Tag: paranormal

• Dead Men Naked, Book Review

  Dead Men Naked, a novel by Dario Cannizzaro Review by Bill Ectric Dead Men Naked  is the best novel I’ve read in while, satisfying to the end. All too often, books with supernatural overtones veer into preposterous territory, but not this one. Author Dario Cannizzaro achieves a near-perfect balance of realism and phantasm, humor and…

  Bill Ectric

  July 8, 2017

  Book Reviews, books, Cormac McCarthy, crow mythology, Dario Cannizzaro, Dead Men Naked, death, Dylan Thomas, Grim Reaper, literature, occult, paranormal, tequila

• Fortean Melancholia and Paranormal Mourning

  Many thanks to Andrew Wenaus for his review of my novel, Tamper! Tamper is like the Hardy Boys in that it is a kind of mystery novel in clear/concise language, and it is like (William S.) Burroughs in the sense that there is a presiding desire to break free of some kind of invisible system…

  Bill Ectric

  June 22, 2014

  Bill Ectric, Book Reviews, Fortean, Hardy Boys, paranormal, psychology, Richard Sharpe Shaver, Richard Shaver, Tamper, William S. Burroughs

• Wadsworth Camp Cinema Connections

  There are all kinds of connections in this overview of the Wadsworth Camp short story, The Signal Tower, and the movie that was based on it. As part of my research on Charles Wadsworth Camp, I’ve already written about a film called The Last Warning (1929) that was based on Camp’s novel The House of Fear…

  Bill Ectric

  December 15, 2012

  Charles Wadsworth Camp, Forbidden Planet, Frankie Darro, Metropolitan Magazine, paranormal, publishing, Rudy Vallee, short stories, Sidney Skolsky, The Signal Tower, Wadsworth Camp, Wallace Beery