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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