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. And spare a thought for the late Gahan Wilson, his surviving friends and family, and all his fans. And further apologies for a busy and distracting weekend delaying this week's list unconscionably. TM
Patricia Abbott: Trap for Cinderella by Sébastien Japrisot (translated by Helen Weaver)
Stacy Alesi: The P List: Fiction Reviews 1983-2013
Angie Barry: Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
Brad Bigelow: The Collected Stories of Rhys Davies; Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson
Paul Bishop: Tony Masero: fiction and painting
Les Blatt: A Surfeit of Suspects by George Bellairs; The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers
Joachim Boaz: Beyond Apollo by Barry N. Malzberg; "The Wind Blows Free" by Chad Oliver, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1957, edited by "Anthony Boucher" (William White)
Ben Boulden: The Autumn Dead and The Night Remembers by Ed Gorman; Gorman interview;
briefly: Save the Last Dance for Me by Ed Gorman
Louis J. Budd: "Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims" by "Mark Twain" (Samuel Clemens)
Brian Busby: Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders (1955 Whitman abridgment); briefly, The Monkees in Who's Got the Button by William Johnston
Bill Crider: Horrible Beginnings edited by Steven H Silver and Martin H. Greenberg; The Space Magicians edited by Alden H. Norton and Sam Moskowitz
Martin Edwards: The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren horror comics, November 1969-January 1970, edited by Bill Parente
Barry Ergang: Watch Me Die (aka The Man with the Iron-On Badge) by Lee Goldberg
Will Errickson: Shadows 2 edited by Charles L. Grant
José Ignacio Escribano: Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie; "Moray Dalton" (Katherine Renoir); The Big Bow Mystery aka The Perfect Crime by Israel Zangwill; Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
Curtis Evans: The Art School Murders and The Condamine Case by Moray Dalton (Katherine Renoir)
"Olman Feelyus": The Amboy Dukes by Irving Shulman; The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest by Peter Dickinson; Murphy's War by Max Catto
Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1938, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
John Grant: The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill; Van Gogh's Bad Cafe by Frederic Tuten
Aubrey Hamilton: The Case of the Crumpled Knave by "Anthony Boucher" (William White); Shotgun Boogie by Steve Brewer
Bev Hankins: The Noel Coward Murder Case by George Baxt; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rich Horton: Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen; Clifford D. Simak
Jerry House: The Mystery of Cloomber by Arthur Conan Doyle
Kate Jackson: Trial and Error by Anthony Berkeley (Cox); A Bullet for Rhino by Clifford Witting; The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
Randy Johnson: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. novels by David McDaniel
Tracy K: Wicked Uncle by Patricia Wentworth
Karen/"Kaggsy": the 1965 Club
Colman Keane: Wide Open by "John Warren Wells" (Lawrence Block); Killer Queen by T. S. Hunter; Canadian novels
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg; Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Joe Kenney: C.A.D.S. #4: Tech Strike Force by "John Sievert" (Ryder Syvertsen); Strange Stars by Jason Heller
Rob Kitchin: How to Run a City Like Amazon, And Other Fables edited by Mark Graham, Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw; The Honourable Schoolboy by "John le Carré" (David Cornwell)
Kate Laity: The Cross-Eyed Bear Murders by Dorothy B. Hughes
B.V. Lawson: Ah, Sweet Mystery by Celestine Sibley
Xavier Lechard: John Dickson Carr (and Robert Louis Stevenson)/John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles by Douglas Greene
Des/D. F. Lewis: The Scarlet Soul: Stories for Dorian Gray edited by Mark Valentine
Evan Lewis: Hopalong Cassidy newspaper comic strip attributed to Dan Spiegle; Nero Wolfe, the comic strip
