In the eleventh blue hardback Hardy Boys novel, Frank and Joe encounter a mystery involving a secret room with a time lock. The mystery is how someone is managing to place death threats within the locked room. To complicate the mystery, the boys keep running afoul of a group of Read more…
I have always been a big Star Trek fan. I’m old enough to have faint memories of the original series in its original run, but most of my obsession was born in the endless reruns that started soon after. I also read all the James Blish novelizations of the original Read more…
The Bobbsey Twins are one of the four big titles produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the others being Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Tom Swift. Unlike the protagonists of the other stories, the Bobbsey Twins are very young. There are actually two sets of fraternal twins, two of whom Read more…
Instead of having Holmes fight Dracula, Klaver has the two team-up to go after a horrible foe. Anyone with even the slightest amount of imagination will guess that that foe will be Moriarity and probably a vampire Moriarity. The foundation for this partnership is that Dracula isn’t the monster of Read more…
What could be better than mixing Hellboy and Thor together in the same story? Mixing them up in Hellboy’s body! That’s the basic plot of this Hellboy novel. When the remains of the God of Thunder are discovered with his hammer, Hellboy accidentally gets Mjolnir grafted to his hand and Read more…
When Theodore Horstmann, the man who takes care of Wolfe’s orchids, is beaten so badly he’s put into a coma, Wolfe decides that honor demands he find the assailants. When murder quickly follows, Wolfe and Archie realize they have a much more serious problem than a robbery gone wrong. This Read more…
These two short stories take a quick look into a not-fully-developed vision of Zelazny’s science versus the supernatural universe. The hero and his apprentice run a little anti-supernatural shop. Think you might have a vampire living in the basement of your apartment building? Well, here’s the place you can get Read more…
Andrea Vernon is back for one last adventure, telling her eight-year-old daughter how she and the daughter’s father (who the eight-year-old has just learned was a superhero called The Big Axe—not the man she thinks of as dad) saved the world before Andrea decided to give up superheroing to be Read more…
I have a confession to make. I am one of the apparently six or seven people on the planet who really liked the Flash Gordon movie when it came out in 1980. I was a young teenager at the time and I and my friends loved every minute of the Read more…
This is a novelization of the first episode of The X-Files television series aimed at school age kids. It’s a very quick read and if you watched the series or even were lucky enough to see the first episode, it will bring a pleasant smile to your face as Fox Read more…