Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham This is the story of Stanton Carlisle, a carnivalsideshow mentalist, who decides to strike out for the big time bygoing into the spiritualism racket. With his knowledge of humannature…
Longarm is one of the first adult westerns that came on the scene in the late 1970’s. By the 60’s, the western novel was in a serious popularity decline due to the fading of the western TV show and other factors. I won’t go into what those other factors were, whole books were written on the subject. Even today, it is hard to find a book section with “western” listed, at least in those bookstores that still remain. About ten years after the Euro-western movie proved there was still a market for horse operas, someone decided the genre needed a shot of Spanish fly and the adult western was born.
In The Fabulous Clipjoint, we see why Frederic Brown was one of the greatest short story writers and novelists of the 20th century.
The Fantasy Book Murders by John Walters (2014, Amazon Digital Services) The Fantasy Book Murders is an excellent example of how genres are crossed to make a great book. Every so often I read a book…
It’s the first novel from Ms. Pulley who has worked as a structural engineer for many years.
CHOKE ON YOUR LIES by Anthony Neil Smith (2011, Kindle Books) I confess: I’m an Anthony Neil Smith fan. This is only the second book I’ve read by him, but his style is starting to…
“#6 The Crooked Hinge. Sometimes Carr actually did use the supernatural in his detective novels, sometimes he only seemed to do so. The Crooked Hinge does not turn out to be a ghost story, but that won’t spare your nerves.”
-Karl Edward Wagner, “The Thirteen Best Non-Supernatural Horror Novels” (Twilight Zone Magazine, 1983)
