Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Flying Saucers & the Stymie Factor by Raymond A. Palmer

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“Flying Saucers & the Stymie Factor”   by   Ray Palmer   (From Science Fiction Review, May 1978, edited by Richard E. Geis) New Introduction by Dave Truesdale As I type this new introduction in November of 2017 it has been 39 years and 6 months since the original (and to the best of my …

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Dimension X — “Pebble in the Sky” by Isaac Asimov

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Dimension X (1950-51) aired “Pebble in the Sky” on June 17, 1951 as its 37th episode. Isaac Asimov (1919-1992, photo at right) first wrote the novel as a shorter work in 1947 for Startling Stories under the title “Grow Old with Me,” and though the magazine’s editor had specifically requested it, it was rejected as …

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Tales from the Lake #4: The Horror Anthology, ed. by Ben Eads

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Tales from the Lake Volume 4:

The Horror Anthology

 

 

Edited by Ben Eads

 

 

(Crystal Lake Publishing, October 7, 2017, pb, 372 pp.)

 
 
“When the Dead Come Home” by Jennifer Loring
“The Folding Man” by Joe R. Lansdale (reprint, not reviewed)
“Go Warily After Dark” by Kealan Patrick Burke
“To the Hills” by T. E. Grau
“Everything Hurts, Until it Doesn’t” by Damien Angelica Walters
“Drowning in Sorrow” by Sheldon Higdon
“Whenever You Exhale, I Inhale” by Max Booth III
“The Withering” by Bruce Golden
“Grave Secrets” by JG Faherty
“End of the Hall” by Hunter Liguore
“Snowmen” by David Dunwoody
“Pieces of Me” by T. G. Arsenault
“Neighborhood Watchers” by Maria Alexander
“The Story of Jessie and Me” by Timothy Johnson
“I will be the Reflection Until the End” by Michael Bailey
“The Honeymoon’s Over” by E. E. King
“Song in a Sundress” by Darren Speegle
“Weighing In” by Cynthia Ward
“Reliving the Past” by Michael Haynes
“The Long Haul” by Leigh M. Lane
“Dust Devils” by Mark Cassell
“Liminality” by Del Howison (reprint, not reviewed)
“The Gardener” by Gene O’Neill
“Condo by the Lake” by Jeff Cercone
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