L. Sprague de Camp collaborated with Lin Carter and Bjorn Nybert to author several Conan stories. However, he only attempted one solo Co...

It has taken me about six years to revisit Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994). My last experience with him, 1970s Monster From Out of Time , was...

Oklahoma native Margaret Goff Clark (1913-2003) authored over 200 short stories, 35 one-act plays, and 24 novels, including fiction and biog...

Freida McFadden (a pseudonym whose real name is undisclosed) is one of the most prolific thriller writers working today. A practicing physi...

In terms of the early Nick Carter: Killmaster novels, I enjoyed the debut, Run, Spy, Run , and the series's third installment, Checkmat...

In this episode, I'm talking with Nick from The Book Graveyard and Chris from Liminal Spaces about a 1969 paperback titled To the Dark...

Ben Winters (b. 1976) is a New York Times bestselling author who won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his 2012 novel T...

There were a number of middle school horror and thriller paperbacks in the 1980s and 1990s. I' 've reviewed a few of them here on P...

Ron Faust (1936-2011) worked in the newspaper industry in Key West, Colorado Springs, and San Diego. He elected to play professional basebal...

S. Craig Zahler is a terrific independent screenwriter and an accomplished novelist. His 2014 violent crime novel, Mean Business on North G...

Henry James (1843-1916) authored a number of celebrated works, like The Wings of the Dove , The Golden Bowl , and The Ambassadors . However,...

Garth Nix was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was a sales rep and publicist before becoming a senior editor at HarperCollins. He ...

Using his own name, and pseudonyms like Russell Storm, John S. Browning, and H.H. Harmon, Robert Moore Williams (1907-1977) authored science...

Keri Beevis is an internationally bestselling author who resides in Norfolk, England. She wrote her first novel at the age of twenty and won...

It was Chet Cunningham's turn to write the next Penetrator novel, Hijacking Manhattan , using the house name Lionel Derrick. In this v...

I've covered G.I. Joe on a couple of different occasions here at PW, including the comics and the recent short story collection. The b...

According to romancewiki , Alice Brennan (1913-1973) was a St. Louis native who lived in Michigan. She was employed as a dancer, hat-check g...

Perhaps the father of science-fiction , H.G. Wells , is best known for his celebrated classic War of the Worlds . The book was written betwe...

Taylor Adams is an American thriller writer from Washington state who built his reputation on fast-paced, high-concept suspense novels that ...

The Gardner Francis Fox Library , established in 2018 by Kurt Brugel, has created a remarkable resource to explore the author's life and...