Wyatt Blassingame - The Tongueless Horror

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Wyatt Blassingame – The Tongueless Horror (Edited by John Pelan, Dancing Tuatara Press, 2010, hc and tpb, 266 pages)

Contents:
John Pelan - Southern Discomfort: The Weird Tales of Wyatt Blassingame
The Tongueless Horror (Dime Mystery Magazine, March 1934)
Satan Sends a Woman ( Terror Tales, January 1936)
Song of the Dead (Dime Mystery Magazine, March 1935)
The House of Vanished Brides (Dime Mystery Magazine, February 1935)
Satan's Thirsty Ones (Dime Mystery Magazine, May, 1938)
Village of the Dead (Terror Tales, October 1934)
Models for Madness (Terror Tales, December 1935)


This is the first of 3 collections of the writers contribution to the terror pulps by Ramble House. Blassingame wrote for every kind of pulp, later he taught at a college and wrote a lot of nonfiction books for kids. He was a writer in the truest sense; he wrote what paid the bills.

This edition maybe has a (rare) editorial blunder. Both on the back and the contents page The House of Vanished Brides is listed as House of the Vanished Boarder. What is the right title can only say a proud owner of the original Dime Mystery Magazine.