Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Thursday, March 26, 2015

The Man Who Found Zero

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The Man Who Found Zero , edited by Gene Christie and issued by Black Dog Books, is an anthology of early science fiction stories original...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

August Derleth's The Return of Solar Pons

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The writing of Sherlock Holmes pastiches seems to have an extraordinary appeal to writers both good and bad, professional and amateur. No...
Monday, March 16, 2015

John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes

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John Wyndham (1903-1969) had been writing professionally since 1925 and had a couple of science fiction novels published in the 1930s (in...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Hawley Smart’s The Great Tontine

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Hawley Smart’s The Great Tontine , first published in 1880, is an early crime/mystery novel.  It’s one of four short novels or novellas i...
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Friday, March 6, 2015

Polaris - of the Snows

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Charles B. Stilson’s lost world tale Polaris - of the Snows was originally published in three installments in All-Story Weekly in Decem...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Edmund Crispin’s The Long Divorce

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The Long Divorce , published in 1952, was the next-to-last of Edmund Crispin’s detective novels featuring Oxford don Gervase Fen. Composer ...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Lady Audley’s Secret

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One of the most important ancestors of the classical detective story was the Victorian sensation novel. Wilkie Collins is perhaps the bes...
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