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its-halloween-night · 6 months

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"Sinister Spirits"

An illustration of mine, Part of Halloween '23 - Tricks 'n Treats

23/31

#personal work #halloween '23 #spooky season #vintage horror #horror pulp #tricks n treats

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kenny-alghul · 1 year

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we're worried about kenny...

#mothman #cryptidcore #horror #horror art #horror pulp #spooky #spooky art #retro horror #goth images #dark images #conspiracy

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vintagegeekculture · 1 year

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Where can I read pulp novels like The Shadow and Doc Savage?

Archive.org is so much, much more than just the Wayback Machine. For posterity, they have completely digitized a tremendous amount of scifi and horror and adventure pulps, all available for reading and downloading in PDF, including the following:

Adventure. Of the big two pulps, they have the entire golden age of possibly the greatest pulp mag of all time, Adventure, from 1914-1930, when they had Talbot Mundy's mystic adventures in Central Asia and India, and Harold Lamb's tales of the Mongols and Cossacks. It's incredible to just flip through them and find things like articles where people talk about what it's like to be bitten by a snake, or a firsthand account of the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, or polar exploration from the air. The stories are just the beginning, and in reprints, they don't include the fact they have wonderful maps of where the story is set.

Argosy is also available, the very first pulp magazine ever made starting in 1896. So you can read, among others, the first stories of Zorro, Tarzan, and fantasy novelist A. Merritt, as well as find letters pages where you see the weird prose H.P. Lovecraft, who the other letters that wrote in response did nothing but make fun of him. It's like witnessing cyberbulling in 1914 mixed with crank youtube comments.

Weird Tales. Speaking of Lovecraft, they also have almost the entirety of Weird Tales. Unlike Adventure and Argosy, which sold in the millions, this one was a low seller, but through Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan) and the incredible worlds of Clark Ashton Smith (the true genius of Weird Tales), and the space adventures of C.L. Moore.

The first ever scifi pulp magazine, Amazing Stories, is available for reading. It created geek culture as we know it as he encouraged fans to message each other. So geek culture as we know it started in 1928 so a Luxembourg American weirdo could sell radio parts.

Don't sleep on a few of the minor ones. My favorite is Unknown, which has amazing work by L. Ron Hubbard, one of the best early fantasy and horror novelists. There's also A. Merritt's Fantasy, a reminder of a time he was THE name in Fantasy.

Unfortunately the hero pulps were mostly published by Street and Smith and are therefore not in Public Domain, but for those, there are great, cheap collections available that I recommend, especially as they have great historical material added by William Murray, pulp historian.

#pulp magazines #scifi pulp #horror pulp #adventure

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themetalmassacrevault · 2 years

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kekwcomics · 2 months

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STRANGE TALES #4 (Clayton Publishing, 1932)

Art: H.W. Wesso

#pulp #pulps #pulp magazine #horror #horror pulp #pulp horror #pulp art #1930s pulp #30s pulp #pulp mag #pulp mags #sorcerers #magic #fantasy #strange tales #weird tale #weird literatire #wyrd

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spaceintruderdetector · 1 year

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Unknown magazine archive

52 issues

https://archive.org/details/Unknown_201509/Unknown_40-01/mode/2up

Unknown (also known as Unknown Worlds) was an American pulp fantasy fiction magazine, published from 1939 to 1943 by Street & Smith, and edited by John W. Campbell. Unknown was a companion to Street & Smith's science fiction pulp, Astounding Science Fiction, which was also edited by Campbell at the time; many authors and illustrators contributed to both magazines. The leading fantasy magazine in the 1930s was Weird Tales, which focused on shock and horror. Campbell wanted to publish a fantasy magazine with more finesse and humor than Weird Tales, and put his plans into action when Eric Frank Russell sent him the manuscript of his novel Sinister Barrier, about aliens who own the human race. Unknown's first issue appeared in March 1939; in addition to Sinister Barrier, it included H. L. Gold's "Trouble With Water", a humorous fantasy about a New Yorker who meets a water gnome. Gold's story was the first of many in Unknown to combine commonplace reality with the fantastic.

#unknown magazine #John W. Campbell #dark fantasy #horror fiction #horror pulp #pulp #horror literature #science fiction literature #science fiction

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possible-streetwear · 11 months

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