Related Resources

Literature Metasites

The English Server
http://eserver.org/
A cooperative effort which has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990. The site is searchable and covers a wide range of interests, including fiction and cultural theory.

Literary Resources on the Internet
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
A searchable site which provides links to a wide variety of literary resources on the internet, arranged by period.

The Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
The most comprehensive and useful humanities metasite on the Net. Voice of the Shuttle is searchable by keyword. Of particular interest are the pages of links for American literature, fiction studies, cultural studies, journals and zines, and publishers.

Yahoo's Literature Page
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/
This Internet directory includes links to material on authors, awards, bibliographies, books, classics, countries and cultures, courses, criticism and theory, electronic literature, events, genres, institutes, journals, literary E-zines, mailing lists, organizations, scripts, storytelling and writing.

Popular Culture

H-PCAACA Discussion Group Home Page
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~pcaaca
An online scholarly discussion group focusing on popular culture, H-PCAACA is part of the H-NET Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine initiative. Includes links to a list of national and regional meetings of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, and calls for papers and conference announcements, syllabi, courses and dissertations concerned with popular culture, and pedagogical and bibliographic aids.

Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction Central
http://www.vintagelibrary.com/pulp/index.htm
A commercial site focusing on zine fiction and film of the earlier 20th century which contains many interesting sections including an introduction to pulp fiction, pulp genres, and pulp collecting as well as links to specific pulp genres, fanzines, bibliographies, author links, and a cover art gallery.

Yahoo’s Pulp Fiction Page
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Periods_and_Movements/Pulp_Fiction/
Good collection of pulp fiction links.

Special Collections

Bowling Green State University Popular Culture Library
Jerome Library, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/

Archives include over 10,000 volumes of popular fiction in addition to 10,000 periodical issues. Strengths are American magazines (1926-1960), pulps, and fanzines. Approximately 1,000 items are added annually.

Library of Congress Pulp Fiction Collection
101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20540.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/pulp.html
Contains 15,000 issues of pulp-fiction magazines from the 1920s to the 1950s, representing a full selection of pulp-fiction genres.

Michigan State University Special Collections Division
Libraries, East Lansing, MI 48824.
http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/nye/
Houses the Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collection which contains material from the following genres: juvenile, detective-mystery, science, western, and women’s fiction. In addition, the archive includes many dime novels, story papers, and pulp magazines that fall into none of these clearly delineated genre headings.

San Francisco Academy of Comic Art
Bldg 15, 170 West Cliff Drive Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Phone/Fax (831) 427-1737.
Contains the largest collection of pulp magazines in the United States as well as a strong cross-genre collection of dime novels. It also possesses extensive holdings of major American newspapers, Sherlockiana, early motion picture tapes, posters, over a million comic strips, 25,000 comic books, 12,500 hard-cover mystery books, and 8,000 hard-cover science fiction books.

Stanford University Penny Dreadfuls & Dime Novels Collection
Department of Special Collections. Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html
Consists of over 8,000 individual items, including long runs of the major dime novel series and holdings of story papers like the New York Ledger and Saturday Night. The digital collection is searchable by title, feature, or image and includes a guided tour and a time line.

Syracuse University Street & Smith’s Preservation and Access Project
Syracuse University Library. Department of Special Collections, Bird Library, Room 600, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-2010.
http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/StreetAndSmith/
Houses the Street and Smith Publishing Company Archive which includes corporate records, manuscripts, radio scripts, serials, and dime novels. The preservation and access project will include microfilming 1,000,000 pages of material from the Archive.