Today I received a copy of the English 2005 edition of Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi. Originally published in Japan in 1983. In my book collection, I do try to keep to my scope of Detective Genre fiction. Generally 1880 to the 1910s, and Magazines from the 1910s to the 1940s. I have pass

Today’s Antique Book Companion, is a weird one. We have The League of the Dragon by…? I have no idea who wrote it. It was published by Aldine Publishing Company. When? It doesn’t say, however, there is a ‘13 on the art of the cover, so by that, the colors used for the cover, and the type of pap

Two of the Most influential media (outside of books) on my writing are two video games. The first being Dishonored, and the second being Bloodborne. In Dishonored, there are a lot of stories outside of the main one. You can find pages of literature from the world, but more importantly personal o

Todays Antique Book Companion is a special one to me, and I need the extra encouragement. Muertalma (or the Poisoned Pin) is a Detective Novel written by Marmaduke Dey, a penname of Fredrick Van Rensselaer Dey, as published by Street & Smith in October of 1898. Dey and a dozen others wrote t

Todays Vintage Magazine Companion is Official Detective Vol. 34 № 4. from April of 1965, as published by T.D. Publishing. This is a remarkable series that ran from November of 1934 until October of 1995! It was popular enough in the 1950's to have a TV series under the same name, and a Radi

Today's Antique Book Companion is Beyond the End; A Ghost's Year by Clarence Miles Boutelle as published by F. M. Lupton Publishing in 1892. It's a fascinating look at how a story can be told. In it, a man is killed, and he spends a year of his afterlife investigating his own death.

Today's Antique Book Companion is Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll as published by the Little Leather Library in late 1910s. Alice in Wonderland has been a very popular and influential book since it was first published in 1865. Although it's not a detective story or mystery, like I n

Today's Antique Book Companion is one I've been hoping to find since I first started collecting Antique Dime Novels. This is The King's Detective by Old Sleuth as published by Parlor Car in 1898. Why is it so special to me? It's because it wasn't until the beginning of Januar

In a city that has forgotten sunlight, a government that has forgotten its people, and a population that swells into the raining skies, there can be little hope for those who’ve been wronged. Tiff traverses the neon soaked megalopolis on their behalf, for a price. Navigating the synthetic, the

Today's Antique Book Companion is Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll as published by Little Leather Library in the early 1920s. Originally published in 1871 as a sequel to Alice in Wonderland (1865), and was the fifth of his published literary works. In contrast to the theme of playi

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLXG6HVY In the 236th year of the Empire, a man is found dead in the middle of a dirt road. It’s an impoverished section of the city, and a young officer knows once the body is taken, he’ll find no justice for this crime. He does what his father had done before him, c