Easily Distracted
Notes on the genre literature of 1760-2020
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Richard Stark's formula: The Mourner (1963)
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WHEN the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away. The asthmatic hit the carpet...
Ever-decreasing circles: The Jugger by Richard Stark (1965)
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Joe Sheer from Omaha, retired but long a sort of world wide web server relaying messages between North American heisters, is facing trouble ...
Gutted: The Handle by Richard Stark (1966).
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The Handle by Richard Stark (1966). The bad news first: Grofield is back as Parker's first choice for a team to gut the gambling island...
Doubtful Canyon
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….This is the tale as it was told to me by the smoke of a cowchip fire, at night on the Panhandle plains of West Texas. I was sixteen, passi...
Re-reading Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror
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The wrong fork My impression from reading "The Dunwich Horror" in high school was that it was one of Lovecraft's masterpieces,...
A diamond: On These Blackened Shores of Time by Brian Hodge
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....It was an ambience on the threshold of awareness, like the sound of time and the weight of the hills bearing down atop us. Most "Ne...
Monstrous tentacles
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Tonio Kröger, martyr to his art and craft, suspected con-man in his home town, voyages to a vacation stop on Elsinore. A monstrous storm at ...
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