FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to reviews and related texts; 9 October 2020

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. A good week for Barry Malzberg, Avram Davidson, Bruce Wayne and Shirley Jackson...

(This week incorporating entries from the #1956Club and Friday Fright Night roundelays)

Patricia Abbott: The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

Frank Babics: The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg

Mark Baker: Nancy's Mysterious Letter by "Carolyn Keene" (in this case, Walter Karig)

Paul Barnett/"John Grant": Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan (translated by George Miller)

Brad Bigelow: Five A. M. by Jean Dutourd (translated by Robin Chancellor); Waiting for Nothing by Tom Kromer; Álvaro Santana-Acuña on South American alternate history novels, the peers of One Hundred Years of Solitude

Les Blatt: Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon (translated by David Bellos); Tread Softly by Brian Flynn; Murder Must Wait by Arthur Upfield; Lord Edgeware Dies by Agatha Christie

Elgin Bleecker: Kiss Her Goodbye by "Wade Miller" (Robert Wade and William Miller)

Joachim Boaz: Beyond Apollo by Barry Malzberg

Damien Broderick: Neuropath by R. Scott Bakker

Brian Busby: the short fiction of Arthur Mayse

Jason Cavallaro: 10 overlooked novels for Hallowe'en: Sineater by Elizabeth Massie et al.

Douglas Cohen: Realms of Fantasy, August 1996, edited by Shawna McCarthy

Kate Cray: The Writers History Has Forgotten

Liz Dexter: The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

Susan Dunlap and Marcia Muller: The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

Scott Edelman: Priya Sharma

Martin Edwards: The Fair Murder by "Nicholas Brady" (John V. Turner)

Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Batman comics in the 1980s: December 1980 and best/worst of the year

Barry Ergang: Ghost Town Gold by William Colt MacDonald

Will Errickson: favorite horror stories: "Charles" by
Shirley Jackson, Mademoiselle, July 1948, edited by Betsy Blackwell; "His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood" by Poppy Z. Brite, Borderlands, edited by Thomas Monteleone; "The Night Ocean" by Robert H. Barlow and H. P. Lovecraft, The Californian, Winter 1936, edited by Hyman Bradofsky; "Miss Mack" by Michael McDowell, Halloween Horrors edited by Alan Ryan

w/Shirley Jackson's "Charles"

José Ignacio Escribano:  Maigret and the Wine Merchant by Georges Simenon (translated by Ros Schwartz); Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie; The Woman in the Wardrobe by Peter Shaffer

Curtis Evans: Dead by Now by Margaret Erskine, and Edward Gorey, and the Friday Fright Night links

"Ohlman Feelyus": Plunder Squad by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake); The Foundling by Georgette Heyer

Elizabeth Foxwell: "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell;   discussion of works adapted for Hitchcock-directed films

Paul Fraser: New Worlds SF, January 1966, edited by Michael Moorcock and Langdon Jones 

Cullen Gallagher: Sleep with the Devil by "Day Keene" (Gunard Hjerstedt); The Thrilling Adventure Hour 

Aubrey Hamilton: The Murder on the Bus by Cecil Freeman Gregg; Tropical Heat by John Lutz

Bev Hankins: The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost by John Bellairs; The Spiral Staircase by Ethel Lina White; The Mystery of Skeleton Key by Bernard Capes

David G. Hartwell: 200 Significant SF Novels Written By Women, Published 1984-2001

Rich Horton: The Other Nineteenth Century by Avram Davidson; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; Red Thunder and some short fiction by John Varley; The Bell at Sealey Head by Patricia A. McKillip

Jerry House: Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year [14th annual; 1985] edited by Terry Carr; Adrift in a Boneyard by Robert Lewis Taylor; Daredevil Comics, #1, July 1941, largely written and drawn by Charles Biro and Bob Wood

Kate Jackson: The Black Eye by "Conyth Little" (Constance and Gwenyth Little); Dark Road by Doris Miles Disney; skull'd covers

Tracy K: The Keys of My Prison by Frances Shelley Wees; Voyage into Violence by Frances and Richard Lockridge

Colman Keane: Nightmare Child by Ed Gorman; No Strings by Mark Safranko; Bumping Off Fat Vinny by Morgan St. James and David Griffin

George Kelley: The Affinity Bridge by George Mann; 

The Case of the Left-Handed Lady by Nancy Springer; The Tangled Skein by David Stuart Davies; Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Sherlock Holmes’ Rediscovered Railway Stories: Four Original Short Stories by John Taylor

Joe Kenney: The Penetrator: Candidate's Blood by "Lionel Derrick" (in this case, Mark Roberts); The Lone Wolf: Night Raider (#1) by "Mike Barry" (Barry Malzberg)

