Vintage Pop Fictions

Marie Nizet was 19 years old when she wrote Captain Vampire . Published in 1879, it’s been claimed as an influence on Bram Stoker’s Dracula ...

The Moonstone , published in 1868, occupies an important place in the history of the crime novel. Wilkie Collins certainly didn’t the inven...

When we think of early science fiction writers Rudyard Kipling is not exactly the first name that comes to mind. But Kipling did indeed writ...

The Chinese Parrot , published in 1926, was the second of Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan mysteries and was even more successful than its pr...

Published in 1927, Seven Footprints to Satan is part horror, part adventure and part crime novel. A bit like a combination of Fu Manchu and...

Carter Brown (whose real name was Alan Geoffrey Yates) may well be the biggest-selling Australian author of all time, with sales reckoned in...

The pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s attracted some fascinating writers. One of the best and most interesting, and certainly the most ...