Friday's "Forgotten" Books: links to the reviews and more: 19 September 2025

Patti Abbott: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (translated by Stephen Snyder)

Douglas A. Anderson: The Smoking Leg and Other Stories by John Metcalfe

Brian Busby: A Fair Affair by Paul Champagne

"Dead Yesterday": Sleep Long, My Love by Hillary Waugh

Eric: Crash Course by Kathryn Johnson

Martin Edwards: Dead Men at the Folly by John Rhode

Will Errickson: Night Visions: In the Blood: stories by Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee and Steven Rasnic Tem, edited by Alan Ryan

Michael Gonzalez: Richard Prince prose and film-scripting, not least Sea of Love: Donald Westlake's Parker novels and their films, set in Harlem and elswhere

Charles Gramlich: the Sword and Planet fiction of Leigh Brackett

Bev Hankins: Panic in Paradise by "Alan Amos" (Kathleen Moore Knight)

Lesa Holstine: A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke

Rich Horton: "It Opens the Sky" among the stories of Theodore Sturgeon; The Blighted Stars by Megan  O'Keefe: Angel by Elizabeth Taylor

Jerry House: Kill Now, Pay Later by Robert Terrall (aka "Robert Kyle"); Steve Lewis in 2023

Aubrey Hamilton: The Seven Black Chessman by John Huntingdon

Kate Jackson: The Jealous One by Celia Fremlin

George Kelley: Quicksand and The Book of John Brunner by John Brunner

Karen Langley: Mapping the North by Charlotta Forss; Jasmine Tea by Eileen Chang

B. V. Lawson: Thorne in the Flesh by Rhona Petrie

Todd Mason: Fantastic, August 1976, edited by Ted White, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August and September 1976, edited by Edward Ferman

Neeru: Exit John Horton by J. Jefferson Farjeon

James Nicoll: The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Moike, translated by Deborah Bolivar Boehm; Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois by (and presumably selected by) Gardner Dozois

J. F. Norris: Greymarsh by Arthur J. Rees; Death at Ash House aka The Undesirable Residence by Miles Burton

Jim Noy: The Secret of the Downs by Walter S. Masterman

Colman/Ohlman: A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

J. Kingston Pierce: Ordinary Bear by C. B. Bernard

James Reasoner: Climb a Broken Ladder by Robert Novak

Steven H. Silver: A Tor Double: novellas Riding the Torch by Norman Spinrad and Tin Soldier by Joan D. Vinge

Kevin Tipple: Beyond the Truth by Bruce Robert Coffin

"TomCat": "Death at the Porthole" (1938) and "The Eye" (1945) by Baynard Kendrick

David Vineyard:  Who He? aka The Rat Race by Alfred Bester

A. J. Wright (III): Petrochemical Nocturne and Nobody Knows When It Got This Good by Amos Jasper Wright IV; 3 generations of A. J. Wrights' books at the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Sterne Library

Todd Mason

Jackie Kashian interviews Nancy Kornfeld about the novels of Clive Cussler

podcasts with "strong" language:

Amber Benson joins Brea Grant and Mallory O'Meara for a discussion of romance fiction from the 198os through today: the Reading Smut podcast

If Books Could Kill podcast: The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins