Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

James Eastwood’s The Chinese Visitor

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The Chinese Visitor was the first of James Eastwood’s three Anna Zordan spy thrillers. It belongs to the sexy spy thriller sub-category. It...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle (Dream Story)

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Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 short novel (more a novella really) Traumnovelle , also known as Dream Story or Rhapsody , was the basis for Stanl...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

W.R. Burnett's The Asphalt Jungle

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The Asphalt Jungle is a 1949 novel by W.R. Burnett (1899-1982), one of the great hardboiled/noir American crime writers. This is the story ...
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Thursday, August 17, 2023

C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis

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C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis was published in 1899 and it qualifies as a lost world story although not ...
Monday, August 14, 2023

Robert Silverberg's Meg

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Meg is one of the sleaze novels written by Robert Silverberg in the late 50s and early 60s, before he went on to become one of the greats o...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Kenneth Royce’s The XYY Man

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Kenneth Royce’s 1970 spy novel The XYY Man has an interesting psychiatric twist to it, which we’ll get to later. Kenneth Royce Gandley (192...
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Men’s Adventure Quarterly #6

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Issue 6 of Men’s Adventure Quarterly focuses on heists, which certainly sounds promising. These stories all appeared in men’s adventure mag...
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