A Black Spectre Adventure “GOOD-NIGHT, all!†Karil Grantham called out to the last of her guests as they left for the night. She locked the door securely, then by force of habit, checked it again to make certain it was bolted tight. […]
A Black Spectre Adventure LITTLE Ricky Bartholomew sat poised on the edge of his cushioned seat high in the balcony of the ornate Orpheum Theater, his gaze transfixed on the action that took place on the stage far below him. He didn’t […]
A Tom Miller, Hollywood Newshawk Adventure I aimed my bucket with all horses blazing towards UBC radio at the corner of Sunset and Vine. Didn’t let off the gas until I slammed to a stop. The skid was heard two blocks away. […]
A Black Spectre Adventure Note: This story follows the events of “The Undressed Widow.” CHARLIE “Cherry Nose†Caifano had been cooped up for the past three days in the hotel room where he lived in the lower South Side of Terminal City. […]
A Black Spectre Adventure JULIA DAVENPORT walked quietly through the large, Greco-Roman-styled Lakeview Heights mansion she shared with her husband, the baby, and their small cadre of servants. She never liked being alone, and even though the servants were there, she certainly […]
A Black Spectre Adventure IT HAD been a long day for Albert Johnson, but he wasn’t The least bit anxious to get home from his job as art editor for Thrilling Fables Magazine. He was a small, soft-spoken, bespectacled man – the […]
A Black Spectre Adventure JULIUS KENNELLY took a long, final puff on his cigar while lounging on the firm, dark leather couch in his ornately wood-paneled office. It had been another good day, among what seemed lately to be an endless stream […]
A Black Spectre Adventure OSCAR TRAVERS grabbed another shot from the bar in his anvil-like fist and tossed it back like a glass of water. His body was steeled from years of working on the docks, and now, thanks to a combination […]
A Black Spectre Adventure BRENT GREGOR had long dreaded Halloween. The holiday, if one could call it that, brought nothing but old, very painful memories of that night so long ago. The night that he never wanted to remember, but could never, […]
BORN into a wealthy family, young Brent Gregor’s life was shattered one fateful Halloween night when an intruder’s bullets killed his father, put his mother in an asylum, and left him in a wheelchair. Young Brent became a brooding recluse locked away, […]