Vintage Pop Fictions

With Room 13 in 1924 Edgar Wallace introduced readers to Mr J. G. Reeder, one of the least glamorous of all fictional detectives. Mr J. G. ...

The Navigators of Space is the first of a series of volumes from Black Coat Press collecting all of the science fiction of J.-H. Rosny Aîné...

Modesty Blaise: Last Day In Limbo , published in 1976, was the eighth of the Modesty Blaise novels written by Peter O’Donnell, and it wasn’t...

The Slaves of Sumuru , originally published in 1951, is the second of Sax Rohmer’s delightfully entertaining pulpy crime/adventure novel fea...

The Irish Witch was one of Dennis Wheatley’s later novels. Published in 1973, it allowed Wheatley to take advantage of the times to add a f...

Mr Standfast , published in 1919, was the third of John Buchan’s Richard Hannay espionage novels. The success of The Thirty-Nine Steps had ...

Considering the extent of the 19th century obsession with The Mysterious East and the enormous vogue for orientalist art it’s perhaps surpri...