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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Vol. 4 No. 3 March 1959
Alfred Hitchcock: Dear Readers
Contents
Henry Slesar “Not So Sudden Death”
Kris Giles “Double Entry”
Donald Honig “An Honest Man’s Legal Justice”
Helen Nielsen “Angry Weather”
Bryce Walton “Unidentified and Dead”
O.H. Leslie “It Started Most Innocently”
Donald Martin “Meditations Upon a Murder”
Fletcher Flora “Of the Five Who Came”
Robert Edmond Alter “An Accident has been Arranged”
Douglas Farr “Sam’s Conscience”
C.B. Gilford “The Coldbrook Crime”

Publisher: Richard E. Decker
Editorial Director: William Manners
Managing Editor: Marguerite Bostwick
Associate Editors: Pat O’Connell, Nadine King
Art Director: Meinrad Mayer

Regularly $12.00, now $8.15. Grab it fast, who knows how long this price will last!

Weirdbook No. 40 Nov. 2018

Weirdbook Vol. 2 No. 10 Issue 40 November 2018
Contents
Doug Draa: From the Editor’s Tower

Stories
Adrian Cole “Iconoclasm”
Franklyn Searight “Have a Crappy Halloween”
Samson Stormcrow Hayes “Early Snow”
Glynn Owen Barrass “The Dollhouse”
Loren Rhoads “Elle a Vu un Loup”
Christian Riley “Bringing the Bodies Home”
Marlane Quade Cook “Restored”
David M. Hoenig “Nameless and Named”
Paul Lubaczewski “Playing A Starring Role”
Mike Chinn “And the Living is Easy”
Paul StJohn Mackintosh “The Prague Relic”
Matt Sullivan “The Circle”
John Linwood Grant “Sanctuary”
Matt Neil Hill “The Giving of Gifts”
Jack Lothian “The Santa Anna”
Kevin Henry “The Dread Fishermen”
Andrew Darlington “Blind Vision”
William Tea “The Thirteenth Step”
Clint Smith “This Godless Apprenticeship”
John W. Dennehy “Waiting”
Paul R. McNamee “Pouring Whiskey In My Soul”
Darrell Schweitzer “True Blue”
Rohit Sawant “The Treadmill”
W.D. Clifton “The Veiled Isle”

Poetry
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
“Gila King”
Frederick J. Mayer “Necro-Meretrix”
Frederick J. Mayer “Grinning Moon”
Russ Parkhurst “The Burning Man”
Russ Parkhurst “Silent Hours”
Maxwell I Gold “The Old White Crone”

Weirdbook Vol. 2 No. 10 Issue 40 November 2018
Publisher/Executive Editor: John Gregory Betancourt
Editor: Doug Draa
Consulting Editor: W. Paul Ganley
Cover: J. Florêncio
Interior Artwork: Allen Koszowski
256 pages, 6” x 9”
$12.00 POD, Kindle*
Wildside Press website

*Not available at the time of this writing

Fate 733

Fate No. 733
True Reports of the Strange and Unknown
Contents
I See By the Papers by Fate Staff
Phyllis Galde: From Your Editor
Marilyn Hosey: Flatwoods Monster
Rosemary Ellen Guiley: The Grafton Monster
A Nod to Stephen King
Thomas Quackenbush: Pine Bush UFOs
Umberto Visani: Men in Black
Maxim W. Furek: The Strange and Paranormal Events of Sheppton
Michael Harris Hoffman: To Civilized Mars and Beyond
W.A. Harbinson: The Timeless Mystery of Saint Germain
David Montaigne: Pole Shift
Judy Griffin: My Healing Journey with Flowers
Natalie Fowler: The Palmer House and Its Effects
Katharine Clark: The Unknown Woman of the Seine
Did the Nazis have Flying Saucers and a Base in Antarctica?
Dick Kleiner: Audrey Meadows and the Rooming House Ghost (Fate Jan. 1964)
My Proof of Survival
True Mystic Experiences
Eris Christopher: A Fascinating Account of Past Life Regression
Graham Meame: Haunted Castlegate
Lisa Hawkins: One Step Beyond
Micah Hanks: Beyond the Known part II
Classified Advertising
The Amazing Godwin from Spirit as told to Phyllis Galde by Janice Carlson

Editor-in-Chief: Phyllis Galde
Executive Editor: Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Editors: Susan Swan, Jamie Anderson, Natalie Fowler
Contributing Editor: Micah Hanks
Social Media: Jamie Anderson
Fate Radio Host: Kat Hobson
Cover image courtesy Maxwell Drake
Approximately 5.25” x 7.75” 120 pages
$5.95
Fate website

Pulp Horror No. 8 Dec. 2018

Contents
EC Lives!
Pulp Horror Reviews
Crocodile Fears
Sabat: The Man in Black
Daniel Farson’s Worlds of Horror
Started So Late, Ended So Soon
A Short History of the Silber Grusel-Krimi
Dobson’s Challenge
The Hell-Fire Gallery
Shapes of Midnight

