Category Archives: True crime

Pulp Friday: Kings Cross Black Magic

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Andrew Nette| Leave a comment

Today’s Pulp Friday is a great example of exploitative pulp dressed up as quasi-serious sociological inquiry, Kings Cross Black Magic by the wonderfully named, Attila Zohar. It’s also one of the more unusual pieces of pulp fiction produced in the sixties and seventies … Continue reading →

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Posted in Horwitz Publications, Pulp, Pulp fiction set in Asia, Pulp Friday, True crime, Vintage pulp paperback covers

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Pulp Friday: Mafia pulp fiction

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Andrew Nette| Leave a comment

The Mafia, Cosa Nostra, the Mob, the Family, the Outfit, the Syndicate, call them whatever you like, it’s hard to overstate the influence organised crime had over pulp fiction. My post on the Andrew Dominik movie Killing Them Softly earlier … Continue reading →

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Posted in Belmont Tower Books, Crime fiction, Fawcett Gold Medal Books, Mafia, Pulp, Pulp fiction in the 70s and 80s, Pulp Friday, Pulp paperback cover art, True crime, Vintage pulp paperback covers

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Pulp Friday: narcotic pulp

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Andrew Nette| 8 Comments

Dope, smack, heroin, cocaine, the evils of narcotics have always been a central pre-occupation of pulp fiction, as can be seen by the selection of paperback covers below. In Second Ending the victim in question was one of pulp’s favourite … Continue reading →

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Posted in Pan Books, Pulp, Pulp fiction in the 70s and 80s, Pulp Friday, Pulp paperback cover art, True crime, Vintage pulp paperback covers

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Pulp Friday: Rick Francis, Nero

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Andrew Nette| 1 Comment

“The frank, revealing story of a male prostitute.” By far the best home-grown Australian pulp produced in the sixties and seventies came from a little known publishing house called Scripts Publications. I’ve long wondered about the nature of this low … Continue reading →

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Pulp Curry review: Snowtown

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Andrew Nette| 1 Comment

First time director Justin Kurzal’s Snowtown is the latest instalment in the burgeoning genre of what can be called, for want of a better term, ‘underclass cinema’. Animal Kingdom (2010), Samson and Delilah (2009), Boxing Day (2007), Candy (2006), The … Continue reading →

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