This post won’t have anything to do with mystery fiction and won’t even tangentially be related to the main purpose of this blog. It’s just something I wanted to get out of my system. I will bury ...

Few games in recent memory have been as controversial as Ackk Studios’ YIIK: A Postmodern RPG. Released almost five years ago now, the game continues to exist in the collective consciousness of the...

Virgil Hesse has disappeared. All that remains of him is a manuscript for a story: a locked room murder mystery. The Cosmigrove family reunites for the first time in years. The family’s patriarch,...

Couldn’t sleep again. I do sleep, for what’s worth – just not when most people should. So, to pass the time, I played The Crimson Debt, an entry for The Case of the Thinky Jam game jam. The entry ...

My back is starting to hurt. Not hurt hurt, it’s more like a slight discomfort. Not a big deal – not yet, anyway – but it’s certainly making falling asleep last longer. And, as it happens, when you...

It’s 6 AM. I haven’t slept. It was 1 AM when I gave up on sleeping. I decided to make myself a cup of coffee. I figured I could read Paul Auster’s Oracle Night. I bought it in paperback when I was...

I’ve read five books in the past week. Eight, if you’re going to treat every individual story’s volume as a separate book. The first was the Conclusion chapter of Reito Nikaido’s Terror of Werew...

In September of 2010, Family Guy had its Season 9 premiere. It was a 50-minute special in which the Griffin family – and a good portion of their town – finds itself trapped in a remote mansion with...

So, I’ve been reading Reito Nikaido’s Terror of Werewolf Castle. For the uninitiated, it is considered to be the longest locked room mystery ever written. Four colossal books (each between 400-500...

The original hand-written draft of Christianna Brand’s iconic Death of Jezebel is found. Its discoverer, the illusive Mr. Black, is eager to auction it off. He invites three potential buyers to hi...