Vintage Pop Fictions

Swords from the West is more than just a collection of short stories. The seventeen stories in this volume include two short novels and s...

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was famous for his translations of classic folk tales and other literary classics from variou...

In Raymond Chandler’s 1949 novel The Little Sister Philip Marlowe takes on what seems like a fairly routine missing persons case. Orrin Qu...

Jules Verne’s 1880 novel The Steam House is one of his lesser known works, but one not without interest. In the 1860s an assortment of ...

One of the more popular although these days sadly forgotten sub-genres of 1920s and 1930s pulp fiction was the aviation adventure story, of ...

Donald E. Keyhoe (1897-1988) was an ex-Marine Corps pilot who turned to writing for the pulps in the 1920s. His stories were aviation advent...

Otis Adelbert Kline’s 1929 novel Planet of Peril is a sword-and-planet adventure very much in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In fact so...