What happened to the horror / weird pulps?
I’m trying to get a bit of a better understanding of the horror and weird fiction pulp market during the 40s/50s era. I read somewhere that public outcry led to the closure of many shudder pulps around 1941 and obviously with Weird Tales being ‘weird’ rather than horror/gore/shudder, it persisted. As far as I’m aware, weird tales closed in 1954 due to money issues and a decline in the pulp industry as a whole. It just seemed to be a really popular magazine with great reviews and so I’m also just wondering where did the weird pulp writers/readers go next?
Posted Oct 2, 2025, 1:45 PM UTC
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