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Masque Noir [January 2000] ed. Rod Marsden ($5.00, 56pp, A4, cover by GAK) 7 · Letters Unmasqued · The Readers · lc 11 · Reviews Unmasqued · Various · br 14 · Spotlight on Anatole Kudryavtzev · Anatole Flotsky · ar [Ref. Anatole Kudryavtzev] 15 · Haggis: The Thinking Man’s Buttock · Neil K. Henderson · hu 17 · The Process · Clinton Green · ss 19 · Two Holes of Madness · Rod Marsden · ss 22 · In the Valley of the Kings · Don Boyd · ss 27 · Cerberus · Michael Pendragon · pm 28 · In the Gutter · Mark McLaughlin · ss 29 · Pubic Hair on Your Brush · T. Anders Carson · pm 30 · Knights and Wizards · Rod Marsden · ss 36 · A Little Learning · Lyn McConchie · ss 38 · Coleman’s Angel [Alexander Nichols (The Midnight Sentinel)] · Jens H. Altmann · ss 41 · The Time of Vines · Joseph V. Danoski · pm 42 · X Marks the Spot · Jens H. Altmann · ar 44 · Steam Heat · Geoff Jackson · ss 47 · On Nanotechnology—or We Can Rebuild You Whole Sale · Don Boyd · ar 51 · Heather’s Guiding Light · Barbara A. Custer · ss The Ultimate Unknown #17, Fall 1999

Masque Noir [November 2000] ed. Rod Marsden ($6.00, 64pp, A4, cover by Jeff Ward) 7 · Letters Unmasqued · The Readers · lc 9 · Reviews Unmasqued · Various · br 14 · An Interview with the Enigmatic GAK · Rod Marsden · iv [Ref. GAK] 17 · Marsomatosis · Don Boyd · ss 21 · Exploding Oldies · Keith Rex · ss 24 · Super-Strings · Bill West · pm 25 · The Book-Keeper · Robert Scott · ss 28 · The Renaissance of Ego · Neil K. Henderson · pm Beyond the Boundaries #12, Summer 1997 29 · The Publican’s Republican’s · Austin J. Ford · ss 32 · Horoscope · Neil K. Henderson · pm 33 · The Burial · Julia Andrejeva · vi 34 · Roses for Elaine · Barbara A. Custer · ss 39 · Enter the Thirs Hole of Madness · Rod Marsden · ss 43 · Snowman · Richard Reeve · vi Weird Stories #18, March 1998 45 · Diplomatic Impunity [Alexander Nichols (The Midnight Sentinel)] · Jens H. Altmann · ss 49 · And One by Sea · Rod Marsden · ss Detective Mystery Stories #15, 2000 52 · A Rat Must Chew [Vic Powers] · Gary Lovisi · ss Hardboiled #23, 1997 53 · Unutterable Cave · T. Anders Carson · pm 54 · When You Lack Warmth · Julia Andrejeva · ss 55 · Creed · Drummond Henderson · pm 56 · Rabbits · Geoff Jackson · ss 60 · Memory Loss · Robert Steven Rhine · ss 63 · Chandra · Bill West · pm

Masque Noir [#6, October 2001] ed. Rod Marsden ($6.00, 80pp, A4, cover by GAK) 6 · Letters Unmasqued · The Readers · lc 7 · Reviews Unmasqued · Various · br 13 · The Doll World · Julia Andrejeva · ss 14 · Bloodeaters of the Nile · Don Boyd · ss 20 · When the Lion Roars No More · Richard Reeve · pm 21 · Perhaps to Dream [Eddie Dart] · Rod Marsden · ss Double Danger Tales #42, 2001 25 · The Second Coming of the Dead · Joseph V. Danoski · pm The Ultimate Unknown #16, Summer 1999 26 · Fools and Burning Houses [Alexander Nichols (The Midnight Sentinel)] · Jens H. & Akiko Altmann · ss Double Danger Tales #45, 2001, as by Jens Altmann & Akiko Ando 29 · Mr. Scary · Joseph V. Danoski · pm 30 · Big Bob · Lisa Tate · ss 34 · Bill and Tim’s Excellent Adventure · Andy Darlington · ar 40 · I Need Your Packaging Plant · Neil K. Henderson · pm 41 · The Shed Painter · Geoff Jackson · ss 43 · The Gatekeeper · Barbara A. Custer · ss 48 · Click-Click · Robert Steven Rhine · ss Delirium #4, 2001 53 · Titanic Distress · Michael Hailstone · ss 58 · A Few Fishie Stories · Austin J. Ford · ss 61 · Deceptions, Delusions and Desire · Mark Hodgetts · ss 65 · Unutterable Cave · Anders Carson · pm 66 · Cure Overdose · Shane Griffin · ss 70 · Son of Sam · Keith Rex · ss 73 · Upon Lighting My Gas Oven · Jim Dewitt · pm 74 · Jindan · Robert Scott · ss

Masque Noir [#7, 2003?] Issue not indexed.

