Vintage Pop Fictions

The Mystery of 31 New Inn , published in 1912, was one of R. Austin Freeman’s early Dr Thorndyke mysteries. It serves as a rather excellen...

During the 1920s and 1930s the idea started to take hold that serious art should have one of two objectives. It should either make us feel b...

Satan’s Daughter and Other Tales from the Pulps from Wildside Press collects thirteen stories by E. Hoffmann Price (1898-1988) that were ...

The Rubber Band , published in 1936) was the third of of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mystery novels. Rex Stout (1886-1975) had already had ni...

Sax Rohmer made his reputation, and his fortune, with his Fu Manchu books. Fu Manchu is one of fiction’s great villains but Rohmer’s other...

The first Luther Trant detective stories of Edwin Balmer and William B. MacHarg were published in 1909, followed by several more in 1910 i...

Jeremy Lane’s lost world fantasy story was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly as The Fragrant Web in 1919. The followi...