Black Cat Weekly #1

Michael Bracken · Hal Charles · Frank Lowell Nelson · Erle Stanley Gardner · James Holding · Harry Stephen Keeler · Brian Evenson · Mack Reynolds · Ralph Milne Farley · S. M. Tenneshaw · Keith Laumer

Jan 2021 · Wildside Press LLC

About this ebook

The Black Cat web site has been around for almost four years now, serving up a weekly buffet of new and classic mysteries—and more recently science fiction—to thousands of readers each week. Rather than continue to release all these novels and stories as individual ebooks, we have decided to bundle them up into a convenient weekly magazine…which is a lot more fun to work on!

So here is Black Cat Weekly #1, for your enjoyment pleasure.

To make the first issue memorable, we are including a lot more content than usual—double the usual word count, in fact. This time we have no less than three complete novels and 7 short stories—and even a “true crime” feature by Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason!

There’s something here for everyone to enjoy, whether you’re a fan of traditional mysteries, psychic detectives (in the case of Frank Lovell Nelson’s story, a telepathic detective, the first of 12 stories featuring Carlton Clarke from 1908, all of which will run in the Black Cat’s pages). Looking for modern detection? We have that, too. And if your taste runs to the fantastic, we also have adventures across parallel worlds and well into the future. (And monsters. Did I mention monsters?)

Included are:

REMISSION, by Michael Bracken

A KEY FOR REBECCA, by Hal Charles

AUROVIA’S FAMOUS LODGE CASE, by Frank Lowell Nelson

THE CASE OF THE KNOCKOUT BULLET, by Erle Stanley Gardner

HAND IN GLOVE, by James Holding

THE SKULL OF THE WALZING CLOWN, by Harry Stephen Keeler

HAVER, by Brian Evenson

A ZLOOR FOR YOUR TROUBLE, by Mack Reynolds

VALLISNERIA MADNESS, by Ralph Milne Farley

LAST CALL FOR DOOMSDAY! by S. M. Tenneshaw

WORLDS OF THE IMPERIUM, by Keith Laumer