Saturday, August 23, 2025

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to the reviews and more: 22 August 2025

Patti Abbott: The Dramatist by Ken Bruen

Tony Baer: Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday (with William Duffy)

Frank Babics: Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison

grouped presentations (audio links): Pacificon II, September, 1964:"Anthony Boucher" (William White): "Use of Crime and Suspense Fiction Ideas in Science Fiction"; Karen Anderson, Poul Anderson, Bruce Pelz, Dian Pelz, George Scithers: "The World of Sword and Sorcery"; Richard Lupoff, Ron Ellik, Wally Weber, Arthur Thomson, Joe Gibson: "Ideas and Imagination in Fanzines"

Ben Boulden: The Wolf in the Clouds by Ron Faust

Randal S. Brandt: Plunder of the Sun by David Dodge, and the film adapted from it

Brian Busby: A Japanese Nightingale by "Onoto Watanna" [Winnifred Eaton]


Bill Crider: Among the Gently Mad by Nicholas Basbanes

"DforDoom": Murder on the Way! by Theodore Roscoe

Martin Edwards: Dream of Fair Women by Charlotte Armstrong

Will Errickson: Moths by Rosalind Ashe

Jose Ignacio Escribano Garcia-Bosque: Murder, M.D. by John Street

Curtis Evans: The Cavalier's Cup by "Carter Dickson"/John Dickson Carr

Aubrey Hamilton: The Tunnel Mystery by J. Lenehan

Bev Hankins: Murder in the Caravan and Murder in the Grave by Irina Shapiro

grouped reviews: Maureen Hogan: Hour of the Horde by Gordon Dickson; Victoria Silverwolf: Gateway to Hell by Dennis Wheatley; Amber Dubin: The Star Virus by Barrington J. Bayley and Mask of Chaos by John Jakes

Lesa Holstine: Of All Sad Words by Bill Crider

Jerry House: Cadaver in Chief: A Special Report from the Dawn of the Zombie Apocalypse by Steve Hockensmith

Kate Jackson: Death of a Stray Cat by Jean Potts; my top 5 mysteries of the 1920s

Tracy K: Death by Accident by Bill Crider

Kaggsy: The Reader and the Writer by Christa Wolf

George Kelley: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopoids!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends transcribed and edited by Richard Wolinsky

B. V. Lawson: Murder Among Friends by Elizabeth Ferrars

Steve Lewis: The House of Blue Lights by Robert J. Bowman

Todd Mason: You're All Alone (and variant version, The Sinful Ones) by Fritz Leiber (and some other 1950 fantasy-magazine fiction)

Marcia Muller: The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink by Erle Stanley Gardner

Neeru: Frame-Up by Andrew Garve


J. F. Norris: The Croaking Raven by Gladys Mitchell

Jim Noy: Sorceror's House by Gerald Verner

"Paperback Warrior": the Mac Bolan series, created by Don Pendleton

"Puzzle Doctor": The Judas Window by "Carter Dickson" (John Dickson Carr)

James Reasoner: The Fast Buck by Ross Laurence

Kevin Tipple: At What Cost by James L'Etoile
--TM

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