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Going to work on paperback layouts this weekend. I refuse to do proper title headers with paginations. If you're reading a novel and forgot the title and can't be arsed to look back to the cover, it's not my problem.

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For the evening crowd! The Owl Men of Shanidar ebook is 99 cents at Kobo & Amazon.

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Rich Hall as a scientist in the 80s version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, before he fled to the UK to escape the legacy of Sniglets.

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Zellners have come a long way from stuffing their mouths with Wonderbread on public access tv

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This guy got fired by Ted Cruz for bragging about beating up sex workers, then Ken Paxton for the asteroid rape stuff. I was going to joke that all there was left was working for Musk, but sure enough, his next client was X. Alex Jones might still be hiring.

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This post reminded me of the "Black Like Me" phenomena, parodies, and pastiches, such as the poorly done treatment for Alien Nation, Slag Like Me, reviewed here trashmenace.blogspot.com/2022/11/alie...

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Look it’s me. 😀 A reminder that I’ll be selling and signing my books this Saturday at the Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy author event at the Main Street Cafe Stittsville, hosted by Re-Read Books. Please come and support some of our awesome local genre authors. Hope to see you there.

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Always wanted to check out this 1965 magazine. A UK, one-shot, wannabe Famous Monsters. Picture-heavy, the ‘X’ title and scary title page infer an adult target audience, but the simplistic ‘monster’ chat belie it’s really for kids. But I like this era for the photos I’ve somehow missed elsewhere.

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Completed collection of ‘Nathan Aldyne’ detective novels. Pseudonym for the awesome, much missed, horror author and screenwriter Michael McDowell. Could only find the last volume in the US. #arrivedtoday

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As a youngster struggling with a meaningless universe and living under a cloud of impending nuclear annihilation, I never thought I would live long enough to have permanent silent movie villain eyebrows no matter how much I trim them.

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To celebrate one month out in the world, The Owl Men of Shanidar ebook is 99 cents at Amazon & Kobo!

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I've had Synchronicity II, a song about the symbolic connection between salaryman angst and the Loch Ness Monster, stuck in my head all day.

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Not sure the left is more hostile to men as it is the right being fragile piss babies. Leftist:"All men are scum!" A real man, not looking up from his phone: "Yeah, sure, sure."

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One challenge about writing series fiction is that even when books are relatively standalone, it's hard to draw eyes to later titles. Please, indulge my whimsy as I list the top 3 reasons to take a chance on Frenzi: Storm Clouds over Paris, the 4th Killfrenzy adventure. 👇👇👇 1/4

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THOU SHALT NOT KILL… EXCEPT (Becker, 1985)

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I'm having a hard time reconciling my memory of the Tubes from MTV with this Wikipedia article, which puts them alongside Firesign Theater and Rocky Horror en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tubes

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For Memorial Day, here’s my dad, in 1945, smoking in the back of a jeep, steel helmet on his head, representing the Bronx in the Nazi-killing Olympics. I am comfortable with who I am in my life, including the fact that I’ll never be as cool as 20 year old Sgt Michael Angelo Avallone.

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Need a decent explainer as to when Earth-One DC comics started and Earth-Two stopped, or if such a line even exists. I've been more of a Marvel guy, and the vibe I've gotten from DC is that it's simultaneously more loosey-goosey with continuity, that these are stories and not reality, and go to

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This is a first for me. Very early Green Lantern was a player, but only a playboy while in costume, and a regular schmuck in his secret identity, like an inverse Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne.

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"Mickey Mouse!"

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Here's a little crab guy on top of some @guynsmith.bsky.social paperbacks.

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Sorting some Gothics. Next to Virginia Coffman, I have the most books by Dorothy Daniels of any of the 60s-70s Gothic Romance writers. I've read most of these. Pretty much always a solid, well plotted, well written book.

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Coffman remains my favorite, though. her heroines tend to be more active and her writing is very good.

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SALE ALERT! From today until the end of Friday, May 30th, Frenzi: Storm Clouds over Paris is $0.99 (or €0.99, £0.99) at the Zon or Kobo! John Frenzi, the man the Mafia couldn't kill, is hired by Uncle Sam to nip the fuse on a powderkeg in France that threatens to start WWIII! Link below!! 👇👇👇

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RIP Peter David. Wrote the second half of the run of Justice and brought John Tensen back in 2099 and unofficially in his Psi Man series.

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O LUCKY MAN! (1973): Lindsay Anderson's sequel to 'If...' saw the continuing adventures of Malcolm McDowell's idealistic coffee salesman, Mick Travis. And it featured this moment of pure body horror, courtesy a young Jeremy 'Boba Fett' Bulloch...

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this post took a lot of work. Are there Satanic entities encoded into the bricks of London churches? nocturnalrevelries.com/2025/05/25/t...

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Obscure YT of the day: An interesting film, 1989's German SILENCE LIKE GLASS, w/ Jami Gertz as a ballerina w/ cancer. Martha Plimpton, George Peppard, Rip Torn, Gayle Hunnicutt & Bruce Payne costar. By the director of THE MIGHTY QUINN & KNIGHT MOVIES! youtu.be/AkBV4YFYsMA?...

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Two new $2.99 Kindle deals are live worldwide! Craig Jones's BLOOD SECRETS (1978) was a smash '70s bestseller, a brilliant horror/thriller with a twist you won't coming. And Simon Raven's first novel, THE FEATHERS OF DEATH (1959), is a terrific gay-themed war novel by one of our favorite authors.

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Long, winding rivers . . . beautiful, tall hills . . . quiet, peaceful wilderness . . . and a madman in a mask!

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