Vintage Pop Fictions

The Sailcloth Shroud is a 1959 crime novel by Charles Williams. Charles Williams (1909-1975) was an American crime writer whose work could ...

Demons of Sandorra is a 1970 science fiction novel by Paul Tabori. Paul Tabori (1908- 1974) was a prolific Hungarian-born British writer wh...

Pieces of Modesty , published in 1972, was Peter O’Donnell’s first Modesty Blaise short story collection. By this time he had already writte...

The villain of W. Somerset Maugham’s 1908 novel The Magician was inspired by Aleister Crowley although the story itself is pure fiction. Ma...

The Bump and Grind Murders is a 1964 Carter Brown crime thriller. The phenomenally popular and prolific English-born Australian pulp writer...

J. Hunter Holly’s The Running Man is a 1963 science fiction novel published as a paperback original by Monarch Books. It falls at least loo...

Joseph Kessel’s novel Belle de Jour was published in 1928 and was immediately controversial. It would be decades before anyone dared to pub...