The Internet Old Time Radio Shows

The Internet Old Time Radio Show http://www.theiotrs.com has added The Ray Bradbury shows to the Thursday line up. The show will air three times during the 24-hour period, all times listed are Central. Come on over and listen. Be sure to check the rest of the week’s line up for other great shows.

The Mind Master

“The Mind Master” by Tom Johnson.  New York has a new hero. In a contemporary setting, thieves knock over an art gallery, stealing famous and valuable paintings, and at the same time hit a museum displaying a necklace once belonging to Queen Bathsheba given to her by King Solomon, its value beyond price. From the chaos rises a new hero, The Mind Master! With aides, the beautiful nightclub singer Kay Shannon, ex-heavyweight boxing champ Rocky Carver, and martial arts expert Jae Lee, the mysterious man in the fedora and black cloak unravels a deadly crime. But who is this mysterious crime-fighter? $.99 on Kindle at http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Master-Tom-Johnson-ebook/dp/B00E7FVX9G/ref=la_B008MM81CM_1_36?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421457278&sr=1-36 or available in “New Pulp Heroes” paperback for $15.00 post paid from Tom at 204 W. Custer St., Seymour, TX 76380. A lot of fun, and shows we can still have heroes today.

Mystery of The Matinee Murders

Mystery of the Matinee Murders is now available at Amazon.com in Kindle format.

In Matinee Murders, Republic Studio flack Curly Woods embarks on a public relations road trip that travels the length of California with western film heroes Hoot Gibson and Crash Corrigan, Radio drama thespians Orson Welles and Ray Collins, two lovely radio actresses, a voice impersonator, an announcer and a mute sound-effects specialist. The goal is to entertain at theater Saturday matinees and children’s hospital wards while promoting Republic’s latest serial, The Painted Stallion, and a potential radio mystery presentation, The Man of the Mist. Along the way, they encounter an unknown assassin who leaves a trail of victims killed by cobra venom, a doomed psychic medium who warns of death, and an underground base camp of Nazis who are attempting to build an army of the dead. Western film star Ken Maynard joins the entertainers in an attempt to save a theater full of young fans of the Three Mesquiteers from a fate worse than death. The Hollywood Cowboy Detectives know they must use all of their western skills to defeat an enemy so evil that the future of the life on Earth hangs in the balance - all the while, the unique entertainers must do everything possible to avoid their impulses to strangle each other.

Mystery of the Matinee Murders will soon be the third paperback in the series as (Vol. 1) Mystery at Movie Ranch and (Vol. 2) Mystery of the Arizona Dragon are currently available. Vol. 1 includes the short story Mystery of the Murdered Badman and Vol. 2 includes Mystery of the Stuntman’s Ghost.

The Hollywood Cowboy Detectives series honors the great western and adventure serial stars of silent and talking motion pictures. These stories are written and illustrated in the style of the classic pulps of the 1930s. 

Classic Pulp Fiction Stories

FADING SHADOWS entered the genre fiction magazines with CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES in June 1995. It became our longest running title lasting for 91 issues, and ending in December 2004, almost ten years as the leading new pulp magazine since the era of the pulps. The cover shown here is issue #24, from May 1997, with another great cover by Albert Roberts. The issue contains 7 short stories and part two of a serial. Authors are Chester Ingram (pseudonym of Ray Capella), John L. French, Nick Carr, Naomi Walker, Lida Broadhurst, T.J. Glenn, Michael Laramie, and Sean Danowski.

Double Danger Tales

In February 1997, FADING SHADOWS launched DOUBLE DANGER TALES, a genre magazine that lasted 63 issues, with approximately 40k words per issue. The intent was to move the new pulp characters to this title, and we aimed for two novelettes per issue. That didn’t come about, but we tried. The cover shown here is issue #7, featuring another great cover by Albert Roberts and his version of the Domino Lady. The issue contained one novelette, three short stories, and part one of a serial. The authors were Gene Girardier, Eric Turowski, Michael Robbins, Tom Johnson, and Maxentius Andor Scarlatti (Steve Mitchell using one of his pseudonyms).