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The first weird menace title was ''Dime Mystery'', which started out as a straight crime fiction magazine but began to develop the new genre in 1933 under the influence of '' Grand Guignol '' theatre. 1 Other "shudder pulp" titles were '' Horror Stories '', ''Terror Tales'', ''Spicy Mystery'' and ''Thrilling Mystery''. Despite the prevalent use of the word "mystery", the shudder pulps stretched far beyond the Mystery genre as it is normally understood, often encompassing Supernatural threats and Mad Scientist villains. Many of the leading pulp authors of the time wrote for the shudder pulps, including Wyatt Blassingame, Ray Cummings , Paul Chadwick , Norvell W. Page, E. Hoffmann Price and, possibly most successfully of all, Hugh B. Cave . In addition to the numerous Anthology titles, there were a few short-lived single-character pulps in the weird menace genre, including '' Doctor Death '', ''The Mysterious Wu Fang'', '' Dr. Yen Sin '', ''The Octopus'' and ''The Scorpion''. One of the most striking features of weird menace pulps, and perhaps their best-remembered feature today, is the use of lurid Bondage Cover s by artists such as Norman Saunders . NOTES FURTHER READING |
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