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This #Book has an eye-catching title. :bl51: #Books #Mystery #ChildrensLiterature #AmericanLiterature #GenreLiterature #1922s

Aww, #KarlUrban canceled his upcoming appearance at #Comicpalooza in #Houston 🙁

https://www.comicpalooza.com/guests/2023-guests/#:~:text=Karl%20Urban

Still going to be a fun #MemorialDay weekend. Getting my (much less involved this year) #cosplay ready!

#TheBoys #ThorRagnarok #StarTrek #LOTR #AlmostHuman #Riddick #Dredd #JudgeDredd #Doom #Xena
#HoustonTX #HTX #PopCulture #con #convention #movies #TV #anime #comics #ComicBooks #gaming #GenreLiterature #SF #SciFi #fantasy #horror #thriller

THE MAN WHO WAS SEVEN ( #Novelette ) by J. Frederic Thorne #BlackMaskMagazine #1920 #BlackMask #Magazine #PulpMagazines #PulpMagazine #MysteryMagazine #MysteryStory #DectectiveMystery #LockedRoom #LockedRoomMystery #PulpArt #Genre #GenreFiction #GenreLiterature #ThePulpMagazinesProject #CoverArt #CoverIllustration #Art

Cracked ton cover of The Black Mask "A magazine of Mystery,Romance and Adventure". Text at top of cover. Bottom, in left corner - August 1920 - in right corner - 20 cents.
The cover illustration is of a woman in a gown holding a statue of The Buddha. Her head is turned to the left with a wide-eyed expression of surprise. To her right is a dark-skinned man in a robe & wearing a turban. He is pointing to the left indicating something to the woman. In the far left in the foreground is a large long wax candle mounted in a floor stand. It is providing the light. In the background is a wall and large drapes in a door frame.

But the foregoing might apply in a general way to the body of any dead man under normal circumstances. What took this body out of the ordinary was not only its inexplicable presence in the locked and guarded vault but also the fact that from the back there protruded the handle of a large hunting knife — one of the elk horn variety never carried, except by chechahco hunters. The long blade was buried in the body just below and to the right of the left shoulder-blade, between it and the spine, and had been driven in with such a forceful blow that the haft made an indentation in the flesh about the wound.

#CBC's #Canada #Reads 2023 #CanadaReads2023 debates will take place March 27-30, 2023.

They will be hosted by #AliHassan and will be broadcast on #CBCRadioOne, #CBCTV, #CBCGem and on #CBCBooks.
Lots of #GenreFiction this year.

#Ducks, by #KateBeaton is a #GraphicNovel. #Hotline by #DimitriNasrallah is set in the 1980s, and makes use of memory, time periods, and elements of #magicrealism There are 2 #Novels that are #EcoFiction, a #SubGenre of #SpeculativeFiction - #ScienceFiction. They are #Greenwood by #MichaelChristie, and #StationEleven by #EmilyStJohnMandel. #MexicanGothic by #SilviaMorenoGarcia is a #Gothic #Horror novel. #GothicHorror.
#CanadianFiction has come a long way from the White Anglophone #NationalAngst and grim self-introspection #Realism that once haunted our #culturalPsyche.
#Genre #GenreLiterature #CanadianLiterature #CanadianNovels #Novel #Fiction

https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2023-contenders-1.6716837

@SFRuminations 👍 Make sure to include hashtags, it increases the spread-boosts & follows. #AltText will also increase the interaction, as does CW content warnings. 🙂
#ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionMagazines #Genre #GenreFiction #GenreLiterature #CoverArt #Art #PulpMagazine #Magazine

#HeidiFeek's version of #HeartbreakHotel, together with the video, turns the song into a #1950s #DriveInTheatre #Gothic #GhostStory full of brooding #Blues #Song #BluesMusic #Music #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #Genre #GenreFiction #GenreLiterature #PulpMagazine #WeirdTales #Ghosts #Haunting #Eerie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rk7zvozfHk

#HeidiFeek's Someday Somebody (is gonna hurt you) is a #FilmNoir #HardBoiled #PulpFiction #Blues #Song of #Betrayal, Revenge, and more #Revenge. A #Monochrome tale of #Suspense right out of the Bloody #Pulps that you won't get out of your mind/ear. #PulpMagazine #BlackandWhite #BluesMusic #Music #Genre #GenreFiction #GenreLiterature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA4qnL2MNI8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA4qnL2MNI8

@danacorn The ironies of the #HarryPotter series are noticeable, and many. One of the biggest is that the coming together of Wizards, including half-bloods, and magical creatures against #Voldemort and his crew represents diversity versus intolerance.
Voldemort is a classic cult-leader/ #Hitler trope.
*** J. K. Rowling seems oblivious of her own lessons.
On the plus side, the series generated a not just a huge following, but it became a gateway drug for #reading & #books. Especially for boys, which in many ways the print world gave up on.
It also was very effective in getting not just #ReluctantReaders into the world of #fiction / #literature, but also those with reading process differences.
The series really helped my son overcome his challenges in learning to read. I also saw this in my experience as a teacher-librarian.
It is unfortunate, that like other past works of #genre #literature, and #ChildrensLiterature, the creator's personal flaws & societal views stain the creativity & positive qualities of the work.
#GenreLiterature #GenreFiction
***Ursula K. le Guin was not wrong in her assessment of the #book & Rowling's #writingstyle.

Mad Hatters and March Hares
edited by #EllenDatlow
#TorBooks 2017

Took me quite awhile to complete this book, which says more about me than the book. There was a time when I could inhale a book, but now I tend to nibble-sniff at the pages. One of the reasons I decided to try the #PicturePromptBingo card, was because it was a prompt not a challenge, and it was very open to interpretation of choices.

This #Anthology provides an excellent assortment of tales that take inspiration from both of the Alice novels. There is a great range of creativity in both the use of Carroll's characters and settings. What I found missing, or at least limited, was the frivolity and whimsy that fills Carroll's creation.

The cover of the book features the following headline: “All-New Stories from the World of #LewisCarroll's #AliceInWonderland.” These #stories and #poetry, for the most part, look at Wonderland through the lens of the “real” world. As consequence, the reader will find serious #Fantasy tales, some of which are coloured with #Horror. The charm of #Wonderland's topsy-turvy logic has become darker, and the delightfully #Weird has become #Nightmarish.

A couple of the stories take place in a real world setting, and use references to Alice and Wonderland to express the #Protagonist's predicament and #Conflict.

Is this anthology a worthwhile read? The potential reader will find well written creative and thoughtful explorations of Wonderland and its inhabitants. They will be presented with protagonists facing problems of a fantastical and uncanny nature. But, if the reader is anticipating delightfully absurd tales full of whimsical humour, they will find the pickings rather thin.

Quality of #Writing: 5 out of 5.
#Creative use of source material: 5 out of 5
Range of #Narrative tone: 3.5 out of 5
#Book #BookReview #Genre #GenreFiction #genre #GenreLiterature #BookCover #CoverArt #Illustration