Wow, here's Joseph Rosenberger writing to the CIA offering his services to insert text into his Death Merchant novels on their behalf. archive.org/details/cia-...

We've seen two PoI releases this year: Mercy: A Lady's Vengeance by Dick Remington and The Bartender: Whiskey Warfare by R. J. Calder. Two more to go! Cell Block: Dead Men in Old Stone by Sterling Dodge and Frenzi: The Aryan Contract by R. J. Calder. The action continues at the Point of Impact!

These gas prices are hitting middle America hard, like my neighbor who idles his f150 in his driveway for a half hour after coming home listening to podcasts and avoiding his wife.

Study on AI detector accuracy. Originality seems to be the front runner. I tested it against a Richard Shaver excerpt, an AI rewrite thereof, and a mixture, and they scored 0,100, and 51%, so far so good. Recognition that esl writing gets false positives for AI. www.jait.us/articles/202...

Another one - an award winning piece accused of being written by AI with little evidence - that there are constant not/but sentences (3 total in a short piece) and repetitive use of the same imagery (none that I could find). The journal says Claude told them it was granta.com/the-serpent-...

Resistance takes many forms, even in book reviews! One Against Time by Hank Janson. 1956, cover art by Reginald Heade and Ron Turner. #booksky

Every parent’s worst nightmare.

Here's an ad from a young Joseph R. Rosenberger in the Sept 1944 issue of Amazing Stories. Assuming this is the Death Merchant author, he would have been 19. Now I wonder if his claim to have been in Weird Tales was that he took out ad space. archive.org/details/Amaz...

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On this single page of books approved for Texas prisons: Death Merchant, Donald Goines, Nick Carter, Deathlands, and Death Note archive.org/details/texa...

Ron Ormond writes for Fate archive.org/details/fate...

Was talking with folks about author John Jakes, and what's hilarious is when Jakes' KENT FAMILY CHRONICLES historical novels became a bit hit, DAW books reissued one of Jakes' books designed to look like a Kent Family book. Probably sold a few copies to some surprised readers.

Women's Wrestling has full page regular feature of synopses of catfights in J.T. Edson western novels, which is very niche and very "1970s England" archive.org/details/wome...

I was spoiled by an amazing local wrestling indie around 15 years ago. Had Robert Evans, ACH doing way better than anywhere else he'd wrestle, Athena. Had fun goofy guys you know weren't going anywhere, real pros you were shocked didn't get picked up, a couple deaths. Big names cycling in.

Someone posted issues of British magazine Women's Wrestling. Let's see how respectful they are of this sober institution. This ad is very likely from Darth Vader himself.

Of all the depictions of the Necronomicon we've seen in films, I think the one that's stuck with me the most is the one from the Japanese version of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", where it's just distributed throughout the town as a cheap, stapled-together pamphlet

saw an article about how many streaming services you'd need to watch every NFL game. what is the poor working man who still has 32 hours a week to watch TV to do? I gave up on watching every marvel product when it went over around 20 hours a year

Jesus.

Here's a fun exercise: if you google the word "disregard" you get a dozen news reports about how you can't google the word disregard, each of which talks about what happens when you google disregard, which you've never not been able to do.

Well spit on my griddle, Leo Guild had a local radio show with Criswell! All these low-level show biz hustler types knew each other at some point, it would seem.

Looking up some 1940s show business articles. Multiple papers have the same item word for word, no wire service credited. And I guess it was ok for someone to be a regular columnist at the same time they run a publicity agency.

I wake up strapped to a chair, only one arm free, a rusty screwdriver within reach. Jigsaw: "You know what you have to do" The song starts playing on. loop. The choice was easy. youtu.be/tUJQigu0_04?...

I spoke on a panel at the World Fantasy Writers convention in, 2001 or 2002, which I beleive was in DC. I shared the panel with Douglas E. Winter and F. Paul Wilson. If there is anyone who was there or knows someone who was, that has any photos of us together, I’d love to see any pics that exist. 🙏

Riley Sager: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the horny alcoholic woman Angela Carter: typical man writing women, i see Sager: do you? Sager: do you think a man wrote this story? Carter: yes, i Carter: Carter: wait Sager: look closer

What is the first Lovecraft comic by a Black creator? It may be "H. P. Lovecraft's The Ter'ble Old Man" (1971) by Larry Fuller. deepcuts.blog/2026/05/23/h...

