Pulp Fiction

Pulp fiction is a genre that has been around for a very long time. Most authors today have written some type of pulp fiction at one point or another. The name pulp fiction actually refers to the material that the author writes his or her novel or magazine on. One reason this type of writing was so popular was because of the low amount of money it takes to produce the pulp fiction on the specific writing material. In addition to having the benefit of low cost, pulp fiction was also popular because of the type of stories that were normally written. The type of stories written in pulp fiction are normally escapism literature; typically today these types of stories are found in comic books and graphic novels. Some of the more popular types of pulp fiction would be ones including super heroes. However, even though pulp fiction today also has a lot of novels instead of comic books, they did not start out as comic books. Instead, they started at the bottom as short stories in magazines and they were turned into novels later. While some people think that the pulp fiction genre has little to offer to literature in general, or to the reader, there are quite a few famous authors who have written pulp fiction in the past. Some of the more famous pulp fiction authors include H. P. Lovecraft, who began his writing early by publishing novels in a pulp fiction magazine called The Argosy, Joseph Conrad, who is well known for his novel Heart of Darkness, Ray Bradbury, who is well known for his books Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, and Robert Bloch, who is very well known for his book titled Psycho, which was later turned into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock.