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News February 12, 2022

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2022

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v159 #1/1, #964/965 January/February 2022] ed. Janet Hutchings, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover from Shutterstock.com)
2 • Bad News [Holmes of the Range] • Steve Hockensmith • ss; illustration by Evan Walker
30 • The Jury Box • Steve Steinbock • rc
_30 • The Return of the Pharaoh, Nicholas Meyer, Minotaur Books, $25.99 • br
_30 • Miss Moriarty, I Presume?, Sherry Thomas, Berkley, $16.00 • br
_30 • The Abduction of Pretty Penny, Leonard Goldberg, Minotaur Books, $26.99 • br
_57 • Castle Shade, Laurie R. King, Bantam, $28.00 • br
_57 • Silent Parade, Keigo Higashino (translated by Giles Murray), Minotaur Books, $27.99 • br
_64 • London Bridge is Fulling Down, Christopher Fowler, Random House, $28.99 • br
_64 • A Vicious Peace, A.E. Holliday, $12.99 • br
_79 • Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?, Harold Schechter and Eric Powell, Albatros Funny Books, $29.99 • br
31 • Paleolithic * K.L. Abrahamson • ss
39 • Blog Bytes • Kristopher Zgorski • cl
40 • Stranger Than Fiction: Arthur Conan Doyle and Murder in England’s “Smiling and Beautiful Countryside” • Dean Jobb • tc
41 • The Death-Camp Angel • Doug Allyn • ss
58 • Stone Still • B.A. Paul • ss
65 • The Scarlet Box [Constable Colin Pringle] • Alex Grecian • ss
73 • Into Thin Air • Karen Jobst • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
80 • Double Fly Rocket 87 • Eli Cranor • ss; EQMM’s “Black Mask”
89 • Best Served Cold • Alice Hatcher • ss
106 • The Crime • Olavo Bilac • ss; EQMM’s “Passport to Crime” translated from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers
112 • Their Last Bow [Puzzle Club] • Josh Pachter • ss
117 • The Sound of Laughing • Jack Fredrickson • ss
127 • True Companion [Martin Wade] • Libby Cudmore • ss
138 • The Policeman and the Dead • Raghu Roy • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
155 • On the Side of the Angels • Merrilee Robson • ss
161 • The Wind • Bill Pronzini • ss
164 • The Musgrave Ritual • Terence Faherty • ss; illustration by Jason C. Eckhardt
174 • Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation • Peter Kanter • ms
175 • The Favor • Michael Z. Lewin • ss
178 • It’s All in the Telling • Ariel Dodson • ss

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Uncategorized November 26, 2021

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov/Dec 2021

Final issue of the EQMM’s 80th anniversary year.

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v158 #5/6, #962/963 November/December 2021] ed. Janet Hutchings, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover from 123RF)
2 • The Vengeance of Sekhmet [Amelia Peabody] • Elizabeth Peters [Barbara Mertz] • ss; illustration by Shutterstock
13 • Death and the Coyote [Willie Cuesta] • John Lantigua • ss
26 • The Jury Box • Steve Steinbock • rc
_26 • The Last Mona Lisa, Jonathan Santlofer, Sourcebooks Landmark, $26.99 • br
_26 • Lady Joker Vol. 1, Kaoru Takamura (translated by Maria Iida and Allison Markin Powell), Soho Crime, $28.95 • br
_47 • Dead of Winter, Stephen Mack Jones, Soho Crime, $27.95 • br
_47 • Midnight, Water City, Chris McKinney, Soho Crime, $27.95 • br
_92 • Panic Attack, Dennis Palumbo, Poisoned Pen Press, $15.99 • br
_92 • The French Paradox, Ellen Corsby, Severn House, $28.99 • br
_97 • The Other Me, Sarah Zachrich Jeng, Berkley Publishing Group, $26.00 • br
_97 • Gated Prey, Lee Goldberg, Thomas & Mercer, $24.95, tpb • br
_97 • Choose Me, Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver, Thomas & Mercer, $15.95, tpb • br
_144 • OJ’s Knife, John Gibson, Stark House Press, $15.95 • br
27 • The Longest Pleasure • Anna Scotti • ss
41 • We’re in This Together, Aren’t We? • Victor Kreuiter • ss
48 • Stranger Than Fiction: Fact Meets Fiction in Poe’s :The Black Cat” • Dean Jobb • tc
49 • Wing Man • Pat Black • ss
67 • The Reawakening • Hal Charles [Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet] • ss
75 • Another Temptation • Eleanor Gonnella • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
78 • Hit and Run • Doug Allyn • ss; EQMM’s “Black Mask”
84 • Blog Bytes • Kristopher Zgorski • cl
85 • The Best of Times [Sam Kelson] • Michael Wiley • ss
93 • What Can You Do? • Pam Barnsley • ss
99 • Jianjun Ling and the Sad Case of Sonny La Grassa • William Boyle • ss
105 • Ask Hagan • Scott William Carter • ss
121 • The Patsy • Sunil Mann; translated by Mary Tannert • ss; EQMM’s “Passport to Crime” translated from the German
131 • 1952 • Bruce McAllister • ss
136 • 30 Ackerian Place • Barbara B. Green • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
140 • Index to Volumes 157 & 158—2021 • ix
141 • The Broken T • Ellery Queen [Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee] • ss
145 • The Disappearing Man • Sharon Hunt • ss
158 • The Smiler • Dennis McFadden • ss
166 • The Debtor • C.H. Hung • ss
178 • Number 10 Marlborough Place • Elizabeth Elwood • ss
192 • 2021 EQMM Readers Award Ballot • cn

