Category Archives: pulp

Nurse Books

Nurse Books: Career romances for young moderns… That is a great collection of book covers about nurses with 264 unique volumes. The titles aren’t so funny as the usual pulp books, however the synopsis, like the one above for Strange … Continue reading

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Piratical and Privateering Books in English

Maybe some of you missed my posts about pulp books, that’s why I’m going to fix this with Pirates, Buccaneers & Privateers – An English Graphical Bibliography. A nice selection of pulp paperbacks only with pirates. And for more stuff … Continue reading

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The Pulp Canon: Lurid new covers for classic books

The Slate asked to a handful of designers to create lurid new book jackets for classics from The Iliad to Animal Farm. Check the results here. Yes, you got me, I can’t resist to pulp book covers. As Slate says, … Continue reading

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L’univers des Bédés Elvifrance

L’univers des Bédés Elvifrance: French pulp comics. A neat collector’ site with many covers images, comics illustrations and more information about them. Horror, sci-fi and suspense comics with monsters, creatures from the hell, aliens, robots, insane men, villains, femmes fatales… … Continue reading

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Pulp Heroes

The Holloway Pages: Pulp Heroes is a small but nice site with individual pages of eight pulp heroes: The Shadow, Flash Gordon, Doc Savage, Tailspin Tommy, G-8 and his Battle Aces, Ka-Zar, John Carter and Sheena. Related posts: The Shadow … Continue reading

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Erotic Art & Pinup gallery

At the fantastic Erotic Art & Pinup gallery you will find thousands of images of different styles of pin-ups. There are the classic images of George Petty and Peter Driben (more known for his works for pulp magazines covers); Victorian … Continue reading

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The Shadow knows

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! One of The Shadow episodes with Orson Welles is available to download thanks to Radio Memories Podcast. Go get your MP3 version and enjoy. And just in … Continue reading

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Canadian Pulp Fiction

Tales from the Vault!: Canadian Pulp Fiction from 1940 till 1952. A fabulous collection with pulp art and fiction collection with the history of the pulp magazines. The collection featured in this virtual exhibit is one of the very few … Continue reading

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Giallo In Italia

The Crime in your Coffee posted an awesome post about Gialli, a kind of Italian pulp books. Giallo (yellow) is also how some Italian terror films of masters like Mario Bava Web Page and Dario Argento, because of the influence … Continue reading

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Good Girl Art

Good Girl Art usually shortened to GGA, is the term that describes certain types of Vintage Art, and specifically Paperback Cover Art. Richard Lupoff in his The Great American Paperback defines it as “A cover illustration depicting an attractive young … Continue reading

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