While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Pulp books.
- Pulp (2002)
- Juicing and Pulp Recipes: Delicious juice, meal, and snack recipes for all walks of life (2018)
- The Collected Pulp Horror: Volume One (2019)
- Naked Pulp no. three (2019)
- The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (2007)
- Cerebral Pulp: 13 Polyps of Pulp Horror (2019)
- Black Pulp II (2019)
- Pulp Era Writing Tips (2018)
- Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine (2019)
- Pulp Horror 8: The fanzine devoted to horror in vintage paperbacks, pulps and comics (2018)
- Pulp Friction (A Cider Shop Mystery) (2020)
Pulp (2002)
Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer’s seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski’s own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.
Juicing and Pulp Recipes: Delicious juice, meal, and snack recipes for all walks of life (2018)
The first book of its kind, Juicing and Pulp Recipes inspires the reader to want to start juicing immediately.Colorful and beautifully photographed, the recipes are clear and easy to follow. This book not only contains simple and delicious juice recipes, but also ideas and recipes for what to do with the pulp from the juicer.
The Collected Pulp Horror: Volume One (2019)
A collection of the out-of-print first three issues of Pulp Horror, the fanzine dedicated to vintage horror fiction from pulps, magazines and paperbacks. Interviews, articles and reviews on 50 years of classic horror fiction. #314,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #55 in Horror & Supernatural Literary Criticism (Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?
Naked Pulp no. three (2019)
(124 pages / adult content / this issue only in glorious black and white) From the author of Cool TV of the 1960s and Strange New World: Sex Films of the 1970s, the third edition of Naked Pulp, an occasional collection of art, articles, and images that features sci-fi, super-hero, sex, horror, and action films, retro cult TV, American comics, and animation.
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (2007)
The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it.
Cerebral Pulp: 13 Polyps of Pulp Horror (2019)
13 disturbing, digestible gobbets of fiction from one of the contributors of the horror anthology “Slices of Flesh”. Here you will find aberrations, apparitions, and a bedeviled sandwich which isn’t so digestible after all. An homage to the Lovecraftian and the kind of fun shlock from the horror comics of ages back. These are the kind of tales that will stick with you long after you’ve read them so if you decide to dig in, you might have difficulty digging back out.
Black Pulp II (2019)
BLACK PULP returns with BLACK PULP II, a new volume of stories featuring characters of African origin, or descent, at the forefront.
Pulp Era Writing Tips (2018)
Learn from some of the fiction writing greats of yesteryear! This book contains 17 articles written by pulp era authors, helping you learn: – Several methods of plotting a story – How to make your characters memorable – How to study your genre – How to write a fight sequence – Tips for revising your novel – And much more
Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine (2019)
Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hundreds of thousands of readers each week. The first weekly periodical devoted to romance fiction and the biggest-selling pulp fiction magazine in the early days of the Great Depression, Love Story sparked a wave of imitators that dominated newsstands for more than twenty years.
Pulp Horror 8: The fanzine devoted to horror in vintage paperbacks, pulps and comics (2018)
68 pages. Full color throughout. Articles on Guy N Smith’s occult investigator Sabat, the books of Daniel Farson the nephew of Bram Stoker, the underappreciated short stories of Tom Reamy, a gallery of wild German horror pulps in Grusel-Krimi, crocodile attack pulp fiction, rare New English Library cover art and Joseph Payne Brennan.
Pulp Friction (A Cider Shop Mystery) (2020)
Nothing’s sweeter than a fruitful family business, and for Winona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe, that means Smythe Orchards in Blossom Valley, Virginia. But this year’s apple crop is especially juicy—with scandal . . . Thanks to Winnie’s new cider shop, Smythe Orchards is out of the red and folks can get their fix of the produce and other delectable products they love all year round.
Best Pulp Books You Should Enjoy
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Environmentally Benign Pulping
Author(s): Pratima Bajpai
ID: 3638037, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2023, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
True Story: How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media
Author(s): Shanon Fitzpatrick
ID: 3311426, Publisher: Harvard University Press, Year: 2022, Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf
The Prophet's Pulpit: Commentaries on the State of Islam
Author(s): Khaled Abou El Fadl
ID: 3369019, Publisher: Usuli Press, Year: 2022, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly hot items according to The New York Times, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.