There was a time Holmes battling Lovecraftian horrors would have been unusual
Which is how I came to write my first published story back in 1983. Not that I’m claiming The Adventure of the Red Leech was the first such crossover — …
Category: Mystery and Mayhem
Crime was never as organized as this!
I think it was reading Future Quest, based on Greg Hatcher’s recommendation, that got me thinking of how many spy cartels were operating in 1960s fiction. Blame of course, goes …
Magic runs wild in the 20th century as I shamelessly promote myself!
That’s the subtitle for my new short story collection, 19-Infinity, a collection of unrelated short stories set at various points in the 1900s. It’s out in paperback from Amazon and …
Spoiled for Psycho (a question of the week post)
I’m going to make a wild guess that my fellow bloggers and our readers have, at some point in their lives, seen spoilers they’d rather not have known before they …
The Psychedelic Send-Up Bond: The 1967 Casino Royale
Few movies have wasted as much talent as the 1967 film adaptation of Casino Royale. Let’s see, we have David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Orson Welles and …
Twentieth Century Geopolitics and East-West Relations in the Shadow of Dr. Fu Manchu
Rereading Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu series the past year or so (this is a rewritten 2011 post from my own blog) has been a fascinating experience. Not always the reading. …
Be he ever so divergent, there’s no place like Holmes
As I know we have some Holmes fans reading and writing posts here, I thought I’d post this week about two Holmes novels that bend the canon in different ways, …