According to his bio, William E. Vance (1911-1986) taught creative writing and worked for the Federal Aviation Administration in Utah. The a...

The Edge series by George Gilman ( Terry Harknett , 1936-2019) promises to be “The Most Violent Westerns in Print,” but the fourth installm...

Washington State native Clayton Fox (1920-2008) wrote for the pulp   Westerns  and then transitioned into paperback original novels. He even...

Earl Drake , the successful action hero created by Dan J. Marlowe (1917-1986) began his literary life as a violent crook in 1962. Over time...

Patrick A. Davis is a U.S. Air Force veteran and former commercial airline pilot who began writing military-based conspiracy thrillers in 19...

Jack M. Bickham (1930-1997) wrote predominantly westerns during his career while also teaching writing at the University of Oklahoma. Hangm...

According to his obituary in The Washington Post, author Franklin M. Davis Jr. (1918-1981) served with U.S. armored forces in Europe during ...

In the 1960s, Lawrence Block wrote many, many sleazy sex paperbacks under a variety of pseudonyms. Most were pretty mediocre, but some wer...

Henry “Harry” Patterson (1929-2022) became a household name using the pseudonym of Jack Higgins . The British author was prolific from 1959 ...

Joan Aiken (1924-2994) was the daughter of poet Conrad Aiken and the sister of author Jane Aiken Hodge. After working for the United Nations...

The Chip Harrison series by Lawrence Block is a very interesting anomaly in his career. The first two books are first-person adolescent ...

The Winter 1939-1940 issue of Jungle Stories featured the fourth Ki-Gor story, “Ki-Gor and the Secret Legions of Simba”. If you aren't...

For a guy with over 90 novels to his name, British author of American thrillers James Hadley Chase (real name: Rene Raymond, 1906-1985) had...

We continue our examination of the Jungle Stories pulp published by Fiction House from 1938 to 1954. The reason is simple – the fantastic ...

In researching Scottish author David Sodergren, a review blurb I read described his fiction as “modern horror for vintage fans”. That sort ...

Author Frank G. Slaughter (1908-2001) concentrated his writing efforts on medical-suspense novels and historical fiction. As C.V. Terry, Sla...

Robert E. Howard's Conan short “The Devil in Iron” first appeared in the August 1934 issue of Weird Tales . It was later reprinted in ...

Texas-born Stephen Graham Jones (b. 1972) contributes to horror , crime, and science-fiction genres. He has earned critical praise for his ...

In 1916, the November and December issues of   All-Story Cavalier Weekly   featured the fifth   Tarzan   serial,   Tarzan and the Jewels of ...

According to trusty Wikipedia, Norman Partridge (b. 1958) has authored two detective novels starring a retired boxer named Jack Baddalach . ...