Post by rubl on Aug 12, 2016 13:47:52 GMT 7
When not in the mood for poetry or something heavy from James Joyce, Joseph Conrad or Lawrence Durrell one might relax a bit with a Pulp Fiction Magazine. The site mentioned below has lots of them.
A warning though, lots of the stories may be deemed inappropriate with regards to current P.C. standards. Especially magazines like "Girl Watcher", "Adam" and "Uncensored Detective" need to be studied thoroughly to appreciate the progress we've made in standards
"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. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long. 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." In their first decades, they were most often priced at ten cents per magazine, while competing slicks were 25 cents apiece. Pulps were the successor to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines are best remembered for their lurid and exploitative stories and sensational cover art. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considered descendants of "hero pulps"; pulp magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of heroic characters, such as The Shadow, Doc Savage, and The Phantom Detective."
archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive
A warning though, lots of the stories may be deemed inappropriate with regards to current P.C. standards. Especially magazines like "Girl Watcher", "Adam" and "Uncensored Detective" need to be studied thoroughly to appreciate the progress we've made in standards
"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. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long. 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." In their first decades, they were most often priced at ten cents per magazine, while competing slicks were 25 cents apiece. Pulps were the successor to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines are best remembered for their lurid and exploitative stories and sensational cover art. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considered descendants of "hero pulps"; pulp magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of heroic characters, such as The Shadow, Doc Savage, and The Phantom Detective."
archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive
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