Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Reading Rumble Round 3

Lin Carter was best known as a fantasy editor, but was also a prolific name in the pulp revival scene of the late 60s through the 70s. Much of his work is in print as ebooks, available at Amazon 

Bibliography at ISFDB  


The Devious Lady by John Kobler
Detective Fiction Weekly v106 n03 11/7/1936

True crime story of a spinster who falls in love with a doctor, tries to kill his wife with poison candy, then contrives to poison the stock of the confectioners to cover it up.


The Madness Out of Time by Lin Carter
Crypt of Cthulhu #39, 1986

Written from the perspective of Abdul Alhazred, the mad Arab author of the Necronomicon. Not sure if this is supposed to be a story or what was happening, just a lot of old timey talk name checking every Lovecraft proper noun with an apostrophe.


Huitzilopochtli by Joe R. Lansdale
Skullduggery June 1980

A couple in a cabin and a tale about human sacrifice to an ancient idol.

Collected in A Little Green Book of Monster Stories available from Amazon 


Lin doesn't even make it through the ropes, but Lansdale and Kobler stay in the ring.

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