tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post1953105257489919388..comments2024-03-27T10:50:17.270-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Short Stories, October 10, 1930James Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-32610007379807746942016-07-23T12:45:47.249-05:002016-07-23T12:45:47.249-05:00Foster-Harris later became a professor of writing ...Foster-Harris later became a professor of writing at the University of Oklahoma. He held that post until at least the mid-1970's. He had a correspondence course that used his own book, BASIC PATTERNS OF PLOT as one of the texts.Erwin-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08077550093912328373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-61745055301367952282016-07-17T17:49:16.327-05:002016-07-17T17:49:16.327-05:00Concerning the original cover painting, it's v...Concerning the original cover painting, it's very possible that it does not exist. Most paintings back then were considered to be of very little value and most were destroyed or lost over the years. At present I have no cover paintings from SHORT STORIES but I have had a couple in the past. Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-24133768261968123442016-07-17T16:06:17.776-05:002016-07-17T16:06:17.776-05:00Nice the way the red sun (circle) often seen on th...Nice the way the red sun (circle) often seen on these covers is carried around on the clown's costume and then to his face makeup. I wonder who owns the original of that one?Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-41077340877385477022016-07-17T12:38:56.838-05:002016-07-17T12:38:56.838-05:00I imagine most clown-with-gun covers can be found ...I imagine most clown-with-gun covers can be found in <i>Detective Story</i> when Johnston McCulley's Crimson Clown was running amok, but circus and carnival folk were considered rough customers back then so who knows what else may turn up.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-65849074728224323002016-07-17T11:41:54.155-05:002016-07-17T11:41:54.155-05:00SHORT STORIES existed from 1890 to around 1959. It...SHORT STORIES existed from 1890 to around 1959. It became a quality pulp when Doubleday, Page took over in the teens. Prior to that it mainly reprinted literary fiction. I used to have most of these early copies but I traded them off because of the reprint policy. For almost 3 decades, 1921 to 1949, it came out every two weeks like clockwork and published excellent general fiction. It used many of the same authors that were being published in the best general fiction pulps as James mentions above: ADVENTURE, ARGOSY, and BLUE BOOK.<br /><br />My present set is complete from around 1924 to the late 1950's and covers a good part of one of the walls in my pulp room. Ed Hulse did an excellent two part article on the magazine in BLOOD n THUNDER. He covered just about all the major authors during the 1920's and 1930's. He didn't discuss the 1940's but it was still a good magazine during that period. <br /><br />SHORT STORIES also had two quality companions: FRONTIER STORIES during the 1920's and WEST during 1926-1934. I mention dates because these two magazines suffered a decline in quality when Doubleday sold them. Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-66764738262811587522016-07-17T09:01:16.279-05:002016-07-17T09:01:16.279-05:00Yeah, I think SHORT STORIES was considered one of ...Yeah, I think SHORT STORIES was considered one of the top pulps, along with ADVENTURE, ARGOSY, and BLUE BOOK.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-42160438553258374352016-07-17T08:30:53.756-05:002016-07-17T08:30:53.756-05:00Wasn't Short Stories considered one of the hig...Wasn't Short Stories considered one of the high end, less disreputable in the eyes of the literarti pulps? I've never read it & don't own any copies, but it sounds like something I would enjoy.Adventuresfantastichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16907562789681407416noreply@blogger.com