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 ...

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 ...

With that rather lurid opening paragraph from the heart of the Shudder Pulp era, it can only be time for Spicy History Stories #5, the fifth installment of a weekly column about pulp magazine history ...

Question: Several months ago, I bought a box of old catalogs and other publications at a yard sale. Among the periodicals is a 1934 copy of a pulp magazine, "Black Mask." It has interesting cover art ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...