Robert Newton Peck (1928-2020), a Vermont native, served in the U.S. Army's 88th Infantry Division from 1945 to 1947. He attended Cornel...

Writer Victor LaValle has earned multiple literary awards, including Shirley Jackson ( Big Machine , The Ballad of Black Tom ), Bram Stoker ...

We love Clifton Adams around these parts, so I'm always browsing through book stores, online databases, and reprint houses to learn mor...

Nine years before his retirement, Jon Messmann ( Revenger , Nick Carter: Killmaster ) authored a stand-alone western titled The Last Snow ...

Heller with a Gun was just Louis L'Amour's  11th novel. It was originally published in April 1955 by Fawcett Gold Medal (#478) wit...

Louis L'Amour's The Empty Land was first published in paperback by Bantam in 1969, then again in 1971 and 1995. The book was publis...

Legendary writer John Shirley blasts into Paperback Warrior to talk crime, cyberpunk, and chaos. From his hard-boiled new novel The Silver R...

This podcast episode features William R. Cox, a prolific author of over 1,000 pulp stories known for his crime-fiction, sports, and western ...

Grover C. Gulick (1916-2013), known as Bill Gulick, wrote a ton of western stories in the pulp magazines in the 1940s and 1950s. His caree...

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...

Peter McCurtin’s Carmody series was a knockoff of the Lassiter western series written by several authors, including McCurtin, under the ...

The First Fast Draw , give or take a book, was Louis L'Amour's 20th career full-length. The novel was first published by Bantam in ...

In this exclusive video, Eric sits down with Jack Hatfield, the direct descendant of "Devil Anse" Hatfield, one of the most iconic...

Is there more than just country music in Music City? Nashville, TN will never be the same when Eric hits an antique mall, Half Price Books, ...

It's another investigative Paperback Warrior episode! In this feature, Eric delves into the murky life and career of crime-fiction, scie...

In this episode, Eric heads out west to examine the career of Bill Gulick, a prolific western writer that contributed to the pulp western, a...

Robert E. Howard's weird fiction story “Black Hound of Death” first appeared in the November 1936 issue of Weird Tales . It was also in...

Colorado resident Douglas Hirt has been an accomplished author of western fiction since 1991. Later, he threw his talent for historical fic...

According to his bio, Jarret Keene is an assistant professor in the Department of English at UNLV where he teaches American literature and t...

The August, 1936 issue of Argosy featured a horror western short-story titled “The Dead Remember”. The author was Robert E. Howard , a ve...