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Detail from the cover of Weird Tales vol. 30, no. 4, October 1937, PN3435. W53

The representation of women in pulp literature and comics has been a subject of ongoing scrutiny and criticism in popular culture. Pulp magazines and comics have the power to shape our perception of society and the people in it. They are not mere works of imagination but reflect the society that produced them. With that in mind, this blog post aims to compare the female representation on the cover of Weird Tales in the 1930s and Marvel's The Monster of Frankenstein comics in the 1970s and how, unfortunately, it has not significantly changed over time. 

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Weird Tales, January 1937 cover

“Gender, Sex, and the Cosmos in the Horror Pulps: From Weird Tales Magazine to Christopher Pike’s 90s Horror Novels” is for horror fans, young and old, who have interests in gender and sexuality and Gothic terror and horror. Associate Professor of English Dr. Colleen Tripp at California State University at Northridge (CSUN) is joined by script writer....

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Image from The Counseling Center’s Annual Report of 1972-1973. College of Humanities Records.

CSUN’s University Counseling Services recently hosted Matadors Unite: Suicide Prevention Week to create “awareness…promote mental health and help prevent suicide”. The campus is equipped with crisis/urgent care walk-ins, a crisis hotline, and other resources to assist the campus community when necessary. In Special Collections & Archives there are materials that reference college students who have succumbed to suicide.

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Detail of the marbled endpapers from The Castle of Otranto, PR3757.W2 C3 1786

The Castle of Otranto, published on Christmas Eve 1764, launched the Gothic novel genre. Horace Walpole initially issued the work under a pseudonym and claimed it was a translation of a found Italian medieval tale. However, after the novel was well received, Walpole revealed that he was the true author in the second edition published in 1765.

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