Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Kermit Jaediker's Tall, Dark and Dead

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Tall, Dark and Dead is a private eye thriller by Kermit Jaediker, published in 1947 by Lion Books. I’d love to be able to tell you somethin...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

Paul Ernst’s Rulers of the Future

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Paul Ernst’s novel Rulers of the Future was serialised in Weird Tales in January, February and March 1935. Paul Ernst (1899-1985) was an Am...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Dallas Mayo’s One Night Stand

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Dallas Mayo’s One Night Stand  is a show biz sleaze novel published by Midwood Books in 1962. Dallas Mayo was one of the pseudonyms used by ...
Friday, February 11, 2022

Paul Connolly’s Tears Are for Angels

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Paul Connolly’s Tears Are for Angels is a noir fiction title published in 1952 by Gold Medal. Paul Connolly was actually Thomas Wicker (192...
Monday, February 7, 2022

A.S. Fleischman’s Counterspy Express

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A.S. Fleischman’s Counterspy Express was published by Ace in 1954. A.S. “Sid” Fleischman (1920-2010) is best remembered as a very successfu...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Donald A. Wollheim’s The Secret of the Ninth Planet

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Donald A. Wollheim’s 1959 science fiction novel The Secret of the Ninth Planet was written at a very interesting time. The Russians had lau...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

Poul Anderson's Swordsmen from the Stars

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Poul Anderson (1926-2001) became one of the most celebrated of American science fiction writers. Early in his career he wrote stories for th...
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