THE SECOND BLACK LIZARD ANTHOLOGY, also assembled by Gorman,
is a fatter affair I like even better than the first,
including a complete novel. I liked the first a bit more
thoroughly than you did, and I'm the one, even considering
HAMMETT, which I like enormously, who thinks Gores is even
more impressive at shorter lengths (judging by H and the two
DKA novels I've read...I have a lot of painless research to
come)...if the man never wrote more than "The Second Coming,"
"Goodbye, Pops," and "Watch for It," all anthologized at
least once each, he would be remembered. "Watch for It"
particularly smacked my young self around as much as anything
by Paul Cain or any of the ultraboiled followers. TM
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Bassett [mailto:
dj_bassett@yahoo.com]
THE BLACK LIZARD ANTHOLOGY OF CRIME FICTION, ed. by Edward
Gorman.
Kind of a hit or miss affair, I thought, but worth getting
for Pronzini's "A Cold, Foggy Day"; Whittington's "Swamp
Search"; Gault's very fine "Take Care of Yourself", the first
Joe Puma story I've read; Robert Edmond Alter's "A Killer in
the Dark"; and Joe Gores absolutely superb "The Second
Coming", which I'm pretty sure I read in another anthology --
perhaps THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF PULP FICTION? Somebody here
speculated that Gores real talent may be in the short story
realm
-- I haven't read enough of his books to really say yea or
nay, but this is certainly better than the two novels of his
I've read.
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