I like to think that if I'd been around during the pulp era, I could have written for LARIAT STORY MAGAZINE. This issue features another dynamic cover by Allen Anderson. Inside are stories by some top pros: William Heuman, W.T. Ballard, and Laurence Donovan, plus lesser-known but still prolific Al Storm, H. Frederic Young, and Costa Carousso. The lead novella is by William J. Hodgson, and the odd thing about that is that it's his only story listed in the Fictionmags Index. I'm not sure why a writer would get cover-featured with his first (and apparently only) story, but that happened some in the pulps. Or maybe Hodgson was actually a pseudonym for somebody else in that issue. Heuman, Ballard, and Donovan wrote a lot, under many different names. Likely we'll never know, but I always find these questions intriguing.
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These are intriguing mysteries. The people involved would be 100 yrs old these days, so you're right, this is lost to time (albeit fairly recently as history goes).
Were there stories/authors contained in pulps that were NOT listed on the cover? I've always assumed they filled the cover with whatever was contained in the issue.
Yeah, the majority of the stories weren't listed on the covers. Usually the better-known authors are the ones mentioned.
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