title: Edge of Darkness:  The Art, Craft, and Power of the High-Definition Monochrome Photograph
author:  Barry Thornton 
description: British photographer Barry Thornton has spent a lifetime devoted to black and white photography. He shares his warehouse of technical savvy in <I>Edge of Darkness: The Art, Craft, and Power of the High-Definition Monochrome Photograph</I>. If you have at least a working knowledge of basic photography, then you'll find this book to be full of helpful advice. Thornton has an immense amount of how-to wisdom and covers topics including focusing, lighting, tripods, printing, and much more. It is a precise book with incredible attention to detail.
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  The October Blight  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  # The October Blight
  
  
  ### Anthony M. Rud
  
  
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  The Green Book, March, 1918
  
  
  The first of a new series of fascinating detective stories
  
  
  “WILL you paint a portrait of me? I am not in a hurry. In fact, I'd much
  prefer, if you're not too crowded down there, to come up to town and stay with
  you for a short time. You can paint me whenever you have sufficient time off
  from your other work.”
  
  If Crosby Braithwaite had asked me to come out and whitewash his chicken coop,
  I would not have been more astounded. I do portraits often, while I have
  devoted little time to the decoration of chicken coops; but to have a blunt,
  masculine man like Crosby so anxious for his picture that he is willing to
  come to town and wait around for it—well, it took my breath away. I scarcely
  could believe the phone receiver.
  
  “Why—why,” I sputter