The Little House at Croix-Rousse by Georges Simenon

I have a fondness for impossible crimes (fictitious ones, that is), and I often prefer them to whodunits. Characters in Continue reading →

Scoring Off Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Jeeves and Wooster was an excellent TV show. Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry not only embodied their parts but had Continue reading →

The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft

A week or so ago I was at Necronomicon, a four day convention in Providence devoted exclusively to the works Continue reading →

The Music from Behind the Moon by James Branch Cabell

Lately I’ve been enjoying Philip Pullman’s new translation/distillation of Grimms’ Fairy Tales, one tale before bed for fifty nights running. Continue reading →

The Silver Key by H.P. Lovecraft

This is a pleasant surprise. When I first burned through the Lovecraft canon in my late teens his Dreamlands stuff Continue reading →

Two Perfect Thefts from Seamark and Sinclair Lewis

Here are two stories so similar to each other it makes me wonder whether there’s a decades-old case of plagiarism Continue reading →

Skull-Face by Robert E. Howard

This is the best Fu Manchu story I’ve come across so far. Oh, technically it’s not about Fu Manchu, but Continue reading →

Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald

At one point Fitzgerald described this story as “a sort of first draft for the Gatsby idea.” And while both Continue reading →