Hy Steirman (1921-2009) was born in Canada and settled in New York City, where he became an editor for the publisher Street and Smith during...

As most Robert E. Howard fans know, literary agent Glenn Lord located several boxes of the author's unfinished manuscripts in 1966. In ...

Dave Zeltserman, (born: 1959) is a highly-regarded contemporary noir author from Boston who’s won a Shamus award and critical acclaim for bo...

The first issue of the short-lived Fantasy Magazine was published in February, 1953. It's a notable issue  due to the inclusion of a pr...

"Riders of the Dawn" originally appeared as a short story in Giant Western's June, 1951 issue. L'Amour expanded the stor...

The good people at Stark House Press have blessed us with another compilation of hardboiled crime stories from the pages of Manhunt Magazin...

Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian short story “The God in the Bowl” wasn't published in the author's lifetime. It was rej...

The Stalkers , which sounds like a Matt Helm title, is a western paperback by Philip Ketchum , originally published as a paperback by Berk...

Stephen King’s novella “The Gingerbread Girl” first appeared in the July 2007 issue of Esquire Magazine . It was later compiled into King’s...

Robert E. Howard scholars typically cite “The Tower of the Elephant” as the best representation of Conan the Cimmerian literature. The sto...

Louis L'Amour's fourteenth novel was The Burning Hills . It was published in 1956, sandwiched between the end of the innocence nove...

The book is called Motel Trap , with a blurb suggesting its contents are prostitutes, pimps, and sex  elements. But, the whole “motel” thin...

After enjoying Clair Huffaker's (1926-1990) paperback western Seven Ways from Sundown , I was anxious to read another of his books. My...

The Conan the Cimmerian short story “Rogues in the House” first appeared in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in January, 1934. That same yea...

Jay Dratler (1911-1968) was a graduate of University of North Carolina and an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He also wrote six novels, ...

Peter McMurtin authored the three-book series The Assassin for Dell in 1973. Double-dipping into the cookie jar, the author was also emplo...

Don Pendleton's The Executioner storms into the American Northeast with its 12th installment, Boston Blitz . After Bolan's flourish...

Philip Wylie (1902-1971) was a prolific author of the pulp era whose fiction inspired the creation of the characters Superman and Doc Sava...

I've been buying a lot of F.M. Parker westerns lately He's an author that seems to have a fairly strong following and consecutively ...

John Le Carre’s real name was David John Moore Cornwell (1931-2020), and he is regarded as one of the fathers of British espionage fiction....