> From: "Brian Evankovich" <
brianevankovich@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Howard Browne and Mickey
Spillane
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if Browne's "Spillane" story
is lost to the ages,
> considering all the trouble that went with it.
Although I'd like
> to read it myself, as a Spillane fan and someone
familiar with Browne's
Paul
> Pine work, just to see how he pulled it off.
--Brian
Well, Brian, it's a pretty good pastiche. Here's a
sample:
"I felt my teeth cut into the inner surface of my cheek and
the salt taste of blood filled my mouth.
"Nekko slid out of his chair and jabbed the .32 against the
back of my neck. Ritter bent down until his face was inches
from mine. His breath was the reason they'd invented
chlorophyll.
"'Your name, you son of a bitch.'
"I spat a mouthful of blood squarely into his eyes."
That issue of Fantastic -- Nov-Dec., 1952 -- also has stories
by Richard Matheson, whose short bio says he was making
"fancy airplane parts out in Los Angeles" at the time, and
Cornell Woolrich ("The Moon of Montezuma"). In addition to
gathering a pretty good assortment of writers, Howard Browne
also used the same unnamed artist who provided Manhunt with
its pen sketches of authors. The story illustrations had that
Manhunt look, too. Cover is a magnificently garish
wrap-around of a blonde in a red peignoir being attacked by
little demons with sharp spears that are dripping blood from
a dead guy on the floor. A real beauty.
Dick Lochte
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