Friday, September 13, 2019

FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to the reviews: Friday 13 September 2019

This week's books and more, 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...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments.

Stacy Alesi: The F List: Fiction Reviews 1983-2013

Brad Bigelow: Gaëtan, or The Stock-Taking by Edith de Born  


Paul Bishop: the Lance Spearman fumetti/photo-stories by James Richard Abe Bailey in African Film magazine

Les Blatt: Dead Men Don't Ski by Patricia Moyes; Death in Dark Glasses by George Bellairs

Joachim Boaz: Armed Camps by Kit Reed 

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

Paul D. Brazill: The Not Knowing by Cathi Unsworth

Brian Busby: The Watching Cat by Pamela Fry; Constance Beresford-Howe 

Paul Doiron: Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke

Martin Edwards: Cold Blood by Leo Bruce

Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren horror comics, February-July 1968 

Will Errickson: Splatterpunks: Extreme Horror edited by Paul Sammon

José Ignacio Escribano: Green for Danger by Christianna Brand; about Brand (Mary Christianna Milne) 

Curtis Evans: The Leavenworth Case by Ana Katherine Green; the works of Ruth Fenisong (aka Ruth Feinsong)

Olman Feelyus: Laura by Vera Caspary; Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt 

Paul Fraser: Anthony Boucher: A Bibliography by Jeffrey Marks 

John Grant: Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard; Lisey's Story by Stephen King 

Aubrey Hamilton: Straw Man by Doris Miles Disney; Sleight of Hand by Philip Margolin 

Bev Hankins: Black Aura by John Sladek; His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet 

Steve Harper: Superworld Comics edited by Hugo Gernsback

Rich Horton: Pat Cadigan stories; Meeting at Infinity by John Brunner; Beyond the Silver Sky by Kenneth Bulmer; Olympiad by Tom Holt; The Scar by China Miéville; Tony Pi stories

Jerry House: FP1 Does Not Reply by Kurt (aka Curt) Siodmak (translated by H. W. Farrell); Schoolgirls' Picture Library #15: "Schoolgirls to the Rescue"

Kate Jackson: The Short Weekend by T. S. Strachan; Go, Lovely Rose and The Evil Wish by Jean Potts; The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye by Brian Flynn; Deep Waters edited by Martin Edwards

Tracy K: Champagne for One by Rex Stout

Colman Keane: Sara Gran


George Kelley: Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Deserina Boskovic

Joe Kenney: Death of an Informer by "Will Perry" (W. J. Weatherby); MIA Hunter #9: Invasion U.S.S.R. by "Jack Buchanan" (Stephen Mertz and Arthur Moore)

Rob Kitchin: The Three Evangelists by "Fred Vargas" (Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau) (translated by Sian Leonard); Gravesend by William Boyle 

Derek Kumsken: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

B. V. Lawson: The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak 

Xavier Lechard: John Dickson Carr and Edward D. Hoch 

Brian Leno: "Fungus Isle" by Philip M. Fisher, Argosy All-Story Weekly, 27 October 1923, edited by Archibald Bittner

Evan Lewis: "Their Guardian from Hell" by Norbert Davis, Star Western, March 1937, edited by Rogers Terril

Steve Lewis: "The House Party at Smoky Island" by L. M. Montgomery, Weird Tales, August 1935, edited by Farnsworth Wright; Tanner's Tiger by Lawrence Block; Robbers by Peter Whalley; Katwalk by Karen Kijewski


James McGlothlin: The Best of L. Sprague de Camp


James David Nicholl: collections by Mildred Clingerman, Margaret St. Clair (edited by Ramsey Campbell), Katherine MacLean, C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner (as selected by David Curtis), and Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women 1958-63 edited by Gideon Marcus 

John O'Neill: Minds Unleashed edited by Groff Conklin; Strange Invasion by Michael Kandel

Matt Paust: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart 

James Reasoner: The Case of the Glamorous Ghost by Erle Stanley Gardner

Richard Robinson: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Sandra Ruttan: African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou (translated by Christine Schwartz Hartley)

Gerard Saylor: Bread and Butter by Michelle Widgen; The Secret Place by Tana French

Jack Seabrook: "The Chinless Wonder" by Stanley Abbott, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January 1965, edited by G. F. Foster, and the Alfred Hitchcock Presents: scripts of Arthur Ross

Steven H Silver: debut sf novels of 1979

"TomCat": The Billiard-Room Mystery by Brian Flynn

David Vineyard: A Kind of Anger by Eric Ambler 

Lisa Yaszek: "Mr. Sakrison's Halt" by Mildred Clingerman 

Bill Wallace: Weird Tales, February 1926, edited by Farnsworth Wright; The Magic Christian by Terry Southern
















































































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