tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post1851995265041652503..comments2024-03-27T10:50:17.270-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Dime Mystery, September 1941James Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-40636229929289522212012-09-02T14:31:46.615-05:002012-09-02T14:31:46.615-05:00And while such institutions of shudder as HORROR S...And while such institutions of shudder as HORROR STORIES and TERROR TALES folded, and DIME MYSTERY changed its focus, there remained an undercurrent of shudder in popular fiction, not least magazine fiction, with DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE continuing to publish, along with every other sort of crime fiction, some relatively mild shudder stories, and such turn of the '60s titles as WEB TERROR (which had failed commercially as a not-bad sf magazine, then as a bottom-drawer imitation of MANHUNT, under different titles) decided to go even the most lurid of shudder pulp fiction (and it could get lurid in the '30s) or the more contemporaneous "true" men's sweat magazines one worse (or better, if you preferred) with heavy doses of sadism of every stripe...WEB thus staggered into the mid '60s, and a few other magazines (including a set where the entire contents were apparently written by cult-bad-filmmaker Ed Wood) followed in that mode...with a continuing trickle (perhaps the precisely correct term) up through today, where a few of the webzines aren't afraid to at least visit similar gutters, if not often to wallow as enthusiastically (though there are those, as well, and even worse-written).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com