Vintage Pop Fictions

Published in 1911, A Royal Prisoner ( Un Roi Prisonnier ) was the fifth of the Fantômas novels. The brilliant arch-criminal Fantômas is one...

The Longest Second is a 1957 crime novel by Bill S. Ballinger. Assigning it to a particular crime sub-genre is a bit tricky. It’s certainly...

Murray Leinster's The Time Tunnel is a 1966 TV tie-in novel based on the Irwin Allen television series of the same name that went to ai...

The Million Missing Maidens is the second in Mallory T. Knight’s The Man from T.O.M.C.A.T. series of sexy spy thrillers. It was published as...

Murder on the Way! is a 1935 novel by Theodore Roscoe. It was originally published in the pulp magazine Argosy under the title A Grave Must...

Gerald Kersh’s Night and the City was published in 1938. The 1950 film adaptation, regarded as a classic of film noir, is now much better r...

Assassin of Gor , published in 1970, is the fifth of John Norman’s Gor novels. The Gor series needs to be read in publication order so I’m g...