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John Harwood’s The Asylum (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) is a suspenseful, compelling Victorian-era mystery about a young woman, Georgina Ferrars, who awakens in a private asylum in Cornwall with no memory of how she came to be there. When the staff at Tregannon House inform Georgina that she actually checked herself in under a different […]

In the early 1990s, a Scottish publisher put out an anthology that was supposedly the work of the best younger Scottish poets. Scotland at the time was seeing something of a boom in work by younger poets, few of whom were included in the anthology. There was a launch of the book at a branch […]

Okay, just for a change up, let’s start off with good news and not a bunch of maudlin (but honest) thoughts about the condition of my cancer and state of my life.  Of course, perhaps only other writers will actually care or understand the news with the same depth that I do.  Or maybe they […]

Joe R. Lansdale has been writing riveting novels and stories spanning the suspense, Western, and horror genres for four decades. Frequent themes and elements to his writing include memorably quirky characters, bizarre criminal set-ups, issues of race, and matters of rural deprivation, often all couched in the most brazen humor.  He’s noted as a “cult […]

So I’m thinking of robbing my next door neighbor’s house.  He’s a cop. By his own admission he’s a terrible shot.  And he’s a jolly cop, with a little paunch and a beaming sweet-guy smile.  He’s Officer Norman Rockwell who gets cats out of trees.  Not an intimidating fucker with a cop mustache and ashen eyes […]