Vintage Pop Fictions

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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