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...

Present Day / Alan I came to this remote cabin in the middle of the Scotland wildlands as a means of escaping my dark past. I never expected to see the kind of sight greeting me now. It was a boo...

I was out on a hiking trip a few days ago. The thirteen of us were spread out across three cabins. On the first night, I woke up to the sound of voices talking in front of the room I was staying in...

A madman claims to create a portal between a small American town and Paris – using the Eiffel Tower. To achieve this, he buys the Eiffel Tower and adorns its top with an upside-down black pyramid....

I’ll admit there’s always something a bit special when digging into self-published fiction, or just fiction by lesser-known authors. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s a matter of kinship – unlike me,...