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Alfred Hitchcock May/June 2019

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine May/June 2019
Contents
Linda Landrigan: Called to Crime (introduction)
The Lineup
Joseph S. Walker “Bonus Round”
Chris Muessig “Finite Jest” art by Noah Bailey
Steven Gore “Private Justice”
Mark Lagasse: Scrambled Marple (puzzle, solution on page 163)
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “Off the Trail”
Catherine Dilts “Real Cowgirls Don’t Cry”
Parker Littlewood “Buck and Wiley Make Their Own Luck” art by Hank Blaustein
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo: Booked and Printed
Terrie Farley Moran “Flamingo Bingo”
Mark Joslyn “Bonded”
Joe Helgerson “The Case of the Thirteen Beard”
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle, solution on page 139)
Melissa Fall “Photo Finished”
Gigi Vernon “Thick as Thieves” art by Maggie Ivy
Elizabeth Zelvin “A Work in Progress”
Mark Thielman “Blind Spot”
Anna Katharine Green “The Thief” (Mystery Classic) introduction by Linda Landrigan
The Story That Won (Jan/Feb) “After the Party’s Over” by Charlotte Stacey
Coming in AHMM July/Aug 2019
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 64 No. 5 & 6 May/June 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Shutterstock, design by Vicki Green
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until June 18, 2019
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine website

AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
AHMM and EQMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95

Reviews May 6, 2019

Jen Conley’s Trash

Excerpt from the review of Down & Out: The Magazine No. 1 in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7.

Jen Conley explores her series’ character, Andrea Vogel’s tangled relationships with her man, his affair, her dog, and herself, in “Trash.” Vogel’s a cop whose inner circle of pals rank barely a notch above her day job’s perps and perjurers. By the time Vogel rises from her self-made bed a bittersweet new day dawns on her doorstep.

Reviews May 5, 2019

F&SF Jul/Aug 2017: Science and Film

Columns from Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2017:

The many bees from the preceding story “I Am Not I” segue into Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty’s Science column “With the Best of Intentions,” which reports on the decline of bees, threats to their existence, and the repercussions of their dwindling populations.

David J. Skal gives us a twofer in his column on Films, “Ghoulies, Ghosties, Beasties,” reviewing Beauty and the Beast from both 1991 and 2017—comparing and contrasting, with plenty of “bonus” material on the director of the 2017 version, Bill Condon.

Vault May 4, 2019

Ads from The Occult Digest

Advertising in digest magazines often feature other publications, books, and pamphlets that may be of interest to their readers. Tom Brinkmann’s article on The Occult Digest from The Digest Enthusiast book seven includes several ads from the magazine. Two of them are shown below.

A regular contributor to TDE, Tom Brinkmann writes about unusual, off-the-beaten-path magazines, digests, and tabloids. His Bad Mags website was active from June 2004–July 2017. His books, Bad Mags Volume 1 (2008) and Volume 2 (2009) are available from secondary outlets, including amazon.com

Vault May 2, 2019

Science Fiction Adventures March 1954

Science Fiction Adventures Vol. 2 No. 2 March 1954
(Cover: March, Contents Page: February)
Contents
Harry Harrison’s Editorial: What is a Magazine?
Ken Crossen “Plague” art by Alex Ebel
Thomas N. Scortia “The Prodigy” art by Roy G. Krenkel
Walter L. Kleine “The Ride” art by H.R. Smith
Bill Venable’s Fanmag: Fansoc
William Tenn’s The Fiction in Science Fiction, art by Mendenhall
Damon Knight’s The Dissecting Table (book reviews)
C.M. Kornbluth “The Syndic” part 2 of 2 art by Art Sussman
The Chart Room (letters)

Editor: Harry Harrison
Assoc. Editor: M. Machlin, John Vincent
Book Editor: Damon Knight
Art Director: Milton Berwin
Cover: Mel Hunter
160 pages, 35¢

Read Vince Nowell, Sr.’s article “When Things Go Wrong—The Lester del Rey/John Raymond Fiasco” in The Digest Enthusiast book seven.

Reviews May 1, 2019

Pulp Lit 15’s Flash

Stories from Pulp Literature No. 15 Summer 2017:

Bob Thurber, the judge of the Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest, selected Ingrid Jendrzejewski’s “Crushed Velvet” as the winner. It’s a dazzling display of Flash. The runner-up, “Kiss, Kiss, Bang Bang” by Jay Allisan, is also included. Another excellent example of short, short storytelling.

Vault April 30, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock Feb. 1964

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Vol. 9 No. 2 Feb. 1964
Alfred Hitchcock: Dear Readers
Contents
Henry Slesar “Second Verdict”
Duane Yarnell “The Bent Frame”
Arthur Porges “Blood Will Tell”
Robert Edmond Alter “A Habit for the Voyage”
Thomasina Weber “The Handiest Man Around”
Wenzell Brown “The Lure”
Hilda Cushing “She Loved Funerals”
Clark Howard “Four and Twenty Blackbirds”
Jonathan Craig “The Baby”
Gene Pollock “The Time of His Life”
Miranda Wallace “A Touch of Magic”
Edward Wellen “Siege Perilous”
Richard Deming “The Sensitive Juror”
Carroll Mayers “The Big Grab”
Bernice Balfour “The Vision of Mrs. Hardy”

Editor: Richard E. Decker
160 pages, 50¢

Contents from Galactic Central.

Reviews April 29, 2019

Ashley Erwin’s M&M

“Ashley Erwin will school you on the art of Mayhem and Motherfuckery in the deep, deep south,” is Editor Scotch Rutherford’s apt description of Switchblade No. 2’s final entry in the Sharp & Deadly Fiction section. A worthy entry, but its full immersion in dialect, had me double-backing every few lines to figure out what was what. The extra effort made it hard for me to dig the story’s flow.

Vault April 28, 2019

Science Fiction Adventures Dec. 1953

Science Fiction Adventures Vol. 2 No. 1 Dec. 1953
Harry Harrison takes over as editor.

Contents
Harry Harrison: An Editorial on Scolex
C.M. Kornbluth “The Syndic” part 1 of 2 art by Art Sussman
Allan E. Nouse “Consignment” art by Art Sussman
Stephen Arr “The Spy” art by Joseph Dreany
Bob Silverberg’s Fanmag
Mike Lewis “The Tryst” art by Hal Smith
Damon Knight’s The Dissecting Table (book reviews)
Philip K. Dick “The Hanging Stranger” art by Hal Smith
Ad for Sea Stories
Ken Winney “Double Take”
Coming Up
Hal Clement “Ground” art by Mendenhall
The Chart Room (letters)

Editor: Harry Harrison
Assoc. Editor: J. Merkler, John Vincent
Book Editor: Damon Knight
Art Director: Milton Berwin
Cover: Alex Schomberg
160 pages, 35¢

Read Vince Nowell, Sr.’s article “When Things Go Wrong—The Lester del Rey/John Raymond Fiasco” in The Digest Enthusiast book seven.

Interviews April 27, 2019

Rick Ollerman on POV

“I’ve written in both the third person and the first person, and I’ve enjoyed both. I expected to retain a preference for third person and feel limited by the first, but that turned out not to be the case.

“Since I’ve had readers ask for a sequel to Truth Always Kills and the publisher ask for a sequel to Mad Dog Barked, I think there’s a way to do both in one book even though both of the predecessors were written in the first person. It will require some experimentation, and I truly hope I can do it well enough so that readers either will not notice or not lose patience and stay with it, but I think some terrific scenes can come out of the collision of the two books.”

Excerpted from the interview with Rick Ollerman that appears in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7.