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Be sure not to miss Lord Dunsany’s criminous masterpiece, “The Two Bottles of Relish,” or Bob Shaw’s heartbreakingly beautiful science fiction masterpiece, “Light of Other Days.”

Crippen and Landru, the go-to publisher for criminous short-story collections, has just brought out “Hot Cash, Cold Clews: The Adventures of Lester Leith,” which reprints some of the 1930s pulp escapades of a Raffles-like con artist imagined by the young Erle Stanley Gardner.

For further criminous diversion, I spent one evening enjoying the hit film “Knives Out,” while noting the flaws in its intricate plot.

Besides essays, he also writes elegantly eerie or criminous short stories, some about an occult investigator known as the Connoisseur; he’s produced the single best monograph on the mystical Welsh man of letters Arthur Machen; and he oversees the journal Wormwood: Literature of the Fantastic, Supernatural and Decadent.

Hawley Harvey Crippen and Henri Désiré Landru were notorious murderers, so the euphonious juxtaposition of their names struck Douglas G. Greene as singularly apt when he was founding a press specializing in collections of criminous short stories.