The Wall Around the World (collection) by Theodore R. Cogswell

Like most readers, I have a large stack of books in my to-be-read pile. Some have sat there for an Continue reading →

Abraham’s Boys by Joe Hill

Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts has been heralded as one of the finest horror collections of the past fifteen years, Continue reading →

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 →

The Specialty of the House by Stanley Ellin

You might have noticed things have been sporadic here for a while. The truth is, this website is an outlet Continue reading →

Esther Gordon Framlingham by Anthony Mann

While I don’t deny that Google’s wholesale scanning of books is a flagrant abuse of copyright and all that, I Continue reading →

A Word Shaped Like Bones by Kris Millering

There is a recurring setting in short SF fiction – frequent enough to be noticeable, but rare enough that I Continue reading →

Touchstone by Terry Carr

The ‘be careful what you wish for’ story has been a staple of folk tales long before such classics as Continue reading →

. . . By Good Intentions by Carrie Richerson

Here’s an intriguing stylistic trick: never naming something in a story, while making it perfectly clear what the something is Continue reading →