The Shudder Pulps: A History of the Weird Menace Magazines of the 1930'sThe shudder pulps published some of the grisliest, goriest, most outrageous mystery-terror fiction ever sold on the American newsstand, during the golden age of the pulp magazines. This volumes chronicles the authors, artists, and publishers of those classic thrill-fests! |
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Contents
| 3 | |
Mr Popular vs the Little Giant | 16 |
Secret Shrines of Mystery | 28 |
Blood Brothers | 41 |
Purple Prose Pros | 64 |
Foul Fiends and Fair Maidens | 67 |
The Speed Merchant of the Pulps | 83 |
Weird Fantasy | 96 |
From the Esoteric to the Erotic | 121 |
The Defective Detectives | 151 |
Femmes Fatales | 161 |
Variations on a Theme | 170 |
The Sensuous Science Fiction Woman | 184 |
Gothicisms Last Gasp | 194 |
Epilogue | 214 |
| 227 | |
Common terms and phrases
ACE MYSTERY appeared Arthur Burks Arthur Leo Zagat blood body breasts Bride Burks cent a word comic course cover creature curse dark dead death DIME MYSTERY earlier eerie evil eyes fear G. T. Fleming-Roberts girl going hero hero's heroine HORROR STORIES horror-terror house name hundred issue kill later Leo Margulies look Margulies monster month murder MYSTERY ADVENTURES MYSTERY NOVELS mystery-terror Nat Schachner never newsstands novelette Paul Ernst plot Popular Publications pulp authors pulp magazines pulp publishing pulp story Ray Cummings reader Red Circle magazines sadism scene science fiction seemed sex-sadism short stories SINISTER STORIES slicks sold Spicy SPIDER SPIDER MAGAZINE Steeger strange Street & Smith super supernatural thing thirties thousand words THRILLING MYSTERY tion titles took torture turned UNCANNY TALES victims villain weird menace WEIRD TALES wife woman writing wrote Wyatt Blassingame Wyn's young
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Shudder Pulps: A History of the Weird Menace Magazines of the 1930's |
| Author | Robert Kenneth Jones |
| Publisher | Wildside Press LLC, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1434486249, 9781434486240 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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