Contents Page Sheila Williams’ Editorial: A Sadder and a Wiser Woman—tributes to Janet Jappson Asimov and Carol Emshwiller Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: California Secedes! Peter Payack “Do Not Despair” (verse) James Patrick Kelly’s On the Net: Where…

Contents Page Rick Ollerman: A Few Clues From the Editor April Kelly “Rolling Gormay” Brendan DuBois “The Good That Men Do” Ray Daniel & Kellye Garrett “Code Switch” J. Kingston Pierce: Placed in Evidence Walter Satterthwait…

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Nov/Dec 2019 Contents Page Linda Landrigan: Trust Me! (introduction) The Lineup Leslie Budewitz “Miss Starr’s Good-Bye” James L. Ross “Last Night in Malibu” art by Ron Chironna Mark Lagasse: Scrambled George (puzzle,…

Tom Brinkmann writes about unusual off-the-beaten-path magazines, digests, and tabloids. A regular contributor to The Digest Enthusiast, his latest article, “The Creature from the Black Lagoon with The Seven Year Itch,” appears in issue ten. Tom…

“He felt the anxiety that smothered the fort move into his throat where his yellow kerchief was knotted, and down into his middle where his service belt held a holstered Colt and field kit.”“The Fight at…

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Among other topics, Ted White discusses two spoken-word record albums in this editorial this issue— Robert E. Howard: From the Hells Beneath the Hells (Alternate World Recordings) and Robert E. Howard’s Conan (Moondance Production). After his…

“Here he [J. Edgar Hoover] tells the almost unknown story of Kathryn Kelly, under whose evil guidance her husband, Machine-gun Kelly, rose to eminence in the criminal world. Mr. Hoover omits one interesting detail. It was…

Excerpt from my tribute, “The Creative Works of Joe Wehrle, Jr.” from The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018: “In 1989, my wife Karen and I came up with the idea of producing a monthly Cartoon…