Vintage Pop Fictions

Judas Country , published in 1975, was the last of Gavin Lyall’s aviation thrillers. Englishman Gavin Lyall (1932-2003) had established hims...

Edward S. Aarons (1916-1975) was an American writer whose output included the 42 Sam Durell “Assignment” spy thrillers. The first of these, ...

John Canaday (1907-1985) was an American who wrote seven detective novels between 1943 and 1955, under the pseudonym Matthew Head. These inc...

The psycho-sexual thriller Fury on Sunday was Richard Matheson’s second novel. Or rather, it was his third novel but his second published n...

Don Wilcox’s Slave Raiders from Mercury was published in Amazing Stories in 1940. Cleo Eldon Wilcox (1905-2000) was an American science fic...

Rafe Bernard’s The Halo Highway (published in the US under the title Army of the Undead ) is a 1967 TV tie-in novel based on the classic 19...

Ray Gaulden’s Rita is a 1959 noir novel with perhaps just a very slight hint of sleaze. Ray Gaulden (1914-1986) was a very obscure American...