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Christmas at the Lewis Place
Thought you'd like to see what Christmas looks like here at our humble abode in the Far Western town of Portland, Oregon.In years past we've gone the whole hog in decorating the yard, but after the...
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Creeping Terror! - A 4-Pack of Thrills from Black Dog Books
Gather up this Creeping Terror special while you can, because it will likely end soon! Four books for fifty bucks (a $68 value): A bookful of Spicy Mysteries by Robert Leslie Bellem (featuring Dr....
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Forgotten Books (and Stories) of 2012 (and 2011, and 2010, and then some)
Each date links to the review. Read them all if you dare!January 13January 20January 27February 3February 10February 17February 24March 2March 9March 16March 23March 30April 6April 13April 20April...
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STILL AVAILABLE: Black Dog Package Specials (including TWO great Sax Rohmers)
There was a lot more to Sax Rohmer than Fu Manchu. These two volumes rediscover stories that have been out of print for decades, including eight that have never been seen (at least in their original...
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Forgotten Books: The Creeping Siamese by Dashiell Hammett (1950)
Yep, I'm still on a Hammett binge, and still have several more books to yap about.This one appeared in both digest and paperback in 1950.The title story, which appeared in the March 1926 Black Mask...
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Overlooked Films: Cagney & Bogart in "The Roaring Twenties" (1939)
You may not have seen this movie, but you’ve seen the story. A guy from the wrong side of the tracks strikes it rich (in this case Jimmy Cagney, peddling liquor during Prohibition), certain that will...
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Forgotten (and FREE) Stories: Race Williams returns in "Monogram in Lead" by...
Here's another in our continuing series of never-reprinted adventures of Race Williams, the Grandfather of Hardboiled Dicks. This "novel" (actually a 35-page novelette) is from the February 1937 issue...
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A Year's Worth of OVERLOOKED FILMS
Some of these are Overlooked Films, some Films I've Overlooked, some Films That Deserve to Be Overlooked, and a few are Films That Continue to be Overlooked, because I still haven't seen them. As you...
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Friday's Forgotten Books: This Week's LINKS
This week I'm cramming my huge gnarly feet into Patti Abbott's size seven pumps and corralling the links to Forgotten Books.Next Friday (Jan. 25) Todd Mason will handle the links. On Feb. 1 it's back...
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Art Gallery: The Phantom of the West (1931) concluded
Posters for the first six chapters of this serial are HERE.
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Overlooked Films: Touch of Evil (1958)
After seeing (and enjoying) the Orson Welles flick The Stranger recently (review HERE), this one snagged my attention when it turned up on cable.Unfortunately, I enjoyed Touch of Evil quite a bit less,...
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