Carl Jacobi (1908-1997) authored short stories for the pulps like Doc Savage , Weird Tales , Thrilling Wonder Stories , and Top-Notch . Man...

In 1970, Knoxville, TN native Karl Edward Wagner authored a short novel titled Darkness Weaves with Many Shades . It was published by Powell...

Jungle Stories was published quarterly by Fiction House, a pulp division of Glen-Kel Publishing, from 1938 to 1954 – 58 total issues. Thes...

In 1959, while teaching at James Graham College, thirty-year old British military veteran Harry Patterson (aka Jack Higgins ) began writing...

Frederick Nebel (1903-1967) was second only to Erle Stanley Gardner in total number of stories published in Black Mask . The New York nativ...

According to the  Cutting Edge Books author page, Robert Steelman (1914-1994) worked for the Army as a civil electronics technician from 19...

Author Simon Finch was born in Rio de Janeiro, where his father served in the Diplomatic Corps. Finch was educated abroad before attending u...

Hasbro began production of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toys in 1982 and licensed the line to Marvel Comics for an ongoing series. In...

One of Robert E. Howard's most iconic characters, along with Bran Mak Morn , Conan , and Kull , is Solomon Kane . The character's f...

Joanne Fluke, John Fischer, Gina Jackson, Kathryn Kirkwood, and R.J. Fisher are all pseudonyms of Minnesota author Joanne Fischmann Gibson (...

Cleve Adams (1885-1949) was a hardboiled crime-fiction author for the pulp magazines whose premature death robbed him from seeing his work...

Robert Martin (1908-1976) wrote a fair amount of crime and mystery paperbacks under his own name as well as the pseudonym Lee Roberts. Littl...

We've proven time and again that nothing is really off the coffee table here at Paperback Warrior in terms of books. We've covered g...

  John Rester Zodrow was a screenwriter of made-for-TV movies in the 1970s and 1980s who also authored four novels, including a   WW2   thri...

The genre “splatter western” came to fruition when Patrick C. Harrison III of Death's Head Press made it a company goal to release a ser...

Conventional wisdom is that Jory Sherman (1932-2014) was the man behind the Robert Eagle pen name for the paperback Bounty Man Kildoon. The ...

James Atlee Philips (1915-1991) authored 22 novels in the Joe Gall espionage adventure series between 1963 and 1976 under the name Philip ...

As I cited in prior genre reviews here at Paperback Warrior, the 1970s was a fertile time for sword-and-sorcery to dominate pop-culture. T...

Jon Messmann (1920-2004) created the popular Trailsman adult western series and the superior, but less successful, Canyon O’Grady series...