New on Archive.org, “A Penny A Word”, being the detailed and lively memoir of an anonymous pulp writer who entered the field circa 1924-26 and spent a decade in it. The memoir appeared in The American Mercury, March 1936.

Who knew Submarine Stories was ever a real title? It appeared early 1929, but six months later ran into the teeth of the Great Depression and is said to have folded after 13 shaky issues. As such, it can’t have appealed to H.P. Lovecraft as a market, even though he had tried his hand at submarine tales in “The Temple”.