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links to texts: 2017 Best Short Story Anthony Nominees (crossposted from...
2017 Best Short Story Anthony Nomineesby admin | Oct 3, 2017 | Anthony Awards | With thanks to the authors and publishers, click below to check out the anthologies the nominated stories are in and to...
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Suzanne Santo: "Ghost in My Bed"Kasey Lansdale: "Ghost"Judy Collins: "Pretty Polly"The Zombies: "Just Out of Reach"The Zombies: "Come on Time""Come on Time" trailer cutThe Zombies: "Remember You"...
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MAGAZINE OF HORROR, V.1 N.1, August 1963, edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes...
Two magazines which offered their first issues in the summer of 1963; both were on newsstands in July. Both would offer a mix of fantasy (very much including horror), some sf and (as has often been the...
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Alice Chang:  "NC, Esq." on Titanic; Dark Souls 3A. J. Wright: Frances Bergenthe Allan Fish Online Film Festival 2017Anne Billson:  Horror and Women; That Darn Cat  (1965 film)(Cat of the Day); Lav...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: Friday, 13 October 2017: the links to the reviews...
This week's selections of books (and magazines, short fiction and poetry) offered for your attention, after receiving too little at least of late, according to the contributors (along with the...
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ANTHONY AWARD NOMINATIONS for 2017 (Winners get an asterisk*)http://bouchercon2017.com/Best Novel : Meet the Nominees Saturday 10:00AMYou Will Know Me – Megan Abbott [Little, Brown]Where It Hurts –...
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Your Ed Emshwiller cover painting for the day.
January 1962 issue, edited by Cele Goldsmith. Also features stories by J. G Ballard, Miriam Allen deFord and others. "The Mars Snooper" is journalism by the concept artist Frank Tinsley about a...
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FFM: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1976, edited by...
Stories by Joanna Russ, Kit Reed and Stuart Dybek, and the best columnists in the fiction-magazine field.This was the first issue of F&SF I ever held in my hand. It might not've been the first...
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Received: THE BODY LOOKS FAMILIAR; THE LATE MRS. FIVE by Richard Wormser...
Book received: Stark House's new Richard Wormser omnibus, to be officially published in January, with a good new introduction by Bill Crider. I had read a few of Wormser's (remarkable body of) short...
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FFM: KNOPF SHORT STORY SAMPLER, Spring 1996, ed. Anon; Algis Budrys essay &...
Knopf published only one issue, or volume, of the Knopf Short Story Sampler, offering for Spring 1996 four stories and a set of vignettes from five upcoming collections from five different writers, and...
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My Hallowe'en and beyond: Early Key Horror Anthologies (for me)
One of the books I learned to read with (along with Dr. Seuss and Gyo Fujikawa and Little Golden Books): compiled by Oscar Weigleedited by Wilhelmina Harper, borrowed from the elementary school library...
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FFM: some of my favorite eclectic little magazines: TRIQUARTERLY,...
From time to time on the blog I've dealt with anthologies taken from, and individual issues of, little magazines, those magazines devoted to literature (including criticism) and often politics and...
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FFM: VENTURE: THE TRAVELER'S WORLD, February 1965, edited by Curtis Anderson...
Venture, the initially hardcover bimonthly published by Cowles Magazines and Broadcasting (the Look magazine people) knew whom they wanted reading their travel magazine... apparently not sold on...
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Fridays's "Forgotten" Books: The Links to the Reviews and More
This week's links to the reviews and more by the following contributors...Matt wins with least-forgotten book this week, though Sergio, Alice and Marcia Muller have classics or aspiring classics that...
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Books Received: THE CLINGERMAN FILES by Mildred Clingerman; WIDOW'S MITE and...
Greg Shepard's Stark House has added another two-novel volume to their valuable selection of reprints (full stop, but in this case specifically) of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding's suspense novels, this one...
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Underappreciated Music, the links to the sounds and the words about them,...
Rest in Glory: Jon Hendricks, 1921-2017The (frequently) monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners...
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FFB: Terry Carr, ed: SCIENCE FICTION FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE SCIENCE FICTION...
--Redux post from 2012:Missionary WorkScience Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction was Terry Carr's first solo anthology to be published, after a volume or two of his work with Donald Wollheim...
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FFB: THE OVERLOOK FILM ENCYCLOPEDIA: HORROR, edited by Phil Hardy (Overlook...
Here's the second and so far final edition (1993, after 1985) of one of the more impressive, if deeply flawed, reference/critical works in horror film; among the flaws is that the entries are unsigned,...
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FFB: MIND FIELDS by Harlan Ellison and Jacek Yerka (Morpheus International 1994)
Jacek Yerka is a Polish painter who was influenced first and foremost, we're told, by the Flemish school of representational art, and one can see that; the degree to which he was also influenced by...
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Richard Moore on Bill Crider and his Truman Smith novels and crime-fiction...
On Bill Crider:Richard Moore, James Reasoner, Bill CriderI first got to know Bill Crider in an Amateur Press Association (APA) for mystery fans called Elementary My Dear APA or DAPA-EM. Long before the...
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