Robert E. Howard created a fictional character named Kirby O' Donnell in the 1930s. O' Donnell was a treasure hunter from the U.S....

Pieces of Modesty is a collection of six Modesty Blaise short stories by Peter O’Donnell written in the 1960s and compiled into one paper...

Like a lot of the critically praised books we review here at Paperback Warrior, Elric of Melnibone can lead anyone down their own rabbit ho...

To date, Jon Bassoff has authored nine novels of dark crime-fiction and nightmarish horror . I read his debut novel, Corrosion , originally...

“The Frost-Giant's Daughter” was written by Robert E. Howard in the early 1930s. The story, featuring Conan the Cimmerian , was origina...

Up until 1940, Cornell Woolrich was mostly writing shorter works about the rich and privileged, like Times Square (1929) and Children of t...

Florida resident Bob McKnight authored 11 short novels published as Ace Doubles between 1957 and 1963. He also wrote a bunch of non-fiction ...

James M. Cain hit a homerun with his femme fatale crime-fiction novel The Postman Always Rings Twice . The bestselling novel was adapted to...

The December, 1955 Fantastic Universe issue featured an L. Sprague de Camp Conan story called “Conan, Man of Destiny”. This story was tak...

American author Ira Levin (1929-2007) struck gold in 1967 with his second novel, Rosemary’s Baby , selling four-million copies and counting....

Jonathan Valin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1947. He graduated from University of Chicago, and now works for Fi , a music criticism magaz...

Sarah Pinkster is a contemporary fantasy and science-fiction author currently living in Baltimore. In 2020, Tor Books released her 34-page...

The Conan paperback published by Lancer in 1967 is a treasure trove of excellent short stories starring Robert E. Howard's brawny hero...

Edward S. Aarons struck gold in 1955 with the first of his successful espionage series starring CIA operative Sam Durell . This is consider...

Strange Tales #7 was published in January, 1933 and included stories by Clark Ashton Smith, Henry Whitehead, and Robert E. Howard . One of ...

Manfred Bennington Lee and his cousin Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky used the professional names of Frederic Dannay and Daniel Nathan to write cr...

Robert E. Howard's “Iron Shadows in the Moon”, starring Conan the Cimmerian , was published in Weird Tales in April, 1934. The story wa...

There have been countless reprints of stories starring Dashiell Hammett’s iconic and groundbreaking hardboiled private detective, The Conti...

I really enjoyed the Tarzan debut, Tarzan of the Apes , authored by Edgar Rice Burroughs . It was first published in 1912 in The All-Story ...

Lawrence Block's fifth Matthew Scudder novel, Eight Million Ways to Die (1982), features the alcoholic detective contending with a co...