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Neil’s Horror Corner: The Weird, Weird West, Part 2
The Wind (IFC Midnight, 2018), Devil Rider (Curb/Esquire Films, 1989), and Luz, the Flower of Evil (Afasia Films, 2019) The Wind (2018) – Prime Stand-off with six guns? A bit of shotgun. Uncomfortable...
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Glen Cook: The Garrett, PI Q&A – at Black Gate
Today we’ve got a real treat here at Black Gate. Glen Cook, best-selling author of The Black Company, as well as The Dread Empire, talks about his fantastic Garrett, PI, series. Glen is one of the...
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The Content Warning Debate
This is a trigger fish, apparently: Image by Brigitte Werner from Pixabay Good afterevenmorn! In an effort to try and get myself “out there,” so to speak, and figure out what marketing tricks I can use...
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Datlow’s Latest Treat: The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen, edited by...
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen (Night Shade, January 16, 2024) Once again legendary editor Ellen Datlow has released her annual anthology featuring the Best horror stories that appeared...
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Goth Chick News: Death Cars, and Blumhouse, and Stephen King Novels – These...
If you just sang the title, we can definitely be friends. There has been Hollywood buzz for more than five years about whether or not a movie version of Stephen King’s 1983 novel Christine would be...
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A to Z Reviews: “Deal with the Devil,” by Carol Gyzander
Although the most famous iteration of the Beatles featured George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr, the band had a variety of lineups prior to settling on the Fab Four. Many know...
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Vintage Treasures: To the Resurrection Station by Eleanor Arnason
To the Resurrection Station (Avon, October 1986). Cover by Tom Kidd Eleanor Arnason is a familiar name to anyone who’s been reading short science fiction for the past four decades. Her first story...
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Adventure in the Magellanic Cloud: The Mote in Time’s Eye by Gérard Klein
The Mote in Time’s Eye (DAW, January 1975). Cover by Josh Kirby This is the latest in a series of posts I’m doing covering relatively obscure SF novels of the ‘70s and ‘80s. This novel was first...
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The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes: Some Personalia About Sherlock Holmes...
So in our first series post, we had a LONG post on ACD’s 1923 essay – The Truth Behind Sherlock Holmes – for Collier’s The National Weekly. This week, it’s an earlier one he which wrote for The Strand....
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New Treasures: Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings
Under Fortunate Stars (Solaris, May 9, 2023). Cover design by Dominc Forbes According to the Solaris website, Under Fortunate Stars was published in the US nearly a year ago. But I just found it at my...
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Andre Norton: Gateway to Magic, Part II
Andre Norton’s two-book series Judgment on Janus and Victory on Janus (Fawcett Crest, December 1979 and January 1980). Covers by Ken Barr Part I of Andre Norton: Gateway to Magic is here. Two other...
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First Class Noir: Death Comes Too Late by Charles Ardai
Death Comes Too Late (Hard Case Crime, March 12, 2024). Cover art by Paul Mann Charles Ardai is the creator and the editor of the famous, successful Hard Case Crime series (featuring novels by the...
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A to Z Reviews: “3 RMS, Good View,” by Karen Haber
Real estate prices in San Francisco are notoriously high, which leads Karen Haber’s character in “3 RMS, Good View” to seek out extreme living arrangements. Despite her better judgement, she rents an...
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Vintage Treasures: Hammer’s Slammers by David Drake
Hammer’s Slammers (Ace Books, April 1979). Cover by Paul Alexander David Drake passed away on December 10, 2023, and his death was a major loss to the field. In addition to his considerable...
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Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1955: A Retro-Review
Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1955. Cover by Ed Emshwiller Almost 70 years ago, the February, 1955 issue of Galaxy hit newsstands, and since I wasn’t alive, my review had to wait until now. My...
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The Public Life of Sherlock Holmes: A Gaudy Death (Doyle on Holmes)
This essay precedes the two prior ones in our series, having appeared in Tit-Bits in December of 1900. The aptly named Tit-Bits was a potpourri of ‘stuff’ which was published by George Newnes, who also...
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Don’t Quit
Goodafterevenmorn! You may recall that I once said that all writing advice is bunk (sort of). I hold that to be mostly true. Knowing this, I’m still going to offer some advice to anyone out there who...
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Frankly Frankenstein
My guess is that even people who’ve never read the novel or seen the Boris Karloff version likely recognize that “Frankenstein” signifies a human-made scientific creation that bites back. (Though they...
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Goth Chick News: The Blair Witch Kids Strike Back
The Blair Witch Project Cast: Heather, Mike and Josh I have long since been an awed admirer of the genius behind The Blair Witch Project (1999). With a production budget of around $60K the film...
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A to Z Reviews: “Triolet,” by Jess Hyslop
Jess Hyslop’s “Triolet,” which appeared in the June 2013 issue of Interzone is another high concept story in which the reader is asked to suspend their disbelief by accepting Hyslop’s far-fetched...
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