Ed Gorman's blog

I ran across this from the editors of Thrilling Detective today. Great stuff. And of course being the simpleton I am I've used several o...

Martin Edwards has posted a nice tribute to Peter Haining, the anthologist who seemed to be everywhere from the 70s well into this decade. I...

You either love Robert E. Howard or you hate him. That's the way it always seems, anyway. I like some of his stuff a lot and some of his...

The always interesting Cinema Retro pointed me to a Nathan Rabin piece on City Heat, the excrutiatingly terrible movie that co-starred Clint...

Sarah Weinman has an interesting piece about all the American writers who've died in the past year. She wonders which of them well conti...

Dear Mr Gorman, I'm glad to see that Max Allan Collins' "Ms Tree" is back and in novel form. Growing up in Scotland in the...

One of the great things about the Ms. Tree comic books by Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty was that they actually told a story. In ...

I'm rereading The Lonely Silver Rain by John D. MacDonald. It's certainly the most mordant of all the McGees, many bloody deaths and...

Ed, You commented on John Trinian a few weeks ago. By coincidence, I rummaged through my DVD library a couple of days ago and plucked out a...

Carol and I spent a very enjoyable afternoon lunch (three hours) with Bob Randisi and Marthayn Peligrimas; and Barb and Max Collins. This is...

For some reason I've owned Jimmy Sangster's autobiography Do You Want It Good Or Tuesday? for years but never reviewed it. I picked ...

Today's Washington Post carries an article about the TV series Mannix. Seems that the only way to buy copies of the once-popular show is...

I see that the subject of buying used books has become a topic again on a few blogs. I suppose it's more relevant than ever given the pe...

Richard Matheson's body of work--suspense, science fiction, western and yes horror--is one of the most inventive, stylish and important ...

Ed here: Bill Pronzini hs long been one of my favorite people and favorite writers. If my Jack Dwyer novels have a single overriding influe...

I've now read six Ira Levin obituaries. Only two of them, thank the Lord, informed us that he wasn't much of a stylist. I don't...

Yesterday's NY Times magazine carried several articles about the western film. A.O. Scott has the most interesting take on the matter. I...

I first read Mailer when I was fourteen or fifteen. The Deer Park. For a prairie boy this peek into the decadent lives of Hollywood outcasts...

I've been reading Rick Hautala since the early 1980s when he was writing some of the most memorable novels in the old Zebra horror line....

Who knew: I watched about twenty minutes of a Turner rerun of one of their four Philo Vance movies...he's more obnoxious on film than he...