Cheap thrills;: An informal history of the pulp magazinesBridging the years between the dime novels of the 19th century and today's paperbacks, pulp magazines provided millions of readers with their first and only taste of "literature." Pulps were printed on the cheapest paper and housed in lurid covers that made P. T. Barnum's circus posters look like diffident charity appeals. They horrified schoolmarms, moralists and mothers. They were undignified, boisterous storytellers who endangered the reading