Kiss Daddy Goodbye (1980) is another from  Thomas Altman aka Campbell Black and Campbell Armstrong, following up on last week's post. If...

As I've discussed here from time to time, I worked at a newspaper for many years. After a while in general news, I moved into the featur...

I got this one from my older cousin. It was in a stash with some issues of Galaxy and a book assessing the James Bond book series, things fr...

The weather forecast made it sound iffy, but I walked into the home office this morning to find Christine peeking out the blinds. I thought ...

It's been a while since we've had a new cat in the household. As I've mentioned in one spot or another, Oliver Littlechap's ...

A gothic by Dan Ross aka WED Ross who wrote many Dark Shadows  novels under the name Marilyn Ross. This one's copyright 1969.

I was fortunate enough to cover David McCullough discussing his Truman bio once upon a time.  As research, McCullough went to the location ...

 

I know a lot of people cried on Wednesday. I was teary-eyed pretty much from the time the band tuned up until the ceremony wound down on Ina...

Robert L. Fish is probably best known for his Sherlock Holmes parodies featuring Schlock Homes of Bagel Street. Ebook editions of many of t...

I'm a big fan of the Vincent Price vehicle Madhouse  (1974), in which he plays a horror star whose return sparks a series of murders. To...

 The holidays seem vast and brief at the same time. I always feel a little tinge of something when I'm putting away Christmas decoration...

I suppose The Butterfly Revolution  by William Butler fits best into a sub-genre somewhere along side something like Glendon Swarthout's...

 I've been in a remembering mode for the last few days. I guess my last post on " A Christmas Memory " touched on that. Maybe ...

I read "A Christmas Memory" first in junior high.  It was assigned reading in our textbook. I didn't know who Truman Capote wa...

Happily as I mentioned recently, the original Dark Shadows novels are being reissued. This is another adjacent, branded book from the origi...

Just happened to spot a robin while walking the other day. Looked seasonal.   

As you're probably aware, the Dark Shadows paperback novelizations were wildly popular when the gothic soap was on the air. Happily th...

If not a household name, Stanley Ellin's still a not-inconsequential figure in the history of mystery and suspense fiction. A new articl...

  I like train travel and had started doing more of it right before the pandemic hit. When Christine and I were moving from Orlando to Willi...