Thrills and Chills from the Heyday of Pulp Fiction

(via Atlas Obscura)  From late 1800s to the 1950s, pulp magazines and books offered a seemingly endless churn of detective stories, adventure capers, crime dramas, Westerns, and science fiction tales. Cheaply priced and printed on low-quality wood-pulp paper—hence the name—these publications were as “pulpy” as could be: mass-produced, of questionable quality, and easily digestible. In the 1920s and ’30s, some issues sold up to a million copies.