Ania Ahlborn is a contemporary horror fiction author born in Poland who emigrated to the United States where she earned an English degree f...

Robert Sidney Bowen (1900-1977) was a World War One aviator who became a pulp writer from the 1930s into the 1950s. In 1946 and 1947, he wr...

“Tip on a Dead Jockey” is the 40-page title story of a paperback compilation of Shaw’s short fiction from 1957. The protagonist is Lloyd Bar...

Many titles by Hammond Innes posses a nautical theme. From seafaring adventures like The Wreck of Mary Deare to oceanic oil rig thrillers ...

Author David Wade used the pseudonym of Alan Bomack as an anagram of the fictional hero Mack Bolan . As Bomack, David Wade authored  four ti...

In 1957, Crest Books - a sister imprint to Fawcett Gold Medal - published a paperback called Walk With Evil by Daytona’s own Robert Wilder ...

According to his bio, Ryan Lockwood holds degrees in technical journalism, environmental science, and has been employed as a biological rese...

As early as the 1800s, stories about the railroad industry have been a popular staple in pop culture. Those in need of an escape from everyd...

Florence Hurd (1919-2008) was born in Chicago and graduated from the University of Chicago. According to her obituary, she moved to San Dieg...

Before Jack Higgins (real name: Harry Patterson, born 1929) became a massive bestselling author of thick, high-adventure novels, he wrote e...

Ted Allbeury (1917-2005) served as a U.K. Intel officer from 1940 to 1947. During WW2 , he infiltrated Nazi Germany via parachute and later ...

Albert Conroy was one of the cadre of pseudonyms employed by Philadelphia native Marvin H. Albert (1924-1996) to flood the market with his ...

Clifton Adams was a wine connoisseur that loved jazz music and Oklahoma history. He also wrote a bunch of violent, gritty novels about hero...

Sara Gran is a contemporary crime fiction author and creator of the acclaimed Claire DeWitt private eye series. However, at the beginning o...

The 87th Precinct series of police procedural mysteries were the crowning achievement of author Ed McBain (1926-2005, birth name: Salvator...

Using the pseudonym K.R. Dwyer, future horror-fiction superstar Dean Koontz wrote his first suspense novel,  Chase (1971), when he was 25 y...

James Hadley Chase was a popular pseudonym of U.K. Author Rene Raymond (1906-1985) for over 90 thrillers. You Find Him - I’ll Fix Him was ...

Before he became one of the bestselling authors on Earth, Michael Crichton (1942-2008) was a medical student writing short paperback thrille...

Walter Wager (1924-2004) was an American author of espionage , crime, and adventure fiction. He penned the books inspiring the movies Telefo...

David Morrell's First Blood (1972) is probably one of the biggest influences on men's action-adventure literature behind Don Pendl...