Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

The Witch’s Tale — “The Hairy Monster”

Posted byDave Truesdale

The Witch’s Tale (1931-38) aired “The Hairy Monster” on September 26, 1932, though there is doubt about the precise date, many of the episodes being detroyed by the show’s creator Alonzo Deen Cole (1897-1971) who believed them to be of no commercial value. A scant 54 episodes are known to still exist of the estimated …

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Weirdbook #31, September 2015

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Weirdbook #31, September 2015

“Chivaine” by John R. Fultz

“Give Me the Daggers” by Adrian Cole
“The Music of Bleak Entrainment” by Gary A. Braunbeck
“Into the Mountains with Mother Old Growth” by Christian Riley
“The Grimlorn Under the Mountain” by James Aquilone
“Dolls” by Paul Dale Anderson
“Gut Punch” by Jason A. Wyckoff
“Educational Upgrade” by Bret McCormick
“Boxes of Dead Children” by Darrell Schweitzer
“The Forgotten” by D.C. Lozar
“Coffee with Dad’s Ghost” Jessica Amanda Salmonson
“Missed it by That Much” by Gregg Chamberlain
“A Clockwork Muse” by Erica Ruppert
“The Rookery” by Kurt Newton
“Wolf of Hunger, Wolf of Shame” by J. T. Glover
“Zucchini Season” by Janet Harriett
“The Jewels that were Their Eyes” by Llanwyre Laish
“The Twins” by Kevin Strange
“Princess or Warrior?” by S.W. Lauden
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Suspense – “The Crisis of Dirk Diamond”

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Suspense (1942-1962) aired “The Crisis of Dirk Diamond” on October 18, 1959 as its 823rd episode out of  well over 900. Dirk Diamond is the hero of a long-running newspaper comic strip that for ten years has been wildly popular. Lately, however, the strip has taken a turn for the worse, with newspapers cancelling their …

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