Pulp-fiction -

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Before e-books and paperback bestsellers, there were magazines. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, two types of magazines dominated the newsstands: the "slicks" (made of high-quality, glossy paper, featuring polite stories for the upper class) and the "pulps." pulp-fiction

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If the prose was the engine, the cover art was the fuel. You could not sell a pulp magazine with a boring cover. The rule was simple: Sex and Death. Robert E. Howard