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Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Mar/Apr 2019

Contents
Linda Landrigan: Courting Danger (introduction)
The Lineup
Mat Coward “What Invisible Means” art by Hank Blaustein
Mark Lagasse: Scrambled Poirot (puzzle, solution on page 33)
Terence Faherty “Margo and the Red Carnation”
Doug Allyn “The Wedding Crasher”
Mysterious Photograph $25 fiction contest “Seeing is Believing”
Franz Margitza “Eulalia”
Amanda Witt “Up in the Air”
Kevin Egan “The Courthouse Paperboy” art by Tim Foley*
Marianne Wilski Strong “Louisa and the Tunnel”
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo: Booked and Printed
Robert Mangeot “Star of Zoe”
Eric Rutter “Mrs. Carter”
Mark Milstein “A Curious Transaction”
O’Neil De Noux “The Peeschwet”
William Burton McCormick “Murder in the Second Act (or The Reluctant Claqueur)” art by Ron Chironna
Arlene Fisher: Dying Words (acrostic puzzle, solution on page 192)
Cheryl Skupa “Ghost in the Nemaha County Courthouse”
The Story That Won (Nov/Dec) “An Apple a Day” by Roger Ewing Taylor
Coming in AHMM May/Jun 2019
Directory of Services/Indicia
Classified Marketplace

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Vol. 64 No. 3 & 4 Mar/Apr 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director of Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Sean Wandzilak
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until April 23, 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

*See Tim Foley’s Artist’s Statement in The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 Jan. 2019

News March 14, 2019

Analog Mar/Apr 2019

Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Astounding) Vol. 134 No. 3 & 4 Mar/Apr 2019
Contents
Robert Scherrer’s Editorial: Disciplined Daydreaming: The Role of Ideas in Science and Science Fiction
James C. Glass “Beneath a Red Sun” art by Vincent DiFate
Richard A. Lovett; From Pele to Pelée: The 2018 Hawaiian Eruption on a Global Scale (Science Fact)
Tim McDaniel “Hop and Hop with Gleepglop-Geep!” A Bedtime Reader (illustrated)
Brad Preslar “Negotiating Traffic”
Jo Miles “The God of All Mountains”
Marie Vibbert “We Carry) (verse)
Leah Cypress “Parenting License”
James Gunn’s The Little Sailboat (Probability Zone)
John G. Cramer’s The Alternate View: Ghost Galaxies from an Older Universe?
Bond Elam “Fine-Tuning”
In Times to Come (May/Jun Preview)
Vajra Chandrasekera “Running the Gullet”
James Van Pelt “Second Quarter and Counting”
Eric Del Carlo “Final Say”
Biolog: Eric Del Carlo by Richard L. Lovett
C. Stuart Hardwick “Dangerous Company”
Jack McDevitt “Tea Time with Aliens”
M.K. Hutchins “The End of Lunar Hens”
Bud Sparhawk “The Invitation”
Elisabeth R. Adams “Rising Stars”
Brendan DuBois “The New Martian Way”
Jay Werkheiser “Slow Dance”
Andrew P. Dillon “Werner Heisenberg Admits He Never Loved” (verse)
Matthew Kressel & Mercurio D. Rivera “The Walk to Distant Suns”
Tom Greene “Better” art by Tomislav Tikulin
Sarina Dorie “A Mate not a Meal” art by Josh Meehan
Don Sakers: The Reference Library
Classified Marketplace
Brass Tacks (Letters)
Anthony Lewis: Upcoming Events

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Trevor Quachri
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Dominic Harman
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until April 23, 2018
Analog website

SF Value Pack-8 $7.95
SF Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95
SF Value Pack-16 $12.95

News March 12, 2019

Paperback Parade No. 103 Feb. 2019

Contents
Gary Lovisi: Paperback Talk
Gary Lovisi “The Lost World of Professor Challenger”
Jon D. Swartz “A.E. van Vogt”
Gary Lovisi “Men Go and Come but Earth Abides”
Morgan A. Wallace “Weird and Occult Library”
Gary Lovisi “Exploring Trojan Pocket ‘Pulp’ Paperbacks”
Jim Fitzpatrick “Artists for the First 500 Harlequins”
Gary Lovisi “Bee-Line: Some of the Later Books”
Philip Harbottle “The Joys of a Book Collector”

