Author Archives: Dave Truesdale

Fantasy & Science Fiction — Mar./Apr. 2012

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Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2012

“Olfert’s Dapper Day” by Peter S. Beagle
“Twenty-two and You” by Michael Blumlein
“The Queen and the Cambion” by Richard Bowes
“Greed” by Albert A. Cowdrey
“Perfect Day” by C. S. Friedman
“Gnarly Times at the Nana’ite Beach” by KJ Kabza
“Demiurge” by Geoffrey A. Landis
“Electra” by Sean McMullen
“One Year of Fame” by Robert Reed
“Repairmen” by Tim Sullivan
“The Tortoise Grows Elate” by Steven Utley
“The Man Who Murdered Mozart” by Robert Walton and Barry N. Malzberg

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Favorite Story — The Phantom Rickshaw

Posted byDave Truesdale

Favorite Story (1946-49) aired Rudyard Kipling’s “The Phantom Rickshaw” on February 28, 1948. Along with “The Man Who Would Be King,” “The Phantom Rickshaw” appeared in Kipling’s 1888 collection The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales. “Rickshaw” takes place in British colonial India in  a town called Simla, the capital city of Himachal Pradesh (located …

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Inner Sanctum — Birdsong for a Murderer

Posted byDave Truesdale

The incomparable Boris Karloff (1887-1969) stars in this week’s Old Time Radio episode “Birdsong for a Murderer.” Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) aired it on June 22, 1952 near the end of its decade-plus run, which would end a few months later in October. By now, Karloff was famous for his role in Hollywood’s 1931 horror classic …

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