Pulp Mag Resources

The next time I'm in the market for a pet please tell me to get an anteater because cats just plain don't earn their keep this time of year.

Since my kitchen is officially dead to me now and I have all this non-cooking time on my hands I'll waste a little bandwidth on links to some online pulp magazine archives that have collections available for download. These sites have pdfs, epubs and facsimile reprints of classic magazines. I now have copies of some of my collection on the Kindle so I can read them without taking them out of their plastic bags.

See, there's the Catch-22. If pulps are in good enough condition to read without falling apart they're way too nice to ever cram in a messenger bag to read on the bus.

Free downloads:

The Pulp Magazine Archive The Internet Archive has a nice collection of stuff, just not completely organized. Slap a title in the search and see what comes up.

The Pulp Magazines Project Tons of stuff to read here in online flipbook form or pdf download.

Project Gutenberg Check out the Science Fiction Bookshelf.

PulpGen Pulp Tons of pulp stories to download, mostly detective stuff.

Pulp Covers Total time-suck. Click a category like "Dead Body" or "Alien Attack" and just try and yank yourself away, I dare you.

Le Site du Capitaine Flam Worth running through Google Translate. French Captain Future site, tons of stuff on the late 70s anime series and Japanese comics but also has free pdf downloads in English of most of the original 1940s-50s pulps with the illustrations.

Luminist Periodical Archives Giant collection of pdfs. Everything from detective magazines to girlie mags and a huge pile of science fiction. Seems to now be a very attractive collection of dead MediaFire links. Booooo.

Reprints and Epubs for sale:

Adventure House Epubs for sale as well as facsimile reprints of pulp magazines. Stuff like Planet Stories, Captain Future, The Shadow and Doc Savage.

Altus Press Huge selection of detective and adventure pulp epubs and reprints.

Radio Archives The Spider, Operator #5, Captain Future and a buttload of other pulp epubs as well as a nice collection of Old Time Radio shows.

Vintage Library Pulp magazine reprints of detective magazines, Doc Savage, Westerns.