Margot Kinberg: Misremembering in crime fiction

Rob Kitchin: A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly

Karen Langley: The Journals of Jean Cocteau edited and translated by Wallace Fowlie; Every Eye by Isobel English

B. V. Lawson: Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon

Xavier Lechard: John Dickson Carr and H. P. Lovecraft

Des/D. F. Lewis: Nightscript #6 edited by C. M. Muller

Evan Lewis: "The Girl with the Silver Eyes" by Dashiell Hammett, The Black Mask, June 1924, edited by Philip Cody, as syndicated to newspapers including The Vancouver Sun, November 1936

Steve Lewis: Three Motives for Murder by Roy Winsor

Library of America: "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe, Godey's Ladies and Gentleman's  Magazine, May 1842, edited by Sarah Josepha Hale; "Refugee Procession is Scene of Horror" by Ernest Hemingway, Toronto Star, 14 November 1922

Robert Lopresti: "Chum in the Water" by Lori Roy, Tampa Bay Noir edited by Colette Bancroft

Todd Mason: Ghosts and More Ghosts by Robert Arthur; Tales of Terror by Ida Chittum; 1989 horror anthologies: Tales by Moonlight II edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson; Book of the Dead edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector; The Year's Best Horror Stories XVI edited by Karl Edward Wagner; The Year's Best Fantasy [and Horror], Second Annual, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling; The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 9th Series (aka Flowers for Algernon and Other Stories), edited by Robert Mills; The Unexpected edited by Leo Margulies

Steven J. McDermott: A Haven for the Damned by Harry Whittington; College for Sinners by Lawrence Block; My Flesh is Sweet by "Day Keene" (Gunard Hjerstedt)

Mike: The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux

Neeru: The Diehard by Jean Potts

Steven Nester: Tender is LeVine by Andrew Bergman

Jess Nevins: 20th Century African Horror Fiction

John F. Norris: The Come Back by Carolyn Wells

Ray O'Leary: The Further Adventures of Batman edited by Martin H. Greenberg

John O'Neill: Strange Seas and Shores by Avram Davidson

Paperback Warrior: The Hunter by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake); Violent Saturday by W. L. Heath; Gift of Death by Edward S. Aarons; Spawn by Shaun Hutson

Matt Paust: Secret Warriors, Psychic Spies by Roger Mannon

Christine Poulson: favorite scary stories: "Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M. R. James, "Afterward" by Edith Wharton and others

Jordan Prejean: The Twilight Zone Magazine, edited by T. E. D. Klein, November 1982

James Reasoner: Gold Comes in Bricks by "A. A. Fair" (Erle Stanley Gardner)

Moira Redmond: The Plague Court Murders by John Dickson Carr

Richard Robinson: Crime Through Time edited by 

Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman

Gerard Saylor: Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette (translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith)

Steve Scott: "John D. MacDonald Speaks" by Roger H. Smith

Jack Seabrook: "Body in the Barn" by Margaret Manners, Argosy, February 1945, edited by Harry Steeger

Marina Sofia: The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary (translated by Jonathan Griffin)

Kerrie Smith: Long Way Home by Eva Dolan

Jonathan Strahan: S. Qiouyi Yu

Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe: rereading SF

Dan Stumpf: High Sierra by W. R. Burnett

Simon Thomas: #1956Club roundelay

Scott Thompson: This Charming Pastime by Edith Templeton

"TomCat": The Case of the Seven of Calvary by "Anthony Boucher" (William White); The Mystery of the Vanishing Magician by "Bruce Campbell" (Beryl and Sam Epstein); An Impossible Murder for Markus by "Aster Berkhof" (Lode van den Bergh)--not yet translated from the Dutch

Prashant Trikannad: Drink with the Devil by "Jack Higgins" (Henry Patterson); Stone: MIA Hunter by Stephen Mertz

David Vineyard: Touchfeather by Jimmy Sangster

Bill Wallace: Life Among the Savages and Raising

Churchill, Pound or Albee?

Demons by Shirley Jackson;

Evergreen Review, May, June and July 1968, edited by Barney Rosset

Boyd White, Lloyd Currey et al.: Masters of Terror, books published 1967-97

Gary K. Wolfe: Paul Park

Susan Wolfe: Reckless by Andrew Gross

A, J. Wright: Alan K. Akers, short-story writer

Mark Yon: New Worlds SF, October 1965, edited by Michael Moorcock and Langdon Jones; Science Fantasy, October 1965, edited by Kyril Bonfiglioli and Keith Roberts

Allison Ziegler: Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy