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Sergio Angelini: The Red Scarf by Gil Brewer
Yvette Banek: The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
Joe Barone: Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Les Blatt: The New Adventures of Ellery Queen by "Ellery Queen" (Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee)
Brian Busby: Murder without Regret by E. Louise Cushing
Bill Crider: The Crackpot and Other Twisted Tales of Greedy Fans and Collectors by John E. Stockman
Scott A. Cupp: Spicy Adventures by Robert E. Howard
William Deeck: There's Death in the Churchyard by William Gore
Martin Edwards: The Corpse with the Sunburnt Face by Christopher St. John Sprigg
Will Erickson: The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Curt Evans: The Furnival Mysteries by Annie Haynes (among her other work)
Fred Fitch (The Westlake Review): Jimmy the Kid by Donald Westlake; The Snatchers by Lionel White and other related work
Barry Gardner: Box Nine by Jack O'Connell
John Grant: Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum
Ed Gorman: Blood Marks by Bill Crider
Rich Horton: Bend Sinister and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
Jerry House: The Haunted Stars by Edmond Hamilton; 31 Days of October: stories from Weird Tales
Nick Jones: Hong Kong Kill by "Peter George" (Bryan Peters)
Stephen Jones: my 10 favorite horror stories
Tracy K: Die with Me by Elena Forbes
George Kelley: Wandl the Invader by Ray Cummings; I Speak for Earth by "Keith Woodcott" (John Brunner)
Margot Kinberg: Havana Red by Leonardo Padura
Rob Kitchen: The Girl in Berlin by Elizabeth Wilson
Kate Laity: Callimachus and Other Plays by Hrotsvita; "Sermo Lupi ad Anglos" by Wulfstan II
B.V. Lawson: Night and Fear by Cornell Woolwich
Evan Lewis: Murder at Midnight by Richard Sale
Jonathan Lewis: Island of Fear and Other Stories by William Sambrot
Steve Lewis: Marked for Murder by "Brett Halliday" (Davis Dresser); State's Evidence by Stephen Greenleaf; Secret of the Second Door by Robert Colby
Todd Mason: Help! magazine (February 1962) edited by Harvey Kurtzman
Patrick Murtha: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
Neer: An English Mystery by Cyril Hare
Frances M. Nevins: The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene; The Case of the Screaming Woman by Erle Stanley Gardner; Maigret and the Toy Village by Georges Simenon
John F. Norris: The Giant Rat of Sumatra by Richard L. Boyer
Juri Nummelin: The Red Scarf by Gil Brewer
John O'Neill: the current small press and other fantasy-fiction magazines
Matthew Paust: Some Came Running by James Jones
James Reasoner: Spawn of the Desert by W. C. Tuttle
Karyn Reeves: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
Richard Robinson: Twenty Blue Devils by Aaron Elkins
Gerard Saylor: Little Elvises by Timothy Hallinen
Bhob Stewart: The Book of Wit & Humor (Volume 1, 1953) edited by Louis Untermeyer
Dan Stumpf: The Maze by Maurice Sandoz; There is a Serpent in Eden (aka The Cunning) by Robert Bloch
Kevin Tipple: The Prairie Chicken Kill by Bill Crider
"TomCat": Cold Blood by "Leo Bruce" (Rupert Croft-Cooke)
I never get to go anywhere fun.....
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain, Kevin...
ReplyDeleteMe, neither, Kevin. And I see the predominant color here is green.
ReplyDeletePolitics, envy, your choice. Certainly not much money.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, Todd, a fantastic job filling in for Patti.
ReplyDeleteAnd I remember buying every issue of HELP! when it came out, as well as the paperback collections. One of many magazines that deserved a much longer life.
Thanks, Jerry. Fighting with my own inability to type and the spell-checker's "corrections" hasn't been that much fun yet today.
ReplyDeleteThe more I read of HELP!, the more its flavor seems to match that of what I've read of P.S., the nostalgia/humor/pop culture magazine from Mercury Press...even down to the flaws. Both should've been able to flourish, but no...
Thanks for hosting Todd - and how cool that Juri and I picked the same book! Say I said hello, will ya? I tried but ...
ReplyDeleteI was also a big fan of P.S., Todd. It may be that my liking a magazine is the kiss of death.
ReplyDeleteUndercapitalization does it that much faster, Jerry...both those magazines, with a little more money to throw around (and a better title for P.S.) probably would've been hardier. They both had to build new audiences in a way that their stablemates did not (at least when we consider F&SF and to some extent the crime fiction titles at Mercury Press, and the horror comics at Warren...particularly when the Ackerman magazines at Warren and EQMM at Mercury had already reached much of the audience the more durable magazines could tap into).
ReplyDeleteOK, Sergio! That kind of matching happens from time to time, and if Juri doesn't see this, I'll try to remember to drop him a comment directly (or you could, on FaceBook) to let him know of the WordPress/Blogger hassle. And thanks for contributing!
Todd, thanks for taking over for Patti. We're taking good care of her and Phil here in Raleigh. Lots of books everywhere (free!)
ReplyDeleteThank you, George...plenty of Abbotts to look after, and indeed books to lust after...no smoking, now.
ReplyDeleteTodd, that's a good-looking cover on Patti's second novel.
ReplyDeleteAgreed! Arguably third published novel.
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