Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951) broke onto the scene in 1981 with a full-length serial killer police procedural called Act of Love . The aptly-ti...

The Halloween film franchise has been going strong for nearly a half-century. Who knew that a babysitter killer could spark so much interes...

Richard Chizmar is a horror and suspense novelist who was plucked out of near-obscurity to collaborate with Stephen King on a couple of we...

Boys in the Valley is a terrifying 2023 horror novel by Philip Fracassi about a Catholic boy’s orphanage in 1905 Pennsylvania where an inc...

Warren Publishing experienced market success in the 1960s and 1970s with their take on the old EC black-and-white horror theme. At magazine ...

The Friday the 13th film franchise isn't a stranger to media tie-in fiction. Nicholas Valentin Yermakov, using the name Simon Hawke, a...

A Woman Possessed was a 1961 paperback by Harry Whittington , writing as Whit Harrison. The book is a crime noir paperback packaged as a sl...

“The Sleeping City” was a novella that originally appeared in the Fall, 1952 issue of Thrilling Detective . It was authored by Mary Hauenste...

Marty Holland was born Mary Hauenstein in 1919. She began her writing career by authoring short stories for the pulps . Her debut full-lengt...

Along with series titles like Stainless Steel Rat and Bill, the Galactic Hero , Harry Harrison wrote a number of science-fiction and fant...

Harry Harrison was a popular science-fiction author that created a number of memorable series titles and characters. His most popular work...

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...