Vintage Pop Fictions

Chinese Brady: The Complete Adventures is a collection of all the Chinese Brady stories by C. M. Miller that were published during the ...

John Dickson Carr’s 1932 mystery The Waxworks Murder was the fourth of his five novels featuring French detective Henri Bencolin. Carr ...

In her satire of the gothic novel, Northanger Abbey , one of Jane Austen’s characters recommends seven “horrid novels” to her friend. For ...

A. E. W. Mason (1865-1948) is best remembered today as the author of the classic adventure novel The Four Feathers . He also wrote five de...

Richard Marsh (1857-1915) is best remembered today for his bizarre gothic novel The Beetle , which was published in the same year as Dracu...

Death in Ecstasy was the fourth of Ngaio Marsh’s Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn mysteries, appearing in 1936. The story is set...

Johnston McCulley’s The Curse of Capistrano , serialised in the pulp magazine All Story Weekly in 1919, marked the first appearance in pri...