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Read MoreKiss Me Again, Stranger!
I can’t say that I get Daphne du Maurier confused with Patricia Highsmith a lot, but sometimes I have to stop and think, Now, wait a minute, which one wrote “The Doll?” The two author’s styles are very similar. And the atmosphere, my god—the eeriness, …
Read MoreFor True Book Lovers . . .
I read a T shirt or bumper sticker a few months ago that read something like: It’s Not Hoarding if it’s Books. Now that’s a statement to which any true book lover can relate. Is there ever enough space? Nope, I say. Nope. Nope. And …
Read MoreSo, what scares you?
I hereby posit that there is no such thing as the perfect horror story. To my mind the absolute perfect horror story would be so utterly terrifying that the reader would drop dead upon reading the story. He or she would be literally “scared to …
Read MoreCould Charles Dickens make it as an author if he were just starting out today?
I finished reading Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend just the other week or so (the roughly 900-page tome). There is something to be said for sitting down and plowing through an actual book book, something thick and weighty. You can feel the heft of the …
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