Welcome to /pg/, where we read, write, and discuss pulp fiction. No, not the Tarantino film, but the classic genre stories from early 20th-century magazines printed on cheap wood *pulp* paper. These tales offered thrills for the common man and let imaginations soar. Though the magazines are gone, the spirit lives on, and here at /pg/, we explore the worlds, characters, and stories they inspired. So come on in and join the discussion!READ PULP!- The Eldritch Dark: http://www.eldritchdark.com/- Luminist Archives - Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction: http://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/- Luminist Archives - Fiction Magazines: http://www.luminist.org/archives/PU/- The Pulp Magazines Project: https://www.pulpmags.org- Project Gutenberg Sci-fi: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68LISTEN TO PULP!- The Cybrarian’s Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmd1kGz5gLg [Open] [Embed]- HorrorBabble's Clark Ashton Smith: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeNNKRLWxwoMd3hyVZOXrZKy3TJfeTxRd&si=pHdZhOqvZyZ4Zv2v- HorrorBabble’s Cthulhu Mythos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJDIvebdG8U [Open] [Embed]- HorrorBabble's Robert E Howard: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeNNKRLWxwoO6mZ5jR57W1tVS4iD82jG6&si=evYk--G8lir37YtNWRITE PULP!- Flash Pulp: Join us as we recreate the spirit of the pulps with Flash Pulps — 500-1,500 word stories packed with cheap thrills, lurid subjects, purple prose, and daring adventure. Enjoy our collection, and feel free to contribute your own!- Flash Pulp Collection: https://pastebin.com/G4g4Z9YT- Bet Pulp: Want to challenge yourself? Post a BET — literally, type the word “BET” — then reply to your post with a complete 6K-word story within a week to complete the challenge.- BET Pulp Collection: https://pastebin.com/fXAmPuD4- The Grinder - A website that lists fiction magazines with submission openings. For the aspiring pulp writer who wants to take things to another level.EXTRA! EXTRA!So you want to write pulp but don’t know how, say?- Lester Dent Formula: https://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/dent.html- Write Compelling Dialogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpWKp-fnZuU [Open] [Embed]- Basic Pulp Template: https://files.catbox.moe/t5c17o.zip
It's firmly on the line of "Queer Lovecraft" but I still find Katalepsis to be an enjoyable serial.
>Conan pantherishly savaged the fiendish foe, his barbarian thews like a pantherish savage tigers, his mind iron and flame. The civilised dorks, their pencil necks twitching in awe at such pantherish savagery, knelt, feeling bested by the barbarians ferocity. Still drenched in the beasts blood Conan made surprisingly sensual and tender love to the supple bosomed damsel, whomst had fallen in love with him earlier upon hearing the cimmerians pantherishly growly voiceIts so incredibly KINO
>>24143921This but unironically.
>>24143956I meant it when I said its KINO. I genuinely love it. Im fucking tired of politicking and le hecking morally gray characters in fantasy. Fuck all that.
The last threads we had some anons write original stuff of their own. One guy had a detective series he was doing. Any writefags got any new material?
>>24144281I wrote a hunting adventure story set in pre-WWI Africa. I want to make it part of a series, but I’m trying to revise the ending. But I’d be happy to post it if we got this general up and running again
Bump
>>24143921Incredibly based. Where is this from? Considering starting to read Conan but each used book of his I found is like $25 a pop, still.
>>24144281I have something but I'm not sure whether it could even be considered pulp. I haven't even really read any, desu. But I tried to based on anons's descriptions. It's about two men getting burnt at the stake set in Italy. I might post it tomorrow.
>>24145942Eh, post it either way. I’d be happy to share mine too, though I warn you the ending might need some revision
>>24145943My whole thing needs revision so no worries
>>24145939So what I read is Robert E Howards Conan the Cimmerian Barbarian by John Finn I think. I got it on Kindle for 30 bucks or so. Its quite nice because Finn also gives you some context for the stories and starts with a Krull and two Solomon Kane stories, which Howard wrote before he came up with Conan. I recommend it, not sure how much the hardcover would be.>that story about Gulka the Gorilla slayerS O V L
>>24145948Go ahead and post it for us
What's the most underrated pulp stories you anons have read?. For me, it's shadow of the vulture. Besides technically introducing Red Sonya, it's also just a damn good story. Setting, prose, and characters are some of Howard's best. Ending was a little abrupt though
>>24147365I haven’t actually read that one. I think the Steve Costigan stories are bully, though
The texas landscape when it's foggy and dreary like today surely must've been how Howard envisioned Cimmeria.
>>24147597His poem “Cimmeria” was>Written in Mission, Texas, February 1932; suggested by the memory of the hill-country above Fredricksburg seen in a mist of winter rain
>>24147619It was gloomy land that seemed to holdAll winds and clouds and dreams that shun the sun,With bare boughs rattling in the lonesome winds,And the dark woodlands brooding over all,Not even lightened by the rare dim sunWhich made squat shadows out of men; they called itCimmeria, land of Darkness and deep Night.It was so long ago and far awayI have forgotten the very name men called me.The axe and flint-tipped spear are like a dream,And hunts and wars are like shadows. I recallOnly the stillness of that sombre land;The clouds that piled forever on the hills,The dimness of the everlasting woods.Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night.
A long bow and a strong bow, and let the sky grow dark!The cord to the nock, the shaft to the ear, and the king of Koth for a mark!
>>24143886>but the classic genre stories from early 20th-century magazines printed on cheap wood *pulp* paper.They were culled pulp because they were said to not be worth the paper they were printed on, production costs would not be recouped and financially it made more sense to get what money they could by just selling them to a pulp mill.
First for Bêlit
I'm somewhat new to this stuff, can someone rec some stuff similar to Zothique in tone and subject matter?
>>24147160Fuck, I thought I had it available on my phone. I'll have to wait until I get home. Fuck OneDrive and Microsoft 365.
>>24146093Wait so is it like a compilation?
>>24148637Dying earth Book of the new sun Vathek(not pulp. but it's what it was based off) Lovecraft(of course) Certain Conan stories are close but the tone is generally more action based Unfortunately not many can capture Smiths mix of horror and fantasy, but these are close
This is the male equivalent to cheap romance novels
>>24148676Yeah
>>24143886Any Robert Sheckley fans here? I was wondering whether he's appreciated outside of former USSR.
