Uncovered: The Hidden Art of the Girlie Pulps is Doug Ellis's tribute to pulp's "bad girls", featuring colorful cover art from the likes of Pep, Saucy Stories, Spicy Adventures, and Bedtime Stories. Adventure House, 2003.

The Pulp Magazine Holdings Directory, by Jess Nevins, is a comprehensive index of American pulp magazines. Entries are organized alphabetically by magazine title, and offer bibliographic data including author, volume/issue numbers, dates of publication, publisher, and a brief categorization. McFarland, 2007.

In The Shudder Pulps, Robert Kenneth Jones chronicles a medium that published some of the grisliest, goriest, most outrageous mystery-terror fiction ever sold on the American newsstand during the golden age of the pulp magazines. Wildside Press, 2007.

Harold Hersey's The New Pulpwood Editor is reprinted from the original 1937 text, but with over 200 b&w cover reproductions from the rare Hersey pulp magazines. Adventure House, 2007.

In Pulp Fictioneers, John Locke has gathered articles and excerpts from hundreds of pulp-era writing journals. Topics include behind-the-scenes looks into the pulp world, the rise and fall of the business, and the personal experiences of writers, editors, and publishers. Adventure House, 2004.

In Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction, Scott McCracken argues that popular fiction serves a vital function in the late twentieth century, providing readers with the means to construct a workable sense of self in the face of the disorientating pressures of modernity. University of Manchester Press, 1998.

In The Fiction Factory: or, from Pulp Row to Quality Street, Quentin Reynolds documents over a century's worth of the history, legends, and collected anecdotes of the pulp publishing giant Street & Smith Corp. Random House, 1955.

The Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers, edited by Lee Server, is a comprehensive resource on writers of genre fiction, offering biographical entries on legendary writers in all of the mass-market categories. Each entry is followed by a bibliography. Checkmark, 2002.

Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines is an illustrated collection of magazine covers from pulp fiction magazines, which looks at the cover styles for westerns, erotic stories, mysteries, and horror pulps. Collectors Press, 1998.

Paul Safont's edited anthology The Wide World: True Adventures for Men includes selections from the The Wide World Magazine, presented in it's original design, with colour reproductions of its striking jackets throughout. Pan Macmillan, 2004.

More than just a reprint of Ron Goulart's classic 1972 history of the pulps, this completely redesigned and re-released version of Cheap Thrills contains mountains of material not used in the original. Diamond Comic Distributors, 2007.

Gerard Jones's Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book brilliantly demonstrates how the creators of the superheroes gained their cultural power and established a crucial place in the modern imagination. Basic Books, 2005.

Darrell Richardson's Those Macabre Pulps mainly consists of an alphabetical index of authors, with stories and articles listed in chronological order. Diamond Comic Distributors, 2004.

The Pulps: Fifty Years of American Pop Culture, edited by Tony Goodstone, is an excellent survey of pulp magazines, featuring selections of fiction and poetry, complete with illustrations and advertisements from the originals. Chelsea House, 1970.

Frank Gruber's memoir, The Pulp Jungle, is an informative history of the pulp magazine scene among writers, editors, and publishing houses in New York City during the 1930s and 40s. Sherbourne, 1967.

Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors, edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, and Martin H. Greenberg, includes one story from each year of the magazine's 1923-54 run, some reprinted for the first time. Random House, 1988.