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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine
Best Action Scene Ever Filmed? (From 1985. No CGI.)
by Bill Crider
40 minutes ago

pattinase
Comic Bookstore Killer Case
In a Macomb County courtroom not far from his old comic book store in a Clinton Township strip mall, Michael George finally stood trial for...
by pattinase (abbott)
100 minutes ago

First Offenders
Complain-o-rama!
By Alison I've got a cold. I hate having a cold. I'm all weak and my head is fuzzy and I can hardly breathe and...
by Jeff
106 minutes ago

The Outfit
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by Bryan Gruley
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Tom Schreck
CONSPIRACY TUESDAY: THE CIA and LSD
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The Dark Salon
The Price, now out in the U.K.!
I'm excited to announce that THE PRICE has just been released in the UK from Little, Brown, with this great cover... ... an edgy variation...
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The Graveyard Shift
Castle: Suicide Squeeze - A Review (of the police procedure)
Well, another episode has passed and it was business as usual inside the halls of BCPD (Beckett Castle Police Department), and that business, of course...
by Lee Lofland
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Buzz, Balls & Hype
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