Vintage Pop Fictions

E. E. “Doc” Smith (1890-1965) was arguably the founding father of space opera, writing his first such book, The Skylark of Space , in 1920. ...

Henry Treece’s The Great Captains was published in 1956. It belongs to his Celtic Tetralogy of historical novels. As well as being a poet H...

Come Die With Me, published in 1965, was the first of J. E. Macdonnell’s fourteen Mark Hood spy thrillers. J. E. Macdonnell was an incredib...

Grey Face is a 1924 Sax Rohmer potboiler and as to which genre to which to assign it, you’ll have to decide for yourself when you read it. ...

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...

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

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 ...