Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Night Beat — “Mentallo, the Mental Marvel””

Posted byDave Truesdale

Nightbeat (1950-52) aired “Mentallo, the Mental Marvel” on May 1, 1950 as the 13th episode of an estimated 104. Some 74-78 episodes remain in circulation. This radio noir “detective” show featured film–and later TV–star Frank Lovejoy (1912-1962) as Randy Stone, the nightbeat reporter for the fictional Chicago Star newspaper. This is only the second episode …

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Hidden Histories, edited by Juliana Rew

Posted byChuck Rothman

Hidden Histories

 

Edited

by

Juliana Rew

 

(Third Flatiron Anthologies, Spring/Summer 2019)

 

“The Fairy’s Bell” by Bruce Golden
“Fire, Steel, and Flaming Pearls” by Kai Hudson
“Losing Face” by Matthew Reardon
“Indian Uprising” by Brenda Kezar
“Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen” by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
“Behind the Purple Haze” by John A. Frochio
“Freudian Slips” by Dennis Maulsby
“The Oracle’s Dilemma” by Michael Robertson
“The Secret History of the Space Shuttle” by Mike Barretta
“Best Possible of Worlds” by Simon Lee-Price
“MH370” by Ricardo Maia
“The Ghost Train” by J. D. Blackrose
“Man Overboard” by James Chmura
“Running on Empty” by Arthur Carey
“Proving Pictures” by Tony Genova
“Against the Roaring of the Fire” by Edwina Shaw
“Yes, Yes, Yes, We Remember” by Elizabeth Beechwood
“Specimen 1842” by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan
“The Homebringing” by Robert Dawson
“The Thunderbird Photo” by Jennifer Lee Rossman
“The Fulcrum” by Shannon McDermott
“The Sixth-Gun Conspiracy Letters” by Evan A. Davis
“Defender of the Realm” by H. J. Monroe
“Cry the Thousand Sentinels” by Brian Trent
“Red Reckoning” by Jonathan Shipley
“Them Tourists” by A. Humphrey Lanham
“Date Attire” by Tyler Paterson
“Fairy Godmothering” by Dantzel Cherry
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