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Why I write

Samuel Johnson famously said No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. Which to my mind is one of those observations that is both masterful and moronic, right along the lines of you only live once (which is no excuse to act like a selfish jerk) or if you...

Return of the Penny Dreadful

Way back in the 19th Century, even before the rise of the pulps, another form of cheap amusement haunted the eyes of the reading. Short, lurid, quickly written and dismissed as so much trash, it nonetheless was the most popular form of written entertainment of its...