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News August 21, 2021

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2021

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v158 #3/4, #960/961 September/October 2021] ed. Janet Hutchings, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover by Brian Stauffer)
2 • White Chocolate • Jerrome Charyn • ss; illustration by Mark Evan Walker
9 • DNF • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • ss
28 • The Jury Box • Steve Steinbock • rc
_28 • The Bombay Prince, Sujata Massey, Soho Crime, $27.95 • br
–28 • Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara, Soho Crime, $27.95 • br
_28 • A Comedy of Terrors, Lindsey Davis, Minotaur, $27.99 • br
_83 • Dead Dead Girls, Nekesa Afia, Berkley Prime Crime, $16.00 • br
_83 • Her Last Breath, Hillary Davidson, Thomas and Mercer, $24.95 • br
_141 • The Madness of Crowds, Louise Penny, Minotaur, $28.99 • br
_141 • Water Memory, Daniel Pyne, Thomas and Mercer, $15.95 • br
_141 • Unthinkable, Brad Parks, Thomas and Mercer, $24.95 • br
_141 • A Peculiar Combination, Ashley Weaver, Minotaur, $26.99 • br
_141 • Road of Bones, James R. Benn, Soho Crime, $27.95 • br
_150 • Live Fast, Spy Hard, Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Clemens, Wolf Pack, $14.00 • br
_150 • Murder, She Drew Vol. 2, Tim Kashiba, Moriwaki Akira, & Morisaki Cuckoo, The Talkative Middles, ¥4000 • br
29 • Non Absolvo [Julian Hall] • David Dean • ss
39 • Stranger Than Fiction: The Pnzi of Paris: The Jazz-Age Seams of Marthe Hanau • Dean Jobb • tc
40 • Dig Down Deep • Frances Beck • ss; EQMM’s “Black Mask,” Black Mask July 1945
47 • The Stain of Memory [Magistrate Ovid] • Thomas K. Carpenter • ss
59 • Trick or Treat • Jane Jakeman • ss
65 • Nugget • John F. Dobbyn • pm
69 • The Very Last Time • Juliet Grames • ss
79 • Rage and Run • M. Zizzari • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
85 • Sixteen Lies [Nils Shapiro] • Matt Goldman • ss
99 • The Celestial Thief [Owen Burns] • Paul Halter; translated by John Pugmire • ss; EQMM’s “Passport to Crime” translated from the French
110 • Why Did You Do It? • Bill Pronzini • ss
112 • A Letter from the Editor • Janet Hutchings • ed
113 • Meals on Wheels • Sandy Smith • ss
118 • Blog Bytes • Kristopher Zgorski • cl
119 • To Slay a Stranger [Antonia Darcy & Major Payne] • R.T. Raichev • ss
139 • The Problem with Fish Markets • Trey Dowell • ss
142 • Weed Man • Hilary Davidson • ss
151 • Snail Mail • Denis Johnston • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
158 • Demon in the Depths [Santa Ezeriņa] • William Burton McCormick • na; illustration by Jason C. Eckhardt
192 • Testing, Testing . . . • Marilyn Todd • pm