Steve Lewis: "The Girls from Earth" by Frank M. Robinson, Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1952, edited by H. L. Gold; Suicide Seat by "Nick Carter" (in this case, George Warren); "The Gun" by Philip K. Dick, Planet Stories, September 1952, edited by Jack O'Sullivan; Kisses Leave No Fingerprints by Mike Fredman
Gary Lovisi: 1950s western fiction digests and some paperbacks
Todd Mason: the works of Gahan Wilson; John Simon
William Patrick Maynard: The Curse of the Snake by Guy Boothby
John F. Norris: The Triple Bite by Brian Flynn; magazine covers for Carolyn Wells's serials
John O'Neill: Re-Birth aka The Chrysalids by "John Wyndham" (John Benyon Harris)
Matt Paust: Booker by David E. McClain; The Beast Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the World: Stories by Harlan Ellison; Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
James Reasoner: Casca: God of Death by Barry Sadler; Spicy-Adventure Stories, August 1941
Richard Robinson: The Singing Bone by R. Austin Freeman
Sandra Ruttan: The Resurrectionist by Wrath James Wright
Gerard Saylor: The Wrath of the Bloodeye by Joseph Delaney
Steve Scott: John D. MacDonald on Travis McGee, paperback originals and, in passing, The Executioners (dumbed down for film twice as Cape Fear)
Jack Seabrook: "Deathmate" by James Causey, Manhunt, March 1957, edited by "John McCloud" (Scott Meredith)
Mark Sieber: Gahan Wilson, RIP
Steven H Silver: Alexis Gilliland; Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
Kerrie Smith: Lapse by Sarah Thornton
Marina Sofia: writers most accounted for in her personal collection
"TomCat": The Rat-a-Tat Mystery by Enid Blyton; "The Touch of Kolyada" by Edward D. Hoch, Mistletoe Mysteries, edited by Charlotte Macleod; Invisible Death and The Case of the Black Twenty-Two by Brian Flynn
David Vineyard: Thunderball by Ian Fleming
Bill Wallace: Evergreen Review, May-June 1960 (#13) and September-October 1960 (#14), edited by Baeney Rosset
Matthew Wuertz: Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1954, edited by H. L. Gold
Patricia Abbott: Trap for Cinderella by Sébastien Japrisot (translated by Helen Weaver)
Stacy Alesi: The P List: Fiction Reviews 1983-2013
Angie Barry: Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
Brad Bigelow: The Collected Stories of Rhys Davies; Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson
Paul Bishop: Tony Masero: fiction and painting
Les Blatt: A Surfeit of Suspects by George Bellairs; The Chinese Parrot by Earl Derr Biggers
Joachim Boaz: Beyond Apollo by Barry N. Malzberg; "The Wind Blows Free" by Chad Oliver, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1957, edited by "Anthony Boucher" (William White)
Ben Boulden: The Autumn Dead and The Night Remembers by Ed Gorman; Gorman interview;
briefly: Save the Last Dance for Me by Ed Gorman
Louis J. Budd: "Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims" by "Mark Twain" (Samuel Clemens)
Brian Busby: Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders (1955 Whitman abridgment); briefly, The Monkees in Who's Got the Button by William Johnston
Bill Crider: Horrible Beginnings edited by Steven H Silver and Martin H. Greenberg; The Space Magicians edited by Alden H. Norton and Sam Moskowitz
Martin Edwards: The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren horror comics, November 1969-January 1970, edited by Bill Parente
Barry Ergang: Watch Me Die (aka The Man with the Iron-On Badge) by Lee Goldberg
Will Errickson: Shadows 2 edited by Charles L. Grant
José Ignacio Escribano: Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie; "Moray Dalton" (Katherine Renoir); The Big Bow Mystery aka The Perfect Crime by Israel Zangwill; Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
Curtis Evans: The Art School Murders and The Condamine Case by Moray Dalton (Katherine Renoir)
"Olman Feelyus": The Amboy Dukes by Irving Shulman; The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest by Peter Dickinson; Murphy's War by Max Catto
Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1938, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
John Grant: The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill; Van Gogh's Bad Cafe by Frederic Tuten
Aubrey Hamilton: The Case of the Crumpled Knave by "Anthony Boucher" (William White); Shotgun Boogie by Steve Brewer
