Page Trotter

[dem bones]

Page Trotter (1899-1987)

It's probably fair to say that many of us who appreciate Ghost Stories (1926-31) are big fans of the glorious staged photographs and the cover painting of Doris Stanley, Delos Palmer, Jean Oldham & various. It's rare anyone on here makes a fuss of the interior illustrations, which replaced the dramatists from August 1928. Among the regular contributors — at least, he was through 1929 - Page Trotter (1899-1987), a prolific, genre-hopping Texan artist already familiar to many from the day's detective and western pulps (See David Saunders' Pulp Artists for biog).

Here's a Trotter selection from Ghost Stories.

Oscar Wilde - The Canterville Ghost: (Ghost Stories, Sept. 1929)



Archie Binns - Intruder at the Masquerade: (Ghost Stories, Sept. 1929)



H. G. Wells - The Inexperienced Ghost: (Ghost Stories, Aug. 1929)



Archie Binns - Garden of Enchantment: (Ghost Stories, Aug. 1929)



Guy de Maupassant - Bewitched Love Letters: (Ghost Stories, Aug. 1929)



Thelma Johnson - David Keeps His Word: (Ghost Stories, Aug. 1929)



Paul Ernst - A Crystal Gazer's Crime: (Ghost Stories, June 1929).



George T Osborn [as told to Wilbert Wadleigh]- Haunted Hollywood: (Ghost Stories, July 1929)



James Haskell [as told to Alan Schultz]- The Man With the Sabre Cut: (Ghost Stories, Aug 1929)

[helrunar]

Those are fab--great to see. When I saw the title of this thread I thought "Page Trotter" was the byline of a column authored by a compulsive speed reader; the book equivalent of "Globetrotter."

As usual I have no idea what this particular Ghost stories was; looks like the periodical featured some terrific material.

cheers, Hel.

[dem bones]

Wilbur Daniel Steele - The Woman at Seven Brothers: (Ghost Stories, Aug. 1929).



Edwin A. Goewey - Phantom of the Sawdust Ring: (Ghost Stories, Oct. 1929).



Doris Venner - Jealous Ghost: (Ghost Stories, June 1929)



C. L. Ray [Cynthia Asquith] - The Jade Frog (aka The Corner Shop): (Ghost Stories, Oct. 1929).