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News July 9, 2021

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2021

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v158 #1/2, #958/959 July/August 2021] ed. Janet Hutchings, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover by Bradley Clark)
2 • The Locked Room Library • Gig Pandian • ss; illustration by Laurie Harden
18 • The Jury Box • Steve Steinbock • rc
_18 • Love & Other Crimes, Sara Paretsky, Morrow, $17.99, tpb • br
_18 • Funeral in the Fog: The Strange Mysteries of Simon Ark, Edward D. Hoch, Crippen & Landru, $22, tpb * br
_18 • The Island of Coffins and Other Mysteries From the Casebook of Cabin B-13, Tony Medawar & Douglas G. Greene (eds), Crippen & Landru, 22, tpb • br
_51 • Hot Cash, Cold Clews: The Adventures of Lester Leith, Erle Stanley Gardner, Crippen & Landru, $22, tpb • br
_51 • Inspector Ghote: His Life and Times, H.R.F. Keating, Severn House, $10.99, ebook • br
_51 • The Dead of Winter: The THree Giodano Bruno Novellas, S.J. Parris, Pegasus, $25.95 • br
_128 • Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Hard Case Crime, $39.99 • br
_128 • Prefecture D: Four Novellas, Hideo Yokoyama translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, $17 • br
19 • Bone Marrow Donor • Joyca Carol Oates • ss
22 • Fox’s Wedding • Awasaka Tsumao; translated by Steve Steinbock • ss; EQMM’s “Passport to Crime” translated from the Janpanese
38 • Stranger Than Fiction: Detective-Fever • Dean Jobb • tc
39 • Bad Chemistry • John G. Wimer • ss
53 • Not So Fast, Dr. Quick • Elvie Simons • ss
68 • The Concert • Ragnar Jónasson & Vikingur Ólafsson • ss
70 • Family Love • Brendan DuBois • ss; EQMM’s “Black Mask”
79 • The White Star • G.M. Malliet • ss
92 • A Trunk Full of Illegal Fireworks • Michael Grimala • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
97 • Julius Katz and the Two Cousins [Julius Katz & Archie] • Dave Zeltserman • ss
113 • The Fraud of Dionysus • Smita Harish Jain • ss
122 • When the Dust Settles • Tehra Peace • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
129 • What’s Wrong With Harley Quinn? • Barbara Allan • ss
138 • Sweeps Week • Richard Helms • ss; illustration by Eli Bischof
151 • The Last Man in Lafarge • Joseph S. Walker • ss
158 • Blog Bytes • Kristopher Zgorski • cl
159 • Next Door • Kate Ellis • ss
166 • Homecoming • Janice Law • ss
171 • Sycamore Acres • Richard Dooling • ss
184 • The Body in the Bee Library • Jon L. Breen • ss

