Editing Pulp magazine (section)

===Origins===
Before pulp magazines, [[Newgate novel]]s (1840s-1860s) fictionalized the exploits of real-life criminals. Later, British [[sensation novel]]s gained peak popularity in the 1860s-1870s. Sensation novels focused on shocking stories that reflected modern-day anxieties, and were the direct precursors of pulp fiction.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hoglund |first=Johan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XBrACwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Sensation+novel%22+vs+%22pulp+fiction%22&pg=PA42 |title=The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence |date=2016-03-16 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-04519-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_o3fI-b5WGAC&dq=%22Sensation+novel%22+vs+%22pulp+fiction%22&pg=PA146 |title=Acting with the Voice: The Art of Recording Books |date=2004 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=978-0-87910-301-9 |language=en}}</ref>

The first "pulp" was [[Frank Munsey]]'s revamped ''[[Argosy (magazine)|Argosy]]'' magazine of 1896, with about 135,000 words (192 pages) per issue, on pulp paper with untrimmed edges, and no illustrations, even on the cover. The steam-powered printing press had been in widespread use for some time, enabling the boom in dime novels; prior to Munsey, however, no one had combined cheap printing, cheap paper and cheap authors in a package that provided affordable entertainment to young working-class people. In six years, ''Argosy'' went from a few thousand copies per month to over half a million.<ref name="ahgttp">"A Two-Minute History of the Pulps", in ''The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps'', edited by [[Doug Ellis (editor)|Doug Ellis]], [[John Locke (editor)|John Locke]], and [[John Gunnison]]. Silver Spring, MD, Adventure House, 2000. (p. ii–iv).</ref>

[[Street & Smith]], a [[dime novel]] and boys' weekly publisher, was next on the market. Seeing ''Argosy''{{'}}s success, they launched ''[[The Popular Magazine]]'' in 1903, which they billed as the "biggest magazine in the world" by virtue of its being two pages (the interior sides of the front and back cover) longer than ''Argosy''. Due to differences in [[page layout]] however, the magazine had substantially less text than ''Argosy''. ''The Popular Magazine'' did introduce color covers to pulp publishing, and the magazine began to take off when in 1905 the publishers acquired the rights to serialize ''[[Ayesha (novel)|Ayesha]]'' (1905), by [[H. Rider Haggard]], a sequel to his popular novel ''[[She: A History of Adventure|She]]'' (1887). Haggard's [[Lost world|Lost World]] genre influenced several key pulp writers, including [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], [[Robert E. Howard]], [[Talbot Mundy]] and [[A. Merritt|Abraham Merritt]].<ref>See Lee Server, ''Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers'' (2002), pg.131.</ref> In 1907, the cover price rose to 15 cents and 30 pages were added to each issue; along with establishing a stable of authors for each magazine, this change proved successful and circulation began to approach that of ''Argosy''. Street and Smith's next innovation was the introduction of specialized genre pulps, with each magazine focusing on a particular genre, such as detective stories, romance, etc.<ref>Reynolds, Quentin. ''The Fiction Factory; Or, From Pulp Row to Quality Street: The Story of 100 Years of Publishing at Street & Smith''. Random House, 1955. (Covers: Street & Smith, [[Nick Carter (literary character)|Nick Carter]], Max Brand, Buffalo Bill, Frank Merriwell, Gerald Smith, Richard Duffy, Frederick Faust, dime novel, Horatio Alger, Henry Ralston, Ned Buntline, Ormond Smith, Beadle's, Edward Stratemeyer, detective fiction, Laura Jean Libbey, ''Astounding Science Fiction'', Edith Evans)</ref>
[[File:Spicy Detective Stories April 1935.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Cover of the pulp magazine ''Spicy Detective Stories'' vol. 2, #6 (April 1935) featuring "Bullet from Nowhere" by [[Robert Leslie Bellem]]]]