Bev Hankins: The Noel Coward Murder Case by George Baxt; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rich Horton: Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen; Clifford D. Simak
Jerry House: The Mystery of Cloomber by Arthur Conan Doyle
Kate Jackson: Trial and Error by Anthony Berkeley (Cox); A Bullet for Rhino by Clifford Witting; The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
Randy Johnson: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. novels by David McDaniel
Tracy K: Wicked Uncle by Patricia Wentworth
Karen/"Kaggsy": the 1965 Club
Colman Keane: Wide Open by "John Warren Wells" (Lawrence Block); Killer Queen by T. S. Hunter; Canadian novels
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories #16 (1954) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg; Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Joe Kenney: C.A.D.S. #4: Tech Strike Force by "John Sievert" (Ryder Syvertsen); Strange Stars by Jason Heller
Rob Kitchin: How to Run a City Like Amazon, And Other Fables edited by Mark Graham, Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw; The Honourable Schoolboy by "John le Carré" (David Cornwell)
Kate Laity: The Cross-Eyed Bear Murders by Dorothy B. Hughes
B.V. Lawson: Ah, Sweet Mystery by Celestine Sibley
Xavier Lechard: John Dickson Carr (and Robert Louis Stevenson)/John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles by Douglas Greene
Des/D. F. Lewis: The Scarlet Soul: Stories for Dorian Gray edited by Mark Valentine
Evan Lewis: Hopalong Cassidy newspaper comic strip attributed to Dan Spiegle; Nero Wolfe, the comic strip
Steve Lewis: "The Girls from Earth" by Frank M. Robinson, Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1952, edited by H. L. Gold; Suicide Seat by "Nick Carter" (in this case, George Warren); "The Gun" by Philip K. Dick, Planet Stories, September 1952, edited by Jack O'Sullivan; Kisses Leave No Fingerprints by Mike Fredman
Gary Lovisi: 1950s western fiction digests and some paperbacks
Todd Mason: the works of Gahan Wilson; John Simon
William Patrick Maynard: The Curse of the Snake by Guy Boothby
John F. Norris: The Triple Bite by Brian Flynn; magazine covers for Carolyn Wells's serials
John O'Neill: Re-Birth aka The Chrysalids by "John Wyndham" (John Benyon Harris)
Matt Paust: Booker by David E. McClain; The Beast Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the World: Stories by Harlan Ellison; Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
James Reasoner: Casca: God of Death by Barry Sadler; Spicy-Adventure Stories, August 1941
Richard Robinson: The Singing Bone by R. Austin Freeman
Sandra Ruttan: The Resurrectionist by Wrath James Wright
Gerard Saylor: The Wrath of the Bloodeye by Joseph Delaney
Steve Scott: John D. MacDonald on Travis McGee, paperback originals and, in passing, The Executioners (dumbed down for film twice as Cape Fear)
Jack Seabrook: "Deathmate" by James Causey, Manhunt, March 1957, edited by "John McCloud" (Scott Meredith)
Mark Sieber: Gahan Wilson, RIP
Steven H Silver: Alexis Gilliland; Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
Kerrie Smith: Lapse by Sarah Thornton
Marina Sofia: writers most accounted for in her personal collection
"TomCat": The Rat-a-Tat Mystery by Enid Blyton; "The Touch of Kolyada" by Edward D. Hoch, Mistletoe Mysteries, edited by Charlotte Macleod; Invisible Death and The Case of the Black Twenty-Two by Brian Flynn
David Vineyard: Thunderball by Ian Fleming
Bill Wallace: Evergreen Review, May-June 1960 (#13) and September-October 1960 (#14), edited by Baeney Rosset
Matthew Wuertz: Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1954, edited by H. L. Gold
Thanks, Todd. I did not know Scott Meredith edited Manhunt.
ReplyDeleteYou're quite welcome, and thank you. He was at least the primary editor of the "John McCloud" years.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Todd. You picked better than I. BTW, your Gahan Wilson link is dead. :'(
ReplyDeleteNot yet born, my Wilson...things are strange, and perhaps never stranger than the sudden linkage of Wilson and John Simon...thank you, and I will nose around if someone doesn't have something for a given week...particularly if I foolishly manage to miss a note such as you provided pointing to their choice of redux post!
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