[I recently read a story from Top-Notch magazine, John D. Swain’s One head, well done in a short story collection of O’Henry prize winning stories from 1931. I decided to take a look at all the stories i had in my collection that had won this prize.] This story was published in Blue Book magazine,… Continue reading O’Henry award winning stories – Home is the Sailor by Bill Adams
Category: Stories
Blog with world war 1 stories scans
“Field Punishment No.1” is a blog that gather togethers some research on Canada’s war literature. The author is a book collector that became curious about these writers and wanted to know more about them than was contained in their brief bios in the Canadian Encyclopedia and literary guides (where those existed at all) –so he… Continue reading Blog with world war 1 stories scans
R.W. Daly – Seeker of the Deep
Last week, I reviewed the July 1952 issue of Adventure. I mentioned the story by R.W. Daly. I have read some stories by him in the 1940s too and felt that he was one of the better writers in the forties. He wrote excellent historical naval fiction, but sadly there are none available now. As… Continue reading R.W. Daly – Seeker of the Deep
Gone North by Charles Alden Seltzer
Altus Press just released the Argosy Library Series 1 – 10 books that originally appeared in Argosy magazine. I picked up a few of them, and added them to the to be read pile in my ebook library. Then I went over to James Reasoner’s blog, where he wrote a review of Charles Alden Seltzer’s book.… Continue reading Gone North by Charles Alden Seltzer
From Murania Press comes The Island, sequel to Barehanded Castaways by J. Allan Dunn
I enjoyed the original novel, which was a very realistic Robinson Crusoe kind of adventure, first published in Adventure magazine. The novel was written by J. Allan Dunn in response to a challenge from Adventure’s editor to write a realistic shipwreck novel of survival, with no “convenient coconuts or self sacrificing fish“ http://muraniapress.com/classic-pulp-reprints/now-available-the-island/ The sequel promises… Continue reading From Murania Press comes The Island, sequel to Barehanded Castaways by J. Allan Dunn
New releases from Black Dog Books
Six new releases from Black Dog Books across the Hardboiled, Spy/Thriller, Classic Detective, and Science Fiction genres. I know what I’m going to get at Windy City, and if you aren’t going there, click on the links below to get the books and go here to read more about them. Update: Added original publication information… Continue reading New releases from Black Dog Books
George Allan England – The Mermaid
I read about this story (or so I thought) in Robert Sampson’s book Deadly Excitements, Shadows and Phantoms. He talks about a story, “Mermaid“, in Sea Stories magazine featuring Captain Leonidas Tripp as a mermaid impersonator and says this story is in the vein of the Jorkens stories by Lord Dunsany. Now I’m a sucker… Continue reading George Allan England – The Mermaid
A muse on a mule
From Short Stories, January 10th, 1946 comes this poem from S. Omar Barker:
Argosy reprints from Altus Press
Lately, it seems like we’ve been getting a lot of reprints from the general fiction pulps Adventure – Talbot Mundy, Arthur O. Friel, Marion Polk Angellotti, Farnham Bishop and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, H.D. Couzens, Harold Lamb, Captain Dingle, Hugh Pendexter, Gordon MacCreagh, Arthur Howden-Smith etc. Blue Book – H. Bedford-Jones Short Stories – James B. Hendryx, L.… Continue reading Argosy reprints from Altus Press
In the Grass – short story by Gouverneur Morris in Collier’s magazine
I read about this story by Gouverneur Morris in an article from Michael Dirda where he said it was the only thing the author was remembered for. I had already read (and liked) the novel, Yellow Men and Gold, that appeared in Adventure magazine, so I decided to seek this out. I read the story… Continue reading In the Grass – short story by Gouverneur Morris in Collier’s magazine