"Tell Tarantino that "Pulp Fiction" is a misnomer because its a movie and not a cheaply printed monthly story magazine." Shows how much you know. The movie "Pulp Fiction" is the root of the misunderstanding of pulp! That movie had nothing to do with pulp. There was nothing like it in pulp. It referenced paperback…

AlanHK: that's just it. Pulp is not a genre. It was a fiction delivery format, like television or movies. Rather, pulp contained genres: mystery, Western, science fiction, adventure, sci-fi, fantasy.

A Blaffair: have you heard of misnomers? Everyone thinks Tarzan grunts, but he doesn't. Everyone thinks Boris Karloff's signature character was named "Frankenstein" but he wasn't. Nothing about Joe makes him a pulp writer, great as he is. Everyone thought E.C. was all horror but they weren't so exclusively until…

Dear Friend:
Joe R. Lansdale, great as a writer he is, is not a "pulp" writer. Pulp refers to the cheap grade of paper on which pulp magazines were printed on. It doesn't mean thrill stories. Indeed, romance was the biggest category of pulp.
Mr. Lansdale's books came out via book publishers in paperback, hardcover and…