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News November 27, 2020

New Releases Nov. 27, 2020

Switchblade No. 13
The world’s only no-limit outlaw noir magazine is back for a thirteenth round. The one you thought you’d never see. With Fiction, Flash and Poetry from Robert Ragan, David Harry Moss, Gene Breaznell, Serena Jayne, Jay Rohr, Brian Beatty, Elliot F. Sweeney, Stanton McCaffery, Danny Sophabmisay, Andrew Bourelle, George Garnet, David Rachels, and Alec Cizak. Featured interview with author Serena Jayne.
5” x 8” digest, 183 pages
Editor: Scotch Rutherford
Print $7.99 Kindle $2.99

New from Hard Case Crime is Shills Can’t Cash Chips, first published in 1961 by William Morrow. It’s book No. 22 in the Cool and Lam series.

Shills Can't Cash Chips by Erle Stanley Gardner

From the world-famous creator of PERRY MASON, Erle Stanley Gardner—at his death the best-selling American writer of all time—comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigation into a car accident puts Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail of murder – and Donald hip-deep in danger when he poses as an ex-con to infiltrate a criminal gang. It’s Gardner’s twistiest caper ever, and a fitting conclusion to Hard Case Crime’s revival of this classic (and long unavailable) detective series.
5” x 8” 240 pages
Print $10.99 Kindle $7.99

“A high-spirited romp you’ll be sorry to see end.” -Kirkus Reviews

“Just the ticket for fans of retro crime fiction.” -Publishers Weekly

“For those who like their crime fiction to be high-octane, this novel is a stunner.” -Daily Mail

Project Updates
Editor Marc Myers has ordered a proof copy of the new hardcover collection of comix and zines by the late Roman Scott: Oddities and Other Grotesques. With a little luck the 168-page volume will be available from Lulu.com in December.

The Digest Enthusiast No. 13 is about 99% complete and I hope to upload the files to Lulu.com early next week and get a print proof underway. I’m hoping the release date will be Dec. 18.

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.

News November 20, 2020

New Releases

Several great new releases in the last week or so:

All Due Respect 2020
Featuring the work of Stephen D. Rogers, Tom Leins, Michael Pool, Andrew Davie, Sharon Diane King, Preston Lang, Jay Butkowski, Steven Berry, Craig Francis Coates, Bobby Mathews, Michael Penncavage, and BV Lawson. Edited by Chris Rhatigan and David Nemeth.

Print $11.95 Kindle $4.99

The Sleazy Reader No. 9
Crime special! Sleazy reading in the crime genre, with articles on 1950s sleazy digest magazines, comics, paperbacks and true crime magazines. Includes the life and death of True Detective magazine, pre-code comics theft from EC Comics, when the crime genre went hardcore, Harlan Ellison in the crime digests, Crime Does Not Pay comics, Mafia true-crime paperbacks. And more! 74 full color pages, loaded with illustrations.

Print $10.99

Paperback Parade No. 109
Contents
Gary Lovisi: Paperback Talk
Gary Lovisi: The Master Artist: Sam Peffer
Tom Cantrell: How Roy Higgins Managed the Adaptation of the Novel Captain and The Kings for the 1976 TV Miniseries
Gary Lovivi: Collecting The Winthrop Press in Very Tiny Paperbacks
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Persistent Image of “I, the Jury”
Richard Greene: Matchless Paperbacks
Jon D. Swartz: Alfred Bester
Phil Harbottle: The Tit-Bits Science Fiction Library

Paperback Parade No. 109 Nov. 2020
Editor: Gary Lovisi
Designer: Richard Greene
~5.5” x 8.5” 100 pages, full color throughout
$15 + postage for a single issue
$40 for three-issue subscription
Gryphon Books website

Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem No. 1
This new mystery and crime digest debuted in June 2020. Every issue is themed–this one is built around private eyes. MCM is a well-concieved series, delivered in a pleasing package. The tone is soft-boiled, with plenty of character development and embellished settings. My favorite in this edition was the story by editor Leah Cutter: “Going Deeper.”
Print $12.99 Kindle $4.99

Oddities and Other Grotesques
The Roman Scott collection is nearly complete. Editor Marc Myers is giving the files a final review and completing the setup at Lulu.com. The book topped out at 168 pages and includes over 14 issues of Scott’s comix and art zines.

Pulp Modern Vol. 2 No.6
The initial layout is complete. Ran Scott is busy on the issue’s artwork and the book will be out shortly after he finishes up his work.

The Digest Enthusiast No. 13
Finished proofreading the bulk of the issue and made various corrections to the art and copy. All that remains is the front-matter and compiling the News Digest. I’ll work on that next week before Thanksgiving.

