Vintage Pop Fictions

The Wordsworth Editions volume Voodoo Tales: The Ghost Stories of Henry S. Whitehead includes most of the short fiction of Henry S. White...

Anna Katharine Green’s 1878 novel The Leavenworth Case is often cited, incorrectly, as the first mystery novel written by a woman. It is ...

I’m excessively fond of stories involving occult detectives or psychic detectives. This type of story had a considerable popularity in the...

Seabury Quinn wrote quite a few short stories featuring the occult detective Jules de Grandin. The Devil’s Bride , published in 1932, was ...

Abraham Merritt (1884-1943), always known as A. Merritt, was a very successful journalist who wrote fiction in his spare time. Most of his...

Live and Let Die was Ian Fleming’s second James Bond novel and it’s a considerable improvement over his first effort, Casino Royale . T...

The French Powder Mystery was the second of the Ellery Queen mysteries by Manfred Bennington Lee (Manford Lepofsky) and Frederic Dannay (...