The title of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 Notorious refers to the film’s central character Alicia Huberman, portrayed by Ingrid Bergman. Alicia indulges in heavy drink and promiscuity. A Freudian rationale would be that her actions are an extension of disdain for ...

Imagine a female James Bond, who has a fondness for black leather and rides a motorcycle. Then picture the lovely lady clad in expensive evening gowns, playing her Stradivarius in major concert venues throughout the world.

Welcome back to Passport to Espionage. In this installment we time trip to the 1960s, a decade in which a profusion of spies infiltrated the cinemas. Sean Connery debuted as James Bond in Dr. No (1962) and created a sensation. ...

Espionage has been dubbed “The World’s Second Oldest Profession.” In the world of fiction, the spy genre has demonstrated that it is a staple in literature and cinema. Spy fiction targets the allure of intrigue and recognizes a public fascination ...

Neil Gaiman took the reader on a magical mystery tour when American Gods was first published in 2001. The prodigious novel displayed creatively dexterous literary prestidigitation and was greeted with accolades. A slew of genre Best Novel awards followed in ...

Leslie S. Klinger, the annotator of The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham, is a very thorough fellow. His attention to detail is intensive and his penchant for in-depth research dazzles. In this second volume, the follow-up to 2014’s The ...

There are few things as comfortably rewarding as settling into a collection of ghost stories. Esteemed editors-annotators Lisa Morton and Leslie Klinger, in their anthology Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense, amplify the rewards through their notations and ...

Graeme Davis is an editor who clearly likes women. More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror is dedicated to his wife: “who proves to me every day that women are amazing.” To put it simply, the ...

I was introduced to Greek mythology as the result of a Frankenstein Complex. As a kid, I would swap the heads and bodies of my paper dolls. These attempts to create the perfect cardboard woman resulted in beauty pageants, in ...

Something’s not right about the Canadian village of Saint-Ferdinand. It is the site of a series of killings that has been a part of the fabric of the town for almost two decades. While the locals aren’t complacent, they do ...