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Blog postCat Ladies of the Apocalypse, which includes my story "The Witch of Washington Pari," is part of the Strong Women in Science Fiction Event for August 2021.
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Blog postA few years back, a request came in to the writers Meet Up group Owl Goingback was running in the Orlando area.
A student up in Gainesville needed a short mystery piece to shoot for a film class. I'd spent a bit of time teaching creative writing by then, gradually emerging from a creative coma induced by 12 years in a marketing job plus one damaging semester in an MFA program with a writing professor who'd go on to break the internet with a column on his harsh outlook on st -
Blog postAs noted as an addendum on a recent post on Edward D. Hoch's story "Something for the Dark," the tale originally appeared in the June 1968 issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
The original illustrations, in the style that appeared in AHMM for the better part of 20 years or more, further evoke the mothman allusions.
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Blog postTo identify one sub-category of Edward D. Hoch's fiction is to spoil a bit, I suppose. Hoch excelled at
all varieties of mystery from the locked room to the procedural to the cozy and more. His cadre of sleuths included a cowboy, a spy, a country doctor and the representative of a bureau devoted to apprehensions of fugitives.
The collection Ellery Queen's Grand Slam (Popular Library 1970) includes a Hoch trifecta divided by mystery technique, whodunit, howdunit, whydunit. -
Blog postI get periodic reminders my memory is not what it used to be.
My story "Scars" originally appeared in the online magazine Blue Murder. It's in the ebook collection Scars and Candy from Crossroad Press. I read a few flash stories from that collection the other day at the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Focus Facebook group and was reminded.
I'm not sure the issue number any longer, and shifts from one computer to the other over the years have lost any contributor's e-c -
Blog postI first turned to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in the late '70s. They were in the mix and progression of interesting and eclectic things to which I was drawn once the comic books were taken away by the Eckerd Drugs powers that were of the day. I met Micahel Morbius on those magazine racks and Doc Savage on the nearby paperback display, so those old Eckerd bean counters nudged my reading tastes, I suppose.
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Blog postBest known as the creator of Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer, real name Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, also produced a host of stand-alone novels. He also penned several other series, Gaston Max, Red Kerry, Paul Harly and Sumuru.
Sumuru seems to have been an attempt to produce a slightly more enlightened series in the fifties even though his Fu Manchu series, which had generated controversy and charges of racism, continued on paper.
He also wrote tales of Bazarada based on magician H -
Blog postApparently even if I read reviews, I'm guilty of not reading them carefully. A gentleman named Mark Louis Baumgart was kind enough to write a thoughtful review of my novel Blood Hunter some time back. It was a meticulous piece on Amazon that sought to put the book in perspective on the horror paperback fiction landscape. I noted it there somewhere along the way, happy to have it, of course, but I only noticed today that he included a bit of trivia several paragraphs deep.
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Blog postCurt Siodmak made significant contributions to the Universal horror canon with screenplays for The Wolf Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Son of Dracula and others.
His novels add dimension to the horror and science fiction realm. This handy edition brings together a couple of his greatest works, both of which were made into films. Hauser kind of expands on ideas in Donovan's Brain, so this makes for a nice package. This twofer is from November 1992 from Leisure Bo -
Blog postI occasionally write reviews and other articles for the nice folks at Wicked Horror.
I did a quick take on Godzilla vs. Kong. You can check it out here.
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Blog postWhen the paperback gothics were hot in the women running from houses era, many other paperbacks got similar looks, even tales from crime novelists like John D. MacDonald, creator of the Travis McGee series and tough tales with gritty covers earlier from Gold Medal.
This stand-alone originally released in 1956 has a distinct gothic look with trees that resemble castle-stone and a flowing overcoat for the woman resembling the Victorian dresses on historical gothics.
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Blog postI was able to get my first vaccine shot this past week. I have to keep reminding myself I've taken a step. I'll feel better after the second shot and the wait for immunity to kick in is up, but I do feel a bit more upbeat, maybe lighter than I realized I wasn't.
I had grown numb to the sense of existential dread we've been enduring for a year.
I felt some anxiety leading up to the shot. It was never about the stick. I think I feared the appointment wouldn't hol -
Blog postApparently I'd never seen the film P.J. (Universal, 1968). I missed the NBC debut, but watched on late-night TV as a kid in the seventies. Word on the 'net--and the new Kino Lorber Blu-Ray commentary track from Howard S. Berger and Steve Mitchell--is that's only a sanitized version with omissions and alternate scenes. Far less gritty. That must be true. I remember a couple of cool set pieces and George Peppard's turn as down-on-his-luck private investigator P.J. Detweiler, but in re-watc
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Blog postFaith Sullivan is a versatile author who has written a number of novels sometimes harnessing genre elements or myth. This signet edition is dated February, 1983.
SEE ALSO: Biblioholic's Bookshelf - The Scarf by Robert Bloch I picked it up in a shop I often remember fondly here, The Book Nook, operated by a very cordial lady named Lena Cortello in Alexandria, LA.
It was a go-to spot for me, tucked in a corner shop off a major thoroughfare. It was a corner crammed with pape -
Blog postI've probably mentioned on this blog before that I read Lawrence Block's fiction writing column in Writer's Digest in my formative years. His blog today still gives a taste of what that used to be like.
I segued to Evan Tanner, Matt Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr from mentions in the column or in the "about" section at the bottom of the page. I also read his stories in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and picked up Ariel& -
Blog postWhen I heard BBC radio was doing an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," I was interested. Then I realized when episodes written by Julian Simpson became available that the storyline was being updated.
I found that notion a bit off-putting. I'm usually open to adaptation and reinterpretation. I love Stuart Gordon's Dagon, though I would have loved to have seen his original, period adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth he wanted to make. Some -
Blog postNot long before I left Florida for my current home in Virginia, I went into my kitchen for my morning coffee. Some of you, especially if we're Facebook friends, may know how important that is to me. Let's call it a sacred rite.
The previous evening, I'd poured out the remaining bird seeds from an old bag onto some paver stones for whoever wanted them, birds and beasts alike. I was in that "everything must go" stage of moving. The furniture was already gone, I was workin -
Blog postAs mentioned here before, I loved the brief series The Most Deadly Game when I was a kid. It's remembered less fondly on the Thrilling Detective website, so my youthful zeal may have been overrated.
It seemed cool to me back in the day, anyway, and starred George Maharis of Route 66, Yvette Mimieux of The Time Machine and Ralph Bellamy of everything.
This one has a different author than the first, possibly a pseudonym. It's copyright Aaron Spelling Productions, -
Blog postHave you ever sat in a coffee shop making odd sounds? Then you might be a comics writer. Way back in the day, when my wife was still my girlfriend, and I used to sit at her kitchen table with my typewriter working on comics scripts, she’d give me funny looks as I tried to devise phonetic spellings for words.
It was part of the job, though. Sound effects, often written in comics scripts as SFX, are a useful part of the comics and graphic novel universe. They're a component to help your -
Blog postFollowing the posts of the last couple of weeks on '80s domestic thrillers and Campbell Black's Thomas Altman books, here's The Intruder. It's from Bantam, October 1985. It brings a serial killer into the mix. It's, I believe, the last Altman title through a few more thrillers would be released under Campbell Black before Campbell Armstrong political and technical thrillers became the writer's major output.
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Blog postI've been doing some freelance comics script editing because it fits my schedule. The work coming my way varies. Some of it's very professional and complete. Often I get scripts that don't take even the comics world's not-particularly-set-in-stone formatting into account, however.
It seems to be happening organically. I see great storytelling and characterization in a shotgun blast of text. I'm not sure why that's so in a world where Google offers access to thousands of samples -
Blog postI realized I hadn't done a post about the audiobook version of my newest novel, the mystery-thriller Fool's Run. It actually rolled out at the same time as ebook and trade paper editions. It's always exciting to have the world that was once just inside your head take new form. Certainly it morphs from imagination to manuscript and then to published work. There's a bit of a feeling that your child has come into the world when a book's released and when you see it in paper form.
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Blog postA sub-genre of menaced brides, mothers and expectant mothers cropped up in the 1980s, perhaps an offshoot of the fading gothic surge. It seems to anticipate the current crop of domestic thrillers.
Since Thomas Altman titles which fit in that vein have been mentioned in recent weeks, here's another in a similar style. What About the Baby by Clare McNally is from Bantam, September 1983.
View more of Clare McNally's titles here.
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Blog postThe White Koi 2007
One of the koi Has all-white scales.“He’s an albino,” an old woman says. She sits in a wheelchair Having found her way to the pondOn her own.
“I think it’s just a white variety,” I say.“The eyes are not pink.” Why does it matter? Why do I need to correct this Old woman I don’t know?
She’s here just like I am Escaping the nursing home’s confines Where antiseptic smellsFail to mask underlyin -
Blog postKiss Daddy Goodbye (1980) is another from Thomas Altman aka Campbell Black and Campbell Armstrong, following up on last week's post. If you think about it, the Altman novels kind of anticipate the current domestic thriller era.
This is actually a hardcover book club edition I bought from a remainder house, Publisher's Central Bureau. The True Bride actually followed this one followed by Black Christmas, not a movie tie-in, though the author did write a tie-in to Dressed to Kill
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Cat Ladies of the Apocalypse
Apr 13, 2020
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Annie Reed,
Caryn Larrinaga,
Joy Kennedy-O'Neill,
Carol Gyzander,
Leigh Saunders,
Wayland Smith,
Joe Borrelli,
CJ Erick,
Meyari McFarland
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Quoth the Raven
Oct 7, 2018
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Lyn Worthen,
A.A Azariah-Kribbs,
Amber Fallon,
Amelia Gorman,
Aryan Bollinger,
Brian Ellis,
Chris Abela,
Donea Weaver,
Edward Ahern,
Emerian Rich,
Tiffany Michelle Brown,
R.C. Scandalis,
Vicki Weisfeld,
Gregory J. Wolos,
Sidney Williams,
Karen Robiscoe,
John Kiste ,
Tonia Kalouria,
Steven R. Southard,
Melanie Cossey,
Matthew M. Montelione,
Kenneth C. Goldman,
Kara Race-Moore,
Stephanie L. Harper,
Susan McCauley,
Lauryn Christopher,
Sonora Taylor,
Sarah Murtagh,
Lawrence Berry,
Frank Coffman
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Deranged
Dec 16, 2019
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ANTONIO SIMON JR,
SARAH CANNAVO,
JONATHAN BUTCHER,
COLLEEN ANDERSON,
SIDNEY WILLIAMS,
JOHN PAUL FITCH,
W. T. PATERSON,
ANNIE KNOX,
C L RAVEN,
SUZANNE FOX
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