Tag: mystery novels
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From Gothic Thriller to Art Film
Another fun website that reviews and analyzes genre films is Braineater, created and maintained by Will Laughlin. In this installment he reviews the French film La Chambre ardente (1962), “a movie that sits somewhere between an art film and a Gothic thriller,” directed by Julien Duvivier, based on a classic novel by the American author […]
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Theodore Sturgeon and Ellery Queen
If it’s true that Theodore Sturgeon “suffered from writer’s block for many years at a time,” as Eric Weeks and Bill Seabrook tell us on the Theodore Sturgeon Page, then all I can say is, when Sturgeon was on, he was prodigiously ON. I’ve written elsewhere about a book called I, Libertine, which Sturgeon authored as […]