Thursday, November 28, 2013

David/Day Keene: The Queens of Death?

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I bought this old Finnish paperback (published in 1947) with three short stories in it several months ago, mainly because it has a Zorro sto...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Moscow – Cassiopea (1974)

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This is a Soviet science fiction film in which six teenagers - three boys, three girls - are sent in a spaceship to Cassiopea to investigate...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Friday's Forgotten Book: Frank Struan: Murder's So Unpleasant (1954)

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In my on-going, but sporadic study of British paperback crime fiction, I read, almost in a jiffy, a short booklet by Frank Struan, called Mu...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)

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I saw earlier today a 35 mm print of Czech animation wizard Karel Zeman's Baron Prásil , also known with the title of the subject line. ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Ridley Scott & Cormac McCarthy: The Counselor

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Damn, I wanted to like this film so much! I'm not a fan of Ridley Scott's work, but I know he can do some good stuff, but given that...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Don Winslow: The Power of the Dog

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I just finished this huge novel by Don Winslow, who's one of the foremost new hardboiled crime writers in the USA. I've liked what ...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Attack of the Robots (1966)

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Jess Franco was a Spanish director who has probably made more feature-length films than any other director. His filmography has about 200 f...
Tuesday, November 05, 2013

More info on the Brian McDermott mystery

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I was in contact with the archive of the Otava publishing house, who put out the book that left me astounded some days back: Brian McDermott...
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Monday, November 04, 2013

Q&A with Sarah Weinman on domestic suspense

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I've been reading Sarah Weinman's anthology Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives that focuses on domestic suspense short stories and n...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: The Intruder (1962)

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Roger Corman is best known for his schlock, but there's a hidden gem in his repertoire: the 1962 film called The Intruder , also relea...
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Friday, October 25, 2013

Another bibliographic mystery: Brian McDermott

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Now off to another mystery surrounding a book published in Finnish, supposedly translated from English, but seemingly not in English. Bria...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The Lando series as by Tex Kirby?

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One of the Finnish Landos: "Don't Show Mercy, Lando" There are fourteen books published in Finnish paperback series as by...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Shock Corridor (1963)

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Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor must've been quite a shock for the audience of its day: the in-your-face attitude of this hardboiled...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Oh, my new novel just came out

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You think I'm productive? Not all the books that were supposed to come out this Fall didn't work out as planned, but I'm still p...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Shivers AKA They Came From Within

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I'm not a huge fan of David Cronenberg, but I've liked some of his films. One of these is his early horror film - I think his firs...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Sarah Weinman's Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

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I've had this on my laptop for some time now, but I only now delved into Sarah Weinman's new anthology Troubled Daughters, Twisted W...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Peter Chester: Murder Forestalled

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As many of you may remember, I've been doing a book on British paperback crime writers for years now – actually for over ten years... I ...
Monday, October 07, 2013

Harry Hobson and the Hank Janson series

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I just posted the bibliography of Harry Hobson's outings in the British Hank Janson series on my bibliography blog here . Anyone know a...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Alphaville (1965)

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Woody Haut once wrote that both poetry and pulp fiction start from scratch. One film that is right in the middle between poetry and pulp fic...
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

My forthcoming novel about Lovecraft

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Monday sees my new book coming out. It's a very short novel or a novella in which horror writer H. P. Lovecraft is the main character. T...