Tag: research

• Hidden Wadsworth Camp

  See more hidden room images at A Pretty Book. Moving right along with my Wadsworth Camp research, I just found out that Camp’s The Abandoned Room was originally as The Secret Room Murders under the pseudonym Tory Hageman. I don’t think Amazon.com will mind if I quote them directly: Tory Hageman was a house pseudonym used…

  Bill Ectric

  December 22, 2012

  Charles Wadsworth Camp, Grates River Printing Company, mystery, pseudonyms, research, The Secret Room Murders, Tory Hageman, Wadsworth Camp

• 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

• Lugosi Shines Again

  From Cult Movie Press, here is the introduction to Vampire Over London by Frank Dello Stritto and Andi Brooks: “In 1931, Bela Lugosi became world famous playing Count Dracula in the now classic film.  He became forever linked to his great portrayal, and stereotyped as a movie monster and mad doctor.  He would never escape…

  Bill Ectric

  March 11, 2009

  Andi Brooks, archives, Bela Lugosi, Cult Movie Press, Frank Dello Stritto, research, Vampire Over London