Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Harold Lamb's Swords from the West

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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...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Vikram and the Vampire

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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was famous for his translations of classic folk tales and other literary classics from variou...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister

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In Raymond Chandler’s 1949 novel The Little Sister Philip Marlowe takes on what seems like a fairly routine missing persons case. Orrin Qu...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Jules Verne's The Steam House

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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 ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Secret Operative K-13

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One of the more popular although these days sadly forgotten sub-genres of 1920s and 1930s pulp fiction was the aviation adventure story, of ...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

Donald E. Keyhoe's Strange War

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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...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Otis Adelbert Kline’s Planet of Peril

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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...
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