Dime novel
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The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century American popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term
Cover of Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier by Edward S. Ellis (1860)
Cover of Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1860)
The New Dime Novel Series introduced color covers but reprinted stories from the original series
Old Sleuth Library, 1888
Pulp magazine
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Pulp magazines, also called "the pulps", were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955. The word pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines
Dime novel
…catchall term for several different but related forms, referring to story papers, five- and ten-cent weeklies, "thick book" reprints, and sometimes early pulp magazines. Dime novels are similar in form and content to British penny dreadfuls and story papers, which were produced at the same time. The term was used as a…
Cover of the pulp magazine Spicy Detective Stories vol. 2, #6 (April 1935) featuring "Bullet from Nowhere" by Robert Leslie Bellem
Planet Stories, a science fiction pulp published between 1939 and 1955
November 1927 issue of Black Mask, featuring The Continental Op
Cover of the pulp magazine Dime Mystery Book Magazine, January 1933