the ghost in the floorboards ...

variations on a theme (while giving a small boost to Tom's acct)

typewriter art by me, while simultaneously promoting Gunhead's acct

I hope whomever stole them is paying a stiff “late return fee”

This unintentional book review is about as good as they get.

The Diabols by R.W. Mackelworth. 1969, cover art by Richard Powers. #booksky

Me, trying to be normal:

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost with a dance or get eliminated.

Arrival, afterword.

Yes, your honor. I was drinking, but I sure as hell wasn't driving. (young gent holding beer cup while astride large white bird)

Little craft project utilizing found Victorian "punch out" with beer stein repair, typewriter, and my whacky imagination!

Variations on a theme (while giving Colin's acct a tiny boost)

Please, can anyone help with translation (lower left and lower right)?

Kaiju (but make it haiku)

a goddamn monster
smashing tomatoes and beans
Ultraman arrives

handing over all my quarters

What this book review leaves unsaid is, "...AND originating from the same place."

Pandemonium on the Potomac by William C. Anderson. 1966, cover art by Tom O'Sullivan. #booksky

researching the past to enliven the present, nice!

Not sure what that book with cover showing a leaping spider ship and gent holding a laser-like hand weapon is all about, but I like it! Wonder if it's been translated and published in English?

We can hope ...

The James Bama covers on the 1960's Doc Savage paperbacks would just suck you over to the spinner rack, make you pick the pb up in your hand, then drag you to the cashier to buy them.

I see your duck and raise a turkey...

impressive, you are now a Jedi

Well, maybe not everything...

Heritage Auctions advert - the David Aronovitz Collection of Important Science Fiction & Fantasy

You know it's gonna be something big when it gets a full page in the NY Times .

same here - I remember watching it for first time during a very active thunder & lightning storm

one of those fortuitous situations where the book found me!

AI scraping? tell ‘em to buzz off

that cover is making some big promises!

Creature holding fainted woman in arm

"places of note" #bookwormsat - certainly not a safe place to go swimming alone

Creature from the Black Lagoon by Vargo Statten. 1954, cover by John Richards. #booksky

Doc standing in front of his arctic Fortress

"buildings or places of note...real or imagined" #bookwormsat

Fortress of Solitude, Doc Savage no.23. By Kenneth Robeson. April 1968, cover art by James Bama. #booksky

"It was also too bad that John Sunlight was destined to be the man who found the Strange Blue Dome."

variations a theme -
single glove abandoned outside a bank alongside the sidewalk - "if the glove don't fit.." well, you know.

telling my grandkids this is a scene from Big Trouble in Little China

Rummage Sale sign on church lawn

been a minute since the last time I jumped in to one of these #rummagesale