Tag Archives: James Reasoner

Rediscovered: Know The Shadow. . .

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Don

Check out that great Chinatown alley. Can’t you just see Lon Chaney as a vicious legless Lord of the Underworld creeping over the stone bricks, enrapt in savage dreams of subjugating the city? But Chaney kept his lair in San … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Lit, News | Tagged Alec Baldwin, Ian McKellan, James Reasoner, John C. Moran, Lon Chaney, Orson Welles, The Shadow, The Shadowed Circle Compendium, Walter B. Gibson, Will Murray |

Rediscovered: Tenderloin Terry Hits the Top Ten

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Don

Not the New York Times or Publishers Weekly year-end round-ups, but for the specialized market it was written for, perhaps even better — Terry Zobeck made the Top Ten for fave books of 2020 by James Reasoner. The Larry Block … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Book Collecting, James Reasoner, Lawrence Block, Terry Zobeck |

Death Lit: Is It Noir or Is It Dark?

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Don

Had another review pop to life. If you want to surf over and give it the old gander, feel free. I figure this one, more or less, is maybe 80% of what I sent in/intended. The intro by Lawrence Block, … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit | Tagged Akashic, James Reasoner, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, PW |

Rediscovered: Ed Gorman and a Book That Could Have Been

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Don

Noticed that today is Ed Gorman Day across the web. After a long battle with cancer, Gorman died on October 15. I spotted immediate tributes by fellow writers such as Bill Crider and James Reasoner. The appeal of his fiction … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, Willeford | Tagged Bill Crider, Bill Pronzini, Blue Lonesome, Brian Drake, Charles L. Grant, Ed Gorman, James Reasoner, Mystery Scene, Peter Rabe |

Tombstone: Two-Gun Bob

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Don

Photo above courtesy the Crider Family Archives, circa 1980. Left to right, at the Robert E. Howard grave in Brownwood, Texas: James Reasoner and Angela, Allen and Bill Crider. The Crider clan lived in Brownwood in that era. If the approximate … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Allen Crider, Angela Crider Neary, Bill Crider, James Reasoner, literary graves, literary suicides |

Rediscovered: Better Off Ted Season Two

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Don

Recently on his blog James Reasoner did a blurb for the Brit sitcom The IT Crowd, which sounded like something I’d like — yep, hilarious. So I just returned the favor and suggested he look up Better Off Ted. I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, News | Tagged "Hoke", Better Off Ted, James Reasoner, Lem Hewitt, Mission Control, My Name Is Earl, Phil Myman, The IT Crowd |

Rediscovered: “Fly Paper” in EQMM

Posted on December 15, 2013 by Don

I noticed in passing this shot of a newsstand — from 1942, it turns out — on James Reasoner’s blog, but Andy Bienstock from Baltimore brought to my attention that I needed to hop over to the Shorpy site where … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, News, Tour | Tagged "Fly Paper", Andy Bienstock, Baltimore, EQMM, James Reasoner, Pulps, Shorpy |

Rediscovered: Zane Grey on Kindle

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Don

A couple of years ago I got a Kindle as a gift from Vince Emery, so I could check out how The Dashiell Hammett Tour book looked in that format — now, suddenly, highly ironic. On my own, I probably … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, REH | Tagged Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Elmore Leonard, Fu-Manchu, Hammett Tour Book, James Fenimore Cooper, James Reasoner, Kindle, Robert E. Howard Library, Sax Rohmer, Steve Eng, The Dark Barbarian, Vince Emery, Zane Grey, Zane Grey Pueblo |

Two-Gun Bob: Into the West

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Don

Sometime after midnight, as 2011 had slipped away and the New Year had begun, I did a quick check of email and found a barrage of notes telling me that Glenn Lord had passed away on the last day of the vanished … Continue reading →