Amazon.com: HOPE ROAD (LS9 crime mystery) eBook: John Barlow: Kindle Store: You can't change your past. But what about your future?
Everybody loves a ghost story, and the Christmas season is traditionally a good time for them. So I've been perusing this little collection that contains a group of stories from the gaslight era, all but one of them written by people I'd never heard of. Even the editors can't tell us much about a couple of them, but don't let that discourage you. These are some creepy tales from a time when the ghost story was held in high regard. The general introduction and the introductions to each story are especially valuable if, like me, you're unfamiliar with most of the authors. If you're interested in this kind of thing, you can find lots of cheap copies on the 'Net.
Tales From Super-Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg: Robert Silverberg has assembled a collection of 14 stories from Super-Science Fiction. S-SF was launched during the sf boom of the mid-1950s. Paying a princely rate of 2 cents a word the magazine attracted fiction by Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison. James Gunn, Jack Vance, and Donald Westlake, and featured cover art by Frank Kelly Freas and Ed Emshwiller. Running for 18 bi-monthly issues (Dec ‘55 to Oct ‘59), the magazine eventually devolved into a publication capitalizing on the then-current craze of “monster” stories.Clue for Day 10 (Posted December 14, 2011) Lauren
I’ve always loved literary fiction. There’s something exquisite in an author’s ability to inspire new waves of thought in narration. I love being introduced to new worlds I’ve never seen before, new situations of beauty or horror or sorrow that I know, the minute they enter my mind, I’ll never forget as long as I live.
But it takes work, literary fiction. You can’t just relax and passively read through Chopin or Chandler or Vonnegut. For literary fiction to really do its job, you have to pay close attention and really lend your whole self to the text for a while. This can be an astonishing and mind-altering experience, if you let it. However, literary fiction exists on a spectrum, with the low end being upmarket commercial fiction and the high end being (cue earsplitting, hysterical scream) modernist literature.
There is one particular author of modernist literature whose work I simply can’t get through. Ever since I ignorantly took a college intensive on this author in my senior year of college, thereby allowing him or her to effectively hijack my life, I have disliked the work of this very highly-acclaimed author of modernist literature. I will be haunted by it as long as I work in publishing, since modern authors quote him or her all the time.
Who is this author?
My clue: Guillermo del Toro
Joe Hannibal is back!
Amazon.com: Split Decision (Fight Card) eBook: Jack Tunney, Paul Bishop, Mel Odom, Eric Beetner: Kindle Store: Kansas City, 1954.
A Rage in Harlem is loosely based Chester Himes' For Love of Imabelle. This time instead of a bale of cotton stuffed with cash, the mcguffin's a car with a trunkload of gold, brought to New York by Imabelle, played by Robin Givens as Imabelle, who looks great in red. Coffin Ed and Gravedigger are players, but the heavy lifting is up to Forest Whitaker as the naive shulb Imabelle picks to help her out. His somewhat smarter brother is played by Gregory Hines.| 1. | Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Chuck Berry [2:16] |
| 2. | Walking Along - The Solitaires [2:35] |
| 3. | Elevator Operator - Little Richard [2:21] |
| 4. | We Belong Together - Robert & Johnnie [2:45] |
| 5. | Juke - Little Walter [2:42] |
| 6. | Bo Weevil - Fats Domino [2:46] |
| 7. | Adios - Little Jimmy Scott [3:28] |
| 8. | Ain't Got No Home - Clarence Frogman Henry [2:20] |
| 9. | Please Please Please - James Brown [2:45] |
| 10. | Church Bells May Ring - The Willows [2:27] |
| 11. | Heaven is in Your Heart - Darryl Pandy [4:05] |
| 12. | Honest I Do - Jimmy Reed [2:45] |
| 13. | Pledging My Love - Johnnie Ace [2:27] |
| 14. | Sugar Daddy Blues - LaVern Baker [2:57] |
| 15. | Just Because - Lloyd Price [2:47] |
| 16. | Luckiest Girl in the World - Betty Boo [2:07] |
| 17. | Dust My Broom - Elmore James [2:53] |
| 18. | I Asked for Water - Howlin' Wolf [2:51] |
| 19. | I'm in Love Again - Fats Domino [2:01] |
| 20. | Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley [2:29] |
| 21. | Why, Oh Why? - Betty Boo [2:40] |
| 22. | Let the Good Times Roll - Shirley & Lee [2:23] |
| 23. | A Rage in Harlem - Little Jimmy Scott [3:23] |
| 24. | Heaven is in Your Heart (90s version) - Darryl Pandy [3:47] |
If you like vampires and vampire films, you can't go wrong here. This is a an amazing survey of nearly 500 pages on quality paper, with great still and posters, not to mention valuable commentary. Check it out.
msnbc.com: Fort Worth Code Enforcement officers say around 30 feral pigs escaped from a north side meat processing plant Sunday morning. The hogs scattered into a nearby neighborhood to escape the butcher’s block.
