Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Sunday, February 26, 2012

A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs

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A Princess of Mars , published in 1912, was the first major success for Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the first of his many Martian or Barsoo...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household

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Geoffrey Household’s 1939 thriller novel Rogue Male deals with a plot to kill HItler. Only it’s not actually a plot, it’s more of a solo mi...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Armageddon - 2419 A.D., Philip Francis Nowlan

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Philip Francis Nowlan’s novella Armageddon - 2419 A.D. appeared in the November 1928 issue of Amazing Stories and marked the first appeara...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The Double Traitor

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If there’s one thing I love even more than spy novels it’s pre-First World War spy novels. E. Phillips Oppenheim’s The Double Traitor was a...
Friday, February 10, 2012

The Haunter of the Ring and Other Stories

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Robert E. Howard will always be best remembered for his sword and sorcery tales, especially the Conan stories, but his work was extraordinar...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Daughter of Fantômas

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The Daughter of Fantômas was the eighth of Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre’s Fantômas novels, appearing in 1911. The first novel in the ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Eric Ambler’s Epitaph for a Spy

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Eric Ambler’s 1938 novel Epitaph for a Spy is a perfect example of his distinctive approach to spy fiction. Ambler’s heroes were not profes...
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