Friday, July 26, 2024

FFB: THE STORY OF STORY MAGAZINE by Martha Foley (assembled and notes added in part by Jay Neugeboren), W.W. Norton 1980; and Neugeboren's new Foley family essay in THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR, Summer, 2024

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A redux post, sparked by Jay Neugeboren's new essay in The American Scholar  (Summer 2024) about his helping the granddaughters of Marth...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

SSW: DARK AT HEART edited by Karen and Joe R. Lansdale (Dark Harvest 1992); LORD JOHN TEN edited by Dennis Etchison (Lord John Press 1988); STALKERS edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg (Roc/New American Library 1993)

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Two gray books. Or, at least, two  gray jackets.  Lord John Ten  ed.  Dennis Etchison  ( Lord John Press  0-935716-43-2, 1988, $25.00...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Short Story Wednesday: WEIRD TALES, March 1943, edited by Dorothy McIlwraith: 20th Anniversary issue, featuring stories by Robert Arthur, Robert Bloch and Ray Bradbury

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A while back, I did a quick survey of the two U. S. newsstand fantasy fiction magazines, F&SF and Fantastic , that had produced 20th A...
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Friday, June 21, 2024

Short Story Wednesday +: Links to the reviews and more: Juneteenth 2024

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Patricia Abbott's regular weekly links Ambrose Bierce: "A Baffled Ambuscade" and "Two Military Excursions" Ben Bould...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

SSW: "The Widow's Tale" by Richard Bausch, PLOUGHSHARES, Winter 2023-24, edited by Ladette Randolph and (poetry editor) John Skoyles: Short Story Wednesday

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"The Widow's Tale" by Richard Bausch is a borderline horror story; one could choose to see nothing supernatural in it, despite...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Short Story Wednesday +: the links to the reviews, 12 June 2024

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Patricia Abbott's regular weekly links Frank Babics: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, The San Francisco ...
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