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My Fall Reading
 My Fall ReadingBack in August, I discovered my monthly water bill was decreasing from $42 per month to $14 per month, a savings of $28 per month. Quite a drop........I'm not sure how long it will...
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October 2020 is Spooky Stories Month
October is Spooky Stories Month at the PorPor Boks BlogIn the spirit of Halloween, here at the PorPor Books Blog we devote every October to reviewing horror fiction. With the arrival of unusually...
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Book Review: The Year's Best Horror Stories Series IV
Book Review: 'The Year's Best Horror Stories Series IV', edited by Gerald W. Page2 / 5 Stars`The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV' (208 pp., DAW Books, November 1976) features cover art by Michael...
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Protective bags for your paperbacks
Protective Bags for Your Paperback BooksI've been collecting mass-market paperbacks since 1974 and I don't know how many I own, as most of them are stored in boxes in my basement. I'm guessing it's...
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Deathblow: Sinners and Saints
Deathblow: Sinners and Saintsby Brandon Choi, Jim Lee (script) and Jim Lee and Tim Sale (art)Image, 1999'Deathblow: Sinners and Saints' (256 pp) compiles the first twelve issues of the Image comic...
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Book Review: Book of the Dead
Book Review: 'Book of the Dead' edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector4 / 5 Stars'Book of the Dead' (390 pp.) was published by Bantam Books in July 1989. The cover artist is Richard Kriegler.I remember...
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Splatterpunks, 1980s
Splatterpunks, 1980sleft to right: Craig Spector, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Christian Matheson, David J. Schow, Ray Garton, Robert McCammon, and John Skipp. Photo by Beth Gwinn, 1986/7. From the Robert...
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Book Review: Summer Solstice
Book Review: 'Summer Solstice' by Michael T. Hinkmeyer1 / 5 Stars'Summer Stolstice' (213 pp.) was published by Futura (UK) in 1980. The artist who provided the striking cover illustration is...
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Isaac Asimov, the Groper
 Isaac Asimov, the GroperAn interesting article by Alec Nevala-Lee about the creepy behavior of the well-known sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov, which, even in the un-Woke days of the 70s and 80s, raised...
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Book Review: Demon Summer
Book Review: 'Demon Summer' by Elaine Booth Selig1 / 5 Stars'Demon Summer' (224 pp) was published by Pocket Books in June 1979. The cover artist is uncredited.Elaine Booth Selig wrote a number of...
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Down and Out with William Burroughsfrom Laid Bare by John GimoreJohn Gilmore (July 5, 1935 - October 13, 2016) was an actor, director, sleaze paperback author, true crime author, and chronicler of...
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Book Review: Whispers
Book Review: 'Whispers' edited by Stuart David Schiff4 / 5 Stars'Whispers' was a semi-professional magazine published by Stuart David Schiff (b. 1946), a dentist and resident of Binghamton, New York....
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Second Story Books Warehouse
Second Story BooksRockville, Maryland WarehouseDuring October I took a couple of day trips to the Second Story Books warehouse in Rockville, Maryland.Second Story is an institution in the metropolitan...
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Book Review: The Best of Modern Horror
Book Review: 'The Best of Modern Horror' edited by Edward L. Ferman and Anne Jordan3 / 5 Stars‘The Best of Modern Horror’ (403 pp) was published in the UK by Penguin Books in 1990. The cover...
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TISWAS with Robert Plant, 1981
TISWAS with Robert Plant1981This is.......bizarre. But very British.'Tiswas' ('Today Is Saturday: Watch And Smile') was a Saturday morning kid's TV show that ran in the UK from 1974 to 1982. In the...
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Book Review: New Writings in SF 1
Book Review: 'New Writings in SF 1' edited by John Carnell2 / 5 Stars'New Writings in SF 1' (147 pp) first was published in the UK in 1964; this Bantam Books edition was released in April 1966. The...
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Thorgal: The Archers, Part One
Thorgal: The ArchersBy Van Hamme and Rosinski1985Part OneFirst published in 1985 as 'Thorgal: Les Archers', this English translation was issued in 1986 by The Donning Company. Printed to the same...
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Thorgal: The Archers, part Two
Thorgal: The ArchersBy Van Hamme and Rosinski1985Part Two
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Book Review: The Cloud Walker
Book Review: 'The Cloud Walker' by Edmund Cooper5 / 5 Stars'The Cloud Walker' (216 pp) was published by Ballantine Books in April, 1973. The striking cover illustration is by John Berkey.I first read...
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1977: The Year I Stopped Reading Comics from Barry's Pearls
1977: The year I stopped reading comicsfrom 'Berry's Pearls of Comic Book Wisdom'An interesting post made last year at the Barry's Pearls of Comic Book Wisdom website. His observations about the impact...
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