The Master Thriller Series   (about) A series of anthologies in magazine format; each issue featured a different genre. For convenience, all issues have been indexed even though only a small number are mystery/detective. Publishers: The World’s Work (1913) Ltd.; Kingswood, Surrey: The Master Thriller Series.

The Master Thriller Series [#1, Tales of the Foreign Legion (July 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) · Soldiers of France · [uncredited] · ms; brief piece about the foreign legion. · Gentlemen of the Legion · J. D. Newsom · nv Frontier Stories July 1927 · The Quest · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917 · The Dead Fight Hard · Bob du Soe · ss Short Stories May 25 1929 · Strength of the Legion · [uncredited] · ms · His Own People · J. D. Newsom · nv The Frontier November 1926 · Send No Flowers · Georges Surdez · ss Short Stories October 25 1929 · Kismet in Picardy · Don McGrew · ss Short Stories December 10 1928 · Six Feet Under · Robert Carse · ss Short Stories December 10 1929

The Master Thriller Series [#2, Tales of the North-West Mounted Police (September 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) · A Free Rein · William Byron Mowery · nv Short Stories July 10 1925 · Prestige of the Scarlet · Harwood Steele · ss Short Stories January 10 1927 · The Galloping Hours · William Byron Mowery · ss Short Stories November 10 1925 · Blind Man’s Bluff · Walter W. Liggett · ss The Frontier August 1925 · On Patrol · James B. Hendryx · ss Short Stories February 10 1925 · The Last Potlatch · J. Allan Dunn · ss Short Stories January 25 1924 · Men Who Pay in Blood · T. Von Ziekursch · ss Short Stories October 25 1924 · Misadventure · Robert Ray · ss

The Master Thriller Series [#3, Tales of the Seven Seas (December 1933)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 6 · The Pearl Raiders · R. de S. Horn · na Short Stories November 25 1925 9 · Sea Thirst · C. Wiles Hallock · pm Short Stories June 10 1931 60 · Mutiny at Five Bells · [uncredited] · ms (r) 61 · Yellow Piracy · E. Keble Chatterton · ss 67 · Discontent · Edgar Daniel Kramer · pm Short Stories June 25 1932 68 · The Pirate Hunter · Capt. Frederick Moore · ss Short Stories July 10 1927 85 · Revise Your Maps! · [uncredited] · ms (r) 86 · Weeds · Ralph R. Perry · ss Short Stories October 25 1926 105 · Singing Johnny · Edgar Daniel Kramer · pm Short Stories June 25 1931 106 · Twenty Fathoms Under · T. T. Flynn · ss Short Stories April 25 1927 116 · Terrors of the Deep · [uncredited] · ms (r) 117 · The Skipper Knows Best · Murray Leinster · ss Short Stories December 10 1928 126 · A Veteran Sealer · [uncredited] · ms (r) · The Editor’s Log · The Editor · ed (r)

The Master Thriller Series [#4, Tales of Mystery and Detection (March 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) · The Image in the Mirror [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Hangman’s Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1933 · The Kidnapped Prime Minister [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · nv The Sketch April 25 1923 · Out of Paradise [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Collier’s Weekly December 10 1904 · An Ethical Dilemma [Major Forester] · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss The London Magazine June 1928 · The Case of Oscar Brodski [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine December 1910 · The Cat Burglar [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv Flynn’s Weekly November 6 1926 · The Cliff Path Ghost [Supt. Henry Wilson] · G. D. H. & Margaret I. Cole · ss A Lesson in Crime by G. D. H. & Margaret Cole, Collins, 1933 · The Sexton’s Wife · Margery Allingham · ss · The Blue Cross [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 23 1910, as “Valentin Follows a Curious Trail”

The Master Thriller Series [#5, Tales of the Foreign Legion #2 (June 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 4 · Stepsons of France · [uncredited] · ms 6 · The Ambush at Soueida · Ex-Legionnaire Francis A. Waterhouse · nv 40 · Sermons in Stones [Foreign Legion: John Bull] · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917 46 · The River Pirates of Indo-China · Ex-Legionnaire Reginald R. Forbes · nv 68 · My Moroccan Baptism · Ex-Legionnaire 1384 & W. J. Blackledge · ss 78 · Fighting the Berbers · Prince Aage of Denmark · ex from My Life in the Foreign Legion, Eveleigh Nash, 1928 110 · Strictly Private · J. D. Newsom · ss Short Stories September 10 1930