Pulp Horror No. 8 December 2018
69 pages, ~6” x 9” (A5-size) perfect bound, full color throughout
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Contributors: Jim O’Brien, Andreas Decker, Tom Tesarek, Ben Spurling, and Morgan Holmes
Front cover: Rik Rawling
POD $10.00
The Paperback Fanatic website

Johnny Liddell’s Morgue by Frank Kane

Published by Dell in 1956, Johnny Liddell’s Morgue is a collection of Frank Kane’s short stories starring PI Liddell from earlier magazines, primarily Manhunt. Here’s the rundown:

“Lead Ache” Manhunt May 1954
“Frame” Manhunt August 1954
“Return Engagement” Manhunt Feb. 1955
“The Dead Grin” Manhunt June 1955
“A Package for Mr. Big” The Saint Detective Magazine Sep. 1954
“A Game of Murder” Mobsters Feb. 1953
“Morgue-Star Final” Crack Detective Stories July 1945
“Gory Hallelujah!” Private Eye Dec. 1953

Switchblade issue two

Stories from Switchblade issue two, edited by Scotch Rutherford:

“Profski Gets It” by Charles Roland opens with a short, gross prelude, meant to set the mood. Fortunately, this PI procedural takes off directly after, along with Profski, for New Orleans. When a Milwaukee runaway stops texting her younger sister, an infernal alarm finally triggers her parents to hire Profski, after the NOPD comes up clueless. Profski follows each new lead further into more dubious locales. Roland paints a beautifully gray picture of where second-thoughts should never let us go. An issue highlight.

Amazing Stories Vol. 76 No. 2 Winter 2018Amazing Stories Vol. 76 No. 2 Winter 2018
Contents
Ira Nyman’s From the Editor’s Desk: The Future is Diverse, art by Matt Taggart
Gary Dalkins’ European Author Profile: An Interview with Nina Allan
Jack Clemons’ Citizens of the Solar System, First Steps: Near Earth Orbit and the Moon, art by Al Sirois
Allen M. Steele “Captain Future in Love” part two, art by HMW/Nizar
Lena Ng “Robot on Rampage” art by Richard Mandrachio
Marina J. Lostetter “The Asteroid Contention” art by Tom Miller
Neal Holtschulte “Bold New Flock” art by Ivan Montoya
Daniel M. Kimmel “The Ransom of Red Robot (Beta)” art by Joe Eno
G. Scott Huggins “In the Republic of the Blind” art by Sean Chappel
Julie Novakova “Reset in Peace” art by M.D. Jackson
Noah Chinn “Alison’s Bluff” art by Matt Taggart
Sandra Kasturi “Trips to Impossible Cities” (verse)
Valerie C. Kaelin “Reptilian Brain” (verse) art by Pixabay
Vonnie Winslow Crist “A Horse and Her Boy” art by Ron Miller
Steve Fahnestalk’s SF in Film, art by Staff
Shirley Meier’s Off the Top of My Head, art by Staff

Publisher: Steve Davidson
Editor-in-Cheif: Ira Nayman
Art Director: Kermit Woodall
Cover: M.D. Jackson
8.5” x 11” 88 pages
Available at select conventions and by subscription
Amazing Stories website

The Digest Enthusiast #7 coverExcerpts from the interview with Rick Ollerman, editor of Down & Out: The Magazine, appearing in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7.

TDE: What are the core elements of The Magazine?

RO: I knew that I wanted to cross-pollinate fanbases as much as I could, and to promote the authors and their stories—especially when they write a story with their series’ characters—as much as their own fanbases would support the magazine.

Another was kind of the unspoken notion of size; we just sort of knew it should be a digest-sized magazine without ever really talking about it.

Another thing I want to do that many new magazines in the POD era don’t do is offer subscriptions, something we will definitely do, probably starting with the second issue.

We’ve also got a non-fiction column by J. Kingston Pierce, who used to write for Kirkus Reviews before they reshuffled.

Another hopefully unique feature answers that burning question you never knew you wanted to ask: what happened to short crime fiction after Hammett and Chandler left the pulps for the slicks and nov- els and Hollywood? Obviously, the pulps kept going, but who kept them going with the two big stars gone?

The page count is right around 170 for the first issue. I think we’ll wait on reader response to see if that moves, and by how much.

Fantastical Fish 2019 CalendarIf you’re looking for fab gift ideas, try Hiss. Buzz. Hum. Artist/Designer C.C. has created a wonderful collection of calendars, prints, sculptures, cards, jewelry, etc. I’ve been enjoying her desktop calendars for years. The 2019 edition featuring Fantastical Fish just arrived at Larque Press world HQ.