Henry S. Whitehead

George O. Smith

Arthur Leo Zagat

James Holding

J.J. Connington

Adrian Cole

Hal Charles

O'Neil De Noux

Shannon Taft

J.C. Stanley

Our 103rd issue is just one shy of our second anniversary issue, but we still have a whale of an issue for you. Regular readers will notice a new category (“Adventure”) below, which will appear occasionally to fit stories I like that aren’t necessarily mysteries, science fiction, or fantasy. (Well…this one may be fantasy, depending on how you feel about fish!) It’s from a pulp magazine called Mammoth Adventure, a companion to Amazing Stories and Fantastic when they were published by Ziff-Davis. It’s fun.

Working our way through the table of contents, we have a pair of original mysteries by O’Neil De Noux and Shannon Taft, thanks to our hardworking Acquiring Editors, Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman. James Holding has a crime story, and Golden Age British mystery author J.J. Connington adds a terrific novel.

For adventure (and nature) lovers, something’s fishy in “Only a Sucker Bites,” a whopper of a story about lake pike.

On the fantasy end of things, we have a tale of astral projection from Adrian Cole, a vintage zombi (or jumbee) story by Henry S. Whitehead first published in Weird Tales, and a pair of vintage science fiction stories by Arthur Leo Zagat and George O. Smith.

Here’s the complete lineup:

Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:

“A Dirty, Dimly Lit Place,” by O’Neil De Noux [Michael Bracken Presents short story]
“Too Many Suspects,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]
“The End of the Road,” by Shannon Taft [Barb Goffman Presents short story]
“Reason Enough,” by James Holding [short story]
Murder in the Maze, by J. J. Connington [novel]

Adventure:

“Only a Sucker Bites,” by J. C. Stanley [short story]

Science Fiction & Fantasy:

“A Smell of Burning,” by Adrian Cole [short story]
“Jumbee,” by Henry S. Whitehead [short story]
“Lost in Time,” by Arthur Leo Zagat [novella]
Dynasty of the Lost, by George O. Smith [novel]

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