I would start at http://www.archive.org and http://books.google.com

Also, I really enjoy the following site as they have great cover scans of the type of material you are describing…

http://home.comcast.net/~pulpgallery/welcome.html

Hope that helps.

Thanks Soufian!
Logan

They were commonly referred to as “dime novels”. Interesting side note – in Europe, the equivalent publications were referred to as “penny dreadfuls” or “shilling shockers”. The term dime novel was used to describe these things for years (even when they didn’t actually cost just a dime) then later they morphed into what’s come to be known as “the pulps”, “pulp mags”, or “pulp fiction”.

If it’s the old dime novels you are interested in, I’m not aware of any one big source yet that archives issues of these things but http://archive.org and http://books.google.com are great places to search.

For instance I know of one small collection on archive.org right now…

Click here…

(actually I just noticed that it looks like archive.org is having technical difficulties today, link may not work until later)

With these types of things it’s usually best to do some research and find the titles of some of the dime novels that were published. Searching by title will produce much more fruitful results.

ebay and http://www.abebooks.com are also great sources for dime novels that you can purchase and scan yourself.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Dan!

Interesting source of content. Thanks

Ken