Ed Gorman's blog

Happy belated birthday to Barbara Mertz a/k/a Elizabeth Peters. One of the nicest and most talented writers our genre has ever produced. Whi...

Richard Wheeler is talking about westerns here. But to some degree I think same old old same old applies to all genres. Occasionally I pick ...

MORE nostalgia? You bet. Geezers on two different blogs are recalling the Whitman books for juveniles published in the Forties and Fifties a...

Since this seems to be nostalgia week, and since several bloggers are talking about some of their favorite tv shows and movies, I'll men...

A bookstore owner recently told me that there was a surfeit of writers asking to visit. A decade ago another bookstore owner told me that ev...

I'm picking up on a recommendation Bill Crider posted yesterday. That being a long interview with James Reasoner posted on that fine wes...

Yes, I admit it. From time to time I read cozies. And what's more, smart ass, the one's I read I enjoy. I think this is probably the...

Marilyn Stasio has a particularly appealing column tomorrow. Her lead paragraph is especially interesting: "There are no daredevil stee...

Vince Keenan recently posted commentary on a noir film called "Crime Wave" with Sterling Hayden and Gene Nelson as the stars. Hayd...

I'm infringing on my friend Bill Crider's great blog tales of woe and the bizzare life forms but Jerry Healy sent me this and I just...

Excellent long review of the Roger Corman boxed set over on Cinema Retro. In a few cases the reviewp iece is better than the films it covers...

From Locus: Death: Robert Jordan Fantasy writer Robert Jordan, born 1948, died today, September 16, 2007, at the age of 58. Jordan was the p...

I don't know if this is a record but it should be. All these books debuting on the list the same week--unless this is some big time comp...

Over on the excellent messageboard The Big Adios (http://p219.ezboard.com/fmessageboardofthedamnedfrm29 the fine western The Yellow Sky was ...

(I offered five sets of my two volume story collection for sale last night. Little did I know I had so many old college chums lurking on the...

A number of you have asked me about the first two volumes of PS Publishings Collected Short Stories of Ed Gorman. The Booklist (of volume on...

Many of us who write genre fiction learned about storytelling first through comic books. By age four I was a stone fanatic about Captain Ma...

Ed here: Over on Tom Piccirilli's great new site The Big Adios http://p219.ezboard.com/fmessageboardofthedamnedfrm29 there's a discu...

Jinx Winslow I'm noting the passing of Jane Wyman because in the late 40s and early 50s I saw so many of her B movies from earlier years...

Three serious flaws in the last few new Westerns -- 1) Too much recycling of plots and themes from the classics (can't these guys think ...