Pulps took two forms, as magazines in the 1930s to the present and paperbacks after 1939 (though pulp paperbacks existed long before). Paperbacks ranged from classic novel reprints to hardboiled sleeze with a sexual edge. I’ll do another post or two about magazines. Here are three pulp novels published by Beacon Books (Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation of New York City).

		Orrie Hitt. Girls’ Dormitory. From the back cover: Girls will be girls. Orrie Hitt was the pen name of the male author who wrote a variety of sleeze titles, including lesbian fiction as Kay Addams.
		Cal Anton. Strip-Tease Girl. Published in 1959. From the back cover: She couldn’t say no.
		L. T. Woodward, M.D. The Deceivers. Published in 1962. From the back cover: Complete in every intimate detail! Do suburban housewives often leap from premarital virginity to licentious sexual promiscuity? See the case history of Ruth F.

A few pulps from the 1950s have been recently reprinted: Ann Bannon’s Beebo Beeker novels, Valerie Thomas’ Girls of 3-B and Tereska Torres’ Women’s Barracks (all are lesbian pulps).

Susan Stryker’s Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, LLC, 2001) is a fascinating introduction.