This fourth installment in Ace's Red Sonja paperback series places the fiery-haired swordswoman in the city of Shadizar, the sister cit...

Jack Karney (1911-????) was an employee of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office who wrote 11 paperback crime novels in his day, includi...

On page 196 of the 1963 Ballantine paperback of The Son of Tarzan , two characters discuss and recap the major plot points of the novel. Not...

Many of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian short-stories were out of print for decades, or had steep auction house pricing that pr...

Robert Wright Campbell (1927–2000) was a television writer who crafted teleplays for many shows in the 1950s and 1960s, including Maverick ...

Ben Haas (1926-1977) sold his first story to the pulps when he was 18 years of age. After serving as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army, and work...

Robert Silverberg is one of the most popular science-fiction authors of all time. He has won numerous honors for his literary work, includ...

In the late 1960s, the publishing industry was abuzz with the reprinting of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. Most of these had been m...

There are many different names given to the Gor series of sword and planet adventures. Some refer to it as The Chronicles of Counter-Earth...

Celebrated jazz musician Charles Boeckman (1920-2015) authored crime-fiction novels, westerns , and short stories for the pulps and digest...

New York Times bestselling author   Lee Goldberg  began his career as a journalist, reporting for national publications, including the Los ...

Warren Publishing experienced success with one of their flagship comic magazines, Creepy . The black and white magazine escaped the Comic Co...

Jack Sheridan was a novelist of the early 1950s whose work has been rediscovered thanks to new editions from Cutting Edge Books . This inclu...

Philadelphia crime-noir author David Goodis died on January 7, 1967 at age 49 from brain trauma after being beaten in a robbery. That same ...

The fifth Steve Bentley novel is Murder on Her Mind , originally published by Dell in 1960. The novel, authored by Howard Hunt using a pse...

Last month, I reviewed Mignon G. Eberhart's novel House of Storm (1949) and enjoyed it enough to pursue another of her 59 novels. Life ...

There are a hundred or more Conan clones saturating pop-culture, including fiction, comics, movies, and games. These sword-and-sorcery sta...