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News May 21, 2021

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May/Jun 2021

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v157 #5/6, #956/957 May/June 2021] ed. Janet Hutchings, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover by Jeff Lee Johnson)
1 • Contents Page
2 • Kiss of Life • Doug Allyn • ss; illustration by Jason C. Eckhardt
28 • The Jury Box • Steve Steinbock • rc
_28 • The Dark Heart of Florence, Tasha Alexander, Minotaur, $27.99 • Steve Steinbock • br
_28 • The Venice Sketchbook, Rhys Bowen, Lake Union Publishing, $14.95 • Steve Steinbock • br
_118 • Dance with Death, Will Thomas, Minotaur, $27.99 • Steve Steinbock • br
_118 • Murder at Wedgefield Manor, Erica Ruth Neubauer, Kensington, $26.00 • Steve Steinbock • br
_118 • The Unkindness of Ravens, M.E. Hilliard, Crooked Lane, $27.99 • Steve Steinbock • br
_128 * Sleep Well, My Lady, Kwei Quartley, Soho Crime, $27.95 • Steve Steinbock • br
_128 • Skim Deep, Max Allan Collins, Hard Case Crime, $12.95 • Steve Steinbock • br
_131 • Bone Canyon, Lee Goldberg, Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 • Steve Steinbock • br
–131 • The Manhunt Companion, Peter Enfantino & Jeff Vorzimmer, Stark House, $19.95 • Steve Steinbock • br
29 • Temptation Street • Martin Edwards • ss
42 • Stranger Than Fiction: Murder on Twenty-Third Street [Benjamin Nathan] • Dean Jobb • tc
43 • Strong Stomach • Zoë Z. Dean • ss
49 • A Season of Night • David Dean • ss
61 • The Hidden Places • Linda Stansberry • ss
67 • The Case of the Strangled Man • Steven Torres • ss
77 • Blog Bytes • Kristopher Zgorski • cl
78 • EQMM Goes to College • Arthur Vidro • mm
79 • A Brief History of Local Warfare [Martin Wade] • Libby Cudmore • ss
89 • The Bunker • Harbert De Paepe; translated by Josh Pachter • ss; EQMM’s “Passport to Crime” translated from the Flemish
97 • Leap of Faith • Marilyn Todd • ss
102 • 2020 Readers Award • Barb Goffman, John M. Floyd, Gregory Fallis • cn
103 • Frank Scarso Finds His Life • Doug Crandell • ss
119 • Nothing Good Happens After Midnight • Hal Charles [Charlie Sweet & Hal Blythe] • ss
129 • Birdman • Alex Knight [Gavin Bell] • ss
132 • Waiting for the Night to Fall • Tim Baker • ss; EQMM’s “Black Mask”
142 • The Unlocked Car • Mike MacInnes • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
149 • A Heaven or a Hell • Anna Scotti • ss
163 • The Cry of the Condor • John Lantigua • ss
174 • Satan’s Circle • Roger Vaccaro • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
180 • Flamingo Flamenco • Melissa Yi • ss; illustration by Eli Bischof

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News March 14, 2021

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine M/A 2021

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v157 #3/4, #954/955 March/April 2021] ed. Janet Hutchings, mng. ed. Jackie Sherbow (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover by Ryan Garcia)
1 • Contents Page
2 • Killer’s Alley [Mike Hammer] • Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins • ss; EQMM’s “Black Mask”
8 • The Jury Box • Steve Steinbock • rc
_8 • A Private Cathedral, James Lee Burke, Simon & Shuster, $28.00
_8 • Murder in Old Bombay, Nev March, Minotaur, $26.99
_53 • Moonflower Murders, Anthony Horowitz, Harper Books, $28.99
_91 • Watch Her, Edwin Hill, Kensington, $26.00
_91 • The Lost Village, Camilla Sten, Minotaur, $26.99
_110 • Apartment Five Is Alive, Russell Atwood, $19.99
9 • Cold Hard Facts • Chad Baker • ss
19 • Stranger Than Fiction: A Death in Provence [Olive Branson] • Dean Jobb • tc
20 • Stone Coat • David Dead • ss; illustrated by Eli Bischof
30 • Blog Bytes • Kristopher Zgorski • cl
31 • A Bit of Bling • Wendy Hornsby • ss
43 • A Winter Night’s Dream [Sam Kelson] • Michael Wiley • ss
55 • An Eye for Detail • Nancy Novick • ss
65 • The Phone Message • Robert Cummins • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
81 • Black Swallowtail • Hollis Seamon • ss
92 • Mother • Ray Bazowski • ss; EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
99 • A Bucharest Arrest • Bogdan Hrib; translated by Josh Pachter • ss; EQMM’s “Passport to Crime” translated from the Romanian
111 • Pressure • Cath Staincliffe • ss
113 • The Eyes of the Alcalde • William Dylan Powell • ss
126 • Escape Velocity • Kevin Egan • ss
135 • Yeah, I Meant to Do That • Mat Coward • ss
150 • The City of Light • Josh Pachter • ss
159 • The Best is Yet to Come • Chris Knopf • ss
163 • The Dark Underbelly of Commerce [Hennessey and Yellich] • Peter Turnbull • ss
172 • Spring Fever • Charlaine Harris • ss; illustration by Jason C. Eckhardt
184 • Who Stole the Afikomen? • Elizabeth • ss

