Pulp culture on BlueSky
Folks interested in the history of pulp paperbacks & magazines, and their links to midcentury mass market publishing. Includes academics & fan scholars. Yes, we like the cover art but it’s about much more than that. Sing out if you want in.
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@pulpcurry.bsky.social
@pulpephemera.bsky.social
Books, Baseball Cards, Movies, & Pulp Ephemera • featured in Hyperallergic, POETS.org • baseball in Hardball Times at FanGraphs
@magonzales.bsky.social
Born and raised in Harlem, Michael A. Gonzales has been anointed "the hip-hop Chester Himes" by Miles Marshall Lewis. He's published true-crime essays at CrimeReads, and short stories in Ellery Queen, Rock & a Hard Place and Vautrin magazine.
@stegan.bsky.social
Archivist-for-hire, romance novel historian, freelance writer about romance history, general ne’er do well, scalawag. He/Him. Blog: romancehistory.com Podcast: blackromancehistory.com
@lucynka.bsky.social
Of the blog “Lucynka Reviews Obscure Bullshit.” Girls don’t want boys, girls want feminist analyses of Cornell Woolrich stories. Currently also reviewing stories from romance pulp magazines. lucynka.wordpress.com Books!: lucynka.wordpress.com/my-books/
@jessnevins.bsky.social
Encyclopedist, college librarian, writer, ttrpg writer. I like to talk about Mesopotamia & Vikings. Always outnumbered, never outgunned. My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com
@bookdetective.bsky.social
“Would you happen to have a Ben Hur 1860? The third edition. The one with the erratum on page 116.” Not on the bus, but close by. Constantly distracted while scanning the shelves and looking at what’s hanging on the walls.
@misterslang.bsky.social
Slang Lexicographer. https://greensdictofslang.com https://thetimelinesofslang.tumblr.com https://jonathongreen.substack.com
@joparsons.bsky.social
Researching #bonktastic #bonkbusters Senior Lecturer Falmouth Uni @EdinburghUP.bsky.social Series ed: #Gender and the #Body, and #19thC and #NeoVictorian Cultures Co-Ed #13CornishGhostStories #TalesoftheWeird #DoomedRomances #histsex
@johnnymains.co.uk
The UK's foremost horror anthologist. “Johnny Mains is the Herbert van Thal of our age” – The Independent AuDHD. Got the morbs.
@markseifert.bleedingcool.com
Vintage paper addict, co-founder of Avatar Press, managing editor of Bleeding Cool. Interest in American periodical publishing history including dime novels, pulps, newspapers, magazines, golden age & silver age comics. I mostly post about old paper here.
@frankvatel312.bsky.social
Reader, watcher, and scribbler of noir. Published @ Bristol Noir and Reckon Review.
@jimstokes.bsky.social
#ConstantReader Science Fiction & Fantasy. Board trustee (Spring Lake Public Library, VNA of NJ). USNA alumni. IBM retiree. Nosce te ipsum.
@stefandz11.bsky.social
Weird fiction aficionado, indefatigable pulp collector, incurable moviegoer, irascible critic, incorrigible Jersey guy.
@weirdfriction.bsky.social
An anonymous, unreliable narrator sharing Weird Fiction and Occult Books. I post photos of books from my own growing collection. 📚 New England. You may view the full archive of books that I have shared here: https://instagram.com/weird_friction
@erinalexander.bsky.social
Book collector, collagist, cat enthusiast https://afterwordbooks.bigcartel.com/
@bobdeis.bsky.social
I’m a #pulp culture historian who focuses on vintage men’s adventures magazines and paperbacks. I co-edit the Men’s Adventure Library book series, the MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY magazine and the ART OF RON LESSER book series. My website is MensPulpMags.com.
@ronclinton.bsky.social
Husband, dad, book guy. Pub’d author of fiction & non-fiction. My “Collecting the Modern Macabre” & interviews appear in Centipede Press’ WEIRD FICTION REVIEW.
@madpulpbastard.bsky.social
Co-editor and designer of the ART OF RON LESSER Artbook series, Co-editor/designer of MEN'S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY, Designer STEVE HOLLAND: THE WORLD'S GREATEST ILLUSTRATION ART MODEL, Publisher PULP 2.0 PRESS
@memizon.bsky.social
They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields. Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment, 1905.
@mysteriousbookshop.com
The world's oldest mystery fiction specialty shop, located at 58 Warren Street, NYC. Home to Penzler Publishers and all its imprints, Mysterious Press, Scarlet, Crime Ink, and American Mystery Classics
@blaft.bsky.social
An independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. Indian pulp novels in translation, ghostlore, graphic novels, weird stories, & picture books about young women in love with gruesome monsters. https://blaft.com
@rebeccaromney.com
Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
@causticcovercritic.bsky.social
Uncharismatic megafauna. Too fat to ride a horse, too poor to own a carriage. Buy my book, keep me off the streets: http://bit.ly/JMgibbons
@arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social
rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak.
@pulpcurry.bsky.social
“It’s worse than death in the mines. you want them to sing opera as well?” Award winning author of fiction & non fiction, pulp scholar, bibliophile, noir aficionado. https://linktr.ee/andrewnette