Sybil Leek - Cast Your Own Spell - Pinnacle - 1975

The Godmakers by Dan Britain

Art by Frank Frazetta

Pinnacle Books (1970)

Darkness Falling by Barbara Kevern

ISBN 0-523-00325-0

'Blood On The Trail' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'Blood On The Trail' Book Review By Ron Fortier

BLOOD ON THE TRAIL A Jeremiah Halstead Western By Terrence McCauley Pinnacle Books 315 pgs

Mystery writer Terrence McCauley burst on the Western scene several years ago with his first Sheriff Aaron Mackey novel, “Where the Bullets Fly.” At the end of that four-book series, Mackey was sworn in as Montana’s U.S. Marshal and residing in Helena, the state capital. We cannot say enough good things about that series and happily reviewed every one of them. Though we were led to believe that after the fourth book that would be the last we’d see of Mackey and his likable cast of characters.

Happily, we’ve been proven wrong as McCauley has now returned to Montana and begun a second series this time featuring one of Mackey’s Deputy Marshals, Jeremiah Halstead, who had first appeared in the previous books as a supporting character. Young Halstead was the son of one of Mackey’s closest friends from the war. In this first story, Deputy Halstead is sent down to the small town of Rock Creek to locate the whereabouts of the murderous Hudson Gang. That he manages to do easily enough. It is only after he captures the gang’s leader, John Hudson, that his trouble begins. Fleeing Rock Creek with the rest of the killers chasing him, Halstead manages to escape but not before killing two of them; one being Hudson’ younger brother.

Desperate to get back to Helena with his prisoner, the Deputy Marshal stops in the town of Silver Cloud, a halfway point on his trip. But when goes to the local jail to lock up his prisoner, he’s confronted by the mean-spirited Sheriff Boddington and his two dimwit deputies. Halstead has no patience for men like these and quickly puts all three out of commission with the use of his rifle butt; an action guaranteed not to endear him with the good people of Silver Cloud. Then he gets a telegram from Marshal Mackey telling him not to return immediately, but to remain in the burgeoning mining camp, Halstead’s situation becomes less than enviable.

Then within twenty hours of his arrival, a popular prostitute is murdered, her body discovered in the alley behind the saloon. Thus our hero is forced to stay in a town where he has already antagonized the sheriff, is embroiled in a murder investigation, and is very much aware that the remainder of the Hudson gang is most likely to attempt to free their boss at any time. Suspense builds upon suspense as McCauley skillfully weaves his narrative at a remarkably well-established pace. There is plenty of action throughout the tale skillfully interwoven with genuine characterizations of believable people. As a series debut, “Blood On The Trail,” is a magnificent launch that only has us hoping the sequel isn’t too far off. This is what good Westerns are all about.

“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950

Spooktober Book of the day: Them by William W. Johnstone (1992) #book #books #fiction #novel #horror #them #williamwjohnstone #90s #PinnacleBooks #spooktober #halloween #october

In all the fuss about love triangles, literature has forgotten the joy of the complicated love chains. Where the girl is in love with one boy, and doesn't notice the other boy who's hopelessly in love with her, and then that boy is breaking the heart of a different girl who's pining over him, and so on and so forth until you finally pair these people up and reach the end of your gloriously convoluted Victorian serial novel.

i HATE the term shadow daddy. If a character is referred to as “shadow daddy” by someone you know its gonna be the most uninteresting, bland and probably shitty male character to ever exist. Bro does the bare minimum and everyone falls to their feet. Shadow daddy isnt a compliment its a warning to everyone else

Wait a minute. Lucifer was god's favorite angel until his betrayal, when he was banished to hell and became a monster. The Creature was Victor's precious creation until he came to life and was horrifying, and he was banished to the wilderness to become a monster. Hold on a minute-

Can't wait for Hollywood to think it can do Dungeon Meshi better than Ryoko Kui herself 🙄

Important Question: Since discussions of old Earth literature/music/etc. in Star Trek seems largely limited to what are generally deemed “classics” (Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, etc.) what are your headcanons about what 21st century media is considered “classic” in the 24th century? There are no wrong answers

Graham Masterton - The Sphinx - Pinnacle - 1978 (flyleaf, illustration by Jose Reyes)

Vintage Paperback - Android Armageddon by Robert Tralins

Pinnacle (1974)

'historytok' shut the fuck up about anne boleyn and marie antoinette challenge (impossible)

The Tibet story makes me want to bite and scream

Like it's full of love, it is a love story, but not just the obvious "Tintin loves Chang so much he risks his life" but more of "Haddock loves Tintin so much he doesn't abandon him"

Like even for Tintin alright? Like he risks his life for Chang and believes he's alive but that's not new, that's Tintin's core as a character

BUT the moment Haddock is ready to sacrifice himself for Tintin, he is "WE BOTH DIE OR BOTH LIVE"

LIKE LIKE HADDOCK GIVES TINTIN A REASON TO LIVE INSTEAD OF RISKING HIS LIFE?! LIKE LIKE

And you can feel how huge the whole adventure was for him as things change after Tibet and Tintin wants to stay at home with his family and and I am emotional 😭

the only way i can imagine marla and the narrator getting it on in the comics has to be her pegging him.

ok he got to put it in once (1) for them to get pregnant but was he on top?

i don’t think so