Scott and Flash are old Air Force buddies. They served together in Vietnam, and while they have grown apart over the years since the war t...

It has been nonstop busy at my house the past few months and yesterday as I was browsing the stacks of a used bookshop I found myself think...

The Internet, at least the few sites I visit regularly, has been abuzz with the remake of the 1970's television series "The Rockfor...

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...