An excerpt from the interview with Bill Crider, from The Digest Enthusiast book five:

Bill Crider: “At an Armadillocon some years ago, I was on the “Apes” panel, along with Joe Lansdale, Rick Klaw, Mark Finn, Chris Nakashima Brown, and probably some others I’m forgetting. The talk turned to a legendary pulp cover for a story called “Gorilla of the Gas Bags” in a pulp called Zeppelin Stories. As anyone knows, there are only a couple of copies of the magazine still around, so nobody had read the story. Joe Lansdale challenged the panelists to write a story based on the cover. He sold his, and I sold mine. I don’t know if anyone else wrote a story.”

Ellery Queen April/March 2014 cover
Ellery Queen March/April 2014 with Bill Crider’s “Gorilla of the Gasbags” with Hollywood detective Bill Ferrell

Attn. Writers: Sandra Seamans reminds us Switchblade magazine is open for submissions.

Contents “Worms of the Earth” by Robert E. Howard (Weird Tales Nov. 1932) “Come” by Anna Hunger “They Called Him Ghost” by Laurence J. Cahill (Weird Tales June 1934) “The Phantom ‘Rickshaw” by Rudyard Kipling (The…

From this morning’s mail, from Justin Marriott. THREE NEW TITLES AVAILABLE THROUGH AMAZON NOW The Paperback Fanatic 39 Now available through Amazon UK, Europe and US. Although the back cover states it’s issue 37, because I…

Contents “Kings of the Night” by Robert E. Howard (Weird Tales Nov. 1930) “The Cunning of Private Rogoff” by David A. English “The Brain-Eaters” by Frank Belknap Long (Weird Tales June 1932) “A Psychichal Invasion” (part…

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The release of the Jan/Feb issues of Dell’s digest magazines marks the first year of their bi-monthly, double-issue format. The issues also provide the publisher’s statements of ownership, which include the average number of copies for…

The new issue of Copy This! is an all art edition, dedicated to the memory of Joe Wehrle, Jr. who is featured in a back cover self-portrait. Two pages reprinting Joe’s Night Radio comic strip are…