I remember H. Edward Hunsburger from meeting him in New York
at the Mystery Writer of America's annual awards dinner and
associated cocktail parties. We were at about the same point
at the time--we both sold Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine a
couple of months apart-- and I remember him as a good guy and
a writer of some ability. As I recall (and my aging brain is
grinding gears to recall it), he didn't go by "Edward" or
"Harry" (behind the H) but I think he went by Ted. We may
have exchanged a letter or two but I haven't rooted around
for them yet.
The last time I remember running across him in print was in
the anthology NEW FRONTIERS VOLUME ONE edited by Martin H.
Greenberg and Bill Pronzini (TOR) 1990 where he had an
original story "The Pistoleer". That's five years past your
last known address so Martin might have something more
recent.
The name jogged an association with the old Mystery Monthly
magazine and going to my stacks I find that he had a story in
the November 1976 issue. Little noted at the time (or since),
Mystery Monthly was a good little magazine. November 1976 was
the sixth issue of the magazine to be published. In addition
to the Hunsburger story, it featured stories by George C.
Chesbro, Steven Utley (a regular then in SF mags), Michael
Avallone (with an Ed Noon story), Edward Y. Breese (a Johnny
Hawk story), Dennis Etchison, J.N. Williamson and Dennis
Hamilton, and Jon A. Jackson. Now that is a heck of a lineup
when you add in interesting book, television and movie
reviews and an interview with Derek Marlowe. That was well
worth the cover price of $1.00.
I was surprised by the Jon A. Jackson story as I had no
memory of it and I've admired Jackson for many years. If you
take nothing else away from this post, take this: READ JON
JACKSON.
Looking at the issues of Mystery Monthly again, the magazine
has been dead and buried for more than a quarter of a century
and I regret not being able to send somebody a fan letter
complimenting them on their magazine.
Richard Moore
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Ashley"
<mikeashley@c...> wrote:
>
> There are four authors (or their estates) I need to
contact as I
> want to reprint stories in an anthology. I have
their last known
> addresses via EQMM/AHMM, where their stuff appeared,
but they've
> moved on from there -- some of the address are
rather old. I was
> hoping someone might know their current whereabouts
- postal,
phone
> or e-mail will do. If so can you contact me off list
at
> maba14764@b...
>
> The authors are:
>
> William F. Smith last living in Garden Grove,
California in 1996
> (had mostly poems in EQMM in 1980s and a few stories
in AHMM up to
> 1997)
>
> William Krohn last address in New York in
1976
> (had story in EQMM in 1965 when just passed 18; born
in Texas. I
> wonder if this is Bill Krohn the film critic and
Hitchcock expert,
> but don't have his address to check)
>
> H. Edward Hunsburger last address in Minneapolis in
1985
> (had several stories in AHMM and elsewhere plus
several books
> including ghost written stuff)
>
> John Basye Price, probably long dead, as last known
address at
> Stanford University in 1926 where he was a zoologist
and
> ornithologist, but continued writing into the
1950s.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike Ashley
>
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