Norman Daniels (Norman Arthur Danberg, 1905-1995) was a prolific author that experienced tremendous success in the pulp market before crea...

Way back in 2019 I read a novel by British writer  Arthur Catherall  titled  The Strange Intruder . I enjoyed the book immensely and have ke...

Eric returns to the same store after a successful previous shopping trip, this time picking up more spy fiction, WWII novels, young-adult bo...

Eric visits a two-story store filled with comics, vintage hardcovers, CDs, magazines, and old maps. He shares highlights from his big shoppi...

In this episode, Eric embarks on a globe-trotting nautical adventure with a spotlight on Arthur Catherall, exploring his World War II-era se...

In this episode, Eric explores the life and career of Lou Cameron , a comic book artist who became a prolific paperback writer and pioneer i...

David Agranoff is a San Diego author, screenwriter, blogger, podcast host, and quite possibly the strongest advocate for Philip K. Dick'...

For my money, the best WW2 men’s action-adventure series was The Sergeant by Len Levinson , writing as Gordon Davis. The series follows U....

It's a mission to unearth vintage paperbacks from the battlefields of history! We're launching a Book Blitz to uncover the most thri...

The premise of Robert Harris’ most acclaimed novel, Fatherland  (1992), is an interesting thought-experiment expanded into an alternate-hist...

Jack Finney 's first three novels – 5 Against the House , The Body Snatchers , House of Numbers – all appeared in glossy magazines befo...

According to his obituary in The Washington Post, author Franklin M. Davis Jr. (1918-1981) served with U.S. armored forces in Europe during ...

Henry “Harry” Patterson (1929-2022) became a household name using the pseudonym of Jack Higgins . The British author was prolific from 1959 ...

  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...

Robert Wright Campbell (1927–2000) was a television writer who crafted teleplays for many shows in the 1950s and 1960s, including Maverick ...

James A. Michener (1907-1997) was a bestselling author who never knew the identity of his biological parents, or when and where he was born....

Stephen Mertz cut his teeth writing hard-nosed action-adventure fiction set in Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan literary universe. In the 1...

When I was a kid, a film my father seemed to always have on was The Devil's Brigade . It was originally released in 1968, but played con...

Jack Higgins (real name Harry Patterson, 1929-2022) was just getting his feet wet as an author when Seven Pillars to Hell was published. I...

Richard Burton Matheson (1926-2013) was a multi-genre author best known for his horror and science-fiction works. In 1944, Matheson was 1...