It has been shamefully quiet around here the past few months. The world--my world--has been a little tipsy-turvy, and not necessarily in a b...

I was cruising Dorchester's website looking at the new batch of Westerns being released in March, and was hit with a powerful sense of d...

I stumbled across an interesting webzine a few days ago. It is called Dead Lines , and it features both fiction and non-fiction in the dark ...

You may have noticed, or maybe not, that it has been overly quiet around here the past few weeks. It's been a busy first few weeks of t...

Duel was an ABC movie of the week originally aired in November 1971. It was Steven Spielberg’s first crack at directing a movie, and he real...

Warning: It is going to be quiet around here for a few days. We are moving back to Salt Lake City, from the beautiful and oh so rural colleg...

It’s been a wonderful year for my wife and I, and the holiday season has been no different. We are having a quiet Christmas this year—we wat...

I have listened to few audio books. I never seem to have time; at work I tend to concentrate on work and lose the plot and action. In my car...

A few months ago I mentioned a short film based on Ed Gorman's short story "The Ugly File". It is now available to watch on th...

I recently read another H. A. DeRosso collection—after Under the Burning Sun— edited by Bill Pronzini . Its title: Riders of the Shadowl...

I’m not sure why I do a top of the year list; probably the same reason I do anything on this blog: to hear myself type. But damn if I don’t ...

The eighth, and reportedly last, Sam McCain novel opens in 1965 at a Vietnam peace rally in Black River Falls, Iowa. The rally is held in...

I watched a decent little horror film a few days ago called "Dance of the Dead." It is marketed as part of the Ghost House Undergr...

I read an astonishingly good collection of stories by pulp writer H. A. DeRosso titled Under the Burning Sun . The collection includes t...

A winner was randomly chosen from the list of entrants to receive the ACE Double (G-638) The Action at Redstone Creek by Merle Constiner / A...

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...