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Uncategorized August 8, 2019

Manhunt No. 9 Sept. 1953

Manhunt Detective Story Magazine Vol. 1 No. 9 Sept. 1953
Contents
Evan Hunter “The Death of Me” (A Matt Cordell Novelette)
Fletcher Flora “Fair Game”
William Vance “What Am I Doing?”
Richard Marsten “Accident Report”
Richard Deming “Bonus Cop”
Dan Sontup’s Portrait of a Killer: Chester Jordan
Erskine Caldwell “The Motive”
Jack M. Bagby “Chase By Night”
Ray Bradbury “The Millionth Murder” art by Don Rico
Vincent H. Gaddis’ Crime Cavalcade
Hunt Collins “The Molested”
Craig Rice “Life Can Be Horrible” (John J. Malone)
Jonathan Craig “The Scrapbook”
Mugged and Printed: Erskine Caldwell, Ray Bradbury, Evan Hunter, Richard Deming, etc.

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

Peter Enfantino’s story-by-story synopsis of Manhunt is featured in The Digest Enthusiast No. 6–10.

Vault August 7, 2019

Robert E. Howard: The Garden of Fear

Published in 1945 by William Crawford, and listed in Paperback Prices by Graham Holroyd as a “Crawford Digest,” The Garden of Fear is an anthology titled after Robert E. Howard’s story, but also includes reprints by Lloyd A. Eshbach, H. P. Lovecraft, Miles J. Breuer, and David H. Keller from Crawford’s earlier Marvel Tales pulp magazine.

Steve Carper’s research for One-and-Dones part two (The Digest Enthusiast No. 8), reveals it was neither a singleton, nor a digest, but still a highly collectable volume, readily available in secondary markets.

Now Available from McFarland: Steve Carper’s Robots in American Popular Culture, a comprehensive reference volume that includes a companion website: robotsinamericanpopularculture.com.

Vault August 6, 2019

Fantastic Feb. 1975 Contents

Contents
Ted White: Editorial
L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter “Shadows in the Skull” (Conan) art by Michael Nally
Robert F. Young “Perchance to Dream” art by Stephen Fabian
C.L. Grant “To Be a Witch, in Three Quarter Time” art by Jeff Jones
Juanita Coulson “The Dragon of Tor-Nali” art by Mike Kaluta
Gardner R. Dubious “Dissenting”
Ian McEwan “Solid Geometry” art by Richard Olsen
Alpajpuri “Asylum in the Concrete”
Bruce B. Arthurs “The Return of Captain Nucleus” art by Joe Staton
Fritz Leiber: Fantasy Books (Reviews)
According to You (Letters)
Classified Advertisements

Fantastic Science Fiction & Fantasy Stories Vol. 24 No. 2 Feb. 1975
Publisher: Sol Cohen
Editor: Ted White
Assoc. Editor: Grant Carrington
Assist. Editor: Moshe Feder, Terry Hughes
Art Director: J. Edwards
Cover: Stephen E. Fabian
5.25” x 7.75” 130 pages 75¢

News August 5, 2019

Mystery Weekly Magazine August 2019

Contents
T.L. Huchu “El Chappie” The World’s Second Greatest Criminal”
James Nolan “Stranger in Paradise”
David Bart “The Mayfly”
Andrew Welsh-Huggins “You Can’t Go Alone”
Emily Devenport “Jumpers for Jesus”
Bruce W. Most “The Dead Man in the Pearl Gray Hat”
Jeff Dosser “Three Hogg’s Tales and One Hairy Ending”
Laird Long “Fanfarewell” (A You-Solve-It)

Mystery Weekly Magazine August 2019
Publisher: Chuck Carter
Editor: Kerry Carter
Cover: Robin Grenville-Evans
7.5” x 10” 85 pages
POD $6.99, Kindle $2.99
Mystery Weekly Magazine website

News August 4, 2019

Switchblade No. 10

Brian Beatty “Vacancies” (verse)
Contents
Scotch Rutherford: Editor’s Corner

Quick & Dirty Flash Fiction
C.W. Blackwell “For Love or Money”
Serena Jayne “The Nature of Nurture”
Eddie McNamara “Greaser Jack”

