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The Pulps and Paperback Novels

These popular forms of fiction were the forerunners of much of today's genre fiction.

• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls - Stanford University's collection of these early forms of American genre literature.
  
  
• The Pulp Net - A guide to the online world of pulp magazines.
  
  
• Where did science fiction come from? A primer on the pulps. - An article on the history of pulp fiction by Jess Nevins.
  
  
• How Pulp Science Fiction Cover Art Got Its Sense of Wonder - A history of the development of science fiction pulp cover art. This is the first in a series; make sure you look for the next installment Robots, Mad Scientists and Damsels: Astounding Pulp Cover Art. These articles are from IO9.
  
  
• Tales from the Vault - Canadian pulp fiction from 1940 - 1952. This site is by the National Library of Canada.
  
  
• Dime Novel Castle - Offers reprints of dime novels which were published between 1860 and 1915..
  
  
• Vintage Paperbacks - Images of the covers of many, many pulp fiction paperbacks.
  
  
• The Frank R. Paul Gallery - an excellent collection of covers by this pioneer science fiction illustrator.
  
  
• Edward Stratemeyer - American author and founder of the Stratemeyer syndicate which published many juvenile fiction series such as the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. The Literature Network has a biography and links to his works available online.
  
  
• The Street & Smith Project - Project to preserve the pulp fiction produced by Street & Smith.
  
  
• American Women's Dime Novel Project - Dime novels for women, 1870 - 1920.
  
  
• The George Kelly Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection - Lockwood Memorial Library at the University of Buffalo.
  
  
• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls - The Kent State Department of Special Collections and Archives.
  
  
• The Walter F. Tunks Collection of Dime Novels - Oberlin University, Ohio
  
  
• The Library of Congress Pulp Fiction Collection - The Library of Congress has a huge collection of pulp magazines published between the 1920's and the 1950's.
  
  
• A Collection of Value: Mass Market Paperback at the Library of Congress
  
  
• The Russel B. Nye Collection - at the University of Michigan. This collection contain pulp fiction, mystery novels, science fiction, and comic books.
  
  
• Israeli Pulp Fiction Collection - At Arizona State University.
  
  
• PulpFest - Columbus, OH, July 25 - 28, 2013. A gathering of fans of pulp fiction.
  
  
• Edgar Rice Burroughs - The creator of Tarzan and other science fiction.
  
  
• Robert E. Howard - The creator of Conan the Barbarian.
  
  
• Yahoo's List of Pulp Fiction Links

This site is maintained by Linda Bertland, school librarian, Philadelphia, PA. Please address any comments, additions, or corrections to info@sldirectory.com