bare•bones #26

Inside this issue:
• We go on a Dangerous Assignment with William Schoell
• J. Charles Burwell explores four early Dell First Editions
• Star of Filipino-American films, Ken Metcalfe, remembered by Steve Mason
• John LeMay excavates Mackenna’s Gold on page and screen
• The Boston Blackie Casebook presented by Tim Lucas
• Stephen Laws on his close encounter with “The Beast of Bodmin Moor”
• The nightmare world of Doctor Death uncovered by Robert Deveau
• Stephen R. Bissette takes on the POV of the audience as killer
• Poe’s “The Black Cat” and the Italian Horror Film by Douglas E. Winter
• Peter Enfantino opens another six-pack of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
• More lust than you can shake a . . . stick at . . . down Peter Enfantino’s Sleaze Alley
• David J. Schow bids farewell to the mass-market paperback in his latest R&D