journals
- pulp fictiondime novels, penny dreadfuls, potboilers, page turners, page-turners
- mass mediaprinting press, television, radio, cinema, newspapers
pulp magazinesliterary journals
Publications featuring creative writing
The New Yorker · literary reviews · literary fiction · The Atlantic · academic journals
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Smooth racing tires
glossies · hardcover editions · art magazines · Vogue · Vanity Fair
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