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News January 4, 2021

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine J/F 2021

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [v157 #1 & 2, whole numbers 952 & 953, Jan/Feb 2021] ed. Janet Hutchings (Dell Magazines, $7.99, 192pp, digest, cover by Olga Popover?Shutterstock.com)
1 • Contents Page
2 • The Gloria Scott • Terrence Faherty • ss • illustrated by Jason C. Eckhardt
11 • The Dark Oblivion • Cornell Woolrich • ss
17 • No Legacy So Rich • Anna Scotti • ss
30 • The Jury Box • Steve Steinbock • rc
31 • Dangerous Encounter • Tom Tolnay • ss
37 Blog Bytes • Christopher Zgorski • cl
38 • Stranger Than Fiction • Dean Jobb • cl
39 • The Touffard Affair • Marcel Aymé • ss; in EQMM’s “Passport to Crime;” translated by Anne Bru
49 • Pink Squirrel • Nick Mamatas • ss
57 • The Five Orange Pips • Josh Pachter • ss
63 • The Changing Room • Sheila Kohler • ss
72 • Stray • Ken Linn • ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
82 • The Interpreter and the Killer • Jeff Soloway • ss; in EQMM’s Black Mask
91 • That Poor Woman • Barb Goffman • ss
93 • Pick Up Sticks • Bill Pronzini • ss
105 • The Two Gentleman Guests • Susan Dunlap • ss
112 • Analogue • Rob Osler • ss; in EQMM’s “Department of First Stories”
119 • Bo Radley College Prep • Karen Harrington • ss
133 • The Lemonade Stand • Scott Loring Sanders • ss
153 • The Shadow of the New • Mike Adamson • ss
167 • Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
168 • Curious Incidents • Steve Hockensmith • ss • illustrated by Mark Evan Walker
191 • Watson’s Plane • Ruth Berman • pm
192 • Masthead

EQMM Website

News August 28, 2020

News Digest Aug. 28, 2020

New Releases
Ellery Queen Sep/Oct 2020
Contents Page
Doug Crandell “Baby Drop Box” art by Mark Evan Walker
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
Anna Scotti “What the Morning Never Suspected”
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Mutineers
Joseph S. Walker “Chasing Diamonds”
Marilyn Todd “Burning Desire”
Jim Allyn “Things That Follow” (Black Mask)
Dale C. Andrews “Four Words”
Violet Welles “Round-Trip Runaways” (Dept. of First Stories)
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction Online: Preview
Asibe Taku “The Dashing Joker” (Passport to Crime) Translated from the Japanese by Yuko Shimada; adapted by John Pugmire
Libby Cudmore “All Shook Down”
Michael McGuire “Los Colores”
Jane Jakeman “The Oxford Ghosts”
Gregory Fallis “Terrible Ideas”
Zandra Renwick “Killer Biznez”
L.A. Wilson, Jr. “The Last True Love”
Alexandria Blaelock “The Perfume of Peahes” (Dept. of First Stories)
Barb Goffman “Dear Emily Etiquette” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
Brendan DuBois “The Homecoming”
Indicia

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2020 Vol. 156 No. 3 & 4, Whole No. 948 & 949
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Managing Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Brian Stauffer
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until October 20, 2020
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction

EconoClash Review No. 6
Contents Page
J.D. Graves: Welcome Thrill Seekers
Daniel Marcus “Jesus Christ Superstore”
Preston Lang “Party Bus”
Serena Jayne “Chet-Shaped Lure”
John Kojak “The Good Squad”
Donald Jacob Uitvlugt “The Night Jake Addison Saved the World”
Robb T. White “The Curse of the Temple Topaz”
Paul McCabe “Seven Flutes”
J.D. Graves “Don’t Panic”
Chris Fortunato “You WIll be Very Happy Here”
Cheap Thrills Biographies

EconoClash Review No. 6
Editor: J.D. Graves
Cover: ToeKeen
Interior Art: Duane Crockett
5” x 8” 166 pages
Print $10.95 Kindle $4.99

On Tuesday, Down & Out Books released the third episode of Guns + Tacos Season Two: Four Shrimp Tacos and a Walther P38 by Alec Cizak. Series created and edited by Michael Bracken and Trey R. Barker.

Guns + Tacos Season Two Subscriptions:
• Trade Paperback—$32.95 (includes all six digital episodes plus a subscriber-exclusive short story and FREE shipping within the Continental U.S.)
• Digital Formats—$11.95 (includes all six digital episodes plus a subscriber-exclusive short story)

Other authors in Season Two include: Eric Beeter, Michael Bracken and Trey R. Barker, Ann Aptaker, Ryan Sayles, and Mark Troy.

