Monday, October 31, 2022

"The White Maniac" (1867), by Mary Fortune (Guest Blog Post by Lucy Sussex)

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And now a little tale of terror for this Halloween, courtesy of Australian author Lucy Sussex, who over the years has detailed so much about...

Don't PAN-ic! The Third Ghost Book (1955), by Lady Cynthia Asquith

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For many years paperback publisher Pan--known for their series of Books of Horror Stories, edited by Herbert Von Thal --also published a ser...
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Friday, October 28, 2022

Friday Night Frights 3: Woolrich Weirds Out, Vampire's Honeymoon (1985 short story collection), by Cornell Woolrich

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Publisher Carroll & Graf did a lot of neat vintage crime fiction reprints in 1980s and 1990s, including a couple of 1985  Cornell Woolwi...
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Friday, October 21, 2022

Friday Night Frights 2: The Case of the Weird Sisters (1943), by Charlotte Armstrong

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If you are reading this you have survived into your second week of Friday Night Frights.  Here's the the link to Bev Hankins' contri...
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Friday, October 14, 2022

Friday Night Frights 1: New England Interiors--The Ghostly Fiction (with more than a spot of crime) of Mary Wilkins Freeman

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I hosted a Friday Night Fright blogging series in October of 2020.  We didn't do it last year, for some reason, although I did my own s...
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Saturday, October 8, 2022

Paperback Novelties: The Dell Great Mystery Library, 1957 to 1968 (?)

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The Dell Great Mystery Library was an early attempt to "codify" great mystery fiction.  When it was launched in 1957 it was descr...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Butcher's Dozen: Robert Barnard's Thirteen Best Mystery Novels

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When I returned to mystery reading in a huge way in 1989, after a six year hiatus when I gave them up, I read a lot of Sayers and Marsh and ...
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