Editor: Gary Lovisi
Designer: Richard Greene
~5.5” x 8.5” 108 pages, full color throughout
$15 + postage for a single issue
$40 for three-issue subscription
Gryphon Books website

Reviews March 11, 2019

F&SF Book Reviews

Review columns from Fantasy & Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2017:

Two book review columns, run back-to-back in this issue, to provide plenty of titles for readers’ consideration. Charles de Lint’s “Books to Look For” covers Tillie Madison vs Reality by P.L. Winn; Nathan Van Coops’ time travel series In Times Like These, The Chronothon, and The Day After Never; Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti & Omar Rayyan; Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs; Gods & Goddesses: The Fantasy Illustration Library Volume Two edited by Malcolm R. Phifer and Michael C. Phifer; and Creaking Staircases: Gothic Tales of Supernatural Suspense by James E. Coplin.

Michelle West’s “Musing on Books” reviews Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner, In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle, and A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge.

Lint begins each of his reviews with a personal story, used as a springboard into the book at hand. West begins her reviews with a little background on the author, and to some degree, her own experiences of their work. I enjoyed how both Lint and West approach their entry to their reviews, but your mileage may vary.

News March 10, 2019

Paperback Fanatic No. 41 March 2019

Contents
Heads Up (decapitation on PB covers)
Doom Mongerers (PBs based on the BBC’s Doomwatch eco-drama)
E.V. Cunningham (pseudonym of Howard Fast)
The Hitt Squad (letters between writers and publishers)
James Doig: Australian Film Novelisations
Justin Marriott: Raymond Kursar, Recollections of Manor Books
Jim O’Brien: All Hail the King! (Brian Hayles’ Doctor Who PBs and beyond)
James Doig: The ‘Plantation Pulps’ of New English Library
“Slaving Over a Hot Novel” (recap of Simon Redfern’s Penthouse article)
Rob Matthews: Segretissino, the Second Assignment
Richard Todgood: Crom’s Tomes! 50 Years of Conan in Paperback
King of the Nemedian Chroniclers (Roy Thomas)

Paperback Fanatic No. 41 March 2019
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Assistant Editor: Jim O’Brien
Proofer: Tom Tesarek
64 pages, 7” x 10” full color $10.00 POD

News March 9, 2019

Asimov’s Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2019

Special Tribute Issue: Gardner Dozois
Contents
Shelia Williams’ Editorial: Editor Extraordinaire
James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Gardner!
In Memorian, Gardner Dozois 1947–2018
Gardner Dozois “The Peacemaker”
Greg Egan “Instantiation”
Rammel Chan “Tourists”
Robert Frazier “Inhale/Exhale” (verse)
Michael Swanwick “Eighteen Songs by Debussy”
Christopher Cokinos “The Dogs of the Soviet Space Program” (verse)
Lawrence Watt-Evans “How I Found Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers”
Bruce Boston “When Words Take Flight” (verse)
Eileen Gunn “Terrible Trudy on the Lam”
Tom Purdom “January March”
Marge Simon “Garbage” (verse)
Zhao Haihong “The Starry Sky Over the Southern Isle”
Jane Yolen “Robot Dreams” (verse)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Transport”
Alex Irvine “Isla Tiburón”
Kofi Nyameye “The Lights Go Out, One by One”
Next Issue
Jack Dann “Mr. Death Goes to the Beach”
Allen M. Steele “The Lost Testament”
Peter Heck: On Books
Classified Marketplace
Erwin S. Strauss: The SF Conventional Calendar

Asimov’s Science Fiction Vol. 43 No. 3 & 4, whole No. 518 & 519, Mar/Apr 2019
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Sheila Williams
Associate Editor: Emily Hockaday
Editorial Assistant: Deanna McLafferty
Senior Art Director: Victoria Green
Cover: Eldar Zakirov
208 pages, $7.99 on newsstands until April 23, 2018
Asimov’s website
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Asimov’s/Analog Value Pack-16

