Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Todd Mason forwarded me the following list of writers' favorite scary stories. I reply after the list Martin Morse Wooster reports to the FictionMags list: In their October 28 WASHINGTON POST fiction page, the editors of BOOK WORLD asked writers, "What story scares the hell out of you?" Anne Rice: M.R. James, "Count Magnus" Scott Smith: Stewart O'Nan, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING Douglas...
craigblog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
This book is brilliant - stop reading this drivel and go buy it now! If someone presented this tale to you and told you they had just made it up, it was a figment of their imagination then you would read it and enjoy it but at the back of your mind you would probably think [...]
Crazy Cozy Murders (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
hours read: 22 hours and 5 minutes (1325 minutes) pages read: 825 books read: Undead and Unreturnable by MaryJanice Davidson 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher The Spirit by Will Eisner The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett parts of: Reliquary by Douglas Preston & Lee Child Stake That by Mari Mancusi minutes spent doing other things: 1 hour and 55 minutes (115 minutes) I'm exhausted! I really am, but I'm...
Crazy Cozy Murders (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
hours read so far: 16 and some pages read so far: 431 pages and 2 hours of Reliquary by Douglas Preston & Lee Child book of the hour: back to 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher now, needed Reliquary to relax my eyes minutes spent doing other things: max. 15 playing with the cat CD of the hour: Lordi: The Arockalypse Quite a change from my music before, huh? But now that I have relaxed my eyes I need to...
Planetalyx Information Bureau (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
We're taking it easy this weekend; the latter half of October is going to be a circus, I think, and some energy-marshalling is called for. That didn't stop us from going folk dancing at the newly rebuilt Cultch with Muppet. If you're big on doing stuff in your community, with your neighbors, this event was a dream come true: free admission, beloved local venue, packed with couples conventional and...
. A Book every Six Days . (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Publ: 2007 Pensby Library ISBN: 978-0-7528-8281- 9 Genre: Thriller Pages: 513p Found by Serendipity Rating: ***** ** What led you to pick up this book? I fancied an easy to read thriller and the plot of this one sounmded good. Describe the plot without giving anything away. The eighth book in the Prendergast series. FBI agent Prendergast has taken his ward Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping...
Luke Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
After my time with the shorter lengths, a return to the full novel was due. As a fan of thrillers, especially those with a hint (or more than just a hint) of the more than ordinary, I generally scan a certain subset of authors. Included here are Matthew Reilly (especially Temple and his Jack West, Jr. series), Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (both together and separately), early James Rollins (think...
HorrorScope (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
ZOMBIES, cults and voodoo collide with police procedure in the latest supernatural FBI thriller by US authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The ninth book in the Special Agent Pendergast series sees unorthodox Special Agent A.X.L Pendergast investigate a reclusive Manhattan cult suspected of bringing victims back to life to carry out revenge-fuelled murders. When traditional police procedures...
SevenMinutesToMidnight (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Last night I tried to watch the 2008 British film 'Donkey Punch' , on Film4 . I like some films that some consider reprehensible , i.e Hostel and Hannibal , but DP seems to be a cynical exercise in 'let's make a controversial film about teenagers , then enough of them will want to see it to make it profitable enough' . It's about girls holidaying in spain meeting lads with a flashy yacht , one of the...
Euro Crime (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
The latest edition of the Simon Mayo's Book Review podcast - hosted by Richard Bacon this week - reviews The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi -the 'true crime' story of Italy's notorious serial killer. Interestingly, none of the panel had heard about the story before. The Euro Crime review, posted in January, is here . One of the senior policeman in the case, Michele Giuttari,...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
The British Fantasy Society announced a new original anthology series published exclusively for BFSA members . The first one is titled The British Fantasy Society Yearbook 2009 . Contributors to the volume (which is prefaced with an introductory essay from Gail Z. Martin) include James Barclay, Allyson Bird, Andrew Cartmel, Mark Chadbourn, Christopher Fowler, Gary Fry, Garry Kilworth, Tim Lebbon,...
The Thrill Begins (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
by Karen Dionne In memory of Michael Crichton, who died in late 2008 at the age of 66, last April, Writer's Digest Magazine asked me to share what I learned as a writer from reading my idol’s books. Here’s what I said: 1. CHALLENGE YOUR READER. Don’t be afraid to tackle complex topics such as quantum physics or manipulating the genetic code. Readers love learning something new. Stirring...
Omelyn.com (Free subscription) | 07/25/2009
Tom Cruise has bought the rights to "The Monster of Florence", the novel by the master thriller writer Douglas Preston and by Mario Spezi the Florence journalist.
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
Someone should make a Sean Bean banner with the words "Winter is Coming". And not quite speculative fiction related but do drop by Blogathon for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center! Interviews Ross E Lockhart interviews Nathalie Mallet . Sue Grandys interviews Steven Burst (podcast). 26 to 50 interviews various authors/editors on the generation gap in science fiction (see left-side column)....
HorrorScope (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Orion Books, 2009 A New York Times reporter is brutally murdered in his own apartment, with eyewitness testimony and CCTV footage indicating that the killer was a neighbour. An open-and-shut case? Not when the neighbour was reported as dead and buried weeks earlier. As FBI Special Agent Pendergast and NYPD Lieutenant D'Acosta are thrown together once again to investigate...
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