Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Peter Cheyney's Can Ladies Kill?

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Between 1936 and 1951 Englishman Peter Cheyney had a lot of success with his American-style pulp crime/spy thrillers. The fact that he had n...
Friday, October 23, 2026

Fritz Leiber’s Gather, Darkness!

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Fritz Leiber’s novel Gather, Darkness! was serialised in Astounding Science Fiction in May, June, and July 1943 and published in book form...
Sunday, October 18, 2026

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower

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The Flame and the Flower is a 1972 romance novel by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. I’ve read most genres of fiction but I must confess that I have ...
Monday, October 12, 2026

Malko 8: Death on the River Kwai

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SAS L’Or de la Rivière Kwai , published in French in 1971, is one of just a handful of the 200 hugely popular Malko novels written by French...
Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Gardner Francis Fox's Warrior of Llarn

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Warrior of Llarn is a 1964 sword-and-planet adventure by Gardner Francis Fox. Maybe Fox wasn’t the greatest writer in the world but I’ve re...
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Friday, October 2, 2026

Thomas B. Dewey’s Hunter at Large

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Thomas B. Dewey’s Hunter at Large is a 1961 crime novel which has been reissued by Black Gat Books. Thomas B. Dewey (1915-1981) was a proli...
Monday, September 28, 2026

Edmond Hamilton’s novella The Starcombers

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Edmond Hamilton’s novella The Starcombers first appeared in Science Fiction Adventures in December 1956. Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977) was a...
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