Vintage Pop Fictions

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

Monday, March 30, 2026

A. Merritt's The Ship of Ishtar

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The Ship of Ishtar is one of the greatest and most influential fantasy novels of all time but it has a complicated history. A. Merritt wrot...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Thomas M. Disch's The Prisoner TV tie-in novel

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The first of the original novels inspired by the hit 1967 television series The Prisoner , Thomas M. Disch's The Prisoner , begins with ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Fritz Leiber’s Swords and Deviltry

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Swords and Deviltry , published in 1970, is a collection of three of Fritz Leiber’s sword-and-sorcery tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. L...
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Thursday, March 19, 2026

Peter Cheyney’s Dangerous Curves

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Dangerous Curves , published in 1939, was the second of Peter Cheyney’s Slim Callahan private eye thrillers. Peter Cheyney (1896-1951) was a...
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Saturday, March 14, 2026

Frank Belknap Long’s Space Station #1

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Frank Belknap Long’s science fiction novel Space Station #1 was published in 1957. American science fiction/weird fiction writer Frank Belk...
Monday, March 9, 2026

T. T. Flynn’s The Complete Cases of Val Easton

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The Complete Cases of Val Easton  is a collection of spy novellas by T. T. Flynn (1902-1978). They were originally published in the Dime Det...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Sax Rohmer's The Green Eyes of Bâst

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The Green Eyes of Bâst is a 1920 potboiler by Sax Rohmer. It’s a lurid mystery which may or may not deal with supernatural happenings. It b...
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