In high school, I read Robert R. McCammon's Swan Song . The book, which was published in 1987 as a mass market paperback by Pocket, won ...

David Morrell's The Totem was first published as a hardcover by M. Evans and Company in 1979. It debuted as a paperback in 1980 on Faw...

Robert Bloch's seminal bestseller was Psycho , a 1959 hardcover first published by Simon & Schuster. It debuted in paperback in 196...

Lawrence Treat (1903-1998) was one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America, and served as the association's president and dire...

Frank Richardson Pierce (1887-1966) wrote over 1,500 stories for pulps and glossy magazines in his 50-year career. While using his own name,...

Agnes de Chastillon (aka Dark Agnes ) only appeared in two stories completed by Robert E. Howard , “Sword Woman” and “Blades for France”. A...

“The Brotherhood of Blood”, authored by Hugh B. Cave, was first published by Weird Tales in the May 1932 issue, alongside other notable fri...

There's three characters that appear occasionally in Robert E. Howard's horror stories: Conrad , Kirowan , and O'Donnel . Some...

The ninth Deathlands paperback, Red Equinox , was published by Gold Eagle in June 1989. It was authored by Laurence James under the house ...

Beginning with the 1940's The Bride Wore Black (aka Beware the Lady ), Cornell Woolrich launched into a two-decade output of celebrate...

As I alluded to in my reviews of The Sinister House of Secret Love , this DC title began its initial run under that mischievous title. The c...

The origin of Louis L'Amour's   Chantry family appears in the 1978 novel Fair Blows the Wind . At the time of publication, the auth...

Comes the Dark Stranger was only Harry Patterson's (aka Jack Higgins ) fourth published novel, seeing release in 1962 in hardcover by J...

Dust of Death was the lead story in the October 1935 issue of Doc Savage . It was authored by Harold A. Davis, filling in for the title...

I've covered a great deal of author Jack Karney's literary work here on the blog, including his short stories, recent reprints thro...

Ross R. Olney (b. 1929), who also writes as E. Price Olney, wrote nearly 200 novels of young adult fiction, science-fiction , and non-ficti...

In this latest Paperback Warrior adventure, the hunt for vintage reads continues through the heart of Central Florida. Stops include the ecl...

W.E.D. Ross , who wrote many gothic-romance and suspense paperbacks, wrote Phantom Wedding in 1976. It was published by Popular Library un...

Conan the Wanderer was first published by Lancer Books in 1968. The painted cover was created by John Duillo, who also created the cover fo...

Keith Rosson won the Shirley Jackson Award for his story collection Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons . His stories have appeared in Nightmare ...