The Zanthodon series was created by science-fiction and fantasy author Lin Carter . Inspired by “hollow Earth” concepts by Edgar Rice Bur...

Many of Robert E. Howard's stories weren't published during his lifetime. His Conan the Cimmerian original short “The Vale of Lost...

Nedra Tyre (1912-1990), who was born in Offerman, Georgia, received her B.A. from Atlanta's Emory University and her M.A. from Richmond ...

In 1971, Belmont/Unibook published a book with a rather odd title, Steve Douglas of Sleepycat Ranch . I don't know who the author is, bu...

Do you remember the Don Pendleton series The Executioner ? Of course you do, don't be ridiculous. Even a perfect stranger completely al...

Prolific science-fiction and fantasy author Poul Anderson (1926-2001) wrote one Conan novel, 1980's Conan the Rebel . It was original...

The Mission Impossible TV show aired for 171 episodes starting in 1966 and spawned four paperback tie-in novels and two juvenile ones. Th...

Michael Moorcock is a highly respected and admired science-fiction and fantasy author. His Elric Saga influenced dozens of genre authors...

Right off the bat, let me just say I review vintage paperbacks. I love paperbacks. Bestsellers, Lowsellers, Nosellers, it makes no differenc...

Along with “The Tower of the Elephant” and “The Frost-Giant's Daughter”, “Queen of the Black Coast” is one of the most praised Robert E...

Author Peter McCurtin launched the Soldier of Fortune series of men's action-adventure novels in the 1970s starring Jim Rainey, a Viet...

Many authors have shied away from their early work in the sleaze/soft-core paperback market, but science-fiction royalty Robert Silverberg ...

In the same year that he created and authored Tarzan of the Apes , Edgar Rice Burroughs also introduced readers to John Carter of Mars , an...

“The Lair of the Ice Worm” was authored by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter . It was first published in Conan of Cimmeria , a 1969 omnibus...

Peter Twist was a pseudonym employed by a U.S. Air Force veteran and Civil Engineer named Charles Peter Hewett (1922-1980) for a single nove...

The fiery redheaded barbarian, created by Roy Thomas Jr. and Barry Windsor Smith, first appeared in Marvel Comics' Conan the Barbarian #...

We continue to make our way through horror author Ronald Malfi's bibliography, including his prior publications as well as brand new on...

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...