Vintage Pop Fictions

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...

Georgette Heyer’s Regency Buck was published in 1935 and is of course a romance novel. What am I doing reading, and reviewing, a romance no...

The Ring-A-Ding UFOs , published in 1967, is the third of the Miss from S.I.S. spy thrillers by Robert Tralins. It fits roughly into the “se...

Robert E. Howard created numerous series characters besides Conan. One of the more interesting was a 19th century gunslinger from Texas name...