Sarah Pinkster is a contemporary fantasy and science-fiction author currently living in Baltimore. In 2020, Tor Books released her 34-page...

The Conan paperback published by Lancer in 1967 is a treasure trove of excellent short stories starring Robert E. Howard's brawny hero...

Edward S. Aarons struck gold in 1955 with the first of his successful espionage series starring CIA operative Sam Durell . This is consider...

Strange Tales #7 was published in January, 1933 and included stories by Clark Ashton Smith, Henry Whitehead, and Robert E. Howard . One of ...

Manfred Bennington Lee and his cousin Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky used the professional names of Frederic Dannay and Daniel Nathan to write cr...

Robert E. Howard's “Iron Shadows in the Moon”, starring Conan the Cimmerian , was published in Weird Tales in April, 1934. The story wa...

There have been countless reprints of stories starring Dashiell Hammett’s iconic and groundbreaking hardboiled private detective, The Conti...

I really enjoyed the Tarzan debut, Tarzan of the Apes , authored by Edgar Rice Burroughs . It was first published in 1912 in The All-Story ...

Lawrence Block's fifth Matthew Scudder novel, Eight Million Ways to Die (1982), features the alcoholic detective contending with a co...

Robert E. Howard's last sole contribution to his Conan the Cimmerian character was the novella “Red Nails”. It was published posthumou...

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1889-1955) authored 25 novels between 1920 and 1953. In addition, she wrote over 200 short stories for magazines a...

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was a military veteran, detective, screenwriter, author, and president of the Civil Rights Congress. He...

Jonathan Craig (Real Name: Frank E. Smith, 1919-1984) was a Florida resident who socialized with Harry Whittington and Gil Brewer as he w...

If you look online for the definition for “convoluted”, it should just provide a link to Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp's “Ha...

Let's talk about Deathlands . So far, the series has been solid except for the mediocre fourth installment, Crater Lake . I can chalk th...

Jack Higgins' (Harry Patterson) The Last Place God Made was originally published in 1971 as a hardcover by Collins. It was published i...

Paperback Library published 33 Dark Shadows novels from 1966 through 1972. These gothic paperbacks were based on the American soap opera th...

“A Witch Shall Be Born” was published in the December, 1934 issue of Weird Tales . This Conan story, authored by Robert E. Howard , was wri...

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) authored crime-fiction, fantasy , and science-fiction from 1938 through 1965. He won an Edgar award for his firs...

Like a lot of working authors of the paperback original era, Charles Runyon (1928-2015) supplemented his income as a mystery and science-fi...