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.

Uncategorized November 13, 2020

Larque Press Publications

Marc Myers, Jonathan Falk, and I were hard at work on the Roman Scott anthology this week. Marcus Reed sent in a piece about his work with Roman on Pastime Publications. The book’s page count is now at 168.

Alec Cizak secured final drafts on three stories and final edits on the others for Pulp Modern No. 6. We’re trying out a two-column layout this time around, to bring the look-and-feel closer to past pulp digests. Bob Vojtko gave us three new cartoons to fill out the pages that needed them. Ran Scott is hard at work on the illustration and cover art. The book should be out in late December or early January.

News items are coming in for the next Digest Enthusiast and I’m proofreading the rest of the book as I await more. This issue will likely be printed by Ingram, like issue No. 11. We’ve picked up a new advertiser this time: Fenham Publishing. If you’re an H.P. Lovecraft fan, be sure to check out their website.

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.

News November 6, 2020

News Digest Nov. 6, 2020

New Releases

The Nov/Dec issues of Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen are now on newsstands.

Changes
My blog posts here at larquepress.com aren’t drawing as much traffic as I’d like, so I’m changing things up again. Most of my weekly summary content will be posted on FB and Twitter as it arrives. I will reserve the blog for New Releases, mini reviews of recent reads, and updates on development of the issues of The Digest Enthusiast. I’ll post as things develop rather than saving items up for one post on Fridays.

Readin’ and Writin’
Startling Mystery Stories was a fine companion digest to Magazine of Horror. The first issue is a solid representative of its 16-issue run. Although most of the magazine is reprints, they are carefully culled from their sources by one of the best editors of the pulp and digest heyday: Robert A.W. Lowndes.

Weirdbook seems to have fallen out of their quarterly schedule lately, so I was happy to dive into issue 43 shortly after it arrived. It’s another excellent collection of weird fiction and poetry. My favorites this time out include stories by Darrell Schweitzer, John R. Fultz, Sharon Cullars, D.C. Lozar, and Adrian Cole. The issue also includes a tribute to the late Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (1955–2020) and one of his final stories.

I have to admit I’ve been majorly distracted this week over the election and didn’t get as much accomplished as I’d planned. However, the news gathering process has begun, with requests sent out to all the digest magazine editors I know. The big, newsstand titles as well as the indie variety self-published and small press.

Also, made serious headway on the Roman Scott collection. The book will be published in hardcover through Lulu.com and include about 150 pages of Scott’s comix and art, with recollections by Marc Myers, Jonathan Falk, and Todd Mecklem.

Also received three new cartoons from Bob Vojtko for the issue of Pulp Modern that’s in development.

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.

News October 30, 2020

News Digest Oct. 30, 2020

New Releases
Analog N/D 2020
90TH ANNIVERSARY RETROSPECTIVE REPRINT
CALL HIM LORD, Gordon R. Dickson

NOVELETTES
TOGETHER, WE CAN BE MORE!, Juliette Wade
THIS HARD WORLD OF UNWANTED BEAUTY, Evan Marcroft
TRIAL AND ERROR, Grey Rollins
WINTER’S SPRING, A.P. Hawkins
ENTER THE FUNGICENE, J.M. Swenson

SHORT STORIES
A PURPOSE FOR STARS, Brad McNaughton
GHOST STRIKE, Brenda Kalt
PEACEWEAVER, Marissa Lingen
THE POLAR BEAR SLEEPS ON, M. Bennardo
COURTSHIP FTL, Mary E. Lowd
BELOVED TOILER, George Zebrowski
BROUGHT NEAR TO BEAST, Gregor Hartmann
ASLEEP WAS THE SHIP, Eric Del Carlo
STATE OF GRACE, Clancy Weeks
LAZARUS, UNBOUND, Liam Hogan
ASHES, Mario Milosevic
WHY THINGS WORK ON A STARSHIP, Stephen R. Loftus-Mercer

FLASH FICTION
EVENT, Timons Esaias

SPECIAL FEATURES
THE WOMEN WE CAN SEE IN ANALOG, Marie Vibbert
JUST THE FACTS: HOW ARTICLES CAME TO ASTOUNDING, Edward M. Wysocki, Jr.

