If you have read, or want to read, my review of the Savage Sword of Conan #1 , I point out the changing of the guard at Marvel in the early ...

Al Fray is Pig Latin for “Ralph” and also the pseudonym of Californian Ralph Salaway (1913-1991) who authored five stand-alone crime-fiction...

George Brown Mair (1914-?) was a Scottish medical doctor and world traveler who drew upon his vacations behind the Iron Curtain in his ten-b...

British  science-fiction and  fantasy  author Tanith Lee (1947-2015) debuted her first full-length novel, The Dragon Hoard , in 1971. She a...

If I may take some liberties here, I'm introducing my review of  Robert E. Howard's   horror  tale “Wolfshead” with a fun tidbit of ...

New Yorker Frank De Felitta (1921-2016) served in WW2 and began his writing career in the 1940s working on radio programs like The Whistler...

Charles L. Grant(1942-2006) was a popular horror , science-fiction , and fantasy  writer that began writing short-fiction in the late 1960s ...

Richard Martin Stern (1915-2001) won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel for his novel The Bright Road to Fear . His most notable novel is ...

Robert E. Howard 's “Red Shadows” story featured Puritan hero Solomon Kane . Howard had initially pitched the story to Argosy but was m...

Under the pseudonym Owen John, Welsh author (and accountant!) Leonard Owen-John (1918-1995) wrote seven espionage paperbacks featuring a Ru...

British publisher Corgi took advantage of the 1970s sword-and-sorcery fascination by publishing five books starring a female warrior named R...

According to The Herald , a newspaper in Scotland, Paul MacTyre (1924-1999) was a pseudonym for Professor Robin James Adam. He joined St And...

Western Publishing Company, a Wisconsin company, made a huge splash in the world of home entertainment in the early 20th century. The compan...

The Other Woman by Charles Burgess was a Beacon Books title from 1960 that has found new life as a reprint from Black Gat Books . It’s a f...

Ed Lacy , real name Leonard S. Zinberg, experienced success with his diverse 1957 private-eye novel, Room to Swing . The book introduced the...