In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock, following the cinematic marvels Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959) and Psycho (1960), brought to the screen his fourth masterpiece in a row, The Birds. That latter film, I had long believed, was based on a short story from 1952 by London-born author Daphne du Maurier, also called “The Birds,” and indeed, at the very beginning of the 1963 film a title card does tell us “From the story by Daphne du Maurier.” It is only recently,
October 24th, 2023. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4.5 | Frank Baker | Film / TV, Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Whistling Ancestors by Richard E. Goddard
And so, I have just come to the end of another lot of books from the remarkable publisher known as Ramble House. And what an octet of books they were! In chronological order: Elliott O’Donnell’s The Sorcery Club (1912), which tells of ancient Atlantean magic being used by a trio of men in modern-day London; G. Firth Scott’s Possessed (1912), in which a deceased business magnate takes over the body of one of his former employees;
July 24th, 2023. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 4 | Richard E. Goddard | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The Green Man of Graypec by Festus Pragnell
In his famous short story of 1858 entitled “The Diamond Lens,” Irish-American author Fitz-James O’Brien gave his readers a tale of a scientist who invents a new type of microscope and with it discovers a woman living in a droplet of water. This fascinating premise of humanoid life existing in a microscopic realm was later amplified by NYC-born author Ray Cummings, whose 1919 novella “The Girl in the Golden Atom” told of a chemist who’d discovered a beautiful female living in the subatomic world of his mother’s wedding ring (!),
September 23rd, 2021. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | Festus Pragnell | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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