I really fucking love the covers in old pulp novels and magazines, but the actual stories often fall flat. Have you ever read anything that lived up to their presentation?
Leaving aside the most well known authors like Howard or Lovecraft.
>>9374229
Norton is really good at providing a fun, exciting adventure
Honestly, pulp books are like a dollar tops and maybe 300 pages, you just have to risk it to find the good ones. That's how I found Wizard from Earthsea
Unfortunately Lovecraft and Howard are the only writers worth anything
>>9374229
Leigh Brackett's Mars stories. If you like John Carter, read these stories of barbarian tribes, bandit kingdoms, ancient martian cities, bare-breasted princesses, rowdy taverns and fisticuffs.
C.L. Moore's Northwest Smith (he is like Han Solo.) Moore wrote these for Weird Tales, and both Howard and Lovecraft regarded her. She also wrote a series with a yellow-haired redheaded warrior in a Dark Age France with a cosmic horror twist, Jirel Of Joiry.
>>9374328
>yellow-haired
'yellow eyed'
>>9374229
I really liked the Doc Smith lensman series. Very pulpy, with lots of hurling moons at one another.
Incidentally, if you check out pulp's kino twin the serial, stick with the Republic serials. Others like The Shadow (from Columbia) had the cheesiness without the verve.