Vintage Pop Fictions

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

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...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Michael Crichton’s The Terminal Man

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Michael Crichton’s science fiction techno-thriller The Terminal Man was published in 1972. Michael Crichton (1942–2008) had broken through ...
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