Vintage Pop Fictions

I’ve always loved trash cinema but in the past year I’ve discovered that trash fiction holds just as many delights. And fiction doesn’t get ...

Émile Gaboriau was one of the pioneers of detective fiction. In the late 1860s and early 1870s, before his untimely death, he wrote a strin...

Raffles, A Thief in the Night , published in 1905, was E. W. Hornung’s third and final collection of stories about A. J. Raffles, celebrated...

Dennis Wheatley is one of those authors who has gone from topping bestseller lists to complete oblivion in the space of less than 30 years. ...

Gaston Leroux is of course best known as the author of Phantom of the Opera but he was actually quite prolific. He write quite a few myster...

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 ...