SCIENCE FACT
BIG SMART OBJECTS, Gregory Benford & Larry Niven

POETRY
SO MANY BLANK MOONS, Holly Lyn Walrath
THE RETURN, G.O. Clark

READER’S DEPARTMENTS
EDITORIAL: THEREFORE, I KNEW HIM, Trevor Quachri
THE ALTERNATE VIEW, John G. Cramer
IN TIMES TO COME
THE REFERENCE LIBRARY, Don Sakers
BRASS TACKS
UPCOMING EVENTS, Anthony Lewis

Analog Subscriptions

Asimov’s N/D 2020
NOVELLA
Take a Look at the Five and Ten by Connie Willis

NOVELETTES
Christmas at the Hilbert Astoria by Sam Schreiber
The Hind by Kevin J. Anderson & Rick Wilber
Forger Mr. Z by Chen Qiufan, (Translated by Andy Dudak)
Return From the Stars by James Gunn
Pull It From the Root by Zack Be
The Long Iapetan Night by Julie Novakova

SHORT STORIES
The Mirages by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Grief, as Faithful as My Hound by Marissa Lingen
Footprint by Kate Maruyama
Return to Glory by Jack McDevitt

POETRY
After a Year of Solitude by Lora Gray
Archaeologists Uncover Bones, Bifocals, a Tricycle by Steven Withrow
Black Box Sonnet #13,041 by Garrison Kammer
Protozoan Pride by Peter Payack
Let Them Go by Darrell Schweitzer

DEPARTMENTS
Guest Editorial: Where We Came from Is Where We’re Going Allen M. Steele
Reflections: Finding the Mountains of Madness by Robert Silverberg
On the Net: What Information Wants by James Patrick Kelly
Next Issue
On Books by Paul Di Filippo
The SF Conventional Calendar by Erwin S. Strauss

Asimov’s Subscriptions

Guns + Tacos Season 2 Episode 11
Announcement: We are thrilled to be releasing the fifth episode of our second season, Sopa and a Streetsweeper by Ryan Sayles.

Beau is a hero.

He’s also the kind of guy who, when he patrons a taco truck, is as interested in their food as he is their black-market firearms. And the special is soup paired with a streetsweeper shotgun.

When Beau puts the special to use at a Black Friday sales event, he unintentionally starts a full-blown, storewide shoot-out. But he escapes, and takes with him an abandoned little girl he rescued. Maybe she’d like some soup too.

In his apartment, oblivious to the fierce manhunt for the child, Beau discusses just how badly he screwed up the Black Friday shooting with his underhanded neighbors. Then SWAT arrives, but SWAT’s never dealt with someone like Beau. Concerned for the little girl’s safety, Beau has to reach deep down to become the protector she needs.

After the fires have been put out, the bodies sorted and the wreckage cleared, Beau’s gonna be hungry. Fortunately, soup is very filling and a lot of taco trucks offer it.

Guns + Tacos Season 2 Subscriptions

Digest Magazine Blogs
Kewaunee Lapseritis’ “Sasquatch: A Terrestrial-Extraterrestrial?” at Fate Magazine blog.

ECR compiles the Top Tem Hammer Horror Films of All Time! at EconoClash Review blog.

Eric Del Carlo, whose “Asleep Was the Ship” appears in Analog N/D 2020, explores the dilemma Covid-19 poses for near-future SF writers at The Astounding Analog Companion.

Jehane Sharah, whose “Words Don’t Kill” appears in EQMM N/D 2020, explores “The Scents of an Ending” at Something is Going to Happen.

Kate Maruyama’s key take-away from a panel of writers mired in 2020 at Asimov’s From Earth to the Stars.

Digest Magazine Reviews and Reflections
R.T. Lawton examines series evolution via “A Matter of Values” from AHMM N/D 2020 at SleuthSayers.

Matthew X. Gomez reviews Pulp Modern Vol. 2 No. 5 at EconoClash Review.

John O’Neill teams with Victoria Silverwolf to review Weirdbook No. 43 at Black Gate.

TDE Contributors’ Corner
Uncle Jack (Seabrook) and Cousin Peter (Enfantino) review Eerie No. 50, Vampirella No. 27, and Creepy No. 56 at bare•bones e-zine.

Marc Myers has released a new zine: A Traveller’s Guide to Eight Wonders of the Ancient World filled with full page collage art, complete with a guided tour program. Contact Marc Myers for ordering information.

Storytime
David James Keaton’s “Dolla Dolla Bill Wall” at Tough Crime.

Michael Carter’s “Terminal Island” at Pulp Modern Flash.

Mark McConville’s “Monumental Strength” at Close to the Bone.

TDE Booksellers
Bud’s Art Books’ latest Weekly New Items blog headlines 2021 Calendars.

Readin’ and Writin’
The third edition of Amazing Selects, Adrift in the Sea of Souls by David Gerrold, features three stories by the famed author as well as introductions by Adam-Troy Castro and publisher Steve Davidson. The first, from which the collection gets its title, mixes time travel and head hopping into a satisfiying posit on reincarnation and existence.

