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RIP Richard Matheson 1926 - 2013 From Shock: Author Richard Matheson has passed away at the age of 87.  As this is breaking new...

Excerpted from  The Minds of Peter Rabe  By Rick Ollerman SEE STARK HOUSE PRESS FOR THIS AND MANY FINE PETER RABE NOVELS In the...

Ed here: Mamie Van Doren was the Queen B of B pictures during the late 50s and early 60s. She was much more talented than the other se...

Edgar Award-nominated author's classic novel of Texas politics and murder, available for the first time in e-book format! Polit...

    No Easy Answers is another first-rate early Carolyn Hart novel from the fine folks at the Oconee Spirit Press.     For my generati...

"It was in the streets of Palamera that Gunner Flagg lost interest in bank robbing as a profession." Clifton Adams was...

I first got the idea for  Cross Road Blues  and its hero, Roy Carpenter, a few years ago when I took an African American literature c...

Ed here: I was always a fan of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. I still  remember when it first appeared in the late Fifties. Cool covers and ...

ROC, 1995 Edition From Gravetapping by Ben Boulden  http://gravetapping.blogspot.com/ "The Face" by Ed Gorman Ed...

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2008 The Kidnapper A few times a week Keith Olbermann runs stories about Dumb Crimina...

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2008 Female noir There's been some discussion on a couple of blogs about fe...

Ed here: I saw this film the other night and was astonished by how amoral, sophisticated, amusing  and psychically painful it...


 From Yahoo Finance: Steven Spielberg's Nightmare Scenario For Hollywood Is Already Coming True Steven Spielberg's N...