Sweet Darkness

Rating:
Summary: Sweet, scary darkness!
Review: Rich grabs you by the lapels and never lets go in this collection of his dark tales. A super read from start to finish...a bludgeoning one, in fact. Written well, this work is well worth the price. It is hard to put a finger on which is my fave, suffice it to say, one will not be disappointed.

Rating:
Summary: Darkness, Sweet indeed!
Review: Rich Logsdon has been one of my favorite 'up-and-coming' authors for quite some time now. I have a fondness for stories set in Vegas and Rich uses that glitzy setting (and his other varied settings) for perfect effect every time. (Vegas is like Florida: a definite vortex of weirdness in the Universe.) One of the many neat things about Rich's fiction is that after you read one of his wild tales, you are emotionally exhausted. He sets up his often bizarre, yet familiar characters perfectly; you are inexorably drawn in by them and begin living vicariously through them -- you can't help it...
Rich's vivid descriptions are riveting; his playful tongue-in-cheek references are jarring -- you find yourself smiling then feeling bad because you were amused in such a horrid setting -- akin to snickering at a funeral! At any rate, his fiction is very highly recommended -- but prepare yourself for a wild, disturbing ride!
In the TV movie "The Night Stalker" (ironically also set in Vegas), Editor Tony Vincenzo quietly tells his ace reporter, "Kolchak, you're one helluva reporter," paying Carl the highest of possible honors from one journalist to another.
All I can say is: "Rich Logsdon, you're one helluva writer."

Rating:
Summary: Darkness, Sweet indeed!
Review: Rich Logsdon has been one of my favorite 'up-and-coming' authors for quite some time now. I have a fondness for stories set in Vegas and Rich uses that glitzy setting (and his other varied settings) for perfect effect every time. (Vegas is like Florida: a definite vortex of weirdness in the Universe.) One of the many neat things about Rich's fiction is that after you read one of his wild tales, you are emotionally exhausted. He sets up his often bizarre, yet familiar characters perfectly; you are inexorably drawn in by them and begin living vicariously through them -- you can't help it...
Rich's vivid descriptions are riveting; his playful tongue-in-cheek references are jarring -- you find yourself smiling then feeling bad because you were amused in such a horrid setting -- akin to snickering at a funeral! At any rate, his fiction is very highly recommended -- but prepare yourself for a wild, disturbing ride!
In the TV movie "The Night Stalker" (ironically also set in Vegas), Editor Tony Vincenzo quietly tells his ace reporter, "Kolchak, you're one helluva reporter," paying Carl the highest of possible honors from one journalist to another.
All I can say is: "Rich Logsdon, you're one helluva writer."