Vintage Pop Fictions

I have a bit of a weakness for swashbuckling tales of adventure, and I think it’s fair to say that the greatest writer of such stories in th...

I’m rather partial to Sword & Sorcery novels, and for me the greatest of all Sword & Sorcery writers was Robert E. Howard. His stor...

The Grifters , published in 1963, is one of Jim Thompson’s later works. To say anything about the plot would be to risk spoilers, so I’ll j...

Thea von Harbou is best known today as the wife of the great film director Fritz Lang and his close collaborator on most of his early German...

The brilliant but cantakerous Professor Challenger, the hero of Conan Doyle’s classic science fiction tale The Lost World , is one again the...

Of all the books that have some claim to being considered classics of the crime genre none have divided readers quite so dramatically as S. ...

House Dick is a 1961 crime thriller by E. Howard Hunt. You may now be saying to yourself, “Hang on, wasn’t E. Howard Hunt one of the infamo...