Danger is my business : an illustrated history of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines
At the turn of the century, America saw the rapid rise of a new literary phenomenon: the pulps. Named "pulps" for the cheap paper on which they were printed, these wildly inventive periodicals featured bold titles, such as Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, and Spicy Detective. Adorned with bright, often garish covers they could be bought for as little as a dime, yet they offered outrageous selections of burgeoning popular fiction, from tales of horror and science fiction to lurid romances and hard-boiled detective stories
Criticism, interpretation, etc
144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
9780811803557, 9780811801126, 0811803554, 0811801128
25708074
Introduction (p.9)
Fiction factories : the birth and life of the pulps (p.17)
Empire of the necromancers : horror and fantasy pulps (p.33)
East of Borneo, west of the Pecos : the adventure pulps (p.49)
Twenty bucks a day and expenses : the private eye pulps (p.61)
Popular love : romance and sex pulps (p.79)
Shadows and supermen : the hero pulps (p.91)
When the blood-god ruled : tales of weird menace (p.105)
Worlds of tomorrow : science fiction pulps (p.117)
Final issue : the end of an era (p.135)
Appendix : collecting pulps (p.139)
Acknowledgments (p.141)
Bibliography (p.141)
Index (p.143)