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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Silver Canyon

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"Riders of the Dawn" originally appeared as a short story in Giant Western's June, 1951 issue. L'Amour expanded the stor...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Best of Manhunt: Volume 3

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The good people at Stark House Press have blessed us with another compilation of hardboiled crime stories from the pages of Manhunt Magazin...
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Sunday, November 27, 2022

Conan - The God in the Bowl

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Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian short story “The God in the Bowl” wasn't published in the author's lifetime. It was rej...
Friday, November 25, 2022

The Stalkers

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The Stalkers , which sounds like a Matt Helm title, is a western paperback by Philip Ketchum , originally published as a paperback by Berk...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Gingerbread Girl

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Stephen King’s novella “The Gingerbread Girl” first appeared in the July 2007 issue of Esquire Magazine . It was later compiled into King’s...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Conan - The Tower of the Elephant

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Robert E. Howard scholars typically cite “The Tower of the Elephant” as the best representation of Conan the Cimmerian literature. The sto...
Monday, November 21, 2022

The Burning Hills

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Louis L'Amour's fourteenth novel was The Burning Hills . It was published in 1956, sandwiched between the end of the innocence nove...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Motel Trap

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The book is called Motel Trap , with a blurb suggesting its contents are prostitutes, pimps, and sex  elements. But, the whole “motel” thin...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Posse from Hell

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After enjoying Clair Huffaker's (1926-1990) paperback western Seven Ways from Sundown , I was anxious to read another of his books. My...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Conan - Rogues in the House

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The Conan the Cimmerian short story “Rogues in the House” first appeared in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in January, 1934. That same yea...
Monday, November 14, 2022

The Pitfall

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Jay Dratler (1911-1968) was a graduate of University of North Carolina and an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He also wrote six novels, ...
Friday, November 11, 2022

The Assassin #01 - Manhattan Massacre

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Peter McMurtin authored the three-book series The Assassin for Dell in 1973. Double-dipping into the cookie jar, the author was also emplo...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

The Executioner #12 - Boston Blitz

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Don Pendleton's The Executioner storms into the American Northeast with its 12th installment, Boston Blitz . After Bolan's flourish...
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Monday, November 7, 2022

The Smuggled Atom Bomb

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Philip Wylie (1902-1971) was a prolific author of the pulp era whose fiction inspired the creation of the characters Superman and Doc Sava...
Friday, November 4, 2022

The Searcher

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I've been buying a lot of F.M. Parker westerns lately He's an author that seems to have a fairly strong following and consecutively ...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

George Smiley #01 - Call for the Dead

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John Le Carre’s real name was David John Moore Cornwell (1931-2020), and he is regarded as one of the fathers of British espionage fiction....
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Monday, October 31, 2022

Left to You

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Independent American horror author Daniel Volpe created a critical hit in 2021 with his self-published novel, Left to You . The paperback c...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Zorro: Zorro's Pacific Odyssey #01

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Johnston McCulley's Zorro character first appeared in “The Curse of Capistrano” (aka “The Mark of Zorro”) , a five-part serial that de...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Coldiron #02 - Shadow of the Wolf

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Shadow of the Wolf is the second installment in the Coldiron western series authored by F.M. Parker. It was originally published in 1985,...
Monday, October 24, 2022

The Book of the Phantom Bullet

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Dan Turner: Hollywood Detective was the popular creation of Robert Leslie Bellem (1902-1968) for many of the 3000+ (not a typo) stories and...
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