Best Pulp

Marlowe defined the modern private investigator archetype. He is less about solving the puzzle and more about surviving the moral swamp of Los Angeles. His brilliance is not in deduction, but in his sheer moral fortitude and wit when facing corruption. He embodies the disillusioned American spirit,...

Common People’s “Pulp” music video offers a sharp commentary on class disparity in 1990s Britain. It features a striking performance by Jarvis Cocker and his band against a backdrop of affluent private education. The video's distinctive visual style and lyrical critique have made it a notable exampl...

James Bama was an American painter and illustrator recognized for his highly realistic approach to both commercial art and fine art. He gained widespread public recognition in the 1960s for his detailed cover illustrations for the Bantam Books paperback series featuring the character Doc Savage. In...

Dupin is often cited as the first modern detective fiction character. His stories established the pattern of the brilliant amateur solving crimes through pure intellectual deduction, predating Holmes. He is foundational, representing the earliest literary attempt to codify the 'mastermind' solving c...

Norman Saunders (1907–1989) was an American illustrator whose career spanned pulp magazines, paperbacks, and trading cards. He produced cover paintings for numerous pulp publications in Western and detective genres during the mid-twentieth century. Saunders is best known for his artwork on the 1962...

Pulp Alley is a narrative-driven skirmish miniatures game designed to emulate the action and intrigue of early 20th-century pulp adventure serials. Published by Pulp Alley Games, it tasks players with controlling small groups of adventurers or villains known as leagues. The mechanics focus heavily o...

The Moon Pool is a lost-world fantasy novel by Abraham Merritt, originally published in 1919. The story was expanded from two earlier novellas that appeared in All-Story Weekly magazine. It follows a scientific expedition to the ruins of Nan Madol in the Pacific Ocean, where explorers encounter a my...

The Case of the Howling Dog is a 1934 mystery novel by Erle Stanley Gardner and the fourth published Perry Mason book. Mason is consulted by a man disturbed by a neighbor's howling dog and convinced that the animal's behavior foretells a death. The apparently eccentric complaint develops into a disa...

Lobster Johnson is a fictional pulp vigilante created by Mike Mignola, existing within the Hellboy and B.P.R.D. shared universe published by Dark Horse Comics. Set in the 1930s, the character is a masked crime-fighter who battles gangsters and occult threats, marking his kills with a claw-brand symb...

The Ship of Ishtar is a classic fantasy adventure novel written by Abraham Merritt. The narrative follows an American archaeologist named John Kenton, who is transported to a magical, ancient Babylonian vessel. Aboard the ship, he becomes entangled in an epic conflict between the deities Ishtar and...

A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy adventure novel by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was originally serialized in 1912 under the title "Under the Moons of Mars" before its hardcover publication in 1917. The narrative introduces the character John Carter, a Civil War veteran who is mys...

The Return of Tarzan is an adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, originally serialized in magazine format in 1913 before being published as a complete book in 1915. As the direct sequel to Tarzan of the Apes, the narrative follows John Clayton as he leaves the jungle to navigate the social circle...

The Case of the Lucky Legs is a 1934 detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring defense attorney Perry Mason, his secretary Della Street, and private investigator Paul Drake. The case begins with a promoter who operates traveling beauty contests and makes deceptive promises to their winners,...

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is an adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the fifth book in his Tarzan series. First serialized in 1916, it sends Tarzan back to Opar, a lost city portrayed as a surviving remnant of Atlantis, where he seeks treasure after suffering financial losses. The plot co...

The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first published as a serial in 1912 and released as a complete book in 1913. It serves as the second installment in the Barsoom series, continuing the adventures of the Earthman John Carter on the planet Mars. The narrative...

The Face in the Abyss is a fantasy and lost-world novel by American writer A. Merritt, published in book form in 1931. It combines an earlier story from 1923 with a sequel published in 1930, forming a narrative about an expedition that encounters a hidden civilization in the Andes. The novel blends...

*The Warlord of Mars* is a science fantasy novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first published in 1914. It serves as the third installment in the author's Barsoom series, following the events of *A Princess of Mars* and *The Gods of Mars*. The narrative follows John Carter as he attempts to rescu...

The Beasts of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs's third novel in the Tarzan series, first serialized in All-Story Cavalier Weekly in 1914 and published in book form by A. C. McClurg & Co. in 1916. The story follows Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) as he travels to Africa with his wife Jane and son Jack, only to...

Pellucidar is Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1915 Hollow Earth adventure and the second Pellucidar novel, later issued in book form by A. C. McClurg in 1923.

Tarzan the Terrible is Edgar Rice Burroughs's eighth Tarzan novel, published in 1921 and set in Pal-ul-don, a mapped lost land with its own glossary.

Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death is a 2013 hack-and-slash game developed by ZootFly, parodying B-movie action tropes while offering fast-paced, combo-driven combat on Xbox 360.

Tarzan the Untamed is Edgar Rice Burroughs's seventh Tarzan book, combining 1919 and 1920 serials and reflecting World War I anti-German themes.

The Son of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs's fourth Tarzan novel, serialized in 1915-1916 and centered on Tarzan's son Jack, called Korak.

The Metal Monster is A. Merritt's 1920 Argosy serial featuring Dr. Goodwin in the Himalayas, where he encounters sentient geometric metal beings.

The People That Time Forgot is Edgar Rice Burroughs's second Caspak story, first published in Blue Book Magazine in 1918 and later issued separately.

Out of Time's Abyss is Edgar Rice Burroughs's third Caspak story, first published in Blue Book Magazine in 1918 and revealing the winged Wieroo people.

Tarzan and the Golden Lion is Edgar Rice Burroughs's ninth Tarzan novel, serialized in 1922 and introducing Tarzan's lion companion Jad-bal-ja.

1975 adventure film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Ron Ely, adapting Kenneth Robeson's pulp fiction hero Doc Savage, a super-human scientist and adventurer from the 1930s.