Subscribe at Down & Out Books.

Justin Marriott announced the lockdown special of The Paperback Fanatic will be published soon.

Storytime
Gabriel Hart’s “Bottom’s Up” at Pulp Modern Flash.

The new issue of Close to the Bone is now available to read online or download as a PDF at Close2thebone.co.uk.

Digest Magazine Reviews
Paperback Warrior reviews The Best of Manhunt Vol. 2 at Paperback Warrior.

Gideon Marcus reviews Analog Sept. 1965 at Galactic Journey.

Digest Magazine Writers’ Updates
Stephanie Feldman on “The Staircase” from F&SF Jul/Aug 2020 at Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Wang Yuan on “Casualties of the Quake” from Analog Sep/Oct 2020 at The Astounding Analog Companion.

Brian Trent on “The Monsters of Olympus Mons” from F&SF Jul/Aug 2020 at Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Libby Cudmore, whose “All Shook Down” appears in EQMM Sep/Oct 2020, writes about the birthplace of Philo Vance at Something is Going to Happen.

M. Rickert on “Last Night at the Fair” from F&SF Jul/Aug 2020 at Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Michael Libling on “Robyn in Her Shiny Blue Coffin” from Asimov’s Sep/Oct 2020 at From Earth to the Stars.

Cheryll Jones interviews Fate editor Phyllis Galde at Coast to Coast.

Untold Legend of Batman 3, Batman 327, Brave & Bold 166, Detective 494

TDE Contributors’ Corner
Jack Seabrook and Peter Enfantino review The Untold Legend of Batman No. 3, Batman No. 327, The Brave and the Bold No. 166, and Detective No. 494 at bare•bones e-zine.

Jack Seabrook’s The Hitchcock Project—Harold Swanton Part Six: Museum Place at bare•bones e-zine.

Readin’ and Writin’
Happy to report I finished reading the outstanding Switchblade No. 12 this week. I wrote a full review that will appear in The Digest Enthusiast No. 13 in January 2021. With twelve issues and two special editions Switchblade has become a dependable haven for hard-hitting independent fiction. Its list of authors provides a who’s who of rising stars of dark crime fiction. This edition adds further bloody evidence of its usual five-star killer status.

Also read the Stark House Press imprint Black Gat Books’ editon of Stranger at Home by Leigh Brackett writing as George Sanders. Classic crime fiction that solidly captures the era in which it was written: 1946. Great characters chase an intriguing mystery, bodies mount and suspects dwindle until its suspenseful, satisfying conclusion.

Finally, I completed reading Occult Detective Magazine No. 7, which I had begun last month. In his editorial/introduction to the issue co-editor John Linwood Grant lays out the zine’s original vision: “…to explore this sub-genre with open minds and open hearts. Nothing—as long as it had both a supernatural, strange or weird element and an investigative one—as necessarily out of bounds.”

It helps to review the ground rules and set expectations for a magazine titled “Occult Detective.” There are several tales that fit Grant’s wider definition of the zine’s mission and give its editors a wider net from which to select stories. This edition is another strong entry in the series. My favorite tales were those by D. J. Tyrer, Nancy A. Hansen, and Brandon Barrows. The fiction is supported by articles on Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt, Conan and Carnacki, Grimm: Ghost Spotter from Golden Age Comics, and reviews of occult detective novels and comics. If you like this sub-genre, ODM will provide several sessions of great entertainment.

Bob Vojtko sent in six new gag cartoons for the next Digest Enthusiast. Great stuff—can’t wait to see them in print this January.

Our current issue: The Digest Enthusiast No. 12 is available in print at Lulu.com and Amazon, and in digital formats at Kindle Books and Magzter.

