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Weird menace is a subgenre of horror fiction and detective fiction that was popular in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and early 1940s. The weird menace pulps, also known as shudder pulps , generally featured stories in which the hero was pitted against sadistic villains, with graphic scenes of torture and brutality.
Eerie Mysteries was an American weird menace pulp magazine that published four issues in 1938 and 1939. [1] This was Ace Magazines' third weird menace pulp, and it was no more successful than its predecessors, Ace Mystery and Eerie Stories.
Windom Wayne Robbins (July 22, 1914 – January 18, 1958) was an American author of horror fiction and weird menace. Such stories often dealt with standard themes required by the publisher; those involving "Inescapable Doom" were supplied by Donald Dale (Mary Dale Buckner). Mindret Lord handled the "Woman Without Volition".
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These lasted until the end of the decade, but despite the name there was little overlap in subject matter between them and Weird Tales: the stories in the weird menace magazines appeared to be based on occult or supernatural events, but at the end of the tale the mystery was always revealed to have a logical explanation. [116]
Other pulp stories appeared under the pen name Harrison Storm, but he no longer used this pseudonym after 1943. Initially Fischer became known as a purveyor of stories within the "weird menace" and "defective detective" subgenres, the latter being detectives with distinctive physical flaws.
There was a brief return to weird menace stories, after which more ordinary detective stories filled the magazine until it ceased publication in 1950. Most of the stories in Dime Mystery were considered low-quality pulp fiction by critics, but some well-known authors also appeared in the magazine, including Edgar Wallace , Ray Bradbury ...
fantasy, horror, detective, adventure, science fiction, weird menace, aviation Burks's novelette "The Invading Horde" was the cover story in the November 1927 Weird Tales . Burks's "The Place of the Pythons" was the cover story in the debut issue of Strange Tales in 1931.