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A Bad Case of Dead by Jim Breyfogle

A Bad Case of Dead by Jim Breyfogle

Jim Breyfogle's A Bad Case of Dead is in some ways a very traditional romance in a Victorian setting. We find a grim and dirty, but quite lively London with many economic opportunities available to the bold and the lucky. Queen Victoria's overseas dominions give Englishmen

Favorites of 2019

2019 has been a great year for fiction, especially the independently published scifi and fantasy associated with labels like #pulprev and #superversive. I’ve read books this year that I’ve been missing all my life, but I couldn’t find, and some that are brand new. I’ve also

Penny Dreadfuls

Now this is the kind of reading I can get behind! The Essential Man’s Library: 50 Fictional Adventure Books Edition A lot of these books are probably terrible, and of no redeeming social importance, but I love them anyway. G. K. Chesterton did too, and he wrote a defense