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The Chicago Newspaper Scene and the Origins of 10 Story Book

According to a 1906 overview of the history of fiction-focused periodical publishing in Chicago, the rise of Chicago-based literary story papers such as the Chicago Ledger and the Saturday Blade was fuelled in part by the rise of mail-order catalogue-based retail giants in that city and their advertising needs.


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Bleeding Cool News · The Chicago Newspaper Scene and the Origins of 10 Story BookBy Mark Seifert

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Crazy Pulp Magazine predicts an impossible & ridiculous future for the United States of America!!! 'In the future, starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the in and the in —in presidential and other statewide elections. By 2024, the Republican Party became socially toxic and Fascist, their symbol was a skull and crossbones against a black star.'

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It is teribble what is happening in NewYork – they love me in New York look whats happening to the Mayor so sad railroaded like me no justice terrible the termites are so big they’re eating the city it made headlines.
No one has seen such big termites. I saw it online in the news REALLY BIG!!!

Absurdist Tuesday: They’re Eating the Pirates!!

They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs!!!

NOW THEY”RE” COOKING THE PIRATES!!!! NEXT THEY WILL BE COOKING OTHER LEGITIMATE BUSNISSES PEOPLE LIKE ME – AND ME AND YOU TOO!!

Lancelot Biggs cooks a pirate by Nelson S. Bond (Fantastic Adventures February 1940)

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Project GutenbergLancelot Biggs cooks a pirate by Nelson S. BondFree kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

(December 20, 1918 – January 28, 1990) was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Of Irish ancestry, he was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and he lived most of his life in New Haven, Connecticut, and worked as an Acquisitions Assistant at the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University for over 40 years.

Brennan published several hundred short stories (estimates range between four and five hundred), two novellas and reputedly thousands of poems.

His stories appeared in over 200 anthologies and have been translated into German, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish.
He was an early bibliographer of the work of .

As a fiction writer, Brennan started out writing westerns stories for the , then switched to for in 1952. He began publishing his own magazine, Macabre, which ran from 1957 to 1976. Several of his short story collections concern an named in the vein of and 's John Silence.

Brennan's Short Story Anthology, Scream at Midnight, and his brief H. P. Lovecraft evaluation now available online.

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