Vintage Pop Fictions

Dark Passage , published in 1946, was the first novel by David Goodis. The following year it was made into a Bogart/Bacall movie and Goodis...

Most of Clark Ashton Smith’s stories are set in imaginary and fantastic worlds. His Averoigne stories are unusual in that they have a real ...

W. R. Burnett is largely forgotten today although he was arguably one of the most influential of American hardboiled crime writers. He ach...

I’m fascinated by very very early science fiction novels and one of the most important of these pioneering works is Cyrano de Bergerac’s Jou...

The Demoniacs by John Dickson Carr is an unusual crime novel. The detective is not an amateur sleuth like Miss Marple or Lord Peter Wimsey...

Jacques Cazotte’s The Devil in Love is one of those books whose historical importance possibly outweighs its intrinsic interest. But it’s ...

Ride the Pink Horse is rather unusual in being a 1940s hardboiled crime novel written by a woman, Dorothy B. Hughes. Sailor used to work ...