Month: September 2015

This excerpt is adapted from my book The Clive Cussler Adventures: A Critical Review, published by McFarland Books in 2014.   Clive Cussler’s most famous novel, Raise the Titanic! is a landmark of late 20th Century adventure literature and one of the …

“Raise the Titanic!” — The Newspaper Strip Read More »

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Creature Features have gone the way of the drive-in theater. Not dead, but not as prevalent they once were. These paeans to classic, not-so classic, campy, so-bad-it’s-good, and just plain trashy monster movies were often locally produced and broadcast on …

The Acri Creature Feature and Dr. San Guinary Read More »

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A campaign against H. P. Lovecraft took advantage of his 125th birthday on August 20th to rear its head again, and it ticked me off, so I’m going to vent. This campaign stems from Lovecraft’s racism, and there’s no two …

In Defence of Dagon’s Author Read More »

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