The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Her first stories appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s, including two significant series in Weird Tales.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

The original novel, written by Dashiell Hammett, was first published in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1929.

That made him the first science fiction writer to break out of the " pulp ghetto ".

Bradbury's first paid piece, " Pendulum ," written with Henry Hasse, was published in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories in November 1941, for which he earned $ 15.

This book is notable among the Heinlein juveniles in being the first to be set outside the solar system, but more significantly for its attempt to fold in, in a subtle way, the political commentary and social speculation that had suffused his earlier pulp fiction.

Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity who first appeared in the short story " The Call of Cthulhu ", published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.

In 1896, Frank Munsey had converted his juvenile magazine, The Argosy into a fiction magazine for adults and the first pulp.

In 1989, Melitta introduced Natural Brown filter paper, the first coffee filters made from unbleached pulp.

* Charles Holmes Herty, a chemist noted for revolutionizing the turpentine industry and creating a new pulp industry based on southern pine trees, as well as establishing the first varsity football team at the University of Georgia, was born in Milledgeville on what is now the campus of Georgia College.

During its run, it featured The Shadow's first team-up with Doc Savage, another very popular hero of the pulp magazine era.

When Bob Kane and Bill Finger first conceived of the " Bat-Man ", Finger suggested they pattern the character after pulp mystery men such as the Shadow.

* Margaret Grubb, first wife of pulp fiction author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard

At first cellulose in the form of wood pulp is soaked in caustic soda and after this " steeping " for a specified period of time it is shredded and allowed to age (" Mercerising ").

* Fantômas may well have been influenced by its less well remembered predecessor, Zigomar, the creation of Léon Sazie, which first appeared as a serial in Le Matin in 1909, then as a pulp magazine ( 28 issues ) in 1913, and again in Zigomar contre Zigomar for eight more issues in 1924.

Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928.

The last technique requires the first layer to be a highly diluted consistency of paint ; this paint layer dissolves the surface sizing of the paper and loosens the cellulose tufts in the pulp.

He enjoyed immediate success selling to the pulp magazines and sold 18 stories before his first rejection.

By 1931 he had settled into a career as an author of books as well as short fiction, publishing two more Captain North novels and his first historical novel, Captain Nemesis, which was republished from an earlier pulp serial.

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923.

Generally, the material to be recycled first undergoes mechanical or chemical pulping to render it in pulp form.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.