“The White Piano” is a magical fantasy laden with a love for life, art, and beauty. “Jacob in Manhattan” presents a fresh new take on one of horror fiction’s oldest, most reliable bloody legends. A trio of 5-star stories wrapped in wonder, invention, and heart. The Author’s Afterward adds a hard-won lesson on storytelling for aspriing writers and pros. A terrific collection.

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 Digests
Todd Mason shares vintage covers and contents from F&SF, Fantastic, Shock, Fear, Science Fantasy, Fantastic Universe, and Macabre at Sweet Freedom.

Vocabulary: Cyanotic
“Her fair and sunburned face had gone absolutely corpse-gray with terror, making the golden freckles stand out with greater prominence, and her lips were blue and cyanotic.”
“The Mansion of Unholy Magic” by Seabury Quinn Startling Mystery Stories No. 1 Summer 1966

News October 23, 2020

News Digest Oct. 23, 2020

New Releases
Amazing Stories Volume 77 No. 2 Sept. 2020
The home of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, publisher of the first stories of Ursula K. Leguin and Isaac Asimov–Amazing Stories–is back in print after an absence of more than a decade! This relaunch of the iconic first science fiction magazine is packed full of exciting science fiction, fantasy, and articles, all in a beautiful package featuring eye-catching illustrations and cartoons.The Amazing Stories Summer 2020 issue (the 619th issue since 1926) includes work by: Steve Davidson • Darrell Schweitzer • Marie Vibbert • Tom Jolly • Bo Balder • Ellen Denton • D. K. & Jeffrey Blair Latta • Sam Asher • Lindsey Duncan • Laura Davy • Gunnar de Winter.
Print $9.95 Kindle $2.99

Kevin Tipple highlights SMFS members in AHMM Nov/Dec 2020 issue at The Short Mystery Fiction Society blog.

And again, for EQMM Nov/Dec 2020: The Short Mystery Fiction Society blog.

Digest Magazine Reviews
Ron Fortier reviews The Guns of Pluto (Captain Future) by Allen Steele at Pulp Fiction Reviews.

Gideon Marcus reviews Fantasy & Science Fiction Nov. 1965 at Galactic Journey.

Doug Ellis reviews A Man of Science: A Study of the Readership of Analog Science Fact-Fiction at Black Gate.

Todd Mason reviews EQMM Oct. 1962, Fantastic Oct. 1970, Partisan Review Vol. 44 No. 4 (1977), and Great Ghost Stories of the Old West at Sweet Freedom.

Victoria Silverwolf reviews Fantastic Nov. 1965 at Galactic Journey.

Digest Magazine Blogs
Dr. Karl P.N. Shuker on “Visiting the Land of the Stone Giants” on Easter Island at Fate Magazine.

J.M. Swenson on “Enter the Fungicene” from Analog Nov/Dec 2020 at The Astounding Analog Companion.

Edwin Hill on “Memory and What if…?” at EQMM’s Something is Going to Happen.

Kevin J. Anderson and Rick Wilber explain “The Hind” from Asimov’s Nov/Dec 2020 at From Earth to the Stars.

Storytime
Tricia Saiki’s “Wrong House” at Close to the Bone.

Mav Skye reads Alec Cizak’s “The Bridge” on her podcast Dark Softly Tales. (Thanks Kevin Tipple.)

Michael Bracken’s “Bicycles” at Pulp Modern Flash.

Marie S. Crosswell’s “Killers and Samaritans” at Tough Crime.

Jay Rohr’s “A Good Shepherd” at Close to the Bone.

Brave & Bold 170, Batman 331, Detective 498

TDE Contributors’ Corner
Jack Seabrook and Peter Enfantino review Batman No. 331, Detective No. 498, and The Brave and the Bold No. 170 at bare•bones e-zine.

Robert Lopresti reviews the origins of his series character PI Marty Crow at Sleuthsayers.

Jack Seabrook’s The Hitchcock Project—Alfred Hayes Part One: A Piece of the Action at bare•bones e-zine.

TDE Booksellers
Bud’s Art Books’ latest weekly NEW ITEMS blog post headlines King-Size Editions.

Readin and Writin’
EconoClash Review continues its streak of stellar issues with No. 6 from Down & Out Books. A terrific collection of short stories or “Quality Cheap Thrills” as editor J.D. Graves promises to deliver. Every one was worth reading, but among my favorites this time were stories by Preston Lang, Serena Jayne, and John Kojak. And it was great to read a story from the editor himself in this edition. All in all, a top-notch anthology—highly recommended.

