Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Unidentified Funny Objects #7, edited by Alex Shvartsman

Posted byChuck Rothman

Unidentified Funny Objects #7   Edited by Alex Shvartsman   (UFO Publishing, September 2018, pb, 288 pp.)   “The Dragon, the Drudge, and the Drone” by Esther Friesner “Chad Versus the Rebel Alliance” by Shane Halbach “The Secret Destiny of Heroes” by Matthew Bailey “Old School: an Oral History of Captain Dick Chase” by Val …

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Suspense — “The Screaming Woman” by Ray Bradbury

Posted byDave Truesdale

Suspense (1942-1962) aired Ray Bradbury’s “The Screaming Woman” on November 25, 1948 as the 316th of its 945 episodes. Written as a radio play specifically for Suspense, Bradbury (1920-2012) would later turn it into a proper short story in 1951. It would appear in several of his collections, most notably 1966’s S is for Space. …

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The Black Museum — “A Claw Hammer” starring Orson Welles

Posted byDave Truesdale

“The Black Museum. A Repository of Death. Here in the grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse of homicide, where everyday objects . . . all are touched by murder.“ The Black Museum (1952) aired (in the United States and as near as historians can reasonably ascertain) “A Claw …

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