“Three-Bladed Doom” was a short story authored by Robert E. Howard starring his character El Borak . It was not published during Howard...

Robert E. Howard's weird fiction story “Black Hound of Death” first appeared in the November 1936 issue of Weird Tales . It was also in...

Pennsylvania native Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (1910-2003) discovered science-fiction at the age of 15. He soon began writing his own stories and...

Open Season began life as the novel The All-Americans , authored by David Osborn. Osborn simultaneously wrote the book and the screenplay a...

Robert E. Howard's story “Rattle of Bones” was first published in Weird Tales in the June 1929 issue. The story was also printed in Sk...

Here's what we know about Fred Fellows , the protagonist of 11 crime-fiction novels by Hillary Waugh , a Mystery Writers of America Gran...

Author David Eddings (1931-2009) authored best-selling fantasy epics like The Belgariad , The Dreamers , The Elenium , and The Malloreon . ...

On his newest book hunt, Eric hits the Queen City to search for vintage paperbacks in two popular independent book stores. Can he find the g...

“The Curse of the House” is an early short story authored by Robert Bloch (1917-1994). It first appeared in the February 1939 issue of Stra...

Not much is known about author Conrad Dawn (1933-2002). He served in the U.S.M.C. From 1951 to 1954 and was wounded in action during America...

Claude Teweles, now Julia Teweles , was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was first published at the age of 15 by the National Geographic So...

In this video, I'm ranking my ten favorite reads from the month of November. Included are book covers, insert scans, and capsule reviews...

Bjorn Nyberg (1929-2004) briefly associated himself with Conan lore beginning in the 1950s. The Swedish author collaborated with L. Sprague...

Hired Lover was first published in 1959 under the pseudonym Fred Martin, but the real author was king of the sleaze-crime genre, Orrie Hit...

Quarry’s Return  (2024  Hard Case Crime ) is the 17th novel by  Max Allan Collins  featuring his contract killer character - a series that h...

In this exclusive video, Eric presents a top 20 ranking of Stephen King's Night Shift stories. Each story includes a capsule review wi...

Shortly before Cormac McCarthy's death in 2023 he received a passionate letter from a French artist named Manu Larcenet. In the letter, ...

In a New York Times 2009 interview with Gregory Cowles, author John Wray professes his love for abstract music and its dream-like ability t...

The premise of Robert Harris’ most acclaimed novel, Fatherland  (1992), is an interesting thought-experiment expanded into an alternate-hist...

In this last episode of 2024, Eric takes a breathtaking leap into the high-adventure, high-octane world of Alistair MacLean . He dives into ...