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Teaser Tuesday 7/19/2016: “Insanity (Mad In Wonderland)”

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So this week I’m reading Insanity (Mad In Wonderland), by Cameron Jace, in which alleged mass murderer Alice (who may or may not be that Alice), is sprung from an insane asylum by a serial killer known as the Pillar (who may or may not be [but probably is] that Caterpillar) in order to catch another serial killer known as the Cheshire Cat (who may or may not be [but probably is] that Cheshire Cat).  If you think all this sounds a little bit like “American McGee’s ‘Alice'” meets Silence of the Lambs, you’re not the only one.

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We’re all mad here.

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Teaser Tuesday 6/7/2016: “Unhappenings”

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So this week I’m reading Unhappenings, by Edward Aubry.

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Teaser Tuesday 5/24/2016: Not Quite “The End of the Story”

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So this week I’m still reading The End of the Story, by Clark Ashton Smith.

Cover of "The End of the Story"
I know I left a scimitar around here somewhere …

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Teaser Tuesday 5/10/2016: “The End of the Story”

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So this week I’m reading The End of the Story, a collection of short works by Clark Ashton Smith, who was a writer in the vein of HP Lovecraft, albeit (so far) a little less eldritch in his abominations.

Cover of "The End of the Story"
Magic Jammies?

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Teaser Tuesday 4/12/2016: “The Golem and the Jinni”

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So this week I’m reading The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker, which is not about Grundy and somebody who does not grant wishes, but rather, about a golem whose master dies almost immediately after she becomes animated and a jinni who is accidentally freed from an olive oil decanter while it is in for repairs.

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Both of these rather lost supernatural creatures find themselves adrift in New York City at the very end of the 19th century.  Hilarity, most likely, does not ensue.

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Random Rejection: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, “Dragon Stones”

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It’s been a while since I reached into my pile of rejection letters, so I thought I would go ahead and do that again. This time the random letter picker told me to pull something out of the “J” slot, which hasn’t got very much in it, “J” being one of the less commonly used letters in the English language. But it does have a Jabberwocky.

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Making the Middle Ages safe for potatoes

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Teaser (Sort Of) Tuesday 2/16/2016: “That Frequent Visitor”

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So last week I was reading a book called That Frequent Visitor, by K. Hari Kumar.

Talk to the hand.
Talk to the hand.

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Teaser Tuesday 2/2/2016: “Three Men Out”

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So this week, in addition to Boneshaker, I’m reading Eight Three Men Out, by Rex Stout, a trio of Nero Wolfe novellas, in which Wolfe does not travel to Montenegro.  Ah, things are back to normal …

 

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Candygram for Mongo

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Random Acceptance: “Blue Murder” Magazine

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So every once in a while when I reach into my giant stack of correspondence to find a Random Rejection, I pull a Random Acceptance instead. This is one of those times.

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Teaser Tuesday 1/12/2016: “The Black Mountain”

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So here I am still reading The Black Mountain, by Rex Stout, months after starting it — not because it’s a long book or because it’s a slog but because it’s made of paper, and if I attempt to read a paper book anywhere near Saya the Mighty she will try her best to steal it and shred it, and we can’t have that, now can we?

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The actual Black Mountain itself. Lovcen-008-p1010045. Licensed under GPL via Commons.

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