Those of us born after, say, 1950, probably aren’t terribly familiar with pulp magazines. But most anybody reading one today might get a jolt of déjà vu nonetheless. From the 1920s through the ’40s, ...

The hard-boiled private detective was born on the pages of pulp magazines, amid beautiful dames, waiting to be saved. Although the genre has acquired a trashy reputation, the language used to tie ...

STOCKBRIDGE — A new show at the Norman Rockwell Museum celebrates the pulp magazine work of Gloria Stoll Karn, but that show might not exist if it weren't for a kindly Brooklyn janitor with an eye for ...

Even during his lifetime, Howard Browne (1908-1999) was not well known outside of his given fields. His novels, including his best detective fiction, were written under pseudonyms, and his work as ...