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| The Midnight Clear [8 pages, 231K] |
Texas Western January, 1953 |
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The Sheriff Wore His Heart Under His Badge. Rock Bradden, sheriff, is after a gang who robbed the local bank. [2013-07-13]
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| Achmed Abdullah | |||
| The Charmed Life [40 pages, 310K] |
All-Story September 22, 1917 |
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A delightful adventure in Calcutta as a respectable American throws all overboard as he pursues the native girl he has fallen in love with.
[2004-08-21]
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| Pro Patria [8 pages, 169K] |
People's Favorite Magazine December 10, 1918 |
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One of our most unusual stories. An American pol has been put out to pasture in Outer Mongolia. WWI is underway and Germany is making her presence felt among the Buddhists. Our hero comes up with a shocking way to stunt their progress. More back story than story, but interesting nevertheless. [2006-06-24]
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| Fear [5 pages, 104K] |
Detective Story Magazine February 4, 1919 |
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Achmed Abdullah is yet another prolific author who I had never read before. Fear is a good story, but it seems misplaced in Detective Story. It would have been much more at home in Weird Tales! (Too bad that magazine didn't come along until a few years later). [2002-04-04]
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| Himself to Himself Enough [6 pages, 69K] |
All-Story Weekly March 15, 1919 |
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A retired Chinese businessman in the U.S. determines not to let anything disturb the even tenor of his days. He did a deliberate, philosophic, constructive search - after peace, beauty, long life, and happiness. [2011-03-05]
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| The Incubus [6 pages, 180K] |
The Blue Book Magazine April 1920 |
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White man stranded in Africa on a canoe. Let's put it this way--the effect on his mental state is not wholesome. [2005-01-29]
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| The Mystery of the Talking Idols [12 pages, 263K] |
Triple-X May, 1929 |
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In this raw, vivid tale, an Arab trader ventures into Africa's Heart of Darkness to investigate the disappearance of the last three agents sent up-river. [2003-03-09]
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| Pell Street Blues [12 pages, 916K] |
The Blue Book Magazine March 1935 |
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An old hatred of China spans decades and continents to play itself out in New York's Chinatown. [2004-01-10]
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| Frank R. Adams | |||
| The Dame and Pythias [7 pages, 114K] |
All-Story Weekly Sept 2, 1916 |
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Two inseparable friends make the mistake of courting the same girl. They are more interested in convincing the girl that the other guy is the better choice for her. [2007-10-06]
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| Officer Nineteen's Last Case [8 pages, 102K] |
All-Story Weekly January 1, 1916 |
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Miss Dorothy Webster, as Probation Officer No. 19 of the Court of Domestic Relations, took her job very seriously. [2007-05-05]
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| There Are No Crooks [10 pages, 137K] |
Munsey's Magazine November, 1921 |
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The story has a lot of cool things in it. Couldn't resist the early SF atmosphere. [2002-03-28]
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| Minnie Barbour Adams | |||
| A Gentle Knave [5 pages, 128K] |
All-Story March, 1914 |
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An inept, first time burglar breaks into a supposedly empty house, only to find a strange man already resident who welcomes him as a friend. [2005-12-17]
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| Malcolm R. Afford | |||
| The Gland Men of the Island [19 pages, 186K] |
Wonder Stories January 1931 |
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Three white men wash up on an island where a Chinese
scientist has been working to create an invincible army by transplanting glands from humans into gorillas.
[2018-02-10]
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| Helen Ahern | |||
| A Broadway Love Song [11 pages, 406K] |
Thrilling Love August 1934 |
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Love and art collide in this tale of Tin Pan Alley and the Great White Way. [2006-01-16]
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| Ward Ainsworth | |||
| Before Election [7 pages, 390K] |
Private Detective Stories August 1940 |
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The girl Custer had been hired to guard was killed almost
under his very eyes. On top of that, Custer had withheld
vital facts from the police. Now, unless he could find that
other girl, Custer was behind the eight ball.
[2005-02-19]
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| Harley S. Aldinger | |||
| The Green Intelligence [10 pages, 309K] |
Science Wonder Stories November, 1929 |
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The Markhams are on their mountaintop investigating the other-worldly green intelligence. [2018-03-24]
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| W. Alexander | |||
| New Stomachs for Old [6 pages, 83K] |
Amazing Stories February, 1927 |
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Colonel Seymore has stomach problems, and his doctor recommends a stomach transplant. There are unfortunate consequences from the transplant, however. [2015-07-11]
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| The Fighting Heart [6 pages, 84K] |
Amazing Stories February 1928 |
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Tom Wilson was a man of forty in good health, with an inferiority complex so strongly developed, that he was forever cringing and debasing himself before people. After he inherited money, he paid a doctor to transplant a fighting man's heart into him to change his personality. [2016-05-14]
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| Alys Allen | |||
| The Raggle-Taggle Gypsy [7 pages, 259K] |
Cupid's Diary July 11, 1928 |
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Tighten your belts, it's love at first sight! [2006-03-18]
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| Charles R. Allen | |||
| The House of Weird Sleep [6 pages, 327K] |
Spicy-Adventure Stories January, 1935 |
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Generic spicy story from a no name (?) author. [2003-05-25]
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| Jefferson Ames | |||
| Girl on the Torture Wheel [7 pages, 251K] |
Saucy Movie Tales 1934? |
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This one could be subtitled, "The Rude Detective," equally obnoxious with his hands as with his mouth. A fun read, more for the language than the story. [2002-10-06]
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| Don Amour | |||
| Naughty Nightmares [6 pages, 302K] |
Screen Scandals August, 1936 |
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A couple of lusting 20-somethings can't get each other out of their dreams. But will they ever get it together in the waking world? [2003-09-20]
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| Alan Anderson | |||
| High Treason [11 pages, 331K] |
Spicy Detective Stories September, 1936 |
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Why should the girl put on a strip act in her hotel window? Bruce wondered. Women and naval secrets, trick messages and seaplanes, all these and more were to clutter up his days because he was curious. [2009-08-15]
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| George B. Anderson | |||
| The Case of The Squealing Duck [16 pages, 564K] |
Mammoth Detective July 1947 |
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Danny Dole tried to put them in the aisles as a comedian, but the Crime File of Flamond said something about murder - and it wasn't funny... [2007-08-25]
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| Lars Anderson | |||
| The Yellow Curse [7 pages, 318K] |
Thrilling Mystery April 1936 |
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A mad scientist with a strange obsession
for the color yellow... [2003-11-15]
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