News March 8, 2019

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Mar/Apr 2019

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Mar/Apr 2019 Vol. 153 No. 3 & 4, Whole No. 930 & 931
Contents
Joyce Carol Oates “The Women Friends” art by Mark Evan Walker
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
Harley Mazuk “The Road From Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, EQMM, Janet Hutchings, Jackie Sherbow, Joyce Carol Oates,Manzanar” (Black Mask)
Liza Cody “Life and Death in T-Shirts”
Bill Pronzini “Bugs”
Michael Cowgill “Call Me Chuckles” (Dept. of First Stories)
T.A. Owen “The ABCs of the Case” (verse)
John Lantigua “The Revenge of the Puma”
Tom Tolnay “Papa’s Snowshoes”
Paul D. Marks “Fade-Out on Bunker Hill”
Scott Masear: Cartoon
Sophia Huneycutt “A Perfect Life” (Dept. of First Stories)
Peter Sellers “Closing Doors”
R.J. Koreto “The Girl on the Roof”
Susan Dunlap “Aunt Jenna Was a Spy”
Robert S. Levinson “All About Evie”
Lucy Ribchester “Mortal Thoughts”
Dean Jobb: Stranger Than Fiction (preview)
Peter Turnbull “Tom of Tinsley”
Paul Halter “The Helm of Hades” (Passport to Crime) Translated from the French by John Pugmire.
Carolyn Hart “All Kinds of Fear”
Doug Allyn “The Girls in the Fourth Row” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
Classified Marketplace
Michael Wiley “Spray”
Indicia

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Chris Clor

192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until April 23, 2019
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction

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News March 7, 2019

Nostalgia Digest Spring 2019

Contents
Steve Darnall: Hello, Out There in Radioland!
“A Few Moments with . . . Betty Lynn” (uncredited)
Michael J. Hayde “Melodies and Madness” How Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis conquered radio.
James Dohren “The Cigarette Camps”
Necrology for 2018
Gordon Kissack and Jordan Elliott “The Voice of the 500” Remembering Sid Collins.
Annette Bochenek “Little Miss Sunshine” The story of Frances Langford, the Florida native who traveled the world with Bob Hope . . . and came home to life as a Bickerson.
Garry Berman “To Laugh . . . or not to Laugh” Remembering when radio listeners could hear all the nation’s best comedians—and none of their audiences.
Wayne Klatt “Remembering Riverview” Where Chicagoans would “laugh their troubles away.”
Stone Wallace “Heart and Soul” The incandescent life and career of John Garfield.
Mail Call

Plus, the Radio Program Guide for Those Were the Days and WGN Radio Theatre

Editor: Steve Darnall
Nostalgia Digest Spring 2019
5.5” x 8.5” 64 pages, b&w interior
$4.50 on newsstands
Four-issue subscription $17
Eight-issue subscription $30
Nostalgia Digest website

Vault March 6, 2019

Psychic Power

Excerpts from Tom Brinkmann’s article on The Occult Digest from The Digest Enthusiast book seven:

Psychic Power: Evolutionary Immortality started its publication with volume 2, number 1, dated February 1923 and was published monthly through volume 3, number 12, December 1924.

An ad for the magazine in its own pages read: “Psychic Power is the largest Magazine of its kind on this continent or elsewhere. Newsy, up-to-date, and with a well informed staff of writers at its disposal. 5,ooo Copies Every Month For Sale at Book Stores and News Stands.”

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

News March 5, 2019

Andros 8 and more

Max Clotfelter was kind enough to send a batch of his recent mini comics. The digest-sized Andros No. 8 features 20 pages (plus covers) of laugh-out-loud comics. Volume Two of The Elements of Rough is also digest-sized, with an inch sliced off the top. It’s 32 pages with a self-cover—all about “Liz’s Last Birthday Party.”

Not shown are Hole Shot and Lean Cuisine, two recent mini comics in the classic 1/4-sheet format.

I interviewed Max a while back for Copy This!. Here’s an excerpt:

RK: I’ve picked up most of your work from shows in Seattle and Portland. But for those who live elsewhere, where are some good places to find your comics?

MC: Ah, great question! If anyone wants any of my comics I would suggest they go to the Spit and a Half website and support John Porcellino’s fantastic distro. He carries a nice selection of my more accessible zines. Then if you really wanna get into the nooks and crannies of my catalog you can email me directly and I’ll send you a list of what’s currently in stock, along with directions on how to order. I’m also always going to be tabling at the great regional zine shows in the PNW such as The Olympia Comics Festival and Shortrun in Seattle. And occasionally I’ll even travel to other shows across the nation like CAKE, Autoptic and Fluke. Trades are always welcome through the mail or in person at the shows!

To stay current on Max’s work, check out his blog: Snake Meat.