In the final years of the silent film era, few careers traced a more unexpected arc than that of a child who began as Hollywood’s tiniest st...

As reported in a prior blog post, the Whitman Publishing Company published two hardcover novels based on the comic strip, Dick Tracy . Chest...

Bear Manor Media recently sent me a huge box of books to review and I spent the good part of the last month reading a few. I have a mantra n...

Perhaps no other old-time radio program is more fascinating than the Mercury Theater's production of H.G. Wells' novel, War of the W...

Just as Arch Oboler was walking away from the NBC weekly half-hour horror program, Lights Out! , to devote time writing brief sketches for T...