A popular form of literary entertainment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dime novels were works of sensational fiction published in paper-covered booklets, issued at regular intervals, and priced at five to ten cents. Profitable...

Dime novel, though it has a specific meaning, has also became a catch-all term for several different (but related) forms of late 19th century and early 20th century U.S. popular fiction, including “true” dime novels, story papers, five and ten cent...

(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000), xxx + 333 pp., $79.50 (cloth). "Bang! Ping! A bullet whistled by my left ear. Bang! Ping! Thud! Another whistled by my right ear, clipping a lock of hair, and burying itself in the stalk of the...

Byline: Patti Thorn, Rocky Mountain News books editor In the old days, if you liked your stories simple but sizzling, you'd plunk down a dime for a pulp novel. Printed on cheap paper, with simple sentences, a straight- ahead plot and...

An 1878 billboard promoting a "Buffalo Bill" Cody stage show has been restored, five years after it was discovered beneath the crumbling brick facade of a former hotel.The 24-by-10-foot paper billboard had been pasted to an unfinished exterior wall of the hotel during construction 129...

In the following essay, Denning argues that dime novels constituted the primary reading material of the working class and that the books were specifically created by the middle class for workers.

In the essay below, Bold examines the role of dime novels, pulp fiction, and the commodification of literature in transforming views about the West.

In the essay below, Pfitzer argues that Twain transformed the formulaic components of dime novels into a masterpiece of literature.

How the Dime Novels of the 1860s and 1870s distorted Americans view of cowboys' life on the frontier.