Black Cat Weekly #187

Black Cat Weekly #187

Title: Black Cat Weekly #187
Author: Janice Law, Aeryn Rudel, Dan Leicht, Larry Tritten, Hal Charles, Tom Easton, E.C. Tubb, Philip E. High, E. Hoffmann Price & J.J. Connington
Release: 2025-03-30
Kind: ebook
Genre: Sci-Fi Short Stories, Books, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mysteries & Thrillers, Mystery Short Stories, Fantasy, Fantasy Short Stories
Size: 1691458
   This issue, we have novels from J.J. Connington (a Golden Age mystery) and E. Hoffmann Price (a classic Weird Tales fantasy), plus our usual wide variety of short stories. Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman have selected tales by Aeryn Rudel and Janice Law, plus we have even more great stories from Dan Leicht, Tom Easton, Larry Tritten, Philip E. High, and E.C. Tubb. Rounding things out is a solve-it-yourself puzzler by Hal Charles.

   Here’s the complete lineup—

Cover Art: Steve Hickman

NOVELS

Tragedy at Ravensthorpe, by J.J. Connington [Mystery]
   A masked ball ends in murder...but who’s behind the mask?

Satan’s Garden, by E. Hoffmann Price [Fantasy]
   A strange cult, a vanished woman—what truth lies buried?

SOLVE-IT-YOURSELF MYSTERY

“The Book Club Caper,” by Hal Charles
   Can you solve the mystery before the detective? All the clues are there!

SHORT STORIES

“Nighttime Charlie,” by Aeryn Rudel [Michael Bracken Presents short story]
   A hitman with fangs takes one last job... or is it a setup?

“The City of Radiant Brides,” by Janice Law [Barb Goffman Presents short story]
   A hostess finds love, danger, and hard choices in high heels.

“Jam Session,” by Dan Leicht
   When a guitarist drops dead on stage, who had a reason to kill?

“Right to Life,” by Tom Easton
   A bioethics crisis escalates—who decides who should live?

“Necessity Is the Mother of Invention…Bastard Progeny Notwithstanding,” by Larry Tritten
   A bizarre birth kicks off a satirical tale of high weirdness…

“Shell Game,” by E.C. Tubb [Space Hobo #3]
   He’s got the cargo, the debt, and now…a problem on board.

“Project—Stall,” by Philip E. High
   Their Martian dig reveals artifacts—and one works too well!

More Books from Janice Law, Aeryn Rudel, Dan Leicht, Larry Tritten, Hal Charles, Tom Easton, E.C. Tubb, Philip E. High, E. Hoffmann Price & J.J. Connington

Naomi Kritzer, N. M. Cedeno, Hal Charles, Janice Law, A.R. Morlan, Malcolm Jameson, George O Smith, Hulbert Footner, Nicholas Carter & Otis Adelbert Kline
Janice Law, John M. Floyd, Hal Charles, Todhunter Ballard, Eleanor Cawood Jones, Larry Tritten, Nancy Kress, John Gregory Betancourt & Stephen Marlowe
Janice Law, Barb Goffman, Tom Larsen, H.K. Slade, Emilio DeGrazia, Elizabeth Zelvin, Gregory L. Norris, Vicki Weisfeld, Steve Liskow, Mark Troy & Michael Bracken
Janice Law, William Burton McCormick, Steve Janko, Henry T. Parry, Hal Charles, William Le Queux, Manly Wade Wellman, Charles L. Fontenay, Hannes Bok & William W. Stuart
Janice Law & Hal Charles
Arthur Conan Doyle, Janice Law, Barb Goffman, Mike McHone, Peter DiChellis, Rafe McGregor, J.P. Seewald, Rebecca K. Jones, Keith Brooke, Hal Charles & V.P. Kava
Barb Goffman, Josh Pachter, Janice Law, Steve Liskow, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Linda Niehoff, Tom Larsen, Stephen D. Rogers, Bruce Arthurs & John Bosworth
Janice Law, Aeryn Rudel, Dan Leicht, Larry Tritten, Hal Charles, Tom Easton, E.C. Tubb, Philip E. High, E. Hoffmann Price & J.J. Connington
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Janice Law, Eve Fisher, Joseph Walker S., Hal Charles, Robert Silverberg, Ron Goulart, Alan J. Wahnefried, Evelyn E. Smith & Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Janice Law, Aeryn Rudel, Hal Charles, Richard Helms, Murray Leinster, Dorothy B. Hughes, Jerome Bixby, Seabury Quinn, Malcolm Jameson & Nick Boddie Williams
Janice Law, Hal Charles, Gina Nelson, Ron Miller, Philip E. High, Harlan Ellison, Jack Williamson, Stephen Marlowe, Henry Slesar & James Hay Jr.
Marvin Kaye, Gary Lovisi, Victoria Weisfeld, Dan Andriacco, Janice Law, Arthur Conan Doyle & Michael Penncavage
Janice Law, Tom Larsen, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Gordon Linzner, Hal Charles, Sam W. Pisciotta, Lin Carter, Philip E. High, Josephine Tey & Henry S. Whitehead