Hired Lover was first published in 1959 under the pseudonym Fred Martin, but the real author was king of the sleaze-crime genre, Orrie Hit...

Quarry’s Return  (2024  Hard Case Crime ) is the 17th novel by  Max Allan Collins  featuring his contract killer character - a series that h...

In this exclusive video, Eric presents a top 20 ranking of Stephen King's Night Shift stories. Each story includes a capsule review wi...

Shortly before Cormac McCarthy's death in 2023 he received a passionate letter from a French artist named Manu Larcenet. In the letter, ...

In a New York Times 2009 interview with Gregory Cowles, author John Wray professes his love for abstract music and its dream-like ability t...

The premise of Robert Harris’ most acclaimed novel, Fatherland  (1992), is an interesting thought-experiment expanded into an alternate-hist...

In this last episode of 2024, Eric takes a breathtaking leap into the high-adventure, high-octane world of Alistair MacLean . He dives into ...

British publisher Titan Books began licensing Robert E. Howard's Conan character from Heroic Signatures in 2022. The publisher has bee...

Marvin Albert (1924-1996) was a paperback pioneer whose writing career spanned over five decades, multiple genres and a handful of pseudony...

There was at least three George Smith's writing fiction that we like in the mid 20th century. The G.H. Smith I'm referring to in thi...

The Deathlands series continues to be one of my favorites of the post-apocalyptic era of men's fiction of the 1970s-1990s. I have a lo...

Robert E. Howard's Conan licensing is a moving target in the comics industry. Many associate the character with Marvel based on the s...

Jack Finney 's first three novels – 5 Against the House , The Body Snatchers , House of Numbers – all appeared in glossy magazines befo...

According to his bio, Terrance Layhew is an amateur swashbuckler, Organic Inspector, and a national man of mystery. As the host of Suit Up! ...

Colorado resident Douglas Hirt has been an accomplished author of western fiction since 1991. Later, he threw his talent for historical fic...

Eric loses what's left of his sanity when he dives into an obscure book store in central Florida. Loads of vintage paperbacks and hardba...

Into the woods we go! In this episode, Eric takes a journey through a popular niche genre of men's action-adventure novels - Deer Hunter...

Author Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) mostly concentrated on writing non-fiction, magazine articles, poetry, and social theory. Her mo...

One of Harry Harrison's most successful series titles was the Stainless Steel Rat . The first published Stainless Steel Rat novel occu...

Steve Gould Fisher (1912-1980) was a prolific author of westerns , crime-fiction, and pulp stories in the early to mid 20th century. We...