Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Dark Passage by David Goodis

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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...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Clark Ashton Smith’s Averoigne stories

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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 ...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Nobody Lives Forever by W. R. Burnett

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W. R. Burnett is largely forgotten today although he was arguably one of the most influential of American hardboiled crime writers. He ach...
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Cyrano de Bergerac's Journey to the Moon

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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...
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

John Dickson Carr's The Demoniacs

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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...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

The Devil in Love, by Jacques Cazotte

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Jacques Cazotte’s The Devil in Love is one of those books whose historical importance possibly outweighs its intrinsic interest. But it’s ...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Ride the Pink Horse, by Dorothy B. Hughes

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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 ...
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