Vintage Crime Digest
Pursuit No. 7
Contents Page
Johnston McCulley “Fate Rides the Cyclone”
R. Van Taylor “Revenge is for the Dead”
H.A. DeRosso “May Lady Weeps”
Stephen Marlowe “Flypaper”
August Derleth “The Case of the Lost Dutchman”
Hunt Collins “Joker”
Robert Carlton “One Lethal Evening”
Bram Norton “Rider Wanted”

Pursuit Detective Story Magazine No. 7 January 1955
Publisher: J.A. Kramer
Editor: L.B. Cole
Associate Editor: Phyllis Farren
5.5” x 7.5” 128 pages 35 cents

Interviews October 16, 2019

Ellery Queen Dec. 2007

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Dec. 2007 Vol. 130 No. 6 Whole No. 796
Contents
David Handler “The Man Who Couldn’t Miss” art by Laurie Harden
Edward D. Hoch “Gypsy Gold”
Jon L. Breen: The Jury Box
Patricia Smiley “Party’s Over”
Bill Crider: Blog Bytes
Jon L. Breen “A Run Through the Calendar”
Loren D. Estleman “Wild Walls” (Valentino) art by Mark Evan Walker
Caroline Menzies “The Bathtub Oracle” (Dept. of First Stories)
Peter Turnbull “The Mummy” art by Allen Davis
Marilyn Todd “Room for Improvement”
2007 EQMM Readers Award Ballot
Anton Chekhov “A Malefactor” (Passport to Crime) translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett
Martin Edwards “An Index”
Maria Hudgins “Murder on the London Eye”
Michael Bracken & Tom Sweeney “Snowbird” art by Mark Evans
Index: Vol. 129 and Vol. 130
Classified Marketplace
Indicia and Masthead

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Editorial Assistant: Emily Giglierano
Excutive Director Art & Production: Susan Kendrioski
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Rafael de Soto

144 pages $3.99
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I asked Michael Bracken about what it was like to write with a partner on “Snowbird.” Below is an excerpt from his interview in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018:

In the early-2000s I edited five anthologies, and Tom had a story in each of them. When I pitched an anthology of private eye stories to a regional publisher, the publisher was interested only if all the stories were set in Texas and the contributors were Texans/ Texas residents. The only way Tom, a New Englander, would get a story in the anthology was if he collaborated with someone in Texas. Me.

Tom’s writing style—that is, the way he uses words and structures sentences—is (or was then) similar to mine, but his approach to writing is quite different. Where I throw something on the page to start and then figure out where I’m going, he likes to start with the theme and build backwards from there.

So, we went back and forth, writing and discussing as we went. I would write a bit and turn it over to him. He would edit or revise what I wrote and add more. I would edit/ revise what he wrote and add to it. All the while we held email discus- sions on the side about where the story was going, what we needed to research to move forward, and so on. (We even roped in a third writer—Çarol Kilgore—to aid with some research. Part of the story is set on the Gulf Coast and Carol provided us with details neither of us could get otherwise.)

Writing the way we did, it’s quite difficult to know now who wrote which passages, but after several months we had a complete draft. Unfortunately, the regional publisher was no longer interested in doing the anthology.
It is true that collaborating means twice the work for half the money, but Tom and I created a story neither of us could have written alone, and it was the first sale either of us made to EQMM. So, it was well worth the effort.

News October 24, 2018

Terror at the Crossroads

A new horror anthology under the Dell Magazines imprint, Eris Press, titled Terror at the Crossroads: Tales of Horror, Delusion, and the Unknown, edited by Emily Hockaday and Jackie Sherbow and taken from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, is now available.

The collection features stories from Kit Reed, David Brin, Tara Laskowski, Alec Nevala-Lee, Will McIntosh, Louis Bayard, Zandra Renwick, Chris Beckett, Barbara Nadel, Rachel L. Bowden, Stephen Ross, Paddy Kelly, Jason Half, Kurt Bachard, O.A. Tynan, Seth Frost, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Teresa Solana, A.J. Wright, Josh Pachter, and Megan Arkenberg.

The anthology is currently available on Amazon and will soon be available via other digital platforms.

Eris Press will be holding a digital launch for the anthology on Wednesday, October 31: a day-long event featuring book giveaways, twenty-minute Twitter AMAs with authors including Alec Nevala-Lee, Chris Beckett, and Josh Pachter, video readings, Q&As, costumed author photos, and more. To follow the event, stay up to date with @ErisPress.

This collection brings readers demonic encounters, the apocalypse and post-apocalypse, ghostly apparitions, mad scientists, demented artists, monsters, and plenty of bizarre and frightening experiences that will stay with you well beyond its pages. Join @ErisPress this Halloween for their digital launch!