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...

Robert E. Howard's last sole contribution to his Conan the Cimmerian character was the novella “Red Nails”. It was published posthumou...

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1889-1955) authored 25 novels between 1920 and 1953. In addition, she wrote over 200 short stories for magazines a...

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was a military veteran, detective, screenwriter, author, and president of the Civil Rights Congress. He...

Jonathan Craig (Real Name: Frank E. Smith, 1919-1984) was a Florida resident who socialized with Harry Whittington and Gil Brewer as he w...

If you look online for the definition for “convoluted”, it should just provide a link to Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp's “Ha...

Let's talk about Deathlands . So far, the series has been solid except for the mediocre fourth installment, Crater Lake . I can chalk th...

Jack Higgins' (Harry Patterson) The Last Place God Made was originally published in 1971 as a hardcover by Collins. It was published i...

Paperback Library published 33 Dark Shadows novels from 1966 through 1972. These gothic paperbacks were based on the American soap opera th...

“A Witch Shall Be Born” was published in the December, 1934 issue of Weird Tales . This Conan story, authored by Robert E. Howard , was wri...

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) authored crime-fiction, fantasy , and science-fiction from 1938 through 1965. He won an Edgar award for his firs...

Like a lot of working authors of the paperback original era, Charles Runyon (1928-2015) supplemented his income as a mystery and science-fi...

Paperback Warrior attempts to dive into the dusty, neglected shelves of used book stores and flea markets to bring attention to books that w...

The January, 1933 issue of Weird Tales featured the Robert E. Howard story “The Scarlet Citadel”. It was later included in the King Conan ...

Eric C. Higgs is a Southern California writer who has only published three novels in his career, including The Happy Man , a 1985 Paperjacks...

Paperback Warrior generally offers two types of reviews. The first, and most common, is the experienced examination of a novel or a story ba...

Armless O’Neil is a hardboiled adventurer who starred in 12 pulp novellas by Dan Cushman (1909-2001) between 1945 and 1953. The stories ha...