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Category: The Black Spectre

  • ArtsReviews Interview!

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    Last night I had the absolute pleasure of appearing on Art Sippo’s ArtsReview’s podcast, in which we talked about pulp, The Black Spectre, period TV shows, and the appendix!  

  • New Title: The Black Spectre: No Victory Without Scars

    New Title: The Black Spectre: No Victory Without Scars

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    Now available exclusively from Amazon: A crusading reporter out to prove her worth. A hero in denial about his. When a Mob Boss is gunned down by police, Daily Crusader reporter Vicky Rose is the only one who suspects he was unarmed. Desperate to justify her promotion to the crime beat, her search for the…

  • New Title: The Black Spectre: Ghosts in the Asylum!

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    Now available exclusively from Amazon: Reporter Vicky Rose wants desperately to move up from City Hall to the crime beat. When the Mayor of Terminal City is murdered one night in his office, she sees her chance. Even though it smells of a Mob hit, all evidence points to someone else. The only person who…

  • The Key to a Woman’s Heart

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    A Black Spectre Adventure SPRING was in the air. The time when men and women alike are consumed with thoughts of love and romance. The citizens of Terminal City all walked with an extra bounce in their step, a new twinkle in the eye. L’amour! Its spell was inescapable. For everyone except Charlie Hecht. Charlie…

  • Death is a Silent Intruder

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    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. Her mother was so worried about her moving into an apartment of her…

  • Of Black and Scarlet

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    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 care that he and his kind, careworn mother, Mrs. Estelle Bartholomew, were seated…

  • Invitation to Death

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    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. It had been that long since he’d received The Spectre’s mark – a…

  • The Gentleman Thief

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    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 felt alone when her husband wasn’t. They had planned to go out together…

  • The Undressed Widow

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    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 exact opposite of the kind that were featured in the monthly “pulp” magazine…

  • Conscience for Ransom

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    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 of good days. With the nation’s economy still struggling to recover, and the…