Stories from Switchblade No. 2, edited by Scotch Rutherford:
Rival mobs vie for territory in S.E. Bailey’s “A Talent for Killing.” Like the previous yarn (“My Brother’s Keeper by Rob T. White), the protagonist is captured and tortured, recalling the events that brought him to his deadly predicament. The horrors to come are both imminent and twisted. Bailey builds the tension in “Talent” nicely, and the opening inner monologue about killing in battle is excellent.
Excerpt from Steve Carper’s series “One-and-Dones” that appears in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7–9: “In 1948 Vital Publications put out four Nick Carter novels as Vital Books, the link being that Vital Publications also issued Tom…
Rick Ollerman’s Hardboiled, Noir and Gold Medals collects many of his essays from the collected works of paperback original authors, published by Stark House Press. Below is an excerpt from his interview in The Digest Enthusiast…
Amazing Stories Vol. 76 No. 3 Spring 2019 Contents Ira Nyman’s From the Editor’s Desk: The Future is Fun, art by Matt Taggart Tom Barber: Amazing Cover Artist John Grant (aka Paul Barnett) interviewed by Darrell…
Excerpt from the review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7: Barb Goffman leans cozy until the bitter end in the “Crazy Cat Lady.” A horror novelist shares a first-person…
Science Fiction Adventures Vol. 1 No. 2 Feb. 1953 Philip St. John: An Editorial on Foresight A. Bertram Chandler “Farewell to the Lotos” art by Paul Orban Coming Up Alan E. Nourse “Peacemaker” art by Alex…
Excerpt from Joe Wehrle, Jr.’s article on “The Telzey Amberdon Stories of James H. Schmitz” in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7: Resident Witch (Analog May 1970). Telzey agrees to help Wellan Dasinger locate a man who…
Excerpt from the review of Down & Out: The Magazine No. 1 in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7. Book news and reviews are “Placed in Evidence” by J. Kingston Pierce. A good review tells you enough…
Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol. 136 No. 3 and 4, No. 742, Mar/Apr 2019 Contents Gregor Hartmann “The Unbearable Lightness of Bullets” Matthew Hughes “The Plot Against Fantucco’s Armor” S. Qiouyi Lu “At Your Dream’s Edge”…
