Pulpmania

WELCOME TO THE PULPMANIA MYSPACEOutrageous, shocking, sensational and always entertaining, pulp fiction paperbacks are avidly collected and treasured by a growing legion of fans across the globe. Pulpmania is an exciting new journal which exclusively tells the previously undocumented history of the pulp fiction industry through exhaustive interviews, in-depth essays, reviews and checklists, all written in a humorous yet informative style. Profusely illustrated by many rarely-seen paperback covers, Pulpmania is a gorgeously packaged product and brought to you by the award-winning design team of Naked – Magazine of the Weird and Wonderful.This is what Bizarre Magazine (June 06) had to say: "Pulp fiction has a certain romantic charm; from the sensationalised titles and taglines to the rough, oxidising paper stock. Overshadowed by the notoriety of 1950s and 1960s American paperbacks - largely due to their scintillating and shocking cover art - the pulse-pounding pulps from these fare shores have historically been ignored, until now. Thanks to Justin Marriott's fascinating first volume of Pulpmania, this neglected era is about to be rediscovered and re-evaluated. An earnest effort indeed, one that also brings a fair share of its own brand of lurid and exploitative cover images; blood n gore and tits n ass-a-plenty.Post-war British pulps were generally influenced by US potboilers and hard-nosed detective fiction. Then in the early nineteen seventies, as the counterculture was reeling from the failed hippie revolution, they seemed to find their own identity. Like a smack in the nose from a jack-booted white supremacist, the pulps suddenly began reflecting the growing cynicism and even nihilism of a downtrodden people.With the likes of legendary publishers New English Library (NEL) shrewdly aiming their books at the teenage market, Skinhead, Hells Angels, War and sexy Confession novels were exchanging school playground hands like Top Trump cards. Flip open a copy of James Herbert's The Fog - a groundbreaking horror novel where the emphasis was on the gritty reality of right-wing modern-day Britain rather than creatures from the Carpathian mountains - and youre almost guaranteed to read the infamous castration-by-shears or lesbian drowning scene.With exclusive interviews from the unsung authors and artists of this period (including authors Peter Cave (Chopper) and Guy N Smth (Night Of The Crabs), Pulpmania deftly explores the impact of this curious period when forward social thinking collided with political incorrectness to created a darnn good page-turner. Rev up your engines and lock up your daughters..."Check out some spreads below and visit here to purchase: http://www.pulpmania.co.uk