Pulp Magazine - Genres

Genres

Pulp magazines often contained a wide variety of genre fiction, including, but not limited to,

• adventure
• detective/mystery
• fantasy/sword and sorcery
• gangster
• horror/occult (including "weird menace")
• railroad
• romance
• science fiction
• Série Noire (French crime mystery)
• "spicy/saucy" (soft porn)
• sports
• war
• westerns (also see Dime Western); the Colorado artist Arthur Roy Mitchell is particularly known for his sketches of the covers of such western magazines.

The American Old West was a mainstay genre of early turn of the 19th to 20th century novels as well as later pulp magazines, and lasted longest of all the traditional pulps. In many ways, the later men's adventure ("the sweats") was the replacement of pulps.

Many classic science fiction and crime novels were originally serialized in pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and Black Mask.