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    Spinetingler Magazine Official Re-launch
    For the last month or so, Spinetingler has been in the middle of a facelift and working in a live beta mode while doing so.  This week is our “official” re-launch, and we would like to invite everyone to stop by; we have a lot planned.  We made a decision to shift away from issue-based publications and towards a continuous publication format. At the same...
    by Brian at March 29th, 2010 at 09:03 am
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    Debut issue of Crimefactory crime zine
    Keith Rawson, Cameron James Ashley and Liam Jose have taken the original Crimefactory zine that was created by David Honeybone and resurrected like a Romero zombie. And make no mistake Barbara, Crimefactory is coming to get you. Their hard work has paid off and the first issue went live sometime over night and it’s packed high and tight with all sorts goodness. The...
    by Brian at January 25th, 2010 at 09:01 am
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    Charlie Huston’s The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death for HBO
    I either missed this when it came out or I didn’t process it at the time. Either way this is old at this point. Alan Ball, a producer who gets things done (True Blood, Six Feet Under), gave the following quote in an interview in the Sydney Morning Herald back in November. ”I’m developing a pilot based on a novel by Charlie Huston who’s kindof...
    by Brian at January 13th, 2010 at 01:01 pm
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    What was the best online writing of 2009?
    In this varied world of online writing, increasingly you can and will come across a piece of original writing that strikes you as being great. It may touch you or give you pause or make you think. You may even come back to it to reference it, to re-engage it, to revel in it. Finding quality online writing is becoming much more commonplace, and disseminating that information...
    by Brian at January 2nd, 2010 at 08:01 am
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    Reading Period for The Spinetingler Awards Now Open
    At this time I would like to announce that the reading period for the novel categories of the Spinetingler Awards is now open. Unofficially the reading period for the Spinetingler Awards is always open, because over the course of the year we make note of the books that we read and enjoyed. It can’t be stated any simpler than this:  in order to make sure that a...
    by Brian at January 2nd, 2010 at 08:01 am
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    The Best Mystery/Crime Fiction of 2009
    Keith Rawson’s Top Ten 2009 was without question one of the best years for crime fiction in many years, and trust me when I tell you that my top ten has changed so many times in the last six months that I wish I could’ve put together a top 20, or even a top 30, but somehow I managed to narrow it down to ten favorites and five runners up. 10 ) Fake I.D. by Jason Starr Yeah,...
    by Brian at December 30th, 2009 at 06:12 am
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    Criterion Collection’s Japanese film noir box set on DVD
    This collection came out a couple of months ago, but I just heard about it recently. With the holiday season upon us and Amazon promising delivery by the 24th if you order by the 17th, it’s not too late to mention it as a gift idea for the mystery (or movie) buff in your life. Criterion Collection has released six classic Japanese noir movies that should be a...
    by Brian at December 16th, 2009 at 01:12 pm
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    The Electric Mayhem: Ravens, This Wicked World and Almost Gone
    This Wicked World by Richard Lange This Wicked World by Richard Lange is a solid debut with a couple of easily forgivable stumbles (a couple of the back-stories are dumped; I don’t fully buy Boone’s motivations for continuing the investigation on his own) that I enjoyed quite a bit if not fully. I’ll have more to say at a later date about some flaws...
    by Brian at December 11th, 2009 at 10:12 am
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    The Electric Mayhem: Shadow Season, Jump and Revolver
    Shadow Season by Tom Piccirilli With Shadow Season, Tom Piccirilli shows that he is a master who is comfortably at the top of his game. Shadow Season takes elements of gothic horror and the haunted house story and mixes them with a crime story, coming up with a sure-fire end of the year top 10 book. Piccirilli revels in the challenge of the situations that his blind protagonist...
    by Brian at December 9th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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    The Electric Mayhem: Sweets, The Creed of Violence and The Water’s Edge
    Sweets and other stories by Andre Williams Andre Williams is a 70-something blues musician who went into rehab and wrote this book for its therapeutic value. It contains a novella, a short story, and a couple of song-poem things. The title story is the novella, and it’s a raucous, bawdy affair that is just like an Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines tale. As per the...
    by Brian at December 8th, 2009 at 11:12 am
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    The Electric Mayhem: The Singer, The Devil’s Staircase and Scalped: High Lonesome
    The Singer by Cathi Unsworth The Singer by Cathi Unsworth feels epic in scope but stays intimate with its character portrayals. Instead of regurgitating researched facts about the UK punk scene, Unsworth has instead absorbed all of the research, information, and knowledge of a time gone past and created the scene naturalistically, from the ground up. The story of Blood...
    by Brian at December 2nd, 2009 at 11:12 am
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    Liar by Justine Larbalestier – review
    Micah will freely admit that she’s a compulsive liar, but that may be the one honest thing she’ll ever tell you. Over the years she’s duped her classmates, her teachers, and even her parents, and she’s always managed to stay one step ahead of her lies. That is, until her boyfriend dies under brutal circumstances and her dishonesty begins to catch up with her....
    by Brian at November 25th, 2009 at 01:11 pm
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    Read What Burns Within by Sandra Ruttan for free
    This week the third book in Sandra Ruttan’s Nolan, Hart and Tain series, Lullaby for the Nameless, is out. Lenore Howard from Fresh Fiction said of the story that it was “a nail-biting race to stop a cold- blooded killer” and that it would appeal not only to fans of the series but that “Newcomers will get a great introduction to these complex characters...
    by Brian at November 24th, 2009 at 04:11 pm
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    I-5 by Summer Brenner – review
    Anya is the victim of a deep deception. Someone has lied to her; and because of this lie, she is kept under lock and key, used by her employer to service men, and indebted for the privilege. In exchange, she lives in the United States and fantasizes on a future American freedom. I-5 by Summer Brenner is the second release from the Switchblade imprint of PM Press, and...
    by Brian at November 17th, 2009 at 02:11 pm
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    Slammer by Allan Guthrie – review
    Young prison officer Nicholas Glass is finding the stresses of the job increasingly hard to handle. Bullied and abused by inmates and colleagues alike, every day is getting longer than the one before. When a group of cons use outside help to threaten his wife and daughter, Glass agrees to help them out with a ‘favour’. But, as their threats escalate, and one favour...
    by Brian at November 14th, 2009 at 02:11 pm
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