CONTENTS NEW RELEASES.........................................................1 LETTERS .....................................................................1 FILLERS........................................................................2 PULPCON 28................................................................3 SEPT. 1999 $1.00 Month or $12.00 yr COMING ATTRACTIONS.........................................6 CANADIAN & OVERSEAS RATES: ADS...............................................................................8 FADING SHADOWS $1.50 Month 504 E. MORRIS ST AD RATES - Full Page- $15 SEYMOUR, TX 76380 ½ page $8 - ¼ page $5 AD DEADLINE IS THE 15TH OF EACH MONTH #113 The Evils” by L.L. Stewart, “Time Spent” by Gary Stoker, NEW RELEASES “Aboard The Wings of Night” by Charles Gramlich, “Sally At The Laundromat” by Tom Condarcure, “Lucky Cat” by Ginger AGENTS OF THE SHADOW #7, $2.50 from Joseph Johnson, “Pirate” by Richard Reeve, and “Can See Them” by McCullough, 201 S. Elam Ave., Greensboro, NC 27403. I had J. Richard Reed. Order from FADING SHADOWS. to look over my back issues for pricing data and address, so I hope I have this correct. This issue contains a nice listing of DOUBLE DANGER TALES #31: Contains “The Merchant of Shadow radio titles, as well as lots of other information on The Doom” (Rockne Callahan) by Gene Girardier, “Thursday's Shadow. While Joseph was away on vacation, Albert Emery Child” (Dreadstone) by Maxentius Andor Scarlatti, and put together this issue, and did a very nice job of it. I think “Crimson Harvest” (Black Bat) by Therese Drippe and Tom four issue subs are available for $10.00. Nice artwork by Johnson. Order from FADING SHADOWS. Kaluta and others. A good issue! TALES Of THE SECRET SERVICE #1: $8.00 from Wild Cat THE BRONZE GAZETTE, June 1999. $6.00, from Green Books, 17803 Superior St. #204, Northbridge, CA 91325. One Eagle Publications, 2900 Standiford Ave., Suite #136, of Ron Hanna's new publications, Tales of the Secret Service Modesto, CA 95350. $18.00 for three issue subscription. This reprints four King Brady dime novel detective stories from issue covers the 1934 Doc Savage movie, with several articles November 24, 1916; March 9, 1917, March 1, 1918; and April and numerous photos of Norman Dent and Ron Ely. Also 5, 1918. I've never been able to read dime novels, mainly contains some information on the new Doc Savage novel because they were so dated. However, the genre has many running on the Internet, “The Bleeding Sun”. followers, and these reprinted stories meet the readers desire to relive those glorious days of the turn of the century New York. BEHIND THE MASK #47, 48 & 49 are still available. See Exciting stories when automobiles and airplanes were new, the last issue for contents. Order from FADING SHADOWS, 504 streets were lighted by gaslights, and the world was seen in a E. Morris St., Seymour, TX 76380. $6.30 per issue, post paid, slower pace. These are fun little stories, and whether you are a for one book, or $18.00 post paid for all three books. All fan of dime novels or not, you will enjoy the King Brady FADING SHADOWS publications are priced the same. detective series. ACTION ADVENTURE STORIES #57 & 58. #57 contains “THE LOST CONTINENT” by Edgar Rice Burroughs: $10.00 Captain Combat in “The Sky Beast of Berlin” (#1), by Barry from Wild Cat Books, 17803 Superior St, #204, Northbridge, Barton. #58 contains Secret Agent X in “The Murder Brain” CA 91325. This is a special edition of this fantastic ERB by Brant House (G. T. Fleming-Roberts), plus a couple story, printed in Ron Hanna’s new publishing house, ERB surprises to fill out the issue. Order from FADING remains one of our favorite authors, and if the reader is looking SHADOWS. for an exciting, action-packed romantic adventure, you will thrill to this story by Burroughs. CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES #52: Contains “The Black Stone” by Gary Every, “Lucky Seven” by Paul Fornatar, LETTERS “Caves By The Sea” by Gerard Houarner, “Guard Dog” by Joy Smith, “Sam Goes To A Wedding” by Dickson Thorpe, “Luck Dear Tom & Ginger, And Swords” by Charles Gramlich, “Angel Of The Bear Lodge Wow! It's been another year for “Echoes”. Mountains” by Aaron B. Larson, “A Changed Man” by Sorry to see the UFO convention did not work out. My Richard Reeve, “Those They Mourn” by Edward O'Brien, “Sea wife and I went through Roswell a few years back. I have friends Flow” by Geoff Jackson, and “The White Feather” by Nick that grew up in Roswell. They never knew about the UFO Carr. Order from FADING SHADOWS. convention until moving to Austin. (MIKE COPPO-401 N. RAINBOW RANCH RD.