Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Wika by Thomas Day and Olivier Ledroit

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Wika is a graphic novel written by Frenchman Thomas Day and illustrated by French comics artist Olivier Ledroit. The English translation wa...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

James Munro's Die Rich, Die Happy

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Published in 1965, Die Rich, Die Happ y is the second of the four thrillers featuring British spy John Craig written by James Mitchell under...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Roy Norton's The Glyphs

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The Glyphs is a lost civilisation novel by Roy Norton which was originally published in The Popular Magazine in 1919. Roy Norton (1869-194...
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Ira Levin’s A Kiss Before Dying

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A Kiss Before Dying was Ira Levin’s first novel. It appeared in 1954. It was a very impressive debut for a 23-year-old writer. It was a bes...
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Sunday, February 1, 2026

Charles Eric Maine’s Timeliner

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Timeliner is a 1955 science fiction novel by Charles Eric Maine and it’s a time travel story, of sorts. Charles Eric Maine (1921-1981) was ...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

M.G. Braun’s Operation Jealousy

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Operation Jealousy (originally published in French as Plan Jalousie in 1965) was part of M.G. Braun’s series of Al Glenne spy thrillers. T...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Whitley Strieber's The Wolfen

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The Wolfen is a 1978 horror novel by Whitley Strieber. The title suggests that this is going to be a werewolf story but it isn’t really. Or...
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