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With Halloween rapidly approaching, let’s get ready for the big day with some pulp witchery!
by CC Senf
by Margaret Brundage
by Rafael DeSoto
by Rudolph Belarski
by Tommy Shoemaker
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by Margaret Brundage
From the beginning of the pulp era to the modern day, horror has always been a popular genre. And with horror comes the vampires! Vampires were a popular subject for both the writers and the readers of the pulps. Much blood was spilt between the covers. Here are just a few of the vampires of the pulps:
by Paul Lehman
by John Newton Howitt
by Rafael DeSoto
by Sebastia Boada
by Sebastia Boada
By CC Senf
by H. William Reusswig
by Margaret Brundage
by Robert Bonfils
by Robert Maguire
by Rudolph Belarski
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It’s not really October until a vampire comes tapping at your window, asking to be invited in.
by Rafael DeSoto
This is from 1942. How did those footprints get on the ceiling?
by Enoch Bolles
Sometime glamorous. Sometimes sordid. Sometimes dangerous. The life of the model has always been a popular subject for the pulps. Below are some pulp covers that deal not only with the experience of being model but also the weight of being an artist. There’s a price for everything.
by Ann Cantor
by Arnold Kohn
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by Bernard Safran
by John Drew
by Paul Rader
by Rafael DeSoto
by Robert Bonfils
by Verne Tossey
by Hugh Joseph Ward
(by Rafael DeSoto)
This is from 1940. Broken glass and a landline phone, it’s everyone’s nightmare come to life.
by Rafael DeSoto
This is from 1955, a novel about “soldiers on leave and their women.” This cover was done by one of my favorites, Rafael DeSoto.
by Rafael DeSoto
This is from 1953. That’s a lot of smoke. This cover was one by the prolific Rafael DeSoto.
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Featuring stories of detectives, murder, femme fatales, and tough guys, Thrilling Detective thrilled readers during the pulp era of the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Today, the magazine remains highly sought after by collectors. Every cover promised sex or violence or both. Below are just a few of the thrilling covers of Thrilling Detective!
by George Rozen
by George Rozen
by Milton Luros
by Norman Saunders
by Rafael DeSoto
by Rafael DeSoto
by Rafael DeSoto
by Rafael DeSoto
by Rudolph Belarski
by Rudolph Belarski
by Rudolph Belarski
by Rudolph Belarski
by Rudolph Belarski
by Sam Cherry
by Sam Cherry
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Drug abuse is not a new problem in the United States. The pulp era wrestled with the problem too, with many publications and novels telling the story of young women and young me who fell afoul the pushers and were enticed into a life of sin.
Here’s just a sampling of the high times of the Pulp Era:
by Bill Edwards
by Bill Fleming
by Gerald Gregg
by Howell Dodd
by Rafael DeSoto
by Raymond Johnson
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by Victor Seach
by Warren King
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by Henry Fox
Where would be without science? We would have less mad scientists and Halloween would be much less interesting! The pulp ere was full of men and women of science who had been driven crazy by the search for knowledge. Today, we pay tribute to the terrifying scientists of the pulp era!
by David Berger
by Frank R. Paul
by George Menendez Rae
by Herman Bischoff
by John Doolin
by Rafael DeSoto
by Rafael DeSoto
by Ralph Joiner
by Robert Fuqua
by Sol Immerman
by Graves Gladney
