I failed to post yesterday partly because I had stumbled upon the Pulp Magazines Project, an attempt to create readable scans of public-domain pulp magazines. The site describes itself thusly:
The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access archive and digital research initiative for the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century’s most influential print culture forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides information and resources on publishing history, multiple search and discovery platforms, and an expanding library of high-quality, cover-to-cover digital facsimiles.
This online archives contains, unsurprisingly, a lot of titles that had disappeared from the public consciousness. What will probably most interest my readers is the site’s archiving of Weird Tales, probably one of the most famous of all pulps even though it was in perpetual financial trouble during its run, which published H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Robert Bloch. The site has only a handful of the total 279 issues. In fact, at present it only has 425 issues total of the various pulps it is archiving. But the scans are high-quality and readable. So last night, I was reading the January 1935 issue of Weird Tales instead of doing something more responsible or productive.
