What is Pulp fiction?
{{for|the movie from 1994|Pulp Fiction (movie)}} [[File:Spicy Detective Stories February 1935.jpg|thumb|Gaudy pulp cover, 1935]] '''Pulp fiction''' is a kind of [[literature]]. It gets its name from the cheap, wood pulp [[paper]] it was printed on. Pulp fiction covered several [[genre]]s: [[Romance (love)|romance]], [[Western (genre)|western]], [[science fiction]], [[horror]], [[Crime fiction|detective]], [[adventure]], etc. It was most popular in the [[United States]] during the 1920s–1940s. Publication then decreased, perhaps because [[television]] took over the evening hours for readers and [[magazine]]s were not read as often. Pulp fiction was published in a cheap magazine format often with gaudy covers. Stories were sometimes [[Series|serialized]], meaning the reader had to buy each monthly issue over a period of time to complete a particular story. [[Category:Fiction books]] {{lit-stub}}