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“These creatures have no power to harm you”

The Living Demons by Robert Bloch

July 25, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo: Question (each story answers the question of the story with a twist ending) This is a collection of Robert Bloch short stories that I got from somewhere I’ve forgotten as a stripped paperback. This was an easy train read for the 3 hour journey I was on this weekend. The stories are mainly pulp horror with twist endings. I wouldn’t say any of them were unjustly forgotten in favor of Bloch’s more famous work, Psycho. They read more like they were written with the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, cbr14bingo, horror, pulp fiction, Robert Bloch, short stories, twist endings

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:79 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr14bingo, horror, pulp fiction, Robert Bloch, short stories, twist endings ·
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A Bonkbuster Double Feature

Mistral's Daughter by Judith Krantz

Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz

May 13, 2022 by Pooja 3 Comments

Every so often I go on a kick of reading those commercial romances about driven young women published in the 1980s that are sometimes called bonkbusters. You must admit they are rather addictive in their escapist nature and their pulpy plots. It annoys me when people dismiss them as ‘trashy,’ as though they have to make excuses for not reading Dickens or whoever all the time. There’s still good writing there- and I think that’s especially true when it comes to Judith Krantz. Mistral’s Daughter […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: bonkbuster, historical, Judith Krantz, pulp fiction, Romance

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:66 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: bonkbuster, historical, Judith Krantz, pulp fiction, Romance ·
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In many ways, this is every bit as important to speculative fiction as The Lord of the Rings

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

February 27, 2021 by ingres77 9 Comments

Born in 1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs worked a number of odd jobs until, at the age of 35, he decided to pick up writing. Recalling in 1929 that, “if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten.” So, in 1911, he started writing what would go on to become A Princess of Mars, the first book in his Barsoom series. Shortly thereafter, he would go on to create Tarzan – […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Western Tagged With: A Princess of Mars, Barsoom, Buck Rogers, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Flash Gordon, John Carter, pulp fiction, star wars, Superman

ingres77's CBR13 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Western · Tags: A Princess of Mars, Barsoom, Buck Rogers, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Flash Gordon, John Carter, pulp fiction, star wars, Superman ·
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