Vintage Pop Fictions

pulp novels, trash fiction, detective stories, adventure tales, spy fiction, etc from the 19th century up to the 1970s

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Guy Boothby's A Bid for Fortune

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Everyone loves a diabolical criminal mastermind. And the first of the great literary examples of this breed may well have been Guy Boothby’s...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Sax Rohmer’s The Sins of Sumuru

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Sax Rohmer is best-known as the creator of Fu Manchu, but he also wrote a series of pot-boilers about another diabolical criminal mastermind...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Malpertuis by Jean Ray

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Jean Ray’s 1943 novel Malpertuis is a strange little book indeed. It’s not immediately obvious wherein lies the strangeness, but don’t desp...
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Grace Metalious’s Peyton Place

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If you’re one of those people (like myself) with a deep and abiding love for trash culture than Grace Metalious’s Peyton Place is certainly...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Edgar Wallace’s The Twister

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Edgar Wallace’s The Twister , published in 1928, is a tale of murder, high finance, and intrigue. A plot to manipulate the international dia...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Enter the Nyctalope

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In the early decades of the 20th Jean de la Hire wrote a series of popular French pulps about the Nyctalope. The Nyctalope was a kind of sup...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers

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The House Without a Key , published in 1925, was the first of the Charlie Chan mysteries by Earl Derr Biggers. The six Charlie Chan novels w...
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