Friday, October 30, 2020

Friday Fright Night Five--Last Dance for Ginger? The Dancing Detective (1946), by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich)

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Friday Fright Night is upon you!  Happy Hallowe'en! My Reader's Block Sweet Freedom Sweet Freedom (some more) Clothes in Books A Rea...
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Friday, October 23, 2020

Friday Fright Night Four: Too Terrifying for Television? Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957)

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Here's are this week's frightabulous Friday links! Clothes in Books Cross Examining Crime My Reader's Block Sweet Freedom Pretty...
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Friday, October 16, 2020

Friday Fright Night 3--Death Card: The Lake of Darkness (1980), by Ruth Rendell

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Week three of Friday Fright Night.  How fright flies!  You have the heebie-jeebies yet?  We'll see about that.  Here are your creepy lin...
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Friday, October 9, 2020

Friday Fright Night 2--Gorey Night: Edward Gorey's Lost Dust Jacket Design for Margaret Erskine's Dead by Now (1954)

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Well, dear readers, I see you have survived to week two of our Friday Night Frights!  (Or perhaps at this rate we should call them Saturday ...
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Friday, October 2, 2020

Friday Fright Night One Murder is the Devil: Mr. Splitfoot (1968), by Helen McCloy

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prepare yourselves for ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy mysteries This month some of us vintage mystery bloggers are devoting Fridays ...
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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Making America Grim Again: Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales (2017)

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"Well," he said again.  "Never been summer people before, at the lake after Labor Day." --" The Summer People ...
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Saturday, September 12, 2020

Copper Mines and Soap Kettles: Money and the Making of Mystery Writer Margaret Erskine (1901-1984)

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Landed wealth was such a common feature of between-the-wars British mystery that ever since, despite periodic efforts to delimit this formal...
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