By: Joshua Glenn

C. S. Forester’s LIEUTENANT HORNBLOWER

By: Joshua Glenn

Mickey Spillane’s ONE LONELY NIGHT. Commies in New York!

By: Joshua Glenn

Nicholas Monsarrat’s THE CRUEL SEA. Hunting U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.

By: Joshua Glenn

From TITUS GROAN and THE DARK WORLD to THE SECRET OF THE SWORDFISH.

By: Joshua Glenn

Maurice Richardson’s THE EXPLOITS OF ENGELBRECHT — far-out contests at the end of history.

By: Joshua Glenn

Mervyn Peake’s TITUS GROAN: a fantastical comedy of manners.

By: Joshua Glenn

Hergé’s PRISONERS OF THE SUN — A lost race of Incas plans to ritually kill Tintin.

By: Joshua Glenn

THE SECRET OF THE SWORDFISH — the first Blake & Mortimer comic.

By: Joshua Glenn

Edmund Crispin’s THE MOVING TOYSHOP — a crime novel, and a meta-commentary on crime fiction.

By: Joshua Glenn

Henry Kuttner’s THE DARK WORLD — a parallel world where mutants and wizards rule.

By: Joshua Glenn

William Lindsay Gresham’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Carnival noir.

By: Joshua Glenn

Michael Innes’s FROM LONDON FAR — a scholar gets swept up into a smuggling ring.

By: Joshua Glenn

Kenneth Fearing’s THE BIG CLOCK. We are all trapped in an invisible prison.

By: Joshua Glenn

Boris Vian’s I SHALL SPIT ON YOUR GRAVES. A sadistic satire of US pulp fiction.

By: Joshua Glenn

From THANK YOU, MR. MOTO and THE DARK FRONTIER to WAR WITH THE NEWTS.