Opening line from “The Shunned House” by Robert Edmond Alter Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1966:
“The abandoned Yost house has stood in shunned isolation for nearly two hundred years.”
An excerpt from my review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7: Alan Orloff offers the opening gambit in this issue with “Getting Away.” Lloyd Birnbaum runs a one-man travel…
The American Bystander Vol. 3 No. 1, No. 9, Fall 2018 Not-A-Digest Dept: Although slightly delayed, Editor/Publisher Michael Gerber has done it again, with the latest issue of America’s premier humor magazine. The sheer volume of…
Espionage Magazine Vol. 1 No. 4 August 1985 Contents About People (Contributors) About Books About Films About Other Things . . . Letters to the Editor Jackie Lewis: Publisher’s Page Roger A. Beaumont “The Flawed Soothayer—Willoughby:…
Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol. 136 No. 1 and 2, No. 741, Jan/Feb 2019 Contents Carrie Vaughn “To the Beautiful Shining Twilight” Robert Reed “The Province of Saints” Andy Duncan “Joe Diabo’s Farewell” Charles de Lint:…
Contents Steve Darnall: Those Were the Days Number 2,500! “A Few Moments with . . . Stuart Canin” (uncredited) Steve Darnall “Slings and Arrows” The story of Jack Benny, Fred Allen, and how an off-hand remark…
Manhunt Detective Story Monthly Vol. 1 No. 5 May 1953 Contents John Ross Macdonald “The Guilty Ones” (Lew Archer) Jonathan Craig “Services Rendered” Vincent H. Gaddis: Crime Cavalcade Robert Patrick Wilmot “Stakeout” Steve Frazee “Graveyard Shift”…
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2019 Vol. 153 #1 & 2, whole #928 & 929 Contents Steve Hockensmith “My Christmas Story” art by Mark Evans Ragnar Jónasson “Don’t Panic” Hollis Seamon “Dead People’s Clothes” Thomas Kastura…
Inside The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 January 2019: Crime, espionage, and fantasy fiction by Michael Bracken, Josh Pachter, and Joe Wehrle, Jr., with art from Marc Myers, Michael Neno, and Joe. News from all your favorite…