Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Friday, June 26, 2020

Leslie Charteris's The Saint in Europe, and on TV

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This is another instalment in my ongoing project to compare episodes of classic television series from the 1950s-1970s with their literary...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Mickey Spillane’s The Big Kill

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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...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Clifford Ball’s sword & sorcery tales

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Clifford Ball (1896-1947) was an American writer who had half a dozen stories published in Weird Tales between 1937 and 1941 after which ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Carter Brown's No Harp for My Angel

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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...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Nictzin Dyalhis’s The Sapphire Goddess

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The Sapphire Goddess collects all of Nictzin Dyalhis’s stories that appeared in Weird Tales from 1925 to 1940. Nictzin Dyalhis 1873-19...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Sin Hellcat

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Before making names for themselves as crime writers Lawrence Block and Donald E. Westlake kept body and soul together by churning out luri...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

James O. Causey's Killer Take All!

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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...
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