Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Monday, July 28, 2014

Aleister Crowley’s Moonchild

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A novel by the Great Beast himself, the “wickedest man in the world”.  I’m told it helps a great deal if you have some familiarity with C...
Friday, July 25, 2014

About the Murder of the Clergyman’s Mistress

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Charles Fulton Oursler (1893-1952) wrote a number of detective novels in the 1930s and early 1940s under the name Anthony Abbot. These no...
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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda

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Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda was published in 1894 and was an immediate immense success. It has remained in print ever since and...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

John Rhode’s The Motor Rally Mystery

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Major Cecil John Charles Street Major Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) was the author of around 140 detective novels, including ...
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Saturday, July 12, 2014

Meet the Baron

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In the mid-1930s a British publisher offered a substantial prize to any author who could produce a fictional hero of the gentleman-thief ...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Murder in the Maze

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Alfred Walter Stewart (1880-1947) was an eminent British chemist who had, under the name J. J. Connington, achieved considerable success ...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth

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Re-reading At the Mountains of Madness recently has inspired me to revisit some other H. P. Lovecraft stories, in particular his novella...
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