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PULP FICTION: Embracing the Inner Smart-Aleck
When Alfred Hitchcock editor Linda Landrigan asked if I'd like to to a post discussing how pulp fiction has influenced my writing, my response was a hearty "You betcha!"Some of those influences are...
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Forgotten Stories: MURDER EXTRA! by Raoul Whitfield - READ IT HERE!
Between 1926 and 1934, Raoul Whitfield supplied more stories (66 !) to the glory years of Black Mask than any other writer, contributed heavily to air war and air adventure magazines and saw eight...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX ROBIN HOOD
Robin HoodThe Sheriff of Nottingham Anonymous archerLittle John MinstrelSir Robert of Napier Friar TuckMore Toy Soldiers HERE.
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Forgotten Books: DANGER CIRCUS by Raoul Whitfled (1933)
The more I read Raoul Whitfield, the more I see different styles. Danger Circus is the fifth Whitfield novel I’ve read recently, and no two have been quite the same.In addition to his five mystery...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: LIDO FOREIGN LEGION & ARAB WARRIORS
These Lido guys, averaging about two inches tall, were peculiarly flat (maybe their molds were limited as to depth?), often short-limbed, and sometime awkwardly posed. Like everyone else, Lido did...
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Overlooked Films: SUPERMAN (1948) Watch it here!
I talked with Kirk Alyn at a comic show back in the '70s, and he said he'd never seen this 15-chapter serial. At the time it came out he was too busy working, and he finally got around to asking...
View Article"The Ballad of Davy Crockett" by K.R. Wood & Friends
I had the pleasure of seeing these guys perform at a party in San Antonio a couple of years ago, where they did this song. I was also honored to meet a couple of old Davy's direct descendants,...
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Forgotten (and FREE) Stories: Race Williams returns in "A Corpse in the Hand"...
Here's the eleventh in our continuing series of unreprinted adventures of Race Williams. (For a look at the earlier stories, click HERE.) Like most of Race's Dime adventures from this period, this one...
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FREE PREVIEW: "Mr. Crockett and the Longrifle"
For a limited time, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine is offering a lengthy preview of Davy's latest adventure on their website, The Mystery Place. The screenshot above is just a sample. Davy and I...
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