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 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 ...

The hard-boiled private detective was born on the pages of pulp magazines, amid beautiful dames, waiting to be saved. Although the genre has acquired a trashy reputation, the language used to tie ...