Roy Huggins (1914-2002) wrote and produced a number of popular television shows like Maverick , The Fugitive , 77 Sunset Strip , and The Roc...

Orrie Hitt (1916-1975) was a family man living in upstate New York barely making a living while he cranked out 150 sleaze paperbacks betwee...

Crime-fiction author Dan J. Marlowe's best literary work was the period between 1959's Doorway to Death and 1969's One Endless...

Reading military non-fiction is somewhat challenging for me. The fact is that these are real-life, harrowing accounts of action, adventure, ...

The Wyatt series by Harry Disher was an Australian pastiche of Richard Stark’s Parker novels. The series has nine installments and began w...

In my I Watched Them Eat Me Alive review, I reminisced about being a kid and watching wacky horror movies that starred nature as the dastar...

I enjoyed The Troublemaker , a 1972 mystery by author Jean Potts (1910-1999). It was packaged as a twofer in 2022 by Stark House Press wit...

Most time travel stories concern going into the past and the ramifications of altering linear time - always a fun thought experiment. In 196...

Wisconsin native Bernice Carey (1910-1990) authored poems, short stories, and book reviews in newspapers and literary magazines before becom...

As a longtime fan of science-fiction , fantasy , and the works of Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs , Lin Carter (1930-1988) autho...

Robert Silverberg  said that Donald A. Wollheim (1914-1990) was one of the most significant figures in 20th century American science-fiction...

According to the internet, New York native Irving Greenfield was a youthful runaway, a Korean War veteran, a merchant seaman, professor, and...

Jon Messmann authored comic books before moving into men's action-adventure paperbacks in the late 1960s. He contributed installments t...

T exas author Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) is considered the grandfather of the sword-and-sorcery genre. His most popular and influential ...

Norman Firth (1920-1949), known as the “Prince of Pulp Pedlars”, was a British author that contributed to small publishers like Bear Hudson,...

Michael Moorcock is a British science-fiction and fantasy author that began writing novels and stories in the late 1950s. His literary wor...

Tom McNab was born in Glasgow in 1933 where he held the Scottish national triple jump record. He coached the British Olympic bobsled team at...

A Woman on the Place was a 1956 Ace paperback by Florida’s “King of Paperbacks” Harry Whittington (1915-1989). The book has been reprinted...

William Sleator (1945-2011) was a Harvard graduate that authored science-fiction and young adult novels from 1970 through 2011. I wasn...

Between 1982 and 1986, Stephen Mertz authored a number of gritty Mack Bolan installments that are considered some of the best of the serie...