![]() ![]() Before the 1980s, serialised stories in weeklies were and remain cult hits (these are now successful novels). But in India, specifically in Tamil, pulp acquired a new life in the form of monthly magazines. The golden era for pulps in English, sadly enough died out in the 1950s. Lovecraft, Agatha Christie, and even famed (or notorious, depending on which side of the line you’re on) Scientology founder L. ![]() Not only did pulp make the commonly ‘dreadful’ story mainstream, it brought to the literary world authors such as Isaac Asimov, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Dorothy L. But the pulp magazine itself, which has created and supported writers whom we now consider greats, and characters who are still close to our hearts. Not the Tarantino movie by the same name, which is inspired by classic pulp magazines and was supposed to be named Black Mask, after one. Welcome to the marvellous world of pulp fiction. I could just see the top of his head, slewed around in a most peculiar angle - and it never moves, sir.” (From the September 1920 issue of The Black Mask magazine) ‘It is dreadful, sir,’ sighed the old butler. There was no evidence of anything out of the ordinary, but both knew that something was wrong. ![]() There was a heaviness in the atmosphere a gloom that permeated everything. Sylvester Jones and his butler Hawker ascended the wide oak balustraded stairs.
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