Free Fiction: “Secret Fears” by Bill Pronzini

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“Secret Fears”
by
Bill Pronzini

It was one of those unwinnable discussions you get into now and then with strangers in bars.  The kind that can turn confrontational because nobody ever changes anybody else’s outlook or opinion.  Politics, religion, sports — the topic doesn’t really matter.  This time it happened to be horror movies.Continue Reading

The Endgame of an Era

Me and the Nameless Detective go way back. I’ve been reading these books since, oh wow, probably 1983? My Lord, that’s a long time.

I was never a mystery/suspense/noir reader in my youth. Science fiction, mostly, and what horror there was to be found. Which, honestly, wasn’t very much. SF won most of my reading time by default.

Yet by the early eighties I was getting very tired of the weary clichés of science fiction. Continue Reading