As noted as an addendum on a recent post on Edward D. Hoch's story "Something for the Dark," the tale originally appeared i...

To identify one sub-category of Edward D. Hoch's fiction is to spoil a bit, I suppose. Hoch excelled at all varieties of mystery from t...

I get periodic reminders my memory is not what it used to be.  My story "Scars" originally appeared in the online magazine Blue Mu...

I first turned to  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine  in the late '70s. They were in the m...

Best known as the creator of Fu Manchu , Sax Rohmer, real name Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, also produced a host of stand-alone novels. He a...

Apparently even if I read reviews, I'm guilty of not reading them carefully. A gentleman named Mark Louis Baumgart was kind enough to wr...

Curt Siodmak made significant contributions to the Universal horror canon with screenplays for The Wolf Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Ma...

I occasionally write reviews and other articles for the nice folks at Wicked Horror.  I did a quick take on Godzilla vs. Kong . You can chec...

When the paperback gothics were hot in the women running from houses era , many other paperbacks got similar looks, even tales from crime no...

I was able to get my first vaccine shot this past week. I have to keep reminding myself I've taken a step.  I'll feel better after t...

Apparently I'd never seen the film P.J. (Universal, 1968) .  I missed the NBC debut, but watched on late-night TV as a kid in the sevent...

Faith Sullivan is a versatile author who has written a number of novels sometimes harnessing genre elements or myth. This signet edition is...

I've probably mentioned on this blog before that I read Lawrence Block's fiction writing column in Writer's Digest  in my format...

When I heard BBC radio was doing an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," I was interested. Then I...

Not long before I left Florida for my current home in Virginia, I went into my kitchen for my morning coffee. Some of you, especially if we...

As mentioned here before , I loved the brief series The Most Deadly Game  when I was a kid. It's remembered less fondly on the Thrilling...

Have you ever sat in a coffee shop making odd sounds? Then you might be a comics writer.  Way back in the day, when my wife was still my gir...

Following the posts of the last couple of weeks on '80s domestic thrillers and Campbell Black 's Thomas Altman books, here's The...

I've been doing some freelance comics script editing because it fits my schedule. The work coming my way varies. Some of it's very p...

I realized I hadn't done a post about the audiobook version of my newest novel, the mystery-thriller  Fool's Run . It actually rolle...