Not much is known about author Conrad Dawn (1933-2002). He served in the U.S.M.C. From 1951 to 1954 and was wounded in action during America...

In this video, I'm ranking my ten favorite reads from the month of November. Included are book covers, insert scans, and capsule reviews...

Jack Finney 's first three novels – 5 Against the House , The Body Snatchers , House of Numbers – all appeared in glossy magazines befo...

Colorado resident Douglas Hirt has been an accomplished author of western fiction since 1991. Later, he threw his talent for historical fic...

New Yorker Frank De Felitta (1921-2016) served in WW2 and began his writing career in the 1940s working on radio programs like The Whistler...

Robert E. Howard earned $17 when he sold his story “Sea Curse” to Weird Tales . The magazine published the story in the May 1928 (Vol. 11 N...

It’s 1985ish and I’m a young adolescent walking around our local K-Mart department store with my $5 allowance for the week. I’m typically sc...

According to IMDB, Charles Tenney Jackson (1874-1955) wrote the novels The Golden Fetter (1917), The Show (1927), and The Eagle of the Sea...

I've recently become enamored with the writings of Arthur D. Howden Smith (1887-1945), particularly his glossy magazine stories. His off...

I'm always searching for the next great sea-adventure. In my quest for a good nautical romp, I started thumbing through digital copies o...

In 1970, Knoxville, TN native Karl Edward Wagner authored a short novel titled Darkness Weaves with Many Shades . It was published by Powell...

Frederick Nebel (1903-1967) was second only to Erle Stanley Gardner in total number of stories published in Black Mask . The New York nativ...

James A. Michener (1907-1997) was a bestselling author who never knew the identity of his biological parents, or when and where he was born....

We've covered a lot of Ed Lacy's (Leonard Zinberg) crime-fiction, but his rare adventure novels have mostly gone unnoticed. I disco...

In 1955, Blood Alley was simultaneously published as a novel and released as a film by Warner Brothers. The premise is that a U.S. Merchant...

According to Goodreads, Irish author James Gribben (1915-1986) authored plays, short stories and novels under his own name and also under th...

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is one of the most popular, influential and respected authors of all-time. He was involved in WWI and WWII, wo...

Jon Messmann created and authored the long-running adult western series The Trailsman . He authored series titles like The Revenger and J...

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

Author Hammond Innes would spend months researching and visiting obscure parts of the world in preparation for his adventure novels. Typica...