Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY: Philip "Flip" Townsend and Brian Bishop, two teen boys guided by a dated book on the history of their hometown Dunth...

THE STORY: The Knapp sisters are planning to murder their domineering physician father who is hoping to marry his much younger nurse assi...

US paperback edition (Berkley, 1961) THE STORY: Coreyville is rid of its worst pest. Rose Anthony has fallen down her cellar stairs and...

"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" I was so excited to read this afternoon that Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in...

For years the Mystery Writers of America have been putting out an annual anthology usually with a theme of some sort. I'm not sure if ...

THE STORY: Louise "Liz" Boykin is an artist's model by choice. She's trying hard to become part of the artist community...

THE STORY : At the start of Breathe No More (1940) N. B. Guardet has summoned friends and family to a weekend celebration during which he...

Act of Fear (1966) is the first book in a series of private eye novels featuring Dan Fortune, the one-armed detective created by Dennis Ly...

World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters Quirk Books ISBN: 978-1-59474-685-7 316 pp. $14.95 July 15, 2014 Usually I avoid dystopian and a...

Two teenage boys skipping out on their English class on the last day of school come across a horrible sight while walking through Braxham ...

The introduction to Just an Ordinary Day (1997) written by two of Shirley Jackson's grown children tells how they received a box of man...

I have a thing about the Edgar Awards. I happen to think a lot of the award winners didn't deserve that little statue of Poe. Only occ...