Robert E. Howard scholars typically cite “The Tower of the Elephant” as the best representation of Conan the Cimmerian literature. The sto...

Louis L'Amour's fourteenth novel was The Burning Hills . It was published in 1956, sandwiched between the end of the innocence nove...

The book is called Motel Trap , with a blurb suggesting its contents are prostitutes, pimps, and sex  elements. But, the whole “motel” thin...

After enjoying Clair Huffaker's (1926-1990) paperback western Seven Ways from Sundown , I was anxious to read another of his books. My...

The Conan the Cimmerian short story “Rogues in the House” first appeared in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in January, 1934. That same yea...

Jay Dratler (1911-1968) was a graduate of University of North Carolina and an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He also wrote six novels, ...

Peter McMurtin authored the three-book series The Assassin for Dell in 1973. Double-dipping into the cookie jar, the author was also emplo...

Don Pendleton's The Executioner storms into the American Northeast with its 12th installment, Boston Blitz . After Bolan's flourish...

Philip Wylie (1902-1971) was a prolific author of the pulp era whose fiction inspired the creation of the characters Superman and Doc Sava...

I've been buying a lot of F.M. Parker westerns lately He's an author that seems to have a fairly strong following and consecutively ...

John Le Carre’s real name was David John Moore Cornwell (1931-2020), and he is regarded as one of the fathers of British espionage fiction....

Independent American horror author Daniel Volpe created a critical hit in 2021 with his self-published novel, Left to You . The paperback c...

Johnston McCulley's Zorro character first appeared in “The Curse of Capistrano” (aka “The Mark of Zorro”) , a five-part serial that de...

Shadow of the Wolf is the second installment in the Coldiron western series authored by F.M. Parker. It was originally published in 1985,...

Dan Turner: Hollywood Detective was the popular creation of Robert Leslie Bellem (1902-1968) for many of the 3000+ (not a typo) stories and...

Bruno Fischer (1908-1992) was another popular author of the paperback original era who honed his craft with short fiction in the pulp magaz...

F.M. Parker (Fearl Parker) worked in factories as a laborer, herded sheep, served as a bellhop, served in the Navy and is a Korean War vet. ...

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was a pulp fiction pioneer who authored enduring titles, including The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon . For...

Before he was crime-fiction royalty, John D. MacDonald was a prolific, multi-genre author of short stories and novellas for the pulp magazi...

James Mills (born 1932) was a reporter and editor for Life Magazine who wrote eight stand-alone novels exploring how the seamy underbelly o...