Helpful Web Sites

This is a short list of helpful Web Sites about Pulp Fiction. There are many more that are not included on this list solely due to lack of space and the time needed to post them. We will be posting and or deleting links intermittently when it is deemed necessary.

These are sites we found to be helpful due to the variety of information and the resources they include, but we have not thoroughly checked them as to factual content and do not guarantee the accuracy of the information they include.

Hint: if you decide to search the phrase "pulp fiction" on a search engine, do yourself a favor: include the words "magazine", "history", or some other specific name or term to narrow down your results. Otherwise, the results will probably include dozens of hits for Quentin Tarantino's 1994 movie "Pulp Fiction."

General Information

Yahoo's central directory on pulp fiction

The Pulp.Net

The Vintage Library

Specific Magazines

Weird Tales

Brief description of Wild West Weekly

Pulp Fiction at the Library of Congress

Reprints

Adventure House

The Vintage Library

Archives

Street & Smith archives at Syracuse University, Special Collections Dept.

According to their Web Site, DePaul University's archives include titles from Beadle and Adams, Street and Smith, and Frank Tousey.

Stanford University's Dime Novel archives

Online Publications

House of Beadle and Adams

The Vintage Library

Here are some other readings on pulp fiction, pulp Westerns, and Westerns in general.

Dinan, John. The Pulp Western: A Popular History of the Western Fiction Magazine in America. San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press. 1983.

Cox, Randolph, editor. Dime Novel Roundup. Published bimonthly. P.O. Box 226, Dundas, MN. 55019

Goodstone,Tony. The Pulps: Fifty Years of American Pop Culture. New York: ChelseaHouse, 1970.

Goulart, Ron. Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of the Pulp Magazines. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1972.

Gruber, Frank. The Pulp Jungle. Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1967.

Hersey, Harold. The New Pulpwood Editor. Silver Spring, Maryland: Adventure House, 2002. Reprint of The Pulpwood Editor. Frederick A Stokes, Co., 1937.

Johannsen, Albert. The House of Beadle and Adams. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. http://www.niulib.niu.edu/badndp/bibindex.html

Pronzini, Bill. Six-Gun in Cheek. Minneapolis, Crossover Press, 1997.

Pronzini, Bill, Ed. Wild Westerns: Stories from the Grand Old Pulps. New York: Walker and Company, 1986.

Reynolds, Quentin. The Fiction Factory or From Pulp Row to Quality Street. New York: Random House, 1955.

Robinson, Frank M. and Lawrence Davidson. Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines. Portland: Collector's Press, 1998.

Server, Lee. Danger is My Business. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.

Server, Lee. Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers. New York: Checkmark Books, 2002.

Smith, Erin A. Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.

Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Tuska, Jon, editor. The Big Book of Western Action Stories. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2000.

Tuska, Jon and Vicki Piekarski. The Frontier Experience: A Reader's Guide to the Life and Literature of the American West. McFarland & Co., 1984.

Weinberg, Robert. The Weird Tales Story. Gillette, NH. Wildside Press, 1977.