The Master Thriller Series [#6, Tales of the Uncanny (September 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp, cover by Youngman Conors) 3 · The Willows · Algernon Blackwood · na The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 32 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost” 40 · Honolulu · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Everybody’s October 1921 54 · The Wind in the Portico [The Runagates Club] · John Buchan · nv Pall Mall Magazine March 1928 68 · A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · ss The Cornish Magazine December 1898, as by Q 76 · Mrs. Lunt · Hugh Walpole · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 85 · The Smell in the Library [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch December 25 1922, as “Red Antony” 97 · Old Man’s Beard · H. Russell Wakefield · ss Old Man’s Beard by H. Russell Wakefield, Geoffrey Bles, 1929 108 · Mine · Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes · ss The Royal Magazine February 1924 119 · Rooum · Oliver Onions · ss The Fortnightly Review December 1910

The Master Thriller Series [#7, Tales of African Adventure (December 1934)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Holland. · Thorns and Iron · Victor Rousseau · nv Frontier Stories September 1927 · Ivory [Keynes] · H. Bedford-Jones · nv Short Stories March 10 1930 · Cannibal Teeth · William Doughty · ss Short Stories April 25 1930 · Treasure of the Pharaohs · Charles Saxby & H. A. Noureddin Addis · nv Short Stories August 25 1930 · Dust · J. D. Newsom · nv Frontier Stories January 1927 · Lion Hunting in the Liuwa · J. P. Kay Robinson · ss

The Master Thriller Series [#8, Tales of the Orient (March 1935)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 7 · The Road of Adventure · Albert Richard Wetjen · ss Short Stories October 10 1924 27 · The Malay Kris · Frederick Moore · ss Short Stories April 10 1925 44 · Three Gates Pagoda · H. Bedford-Jones · nv Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine November 1925 74 · Smoke of Dreams · Elmer Brown Mason · ss Short Stories January 25 1926 83 · The Ghost of Intelligence · S. B. H. Hurst · ss Short Stories August 25 1925 93 · Once Beyond Khyber · Jack Smalley · ss Short Stories March 10 1927 106 · Empire’s Edge · Nels Leroy Jorgensen · nv Frontier Stories July 1927

The Master Thriller Series [#9, Tales of the Jungle (July 1935)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. 4 · By Rule of Drum [Aubrey St. John Major] · L. Patrick Greene · nv Short Stories September 10 1934 31 · The Smartest Elephant · Edward T. Turner · ss Short Stories September 25 1934 42 · Whole Hog or None · Edmond Du Perrier · ss Short Stories March 25 1935 52 · Thirteen Heads · Herman Petersen · ss Short Stories February 25 1935 71 · Voodoo Moon · Edward T. Turner · ss Short Stories October 25 1934 81 · Borneo Diamonds · Frank J. Leahy · ss Short Stories November 25 1934 92 · “Well, I’ll Be—” · Douglas Leach · ss Short Stories February 25 1935 101 · Siamese Twinge · Douglas Leach · ss Short Stories December 10 1934 113 · Jungle Loot · Carl N. Taylor · ss Short Stories March 10 1935

The Master Thriller Series [#10, Tales of the Foreign Legion #3 (October 1935)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Holland. · All You Do Is Fight! · J. D. Newsom · na Adventure January 1 1935 · Grenades for the Colonel · J. D. Newsom · nv Argosy February 16 1935 · Soldiers of Misfortune · J. D. Newsom · na Argosy June 1 1935 · The Good Shepherds · J. D. Newsom · ss Frontier Stories November 1928

The Master Thriller Series [#11, Tales of the Sea (January 1936)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. · The Silver Chain · William Chamberlain · nv Short Stories September 10 1935 · Devil’s Sunset · Edgar Piper · ss Short Stories December 25 1934 · Blind Man’s Bluff · R. V. Gery · ss Short Stories October 10 1934 · John Brown’s Son · Berton E. Cook · ss Short Stories September 25 1934 · The Terrible Mr. Terry [Mr. Riorden] · Frank J. Leahy · ss Short Stories November 10 1934 · Heritage · Denis Trent · ss Short Stories November 10 1934 · Cargo Awash · Berton E. Cook · ss Short Stories January 10 1935 · He Was a Coward · Berton E. Cook · ss Short Stories November 25 1934

The Master Thriller Series [#12, Tales of Valour (April 1936)] (1/-, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Steve Miller. · The Coward of the Legion [Foreign Legion: John Bull] · P. C. Wren · ss Stepsons of France by P. C. Wren, Murray, 1917 · Hell’s Half Mile · Sam Kemp · ss · The Sahib with the Strong Liver · Scott Yorke · ss · Pioneering by Motor-Car · T. C. Bridges & Hessell Tiltman · ss · True Tales of the Jungle · George Hogan Knowles · ss · Open Boats · Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C. · ss · How Stanley Found Livingstone · Henry M. Stanley · ts (r); possibly the retelling by Orison Swett Marden (Stories from Life, American Book Company, 1904) or by Edward King (Scribner’s Monthly, January 1873). · Twentieth-Century Sailor-Men · E. Keble Chatterton · ss · McKecknie’s Lion · Juba Kennerley · ss · Scott · Capt. Robert Scott, R.N. · ex (r); extracts from Scott’s diary.