Saturday, January 28, 2012

At the Earth's Core, Edgar Rice Burroughs

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At the Earth's Core , published in 1922, was the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pellucidar novels. I’ve always found his books to be hig...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Spiderweb by Robert Bloch

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Robert Bloch is best-known as the author of Psycho . He stated his career as a disciple of H. P. Lovecraft but quickly established his own s...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

Blind Corner, Dornford Yates

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Dornford Yates (1885-1960) was one of the most popular British authors of thrillers in the years between the two world wars. In fact Yates, ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Mickey Spillane's I, The Jury

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In 1947 Mickey Spillane’s first Mike Hammer novel I, The Jury hit the bookstores. Depending on your point of view this event marked the deg...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Sax Rohmer’s The Fire Goddess

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The Fire Goddess (published in Britain as Virgin in Flames ) was the third of Sax Rohmer’s five Sumuru novels published between 1950 and 19...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four

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Apart from The Hound of the Baskervilles Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels are not as highly regarded as his short stories. In the case ...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Conan Doyle’s The Disintegration Machine and When the World Screamed

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The best known of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s science fiction novels is of course The Lost World , chronicling the adventures of the extraordin...