Tag: Ray Palmer

• A Shaver Mystery Mystery

  Two things we appreciate here at Bill Ectric’s Place are literary research and the Richard Shaver Mystery, so here’s a fun article by Marq Jonz, aka Mark Jones, from his Dero-influenced blog, The Abandondero. Excerpt: The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (isfdb.com) lists “Return of a Demon” as Richard S. Shaver’s first published story.  Fantastic Adventures published…

  Bill Ectric

  December 7, 2012

  dero, Fantastic Adventures, Mark Jones, Marq Jonz, Ray Palmer, Return of a Demon, Richard Sharpe Shaver, Richard Shaver, Science Fiction, The Abandondero, Ziff-Davis

• Enter Shavertron

  Some of you know I like to lose myself in arcane archives, looking for unexplained mysteries and secret histories. Enter Shavertron, a website created by Richard Toronto, and a major influence on my novel-in-progress, Tamper. The following is a direct quote from one of Mr. Toronto’s many editorials: The original Shavertron was a fanzine devoted…

  Bill Ectric

  March 20, 2009

  Amazing Stories, archives, Bill Bliss, dero, Doug Skinner, fanzine, fringe, Gene Steinberg, Jim Pobst, Mary Martin, middle earth, Pulp Magazines, Ray Palmer, research, Richard Shaver, Science Fiction, Shavertron, Surrealism, Tamper, The Shaver Mystery, UFOs