Vintage Pop Fictions

Bait is a sleaze novel with a hint of noir by William Vance (writing as George Cassidy) published in 1962. Melody Frane is an itinerant far...

The Mutant Weapon is a science fiction novella (or maybe at a stretch a short novel) by Murray Leinster (1896-1975). Leinster was a prolifi...

Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) was at one time a very big deal indeed in the literary world. He now seems to have fallen very much out of fashion...

Zero Cool is one of the early thrillers written by Michael Crichton under the name John Lange. It was published in 1969, the same year in w...

I had only very dim memories of reading a few of the Mandrake the Magician comic-strips aeons ago. I had forgotten that Mandrake is not a st...

Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square was published in 1941. Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) was an English novelist and playwright. He enjoyed s...

J.J. Allerton’s science fiction novel Moon of Battle  originally appeared in Amazing Stories in December 1949. Allerton is a very obscure w...