A list of writings about our Game, and other death games, in chronological order. For a list of death game appearances in literature and film, click here.

Our Game

"The Death Game"
P. Zythos
The Syracuse New Times
Sept. 16, 1973, p. 9, 24

Also in...
The Buffalo New Times
Sept. 16, 1973, p. 5, 6
The Ithaca New Times
Sept. 30, 1973, p. 9, 11

"The Death Game," in:
Death: Grim Realities and Comic Relief
Christopher Clemons & Mark Smith
New York, Delacorte Press, 1982, pp. 167-169

"Game of Chance"
Robert Blade
Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville), 1983?

"Ghoulish Game to Begin the Year"
Warren Hinckle
San Francisco Chronicle
January 2, 1985, p. 4

"The Death Game"
Dashka Slater
The East Bay Express (Oakland)
July 13, 1990, Sec. 2, pp. 1, 18-23
City Paper (Baltimore)
August 31-September 6, 1990, pp. 14-19
Reprint with intro, "Deathshead Revisited," by Michael Yockel

Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson
E. Jean Carroll
New York, Dutton, 1993, pp. 270-271

"The Dying Game"
Lindsey Gruson
The New York Observer
January 17, 1994, p.13

"The Dying Game"
Leslie Newell Peacock
The Arkansas Times
February 10, 1994, p.15

"The Dying Game"
Tom Soter
Empire magazine (UK)
April 1995

"The End Game"
J. R. Moehringer
The Los Angeles Times
Aug. 27, 1995, p.E1

"Ghoulish Game"
Katherine Scobey
The Syracuse Herald-American
Sept. 17, 1995, pp. A1,8

"The Game Gazette"
Joyce A. Rogers
The Epitaph: The Journal of Fatal Statistics
Number 5, Sept. 1996, p. 89

"Dead Reckoning"
Linton Weeks
The Washington Post
Jan. 11, 1998, p.F01

"For Some, Predicting Stars' Deaths Only a Game"
Drake Witham
The Providence Journal
Feb. 1, 1999

"Floating in the Dead Pool"
Carrie Stetler
The Star-Ledger (Newark)
Oct. 28, 1999, pp.65, 69

"Celebrities Cope with Rumors of Death that Just Won't Die"
Kirk Baird
Las Vegas Sun
April 7, 2000

"Ghoul Pools: Death game plays with celebrities lives"
Johanna A. Pro
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August 1, 2000, pp.D1-2

About Other Death Games

"Grisly Pool Recalled in NY"
John Maguire
Albany Times-Union, June 9, 1977

"Trendy Game, Morbid Theme"
Michael Kilian
Chicago Tribune, n.d 1985 ?

"Office Ghouls' Pool"
Jennifer Conlin
Manhattan, Inc., May, 1987, p. 22

"Death Pool Totes Up a Funereal Jackpot"
Bill Husted
Rocky Mountain News, December 23, 1992

"This Pool Doesn't Want Everyone In"
Eric Zorn
Chicago Tribune, March 28, 1993

"'Dead Pool' a Lively Form of Amusement"
Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times, January 25, 1995

"Dead Pools"
Merlin D. Mann
Break Magazine, December 6, 1995

"Death Becomes Them"
Dewey Webb
Metro Santa Cruz, January 4-10, 1996

"A Roll of the Die"
Brian Rohan
The New York Daily News
November 16, 1997, "Extra," p.49

" 'Ghoul Pools' Bet on Who Goes Next"
Marianne Costantinou
San Francisco Examiner
February 22, 1998, p.A1, A12

"The Ghoul Pool: Morbid, Tasteless and Popular"
Laura Pedersen-Pietersen
The New York Times
Sunday, June 7, 1998, "Business"

"Los rincones perversos de la red" ("The Evil Corners of the Net")
Sarabel González
La Reforma (Mexico City)
June 21, 1998

"End Game"
John Powers
The Boston Globe
July 8, 1998, p.F1

"Profits of Doom"
John Hayes
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
October 9, 1998

Dead Pool: Stretch & Wilk's Official Annual Guide
Mike Gelfand & Mike Wilkinson
Lombard, Ill.; Formaldehyde Press; 1998

"Ghoul Pools: Death game plays with celebrities lives"
Johanna A. Pro
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August 1, 2000, pp.D1-2

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