All All. Sign In. Pulp Adventure and Mystery! The pulps were cheaply printed story magazines, usually focusing on specific genres. Their name was derived from the cheap wood pulp paper used for printing, as opposed to the "slicks," the higher end magazines like Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post.
The pulps built many of the conventions of various genres, including mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. This list will focus on films and tv series that follow in the pulp tradition of plot driven stories, with bare bones characterization and a fast pace.
Pulp covers a lot of ground, so I will stick with films that are pretty much derived directly from the pulp magazines themselves or are stories inspired by the pulp pioneers.
Most will be in the adventure vein, though I'll try to mix things up. I've also included some of the pulp predecessors, from the Victorian Era. I've included serials and other films that drew major inspiration from the pulps, even if they didn't originate there. List activity. Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman. Raffles and his pal Bunny are introduced to the audience in a close range portrait which shows them in animated conversation discussing some of their exploits.
A lawn party is in progress at the residence of the rich Mrs. Vandergrist, and Raffles assisted by Bunny, is seen plying his profession and cleverly relieving the guests of their valuables. He extracts watches from the gentlemens pockets, politely relieves the ladies of their diamonds and jewelry, and then diverts suspicion to one of the waiters by placing his own watch in the waiter's pocket, then raising an outcry that he has been robbed.
