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Vault November 30, 2019

Gamma No. 5

Inside Front Cover art by William F. Nolan
Contents Page
(Charles E. Fritch) Across the Editor’s Desk
Ron Goulart “Nesbit”
Sylvia Dees and Ted White “Policy Conference” art by Luan Meatheringham
Charles Beaumont “Auto Suggestion”
Chester H. Carlfi “Welcome to Procyon IV”
Richard Matheson “Interest” art by Bernard Zuber
George Clayton Johnson “Lullaby and Goodnight”
Ray Bradbury “A Careful Man Dies” (New Detective Magazine Nov. 1946*)
Steve Allen “The Late Mr. Adams” (Fourteen for Tonight, Holt, Rinehart and Wilson 1955)
Dennis Etchison “Wet Season”
Inside Back Cover art by Burt Shonberg

Gamma Vol. 2 No. 5 (3) (Whole No. 5) Sept. 1965*
Editor-Publishers: Charles E. Fritch and Jack Matcha
Cover: John Healey
5.25” x 7.75” 128 pages 50¢

*From Galactic Central and Vince Nowell, Sr.’s article “Gamma: New Frontiers in Fiction” from The Digest Enthusiast No. 8 June 2018.

News November 29, 2019

The American Bystander No. 13

Lucky No. 13 features writers from Late Night with David Letterman, The Simpsons, The New Yorker, MAD, SPY and National Lampoon, as well as illustrations and cartoons from Sam Gross, Emily Flake, Peter Kuper, Mike Reiss, Rick Geary, Jim Siergey, and 60 others. Full-color, large format (8.5×11) and 80 pages, The American Bystander No. 13 will stun any rodent.

The American Bystander website
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TDE Update November 28, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving

My thanks to the readers, contributors, and advertisers of The Digest Enthusiast. Book eleven is due in January 2020.

News November 27, 2019

Paperback Fanatic No. 42

Justin Marriott: Fanatical Thoughts
Contents Page
Darrin Venticinque with a Jane Frank assist: A New Peak in Horror—Eat Them Alive by Pierce Nace
James Dong: The Devil is a Gentleman—Dennis Wheatley
Dark Forces at Work—A Gallery of Dennis Wheatley’s Occult Novels
Scott Carlson: Voyage of the Carlson
Nigel Taylor: Young, Sharkey and Wilson
S.M. Guariento: Tripping the Ink Fantastic (Interview about Light Into Ink, an in-depth study of film novelizations)
Richard Pérez Seves: Unmasking Stanton (fetish artists Eric Stanton and Gene Billbrew)
Bill Cunningham: Mad Pulp Bastard (interview)
Andrew Nette: Sticking It to the Man (interview)

Paperback Fanatic No. 42 Nov. 2019
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Assistant Editor: Jim O’Brien
Proofer: Tom Tesarek
7” x 10” 70 pages, full color
Print Only $10.00
Justin Marriott on Facebook

News November 26, 2019

Pulp Adventures No. 33

Contents Page
Audrey Parente: Editorial
Charles Boeckman “Death Speaks Softly”
Jack Bludis “New Guy on the Block”
Michael R. Hayfields “An Old Friend”
Teel James Glenn “The Pursuit of the Moor”
Nils Gilbertson “The Client”
Frederick Pohl “The Tunnel Under the World”
Carson Demanns “Conspiracy Theory”
Adam Beau McFarlane “Captain Warwick’s Hand”
Sax Rohmer “Beath of Allah”
H. Bedford Jones “The Story of Misión San Juan Capistrano”

Pulp Adventures No. 33 Fall 2019
Publisher: Rich Harvey
Editor: Audrey Parente
Cover: Harry Rosenbaum
7” x 10” 128 pages
Print $9.95
Bold Venture Press website

News November 24, 2019

Fantasy & Science Fiction Nov/Dec 2019

Contents Pages
Michael Libling “How I Came To Write Fantasy”
Benjamin Rosenbaum “Rejoice, My Brothers and Sisters”
Charlotte Ashley “The Joy in Wounding”
Charles de Lint: Books to Look For
—The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
—Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley
—Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma
—Ragged Alice by Gareth L. Powell
—Shadow Hunter by BR Kingsolver
—Night Stalker by BR Kingsolver
Michelle West: Musing on Books
—The Gossamer Mage by Julie E. Czerneda
—Fall, or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
—Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Matthew Hughes “A Geas of the Purple School”
M. Rickert “Evergreen”
Gregor Hartmann “A Hand at the Service of Darkness”
James Morrow “Bird Thou Never Wert”
Jane Yolen “Swing Between” (verse)
Rebecca Zahabi “It Never Snows in Snowtown”
David J. Skal’s Television: Those Were the Days
Jerry Oltion’s Science: Portable Power
F&SF Competition #98 “Titles as Acronyms”
F&SF Competition #99: Ignorance is Bliss
Marie Vibbert “Knit Three, Save Four”
Andy Stewart “The Vicious World of Birds”
Sam J. Miller “Shucked”
Coming Attractions
F&SF Market Place
Index to Volumes 136 & 137 Jan–Dec 2019
Paul Di Filippo’s Curiosities: The Arrogant History of White Ben by Clemence Dane (1939)

Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol. 137 No. 5 and 6, No. 746, Nov/Dect 2019
Publisher: Gordon Van Gelder
Editor: C.C. Finlay
Assistant Publishers: Barbara J. Norton, Keith Kahla
Assistant Editors: Robin O’Connor, Stephen L. Mazur, Lisa Rogers
Contests Editor: Carol Pinchefsky
Cover: Bob Eggleton
Cartoons: Nick Downes
258 pages, $8.99 on newsstands until Jan. 6, 2020
Fantasy & Sc ience Fiction website

News November 23, 2019

Pulp Literature No. 24

Contents Page
From the Pulp Lit Pulpit: A Literary Harvest
In This Issue
J.J. Lee “The Man in the Long Black Coat: Bekker”
Feature Interview: J.J. Lee
Mel Anastasiou “The Extra: Frankie Ray Goes to Hollywood”
Tyner Gillies “The Lord of Lawn Ornaments”
Chuck Lim “The Red Tiger”
Susan Pieters “The Map According to Me”
F.J. Bergmann “Yellow Paint”
K.T. Wagner “Cabin Fever”
Adam Fout “Black Glass”
Robin Malcolm “The Bumblebee’s Daughter”
The 2019 Magpie Award for Poetry
—Susan Haldane “A Short History of Space Travel”
—Jack Waldheim “Whiskey Breath”
—Roxanna Bennett “The Last of the Iron Lungs”
J.M. Landels “The Shepherdess”
The Artists (bios)
Hall of Fame (Patreon supporters)
Marketplace
Conferences and Events
Magazines
Contests

Pulp Literature No.24 Autumn 2019
Publisher: Pulp Literature Press
Managing Editor: Jennifer Landels
Acquisitions Editor: Melanie Anastasiou
Story Editor: Jessica Fabrizius
Assistant Editors: Genevieve Wynand, Samatha Olson
Poetry Editors: Daniel Cowper, Emily Osborne
Copy Editor/Designer: Amanda Bidnall
Proofreader: Mary Rykov
Cover Design: Kate Landels
Cover Art: Steve R. Gagnon
Interior Art: Mel Anastasiou
234 pages
Print $14.99 Kindle $4.99
Pulp Literature website

Vault November 22, 2019

Mike Shayne April 1957

Still a bi-monthly in April 1957, this issue is the first to use the new title “Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine.” Page count drops from 160 to 144.

Brett Halliday: Dr. Shamus Shayne
Contents Page
Frank Ward “Death Aboard the Cruiser”
Lawrence Treat “Twice Around the Block”
Brett Halliday (Davis Dresser) “Weep for a Blond Corpse” part two
Walt Sheldon “Line of Fire”
C.L. Sweeney, Jr. “Soft, White Body”
William R. Cox “Who Wants You?”
Richard Deming “The Strange Collaboration”
Arthur Feldman “The Cardinal Sin”

Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Vol. 2 No. 1 April 1957
Publisher: Leo Margulies
Managing Editor: Cylvia Kleinman
Production: Joan Sherman
Cover: Vic Donahue
5.25” x 7.75” 144 pages 35¢

News November 21, 2019

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 5

Contents Page
John Gregory Betancourt: From the Cat’s Perch
Michael Bracken “The Show Must Go On”
Dara Carr “Emily and Elodie”
Tracy Falenwolfe “Partners in Crime”
John M. Floyd “Rhonda and Clyde”
Charlie Hughes “The Idea”
Janice Law “The Bodyguard”
Dennis Palumbo “Trigger Warning”
Keith Snyder “Blue Skies”
Elizabeth Zelvin “A Unicorn in the Harem”
Gil Brewer “Don’t Do That” (Classic Reprint)

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 5 (Vol. 2 No. 1) (Nov. 2019)
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Editors: John Gregory Betancourt, Carla Coupe, Michael Bracken
Production Team: Sam Cooper, Steve Coupe, Shawn Garrett, Yamini Manikoth
Cover: Uncredited
6” x 9” 148 pages
Print $12.00 Kindle (coming soon)
Black Cat Mystery website

News November 20, 2019

Captain Future in Love

Launching what will hopefully be the beginning of a new series, Amazing Selects debuts with Captain Future in Love by Allen Steele, a story first serialized in the pages of Amazing Stories Vol. 76 No. 1 and 2. Captain Future and crew’s latest adventure picks up where Steele’s earlier Avengers of the Moon leaves off. Besides the adventure itself, the book includes several background features that provide all the behind-the-scenes details on the project’s origin and why Tor won’t be publishing a sequel to the successful first novel.

Contents Page
Introduction: Overture for a Space Opera
Publisher’s Introduction
Prologue: The Black Pirate and the King
Novella: Captain Future in Love
Essay: A Brief History of Captain Future
About the Author
About the Concept Artist
About the Cover Artist

Captain Future in Love by Allen Steele
Publisher: Steve Davidson
Cover: Tony Sart
Interior Art: Nizar Ilman
Comet II Art: Rob Caswell
5.5” x 8.5” 130 pages
Print and Digital $6.99 each