tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post1118329911848031574..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: Short Story Wednesday: DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE, October 1949: John D. MacDonald, Margaret St. Clair, Day Keene, Lix Agrabee... Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-19126297105564966892020-10-29T15:12:06.407-04:002020-10-29T15:12:06.407-04:00I'm still, at the back of mind, trying to work...I'm still, at the back of mind, trying to work out what kind of off-color joke, perhaps in the Vulgate, "Lix Agrabee" might've been intended to suggest. <br /><br />I think the kids, when they read this, might forgive you for not so blessing them, Patti, at least eventually, but for yourself, even now, there are legal means if it seems too attractive to be merely nickname or pseudonym.<br /><br />For my part, I'm mostly worried about the similarities of sentence construction in the prose of Ms. Conway here and myself...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-54393863231355633582020-10-29T13:21:51.465-04:002020-10-29T13:21:51.465-04:00Oh, to have a name like Lix. Thanks, Todd. Oh, to have a name like Lix. Thanks, Todd. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-64227855500135175892020-10-28T20:53:53.544-04:002020-10-28T20:53:53.544-04:00Jack: MYSTERY BOOK was a pretty consistently good ...Jack: MYSTERY BOOK was a pretty consistently good magazine, however arrayed. This is one of the better pseudo-shudder covers on DIME MYSTERY, I'd agree. Not sure yet if it has much to do with any of the longer stories.<br /><br />Cullen: glad to widen your access to feed your Keene jones! (I directed him to the archive at the link at the end of the Table of Contents above.)<br /><br />Jerry: I certainly don't underrate St. Clair...and I'm certainly glad Dover Books was finally able to disgorge the Ramsey Campbell selection of her short stories they had commissioned after a year or so's delay. That's only a slightly wider reach than Ramble House, but every little bit probably helps...I think it'll be some time before MacDonald is forgotten, or Gault though probably less, and Talmage Powell (everyone including spell-checkers thinks he should have a D in his name) was a bit more in pulp-writing mode even in his later career, which might or might not enable revivals more readily...one of his later, BOTY stories was Rather Closely Followed without credit in a film a decade or so back, one wonders what if anything was made of that. <br /><br />Well, as long as we're around to scandalize their names...<br /><br />Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-51356341875939509052020-10-28T20:16:27.455-04:002020-10-28T20:16:27.455-04:00Love that cover! I'm reading the spring 1950 i...Love that cover! I'm reading the spring 1950 issue of Mystery Book Magazine right now, with a Wade Miller novel called "Murder Has Girl trouble." I'm enjoying it.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-81912857855545702182020-10-28T15:35:30.541-04:002020-10-28T15:35:30.541-04:00Wow! That's a Keene story not collected by Ram...Wow! That's a Keene story not collected by Ramble House, yet. Do you have an original copy of this pulp, or is it a reprint?Cullen Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14236957954996740924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-4302032036907152882020-10-28T12:52:09.908-04:002020-10-28T12:52:09.908-04:00Sounds like a great issue, Todd. St. Clair is one...Sounds like a great issue, Todd. St. Clair is one of the more under-rated authors of her time; I've most of her stories (and those by "Idris Seabright") to be rewarding. John D. needs no introduction, although I fear his star is waning so many years after his death. Same too with Gault. Ramble House is keeping Keene to the forefront, but their reach is very limited. Talmadge Powell is usually worth reading but, again, he has faded from sight. I don't think I've read any Holden and I never heard of Seigel. This is an issue I'd be happy to read -- and I probably will!Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.com