Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Jack Williamson’s The Legion of Space

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Jack Williamson’s The Legion of Space was serialised in Astounding in 1934 and later published in book form. Williamson’s idea was to t...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Henry Wade's Heir Presumptive

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Major Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet CVO DSO (1887-1969) wrote detective novels using the pseudonym Henry Wade. And very...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Dennis Wheatley's They Used Dark Forces

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Dennis Wheatley (1897-1977) is best remembered today for what he termed his Black Magic novels. In fact these made up only a small part o...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Mickey Spillane’s Kiss Me, Deadly

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Kiss Me, Deadly appeared in 1952 and was the sixth of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer novels, and it was the first private eye novel to ma...
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Saturday, September 13, 2014

E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith’s Galactic Patrol

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E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith’s Galactic Patrol was serialised in Astounding in 1937 and published in book form in 1950. It was the first of his fa...
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Thursday, September 11, 2014

John Dickson Carr’s The Department of Queer Complaints

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John Dickson Carr’s The Department of Queer Complaints was published in 1940, under the name Carter Dickson (a pseudonym he often employ...
Saturday, September 6, 2014

C. S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet

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C. S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet was published in 1938. It was followed by two sequels, the three novels comprising his Cosmic Tri...
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