Excerpt from “The Creative Works of Joe Wehrle, Jr.” from The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018. (Quotes are from Joe’s correspondence.) By 1964, already an accomplished illustrator, Joe began work on a comic strip, Fawn…

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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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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

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;…