Since its inception in 2009, PulpFest’s writers have contributed many historical articles to the convention’s website.
Due to technical reasons, our earliest articles are no longer available. You’ll still find dozens of informative and entertaining essays in our “Pulp History by PulpFest” box, located in the right sidebar of our website.
Just click any post at pulpfest.com and look for the box along the right-hand side of your computer screen. On a smartphone, it will be under the post, following “You May Also Like . . .” and under the map to our host hotel.
Below, you’ll find a list of topics that you’ll find in “Pulp History by PulpFest.” Click any year in our online history box, and you’ll link up to all of the historical articles for that year. Find the one for which you’re looking and you’re golden!
We hope you enjoy “Pulp History by PulpFest.”
2022
- Season’s Greetings from PulpFest (Christmas Pulps)
- Racing Down “Nightmare Alley” with William Lindsay Gresham
- The Thrills of 1931 — Ned Pine’s “Thrilling Group”
- Joel Townsley Rogers, Fiction House Ace
- Raoul Whitfield, the Forgotten Ace of Black Mask
- Stanley Albert Drake, Pulp Artist
- Birth of the Dime Dynasty
- Dorothy McIlwraith, Pulp Editor
- Fiction House: Action for a Pair of Dimes
2021
- Paul Orban
- Murray Leinster
- Love Story Magazine
- The Shadow Magazine
- Modest Stein
- Arthur Leo Zagat
- Margaret Brundage
- George & Jerome Rozen
- Harry Bates
- Ray Bradbury Centennial
2020
- Sam Moskowitz
- Leo Margulies
- Rudolph Belarski
- Ray Bradbury in the 25th Century (Bradbury in the Comics)
- Bradbury on the Silver Screen
- Visions of Mars (three-part series)
- Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles
- Visions of Bradbury: The Author at 100
- G. T. Fleming Roberts
- Black Mask Magazine
- Captain Future
- Isaac Asimov Centennial
- Margaret Brundage
- Astounding Stories/Analog Science Fiction
2019
- Zorro — 100 Years of “The Curse of Capistrano”
- Children of the Pulps (three-part series)
- Erle Stanley Gardner — The 20-Million-Word Man
- Western Story Magazine
- Heroines of Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Popular Yellowed Perils (Doctor Yen Sin & The Mysterious Wu Fang)
- Major George Fielding Eliot at 125
- Air Wonder Stories
- Argosy, Adventure, and Blue Book — The Men’s Adventure Pulps
- Wonder Stories
- Talbot Mundy’s Life of Adventure
- Robert Hobart Davis
- H. J. Ward, Superman Artist
- The Thrill Book
- Charles Beaumont — A Child of the Pulps
- Hubert Rogers
- Gloria Stoll Karn
2018
- Arthur J. Burks
- 125 Years of Chris Schaare
- George Delacorte and Dell Publishing
- Leonard H. Nason — Soldier and Writer
- 125 Years of Eugene Frandzen
- Frank Frazetta
- Philip José Farmer
- 120 Years of Frederick Blakeslee
- Armistice Day
2017
- The Dangerous Dames of Kenneth Robeson
- Dime Detective Magazine
- The Dangerous Dames of Maxwell Grant
- Robert Bloch
- Gloria Stoll Karn
2016
- John D. McDonald
- Murray Leinster
- Western Story Magazine and the Evolution of the Pulp Western
- Love Story Magazine and its Romantic Sisters
- Amazing Stories (six-part series)
- Street & Smith’s Second String Superheroes
- Argosy and the General Fiction Pulps
- Margaret Brundage
- George & Jerome Rozen
- Detective Story Magazine — 100 Years of the Specialty Pulp
2015
- Leigh Brackett (in a Galaxy Called California)
- Jon Arfstrom — Last of the Weird Tales Artists
- Thrilling Comic Book Heroes
- Thrilling Pulp Heroes of the Forties
- Thrilling Pulp Heroes of the Thirties
- Norman Daniels
- Lester Del Rey
- Alex Schomburg
- E. E. “Doc” Smith
- Mort Weisinger
- Henry Kuttner
- Ed Emshwiller
- A Salute to Standard Magazines
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson
2014
- Weird Menaces: The Shudder Pulps
- Science Fiction Digests
- Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories (Fictioneers, Inc.)
- Captain Future
- Planet Stories
- Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Fantastic Novels, & A. Merritt’s Fantasy
- Fantastic Adventures & Fantastic
- Science Fiction, Future Fiction, & Science Fiction Quarterly (Archie)
- Unknown Worlds
- Thrilling Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, Strange Stories, Fantastic Story Quarterly, & Space Stories (Standard’s Science Fiction Pulps)
- Marvel Science Stories, Dynamic Science Stories, & Uncanny Stories (Martin Goodman’s Science Fiction Pulps)
- John W. Campbell’s Astounding Science Fiction/Analog
- Street & Smith’s Astounding Science Fiction
- Astounding Stories of Super-Science
- Science Wonder Stories, Air Wonder Stories, & Wonder Stories Quarterly
- Amazing Stories
- Science and Invention
- Weird Tales
- Science Fiction in Argosy and Other General Fiction Pulps
- Argosy
- Science Fiction in British Fiction Periodicals
- The Origins of Science Fiction
Please note that some of the links in our older posts may no longer be functional. This is due to changes made to our website since the posts were first published. Thank you for your understanding.
Our featured image is Norman Saunders’ original cover art for Famous Fantastic Mysteries, August 1950. The illustration is a scene from H. G. Wells’ “The Time Machine.”
