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it's a gothic if we say it's a gothic...
The Lair of the White Worm...as gothic. Paperback Library was perhaps the most opportunistic about this kind of repackaging....They at Paperback Library were particularly fond of conflating the...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: new links to the reviews,...
Kim Novak and Fred MacMurray in PushoverThe selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences...as...
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A photo.
My father and my recently late aunt as small children, ca. 1940 (courtesy my aunt Linda Wheeler):Robert and Shirley Mason...eventually Shirley Gauthier.
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FFB: WORLD'S BEST CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES selected by the Editors of...
Having written about Donald Wollheim's tenure at Ace Books, I was gratified to learn while researching some of the details of his work there that one of the books he was almost certainly responsible...
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US newsstand science fiction and fantasy magazines at the time of the debut...
Cover by David StoneGalaxy: debut issue, October 1950: World Editions; H. L. Gold, editor***Galaxy magazine starts off with an issue drawing some of the most impressive writers already established in...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links to the reviews,...
Agent CarterThis week, we welcome back Scott Cupp, who has found a new forum for what we hope is a continuing series of reviews. The selections (reviews and citations at the links below) of...
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US newsstand fantasy and sf magazines at the time of the debut of GALAXY: part 2
Part 1Part 3Part 4Part 5/conclusionCover by George Salter, genius at Mercury Pressand elsewhere (notably did the two original covers for Kafka's The Trial for both German and English publication, among...
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US newsstand speculative fiction magazines at the time of the debut of...
Part 1Part 2Part 4Part 5/conclusionCover by Edd CartierStreet and Smith Publications; John W. Campbell, Jr., editorAs Robert Silverberg's note in Part 1 suggests, readers and aspiring writers like...
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FFM: ca. October 1950: WEIRD TALES, FANTASTIC ADVENTURES, AMAZING STORIES,...
Cover by Frank Kelly FreasPart 1Part 2Part 3Part 5/conclusionThis is the fourth in a series of quick looks at the newsstand magazines devoted to fantasy and science fiction, published in the US, which...
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ca. October 1950: PLANET STORIES, STARTLING STORIES, THRILLING WONDER STORIES...
Cover by Allen Anderson?read this issue at Archive.orgPart 1Part 2 Part 3 Part 4As readers of the previous installments might know, Galaxy Science Fiction magazine made a big splash in sf circles and...
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Covers gallery: some short-lived fantasy and horror fiction magazines: the...
Fantasy Magazine/Fantasy Fiction (1953):The first fantasy fiction magazine edited by Lester Del Rey, who would later edit the first short run of Worlds of Fantasy, then have a sustained run as the...
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FFB: NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS by Fritz Leiber (Arkham House 1947; Ballantine...
Fritz Leiber's first book (as opposed to his first two novels, first published in magazines in 1943) was this brilliant collection, which has seen three major variant editions over the decades in the...
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Locus magazine list of winners and runners up... Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V on Wednesday
The Night WatchThe selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences...apologies to Bill Crider, whose...
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August's Underappreciated Music: the links
The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of.Patti Abbott: Nick Cave (the sound-suit Cave)Brian...
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FFB: I CANNOT TELL A LIE, EXACTLY and other stories by Mary Ladd Gavell...
Most collections of short crime fiction or fantastic fiction, and collections prepared by people who also work in those fields (thus many western story collections, for example) are usually scrupulous...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V on Wednesday: the links to...
Moonrise KngdomThe selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences...apologies to everyone for yet...
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FFB: THE STARCHED BLUE SKY OF SPAIN by Josephine Herbst (HarperCollins 1991),...
In its first half, as a collection of four essays, one never before published and two among the more famous items in The Noble Savage (Saul Bellow and co.'s first magazine project) and a third...
View ArticlePodcasts: comedians and guests
LA Podfest 2015 remote accessJackie Kashian: If you are coming to the fest, all good. If you can't make the fest you can LIVESTREAM the whole damn thing for $25... use the CODE "dork" and then it's...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: new links to reviews,...
Anatomy of a MurderThe selections (reviews, interviews and citations at the links below) of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) under-appreciated audio/visual experiences...As always, thanks to all the...
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