Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Richard Marsh’s The Beetle

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Richard Marsh’s The Beetle is certainly one very bizarre and outrageous book.  It’s included in Victorian Villainies , which include...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Baby Moll, by John Farris

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John Farris has written an enormous quantity of fiction of various types during his lifetime. He started his writing career at a very young ...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

The People of the Pole, by Charles Derennes

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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 ...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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