by LB | Mar 14, 2019 | Anthologies, At Home in the Dark, Books
It took me a while to find a usable photo of Richard Chizmar. There are plenty out there to choose from, but almost all of them show the man wearing a hat, and it’s usually a baseball cap, and more often than not the bill casts a shadow that renders everything...
by LB | Mar 12, 2019 | Books
As you may know, this new anthology owes its title to the dying words of the great O. Henry. “Turn up the lights,” he said to the crowd gathered at his deathbed. “I don’t want to go home in the dark.” And the sole criterion for stories,...
by LB | Mar 8, 2019 | At Home in the Dark, Books
Jill D. Block wrote a couple of promising stories in college, then went off to law school and got sidetracked for thirty years as very successful attorney representing lenders in corporate real estate transactions, which is almost as exciting and gratifying as it...
by LB | Mar 7, 2019 | At Home in the Dark, Books
Thomas Pluck’s website tells us he’s slung hash, worked on the docks, and even swept the Guggenheim museum (but not as part of a clever heist). He hails from Nutley, New Jersey, we’re advised, home to criminal masterminds Martha Stewart and Richard...
by LB | Mar 6, 2019 | At Home in the Dark
It’s tempting to regard Joyce Carol Oates as a force of nature. She so consistently produces such an abundance of well wrought and richly imaginative fiction that one might picture her simply turning on a faucet and letting the words flow. But the fact of the...