Justin Marriott and friends pack a lot of reading into the 64-page Paperback Fanatic No. 44. I have to admit reading about novels featuring natural disasters in the middle of a pandemic gave me pause. The issue opens with an overview of Gil Cohen: One Man Army by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle, with a gallery of Cohen’s original paintings for Mack Bolan, The Executioner series. Then it’s on to disaster. First up: floods, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, avalances, and tidal waves. You name it, there’s a novel written around it—probably several—some natural, some induced by an evil genuis or organization. But the paperback landslide of The Plague Chronicles dwarfs the former disaster subgenre with more titles than I thought possible. Even after 22 pages, the Fanatic hadn’t exposed them all. No problem, I was ready to move on. Fortunately, the next piece, Prose and Cons, is all about convicts who turned to writing crime fiction, which I found by itself worth the price of the issue—outstanding! And to cap things off, the final pages provide almost two dozen retro-reviews of collectible paperbacks. Some worth seeking out and some cautionary tales.

My interview with Emily Hockaday wrapped this week, so the only substantial content remaining for The Digest Enthusiast No. 13, is the news gathering phase, which I’ll begin next month. At this rate, the issue should be out in December. For the rest of this month, I’ll concentrate on proofing pages and working on my other two projects: Pulp Modern Vol. 2 Nol. 6 and the Roman Scott collection.

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.

Uncategorized October 16, 2020

News Digest Oct. 16, 2020

New Releases
Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 7 Special Private Eye Issue
Contents Page
Michael Bracken: From the Cat’s Perch
Robert Lopresti “The Charity Case”
Andrew Welsh-Huggins “The Whole Story”
Josh Pachter “The Stopwatch of Death”
Bev Vincent “The Fugitive with the Dragon Tattoo”
O’Neil De Noux “Love Pirate”
Graham Powell “Pictures of Lily”
Gordon Linzner “Show and Zeller”
John M. Floyd “Mustang Sally”
E.E. King “Funeral Potatoes”
Robert Jeschonek “The Makings of a Killer”
Fletcher Flora “Loose Ends” (Classic Reprint)

Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 7
Publisher/Executive Editor: John Gregory Betancourt
Editor: Michael Bracken
Production: Sam Hogan, Karl Wülf
6” x 9” 168 pages
Print $13.00
Wildside Press Website

Digest Magazine Blogs
Phyllis Galde talks with Zecharia Sitchin, eminent Orientalist and biblical scholar at Fatemag.com.

LaToya Jovena, whose “The Winner” appears in the upcoming EQMM Nov/Dec 2020, explains where she gets story ideas at Something is Going to Happen.

The October eNewsletter is out from Pulp Literature.

Rosemary Claire Smith talks elections at The Astounding Analog Companion.

Digest Magazine Reviews
Robert Lopresti reviews “The Whole Story” by Andrew Wlesh-Huggins from Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 7 at Little Big Crimes.

Storytime
Jim Woessner’s “The Hero” at Close to the Bone.

Abi Marie Palmer’s “The Cult of Huggy Hamster” at Pulp Modern Flash.

TDE Contributors’ Corner
Uncle Jack (Seabrook) and Cousin Peter (Enfantino) review Eerie No. 49, Vampirella No. 26, and Creepy No. 55 at bare•bones e-zine.

TDE Booksellers
Bud’s Art Books’ latest weekly NEW ITEMS blog post headlines Spectrum 27.

Readin’ and Writin’
This week’s reading included wrapping up the current issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction, an ecclectic mix of entertaining fiction and features. My favorite stories were Marc Laidlaw’s “Weeper,” Leah Cypess’ “Of Them All,” James Sallis’ “The Cry of Evening Birds,” and Brian Trent’s “The Dog and the Ferryman.” The introduction to Laidlaw’s yarn also highlights his Games column with the promise “We think you’ll appreciate his insights into the narratives of this new-ish medium, even if you don’t play games.” I don’t, but it did prove to be an issue highlight. I also greatly enjoyed Jerry Oltion’s Science column on the science of printing. If you hurry, you can still find the issue on newsstands or order a copy directly from the publisher online.

Alec Cizak sent me the first batch of stories he’s selected for Pulp Modern Vol. 2 No. 6 and I’ve begun the layout. We’re going with a two-column layout this time to look more like the pulps and digests of old.

Rick McCollum sent the final art for my story that will appear in The Digest Enthusiast No.13. Fab as usual. It’s already in place in the issue, which is progressing nicely. Also completed the retouch on the covers for Steve Carpers’ new article.

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.

