Friday, February 22, 2019

FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS and more: the links to the reviews: 22 February 2019

This week's books, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles. Founder Patti Abbott is attending to other business, and I will be taking up the list regularly for at least a while (very glad to see an FFB entry from her this week)...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments...

Patti Abbott: Rogue Males: Conversations and Confrontations About the Writing Life interviews by Craig McDonald


Elizabeth Bear: Eight classic fantasy and sf novels of the 1970s: by Phyllis Eisenstein, Diane Duane, Phyllis Ann Karr, Jo Clayton, Joy Chant, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Suzy McKee Charnas, Vonda McIntyre


Paul Bishop: the Webb Carrick series by Bill Knox


Les Blatt: Frequent Hearses (aka Sudden Vengeance) by Edmund Crispin


Elgin Bleecker: They Don't Dance Much by James Ross


John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, February 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli


Ben Boulden: "A Real Nice Guy" by William F. Nolan, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, April 1980, edited by Charles Fritch


Brian Busby: 10 Years of the Dusty Bookcase blog


Martin Edwards: The Strange Case of Harriet Hall by "Moray Dalton" (Katherine Dalton Renoir)


Peter Enfantino: Atlas (pre-Marvel) Horror Comics January 1952


Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC War Comics, June 1974


Barry Ergang: God Save the Mark by Donald Westlake (hosted by Kevin Tipple)



Will Errickson: Shadows 4, edited by Charles Grant; Richard Matheson, interviewed by Douglas Winter, Faces of Fear

Curtis Evans: The Capital Murder by "James Z. Alner" (James Alner Tobey)


Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, June 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.; Future Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1943, edited by Robert W. Lowndes (the W squad)


John Grant: Blue Night by Simone Buchholz (translated by Rachel Ward); Tequila Blue by Rolo Diez (translated by Nick Caistor)


Aubrey Hamilton: The Red Castle Women by Margaret Widdemer


Rich Horton: Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem; Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks; stories of David D. Levine; Move Under Ground and stories of Nick Mamatas; The Best of Xero edited by Pat and Dick Lupoff


Jerry House: The Barker, #8, Summer 1948


Kate Jackson: Cat and Mouse by Christianna Brand; There's Trouble Brewing by "Nicholas Blake" (Cecil Day-Lewis)


Nick Jones: Six from Sirius by Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy

Tracy K: The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong


Colman Keane: Dispatches from the Cold and Fade to Clear by Leonard Chang

George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #6 (1944) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg


Joe Kenney: The Scene by "Mike Jahn" (Joseph Michael Jahn)


Margot Kinberg: The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto (translated by Frank Wynne)


Rob Kitchin: Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark


B. V. Lawson: Death Watch by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles


Evan Lewis: Los Tejanos by Jack Jackson; Frank Frazetta Happy Comics art


Steve Lewis: Stamped for Death by Emmett McDowell; Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Second Annual Edition edited by Lester Del Rey; Winner Take All by James McKimmey; "The Giving Plague" by David Brin, Interzone, Spring 1988, edited by David Pringle and Simon Oursley


Jess Nevins: 20th Century African-American Horror Fiction


John F. Norris: The Silent Murders by "Neil Gordon" (Archibald Gordon Macdonnell)


Juri Nummelin: Missing by Sam Hawken


John O'Neill: The Passing of the Dragons by Keith Roberts


Matt Paust: Miami Blues by Charles Willeford


James Reasoner: The Galaxy Raiders by William P. McGivern


Richard Robinson: The Kelloggs, The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel 



Gerard Saylor: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Scott: A Step Out of Time by Betty Askwith

Victoria Silverwolf: Worlds of Tomorrow, April 1964, edited by Frederik Pohl; Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, January 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli



Kerrie Smith: As the Crow Flies by Damien Boyd

Kevin Tipple: A Time to Scatter Stones by Lawrence Block


"TomCat": The Kindaichi Case Files: The Legendary Vampire Murders by Saimura Amagi et al.

Danielle Torres: Stillmeadow Calendar by Gladys Tabor

David Vineyard: Levkas Man by Hammond Innes; "The Blue Sweetheart" by David Goodis, Manhunt, April 1953, edited by Scott Meredith

Lisa Yaszek: "The Jest" by Dorothy Parker




2 comments:

Jack Seabrook said...

Thanks, Todd!

Todd Mason said...

You're quite welcome, Jack. You are reminding me of WEIRD WAR TALES of my childhood, warts and ragged skulls and all. And my other favorite mainline comic was the Atlas/Timely reprint horror anthology from Marvel in the same years, TOMB OF DARKNESS.