Vintage Pop Fictions

Bulldog Drummond was one of the most popular fictional characters of the 1920s and 1930s. Bulldog Drummond , published in 1920, was the book...

Nick Carter is one of the more long-lived characters in detective and espionage fiction. He first appeared in a story in 1886, was later the...

King Solomon’s Mines , published in 1885, made H. Rider Haggard one of the most popular of late Victorian and Edwardian novelists. It’s a c...

Rafael Sabatini was arguably the last of the writers of old-fashioned swashbuckling adventure romances in the tradition of The Three Muskete...

Wagner the Werewolf is my second foray into the weird and wonderful world of the Victorian penny dreadfuls, the mid-19th century equivalent...

Since it’s been rather quiet I’m going to repost some brief pieces that I posted elsewhere quite a while ago. John Buchan's Greenmantle ...

Recently I’ve found myself involved in an extraordinary number of discussions on the topic of James Bond, and more specifically on the sub...