About This Site

Welcome to the Online Pulps site. The purpose of this site is to provide a wide selection of stories from the pulps. Here you will find stories from nearly every genre...detective, science ficton, adventure, romance, western, weird menace, sports, aviation, and even finance!

This site was started in February, 2002 and has grown larger than I would ever have thought possible. One of the down sides to this is that it has become difficult to maintain. In addition to basic maintanence to the site, there is a lot of administrative work behind the scenes such as scheduling updates and tracking all of the stories that are in the works. At this time (9/10/2003), there are 295 stories online and 49 more in various states of readiness.

To make things move a little smoother, this site is now going to be driven directly from a database. This means that some things will be better...such as updates always being timely. However, it leaves less room for the personal touch. Up until a few weeks ago, I tried to add a few additional comments about some of the stories during each of the updates that were sent to the mailing list. In recent weeks, I have been running low on the time and energy to do this and have been posting generic updates pointing to the recent additions page. This is how it will be in the future.

Another change is that instead of listing the ranges for each of the author pages and issue pages, only a link to the first respective page will be supplied on this main page. Although the means are still available to do this, the listings were getting long and cluttered.

In the future I plan to add a search page and some statistics pages showing the most popular downloads for the week, month, and since the site began. But for now, we'll just see how the current setup works.


Join the Mailing List

If you would like to be notified when new stories are added, I have set up a mailing list through Yahoo Groups for this purpose. It was originally an open, unmoderated group so people could come and go freely. Unfortunately, some spammers seem to think it is worth their trouble to subscribe themselves to this list so they can send their crap to the 130 or so members on my list. Therefore, you now have to have moderator approval to join the mailing list. To subscribe to this mailing list, go to the main page at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinepulps/. When you've gone through the subscription process, please send me a personal email at larry@pulpgen.com. All you have to do is say "Hi, I'm a real person, and I want to join the onlinepulps mailing list".


How You Can Help

Contributions to this site are encouraged. If you are interested in scanning a story, please contact me about it first. I may have concerns about copyright issues and I also want to make sure two people are not working on the same story at the same time. With the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of pulp stories out there, such a clash has already happened once in the first 75 stories we put online. Believe it or not....

If you are new to scanning, I will gladly try to answer any questions you might have. There are also some documents listed below on how to scan stories using FineReader OCR software.


Want A Sneak Preview?

Want to get all the dope on the new stories coming up and have a chance to read them before anyone else? No problem! Just let me know! Oh... Well, I suppose there is one small catch. You see, as you read these stories I'd like for you to keep a close eye out for errors. Punctuation, spelling, and formatting errors are the most common. And...I'd like for you to be able to read the story and send me a list of errors in about a week.


A Note About The Texts

One final comment about these texts before you start downloading them ... they are not edited for political correctness. They are a reflection of the times in which they were written and sometimes that mirror shows us something ugly. It is my opinion that it is better to look into that mirror and recognize how far we have progressed and hope that we continue to do so, rather than try to change the past.


Download The Stories

Browse by author

Browse by magazine

Show most recent additions

To view these files you will need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader.


How It's Done

John Locke and I use the same software, FineReader 5.0 Pro, to scan the stories we post here. However, we take very different approaches to using it. Below are documents in which we discuss how the scans are done.

The Finereader Software is available from Abbyy Software. They are now up to version 6.0, which had a signifigant increase in price. Version 5.0 is still available from Amazon.Com for about 1/3rd of the cost. If you're lucky enough to catch it on sale, you can get it even cheaper.


Links!

Other pulp stories can be found online at the following links:


More Links!


Credits

  • Larry Estep -- Scanning, Proofing and Site Maintanence
  • John Locke -- Scanning and Proofing and Site Maintanence
  • Monte Herridge -- Scanning and Proofing
  • Steve Everett -- Scanning and Proofing
  • Paul Tozer -- Pulp proofer extraordinaire!
  • Jim Felton -- Another pulp proofer extraordinaire!
  • Brian Earl Brown -- Scanning
  • Robert Wheadon -- Proofing
  • David Watson -- Proofing
  • Lorin Geitner -- Proofing
  • John Dakar -- Proofing
  • Anyone I left out, drop me a note and I'll add you to the credits

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