- STARTLING SCIENCE STORIES #26: Contains “Asia and WIMBERLEY, TX 78676) 1 Dear Tom & Ginger, California stone quarry contracted in 1851 to provide Enclosed is a check in the amount of $12.00 with which I housing for convicts in return for their labor in the quarry. will gladly renew my subscription to the “Echoes” For security reasons, they housed the prisoners aboard a Newsletter for another year. I am pleased that you continue ship, too far out at sea for anyone to swim to freedom. It was to produce “Echoes” in this format. It contains a wealth of crowded and unpleasant but after a year it was replaced by a information, and I always look forward to the next issue. stone cell house built on Point San Quentin, on the very spot Keep up the outstanding work. (ALBERT EMERY-4026 that would later be the site of the famous penitentiary. BOUNCE DO.-ORLANDO, FL 32812) THE END WHY I READ FILLERS - THOSE OTHER ARGONOTES Dear Tom & Ginger, by Everett Lange The latest “Echoes” just arrived and, as usual, I stopped everything and read it from cover to cover. Great stuff. Got Any Argosy fan knows that “Argonotes” was the long a kick out of the account of your trip to Roswell, and of running feature that told about upcoming stones. But Argosy course, I devoured everything in Coming Attractions. ran fillers and they’re a kind of Argonotes, too. Take for All goes well here, even my new Pumpkin novel doesn't instance the issue of June 27, 1936. seem to be available in the U.S. yet. Pumpkin's head man, On page 95, Charles Dorman tells us about Leslie A. David Marshall, sent me some copies a few days ago, and it's Peltier, an amateur astronomer considered one of the best in a handsome book with a really creepy jacket. Amazon seems the world, whose newly discovered comet would, later that to have it on the Internet. I guess it will turn up in Barnes & year, be the first one visible from the earth since 1927. Noble and elsewhere, too. And, hey, Tom Roberts is doing a There's another excursion into science on page 114, by J. terrific job with his Black Dog Books. Lots of great pulp Wentworth Tilden. Did you know that fishing worms can't reprints! see red? That's right, according to Tilden. So the next time Upcoming are a new Hugh Cave novel, “The Dawning” you go out at night to hunt up bait for your early morning from Leisure, a collection of my Peter Kane Dime Detective fishing trip, use a flashlight with a red filter. It won't scare tales, “Bottled in Blonde” from Fedogan & Bremer, and more them away! Black Dog reprints. Along with new short stuff in Cemetery THE END Dance, Weird Tales, and a bunch of anthologies. WHY I READ FILLERS - A DOLLAR FOR YOUR (HUGH B. CAVE-437 THOMAS ST-SEBASTIAN, FL, THOUGHTS 32958) by Everett Lange Dear Tom & Ginger, A filler on page 37 of Top-Notch for June 10, 1914 offers On July 7th and today (August 1st), I sent letters to this explanation for the evolution of the dollar mark ($) as BLACK DOG BOOKS asking for information on how and used for American money. when purchase of their reprints can be made. I have had no Early Spanish colonists abbreviated the word “pesos” - in reply to the July letter. And I did include an SASE to those days equivalent to a dollar according to the story - as facilitate a reply. Now, I realize that you certainly are not “ps”. After a time the p was written over the s and this slowly involved or responsible for reprints of old pulps issued by evolved into today's familiar $. The change was made about BLACK DOG BOOKS, but I wonder if you can shed any 1775 by English-Americans who came into business contact light on BDB's non-response. Seems to me BDB ought to be with Spanish Americans. It first appeared in print in 1797. interested in making sales - as reported in ECHOES. (Robert THE END DeRosicr,-28 Westminster Do.-West Hartford, CT 06107) Robert, WHY I READ FILLERS - A RAILROAD GHOST STORY some times publishers do not like to make personal by Everett Lange responses, relying on passing out the information when their books become available to a wider audience. Although, we Here’s a ghost story found in a filler in the September think an SASE should be enough to obtain the information 1934 Railroad Stories, a personal experience related by A. T. you seek, you may have to wait until books are available for Wilkins an engineer on a British line. the sales release. Watch for this information in future While passing through a long tunnel on route to columns in ECHOES. Manchester, Wilkins' attention was called by his fireman to a strange apparition outside the train. The shadow of a figure WHY I READ FILLERS - THE HELL BOAT PRISON with moving arms was seen on the wall of the tunnel.