Week 15: Wikipedia Trail - From The Big Sleep to Penny Dreadful

Stop 1: The Big Sleep
Stop 2: Hardboiled
Stop 3: Pulp Magazine
Stop 4: Penny Dreadful

I chose to begin my Wikipedia Trail by simply searching the title I am writing my final paper on. Most of what I read was information I knew from reading the book, however there was more background on the author, Raymond Chandler. Chandler would often use stories he had previously published and re-write them together to create a new story.  Chandler wrote "The Big Sleep" from his two previously published storyes, "Killer in the Rain" and "The Curtain".

The term "hardboiled" is , according to Wikipidia, "is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective stories)". Detective Marlowe from the story "The Big Sleep" would be considered hardboiled. I thought hardboiled was such a random term to be used so I had to follow the link to check it out.

Pulp magazines, according to Wikipedia,  "were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s". "The pulps gave rise to the term pulp fiction in reference to run-of-the-mill, low-quality literature."  Pulp is referring to the type of paper used to print the magazines. I grew up watching the film Pulp Fiction  and had no idea the term came from a type of fiction magazine.
 
A Penny Dreadful  would be considered a "cheap popular serial literature produced during the nineteenth century in the United Kingdom. The term typically referred to a story published in weekly parts, each costing one penny. I was drawn to read about this term because I have followed a show named Penny Dreadful and I now feel as though I have a much better understanding of the show itself.

This was a fun Trail to follow!