Uncategorized October 9, 2020

News Digest Oct. 9, 2020

New Releases
Mystery Weekly Magazine Oct. 2020
Martin Rosenstock “The Case Of The Count Of Saint Germain”
Larry Lefkowitz “The Case Of Vigor, The Hammersmith Wonder”
Michael Mallory “The Adventure Of The Turned Tables”
Bruce Harris “Beggars Can Be Choosers”
Teel James Glenn “The Adventure Of Sherlock Hominid”
David Bart “Nevermore”
Eric Del Carlo “The Baker Station Irregulars”
Phillip Leibfried “The Silent Sherlock”
Adam Beau Mcfarlane “Strangers in Blood”
Bruce McAllister “Birthday Party”
John H. Dromey “A Clockwork Crook”
Richard Zwicker “What Lies Beneath The Bandages”
J.J. White “The Case Of The Burnt Wires”
Roxanne Dent “Mark Of Shame”
Teel James Glenn “The Affair Of The Heart”
Adam Beau Mcfarlane “Death And The Doctor”
Laird Long “Thiefsgiving” (You Solve It)

Mystery Weekly Magazine No. 55 Oct. 2020
Publisher: Chuck Carter
Editor: Kerry Carter
Cover: Robin Grenville-Evans
7.5” x 9.75 164 pages
Print $11.99 Kindle 5.99

The new Andrew McAleer/Paul D. Marks anthology, Coast to Coast: Noir from Sea to Shining Sea is out from Down & Out Books. Authors include Colleen Collins, Brendan DuBois, Alison Gaylin, Tom MacDonald, Andrew McAleer, Michael Mallory, Paul D. Marks, Dennis Palumbo, Stephen D. Rogers, John Shepphird, Jaden Terrell, and Dave Zeltserman.

Coast to Coast: Noir from Sea to Shining Sea
5.5” x 8.5” 270 pages
Print $17.95 Kindle $3.99

Kevin Tipple previews Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 7 at The Short Mystery Fiction Society blog.

Digest Magazine Reviews
David Levinson reviews Worlds of If Nov. 1965 at Galactic Journey.

Digest Magazine Blogs
Janet Hutchings previews Ellery Queen’s eightieth year (2021), which includes a new story by Cornell Woolrich (!), at Something is Going to Happen.

Storytime
Ana Teresa Pereira’s “The Statues” at Close to the Bone.

A.G. Hilton’s “Southern Hospitality” at Pulp Modern Flash.

Pulp Modern No. 3 is available for Kindle as a free download today and tomorrow.

Batman 330, Detective 497, Brave and the Bold 169

TDE Contributors’ Corner
Jack Seabrook and Peter Enfantino review Batman No. 330, Detective No. 497, and The Brave and the Bold No. 169—and select the best (and worst) stories of 1980 at bare•bones e-zine.

The latest eNewsletter from Art Taylor brings news of Autumn Anthologies and Award Nominations. Read all about it here.

Jack Seabrook’s The Hitchcock Project—Harold Swanton Part Nine: Body in the Barn and Wrapup at bare•bones e-zine.

TDE Bookseller
Bud’s Art Books’ Weekly News Item blog.

Readin’ and Writin’
Alec Cizak, with Yuan Sang, offer creative writing tips in Character, Part Two at ACTV.

I first encountered The Pulps in 1970 when it was first published. I had only discovered—and begun reading—pulp magazine reprints around that time. Mostly I read the hero pulps from Belmont, Bantam, and Berkley, but this volume, with it’s full color cover gallery piqued my interest, and after seeing stacks of copies in my local university book store for weeks on end I finally scraped together the $15 admission. There were several large format hardcover comic strip collections competing at the same price: Buck Rogers, Dick Tracy, and Little Orphan Annie.

I purused The Pulps many times, but never sat down and read it cover to cover. Years later I’d lost track of it. Maybe it was sold or traded, but it was no longer in my library.

Years passed and one day my daughter brought home a used copy from Powell’s City of Books on Burnside. She paid $9.50 for it in good condition, with a beat-up dust jacket. She thought it would be something I’d like. Spot on, and this time I finally read it.

Maybe I was just out of the loop, but when it was published I don’t think reprints of short stories from pulps were commonplace. This gave editor Tony Goodstone free rein to select any story he wanted, and he did a great job choosing. Every story is a pleasure to read.

Past Goodstone’s introduction and a generous selection of covers, the volume is divided into ten sections, each providing a choice sample of pulp genres: Adventure, Sports, Aviation and War, Western and Frontier, Detective and Mystery, Innocence (Romance), Straight Out Sex (Spicy), Supernatural, Science Fiction, and excerpts from The Hero Pulps. Sorry, it took me fifty years to read this thing cover to cover, but I gotta say, it was well worth the wait.

The final articles slated for TDE13 arrived this week, and that kept me busy scanning and retouching cover images. Still some work to do in that regard, but good progress is happening.

