Vintage Pop Fictions

This is another instalment in my ongoing project to compare episodes of classic television series from the 1950s-1970s with their literary...

The Big Kill is the fifth of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer novels. It was published in 1951. Things have become so bad in New York City...

Clifford Ball (1896-1947) was an American writer who had half a dozen stories published in Weird Tales between 1937 and 1941 after which ...

Alan Yates (1923-1985) was an English-born Australian writer of crime fiction under the name Carter Brown and he was one of the most proli...

The Sapphire Goddess collects all of Nictzin Dyalhis’s stories that appeared in Weird Tales from 1925 to 1940. Nictzin Dyalhis 1873-19...

Before making names for themselves as crime writers Lawrence Block and Donald E. Westlake kept body and soul together by churning out luri...

California-born James O. Causey (1924-2003) had a brief but interesting literary career. He wrote for Weird Tales in the 40s, then wrote q...