Vintage Pop Fictions

Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square was published in 1941. Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) was an English novelist and playwright. He enjoyed s...

J.J. Allerton’s science fiction novel Moon of Battle  originally appeared in Amazing Stories in December 1949. Allerton is a very obscure w...

Georgette Heyer’s Regency Buck was published in 1935 and is of course a romance novel. What am I doing reading, and reviewing, a romance no...

The Ring-A-Ding UFOs , published in 1967, is the third of the Miss from S.I.S. spy thrillers by Robert Tralins. It fits roughly into the “se...

Robert E. Howard created numerous series characters besides Conan. One of the more interesting was a 19th century gunslinger from Texas name...

Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac’s novel Celle qui n'était plus (translated into English as She Who Was No Mor e) was published in 19...

Catherine L. Moore (1911-1987) is best remembered for her Jirel of Joiry sword-and-sorcery stories and her Northwest Smith sword-and-planet ...