Vintage Pop Fictions

Michael Crichton’s novel Congo was published in 1980. Like so many of his books it’s basically a techno-thriller. It has a contemporary set...

The Device is a 1962 Bryan Edgar Wallace spy thriller. Bryan Edgar Wallace was the son of Edgar Wallace and was a moderately successful thr...

Witch Queen of Lochlann by George Henry Smith was published in 1969. It’s an occult thriller that becomes a sword-and-sorcery adventure. Ge...

Mickey Spillane’s The Erection Set was published in 1972. It’s one of his non-Mike Hammer crime thrillers. It certainly has a memorable pro...

Fritz Leiber’s novel The Big Time was published in 1958. It’s the beginning of his Change War series which comprises this novel and and sev...

Passport to Oblivion , published in 1964, is the first of James Leasor’s Dr Jason Love spy thrillers. James Leasor (1923-2007) was a reasona...

Fantasmagoriana is the collection of ghost stories that Lord Byron and his pals were reading on that fateful night in 1816 at the Villa Dio...