Gothic Literature in Special Collections

This collection contains a variety of science fiction pulp magazines. Pulp magazines were inexpensive popular fiction works published from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s, characteristically printed on cheap wood pulp paper. Pulp magazines initially contained a variety of different genres of fiction, including mystery and adventure genres, but in the 1920s magazines devoted to science fiction began to appear more frequently

The Comic Books and Graphic Novels collection consists of 390 comic books and 4 graphic novels, and dates from 1945 to 2022, with the bulk of the collection being original DC and Marvel comic books from 1960 to 1970. Included is comic books and manga based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, and Mary Shelley.

The Maryland Folklore collection consist of materials collected and created primarily by students of Maryland institutions of higher education in Salisbury, Frostburg, and College Park.