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Vault May 20, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock June 1964

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Vol. 9 No. 6 June 1964
Alfred Hitchcock: Dear Friends
Contents
Richard Deming “Medicine Woman”
Jack Ritchie “Everybody Except Wilbur”
Leo R. Ellis “Fresh Thuringer Today”
Robert Edmond Alter “Echo of a Savage”
Jay Folb “Hero of the Silver Screen”
Frank Sisk “The Clean Platter”
Carl Henry Rathjen “A Debt to Doc”
Rog Phillips “Legacy of Office”
Carroll Mayers “Until Death Us Do Part”
Thomasina Weber “Judgment Day”
Dick Ellis “Final Performance”
Richard Hardwick “The Dangerous Age”
Jan MacKenzie “Show Me First Your Penny”
Steve O’Connell “Kill the Taste”
Ed Dumonte “Summer Session Only”
Each story includes an illustration by Marguerite Blair Deacon

Editor and Publisher: Richard E. Decker
Managing Editor: G.F. Foster
Associate Editors: Victoria S. Benham, Pat Hitchcock, Ned Benham
Art Director: Marguerite Blair Deacon
164 pages, 50¢

Opening Lines May 19, 2019

Opening Lines: Valentine’s Castle

“The Ghayrog city of Dulorn was an architectural marvel, a city of frosty brilliance that extended for two hundred miles up and down the heart of the great Dulorn Rift.”
“Lord Valentine’s Castle” part two by Robert Silverberg Fantasy and Science Fiction Dec. 1979

Reviews May 18, 2019

Jack Halliday’s Don’t Bank on It

Excerpt from the review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:

A PI decides an unforgettable bank teller is better left forgotten in Jack Halliday’s “Don’t Bank on It.” Trouble is, she’s a person of interest in more ways than one. Nice set-up, but at just three pages, the payoff is more plot point than climax.

Vault May 17, 2019

Manhunt No. 7 July 1953

Manhunt Detective Story Monthly Vol. 1 No. 7 July 1953
Contents
Fredric Brown “The Wench is Dead”
Craig Rice “Quiet Day in the County Jail” art by J.Q. Farris
Fletcher Flora “I’ll Kill for You”
Jonathan Lord “Day’s Work”
Evan Hunter “Good and Dead” (Matt Cordell) art by R. Cossette
Bruno Fischer “Say Goodby to Janie” art by Rus Anderson
Hunt Collins “The Follower” art by R. Cossette
Vincent H. Gaddis’ Crime Cavalcade
Elliot West “I’m Getting Out” art by J.Q. Farris
Frank Kane “Evidence” (Johnny Liddell)
Dan Sontup’s Portrait of a Killer No. 2: Charles Henry Schwartz
Richard S. Prather “The Double Take” (Shell Scott)
Arnold Marmor “Heirloom”
Mugged and Printed: Fredric Brown, Bruno Fischer, Frank Kane, Craig Rice

Flying Eagle Publications, Inc,
Editor: John McCloud
Managing Editor: E.A. Tulman
Art Director: Chas. W. Adams
Business Manager: R.E. Decker
144 pages, 35¢

News May 16, 2019

Worlds of StrangeneSS No. 3

Nigel Taylor’s Worlds of StrangeneSS No. 3: The Monster Issue
Contents
The Stranger Speaks (Editorial)
Ferrell Rosser “Black Lagoon”
Maharg Swerdna “The Mummy from Blood’s Tomb”
Mister Gorgue’s It’s a Strange, Strange, Strange, Strange World
The Stranger Presents: Borderland
Graham Andrews “Shell Suit”
Micronicles No. 7 “Through Others’ Eyes”
“Doc” Clancy “Cult of the Shark God”
Book Review: The Stopgap Spaceman by Graham Andrews
The Stranger’s Homage to Harryhausen
Micronicles No. 8 “This Bender Earth”
The Stranger Investigates: The Invisible Made Visible
Strange Mails
Micronicles No. 9 “Golem II”

Worlds of StrangeneSS No. 3: The Monster Issue
April 2019
Editor: Nigel Taylor
5.5” x 8.5” 68 pages
POD only $6.60
Worlds of StrangeneSS website

