True Detective: Intellectual Property Theft?
True Detective: Intellectual Property Theft? Well– that didn’t go quite the way I was expecting it, now did it? With all the wonderful, fun speculation as to the hidden and not-so-hidden weird fiction references in HBO’s True Detective I thought I would see if anyone had dug up a little Arthur Machen, by any chance. After all, Lovecraft seems to have been well catered for and we might even have a chance at seeing a Robert W....
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) It’s pretty unlikely that Pierre Boulle would be a swiftly recognized name down at your local watering hole. Yet film enthusiasts are indebted to the French writer for at least two reasons: one is that his 1952 book The Bridge over the River Kwai would become the David Lean classic of almost the same name; the other is that his 1963 science fiction novel Monkey Planet was to be adapted as...
Michael Marshall – The Straw Men
Rough Beasts Slouching… The Straw Men I have my friend Rosemary to thank for coming across this barnstormer of a novel from 2002. She has been confined to the house of late and so I’ve gotten into the habit of picking up books for her occasionally. She enjoys the serial killer sub-genre of crime fiction and so a glance at the inside cover led me to think that I was pretty safe with this one, because it certainly comes under that...
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