On eBay the other day I bought several issues of a magazine
called SUSPENSE, "The High-Tension Magazine Inspired by the
CBS Radio and Television Program Series SUSPENSE." I looked
over the table of contents, an interesting combination of
categories: Mystery, Science Adventure, Dread Dilemma, The
Fantastic, The Macabre, and Criminals at Large. An
interesting group of writers, too: Fritz Leiber, Talmadge
Powell, H. L. Gold, A. E. Van Vogt, and Sir Arthur
Quiller-Couch (no, English majors, I'm not making that up),
among others. But what really caught my eye was a name at the
bottom of the contents page, the name of the associate
editor. N. R. DeMexico. Does this mean that the author of
MADMAN ON A DRUM was a real person? Or that Larry Shaw, one
man suspected of using the name as a pseudonym, also used it
for an editing job?
I await the definitive answer.
Bill Crider
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