Ed Gorman's blog

l'll say again, even though I've never known anybody to agree with me, that The Seventh Victim is the finest of Val Lewton's pic...

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Ed here: Last night I thanked Steve Lewis for giving me the phone number of writer Charles Runyon who is, happily, still alive despite my pr...

Forgotten Books: A Purple Place For Dying Of all the Travis McGee novels, this strikes me as the one that would have been right at home in B...

Peter Dragovich writes an interesting article about the late director John Flynn in the new Crimespot. He cites The Outfit and Rolling Thu...

I know people collect first lines but how about first chapters? I thought about this as I dug through a box of old paperbacks the other day....

Since I'm a fan of Nathan Rabin's work for The Onion I'm looking forward to buying his new book My Year Of Flops despite a somew...

Ed here: This week actor Zach Galifianakis and other name actors on Hangover 2 insisted that Mel Gibson, who'd been scheduled to do a ca...

Ed here: I ran this back in ought seven. Chuck Runyon has passed by now sad to say but my admiration for Steve Lewis' site is today even...

HIS NAME WAS DEATH by Fredric Brown After the big war American lives were in flux. Millions trekked to the suburbs to begin an entire...

From Charles Ardai: We've got some big news to announce today: After a year's hiatus, Hard Case Crime will be returning to bookstore...

Ed here: I saw two short pieces on Harry Whittington so I thought I'd reprint my own from 2006 when Stark House published a Harry two-fe...

Thanks to Todd Mason for sending me this and thanks to Barry Malzberg (a fine fine writer and author of one of the the truly GREAT novels ab...

Ed here: Congratulations to everybody, winners and nominess alike. Best Hardcover P.I. Novel: Locked In, by Marcia Muller (Grand Central) Al...

Richards: Mick Jagger was "unbearable" Reuters – Rolling Stones Mick Jagger smiles on stage upon the screening of their film '...

For Forgotten Books this week James Reasoner discussed some of Gardener Fox's sword and sorcery-science fiction work. As much as I like...

DARK CITY UNDERGROUND WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2010 STRANGLEHOLD by Ed Gorman Dev Conrad—the cynical yet hopeful political consultant from Ed ...

Forgotten Books: The Crimes of Jordan Wise, by Bill Pronzini. While this fine novel was published in 2006, I think it's appropriate here...

Amazon Apple books e-books iPad Jeff Bezos Kindle Kindle Singles Media Amazon to Launch Story-Length 'Kindle Singles' By Dylan Stabl...

I read a pretty compelling review of this novel so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm glad I did. This is the source for Swedish film ...