Vintage Pop Fictions

Richard Marsh’s The Beetle is certainly one very bizarre and outrageous book.  It’s included in Victorian Villainies , which include...

John Farris has written an enormous quantity of fiction of various types during his lifetime. He started his writing career at a very young ...

I’m continuing my exploration of French pulp fiction of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This time it’s The People of the Pole ( Le ...

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote his Caspak Trilogy , starting with The Land That Time Forgot , in 1918. It became an instant classic of the Lost ...

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

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...

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...