Richie Tankersley Cusick  (b. 1952) has authored over 30 novels, mostly of the young adult horror and thriller genre. She was nominated for...

Willard DeMille Price (1887-1983) was born in Ontario, Canada. He traveled the globe writing for newspapers, magazines, and museums, in part...

I've been on a Frank Bonham kick of late and wanted to continue reading his westerns , crime fiction, and juvenile fiction . I stumbled...

Based on a small sample size, what I've read by Frank Bonham has been exceptional. He authored for the pulps in the 1940s and 1950s, t...

In the U.S., Grosset and Dunlap published the Ken Holt series between 1949 and 1963. There were 18 total installments, with the first 17 is...

Joan Lowery Nixon (1927-2003) was a celebrated novelist of juvenile fiction and mysteries. She won four Edgars and had five additional nomin...

According to the Tom Corbett Website , Grosset & Dunlap began publishing the Tom Corbett Space Cadet juvenile novels in 1952. These we...

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...

Oklahoma native Margaret Goff Clark (1913-2003) authored over 200 short stories, 35 one-act plays, and 24 novels, including fiction and biog...

There were a number of middle school horror and thriller paperbacks in the 1980s and 1990s. I' 've reviewed a few of them here on P...

David Budbill (1940-2016) wrote ten books of poetry, eight plays, an opera, two novels, and a short story collection. Back in 1984, when I w...

Oklahoma native Bill Wallace began his storytelling career by engaging his students as an elementary school teacher. He became a popular  ju...

Kathryn Johnson wrote over 40 published novels in her career, most under pseudonyms like Nicole Davidson. She actively contributed to young-...

In 2023, I reviewed The Scream Factory , the first of a three-book series of young-adult horror novels centered in John Carpenter's Ha...

Betsy Haynes authored nearly 100 paperbacks, mostly of juvenile and young-adult fiction. Her bestselling novel, The Great Mom Swap , was pu...

I initially discovered Kathryn Johnson earlier this year when I read her young-adult thriller Winterkill , originally published by Avon in ...

Bryan from Bad Taste Books joins to discuss 90s young adult horror paperbacks, focusing on imprints like Point Horror and Avon Flare. The ch...

My monthly review of an Arthur Catherall book continues. I've become quite fond of the British author and his nautical adventure ficti...

British writer Arthur Catherall used his own name and a variety of pseudonyms to write adventure novels and stories marketed for young adul...

I've recently re-discovered the literary work of Arthur Catherall . He's quickly becoming my destination for instant gratification. ...