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Was the Son of the Black Dahlia Murderer in Weird Tales?
Michael P. HodelAuthor, Essayist, Editor, Radio HostBorn July 12, 1939Died May 6, 1986Who killed Elizabeth Short has been a mystery for nearly seventy years. One of the suspects was Dr. George Hill...
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Surrealism on the Cover of Weird Tales
In writing about surrealism, I have realized that Weird Tales had a couple of surrealistic covers. Those two things don't necessarily go together. Surrealism was an avant-garde movement, whereas Weird...
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Michael Labonski (1907?-?)
Factory Worker, ArtistBorn 1907? Pennsylvania?Died ?Michael Labonski is an artist about whom little is known, including his dates and places of birth and death. He may have been born in 1907 in...
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Weird Tales Features-Weirdisms
"Weirdisms" was a regular feature inĀ Weird Tales for four years, from July 1947 to July 1951. Lee Brown Coye (1907-1981) was the artist on all seventeen installments (assuming there was not more than...
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Evelyn Crosby MichelPossiblyĀ Evelyn Marion MichelWriterBorn ca. 1911? July 1925Evelyn Crosby Michel, like Michael Labonski, was an associate of artist Lee Brown Coye. And, like Labonski, she presents a...
View ArticleWeirdisms in the Bellerophon Weird Tales
Steven WardWriter and/or ArtistBorn ?"Weirdisms" was in Weird Tales from July 1947 to July 1951 and came to an end when Lee Brown Coye moved on to other artistic endeavors (or when the magazine lost...
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Science Fiction Authors in the Bellerophon Weird Tales-Part One
Recently I wrote about Michael P. Hodel (1939-1986), who contributed to the first of two issues of Weird Tales put out by The Bellerophon Network of California in 1984-1985. In an entry of August 17,...
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Science Fiction Authors in the Bellerophon Weird Tales-Part Two
Stephen KingBorn September 21, 1947, Portland, MaineFor Weird Tales"Beachworld" (short story, Fall 1984)Stephen King is a prolific, award-winning, and very successful author of more than fifty novels,...
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Science Fiction Authors in the Bellerophon Weird Tales-Part Three
Brinke StevensCharlene Elizabeth BrinkmanBorn September 20, 1954, San Diego, CaliforniaFor Weird Tales"The Pandora Principle" with A.E. van Vogt (serial, Fall 1984)If Brinke Stevens were not a real...
View ArticleLeRoy Ernest Fess (1896-1958)
Poet, Author, Journalist, HobbyistBorn September 20, 1896, Darien, New YorkDied April 9, 1958LeRoy Ernest Fess was born on September 20, 1896, in Darien, a small town in western New York State. As a...
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Change of Seasons
Ā Ā Ā "One has, for some time, seen this coming, as inevitably as the change of seasons . . . ."* * *Ā Ā Ā "We are presented with a moral dilemma of some niceness. On the one hand, it is our duty to our...
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Don't Mind the Explosions
Every terrorist attack is followed by predictable statements of "This is a wakeup call" or "This time it's different" or "This means war." And in the aftermath of every attack, we return quickly to...
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Leslie Gordon Barnard (1890-1961)
Author, EditorBorn 1890, MontrĆ©al,Ā QuĆ©bec, CanadaDied October 28, 1961, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaLeslie Gordon Barnard was a prolific author of short stories from the pulp days of 1920 to the era of...
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Wilford Allen (1897-1965)
Author, NewspapermanBorn May 16, 1897DiedĀ April 10, 1965Printer's ink ran in the veins of Wilford C. Allen, Jr. His father and two uncles were in the newspaper business. He followed them, even while...
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A Crisis of Nihilism
The events of last week have me thinking again about our current situation and how it relates to and was foretold by people in the past. I'll begin with an aside that really isn't an aside and actually...
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Stanley S. Schnetzler (1893-1955)
U.S. Navy Man, Author, Civic Worker, City CouncilmanBorn September 14, 1893, OhioDied August 3, 1955, Corona Naval Hospital, Norco, CaliforniaStanley Stolz Schnetzler was born on September 14, 1893, in...
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Verne Chute (1917-1986)
Aka Dustin C. ScottAuthorBorn 1917, near San Francisco, CaliforniaDied October 1, 1986, Sun City, ArizonaVerne Chute was born in 1917 near San Francisco. He was a prolific author of crime fiction,...
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Rex Dolphin (1915-1990)
Reginald Charles DolphinAka Peter Saxon, Desmond ReidAuthor, AccountantBorn March 15, 1915, Pershore, Worcestershire, EnglandDied February 1990Reginald Charles Dolphin, who wrote under the name Rex...
View ArticleFire or Ice?
In writing this blog, I am working with the idea that weird fiction and fantasy are genres about the past, while science fiction is a genre about the future. Weird fiction and fantasy are, I think,...
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John Murray Reynolds (1900-1993)
Author, Shipping Executive, Naval OfficerBorn 1900, New York, New YorkDied July 6, 1993, Deerfield Beach, FloridaJohn Murray "Jack" Reynolds is an example of a man who lived in the upper levels of...
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