Robert Page Jones (1931-2012) authored nine stories for Manhunt Magazine during the 1960s, including one in 1961 titled “The Big Haul.” The...

In this fourth volume of stories from Manhunt , the good folks at Stark House Press took a different approach by focusing on a single autho...

Marvin Leroy Schmoker (1933-2008) changed his name to Zekial Marko in his adult years. It is under this name that he wrote scripts for shows...

“ Men of five, still alive, through the raging glow ” were song lyrics that I've sung for 30+ years. It's a line in a classic Metall...

Remember the one where Mack Bolan becomes the star of the Chuck Norris “bring'em back” alive flick Missing in Action ? Well, it never h...

DeWitt Samuel Copp (1919-1999) authored fiction and nonfiction books with themes relating to military history, aviation, the Cold War, and e...

High Lonesome , a 1962 stand-alone novel by Louis L'Amour is a “chase the chasers” western . It's a rarely used formula where a rid...

Hy Steirman (1921-2009) was born in Canada and settled in New York City, where he became an editor for the publisher Street and Smith during...

As most Robert E. Howard fans know, literary agent Glenn Lord located several boxes of the author's unfinished manuscripts in 1966. In ...

Dave Zeltserman, (born: 1959) is a highly-regarded contemporary noir author from Boston who’s won a Shamus award and critical acclaim for bo...

The first issue of the short-lived Fantasy Magazine was published in February, 1953. It's a notable issue  due to the inclusion of a pr...

"Riders of the Dawn" originally appeared as a short story in Giant Western's June, 1951 issue. L'Amour expanded the stor...

The good people at Stark House Press have blessed us with another compilation of hardboiled crime stories from the pages of Manhunt Magazin...

Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian short story “The God in the Bowl” wasn't published in the author's lifetime. It was rej...

The Stalkers , which sounds like a Matt Helm title, is a western paperback by Philip Ketchum , originally published as a paperback by Berk...

Stephen King’s novella “The Gingerbread Girl” first appeared in the July 2007 issue of Esquire Magazine . It was later compiled into King’s...

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...