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Weird menace
Weird menace is the name given to a sub-genre of horror fiction that was popular in the pulp magazines of the 1940s and 1950s. The weird menace pulps, also known as "shudder pulps", generally featured stories in which the hero was pitted against evil or sadistic villains, with graphic scenes of torture and brutal murder.
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