Asimov’s, May/June 2017
“On the Ship” by Leah Cypess
Inner Sanctum (1941-52) aired “Death is a Joker” on June 10, 1944. While Old Time Radio historians have given their best guesses that there were 500+ episodes produced, an exact figure remains elusive, with only 140 believed to be in circulation (i.e. known to exist at this time) due mostly through the efforts of the …
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Creeps by Night aired “The Walking Dead” on May 16, 1944 as its 13th episode. The show lasted a brief six months, from February 15-August 15, 1944 and produced only 23 episodes, of which only 6 or 7 are thought to have survived. Boris Karloff was the host and starred in the first 12, but …
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Fiction River #22: No Humans Allowed
Edited by John Helfers
(WMG Publishing, April 2017, pb, 281 pp.)
Strange Horizons, May 8, 2017
Le lundi de la matraque (Nightstick Monday) by Claire Humphrey
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Rhonda Parrish
(World Weaver Press, July 18, 2017, pb, 319 pp.)
Escape (1947-54) aired “The Fugitive” on August 15, 1948. It first appeared in the December 1923 issue of Tip Top Stories, the relatively short-lived magazine’s first issue. Written by supernatural horror and mystery writer Vincent Starrett (1886-1974), this story was reprinted in his first collection Coffins for Two (Covici-McGee Company, 1924, cover lower left). Starrett …
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