Monday, April 8, 2013

"Snake House," Mystery Novels Magazine, July 1935, a story by Alonzo Deen Cole?

 
The Fiction Mags Index reports that a story by Alonzo Deen Cole entitled "Snake House" appears in the July 1935 issue of Mystery Novels Magazine
 
This story is not part of the Alonzo Deen Cole bibliography previously noted on this blog.  In regard to this story, Sam Moskowitz, in his article on Cole, wrote:
At least one story in the radio series was not written by Alonzo Deen Cole. Fantasy Magazine's columnist Mort Weisinger reported in his column "The Ether Vibrates" in the April, 1934 issue that Richard Sale had written the transcript for "Snake House" which ran on the weekly "The Witch's Tale" show.  This raises a question as to whether the fiction version of that story as by Alonzo Deen Cole which ran in the July, 1935 issue of Mystery Novels Magazine, a Winford Publication issued the auspices of Louis Silberkleit, was actually rendered by Sale, since Cole rarely placed storied in periodicals.
So, maybe this is truly a Cole story.  Maybe it's not.  Regardless, I'll keep an eye out for this magazine.

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