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Strange Fantasy [comic]
US Comic (1952-1954). 14 issues. Farrell Comics Inc. Artists include the Iger Shop and Bob Webb. Script writers include Bruce Hamilton and the Iger Shop. 36 pages. Usually 4 long strips and a 2-page text story per issue. / Though the covers of #1 and #2 showed Mad Scientists in their laboratories, early issues consisted of fairly traditional Horror stories, many with supernatural elements – ...
Rådström, Pär
(1925-1963) Swedish author, essayist and journalist. His father was a novelist, screenwriter and editor of a short story Magazine; at 17 Rådström went to work as a journalist, and two years later began to write about jazz for the new daily tabloid newspaper Expressen. After the end of World War Two, he left Sweden to travel and spent much of the following decade abroad while producing innumerable articles, reviews, ...
Rambo, Cat
(1963- ) US editor, journalist and author, co-editor of Fantasy Magazine from 2007 to 2011; she may have began to publish work of genre interest with "Three Sons" in an unidentified 2001 magazine; this story, along with others, was included in The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories (coll 2007 chap) with Jeff VanderMeer, each author contributing about half the contents of the volume. Further short fiction has been ...
Jewish Mexican Literary Review, The
Canadian-based Online Magazine published between 2016-2018. Three issues were released. As created and edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar, the concept for the magazine began as a joke, based on an attempt to find the most literary – and thus most respectable – name for a publication. During its short but distinguished run it published several notable names, ...
Kennedy, James
(1973- ) US software engineer and author whose first novel, The Order of Odd-Fish (2008), is a Young Adult fantasy whose orphan protagonist begins to come of age through a Fantastic Journey through an exorbitant Wonderland expectedly in search of her true nature, which she finds. Kennedy is of interest for his second novel, Dare to Know (2021), in which the ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...