Vintage Pop Fictions

Murder on the Way! is a 1935 novel by Theodore Roscoe. It was originally published in the pulp magazine Argosy under the title A Grave Must...

Gerald Kersh’s Night and the City was published in 1938. The 1950 film adaptation, regarded as a classic of film noir, is now much better r...

Assassin of Gor , published in 1970, is the fifth of John Norman’s Gor novels. The Gor series needs to be read in publication order so I’m g...

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...