Sharp & Deadly Short Fiction
Jim Towns “Bad Coffee and the Bomb”
N.W. Barcus “Roadside Diner”
Christian Goss “Perry, the Red Haired Girl, and the Gangster”
Tim V. Decker “Exit Schulz”
Gene Breaznell “Killing Raskolnik”
Beaumont Rand “Throw the Fight”
Jim Wilsky “Can’t Win for Losing”
Timothy Friend “Last Stand at the Rough Riders Roadside Old Town & Gunfight Museum”

Person of Interest: C.W. Blackwell
Author Bios & Acknowledgements

Switchblade: An Anthology of Noir No. 10
July 2019
Caledonia Press
Editor: Scotch Rutherford
Cover photos: Scotch Rutherford
Model: Lisa Douglass
5” x 8”, 174 pages
POD $7.99 Kindle $2.99

Switchblade Magazine website
Switchblade Merchandise

Opening Lines August 3, 2019

Opening Lines

“Bradley seemed to have escaped regeneration. Now he had only death to worry about.”
“Divinity” by William Morrison Space Science Fiction March 1953

Uncategorized August 2, 2019

BCMM1: Summary

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

“The ABCs of Murder,” a humorous poem by Josh Pachter, fills out the back cover. Oddly, it’s run landscape; I suppose to maximize the type size.

Black Cat Mystery Magazine is a welcome new arrival for fans of crime fiction magazines. Its content fulfills its promise of something for all mystery readers—hardboiled, cozy, noir, crime, private eye, suspense, and thriller. Each story is a satisfying example of its sub-genre. My favorites were those by Michael Bracken, Kaye George, and Fletcher Flora; but I lean toward the dark side. If you enjoy the full range of crime fiction, you’ll love the variety here. And frankly, variety is what a great anthology is all about.

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Editors: John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe
Cover: Fotolia
6” x 9” 150 pages
POD $12.00, Kindle $3.99

News August 1, 2019

The Best of Manhunt

The Best of Manhunt
A collection of the best of Manhunt magazine edited by Jeff Vorzimmer.
Foreword by Lawrence Block
Afterword by Barry N. Malzberg

First appearing on newsstands in late 1952, Manhunt was the acknowledged successor to Black Mask, which had ceased publication the year before, as the venue for high-quality crime fiction. By April of 1956 it was being billed as the “World’s Best-Selling Crime-Fiction Magazine.” On its pages, over its 14-year run, appeared a veritable Who’s Who of the world’s greatest mystery writers including: Ed McBain, Mickey Spillane, Richard Deming, Jonathan Craig, Hal Ellson, Robert Turner, Jack Ritchie, Frank Kane, Craig Rice, Fletcher Flora, Talmage Powell, Richard S. Prather, David Alexander, Harold Q. Masur, Gil Brewer, Helen Nielsen, Erskine Caldwell, Henry Slesar, David Goodis, Lawrence Block, John D. MacDonald, Clark Howard, Fredric Brown, Donald E. Westlake, Harlan Ellison, Harry Whittington and Steve Frazee.

Stark House Press
5.5” x 8.5” 392 pages
$21.95

Uncategorized July 31, 2019

Transformative

The critics are calling Michael Neno’s Life-Changing Guide to Decluttering Your Comic Book Collection new mini comic “transformative,” “revelatory,” and “essential.” Its universal theme transcends mere comic books, imparting knowledge applicable to any obsessive acquisitional behavior. Profusely illustrated, the guide reveals practical, actionable instruction in easy-to-follow pictograms with explanatory text for those who desire in-depth discussion of its revolutionary concepts. Don’t miss this opportunity to add yet another volume to your ever-growing library. Tuck it into the notes and reminders beside your computer so it’s always top-of-mind as you scour eBay for treasures guaranteed to bring joy.

Stop thinking now. Stop trying to resist the inevitable. Rush $3.00 (postage paid) to Michael Neno at nenoworld.com immediately. You’ll never have to regret the gift of expansive knowledge.

Reviews July 30, 2019

Analog Sept. 1972

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

The Symbiotes (Analog September 1972). Trigger Argee discovers an eight-inch tall man hiding among utensils on her restaurant lunch table. She helps him escape his pursuer and teams up with Telzey, but is captured when Telzey leaves to contact the Psychology Service for help, and wakes up later in a distant star system. Then begins an odyssey to escape and free the little people, during which she discovers she has latent, if limited, psionic abilities that she needs to cultivate for her own protection. After her adventure, Telzey assures her that being a functioning psi is not such a disadvantage. Reprinted in T’nT: Telzey and Trigger.