Vintage Pop Fictions

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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