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Overview: Pulp magazines (often referred to as “the pulps”), also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. Pulps were printed on cheap paper with ragged, untrimmed edges.
The name pulp comes from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. Magazines printed on better paper were called “glossies” or “slicks.” At their peak of popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, the most successful pulps could sell up to one million copies per issue. The Second World War paper shortages had a serious impact on pulp production, starting a steady rise in costs and the decline of the pulps.
The collapse of the pulp industry changed the landscape of publishing because pulps were the single largest sales outlet for short stories. Combined with the decrease in slick magazine fiction markets, writers attempting to support themselves by creating fiction switched to novels and book-length anthologies of shorter pieces.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Pulp Crime
An Anthology of Crime, Mystery and Detective Pulp Fiction:
The Pulps: A Short History
Epigraph
1920
THE HARDEST KIND OF HARD – Lewen Hewitt
1922
THE FALSE BURTON COMBS – Carroll John Daly
1925
IT’S GREAT TO BE GREAT – Thomas Thursday
1926
THE ASSISTANT MURDERER – Dashiel Hammett
1927
DRY ROT – James Hendryx
RABBITS – Austin Roberts
1929
A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT – Sewell Peaslee Wright
CLOSED EYES – Frank King
1930
THE CORPSE ON THE GRATING – Hugh B. Cave
THE MURDER MART – J. Allan Dunn
1931
THE AVALANCHE MAKER – W. Ryerson Johnson
THE PLAZA MURDER – Allan Vaughan Elston
1932
A TRIP TO CZARDIS – Edwin Granberry
CHESS PROBLEMS – Alexander Samalman
WASTED SHOTS – Fostor Hayes
MURDER ON THE LIMITED – Howard Finney
GUN WORK, OLD STYLE – Eugene P. Lyle, Jr.
1933
DEATH TUNES IN – Maxwell Hawkins
“TAKE ’IM ALIVE” – Walter C. Scott
DOUBLE CHECK – Thomas Walsh
COINS OF MURDER – Ed Lybeck
MURDER BY MAGIC – Celia Keegan
THE RATTLER CLUE – Oscar Schisgall
THE CAVE OF DEATH – James Denson Sayers
THE DEATH CLUB – George Harmon Coxe
1934
BEYOND DISPUTE – Donald Van Riper
MIDAS CURSE – Fred Allhoff
MURDER BELOW – Archie Oboler
LIVE BAIT – E. Hoffmann Price
PAID IN BLOOD – Anthony Clemens
“SWEET SUE” – Bill Williams
THE BODY IN THE BOAT – Stanley R. Durkee
AUTOMATIC ALIBI – Carl Clausen
PRIZE BULL – Donald Barr Chidsey
1935
HOT MONEY – Arthur Lowe
DUMB EGG – John H. Knox
NIGHT SCENE – Jerome Severs Perry
DEAD MAN’S CHEST – Preston Grady
3 MISTAKES – William Merriam Rouse
GREEN DOOM – Carroll Mayers
THE WILL – Richard B. Sale
THE MAN WITH ONE O’CLOCK EARS – Allen Saunders
3 + 1 = Murder – Wyatt Blassingame
MAKE-UP FOR MURDER – Thomas King
KILLER’S TOY – Emerson Graves
1936
FUGITIVE LOVERS – George Rosenberg
WRONG ARM OF LAW – Gerald Verner
BOOMERANG BLADE – Norman A. Daniels
DICKS DIE HARD – Theodore Tinsley
NEAT JOB – Howard Adams
THE ANGRY DEAD – Chandler H. Whipple
DEATH IN THE PATIO – W.T. Ballard
GOLDFISH – Raymond Chandler
THE DILEMNA OF THE DEAD LADY – Cornell Woolrich
MIDNIGHT RENDEZVOUS – Tom Roan
HELL’S SIPHON – George Harmon Coxe
MURDERER’S BAIT – Jerome Severs Perry
THE LAST STAND-UP – S.J. Bailey
RECOMPENSE – Roybert De Grasse
TRIGGER MEN – Eustace Cockrell
SWEEPSTAKES PAYOFF – Robert H. Letifred
ANGELFISH – Lester Dent
etc.
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