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Black Friday, Adventures Fantastic Style – “En Foret Noire” by Tanith Lee

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“En Foret Noire”
Tanith Lee
Colder, Greyer Stones
Ebook $3.99

I didn’t manage to get a Thanksgiving Day post up yesterday, so I hope all of you who celebrated had a good one.

Today’s story is a chilling little tale that was first published in English in the December 2005 issue of Realms of Fantasy.

It concerns Louis, the son of a French tradesman who is traveling to stay a few days with the family of his fiance. They are minor members of the aristocracy who have fallen on hard times. Normally, such a union wouldn’t be permitted, but the fiance’s family needs the money the marriage will bring.

The only person who has a strong objection is the girl’s brother Marcellin. Continue reading →

Black Friday, Adventures Fantastic Style Extended -Bloch and Kuttner

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I’ve wished for a long time that someone would publish some electronic collections by Robert Bloch. Or print collections that don’t just reprint the same handful of stories that are in most of the available collections.

My prayers have been answered. Sort of. The two stories I’m going to look at today come from a recently published collection entitled The Best of Robert Bloch, Vol. 3. There’s a volume 1, but as far as I’ve been able to find, there isn’t a volume 2.  This is a different book than the single volume of the same title that was published by Del Rey back in the 1970s.

(I’m not sure just how legitimate this book is. It and the first volume were published in October of this year, volume 3 just over a month ago as I write this. I’m not sure if Bloch’s estate authorized these books or receive any proceeds from the sale. The photo on Robert Bloch’s Amazon author page is someone else.) Continue reading →

Black Noir Friday – Adventures Fantastic Style

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Today for Black Friday, I’m going to do something a little different. Noir is French for black, and I’m a big fan of noir in both written and cinematic form. So this is my Noir Friday post.

This post would be better suited over at Gumshoes, Gats, and Gams, but I’ve not been active enough on that site this year for it to get much traffic. So I’m posting here.

One of the great writers of noir was Cornell Woolrich. He had an entire series of novels with “Black” in the title. They were all stand-alones; they are considered a series due to the word “Black”. Let’s look at them. Note, I’ve read some of these, but not all of them (yet). Continue reading →