"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Cornell Woolrich Out of all the thousands and thousands of fine constructive women in this world, what evil star made him pick her out? What got him about her? Couldn’t he see, couldn’t he tell---? Told entirely from Alberta ‘Angel-Face’ French’s point of view, our female protagonist learns her husband is having an affair... Continue Reading →
by Cornell Woolrich “When the laws of nature conflict with indisputable evidence like this, the laws of nature go into the discard. Who is to say what they are anyway—you? I?” Manning, a recently successful promoter, convinces Kiki, his recently successful starlet client at the top of her game, to brandish a jaguar on a... Continue Reading →
by Cornell Woolrich Whatever this whole thing was that had happened, he knew he was about to have it explained to him. In just a few minutes now. And that was no solace. A man wakes up to find people all around, an ambulance on the way, and no memory of the last three years... Continue Reading →
by Cornell Woolrich “The really clever woman is all things to all men.” Based on Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill movies (or is it the other way around?), The Bride Wore Black is a dark mystery novel of revenge with an atypical femme fatale. This time, instead of the monstrously attractive woman wrangling the wills of... Continue Reading →
by Fritz Leiber The first book in the revered series is, like the rest of the books, actually a collection of shorter works. This one consists of one short story, “Induction,” two novellas, The Snow Women and Ill Met in Lankmar, and the novelette The Unholy Grail. "Induction" serves as the briefest of overviews, introducing... Continue Reading →
by Charles G. Finney "The world is my idea," he said. "The world is my idea; as such I present it to you." In a bizarre tale, a circus arrives in the small Arizona town of Abalone. Over the course of a single afternoon the townsfolk witness the arrival of the three wagon circus, the contents... Continue Reading →
by William Lindsay Gresham “I've given ‘em mentalism and they treat it like a dog walking on his hind legs. Okay. They're asking for it. Here it comes." As a young man, Stan finds himself joining a carnival. He begins learning the ropes of selecting marks, prying money from their hands, and finds himself a... Continue Reading →
by John Fowles “What I’m trying to say is that having her as my guest happened suddenly, it wasn’t something I planned the moment the money came.” They call it a thriller. And it is, heightening suspense and anxiety, but since nearly half the book takes place from the point of view of the disturbed... Continue Reading →
by Bernard Taylor "When it began there was no way of knowing that anything had begun." With a sad, despairing look back at the untold events of the last few years, we almost instantly know something went horribly wrong at the book’s opening. Then there’s the abrupt shift to a sweet, idealistic family existence where we are... Continue Reading →
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