Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY: Donald Chadmore, newly released from prison for an assault charge has come to his uncle Theodore's home in order to protect ...

The most uncanny thing about my reading Sinister House (1919) is not so much the content of this fine tale of a haunted house and malevolen...

THE STORY: Despite its gruesome deaths by falling and crushing in a Norman castle The Croaking Raven (1966) is very much like a 21st century...

THE STORY:   Four women make a pact to bring to justice the murderer of their dear friend Lizbeth More who was stabbed on Halloween after a ...

London After Midnight – the stuff of legends. For those of you not in the know let me fill you in. It’s one of those “lost films” from the ...

Today's Friday's Forgotten Book post is on two books that belong more to Alternative Mystery category and are forgotten with good ...

I've known Joseph Payne Brennan as the creator of Lucius Leffing, a Sherlockian style consulting detective, who appears in two books. ...

"By the golden apples of Hesperides!" Simon Gale is one amusingly boisterous detective. Recently I learned of a trio of books ...