News May 15, 2019

Hot Lead No. 3

Hot Lead No. 3: The Adult Western Special

Contents
Tom Simon: Adult Western Super Friends
Justin Marriott: The Sleazy Riders
Paul Bishop: Sex and Six Guns
Adult Western Series List
Justin Marriott: Bloodied Spurs
Andreas Decker: Four a Few Issues More
Steve Myall: The Trailsman
Justin Marriott: Frontier Poet
Ian Millsted: Draw! A Top Ten of Comic Book Westerns

Hot Lead No. 3 May 2019
Editor: Justin Marriott
Ghost Editor: Paul Bishop
Additional Contributors: Andreas Decker, Ian Millsted, Steve Myall, Tim Simon
7” x 10” 52 pages in color
POD only $8.99

Reviews May 14, 2019

Angela Post’s Sourdough

Stories from Pulp Literature No. 15 Summer 2017:

“Sourdough” by Angela Post was the runner-up for the 2016 Surrey International Writer’s Conference (SiWC) Storyteller’s Award. Post is a psychologist by day and transforms her knowledge of the human heart into the story of “Sourdough’s” emotional journey from tragedy backto the land of the living. A powerful story, more literary than pulp.

Opening Lines May 13, 2019

Lesann Berry’s Edge of Eternity

Michael Neno's illo for The Edge of Eternity

Illustrated by Michael Neno, Lesann Berry’s third episode of her Alternate History Archive appears in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7. Here’s the opening paragraph:

“The ruin crumbled around Kiefer, hunks of concrete dropping away to litter the ragged piles of rubble below. Inside the fractured shell of the embassy, in the days after the bombs finally stopped falling, and before the stench of the fallen became unbearable, he bore witness to the destruction. Camera crews swarmed over the twisted jungle of rebar, shutters snapping, and journalistic fever roaring. He and a handful of other soldiers stood watch, scanning the devastation for aggressive response. The others, also like him, bit the insides of their cheeks raw, chewing the words down to crumbs so they couldn’t escape. Instead, they spat them out, brief splatters of saliva coagulating in the ash and dust until the rapacious summer air sucked away the tiny oases of moisture.”

Reviews May 12, 2019

Glory Day

Excerpt from Joe Wehrle, Jr.’s article on “The Telzey Amberdon Stories of James H. Schmitz” in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:

Glory Day (Analog June 1971). Telzey and Trigger are stunned, kid- napped, and wind up on Askanam, a day before the annual Glory Day tournaments in a political scheme that involves other telepaths. Telzey’s psionic abilities are more highly developed than the others’ and she helps Trigger develop a mind- shield. Still, they have a tough time working their way out of a danger- ous situation. Reprinted in T’nT: Telzey and Trigger (Baen, 2000).

News May 11, 2019

Asimov’s May/June 2019

Contents
Shelia Williams’ Editorial: Anthology News!
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: Our Shaggy Cousins
Bruce Boston “Failing Masterpiece” (verse)
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Fire the Canon!
James Gunn’s Thought Experiment: Science Fiction Considers the Post-Human
Bill Johnson “Unfinished Business”
E. Lily Yu “The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi”
James Sallis “Mother’s Day” (verse)
Ian R. MacLeod “The Memory Artist”
Ted Kosmatka “Sacrificial Iron”
Jane Yolen “Crane Wife” (verse)
Peter Wood “Never the Twain Shall Meet”
G.O. Clark “Distracted While Gardening” (verse)
Sean Monaghan “Chasing Oumuamua”
Fred D. White “Terra Incognita” (verse)
John Richard Trtek “Recrossing Brooklyn Ferry”
David Barber “The Other SETI” (verse)
Jay O’Connell “Not Only Who You Know”
Peter Payack “Timeless Graffiti” (verse)
Rahul Kanakia “The Intertidal Zone”
Next Issue
Carrie Vaughn “Gremlin”
Jenny Blackford “Quantum String” (verse)
Norman Spinrad: On Books
Classified Marketplace
Erwin Strauss: SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 43 No. 5 & 6, whole No. 520 & 521, May/June 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: NASA/Shutterstock
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until June 18, 2018
Asimov’s website
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