Mysteries/Thrillers

Another story from the Cornell Woolrich collection I started yesterday—this one more of a straight whodunit, but with some grisly […]

Just got in the mail the Centipede Press collection Speak to Me of Death: The Collected Short Fiction of Cornell

In addition to reading the complete stories of Stanley Ellin, Tara and I have also been working out way—aloud—through the

I picked up the Centipede Press edition of Paul Cain’s works, The Complete Slayers, after reading Michael Dirda’s review in

Another Stanley Ellin story, one that originally appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine in 1968 and was a finalist for

A quick post today, given an intensely busy schedule  (a final meeting with an independent study student, another two dozen

Barb Goffman, a friend and fellow short story writer, has been a finalist for several of the top awards in

While checking off a few very short stories over the last couple of days (see previous posts), my wife, Tara,

In her Washington Post review of Karen Russell’s story collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove, novelist and critic Elizabeth Hand