Friday's "Forgotten" Books: links to the reviews, et al. 26 September 2025

Patricia Abbott: Morningstar: Growing Up with Books by Ann Hood

Brad Bigelow: Bad Girl by Viña Delmar

Brian Busby: recent vintage Canadian lit reviews

Colman/Olman: A Chill Rain in January by L.R. Wright; Barking Dogs by Terence M. Green

This issue can be read at this link.

Tony Davis: Dorothy McIllwraith, editor of Short Stories and Weird Tales magazines

Martin Edwards: Words for Murder, Perhaps by "Edward Candy" (Barbara Neville); Dead Men at the Folly by John Rhode; Murder Squad

Eric: Missing in Action by William J. Linn; the short fiction of Charles Boeckman

Will Errickson: Such Nice People by Sandra Scoppetone; The Happy Man by Eric C. Higgs; The Farm by Richard Haigh: the final volumes of the Paperbacks from Hell reissue series

Curtis Evans: The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by John Dickson Carr and Adrian Conan Doyle

Paul Fraser: Future Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1943, edited by Robert W. Lowndes

Ted Gioia on David Foster Wallace and his more accessible work

Michael Gonzales: the prose and film-scripting of Eleanor Perry; The 1980s NYC Bookstore: Supper at Scribner's

Brea Grant and Mallory O’Meara: The Most Underrated Books of the Year

Aubrey Nye Hamilton: Pattern for Murder by Ione Sandberg Shriner (nee Elaine Mathilda Sandberg)

Bev Hankins: The Nine Waxed Faces by "Francis Beeding" (John Leslie Palmer & Hilary St. George Saunders)

 

Lisa Hill: Short Story September 2025

Lesa Holstine: "The Hunter" by Tim Sullivan (a DS Cross short story); Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner 

Rich Horton: Changelog: Collected Fiction by Rich Larson; Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick

Jerry House: Black Creek Crossing by John Saul

Kate Jackson: Death in Ambush by "Susan Gilruth" (Susannah Margaret Hornsby-Wright); The Whisper in the Gloom by Nicholas Blake; The Immaterial Murder Case by Julian Symons; Death at Deepwood Grange by Michael Underwood 

George Kelley: Yalum by Matthew Hughes

Stephen King on Daphne du Maurier

Karen Langley: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch by Rosalind Brackenbury; Look at Me by Anita Brookner; Looking After Your Books by Francesca Galligan

Joe Kenney: Raga 6 by Frank Lauria

B. V. Lawson: Murderous Schemes edited by J. Madison Davis and Donald E. Westlake

Steve Lewis: Orbit 3 edited by Damon Knight ("Joachim Boaz", as well.)

Todd Mason: 2021 best horror fiction of the year annuals anthologies

Neeru: A Hundred Years Hence Reading Challenge

James Nicoll: Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack; Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu

J. F. Norris: Now Seek My Bones by S, H, Courtier

Jim Noy: Cat and Mouse by Christianna Brand

James Reasoner: Climb a Broken Ladder by Robert Novak; Shield for Murder by William P. McGivern; Montana Fury by "Al Cody" (Archie Joscelyn), Lariat Story Magazine, May 1927; Detective Action Stories, October 1936; The Sandhills Shootings by "Chap O'Keefe" (Keith Chapman); Jebediah Smith by Alfred Wallon

Gerard Saylor: I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Mannie Murphy

Steven H. Silver: The Graveyard Heart by Roger Zelazny and Elegy for Angels and Dogs by Walter Jon Williams (Tor Double #24) 

Gay Talese and Edward Sorel, with Mark Rozzo: "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold", Esquire, April 1966, edited by Harold Hayes

Kevin Tipple: Within Plain Sight by Bruce Robert Coffin

Bill Wallace: Weird Tales, October 1939, edited by Farnsworth Wright

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