The Lure of a Ghost Story by B.R. Myers, author of A Dreadful Splendor Ghost story. Those two words illicit an immediate response; anticipation, intrigue, and perhaps foreboding. Even Arnold Lobel wrote a ghost story for his Frog and Toad series. In SHIVERS, Frog is visiting Toad on a cold dark night and while they […]
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Book Review: More Sherlock Holmes Pastiches
Book Review: More Sherlock Holmes Pastiches By: Chris Chan New entries in the Sherlock Holmes saga have become a subgenre in themselves in crime fiction, and this review will cover some interesting new releases. Liese Sherwood-Fabre has released three books in a series of the early years of Sherlock Holmes. In her works, Sherlock is […]
The Challenges of Storytelling
The Challenges of Storytelling By: Nev March I’m reading Chandler’s The Long Goodbye and just like that, a line had me tearing up. What was the line? A cop tells Philip Marlowe that he’s been wasting his time trying to clear the name of his dead friend Terry Lennox. He says, “And he wasn’t much […]