Although there is only one interview this time, it’s shaping up to be a great one. The Managing Editor of Analog and Asimov’s, Emily Hockaday, is our interview superstar and she’s delivers a fascinating look inside two of the leading digests on the newsstand.

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 Digest
Science Fiction Digest No. 1
Contents Page
Shawna McCarthy: Editorial
J.W. Silbersack: Speculations
Issace Asimov: Asimov on Science Fiction
Gregory Benford “Swarmer, Skimmer” (excerpt from Across the Sea of Suns)
C.J. Cherryh “The Pride of Chanur”
Sydney J. Van Scyoc “Sunwaifs”
Classified Advertising
Science Fiction Digest Questionnaire (IBC)

Science Fiction Digest No. 1 Oct/Nov 1981
President/Publisher: Joel Davis
Editor: Shawna McCarthy
Assoc. Editor: Elizabeth Mitchell
Art Director: Ralph Robino
5.25” x 7.75” 192 pages $1.95

Uncategorized October 2, 2020

News Digest Oct. 2, 2020

New Releases
Guns+Tacos Season 2 Episode 10: A Taco, A T-Bird, A Beretta and One Furious Night by Ann Aptaker
When Maureen learns that Leo “Riddles” Ridley is back in Chicago, the screaming harridan of violence and vengeance is unmuzzled in Maureen’s troubled head. The harridan only quiets when fed steady doses of death, which Maureen is only too happy to provide, especially if Riddles is the on the menu. She’ll make him suffer for his betrayal, for abandoning her to the fate of prison for her work as a member of Riddles’ outfit.

Subscribe to Guns+Tacos Season 2 at Down & Out Books:
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Kevin Tipple previews Mystery Weekly Magazine Oct. 2020 at The Short Mystery Fiction Society blog.

Digest Magazine Reviews
Robert Lopresti reviews “Terrible Ideas” by Gregory Fallis from EQMM Sep/Oct 2020 at Little Big Crimes.

Gideon Marcus reviews Analog Sept. 1965 at Galactic Journey.

Digest Magazine Blogs
R.T. Raichev, whose story “The Other Imelda” will see print in EQMM Nov/Dec 2020 and essay “Murderous Decoys—Philip MacDonald and ‘Loves Lies Bleeding’” appears at Something is Going to Happen.

Gabrial Hart reviews Slow Bear by Anthony Neil Smith at EconoClash Review.

Fate magazine offers a free gift and new books in this October Announcement.

Storytime
Andrea Smith’s “Hex Boyfriend” at Close to the Bone.

Preston Lang’s “The Man from Goldman Sachs” at Pulp Modern Flash.

Barb Goffman reads “Dear Emily Etiquette” from EQMM Sep/Oct 2020 at the Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Fiction Podcast.

TDE Contributors’ Corner
Uncle Jack (Seabrook) and Cousin Peter (Enfantino) review Eerie No. 48, Vampirella No. 25, and Creepy No. 54 at bare•bones e-zine.

TDE Booksellers
Bud’s Art Books weekly new items blog.

Nostalgia Digest Autumn 2020, Savage Season by Joe Lansdale

Readin’ and Writin’
Finished reading the current issue of Nostalgia Digest (Autumn 2020) this week. Editor/publisher Steve Darnall starts things off with “Reflections of a Golden Age” highlighting 42 milestones over radio’s 100-year history. The issue is packed with entertaining articles, but among my favorites were Wayne Klatt’s “Pleasant Screams” about radio’s horror programs, and the two biographies of Alan Ladd and Raymond Massey, by Walter Scannel and Stone Wallace, respectively.

Also wrapped up Savage Season by Joe Lansdale, the first Hap and Leonard novel. It was great fun, full of action, desperate characters, and lots of heart. If you’ve enjoyed the TV series, the source material is well worth your time.

Received an article from Vince Nowell, Sr. for TDE13 on pulps and digests edited by Robert A.W. Lowndes. I’m still gathering cover images for it, but I’m looking forward to taking it to layout.

