By: Joshua Glenn

A hard-boiled love story in which nobody can be trusted.

By: Joshua Glenn

Francis Iles’s MALICE AFORETHOUGHT. One of the first “inverted” detective stories.

By: Joshua Glenn

A sardonic picaresque set in the entrails of the legendary Trojan Horse.

By: Joshua Glenn

X-rays transform a nebbishy lab tech into a super-genius. But will he use his intellect for good or evil?

By: Joshua Glenn

Neil R. Jones’s PROFESSOR JAMESON stories. Among the first benevolent mechanoids…

By: Joshua Glenn

A. Merritt’s THE FACE IN THE ABYSS. Sex, hunting mutants with dinosaurs, and dream machines!

By: Joshua Glenn

Hergé’s TINTIN IN AMERICA. Non-stop action from Al Capone’s Chicago to an Indian reservation.

By: James Parker

“What are the implications for mental health/of being an amnesiac super-functional self?”

By: James Parker

“Clammy with questions, he blundered around/and I took him without a sound.”

By: Joshua Glenn

From THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD to THE DEVIL’S GUARD.

By: Joshua Glenn

Edgar Rice Burroughs’s THE MOON MAID — a revolt against communistic alien overlords!

By: Joshua Glenn

BEAU SABREUR — an adventure novel, by PC Wren, that deconstructs itself halfway through.

By: Joshua Glenn

Talbot Mundy’s THE DEVIL’S GUARD — a quest to find the legendary Sham-bha-la!

By: Joshua Glenn

Dorothy L. Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey crime adventure CLOUDS OF WITNESS.

By: Joshua Glenn

PAYMENT DEFERRED — an early thriller by C.S. Forester, author of the HORATIO HORNBLOWER series.