Finally found these holy grails in the wild and completed my collection

Always been confused by the framing of apartment wrestling. It evidently started as private exhibitions, then pictures were published, and the framing was "here's a wrestling match we arranged in a private apartment". Then some were more like photo novels, with a fictional narrative, unrelated to

James Ellroy's City of Demons series was truly bizarre. Haven't seen in a while, but I got the impression Ellroy was having an outbreak and asked to have it covered with makeup, but he pissed off the makeup artist who caked it on like Baby Jane, and then they said they it wouldn't show on tape, then

I want to do for Luna Vachon in 80s Florida wrestling what James Ellroy did for Dick Contino.

the Pratt's shit after the Hills seemed proof that there's no shelf life to being a heel outside of a scripted environment, but then Trump based a presidency on it. I guess they saved their Hills money, they've only had a couple reality shows.

with my first inklings being drag Bugs Bunny and Princess panty flashes in Battle of the Planets, I turned out surprisingly vanilla

saw a post that trangender rights and lack thereof were not a social or political issue until 2023,based on them misreading Google trends. someone else added that timeline matches Epstein activity, four years after he died.

New vintage article! "The Love Pulp Formula, Standard Model," AKA: part 2 of Willard E. Hawkins' series on the #romance pulps, as found in THE AUTHOR & JOURNALIST (Feb. 1943). Aspects of the formula have changed over time, but I'd hazard to say Hawkins gets it pretty bang on. #pulp #romancelandia

I Knew Daisy Smuten (1970) was a British attempt to reproduce the concept & success of Naked Came the Stranger (1969), a hoax concocted by US journalists to mock the bad prose and vulgarity of The Valley of the Dolls and other bestsellers—but many reviewers thought it actually pretty good.

Some of you Americans have a long weekend ahead. If you're at a family BBQ and need some "alone" time, consider a book! Possibly one packed with action, sex, and crimes committed against wealthy jerkoffs! Specifically, King of the Prowlers, by Clint Reno! books2read.com/kingofthepro...

@fahrenheitpress.bsky.social is discounting everything 20% with the promo code BANK20. That includes this one.

I felt bad for a second conflating Maginty and Barracuda in my head, like the classic inexcusable Fishburne / Jackson fuckup, but Ennis can take the karmic damage for that one.

My hottest take: Chuds can be somewhat forgiven for believing Garth Ennis, an offensive edgelord who makes jokes about rape, gays, and disabilities, who pitted the Punisher against Maginty and Barracuda, who writes WWII fiction from the perspective of the Germans, is one of theirs. Honestly don't

Out now from @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social! It’s summer! Hazel is going on vacation to the middle of the woods. A place with tales of Bigfoot, creepy-crawlies, and a haunted lake. But first, Hazel must help her cousin, Amelia, tell the ultimate scary story at the campfire. shorturl.at/cSuX2

All dogs are intelligent and can communicate telepathically. If anything, Krypto is on the dumb side for dogs.

"It's our policy at the District Attorney's office to send all officer involved shootings to the grand jury. We don't evaluate the merit of the case, the people decide who we prosecute, we have no say in it. Except for that one, he had it coming. Or that one, geez, that would make us look bad."

Seeing a trend of PACs accused of shady business being formed like the month of an election, meaning they don't need to disclose funding, donors, etc until after the election, and then no follow up in the media. I couldn't find anything about who funded Democracy Unmuted, whether it was a funded

These guys opened for RHCP. I can imagine them watching from backstage "Are...are these guys making fun of us?" Why Mr. Bungle is cool and these guys aren't I can't quantify. youtu.be/NrCFNAQcZZA?...

Colin Fox refuses to accept the death of his wife, freezing her in dry ice, declares himself God, and opens himself up to possession by his satanic ancestor in this Canadian gothic soap opera, Strange Paradise.