Vintage Pop Fictions

I’ve now read the the whole of Harry Dickson: The American Sherlock Holmes . This book contains three complete episodes from the French pul...

Arthur Morrison is best-known to crime fans today for the Martin Hewitt stories which were among the most successful of the stories that fol...

Peter Rabe’s Stop This Man! is a hardboiled crime thriller dealing with the theft of radioactive gold. Now that surely has to be a fun comb...

The Yellow Snake is a delightfully trashy and outrageous 1926 thriller by Edgar Wallace. As you might gather from the title this time Walla...

Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac’s Vertigo (original French title D'entre les morts ) is of course the source material for Hitchcock’...

News from the Moon , edited by Brian Stableford, is a collection of nine French “proto-science fiction tales” from the 19th century. Many of...

The Mystery Of The Green Ray is a 1915 espionage thriller that could also be considered as borderline science fiction. William Le Queux (...