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 SF Digest
Worlds Beyond Feb. 1951
Inside covers: Contributor Bios
Contents Page
Jack Vance “Brain of the Galaxy”
Lester del Rey “The Deadliest Female”
H.B. Hickey “Like a Bird, Like a Fish”
Lord Dunsany “The Old Brown Coat”
Poul Anderson “The Acolytes”
Walter C. Davies “Forgotten Tongue”
Richard Matheson “Clothes Make the Man”
C.M. Kornbluth “The Rocket of 1955”
The Dissecting Table (Book Reviews)
Harry Harrison “Rock Diver”
Halliday Sutherland “Valley of Doom”
In the Next Issue

Worlds Beyond Vol. 1 No. 3 Feb. 1951
Editor: Damon Knight
Cover: Van Dongen
Interior Art: Harrison, Jannace, Napoli
5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 25¢

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News Digest Sept. 25, 2020

New Releases
Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem No. 2
Leah Cutter: Introduction
Michele Lang “The Rehab Archipelago”
David H. Hendrickson “Bubba’s Blunder”
Kari Kilgore “The Fabulous Feats of Billy”
Melissa Yi “Sushi À Volonté”
Diana Deverell “Gone Gold”
Jason A. Adams “Bobby and Pete”
Cate Martin “The Fall of La Madrina”
Leah R. Cutter “Tiny Dreams”
Juliet Nordeen “Libby’s Millions”
Our Friends

Thieves: Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem No. 2
Editor: Leah Cutter
Cover: ra2studio
5” x 8” 196 pages
Print $12.99 Kindle $4.99
Knotted Road Press

The Paperback Fanatic No. 44
Contents Page
Justin Marriott: Fanatical Thoughts
Gil Cohen: One Man Army (Book Preview)
Justin Marriott: Disaster 70!
Justin Marriott: The Plague Chronicles
Justin Marriott: Prose and Cons
The Lockdown Reviews

The Paperback Fanatic No. 44
Editor: Justin Marriott
Copy Editor: TomTesarek
7” x 10” 64 pages full color
Print Only $9.99
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Digest Magazine Blogs
Anthony Perconti: Lovecraft on the Pampas: A Discussion of “There are More Things” by Jorge Luis Borges at EconoClash Review.

Dan Reade’s “An Ode to Specificity” at The Astounding Analog Companion.

Kevin Mims’ “The Man Who Would Be King (and Tevis and Kesey and Levin, Etc.” at Something is Going to Happen.

Digest Magazine Reviews
Gideon Marcus reviews Fantasy & Science Fiction Oct. 1965 at Galactic Journey.

Catherine Dilts reviews selections from AHMM Sep/Oct 2020 at Catherine Edits (thanks Kevin Tipple).

Kris Vyas-Myall reviews Gamma No. 5 (Sept. 1965) at Galactic Journey.

John O’Neill reviews Entanglements edited by Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams at Black Gate.

Storytime
Michael McLaughlin’s “The Happiest Place on Earth” at Close to the Bone.

Stephen J. Golds’ “Love Like Bleeding Out with an Empty Gun in Your Hand” at Pulp Modern Flash.

Paul D. Marks reads “Ghosts of Bunker Hill” and “Howling at the Moon” for the EQMM podcast.

Batman 393, Detective 496, Brave and the Bold 168

TDE Contributors’ Corner
Jack Seabrook and Peter Enfantino review Batman No. 329, Detective No. 496, and The Brave and the Bold No. 168 at bare•bones e-zine.

Jack Seabrook’s The Hitchcock Project—Harold Swanton Part Eight: The Twelve Hour Caper at bare•bones e-zine.

Rob Imes has begun The Unofficial Romantic TImes Index.

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This week’s enews from Bud’s Art Books leads with Jim Steranko.

Readin’ and Writin’
Barb Goffman delves into word usage issues at SleuthSayers.

A goodly amount of reading occurred this week—all progress on existing reads, so nothing to report here until next time.

Touched up a few more issues of Head for the WIP Roman Scott collection. And several digest SF novels for Steve Carper’s article slated for TDE13. Rick McCollum finished some beautiful artwork for my sword and sorcery yarn.

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 SF Digest
Space Science Fiction Vol. 1 No. 2 Sept. 1952
Contents Page
Lester del Rey: Editorial
Erik van Lhin “Moon-Blind” art by Paul Orban
Clifford D. Simak “The Fence” art by Gari
Robert E. Howard “The God in the Bowl” (Edited by L. Sprague de Camp) art by Schecterson
George O. Smith: Science—Fiction and Fact
Michael Sherman “A Matter of Faith” art by Peter Poulton
Murray Leinster “The Barrier” art by Paul Orban
John Jakes “With Wings” art by Schecterson
Coming Events
Fletcher Pratt “Official Record” art by Schecterson
Theodore L. Thomas “The Revisitor” art by Gari
Meet Paul Orban (back cover)

Publisher: John Raymond
Editor: Lester del Rey
Assoc. Editors: Peter Leavy, John Vincent
Art Director: Milton Berwin
Cover: Earle Bergey
5.5” x 7.5” 160 pages 35 cents

Read Vince Nowell, Sr.’s article “When Things Go Wrong—The Lester del Rey/John Raymond Fiasco” in The Digest Enthusiast book seven.