small-circulation readership of the educated upper middle class, magazines became standard fare for the increasingly literate and populous masses in America and Great Britain. And pulp magazines often filled this burgeoning new market at the turn of the century.
The dominance of general-fiction pulp magazines declined at the end of the First World War, as specialized genre pulps like Detective Story Monthly, Western Story, Love Stories, and Weird Tales appeared. (And the overall market of the pulp magazines, some with half-million circulations, declined as a result of the paper shortages following the war.) Science-fiction writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ralph Milne Farley and H. G. Wells were popularized in the pulps.
