I found an older issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine over the holiday weekend—July 1983—that contained a Brian Garfield story. It cost a...

Last year I participated in a meme that asked for a list of all the writers I read for the first time. I really enjoyed it. This year there ...

1. My wife and I are going to spend the Thanksgiving holiday in style—in Las Vegas, Mojave, and maybe, just maybe Baker, California...

Nick Glass is a rookie prison guard in a Scottish prison. He has been on the job six weeks with mixed results—the other guards mock and mak...

This is a little different. I have been searching out novels by the pulp writer Merle Constiner, and in my enthusiasm I picked up two copies...

Jack Higgins has been entertaining me since I was twelve or thirteen. I started with his bestsellers and then fell—literally—into his earlie...

This is an interesting (and very superficial) video interview with a few thriller writers about the difference between a thriller and a myst...

This is an extended trailer for the upcoming release of the The Killer Inside Me . It is based on the novel by Jim Thompson. It really looks...

I have almost no experience with the work of Clive Barker. I have seen a few movies based on his stories, and know his name. And that is it....

I have been a fan of Douglas Clegg’s work for several years. I first discovered him through his novel The Infinite . A spooky and enchanting...

Brad Anderson is a director who has never really broken-out. He has made some terrific films, including the three below, but he seems to mea...

The American western novel has a bad reputation. It is reputed to be ethnocentric, violent and, even worse, simple and inaccurate. The good ...

A more astute cliché has never been uttered: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. It is as true in blogging as it is in the real...

Another older review. I posted it about a year ago, but Leisure has just released Death Ground in a new edition. It should either be on bo...

I found an old science fiction anthology at a thrift store a few weeks ago. It is titled Infinity One and it advertises itself as “a magazi...

This is a post that went live in October 2007. It is far from a complete list, but I still really like the novels and authors I chose to inc...

The name Edmond Hamilton is legendary in the science fiction genre. He originated, or at least popularized, the space opera style story, and...

Elmore Leonard recently turned 84. 84! This guy has been around for a long time. He started out writing westerns and really made his mark--a...

I don’t read many graphic novels. I enjoy the occasional Spider Man , and the odd post-apocalyptic series— The Walking Dead , although the d...

The summer was a dismal movie season this year—mostly duds with a few “it was okay” movies. But the autumn has been a little better so far. ...