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It had been a spell (pun intended) since I dipped into the literary world of The Dresden Files , Jim Butcher's series of novels about H...

Having started the month with H.P. Lovecraft, I couldn't see myself going through the rest of Shocktober without at least touching on my...

Okay, true confession: This is NOT this week's travel reading. How could it be? This volume of H.P. Lovecraft's collected stories...

Yes. I know. I keep saying that I don't like Stephen King's novels--or, at least, don't like the way he spins his wheels repeat...

Confession: I've read Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man before. Or at least I think I have--since my heart attacks, my memory is a ...

Growing up as an avid comic book reader, Superman was never one of my favorites. He was just too powerful, in body and mind, to hold my ...

According to the ever-helpful Wikipedia, L. Frank Baum wrote 14 novels based around the magical land of Oz, where Scarecrows talk, Tin Wood...

You probably knew that Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States; that he led our country through the Civil War and that h...

A couple of weekends ago, I made my first sojourn back into Village Discount Outlet since the beginning of the pandemic.  While I didn't...

In 1728, a "new" play by William Shakespeare was published by one Lewis Theobald, entitled Double Falsehood, or the Distressed Lo...

I can't think of a better way to kick off the holiday month than with Stephen King's first novel: The story of Carrie White, a much...

It may seem odd for an adult to read a children's book on the train, but few books can get me in the mood for Halloween like Scary Godmo...

It wouldn't be a bad idea to read a novel from the Dresden Files series at any time, much less in Shocktober, since Harry Dresden, Chica...

Was It Rhymes with Lust the first graphic novel? There's a fair argument to be made for that claim. While other books before it had tol...

Ever since my friend Margo introduced me to The Dresden Files , Jim Butcher's supernatural mystery series set in my hometown, I've ...

While it's good to have a book devoted to Chicago's first official horror host, Mad Marvin (a.k.a. Terry Bennett), much of this terr...

What better to read on a steamy, sticky summer morning than the story of hot and bothered doing things they know they really shouldn't d...