Vintage Pop Fictions

pulp novels, trash fiction, detective stories, adventure tales, spy fiction, etc from the 19th century up to the 1970s

Monday, November 24, 2025

Sax Rohmer's She Who Sleeps

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There was much much more to Sax Rohmer than the Fu Manchu stories. Stark House have issued two Sax Rohmer novels written at almost exactly t...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Marty Holland’s Fallen Angel

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Marty Holland’s Fallen Angel is a 1945 hardboiled murder mystery. It has definite noir overtones but as is always the case whether or not a...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic

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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s 1972 novel Roadside Picnic is one of the most important works of Soviet science fiction. It’s a first contact...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Henry James' Daisy Miller

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American-born Henry James (1843-1916) was one of the true literary giants. His 1878 novella Daisy Miller brought him his first taste of com...
Friday, November 7, 2025

Sax Rohmer's Moon of Madness

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Moon of Madness is a 1927 Sax Rohmer thriller. Sax Rohmer (1883-1959) is best known as the creator of Dr Fu Manchu but he wrote a lot of ot...
Monday, November 3, 2025

Whitley Strieber’s The Hunger

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Whitley Strieber’s novel The Hunger was published in 1981. In 1983 there was a celebrated movie adaptation which is one of those love it or...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Charles Burgess's The Other Woman

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The Other Woman is a 1960 crime novel by Charles Burgess. He’s a seriously obscure writer who seems to have written only one other novel. H...
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