Day: September 11, 2017
Ruth Rendell: The Babes in the Wood & Not in the Flesh
For the “In the Dark, Dark Woods” square, I decided on a Ruth Rendell double dip. The Babes in the Wood and Not […]
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Donna Andrews: Lord of the Wings
A Halloween entry in Donna Andrews’s long-running series featuring Caerphilly, VA artisan blacksmith and volunteer town events organizer Meg Langslow — what could possibly be more fitting for this bingo square? Caerphilly (that’s CaerPHILLY to you reporters if you don’t want to have the locals screaming at their TVs at the top of their voices) […]
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Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window / The Long Goodbye
Farewell, My Lovely Farewell, My Lovely is supposed to have been Raymond Chandler’s own favorite novel, and although it didn’t quite manage to elbow The Big Sleep out of the top spot of my personal affections for Chandler’s writing, it came darned close, and It Is also, along with the Christopher Lee / Robert Louis Stevenson […]
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Cornell Woolrich: The Bride Wore Black
Woolrich was one of the classic noir era’s masters of psychological suspense; few of his contemporaries were capable of making nightmare scenarios come alive within a few short pages the way that Cornell Woolrich could. Many of his stories have a downright evil twist at the end, and as far as such endings go, The […]
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
One of the great classics of the horror genre — which I’d read before, but when I heard that there was a recording of the story by Sir Christopher Lee, I just had to have it. And Lee more than delivers on the promise associated with his name alone. No wide-eyed, flamboyantly-gestured horror movie antics […]
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Halloween Bingo 2017: Update 2
My Square Markers and “Virgin” Bingo Card: “Virgin” card posted for ease of tracking and comparison, as called and read squares will, bit by bit, vanish behind my markers and everybody’s cards are different. Black Kitty: Read but not called Black Vignette: Called but not read Black Kitty in Black Vignette: Read and Called […]
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