Vintage Pop Fictions

The Cousin from Fiji is a 1945 humorous novel by Norman Lindsay. Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) was the one genuinely great painter that Austral...

Published in 1968, The Malignant Metaphysical Menace was the sixth of Mallory T. Knight’s The Man From T.O.M.C.A.T. sexy spy thrillers. I b...

Robert Bloch’s novel Psycho dates from 1959. A year later it would be the basis for one of Hitchcock’s most famous movies. I like Bloch as ...

The Doll’s Bad News (AKA Twelve Chinks and a Woman AKA Twelve Chinamen and a Woman ) is a 1941 James Hadley Chase crime thriller. It was h...

Untouched by Human Hands is an early collection of short stories by American science fiction writer Robert Sheckley (1928-2005). It’s immed...

Jimmy Sangster was much better known as a screenwriter but he wrote a lot of novels. In the late 60s he wrote four spy thrillers, two featur...

Black Magic is a very early manga by Masamune Shirow. It dates from 1983 so he was in his early twenties at the time. He hadn’t yet develop...